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"In this sharply honed collection of stories, Mexican American children on the brink of adolescence are testing the waters, trying to find their place in a world ruled by gangs and "marked with graffiti, boom boxes, lean dogs behind fences…" Some chara
"The day after Enoch Morales graduates from elementary school, his mother throws him a surprise eleventh-birthday party, and his best friend, Spencer, gives him an iguana.
"In pre-Castro Cuba, wealthy Don Rigol exerts almost total control over his rural town.
"When the principal at a school in Santa Fe, New Mexico, announces that she wants to buy a sculpture for the front lawn 'that will symbolize how the Rio Grande — both the school and the river it's named for — brings us together,' she challenges the stu
Product Description: Even though Sofi Mendoza was born in Mexico, she's spent most of her life in California. But when Sofi and her friends sneak off for a weekend in Tijuana, she gets in real trouble.
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"Destiny Lozada's fifteenth birthday is approaching, and Mami is set on a traditional quinceañera ceremony. However, Destiny's fiery, feminist older sister, America, is against the whole thing, and Papi is trying to stay out of it.