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• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

  Sánchez, Erika L.,

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  Winner of the Tomas Rivera Mexican America Children’s Book Award, instant New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award, I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter is a remarkable read. This book tells the story of 15-year-old…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

  Namey, Laura Taylor,

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  Lila Reyes, 17, had her whole life after graduation planned out—stay in her native Miami, take over her family’s bakery, get an apartment with her best friend, and keep dating her boyfriend—but after “the trifecta,” a series of massive losses, she’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Furia

  Méndez, Yamile Saied,

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  Méndez infuses her YA debut with sparkling vitality straight from the pitch in this powerful coming-of-age story set in Rosario, Argentina. Camila Hassan, 17, knows that “lies have short legs,” but her budding career as a soccer player—and romance…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Woven in Moonlight

  Ibañez, Isabel (Novelist),

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  Ximena, an Illustrian, weaves magical tapestries with moonlight. She has lived most of her life as the Condesa’s double in order to protect the Illustrian throne from the Llacsans, who are always on the verge of waging war. In an effort to maintain…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Don't Ask Me Where I'm From

  De Leon, Jennifer, 1979-

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  Things are tense at home for 15-year-old Liliana Cruz: her father has been gone for weeks, her mother is increasingly depressed but won’t tell her why, and she’s recently been accepted into a program she didn’t even know her parents signed her up…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sanctuary

  Mendoza, Paola,

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  The year is 2032. In dystopian America, undocumented immigrants are being hunted down and inhumanely treated on a daily basis. Follow Vali, a young immigrant from Colombia, as she and her brother bravely flee across the country in the hopes of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

  Vasquez Gilliland, Raquel,

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  Every new moon, Artemisia “Sia” Martinez drives into the desert to light candles for her mother, who went missing after being deported three years ago by a racist sheriff. The 17-year-old’s park ranger father, Haitian American best friend, and late…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are Not From Here

  Torres Sanchez, Jenny,

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  This powerful novel by Sanchez (Because of the Sun) follows three teenagers fleeing the violence, danger, and poverty of Puerto Barrios, the Guatemalan home they simultaneously love and hate. Stirred by renewed fear of local gang leader Rey, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tigers, Not Daughters

  Mabry, Samantha,

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  The Torres sisters dream of escape. Escape from their needy and despotic widowed father, and from their San Antonio neighborhood, full of old San Antonio families and all the traditions and expectations that go along with them. In the summer after…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Education of Margot Sanchez

  Rivera, Lilliam,

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  Margot Sanchez, “the great brown hope” of her family, is caught between the wealthy, white world of Somerset Prep, the private school she attends, and that of her “Rich Adjacent” Latino family, which owns two supermarkets in the Bronx. Margot…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Historically Inaccurate

  Bravo, Shay,

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  Bravo’s sincere but slow-moving debut opens with an unusual meet-cute: boy meets girl during the petty theft of a piece of cutlery. Still reeling from her mother’s deportation to Mexico, 18-year-old college freshman Soledad “Sol” Gutierrez…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Clap When You Land

  Acevedo, Elizabeth,

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  Yahaira Rios gives up on both chess and her father after she discovers the double life he led. When he dies in a tragic plane crash on his way to the Dominican Republic, she finds out that her father not only hid a secret wife across the sea but…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• With the Fire on High

  Acevedo, Elizabeth,

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  In this stunning sophomore novel from National Book Award and Printz winner Acevedo (The Poet X), Afro–Puerto Rican and African-American Emoni Santiago, a high school senior, lives in Philadelphia with her two-year-old daughter, Emma—nicknamed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Poet X

  Acevedo, Elizabeth,

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  Harlem sophomore Xiomara Batista isn’t saintly like her virtuous twin brother. And her tough exterior—she’s always ready to fend off unwelcome advances and unkind words—hides questions and insecurities. Xiomara pours her innermost self into poems…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Running

  Sylvester, Natalia,

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  When fifteen-year-old Cuban American Mariana Ruiz’s father runs for president, Mari starts to see him with new eyes. A novel about waking up and standing up, and what happens when you stop seeing your dad as your hero—while the whole country is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Each of Us a Desert

  Oshiro, Mark,

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  Honesty, the weight of caregiving, and the space between absolution and compassion span deserts in this tender, postapocalyptic Latinx fantasy. As cuentista, restless Xochitl, 16, takes the village of Empalme’s confessions and spills them to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The New David Espinoza

  Aceves, Fred,

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  In this engrossing story about the harsh realities of teen steroid use, 17-year-old David Espinoza, who recently lost his mother to cancer, lives near Orlando with his authoritative Mexican father and his little sister. Six feet tall and skinny,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cemetery Boys

  Thomas, Aiden,

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  In Thomas’s vibrant YA debut, Yadriel, a gay, trans 16-year-old, is determined to prove himself, as a brujo and as a boy, to the traditional brujx cemetery community he grew up in. After being denied his quinces and initiation rite as a brujo,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Salty, Bitter, Sweet

  Cuevas, Mayra,

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  Cuban-French Isabella Fields, 17, is the only American among 15 students chosen for a three-week apprenticeship at La Table de Lyon, a Michelin three-star restaurant in the world’s gastronomic capital. One graduate will be selected to stay on for a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mexican Whiteboy

  de la Peña, Matt,

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  Newbery Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Matt de la Peña's Mexican WhiteBoy is a story of friendship, acceptance, and the struggle to find your identity in a world of definitions. Danny is tall and skinny. Even though he’s not…Read moreRead more of this annotation