puerto ricans

When a homework assignment and a magic table summon real and fictional people from history, including the bloodthirsty pirate Blackbeard, sixth-grader Javi, his brawny younger sister Brady, and his brainy best friend Wiki join forces to save the world.

Illustrations and rhythmic, rhyming text follow a Boricua girl and a Black girl from birth through early childhood, culminating in a playdate where they celebrate their natural hair.

Describes how Jennifer Lopez uses her fame to help others.

"When Miguel and his parents move from Puerto Rico to the U.S. mainland, Miguel misses their home, his grandparents, and his pet frog, Coqu?, but he soon realizes that New York City has more in common with back home than he originally thought"--Provided by publisher.

"Juliet, a self-identified queer, Bronx-born Puerto Rican-American, comes out to her family to disastrous results the night before flying to Portland to intern with her feminist author icon--whom Juliet soon realizes has a problematic definition of feminism that excludes women of color"--Provided by publisher.

A young girl growing up in Spanish Harlem in the 1940's watches the secure world of her childhood years slowly erode away.

Third grader Maria Isabel, born in Puerto Rico and now living in the U.S., wants badly to fit in at school.

Third grader Mar?a Isabel, born in Puerto Rico and now living in the U.S., wants badly to fit in at school.

Author's memoir of her Puerto Rican childhood and her family's move to New York when she was thirteen.

A story in poetry and prose, in which fifteen-year-old Maria leaves her mother and their Puerto Rican home to live in the barrio of New York with her father, feeling torn between the two cultures in which she has been raised.