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Americanized: rebel without a green card
Par Sara Saedi. 2018
Television show writer and novelist recounts her teenage years in the 1990s, and reveals how she discovered that her family…
had entered the United States as undocumented immigrants. Provides a humorous account of balancing teen angst with trying to become an American citizen. For senior high and older readers. 2018An anthology of the works of American expatriate author Paul Bowles (1910-1999). Includes The Delicate Prey and Other Stories (1950),…
A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard (1962), Things Gone and Things Still Here (1977), Midnight Mass (1981), and more. Edited by Daniel Halpern. Some strong language. 2002El niño terrible y la escritora maldita
Par Jaime Bayly. 2016
En esta novela, el protagonista Jaime Baylys, periodista peruano y personalidad de televisión incomprendido, reflexiona sobre su tumultuosa relación con…
una amante, Lucía, en anécdotas y a través de su periodismo. Lenguaje injurioso y descripciones de índole sexualThe opposite of loneliness: essays and stories
Par Marina Keegan. 2014
Collection of essays and short stories by Keegan (1989-2012), who was killed in a car accident five days after her…
college graduation. In the title essay--which appeared in the graduation issue of the Yale Daily News--she reflects on the bright future awaiting the graduates. Bestseller. 2014A feast of freedom: tasty tidbits from the City Tavern
Par Walter Staib, Jennifer Fox, Fernando Juarez. 2010
Frida
Par Jonah Winter, Ana Juan. 2002
Blueberry summers: growing up at the lake
Par Curtiss Anderson. 2008
In this classic story of a midwestern boyhood, Curtiss Anderson takes readers into the colorful lives of his robust Norwegian…
family and their wonderfully familiar summerscape in northern Minnesota: the lake place. Sweet childhood reminiscences comprise this coming-of-age memoir set in the poignant summers of the 1930s and '40sDiego
Par Jonah Winter, Jeanette Winter. 1991
This story of Diego Rivera, the greatest muralist of Mexico--and of the world--shows how his passion for painting and love…
for his country combined to make a powerful art celebrating the Mexican people. Told in Spanish and English. For grades 2-4. 1991The hotel years
Par Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann. 2015
In 64 short essays written between 1919 and 1939, author and journalist Joseph Roth evokes life between the wars in…
his travels through hotels from Germany and Austria to Albania and the Soviet Union. UnratedThe firehouse light
Par Janet Nolan, Marie Lafrance. 2010
Drum dream girl: how one girl's courage changed music
Par Margarita Engle, Rafael López. 2015
In Cuba in the 1930s, music filled the air. Millo had a dream playing drums of all kinds, but the…
country and her father only permitted boys to play drums. Millo finds a way to drum and practices in secret. Eventually her father relents and hires a music teacher for her. Millo's persistance means that she and her sisters become the first all-girl dance band in Cuba and play with and for famous people. (Story inspired by the childhood of Millo Castro Zaldarriaga.) For grades K-3Compost stew: an A to Z recipe for the earth
Par Ashley Wolff, Mary McKenna Siddals. 2010
Elizabeth, queen of the seas
Par Lynne Cox, Brian Floca. 2014
Describes how an elephant seal made a home in New Zealand's narrow Avon River and loved to stretch out across…
a two-lane road, requiring volunteers to tow her farther out to sea after she kept returning repeatedly. For preschool-grade 2My Detroit garden
Par Keri Middaugh. 2012
A little girl moves to the city of Detroit and misses her garden. Will planting a few seedlings in a…
nearby vacant lot help her feel at home in the city? This story takes a look at the joys of urban gardening and includes a Detroit fact page and family gardening activity. For grades K-3. 2012The skin you live in
Par Michael Tyler, David Lee Csicsko. 2005
Razia's ray of hope: one girl's dream of an education (CitizenKid)
Par Suana Verelst, Elizabeth Suneby. 2013
Alice Ramsey's grand adventure
Par Don Brown. 1997
An episode in the life of a landscape painter
Par César Aira, Chris Andrews, Cesar Aira. 2006
The rings of Saturn
Par Michael Hulse, W. G. Sebald, Winfried Georg Sebald. 1999
A walking tour of England's southeast coast frames a wide-ranging series of meditations on literature and stories from Britain's imperial…
past. A stay in a Norwich hospital prompts the protagonist to search for naturalist Thomas Browne's skull; a railroad bridge over the river Blyth recalls England's silk trade with China. 1998Más allá de mí: continuación de Cajas de cartón y Senderos fronterizos
Par Francisco Jiménez, Francisco Jimenez. 2009
1962. When Francisco becomes a freshman at California's Santa Clara University, he enters a world entirely different from the Mexican…
migrant community his family inhabits. Continues fictionalized autobiographies Senderos Fronterizos (DB 54980) and Cajas de Cartón (DB 54979). For junior and senior high readers. Belpré Honor Book. Spanish language. 2009