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(0)Aida Salazar
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Children's Books for United Against Hate Week
Children's Hispanic Heritage Books
Middle Grade Realistic/Historical Fiction
Children's Hispanic Heritage Books
Middle Grade Realistic/Historical Fiction
Description
Lula, a farm-working girl with big dreams, meets Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong, and other labor rights activists and joins the 1965 protest for workers' rights.
2) Ultraviolet
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Elio is struggling with "coming of age"--first love, first heartbreak, first real fight (which lands him in the hospital), and what it means to be a "man," a true friend, and an ally, as well as how to overcome a culture of toxic masculinity. Told in verse format.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Eleven-year-old (nearly twelve) Celi Rivera, who is a mix of Black-Puerto Rican-Indigenous Mexican is secretive about her approaching period, and the changes that are happening to her body; she is horrified that her mother wants to hold a traditional public moon ceremony to celebrate the occasion; she must choose loyalty to her life-long best friend who is contemplating an even more profound change of life or the boy she likes.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture poems...
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Whether their period's coming spurs silence or celebration, whether they are well prepared for it or totally in the dark, the young people in these sixteen stories find that getting a period brings not only changes to their bodies, but also joy, sorrow, and self-discovery. Featuring BIPOC contributors who are some of today's most talented authors in middle-grade fiction, Calling the Moon offers coming-of-age stories and poetry as varied as the phases...
