After saving a drowning puppy while dealing with a huge crush on his classmate Sierra, thirteen-year-old Jordan Mendoza nurses the abandoned puppy back to health and wonders who threw her into the canal and if there are more puppies needing rescue.

Maya's Divided World is the second installment in Gloria Velásquez's Roosevelt High School Series of fictional narratives dealing with the pressures and mysteries of young adult life. The highly-regarded series takes place in a high school with a multicultural student body and explores the problems of growing up in today's world.

In Maya's Divided World, the well-ordered and productive life that Maya has been able to accomplish

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Juanita Fights the School Board is the first novel in Gloria Velásquez's Roosevelt High School Series, a series featuring characters with whom all children, and especially U.S. Hispanic children, can relate. This novel for young adults details the expulsion of a young Mexican-American girl from Roosevelt High School for getting involved in a fight with another student. The story begins with Juanita's expulsion and describes the effect

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This young adult novel depicts a teenager's struggle with the clash between the streets and the classroom Three things matter to fifteen-year-old David López: his family, his pigeons and his gang. But with the death of his father, David's life in Little Arroyo becomes a struggle for everything he once cared about. "I'm gonna split . . . I've got to get out of here," David says, when his mother suggests that he live with his well-meaning, but misguided,...

A quinceanera for the record books? If Fabiola Garza had her way, her quinceanera would be as simple and as non-traditional as possible-just two airline tickets to New York City and her best friend in tow. Sadly, things hardly ever go Fabi's way. ¿Una fiesta de quinceañera inolvidable? Si Fabiola Garza pudiera, su fiesta de quinceañera sería algo simple y poco convencional: dos boletos de avión a New York City para viajar en compañía...

La vida de Celi Rivera es un torbellino de preguntas... por los cambios en su cuerpo, por sentirse atraída por un chico por primera vez y por la exploración que hace su mejor amiga de lo que significa ser género fluido. Pero, sobre todo, por la insistencia de su madre en hacerle una ceremonia lunar cuando le llegue su primer periodo. Se trata de un ancestral ritual mexica que Mima y su comunidad han rescatado, pero Celi se promete a sí misma...

"Santiago might be in over his head this time...Santiago's grades are slipping again, but he's determined to prove to his family that he can be successful at something, even if it's not school. When a fancy new taco chain moves in across the street from the Garza family restaurant, Santiago is inspired--he'll open a food business of his own! Unfortunately, running a business is not as much fun as Santiago thought it would be. Fabi and Alexis keep...

After a gang brawl, Azael wakes up in a locked cell. Juvie, he thinks. He can't remember what happened. And this lockup is strange. They just make him watch some white girl in another cell. Somehow, he's connected to her...