Search Results: Returned 14 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 14
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[2019]., Charlesbridge Teen Call No: REALISTIC F CHA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In 1984 Newark, Beatriz Mendez navigates romance, gang culture, and her family's past. After her gang-leader brother is killed, Beatriz gives up her dreams of dancing in order to run the gang. But her eyes are reopened to her dream of a career in dance when the school brainiac asks her to compete in a dance competition with him--but will the gang let her go?"--Provided by the publisher.
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c2004., Juvenile, Orchard Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fifteen-year-old Maria leaves her mother and their Puerto Rican home to live in the barrio of New York with her father, feeling torn between the two cultures in which she has been raised.
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2008., Harcourt Call No: DYSTOPIA F PFE Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City.
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-- Do not hate the playerBy Nedd, Alexis2021., Adolescent, Bloomsbury YA Call No: ROMANCE F NED Availability:5 of 5 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Emilia, secretly a dedicated gamer, competes with her elite team in a major tournament at the same time she and her best friend are running for class president and vice president.
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[2023]., Adolescent, Holiday House Call No: ROMANCE F MAL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Could you plan the Fall Formal with your (hot) nemesis? Whit Rivera is about to find out. Frenemies Whit and Zay have been at odds for years (ever since he broke up with her in, like, the most embarrassing way imaginable), so when they're forced to organize the fall formal together, it's a literal disaster. Sparks fly as Whitney--type-A, passionate, a perfectionist, and a certified sweater-weather fanatic--butts heads with Zay, a dry, relaxed skater boy who takes everything in stride. But not all of those sparks are bad... Has their feud been a big misunderstanding all along?
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2023., Adolescent, MTV Entertainment Books Call No: SUPERNATURAL F COL Edition: First MTV Books hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In a race against time, seventeen-year-old Puerto Rican Manny must rescue his family from a malevolent spirit targeting his apartment building in the Bronx.
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[2019]., Dial Books Call No: REALISTIC F RIV Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Juliet, a self-identified queer, Bronx-born Puerto Rican-American, comes out to her family to disastrous results the night before flying to Portland to intern with her feminist author icon--whom Juliet soon realizes has a problematic definition of feminism that excludes women of color"--Provided by the publisher.
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-- Marcus Vega does not speak Spanish2018., Pre-adolescent, Viking Call No: REALISTIC F CAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After a fight at school leaves Marcus facing suspension, Marcus's mother takes him and his younger brother, who has Down syndrome, to Puerto Rico to visit relatives they do not remember or have never met, and while there Marcus starts searching for his father, who left their family ten years ago and is somewhere on the island.
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-- Marcus Vega does not speak Spanish2018., Pre-adolescent, Viking Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After a fight at school leaves Marcus facing suspension, Marcus's mother takes him and his younger brother, who has Down syndrome, to Puerto Rico to visit relatives they do not remember or have never met, and while there Marcus starts searching for his father, who left their family ten years ago and is somewhere on the island.
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2020., Bloomsbury Call No: FANTASY F RIV Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A modern retelling of the myth, Orpheus and Eurydice, in which Eury leaves Puerto Rico for the Bronx, haunted by losing all to Hurricane Maria and by evil spirit Ato, and meets a bachata-singing charmer, Pheus.
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[2022]., Adolescent, Holiday House Call No: REALISTIC F MAL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Kat Sanchez uses photos of a friend to create a fake Instagram account, but when one of her posts goes viral and exposes Kat's duplicity, her entire world--both real and pretend--comes crashing down around her.
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[2016], Juvenile, Scholastic Inc. Call No: SUPERNATURAL F OLD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Shadowshaper Volume: 1Summary Note: 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.
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[2020], Pre-adolescent, Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Devon Rosario has played basketball his whole life, but isn't happy with the rigid structure his success in the sport and his father's expectations has created. His new found love of BMX complicates things further.
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[2020]., Juvenile, Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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 passion secret from his father.