Latinx Lives

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With_the_Fire_On_High

With the Fire on High


by Elizabeth Acevedo | With her daughter to care for and her abuela to help support, high school senior Emoni Santiago has to make the tough decisions, and do what must be done. The one place she can let her responsibilities go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness. (book, audiobook, Overdrive e-book, Overdrive audiobook, Hoopla e-book, Hoopla audiobook)

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We Didn’t Ask for This


by Adi Alsaid | Central International School’s annual lock-in is legendary. This year’s lock-in begins normally enough. Then a group of students led by Marisa Cuevas stage an ecoprotest and chain themselves to the doors, vowing to keep everyone trapped inside until their list of demands is met. (book, Overdrive e-book)

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Salty, Bitter, Sweet 


by Mayra Cuevas | Seventeen-year-old aspiring chef Isabella Fields’ family life has fallen apart after the death of her Cuban abuela and the divorce of her parents. She moves in with her dad and his new wife in France, where Isabella feels like an outsider in her father’s new life, studiously avoiding the awkward, “Why did you cheat on Mom?” conversation. (book, Overdrive audiobook)

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Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From


by Jennifer De Leon | Liliana Cruz is hitting walls. There’s the wall her mom has put up ever since Liliana’s dad left—again. There’s the wall that delineates Liliana’s diverse inner-city Boston neighborhood from Westburg, the wealthy—and white—suburban high school she’s just been accepted into. And there’s the wall Liliana creates within herself, because to survive at Westburg, she can’t just lighten up, she has to whiten up. (book) 

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All of Us With Wings 


by Michelle Ruiz Keil | Seventeen-year-old Xochi is alone in San Francisco, running from her painful past: the mother who abandoned her, the man who betrayed her. Then one day, she meets Pallas, a precocious twelve-year-old who lives with her rock-star family in one of the city’s storybook Victorians. Xochi accepts a position as Pallas’s live-in governess and quickly finds her place in their household, which is relaxed and happy despite the band's larger-than-life fame. (book, Overdrive e-book) 

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Tigers, Not Daughters 


by Samantha Mabry | The Torres sisters dream of escape from their needy and despotic widowed father, and from their San Antonio neighborhood, full of old San Antonio families and all the traditions and expectations that go along with them. (book, Overdrive e-book) 

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We Set the Dark on Fire


by Tehlor Kay Mejia | At the Medio School for Girls, distinguished young women are trained for one of two roles in their polarized society: run a husband’s household or raise his children, but both are promised a life of comfort and luxury. Daniela Vargas is the school’s top student, but her bright future depends upon no one discovering her darkest secret—that her pedigree is a lie. (book, Overdrive e-book, Overdrive audiobook)

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Barely Missing Everything 


by Matt Mendez | Juan has plans. He’s going to get out of El Paso, Texas, on a basketball scholarship and make something of himself—or at least find something better than his mom Fabi’s cruddy apartment, her string of loser boyfriends, and a dead dad. Basketball is going to be his ticket out, his ticket up. He just needs to make it happen. (book, audiobook)

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Don’t Date Rosa Santos


by Nina Moreno | Rosa Santos is cursed by the sea-at least, that's what they say. Dating her is bad news, especially if you're a boy with a boat. But Rosa feels more caught than cursed. Caught between cultures and choices. Between her abuela, a beloved healer and pillar of their community, and her mother, an artist who crashes in and out of her life like a hurricane. Between Port Coral, the quirky South Florida town they call home, and Cuba, the island her abuela refuses to talk about. (book, Overdrive audiobook, Hoopla audiobook)

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Shadowshaper


by Daniel Jose Older | Sierra Santiago was looking forward to a fun summer of making art, hanging out with her friends, and skating around Brooklyn. But then a weird zombie guy crashes the first party of the season. Sierra's near-comatose abuelo begins to say "Lo siento" over and over. And when the graffiti murals in Bed-Stuy start to weep.... Well, something stranger than the usual New York mayhem is going on. (book, Overdrive e-book, Overdrive audiobook, Hoopla audiobook)

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The Truth Is


by Nonieqa Ramos | Fifteen-year-old Verdad doesn’t think she has time for love. She’s still struggling to process the recent death of her best friend, Blanca; dealing with the high expectations of her hardworking Puerto Rican mother and the absence of her remarried father; and keeping everyone at a distance. But when she meets Danny, a new guy at school–who happens to be trans–all bets are off. (book)

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We Are Not From Here


by Jenny Torres Sanchez | Pulga has his dreams. Chico has his grief. Pequeña has her pride. And these three teens have one another. But none of them have illusions about the town they’ve grown up in and the dangers that surround them. And when those threats become all too real, the trio knows they have no choice but to run: from their country, from their families, from their beloved home. (book, Overdrive e-book, Overdrive audiobook, Hoopla audiobook)

Running

Running


by Natalia Sylvester | Senator Anthony Ruiz is running for president. Throughout his successful political career he has always had his daughter’s vote, but a presidential campaign brings a whole new level of scrutiny to sheltered fifteen-year-old Mariana and the rest of her Cuban American family. Mari begins to learn about the details of her father’s political positions, and she realizes that her father is not the man she thought he was. (book)

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The Grief Keeper


by Alexandra Villasante | Seventeen-year-old Marisol has always dreamed of being American. She never pictured fleeing her home in El Salvador under threat of death and stealing across the US border as "an illegal", but after her brother is murdered and her younger sister, Gabi's, life is also placed in equal jeopardy, she has no choice, especially because she knows everything is her fault. (book)

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This Train is Being Held


by Ismee Williams | When private school student Isabelle Warren first meets Dominican-American Alex Rosario on the downtown 1 train, she remembers his green eyes and his gentlemanly behavior. He remembers her untroubled happiness, something he feels all rich kids must possess. (book, Overdrive e-book, Hoopla e-book)