Dominique Franceschi
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GPLD Best of 2022
Hispanic & Latino Authors: Chapter Books and Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
OBD Latinx and Hispanic Heritage Month - Youth
Unidos: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage (kids)
Hispanic & Latino Authors: Chapter Books and Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
OBD Latinx and Hispanic Heritage Month - Youth
Unidos: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage (kids)
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"A girl must learn to trust herself--and her ancestral powers--when she comes face-to-face with the Mexican legend La Lechuza"--
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"A young teacher eager to change her students' lives with her books. An indigenous community with its own stories to share. And a great and dangerous serpent not to be underestimated. Set along the Amazon River, this stunningly illustrated story will spark lasting conversations about cross-cultural relationships, the importance of oral storytelling, and what it means to be a lifelong learner."--Page [4] of cover.
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Español
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"Willow es tímida. MUY tímida. Su hogar está en un buzón abandonado, y prefiere quedarse en casa. Afuera, los niños gritan y las pelotas de fútbol rebotan, los árboles parecen monstruous, y la lluvia es ruidosa en una manera escalofriante. Es mucho más agradable quedarse en casa dibujando. Pero entonces un niño echa una carta en el buzón de Willow: es una nota a la luna, en la que le pide un favor especial. Willow sabe que, si ella no se...
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Sunbird Books
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Español
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Nigel ha cenado con dragones bulliciosos, llamas inelegnates y otros seres decorteses. Hoy, va a tomara el te con una unicornio. Nigel esta seguro que los unicornios son seres refinados. Pero cuando la unicornio se sienta a comer, Nigel se da cuenta de que tienen ideas diferentes de lo que son los buenos modales. ¿Llegaran estos dos a entenderse para poder disfrutar de la merienda?
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Ana cannot contain her excitement--her abuela is coming to stay with her and Mami for always! Abuela is sure to let Ana play whenever she wants instead of rushing her off to school, like her neighbor and babysitter, señora Mimí, sometimes does. In fact, as Ana's classmate points out, she won't need señora Mimí to babysit at all anymore! But señora Mimí is a good listener, and they have a lot of fun together feeding the squirrels and eating...
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"From Patricia Engel, whose novel Infinite Country was a New York Times bestseller and a Reese's Book Club pick, comes an exquisite collection of ten haunting, award-winning short stories set across the Americas and linked by themes of migration, sacrifice, and moral compromise. Two Colombian expats meet as strangers on the rainy streets of New York City, both burdened with traumatic pasts. In Cuba, a woman discovers her deceased brother's bones have...
8) Thrust
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"From the visionary author of The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, an epic novel tracing the conception and construction of a colossal statue--and the lives of two centuries of immigrants navigating its turbulent wake. "Lidia Yuknavitch is a writer who, with each ever more triumphant book, creates a new language with which she writes the audacious stories only she can tell," Roxane Gay has written. Now, Yuknavitch bridges the nineteenth...