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My Name Is Cool: 18 Stories from a Cuban-Irish-American Storyteller

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Sacre is a professional storyteller who is part Irish, part Cuban. He has built a storytelling career out of a mixture of personal anecdotes—including his much-exaggerated account of his father's escape from Castro's Cuba—and traditional…
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The Book of Broken Hearts

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Jude Hernandez has a problem. Well, a couple problems. Make that several. First, her father is suffering from early onset Alzheimer’s Disease, and the only thing that Jude can think of to bring him back is to get Valentina, his beloved Harley,…
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Catching Fire; Top 20 Trivia Hunger Games Tips To Know Before the Movie

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I’m here to confess my devotion to The Hunger Games trilogy. With Catching Fire coming up, I'm excited! Yes, I know that its target audience is my teen daughter, but I can’t help it—I’ve always been drawn to strong female characters,…
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Gaby, Lost and Found

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Gaby Ramirez Howard is having a rough time.  Since her mom was deported to Honduras, she has had to live with her dad. He means well; but he hasn’t been around for most of her childhood and his parenting skills are rusty, to say the least.…
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Zombie Baseball Beatdown

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Zombie Baseball Beatdown By Paolo Bacigalupi Little Brown · 2013 · 304 pages Hardcover ($16.99) ISBN: 978-0-316-22078-1 Ages 10 to 13 The boys who read this—and its readers will be mostly boys—will love the frenetic action and…
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Under the Mambo Moon

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Under the Mambo Moon is really two books in one. One book tells a story in words and magnificent black and white illustrations: It’s the story of a young girl named Marisol, who helps her dad at his music store. All day long, people enter…
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5 Great Children’s Books to Celebrate Día de los Muertos

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UPDATED August 1st, 2016 Most children in the U.S. look forward to October 31 and celebrating Halloween. They look forward to choosing a super-cool costume, knocking on their neighbors’ doors and screaming, “Trick-or-treat!” But in…
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PICKLE: The (Formerly) Anonymous Prank Club of Fountain Point Middle School

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Sixth-grader Ben Diaz thinks it's quite a coup when the local pizza parlor lets him have all the old smelly balls from the ball-pit (more than a dozen bags full!) if he'll just take them away. But when his father refuses to let him keep them…
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Ask a Librarian: Find the Right Book for Your Child

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Think librarians are just there to reshelve books and give stern looks to kids who giggle too loudly? Think again! As this infographic, prepared by Noodle.org and the New York Public Library shows, a librarian can lead kids to a wide world of…