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Author
Language
English
Description
Before everything changed, young Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now, in 1939, the streets of Berlin are draped with red, white, and black flags; her family's fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer welcome in the places that once felt like home. Hannah and her best friend, Leo Martin, make a pact: whatever the future has in store for them, they'll meet it together. Hope appears in the form of the SS St. Louis , a transatlantic...
2) Heat
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
220 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the legendary #1 New York Times bestselling author of Plum Island and Night Fall, Nelson DeMille's blistering new novel features an exciting new character--US Army combat veteran Daniel "Mac" MacCormick, now a charter boat captain, who is about to set sail on his most dangerous cruise. Daniel Graham MacCormick--Mac for short--seems to have a pretty good life. At age thirty-five he's living in Key West, owner of a forty-two-foot charter fishing...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 560 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Cuba, the passing of Fidel Castro from this world and of Ra�ul Castro from power have raised urgent questions about the island's political future. In the United States, Barack Obama's opening to Cuba, the reversal of that policy during Donald Trump's administration, and Joseph Biden's apparent willingness to reinitiate open relations have made the nature of the historic relationship between the two nations a subject of debate once more. In both...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born. In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First HarperVia edition.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A lush, sensuous, and original tale of family, love, and history, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath. Nadia Guerra's mother, Albis Torres, left when Nadia was just ten years old. Growing up, the proponents of revolution promised a better future. Now that she's an adult, Nadia finds that life in Havana hasn't quite matched its promise; instead it has stifled her rebellious and artistic desires. Each night she DJs a...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Follows a girl in the 1920s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there has never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 444 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A dramatic re-creation and urgent examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today's world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must return to the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis. Nuclear Folly offers an international perspective on...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Latinx Zoey navigates the tricky waters of friendship and family while searching for a way to save her grandfather's bowling alley from closing"--
10) Refugee
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
Author
Series
Merci Suarez volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
For Merci Suarez, eighth grade means a new haircut, nighttime football games, and an out-of-town overnight field trip. At home, it means more chores and keeping an eye on Lolo as his health worsens. It's a year filled with more responsibility and independence, but also with opportunities to reinvent herself. Merci has always been fine with not being one of the popular kids like Avery Sanders, who will probably be the soccer captain and is always traveling...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuse to be left behind. With communism sweeping the globe, the two nations begin a neck-and-neck competition to build even more destructive bombs and conquer the Space Race. In their battle for dominance,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Maggie Diaz of Miami is excited to start seventh-grade with her best friends, Zoey and Julian, and finally getting a cellphone of her own; but after school her friends are wrapped up in their various clubs, her mother is attending college, and her older sister Caro has her sports and tutoring, so Maggie decides that she will find a club to join as well--but trying out ALL the different clubs while still juggling school work is exhausting and confusing--and...