Adrianna Cuevas
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English
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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.
"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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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Ages 8-12.
Rafa goes to work on a Rancho Espanto as punishment for a prank gone wrong, where he discovers a mystery as inexplicable as it is familiar and ultimately leads to Rafa learning hard truths about himself.
Rafa would rather live in the world of The Forgotten Age, his favorite role-playing game, than face his father's increasing restrictions and his mother's fading presence. But when Rafa and his friends decide to take the game out into...
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Monster High school spirits volume 1
Language
English
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While trying to figure out which of their brain parts is exciting enough for the Monster High talent show, Frankie Stein discovers they are the product of a disgraced scientist accused of unethical experiments and teams up with Draculaura and Clawdeen to discover the truth.
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"If Mari Feijoo could, she would turn her family's Peak Cubanity down a notch, just enough so that her snooping neighbor and classmate Mykenzye wouldn't have anything to tease her about. That's why this year, there's no way that Mari's joining in on one of the big-gest Feijoo family traditions--burning the New Year's Eve effigy her abuela makes. Only Mari never suspects that failing to toss her effigy in the fire would bring something much worse than...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Lo único que Néstor López quiere es vivir en un mismo lugar por más de unos meses y cenar con su papá. Después de que el papá de Néstor se marcha a otra misión, el muchacho y su mamá se mudan a un nuevo pueblo a vivir con su abuela. Néstor planea pasar desapercibido, y de ninguna manera quiere que nadie sepa su secreto más profundo: que puede hablar con los animales. Pero cuando los animales del pueblo comienzan a desaparecer, la abuela...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
Cuando la fallida invasión de Bahía de Cochinos en 1961 solidifica el poder de Castro en Cuba, la familia de Cumba, de doce años, toma la difícil decisión de enviarlo solo a la Florida. Ante la idea de vivir en otro país por sí mismo, Cumba intenta recordar el sonido del clarinete de su padre, el olor del perfume de lavanda de su madre. La vida en Estados Unidos presenta toda una nueva serie de desafíos. Perdido en un mar de angloparlantes,...