Gary Soto
1) Puppy love
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English
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Publisher Annotation: A sweetly humorous middle grade novel packed with action, basketball, and a dash of magical realism about friendship and family, first crushes, and belonging, from acclaimed author Gary Soto.
2) Petty crimes
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English
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A collection of short stories about Mexican American youth growing up in California's Central Valley.
6) Marisol
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English
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Marisol loves to dance and when her family moves to Illinois she has to find a new dance teacher.
10) Chato's kitchen
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Putnam's
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English
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To get the "ratoncitos," little mice, who have moved into the barrio to come to his house, Chato the cat prepares all kinds of good food: fajitas, frijoles, salsa, enchiladas, and more.
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Chronicle Books
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English
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In his engaging new collection, National Book Award finalist Gary Soto creates poems that each begin with a line from Shakespeare and then continue in Soto's fresh and accessible verse. Drawing on moments from the sonnets, Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and others, Soto illuminates aspects of the source material while taking his poems in directions of their own, strategically employing the color of "thee" and "thine,"...
16) Lucky Luis
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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English
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Luis is convinced that he will not perform well on the baseball field without following his unique pre-game ritual.
17) Jesse
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Harcourt
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1st Harcourt pbk. ed.
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English
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To get away from his chaotic, often violent parents, 17-year-old Jesse has moved into an apartment with his brother. They are both taking community college courses in Fresno. But to pay for them, they must take whatever jobs they can find, even backbreaking field work. The path to a good education isn't going to be an easy one for these two young Mexican-Americans. As Jesse absorbs information in his classes, he learns harsher lessons from the people...
19) My little car
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Putnam's
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English
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Teresa loves to show off her shiny, new, pedal-powered lowrider car from Grandpa, but the toy soon looks old when she neglects it.