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On Shelf
54 copies.
Springfield Main Library - Juvenile
JF CARTAYA PABLO Marcus
1 available
JF CARTAYA PABLO Marcus
1 available
Springfield East Springfield Branch - Juvenile New Case
JF CARTAYA PABLO Marcus
1 available
JF CARTAYA PABLO Marcus
1 available
Springfield Forest Park Branch - Juvenile
JF CARTAYA PABLO Marcus
1 available
JF CARTAYA PABLO Marcus
1 available
Description
After a fight at school leaves Marcus facing suspension, Marcus's mother takes him and his younger brother, who has Down syndrome, to Puerto Rico to visit relatives they do not remember or have never met, and while there Marcus starts searching for his father, who left their family ten years ago and is somewhere on the island.
Marcus Vega is six feet tall, 180 pounds, and the owner of a premature mustache. When you look like this and you're only...
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On Shelf
140 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Springfield Main Library - YA
YAFICT RYAN PAM Esperanz
1 available
YAFICT RYAN PAM Esperanz
1 available
Springfield Brightwood Branch - YA
YPBK R
1 available
YPBK R
1 available
Springfield East Forest Park Branch - YA
YAFICT RYAN PAM Esperanz
1 available
YAFICT RYAN PAM Esperanz
1 available
eBook
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
When Esperanza and Mama are forced to flee to the bountiful region of Aguascalientes, Mexico, to a Mexican farm labor camp in California, they must adjust to a life without the fancy dresses and servants they were accustomed to on Rancho de las Rosas. Now they must confront the challenges of hard work, acceptance by their own people, and economic difficulties brought on by the Great Depression. When Mama falls ill and a strike for better working conditions...
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On Shelf
22 copies.
Springfield Main Library - Juvenile
J 811 BOWLES
1 available
J 811 BOWLES
1 available
Springfield East Forest Park Branch - Juvenile
J 811 BOWLES
1 available
J 811 BOWLES
1 available
Description
Twelve-year-old Güero, a red-headed, freckled Mexican American border kid, discovers the joy of writing poetry, thanks to his seventh grade English teacher.
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On Shelf
56 copies.
Springfield Main Library - Juvenile
JF CARTAYA PABLO Epic
1 available
JF CARTAYA PABLO Epic
1 available
Springfield Brightwood Branch - Juvenile
JF CARTAYA PABLO Epic
1 available
JF CARTAYA PABLO Epic
1 available
Springfield Indian Orchard Branch - Juvenile
JF CARTAYA PABLO Epic
1 available
JF CARTAYA PABLO Epic
1 available
Description
When his family's restaurant and Cuban American neighborhood in Miami are threatened by a greedy land developer, thirteen-year-old Arturo, joined by Carmen, a cute poetry enthusiast, fight back, discovering the power of poetry and protest through untold family stories and the work of José Martí.
Author
Series
Merci Suarez volume 1
On Shelf
122 copies.
Springfield Main Library - Juvenile
JF MEDINA MEG Merci
2 available
JF MEDINA MEG Merci
2 available
Springfield Main Library - Juvenile Stacks
JF MEDINA MEG Merci
1 available
JF MEDINA MEG Merci
1 available
Springfield Brightwood Branch - Juvenile
JF MEDINA MEG Merci
1 available
JF MEDINA MEG Merci
1 available
On Shelf
8 copies.
Springfield Main Library - Juvenile Media
JCDBOOK MEDINA MEG Merci
1 available
JCDBOOK MEDINA MEG Merci
1 available
Description
"Merci Suárez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older brother, Roli, are scholarship students. They don't have a big house or a fancy boat, and they have to do extra community service to make up for their free tuition. So when bossy Edna Santos sets her sights on the new boy who happens to be...
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On Shelf
74 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Springfield Brightwood Branch - Juvenile
JF PEREZ CELIA First
1 available
JF PEREZ CELIA First
1 available
Springfield East Forest Park Branch - Juvenile
JF PEREZ CELIA First
1 available
JF PEREZ CELIA First
1 available
Springfield East Springfield Branch - Juvenile
JF PEREZ CELIA First
1 available
JF PEREZ CELIA First
1 available
Description
Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.
Author
Series
Sal and Gabi novels volume 1
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On Shelf
120 copies.
Springfield Main Library - Juvenile
JF HERNANDE CARLOS Sal and
1 available
JF HERNANDE CARLOS Sal and
1 available
Springfield Brightwood Branch - Juvenile
JF HERNANDE CARLOS Sal and
2 available
JF HERNANDE CARLOS Sal and
2 available
Springfield East Forest Park Branch - Juvenile
JF HERNANDE CARLOS Sal and
3 available
JF HERNANDE CARLOS Sal and
3 available
Description
Who put the raw chicken in Yasmany's locker? When Sal Vidón meets Gabi Reál for the first time, it isn't under the best of circumstances. Sal is in the principal's office for the third time in three days, and it's still the first week of school. Gabi, student council president and editor of the school paper, is there to support her friend Yasmany, who just picked a fight with Sal. She is determined to prove that, somehow, Sal planted a raw chicken...
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On Shelf
64 copies.
Springfield Main Library - Juvenile
JF CISNEROS ERNESTO Efren
1 available
JF CISNEROS ERNESTO Efren
1 available
Springfield Brightwood Branch - Juvenile
JF CISNEROS ERNESTO Efren
2 available
JF CISNEROS ERNESTO Efren
2 available
Springfield East Forest Park Branch - Juvenile
JF CISNEROS ERNESTO Efren
1 available
JF CISNEROS ERNESTO Efren
1 available
Description
""We need books to break open our hearts, so that we might feel more deeply, so that we might be more human in these unkind times. This is a book doing work of the spirit in a time of darkness." --Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street Efrén Nava's Amá is his Superwoman--or Soperwoman, named after the delicious Mexican sopes his mother often prepares. Both Amá and Apá work hard all day to provide for the family, making sure Efrén...
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On Shelf
57 copies.
Springfield Main Library - Juvenile
JF CUEVAS ADRIANNA Total
1 available
JF CUEVAS ADRIANNA Total
1 available
Springfield Brightwood Branch - Juvenile
JF CUEVAS ADRIANNA Total
1 available
JF CUEVAS ADRIANNA Total
1 available
Springfield Indian Orchard Branch - Juvenile
JF CUEVAS ADRIANNA Total
1 available
JF CUEVAS ADRIANNA Total
1 available
Description
A Cuban-American boy must use his ability to communicate with animals to save the inhabitants of his town when they are threatened by a witch that transforms into animals.
"All Nestor Lopez wants is to live in one place for more than a few months and have dinner with his dad. After his dad's latest deployment, he and his mother move to a new town to live with his grandmother. Nestor plans to lay low. He definitely doesn't want to anyone find out...
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Formats:
On Shelf
38 copies.
Springfield Main Library - Juvenile
JF HIGUERA DONNA Lupe
1 available
JF HIGUERA DONNA Lupe
1 available
Springfield Brightwood Branch - Juvenile
JF HIGUERA DONNA L
1 available
JF HIGUERA DONNA L
1 available
Springfield Indian Orchard Branch - Juvenile
JF HIGUERA DONNA L
1 available
JF HIGUERA DONNA L
1 available
Description
"Lupe Wong is going to be the first female pitcher in the Major Leagues. She's also championed causes her whole young life. Some worthy ... like expanding the options for race on school tests beyond just a few bubbles. And some not so much...like complaining to the BBC about the length between Doctor Who seasons. Lupe needs an A in all her classes in order to meet her favorite pitcher, Fu Li Hernandez, who's Chinacan/Mexinese just like her. So when...
