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(0)Benjamin Alire Sáenz
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile Measure
450L
Summary
Sal used to know his place with his adoptive gay father, their loving Mexican American family, and his best friend, Samantha. But it's senior year, and suddenly Sal is throwing punches, questioning everything, and realizing he no longer knows himself. If Sal's not who he thought he was, who is he?
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Series
Aristotle and Dante volume 1
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Summary
Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Summary
Sammy & Juliana in Hollywood is our American Graffiti.
No, that's not right. It's our Mexican Graffiti.—Denise Chavez
The "Hollywood" where Sammy Santos and Juliana Ríos live is not the West Coast one, the one with all the glitz and glitter. This Hollywood is a tough barrio at the edge of a small town in southern New Mexico. Sammy and his friends—members of the 1969 high school graduating class—face a world
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