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3) Joyride
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Carly Vega, the daughter of Mexican immigrants who have been deported, and Arden Moss, the quarterback son of the county sheriff, draw closer together after he persuades her to help him perform pranks designed to take his mind off of his sister's suicide and to upset his father, who does not approve of their relationship.
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2017.
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In Colorado in 1962 the three teenage Soria cousins run an unlicensed radio station from a beat-up box truck converted into a transmitter; Beatriz is the thinker and technician, Joaquin, the youngest, is the disc jockey, and Daniel is called the Saint of Bicho Raro because he can perform miracles (just not for himself)--then one night Pete Wyatt and Tony DiRisio drive into town in search of a miracle.
16) Yo, Naomi León
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Scholastic
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2005
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When Naomi's absent mother resurfaces to claim her, Naomi runs away to Mexico with her great-grandmother and younger brother in search of her father.
19) Again, Essie?
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Charlesbridge
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"Rafael tries to save his toys from his baby sister, Essie, by building a wall from shoeboxes, toilet paper rolls, and other household objects in this playful exploration of spatial sense and geometry."--
20) Sylvia and Aki
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At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.
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