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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1996]
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks/Libros Colibrí ed.
Language
Español
Description
Third grader María Isabel, born in Puerto Rico and now living in the United States, wants badly to fit in at school; and the teacher's writing assignment "My Greatest Wish" gives her that opportunity.
63) Ricky Martin
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Profiles the life and career of the Latin pop star best known for his hit song "Livin' la Vida Loca."
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
It is 1969 in Spanish Harlem, and fourteen-year-old Evelyn Serrano is trying hard to break free from her conservative Puerto Rican surroundings, but when her activist grandmother comes to stay and the neighborhood protests start, things get a lot more complicated--and dangerous.
65) Bernie Williams
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A biography of the New York Yankee center fielder, Bernie Williams, winner of the 1998 American League batting title.
68) Becoming Beatriz
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In 1984 Newark, Beatriz Mendez navigates romance, gang culture, and her family's past. After her gang-leader brother is killed, Beatriz gives up her dreams of dancing in order to run the gang. But her eyes are reopened to her dream of a career in dance when the school brainiac asks her to compete in a dance competition with him--but will the gang let her go?"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Struggling with her Puerto Rican identity, her grandfather's memory loss and transfer to a nursing home, and her sister's depression, seventh-grader Cassi joins the Mathletes at school, finding comfort in numbers and in her new friendship with Aaron.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When eighth-grader Zach Lopez starts school (where his mother is the newly appointed principal) in Devil's Pass, Minnesota, he expects to be miserable; after all he is a transplant from Los Angeles and the only Puerto Rican in the school--what he does notexpect is the sinkhole in the middle of the park with a connection to the "otherside" and a town regularly beset by the monsters who come through it, but he soon learns that Devil's Pass specializes...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Luis Miranda arrived in New York City from Puerto Rico in 1974 to study psychology at NYU, but he soon found himself drawn to community action, eventually working for the Department of Employment, the Board of Education, and the nonprofit Aspira, among many other organizations. In the 1980s he was a special advisor for Hispanic Affairs to Mayor Ed Koch, and he continued to serve in key roles for the Dinkins and Giuliani administrations. In 1990 Miranda...
74) Jennifer Lopez
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A biography of Jennifer Lopez whose determination has led to success as an actress and singer.
Author
Pub. Date
1997.
Edition
First Aladdin Paperbacks edition.
Language
English
Description
Traces the personal life and baseball career of the Puerto Rican baseball superstar, from his childhood love of the game through his professional career and untimely death to his election to the Hall of Fame in 1973.
77) My dog is lost!
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Two days after arriving in New York from Puerto Rico, eight-year-old Juanito, who speaks no English, loses his dog and searches for it all over the city making new friends along the way.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Since its acquisition by the US in 1898, Puerto Rico has served as a testing ground for the most aggressive and exploitative US economic, political, and social policies. The devastation that ensued finally grew impossible to ignore in 2017, in the wake of Hurricane María, as the physical destruction compounded the infrastructure collapse and trauma inflicted by the debt crisis. In Fantasy Island, Ed Morales traces how, over the years, Puerto Rico...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
21: The Story of Roberto Clemente is a human drama of courage, faith, and dignity, inspired by the life of the acclaimed Pittsburgh Pirates baseball star who died too young. 21 chronicles Clemente's life from his early days growing up, through the highlights of his career, capturing the grit of his rise from an impoverished Puerto Rican childhood to the majesty of his performance on the field, and to his fundamental decency off of it. Santiago's inviting...
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