Natalia Sylvester
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Language
English
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2023 ALA Children's Award Winners and Nominees
Disability Pride (kids and teens)
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Description
"Verónica has had many surgeries to manage her disability. The best form of rehabilitation is swimming, so she spends hours in the pool, but not just to strengthen her body. Her Florida town is home to Mermaid Cove, a kitschy underwater attraction where professional mermaids perform in giant tanks . . . and Verónica wants to audition. But her conservative Peruvian parents would never go for it. And they definitely would never let her be with Alex,...
2) Running
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"When fifteen-year-old Cuban American Mariana Ruiz's father runs for president, Mari starts to see him with new eyes. A novel about waking up and standing up, and what happens when you stop seeing your dad as your hero-while the whole country is watching"--
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Han pasado tres ąos desde la ͠ltima visita de la Abuela, y Dulce se deleita con cada pequęo detalle, desde las maletas de la Abuela llenas de dulces en envoltorios arrugados y regalos de primos hasta el olor dulce y terroso del Per͠ que flota fuera de la habitaci̤n de la Abuela y por el pasillo. Pero la visita de la abuela no puede durar para siempre y muy pronto vuelve a hacer las maletas. Entonces Dulce tiene una idea: tal vez haya cosas que...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
The first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, he's already dead--an apparition appearing uninvited on her wedding day. Her husband, Martin, still unforgiving for having been abandoned by his father years ago, confesses that he never knew the old man had died. So Omar asks Isabel for the impossible: persuade Omar's family--especially his wife, Elda--to let him redeem himself. Isabel and Martin settle into married life in a Texas border town,...