The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
By: Francisco Jiménez
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
These independent but intertwined stories follow a migrant family through their circuit, from picki…
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1. Huesos de lagartija
By: Federico Navarrete
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Cuetzpalómitl, un mexicano noble, describe sus vivencias de infancia durante la conquista de méxico… read more
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- spanish literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
2. The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin (Amazing Scientists, 1)
By: Julia Finley Mosca , Daniel Rieley
4.38
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
If you’ve ever felt different, if you’ve ever been low, if you don’t quite fit in, there’s a name … read more
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3. The First Part Last (Heaven, #2)
By: Angela Johnson
3.97
Format: 132 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bobby's a classic urban teenager. He's restless. He's impulsive. But the thing that makes him diffe… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
"And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way."-Angela Johnson, The First Part Last (Heaven, #2)
"All I can think is that I want her more than anything. I want her more than I've ever wanted anything, ever."-Angela Johnson, The First Part Last (Heaven, #2)
4. The Well: David's Story (Logans, #2)
By: Mildred D. Taylor
4.11
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
During a drought, the Logan family shares their well water with all their neighbors, black and whit… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- historical fiction
5. Before We Were Free
By: Julia Alvarez
3.90
Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
I wonder what it would be like to be free? Not to need wings because you don’t have to fly away fro… read more
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- school
- middle grade
- young adult
- spanish literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. Mick Harte Was Here
By: Barbara Park
2.67
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
"How could someone like Mick die"? He was the kid who freaked out his mom by putting a ceramic eye … read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
7. Across a Hundred Mountains
By: Reyna Grande
0.00
Format: 798 pages, Hardcover
"Across a Hundred Mountains" is a stunning and poignant story of migration, loss, and discovery as … read more
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- fiction
- young adult
- school
- historical fiction
8. The House on Mango Street
By: Sandra Cisneros
3.31
Format: None pages,
Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schoo… read more
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- fiction
- short stories
- young adult
- school
9. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
By: Erika L. Sánchez
4.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' hou… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
10. The Other Boy
By: M.G. Hennessey
3.44
Format: 213 pages, ebook
A heartfelt and timely middle grade story about a transgender boy's journey toward acceptance and e… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
11. Unaccompanied
By: Javier Zamora
3.89
Format: 7 pages, Paperback
This gorgeous debut speaks with heart-wrenching intimacy and first-hand experience to the hot-butto… read more
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12. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
By: Francisco Jiménez
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
These independent but intertwined stories follow a migrant family through their circuit, from picki… read more
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- school
- middle grade
- young adult
- spanish literature
- short stories
- fiction
- historical fiction
13. When I Was Puerto Rican
By: Esmeralda Santiago
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
Esmeralda Santiago's story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her childhood was full of both tender… read more
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14. The Dreamer
By: Pam Muñoz Ryan , Peter Sís
3.98
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Neftali finds beauty and wonder everywhere: in the oily colors of mud puddles; a lost glove, sailin… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- historical fiction
"Netfali's breath caught in his throat at the sight of the infinite colors and the gentle curve of the faraway horizon. He had never imagined the height of the white spray breaking against the rocks, …"-Pam Muñoz Ryan, The Dreamer
15. Enrique's Journey
By: Sonia Nazario
3.88
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
A true story from award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounting the odyssey of a Honduran boy w… read more
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- school
"During that time, in between train rides, they sleep in trees or by the tracks, they drink from puddles, they beg for food."-Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey
"One Honduran teenager I met in southern Mexico had been deported to Guatemala twenty-seven times. He said he wouldn't give up until he reached his mother in the United States."-Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey
"Lourdes has decided. She will leave. She will go to the United States and make money and send it home. She will be gone for one year - less, with luck - or she will bring her children to be with her.…"-Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey
16. Esperanza Rising
By: Pam Muñoz Ryan
4.29
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Esperanza thought she'd always live with her family on their ranch in Mexico--she'd always have fan… read more
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17. Our Class is a Family (The Classroom Community Collection)
By: Shannon Olsen
4.57
Format: 27 pages, Paperback
Teachers do so much more than just teach academics. They build a sense of community within their cl… read more
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- fiction
- school
18. Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir
By: Pedro Martín
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, hilarious, and unforgettable graphic memoir about a Mexican-American boy’s family and t… read more
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- middle grade
"It was like the driveway at Disneyland but with way more automatic weapons."-Pedro Martín, Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir
"I like to say that my stories are 100% true 90% of the time. My memory and my heart like to play tricks on each other. The results are what makes my stories."-Pedro Martín, Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir
19. Set Me Free
By: Ann Clare LeZotte
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Three years after being kidnapped and rendered a "live specimen" in a cruel experiment to determine… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- historical fiction
"The difference between victims and survivors is whether you’re found in time. We cannot swim while the other sinks. I imagine the lonely and wild out there bobbing on the waves. Waiting to be washed …"-Ann Clare LeZotte, Set Me Free
20. They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems
By: David Bowles
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
An award-winning novel in verse about a boy who navigates the start of seventh grade and life growi… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- school
- young adult
21. They Call Her Fregona: A Border Kid's Poems
By: David Bowles
4.22
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A companion to the Pura Belpré Honor book They Call Me Güero "You can be my boyfriend." It only … read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
