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A biography of major league baseball player Roberto Clemente, discussing his childhood, family, athletic abilities, and more.

The author describes Christmas at his grandmother's apartment in Spanish Harlem the year she introduced him to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Diego Velazquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja, which has had a profound and lasting effect on him. Presented in Spanish.

This graphic novel tells the true story of Benjy Melendez, a Bronx legend, son of Puerto-Rican immigrants, who founded, at the end of the 1960s, the notorious Ghetto Brothers gang.

When eighth-grader Zach Lopez starts school (where his mother is the newly appointed principal) in Devil's Pass, Minnesota, he expects to be miserable; after all he is a transplant from Los Angeles and the only Puerto Rican in the school--what he does not expect is the sinkhole in the middle of the park with a connection to the "otherside" and a town regularly beset by the monsters who come through it, but he soon learns that Devil's Pass specializes in the weird and dangerous.

The author recalls his early experiences with poverty and discrimination, his involvement with drugs and gangs, and his prison sentence for armed robbery which led to his rehabilitation and work with street gangs and drug addicts.

"Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk's life's passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. When Schomburg's collection became so big it began to overflow his house (and his wife threatened to mutiny), he turned to the New York Public Library, where he created and curated a collection that was the cornerstone of a new Negro Division. A century later, his groundbreaking collection, known as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has become a beacon to scholars all over the world."--Amazon.

Highlights the life, career, and legacy of Major League Baseball star Roberto Clemente. Includes statistics, key dates, a glossary, a website for further information, and photographs.

Thirteen-year-old Dellie is overcome with guilt and grief when her brother dies, but when she finds herself at odds with her best friend, Dellie reaches out to a neglected boy who lives in her building in the projects and learns how to have faith in herself from a new neighbor.