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What can(t) wait
by Ashley Hope Pérez
Marooned in a broken-down Houston neighborhood--and in a Mexican immigrant family where making ends meet matters much more than making it to college--smart, talented Marissa seeks comfort elsewhere when her home life becomes unbearable
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Efrain's secret
by Sofia Quintero
Dreaming of escaping the disadvantages of his urban life by attending an Ivy League university, ambitious high school senior Efrain Rodriguez realizes that his overworked mother and absentee father will not be able to finance his education, a situation that compels him to deal drugs.
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Riding the universe
by Gaby Triana
Seventeen-year-old Chloé, who inherited her uncle's beloved Harley after his death, spends the subsequent year trying to pass chemistry, wondering whether she should look for her birth parents, and beginning an unlikely relationship with her chemistry tutor, while also trying to figure out how she really feels about the boy who has been her best friend since they were children.
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The brothers torres
by Coert Voorhees
Having always looked up to his brother Steve, Frank kept a distance from his brother's bonds with the local gang members, but after a fight with the richest kid in school, Frank turns to Steve for help and ends up being befriended by the "cholos" where codes of the street override an individual's want.
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Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents and his family that he has never asked before.
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Muchacho : a novel
by LouAnne Johnson
Despite his many talents, Eddie Corazon is an angry young man who chooses to live his life on the edge of danger, but when he meets Lupe everything changes after she gives him the support he needs and encourages him to see himself for who he really is. Simultaneous.
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Jumped in
by Patrick Flores-Scott
Living by a personal set of rules to become virtually invisible after being abandoned by his mother, Sam, a teen who harbors a passion for the music of the Pacific Northwest, is paired with a scary gang member during a slam poetry unit in school and fears that his partner will destroy him, in a tale interspersed with evocative poetry. A first novel.
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Graffiti girl
by Kelly Parra
Growing up on the disadvantaged side of town in the home of her single mother and grandmother, Angel dreams of becoming a great artist, despairs of winning the heart of mural artist Nathan, and is tempted to join in a new friend's underground graffiti activities. Original. 50,000 first printing.
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Fifteen candles
by Veronica Chambers
When Alicia tries to start a business organizing quinceañeras, and she drags her friends into it as well, party organizing turns out to be harder than she thought, and Alicia risks losing her new business and her friends
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The Book of Broken Hearts
by Sarah Ockler
Resolving to avoid the notorious Vargas brothers who broke her older sisters' hearts, Jude spends the summer helping her ailing father to restore a vintage motorcycle that requires the help of mechanic Emilio Vargas, who tests her resolve with his charm and sweetness. By the author of Twenty Boy Summer.
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Muckers : When Your Town's About to Crumble, You Dig Deeper into the Muck and Find a Way to Win
by Sandra Neil Wallace
A former ESPN sportscaster presents a young adult debut novel about a young high school senior from a troubled mining community who longs to follow in the footsteps of his older brother--a former quarterback and fallen soldier--by leading his last-place team, the Muckers, through an impossible season that pits them against their biggest rivals, Phoenix United.
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Pig Park
by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez
Seventeen-year-old Masi Burciaga's barrio becomes more like a ghost town every day, but when she and other youths are recruited to erect a giant pyramid in hopes of attracting tourists, she wonders about the entrepreneur behind the scheme--and his attractive son
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The education of Margot Sanchez
by Lilliam Rivera
Margot Sanchez is paying off her debts by working in her family's South Bronx grocery store, but she must make the right choices about her friends, her family, and Moises, the good looking but outspoken boy from the neighborhood
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The grief keeper
by Alexandra Villasante
Wanting to enjoy an amazing life in America like her favorite television characters, an undocumented 17-year-old bargains for her asylum by becoming a grief keeper to save someone else's life. Simultaneous eBook.
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The surrender tree : poems of Cuba's struggle for freedom
by Margarita Engle
Poems that explore Cuba's fight for independence follow Rosa, a nurse who turns hidden caves into hospitals for those who know how to find her, and where she does her best to help everyone, with no regard to race or nationality.
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