hispanic americans

Tired of moving around so much, Amelia, the daughter of migrant farm workers, dreams of a stable home.

Novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago.

Eighteen-year-old Jos? serves as the bridge between his non-English speaking family and the rest of the world, and because his parents are illegal immigrants and extended family lives with them, money is tight so Jos? works nights and arrives at school so tired that teachers at his alternative high school step in to help.

Amidst searching for the father she has never met, keeping her grades up, and working a part-time job, Piddy Sanchez is faced with the harassment of Yaqui Delgado and her gang. Although Piddy is mostly able to avoid Yaqui and her gang, when the harassment escalates and her personal life begins to suffer, she reexamines her priorities in order to prevent these bullies from determining the type of person she will be.

Amidst searching for the father she has never met, keeping her grades up, and working a part-time job, Piddy Sanchez is faced with the harassment of Yaqui Delgado and her gang. Although Piddy is mostly able to avoid Yaqui and her gang, when the harassment escalates and her personal life begins to suffer, she must reexamine her priorities in order to prevent these bullies from determining the type of person she will be.

Sixteen-year-old Isabella "Izzy" Crawford is a trailer-park scholarship kid at a wealthy Catholic school in Virginia, and is desperate to keep her status a secret from everyone. One day she helps a new student, Aubrey Shackleton--the sister of Hot Sam, who Izzy and her best friend Roz secretly stalk--resolve a cyberbullying situation. Then Izzy's family is selected to receive a new house from Habitat for Humanity, right in the neighborhood where the Shackletons live, which threatens all of the secrets Izzy has so carefully kept.

A young girl living in a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends.

When Yolanda Garcia publishes her first novel in which she makes "characters" out of her family, her family decides to tell the truth about her.

When Margot gets grounded, her parents make her work at the deli in their grocery store. Worried she's losing her carefully cultivated prep school reputation, Margot will do anything to make sure she's at the school's biggest beach party.

After Claudia is asked to be a junior bridesmaid for her cousin Laura, she goes online to find information about weddings. But when she arrives at Laura's house everything goes wrong, and Claudia wonders if she is going to bring bad luck to the wedding.