How can a servant defeat a seven-headed dragon? What happens when a woman’s husband, who happens to be a mouse, falls into the soup? What can a lazy man learn from a thousand leaf-cutting ants? This book converts famous Latin American myths into comics. There are tricks, bravery, jokes, magic, and more in this fast…
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Saraí and the Meaning of Awesome/Saraí y el significado de lo genial by Saraí Gonzalez and Monica Brown
Every morning, Saraí sees “you’re awesome” above her bed. Her life is pretty awesome: she has a business selling cupcakes, she knows how to dance, and her family and best friend live close enough to visit all the time. One day, her grandparents announce that they have to move. Saraí doesn’t know what to do…if…
Knockout by K.A. Holt
Levi is tired of being told what he can’t do, of having his mother and brother always hovering and worrying about him. He was born prematurely, and still has some health issues, but that doesn’t mean that he wants to be treated like a baby. His dad encourages him to try a new sport, and…
My Year in the Middle by Lila Quintero Weaver
Lu is the daughter of Argentinian immigrants, living in Alabama. She's in sixth grade, in a recently integrated school and feeling like an outsider of her own because she's Latina. For the most part, white students and black students sit on opposite sides of the room, are only friends with people who look like them.…
Drum Roll Please by Lisa Jenn Bigelow
Melly and her best friend, Olivia, are all set for rock-'n'-roll summer camp and on their way when Melly's parents announce that they are getting a divorce. Then Melly and Olivia get placed in different cabins and bands...but Melly has only ever played with Olivia. Everyone else in her band has a different style of…
The Manic Panic by Richa Jha
When the internet breaks, what do you do? You can't watch TV or play video games or stare at your phone...this is what happens for one family, and the parents are freaking out. It turns out to be their daughter who saves the day, with the help of an amused grandma, forcing her parents to…
The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon
Caleb and his brother Bobby Gene are having an average summer, playing in the woods behind their house, when they accidentally trade their baby sister for a bag of illegal fireworks. Shortly after, they meet Styx Malone, a 16 year old boy. He offers to help them get something better for the fireworks, but it…
Stella Diaz has Something to Say by Angela Dominguez
Stella is a Mexican-American in 3rd grade, growing up in Arlington Heights (yes, our next door neighbor!). She loves marine animals, especially fish, but she has trouble speaking up in school and feeling like she belongs because sometimes she uses Spanish instead of English or doesn't have the right pronunciation. She doesn't even fit in with…
If My Moon Was Your Sun by Andreas Steinhöfel
This book is about a kidnapping, but not the kind you might be imagining. You see, Max's grandfather lives in a nursing home for people who have "lost their marbles," as grandfather says. Grandfather hasn't lost all his marbles, but he forgets things and people sometimes (we know this is dementia, but Max doesn't). That's…
Auma’s Long Run by Eucabeth Odhiambo
Auma's Long Run transports the reader to a Kenya where people are just discovering and coming to grips with the AIDS epidemic. Auma, unlike most of her classmates, looks beyond a career as a farmer or wife and dreams of being a doctor. It's part of why she works to understand why so many people…
