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Told in two voices, Pen, whose dream of taking over her family's restaurant has been destroyed, and Xander, a new, undocumented, employee seeking his father, form a bond.
As an aspiring pastry chef, Penelope Prado has always dreamed of opening her own pastelería next to her father's restaurant, Nacho's Tacos. But her traditional Mexican-American mom and dad have different plans. Xander Amaro is a new hire at Nacho's. For him, the job is an opportunity...
62) A song of frutas
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While visiting her abuelo in Cuba, a young girl helps him sell frutas, singing the name of each fruit as they walk, and after she returns to the United States, they exchange letters made of abrazos--hugs. Includes historical and cultural notes.
63) The storm runner
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Storm runner volume 1
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Zane spends every day exploring the sleeping volcano in his backyard. A mysterious girl named Brooks shows up at Zane's doorstep, insisting that they meet at the volcano. Brooks tells him that the volcano is actually a centuries-old prison for the Maya god of death, whose destiny is directly tied to Zane's. Brooks shows him that he is at the center of an ancient prophecy that could mean the destruction of the world. Zane finds himself entangled in...
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HS MERIANO, A.
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HS MERIANO, A.
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Grounded for the summer by her sometimes-evil stepmother, seventeen-year-old vegan feminist Ellen Lopez-Rourke gets permission to join a Quidditch team, where she makes new, if nerdy, friends.
65) Time villains
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Time villains volume 1
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When a homework assignment and a magic table summon real and fictional people from history, including the bloodthirsty pirate Blackbeard, sixth-grader Javi, his brawny younger sister Brady, and his brainy best friend Wiki join forces to save the world.
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"Una colección excepcional que reúne todos los cuentos de Gabriel García Márquez, ganador del Premio Nobel. El lector encontrará los primeros relatos que García Márquez publicó en Ojos de perro azul, incluyendo el "Monólogo de Isabel viendo llover en Macondo", primera referencia al lugar imaginario que se convertiría en el espacio literario más reconocido de nuestro tiempo tras la publicación de Cien años de soledad. A partir de entonces...
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JF CUE
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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.
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Eleven-and-a-half-year-old Valentina Salazar grew up as a monster protector until her father's loss, but when a video of a mythical egg appears, Valentina convinces her older brother and sister to help her find and save it--all while avoiding the monster hunters who want to destroy it.
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F COSTER, N.
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F COSTER, N.
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"When a county initiative in the Piedmont of North Carolina forces the students at a mostly black public school on the east side to move across town to a nearly all-white high school on the west, the community rises in outrage. For two students, quiet and aloof Gee and headstrong Noelle, these divisions will extend far beyond their schooling. As their paths collide and overlap over the course of thirty years, their two seemingly disconnected families...
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Woven in moonlight volume 1
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"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. Now Ximena's motivated by her insatiable thirst for revenge, and her rare ability to spin thread from moonlight. When Atoc demands the real Condesa's hand in marriage, it's Ximena's duty to go in her stead. She relishes the chance, as Illustrian...
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When Esther, a war correspondent, disappears with her friend Mikhail, her husband, a well-known author, becomes the target of an investigation that leaves him questioning his own existence until Mikhail reappears to lead him on a journey.