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• A Crown for Corina

  Kemp, Laekan Zea,

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  PICTURE BOOK: Corina's Abuela helps her select flowers that mean something to Corina from the garden for her Mexican flower crown that she will wear on her birthday, and explains the symbolic meaning of a birthday crown.

• Water Day

  Engle, Margarita

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  PICTURE BOOK: A girl and her community celebrate the arrival of the water man when he comes on his weekly visit to distribute water to a Cuban village. Includes author's note.

• Spanish Is the Language of My Family

  Genhart, Michael

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  PICTURE BOOK: A young boy bonds with his beloved abuela over a love of Spanish.

• Mexikid

  a Graphic Memoir

  Martin, Pedro, 1967-

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  MIDDLE GRADE GRAPHIC NOVEL: Pedro Martin's grown up in the U.S. hearing stories about his legendary abuelito, but during a family road trip to Mexico, he connects with his grandfather and learns more about his own Mexican identity in this moving and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Undercover Latina

  De León, Aya (Novelist)

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  MIDDLE GRADE: Fourteen-year-old Andréa Hernández-Baldoquín hails from a family of spies working for the Factory, an international organization dedicated to protecting people of color. Andréa has dreamed about getting her first solo mission, but she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Puppy Love

  Soto, Gary,

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  MIDDLE GRADE: After saving a drowning puppy while dealing with a huge crush on his classmate Sierra, thirteen-year-old Jordan Mendoza nurses the abandoned puppy back to health and wonders who threw her into the canal and if there are more puppies…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• ¡Ay, Mija!

  My Bilingual Summer in Mexico

  Suggs, Christine

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  YOUNG ADULT: Sixteen-year-old Christine takes their first solo trip to Mexico to spend a few weeks with their grandparents and tía. At first, Christine struggles to connect with family they don’t yet share a language with. Soon Christine settles…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Saints of the Household

  Tison, Ari

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  YOUNG ADULT: When brothers Max and Jay help a classmate in trouble, they struggle with the consequences of their violent actions and worry they may be more like their abusive father than they thought, so the brothers turn to their Bribri roots to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ander and Santi Were Here

  Garza Villa, Jonny

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  YOUNG ADULT: Nonbinary teen Ander is ready to leave their family's taquería and focus on their art, but when Santi, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, begins to work at the restaurant, the two teens spark a romance made complicated by…Read moreRead more of this annotation