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1) Familia
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As the fact checker for a popular magazine, Gabby DiMarco believes in absolute, verifiable Truths -- until they throw the facts of her own life into question. The genealogy test she took as research for an article has yielded a baffling result: Gabby has a sister -- one who's been desperately trying to find her. Except, as Gabby's beloved parents would confirm if they were still alive, that's impossible. Isabella Ruiz can still picture the face of...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Spending the summer with his hotel-developer father in Puerto Rico, seventeen-year-old Lucas turns to a legendary cursed girl filled with poison when his girlfriend mysteriously disappears.
Author
Series
Justice hustlers volume 4
Publisher
Dafina Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Fed up with her married Miami boyfriend, savvy Dulce has no problem stealing his drug-dealer stash and fleeing to her family in the Caribbean. But when she gets bored in rural Santo Domingo, she escapes on a sugar daddy adventure to Puerto Rico. Her new life is one endless party, until she's caught in Hurricane Maria--and witnesses the brutal collision of colonization and climate change, as well as the international vultures who plunder the tragedy...
Author
Series
Finn novels volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Haunted by the death of his best friend and hunted by the FBI for war crimes he didn't commit, Finn lands on an island paradise that turns into his own personal hell in this gripping follow-up to Steel Fear and Cold Fear-from the New York Times bestselling writing team Webb & Mann . . . By day, AWOL Navy SEAL Finn is hiding out on Vieques, a tiny island paradise off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico, living in a spare room behind a seafood restaurant...
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
"Playing in the Blazewrath World Cup with Team Puerto Rico and the Sol de Noche dragons had been Lana Torres's dream come true-until it turned into a nightmare. To rid the world of the dragon supremacists, Lana and her friends had to cancel the games forever. Without the sport that brought them together, the whole team returns to Puerto Rico to recover. But rest isn't in the cards. Someone is kidnapping dragons and has set their sights on the Sol...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While preparing for Christmas in Puerto Rico, seven-year-old Esmeralda asks the Three Magi for a baby doll like her cousin's, but when they bring something else instead she gains a deeper understanding of the meaning of the holiday.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In the 1950s, 9-year-old Andrea Rodriguez and her brother leave Woronoco, Massachusetts, for the mountain villages of Puerto Rico and then, months later, are brought back to the tiny factory town where everything has changed and must navigate the rifts between their family's values and all-American culture as they journey into adulthood.
Author
Series
Flaca files volume 2
Publisher
Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After receiving the perfect Christmas gifts (a fingerprint-taking kit, a flashlight, and police tape to block off crime scenes), junior detective Flaca is reluctant to travel to Puerto Rico to spend Three Kings Day with her grandmother, until Flaca finds a mystery to solve involving the holiday's traditions.
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Rafi and Rosi, two curious tree frogs, explore Puerto Rico's El Morro Fort, where they pretend to be pirates in battle, find pirate treasure, and discover a haunted sentry box"--
16) Mis abuelos y yo
Author
Publisher
Pianata Books, Arte Paublico Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Español
Description
Illustrations and rhyming text describe all the special things a Puerto Rican boy enjoys doing with his grandparents throughout the year.
17) El viaje perdido
Author
Publisher
Blaine Ray Workshops
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Español
Description
American college students Carlos and Jaime go on a Caribbean cruise, but while in Puerto Rico, they miss the boat to the next island and have their money stolen. As they struggle to get home, the students experience aspects of Puerto Rican culture.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and The Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five women and the secret that binds them together"--
They refer to themselves as "las Madres," a close-knit group of women who, with their daughters, have created a family based on friendship and blood ties.Their story begins in Puerto Rico in 1975 when fifteen-year-old Luz, the tallest girl in her dance academy...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Drawn to the exotic island of Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de León, Ana Cubillas becomes involved with enamored twin brothers Ramón and Inocente before convincing them to claim a sugar plantation they have inherited.
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"For childhood friends Gabe, Xavier, Tavo, Paul, and Bimbo, death has always been close. Hurricanes. Car accidents. Gang violence. Suicide. Estamos rodeados de fantasmas was Gabe's grandmother's refrain. We are surrounded by ghosts. But this time is different. Bimbo's mom has been shot dead. We're gonna kill the guys who killed her Bimbo swears. And they all agree. Feral with grief, Bimbo has become unrecognizable, taking no prisoners in his search...
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