Cranston Public Library

At private school, Lucas compares his home life with the supposedly perfect lives of the other students.

"A young boy bonds with his beloved abuela over a love of the Spanish language."--

"A retelling of the Caribbean folktale La cucaracha Martina where Martina, in an effort to escape her noisy tías, slips away to a warm familiar island where she can play in peace and quiet--but is she home at last?"--

"Family members head into the kitchen to help Abuelita bake a tres leches cake for Papi's birthday."--

"A young boy bonds with his beloved abuela over a love of the Spanish language."--

"A stressed-out single dad and caregiver to his mischievous abuelo butts heads and creates sparks with a teacher and social justice advocate."--

"When José is selected for the school soccer team, his dog Feliz eagerly helps him practice."--

Told from alternating perspectives, seventeen-year-old frenemies Jonah and Dylan pretend to date after a homecoming disaster, but their plan begins to crumble when they unexpectedly start falling for each other.

"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sancctuary for their true narratives."--...