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1) L.A. weather
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon in L.A. Weather, a fun, fast-paced novel of an affluent Mexican-American family from the author of the #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller Esperanza's Box of Saints L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He's harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
ix, 326 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies herself, leading to a farewell doubleheader in a single weekend. Among the guests is Big Angel's half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings,...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
Comezn̤: It's more than an itch. It's a longstanding desire that will never be fulfilled. And, in this novel by award-winning author Denise Chv̀ez, it is also a border town in New Mexico whose denizens' longings are as powerful as they are, all too often, impossible.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Francisco Jimenez immigrated with his family to California from Tlaquepaque, Mexico. As a child he worked in the fields of California, and the stories in The Circuit are largely autobiographical, as is his first picture book, La Mariposa. He received both his master's degree and Ph.D. at Columbia University and is now chairman of the Modern Language Department at Santa Clara University. He lives in Santa Clara, California, with his wife and three...
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the Premio Aztlán Literary Prize. Canícula--the dog days--a particularly intense part of the summer when most cotton is harvested in South Texas. In Norma Cantú's fictionalized memoir of Laredo in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s, it also represents a time between childhood and a still-unknown adulthood. Snapshots and the author's re-created memories allow readers to experience the pivotal events of this world--births, deaths, injuries,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
125 pages ; 19 cm
Language
Español
Description
These stories follow a migrant family through their circuit, from picking cotton and strawberries to topping carrots-- and back again-- over a number of years.
10) Mecca
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A California epic following several native, diverse Californians grasping for air in a world that continues to marginalize them"-- Johnny Frías has California in his blood. A descendant of the state's Indigenous people and Mexican settlers, he has Southern California's forgotten towns and canyons in his soul. He spends his days as a highway patrolman pulling over speeders, ignoring their racist insults, and pushing past the trauma of his rookie...
12) Rain of gold
Author
Publisher
Arte Publico Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
vi, 497 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Language
English
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Description
The non-fiction saga of Victor Villaseñor's own family. It is the Hispanic Roots, an all-American story of poverty, immigration, struggle and success. Focuses on three generations of the Villaseñor family, their spiritual and cultural roots back in Mexico, their immigration to California and their overcoming poverty, prejudice and economic exploitation.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
xvi, 220 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Rocío Esquibel is a girl growing up in a Southern New Mexico town with her mother and sister. She defines her neighborhood by its trees—the willow, the apricot and the one they call the marking-off tree. Rocio knows she was born in the closet where she and her sister now take turns looking at the picture of Jesus whose eyes light up in the dark. But at night she enters a magical realm, and in her imaginary Blue Room, she can fly. At first she is...
Author
Publisher
The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
282 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In this collection of essays, Ana Castillo examines what it means to be a single, brown, feminist parent in a world of mass incarceration, racial profiling, and police brutality. Castillo writes about intergenerational stories from Mexico City to Chicago, and she narrates some of America's social injustices through the lens of motherhood--
18) Imagine
Author
Language
English
Description
Have you ever imagined what you might be when you grow up? When he was very young, Juan Felipe Herrera picked chamomile flowers in windy fields and let tadpoles swim across his hands in a creek. He slept outside and learned to say good-bye to his amiguitos each time his family moved to a new town. He went to school and taught himself to read and write English and filled paper pads with rivers of ink as he walked down the street after school. And when...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
233 pages : color illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Now a powerful graphic novel, this award-winning memoir is an honest and evocative account of a family's journey from Mexico to the fields of California as seen through the eyes of a boy who longs for education and the right to call one place home.
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
64 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lincoln Loud's close friend Ronnie Anne and Bobby Santiago recently moved to Great Lakes City to live with their multi-generational family in an apartment building atop a bustling mercado. While Bobby helps his abuelo run the mercado, among other odd (really odd) jobs, Ronnie Anne skateboards through big city life with her friends. Living together with their mom, Maria, they are adapting from going to a family of three in Royal Woods to living with...
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