"Lola Levine is ecstatic to learn that their family will visit her favorite aunt in Peru, where she and Ben discover the wonderful adventures to be found in Lima while struggling to stay out of trouble"--OCLC.
When her father is diagnosed with Hungtington's disease, eighteen-year-old Vanni abandons her plan to flee her small New Mexico hometown after high school graduation and instead spends the summer keeping herself busy with part-time jobs and boys, but that changes after she meets Leigh, whose friendship dares Vanni to ask herself big questions and make new plans.
Rodrigo Garcia, a young man with a long record of juvenile crimes is given one last chance to get his life in order at a detention camp for deliquent teens, but it is going to be difficult for him to learn to control his hot temper, especially when he is assigned to room with obnoxious big mouth Jon Chandler.
"Portraits and ... poems present famous and lesser-known Latinos from varied backgrounds who have faced life's challenges in creative ways"--Provided by publisher.
While practicing for their next baseball game, thirteen-year-old friends Rabi, Miguel, and Joe discover that the nefarious activities of the Delbe, Iowa, meatpacking plant have caused cows to turn into zombies.
Tells the story of Arturo, who is looking forward to a relaxing summer until Carmen, a cute and funny girl moves into his apartment complex and while he deals with his stomach turning into a deep fryer over a girl, a smarmy land developer rolls into town and threatens to change it.
Rodrigo Garcia, a young man with a long record of juvenile crimes is given one last chance to get his life in order at a detention camp for deliquent teens, but it is going to be difficult for him to learn to control his hot temper, especially when he is assigned to room with obnoxious big mouth Jon Chandler.
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.
