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• Something Fierce

  Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter

  Aguirre, Carmen, 1967-

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  Adult - A gripping, darkly comic first-hand account of a young underground revolutionary during the Pinochet dictatorship in 1980s Chile.

• My Broken Language

  a Memoir

  Hudes, Quiara Alegría,

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  Adult - Weaving together Hudes’s love of books with the stories of her family, the lessons of North Philly with those of Yale, this is an inspired exploration of home, memory, and belonging—narrated by an obsessed girl who fought to become an artist…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Spirit Run

  a 6,000-mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land

  Álvarez, Noé,

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  Adult - The electrifying debut memoir of a son of working-class Mexican immigrants who fled a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in an Indigenous marathon from Canada to Guatemala, reimagining North America and his place in it.

• Children of the Land

  Hernandez Castillo, Marcelo, 1988-

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  Adult - With beauty, grace, and honesty, Castillo recounts his and his familys encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe, ordinary lives.

• Of Women and Salt

  Garcia, Gabriela, 1984-

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  Adult - A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born.

• Postcolonial Love Poem

  Diaz, Natalie,

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  Adult - Natalie Diaz's brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sabrina & Corina

  Stories

  Fajardo-Anstine, Kali,

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  Adult - A powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands. Kali Fajardo-Anstine's magnetic story collection breathes life into her Latina characters of indigenous ancestry and the land they…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Undocumented Americans

  Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla,

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  Adult - Cornejo Villavicencio powerfully reveals the hidden corners of our nation of immigrants. She brings to light remarkable stories of hope and resilience, and through them we come to understand what it truly means to be American.

• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

  Sánchez, Erika L.,

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  Teen - When the sister who delighted their parents by her faithful embrace of Mexican culture dies in a tragic accident, Julia, who longs to go to college and move into a home of her own, discovers from mutual friends that her sister may not have…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Poet X

  a Novel

  Acevedo, Elizabeth,

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  Teen - Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.

• Don't Ask Me Where I'm From

  De Leon, Jennifer, 1979-

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  Teen - Reinventing herself at a privileged white suburban high school to get by in the face of escalating racial tensions, a first-generation American-LatinX teen is forced to take a stand when she discovers that her absent father cannot legally…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What If It's Us

  Albertalli, Becky,

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  Teen - Told in two voices, when Arthur, a summer intern from Georgia, and Ben, a native New Yorker, meet it seems like fate, but after three attempts at dating fail they wonder if the universe is pushing them together or apart.

• Clap When You Land

  Acevedo, Elizabeth,

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  Teen - An evocative novel in verse follows the experiences of two grieving sisters who navigate the loss of their father and the impact of his death on their relationship.

• The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

  Sáenz, Benjamin Alire,

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  Teen - A story set on the American border with Mexico, about family and friendship, life and death, and one teen struggling to understand what his adoption does and doesn't mean about who he is.

• Woven in Moonlight

  Ibañez, Isabel (Novelist),

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  Teen - Ximena is the decoy Condesa, a stand-in for the last remaining Illustrian royal. Her people lost everything when the usurper, Atoc, used an ancient relic to summon ghosts and drive the Illustrians from La Ciudad. When Atoc demands the real…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stella Díaz Has Something to Say

  Dominguez, Angela,

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  School Age - Stella Diaz loves marine animals, especially her betta fish, Pancho. But Stella Diaz is not a betta fish. Betta fish like to be alone, while Stella loves spending time with her mom and brother and her best friend Jenny. Trouble is,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Each Tiny Spark

  Cartaya, Pablo,

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  School Age - Sixth-grader Emilia Torres struggles with ADHD, her controlling abuela, her mother's work commitments, her father's distance after returning from deployment, evolving friendships, and a conflict over school redistricting.

• The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora

  Cartaya, Pablo,

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  School Age - Arturo's Miami summer is marked by the arrival of poetry enthusiast Carmen, who helps him use the power of protest to fight the plans of a land developer who wants to demolish his Abuela's restaurant.

• Flor and Miranda Steal the Show

  Torres, Jennifer, 1980-

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  School Age - A girl from a family that runs a carnival petting zoo considers sabotaging her new musician friend's prospects when the petting zoo becomes subject to elimination so that the carnival can afford her friend's band fees.

• Efrén Divided

  a Novel

  Cisneros, Ernesto,

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  School Age - While his father works two jobs, seventh-grader Efren Nava must take care of his twin siblings, kindergartners Max and Mia, after their mother is deported to Mexico. Includes glossary of Spanish words.