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3) Going home
Author
Pub. Date
1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Feeling like an outsider when she visits her relatives in Puerto Rico for the first time, eleven-year-old Felita tries to come to terms with the heritage she always took for granted.
4) Shadowshaper
Author
Series
Shadowshaper cypher volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Sierra Santiago’s first week of summer was supposed to be sun-soaked and fun-filled; instead, the murals in her neighborhood seem to be coming to life and a zombie-looking dude crashes the first big party. As if that wasn’t enough, her normally comatose abuelo is spewing out cryptic warnings. As Sierra delves deeper into the mysteries of her changing Bed-Stuy neighborhood and an age old magic that brings art to life, she becomes immersed in an...
Author
Description
"The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence. When thirteen year old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling. One night, twelve years later, oldest sister Jessica spots a woman on her TV screen in Catfight, a raunchy reality show. She rushes to tell her younger sister, Nina: This woman's hair is dyed red, and she calls herself Ruby, but the beauty mark under her left...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Sarai uses verse to navigate the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn, questioning the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she lives.
10) In Nueva York
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Description
Residents on one block on New York's Lower East Side are the protagonists of these interrelated stories.
12) Undercover BMX
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Basketball has always come easily to twelve-year-old Devon Rosario of the Bronx, but it has been a long time since he actually enjoyed playing because Devon's father sees him as the family's second chance at basketball glory, and the pressure of that expectation is ruining the game for Devon; but then he sees Jamal, a Yemeni refugee, doing BMX tricks on his bike and suddenly Devon sees a way to put fun back into sports--provided he can keep his new...
13) Shadowshaper
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When the murals painted on the walls of her Brooklyn neighborhood start to change and fade in front of her, Sierra Santiago realizes that something strange is going on--then she discovers her Puerto Rican family are shadowshapers and finds herself in a battle with an evil anthropologist for the lives of her family and friends.
14) Shadowhouse fall
Author
Series
Shadowshaper cypher volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In addition to the ordinary problems of a Puerto Rican teenager in Brooklyn, Sierra Santiago is working on developing her shadowshaping skills, and she is beginning to think she may need all the skill she can summon because it seems that when she channeled hundreds of spirits through herself in order to defeat Wick she woke up something very powerful and very unfriendly and put her family and friends at risk.
16) La formasombras
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Sierra Santiago planeaba tener unas vacaciones tranquilas haciendo arte y saliendo con sus amigos. Sin embargo, un cadáver aparece en su primera fiesta de verano y los murales del barrio comienzan a llorar. Al parecer, en Brooklyn está ocurriendo algo más siniestro de la cuenta." -- Amazon.com.
When her summer plans are interrupted by supernatural phenomena, Sierra finds herself in a battle with the killer targeting her family of shadowshapers...
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
During the early days of the Great Depression, New York City's first Puerto Rican librarian, Pura Belpr,̌ introduces the public library to immigrants living in El Barrio and hosts the neighborhood's first Three Kings' Day fiesta.
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
During the early days of the Great Depression, New York City's first Puerto Rican librarian, Pura Belpré, introduces the public library to immigrants living in El Barrio and hosts the neighborhood's first Three Kings' Day fiesta.
Author
Series
Shadowshaper cypher volume 3
Pub. Date
c2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Description
A war is brewing among the different Houses, some of Sierra's shadowshapers are still in jail, and the House of Shadow and Light has been getting threatening messages from whisper wraiths, and even though one spy was exposed Sierra is not quite sure who she can trust--but the deal with Death made by one of her ancestors has given her power, and she will need to control it and confront her family's past if she has any hope of saving the future.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Las Ramírez de Stanten Islan orbitan alrededor de la ausencia. Cuando Ruthy, a los trece años, desapareció sin dejar rastro después de un entrenamiento de atletismo, su familia quedó marcada y deshecha. Una noche, doce años después, Jessica, la hermana mayor, ve en la pantalla de su televisión a una mujer que aparece en Catfight, un reality show subido de tono. Se apresura a decírselo a Nina, su hermana menor. El pelo de esta mujer está...