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Lupica, Mike. Heat.
2006. (YA Fiction Lupic.M & YA CD Fiction Lupic.M & eAudiobook)
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because
rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer
them proof.
Martínez, Manuel
Luis. Drift.
2003. (YA Fiction Marti.M)
Abandoned by his parents and living with his
grandmother, 16-year-old Robert Lomos reams of somehow keeping himself out of
trouble, saving his money, and heading for California to put his family back
together.
Martinez, Victor. Parrot In The
Oven : Mi Vida : A Novel. 1996. (YA Fiction Marti.V)
Manny relates his coming of age experiences as a
member of a poor Mexican American family in which the alcoholic father only
adds to everyone's struggle.
Miller-Nachmann, Lyn. Gringolandia : A Novel. 2009. (YA Fiction Mille.L)
In 1986, when seventeen-year-old Daniel's father arrives in Madison, Wisconsin, after five years of torture as a political prisoner in Chile, Daniel and his eighteen-year-old "gringa" girlfriend, Courtney, use different methods to help this bitter, self-destructive stranger who yearns to return home and continue his work.
Obejas, Achy. Days Of
Awe. 2001. (Fiction Obeja.A)
Growing up in Chicago, Alejandra San Jose, a Cuban refugee, becomes an interpreter and travels back to Cuba where she discovers
that her family is actually conversos, Jews who converted to Christianity during the Spanish Inquisition, and embarks on a remarkable journey to the past
to discover the truth about her ancestors.
Ortiz Cofer, Judith. Call Me
María : A Novel. 2006. (YA Fiction Ortiz.J)
Fifteen-year-old Maria leaves her mother and their
Puerto Rican home to live in the barrio of New York with her father, feeling
torn between the two cultures in which she has been raised.
Osa, Nancy. Cuba 15 : A
Novel. 2005. (YA Fiction Osa.N 2005)
Violet Paz, a Chicago high school student,
reluctantly prepares for her upcoming "quince," a Spanish nickname
for the celebration of an Hispanic girl's fifteenth birthday and trys to figure
out what her Cuban heritage really means.
Pagliarulo, Antonio. A
Different Kind Of Heat. 2006. (YA Fiction Pagli.A)
Trying to come to terms with her brother's death,
high school student and former gang member Luz meets his killer face to face as
she begins to rebuild her own life in a group home in New York City.
Resau, Laura. Red Glass. 2007. (YA Fiction Resau.L & YA CD Fiction Resau.L)
Sixteen-year-old Sophie has been frail and delicate since her premature birth, but discovers her true strength during a journey through Mexico, where the six-year-old orphan her family hopes to adopt was born, and to Guatemala, where her would-be boyfriend hopes to find his mother and plans to remain.
Ryan, Pam Muñoz. Esperanza
Rising. 2001. (YA Fiction Ryan.P)
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their
life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of
Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing
Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
Sáenz, Benjamin
Alire. Sammy
& Juliana In Hollywood. 2004. (YA Fiction Saena.B)
As a Chicano boy living in the unglamorous town of
Hollywood, New Mexico, and a member of the graduating
class of 1969, Sammy Santos faces the challenges of "gringo" racism,
unpopular dress codes, the Vietnam War, barrio violence, and poverty.
Saldaña, René. The Jumping Tree
: A Novel. 2001. (YA Fiction Salda.R)
Rey, a Mexican American living with his close-knit family in a Texas
town near the Mexican border, describes his transition from boy to young man.
Santana, Patricia. Motorcycle
Ride On The Sea Of Tranquility. 2002. (YA Fiction Santa.P)
Growing up with her large Mexican American family in San Diego in the late 1960s, fourteen-year-old Yolanda tries to help her
favorite brother Chuy, a Vietnam veteran, who has returned from the war and is
suffering emotional problems.
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