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10 best books like A Summer Life (Gary Soto): The Great Taos Bank Robbery and other True Stories of the Southwest, Haters, Dark Dude, The Tequila Worm, How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay, El Bronx Remembered, Seek, Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood, Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida, Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave

The Great Taos Bank Robbery and other True Stories of the Southwest
AuthorTony Hillerman
ISBN0060937122
1973 Birthday celebration title - I turned six years old and was living in Prairie Village Kansas. I knew nothing of the Land of Enchantment and how I would move to New Mexico and grow to love the desert and the architecture, the food, people and miles of skies and red rock. I loved the title and cover font...
Haters
AuthorAlisa Valdes
ISBN0316013072
From the fist day at her new Southern California high school, Pasquala Rumalda Quintana de Archuleta ("Paski") learns that the popular students may be diverse in ethnicity but are alike in their cruelty. While Paski tries to concentrate on mountain biking and not thinking too much about ultra-hot...
Dark Dude
AuthorOscar Hijuelos

He didn't say good-bye. He didn't leave a phone number. And he didn't plan on coming back - ever.

In Wisconsin, Rico could blend in. His light hair and lighter skin wouldn't make him the "dark dude" or the punching bag for the whole neighborhood. The Midwest is the land of milk and honey, but...
The Tequila Worm
AuthorViola Canales
ISBN0375840893
Sofia comes from a family of storytellers. Here are her tales of growing up in the barrio, full of the magic and mystery of family traditions: making Easter cascarones, celebrating el Dia de los Muertos, preparing for quincea–era, rejoicing in the Christmas nacimiento, and curing homesickness...
How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay
AuthorJulia Alvarez
ISBN0440418704
A delightfully entertaining story of family and culture from acclaimed author Julia Alvarez.

Moving to Vermont after his parents split, Miguel has plenty to worry about! Tía Lola, his quirky, carismática, and maybe magical aunt makes his life even more unpredictable when she arrives...
El Bronx Remembered
AuthorNicholasa Mohr
ISBN0064471004
In a city called New York ...
In a neighborhood called El Bronx ...


The Fernandex children own a very special pet: A white hen named after their favorite Hollywood movie star.
A new girl comes to school - a gypsy child who can read palms and foretell the future.
A young boy must...
Seek
AuthorPaul Fleischman
ISBN0689854021
Assigned to write his autobiography, high school senior Rob Radkovitz decides to "listen" back on his life. As he remembers the voices of his younger self, his quirky family, and his closest friends, one stands apart -- the haunting voice of his long-absent father, left behind on a single tape from one...
Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
AuthorBenjamin Alire Sáenz
ISBN0060843748
The Hollywood where Sammy Santos lives is not one of glitz and glitter, but a barrio at the edge of a small New Mexico town. In the summer before his senior year, Sammy falls in love with the beautiful, independent, and intensely vulnerable Juliana. Sammy's chronicle of his senior year is both a love story...
Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida
AuthorVictor Martinez
ISBN0064471861
Dad believed people were like money. You could be a thousand-dollar person or a hundred-dollar person – even a ten-, five-, or one-dollar person. Below that, everybody was just nickels and dimes. To my dad, we were pennies.

Fourteen-year old Manny Hernandez wants to be more than just a penny....
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
AuthorVirginia Hamilton
ISBN0679839976
Now in Laurel-Leaf, Virginia Hamilton's powerful true account of the sensational trial of a fugitive slave.

The year is 1854, and Anthony Burns, a 20-year-old Virginia slave, has escaped to Boston. But according to the Fugitive Slave Act, a runaway can be captured in any free state, and Anthony...
50 Short Science Fiction Tales
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0020163908
Fifty Exciting Experiences
You visit a world where Robots strain to remember the existence of the Men who created them; hear the tantalizingly brief report of a man who returns from a trip to the future; see the snake-armed Thing that emerges from the minds of the people who conjure it. You meet a souvenir...
When I Was Your Age, Volume One: Original Stories About Growing Up
AuthorAmy Ehrlich
ISBN0763610348
Perfect for literature classes and beginning writers of all ages!

"Tell me a story of when you were little" is something children love to ask. Now ten award-winning writers: Mary Pope Osborne, Laurence Yep, James Howe, Katherine Paterson, Walter Dean Myers, Susan Cooper, Nicholasa Mohr,...
Trino's Choice
AuthorDiane Gonzales Bertrand
ISBN1558852689
To be thirteen is worthless, Trino thinks. Trino has three little brothers he's supposed to look after, and no father he can look up to. He rules at video games, but in the classroom and out in the real world he's barely getting by --just like his mom, who scarcely manages to pay the bills and feed her kids...
Cubanita
AuthorGaby Triana
ISBN0060560223
All Isa wants is to be a regular American teenager, something her Cuban immigrant mother most definitely does not understand. After almost eighteen years of constant debate over everything from birthdays to boys, Isa has had enough. She's counting down the days until she leaves for college—and...
No Time Like Show Time
AuthorMichael Hoeye
ISBN0399238808
Trouble is brewing at the Varmint Theater! Before he knows it, watchmaker mouse Hermux Tantamoq finds himself not only hired to track down a mysterious blackmailer, but roped into designing the set for an upcoming show. Hermux is on the case--and busy backstage--but as he enters the chaotic world of...
The Explorers
AuthorScott Ciencin
ISBN0375813969
Long ago, a group of brave Troodon knights undertook difficult quests to help their fellow Dinotopians. They called themselves the Explorers. When five young descendants of these knights hear the heroic tales of their ancestors, they become inspired to form a brand-new Explorers club. Pointynog...
May There Be a Road: Stories
AuthorLouis L'Amour
ISBN0553583999
Spirited American stories gathered together for the first time

From the coasts of Brazil to the borders of Tibet to the very heartland of America, May There Be a Road gathers ten previously uncollected stories that capture the magnificent scope and sense of epic adventure that epitomize Louis...
Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange
AuthorElizabeth Partridge
ISBN0142300241
Dorothea Lange's desperate and beautiful pictures of migrant workers in California and her heartbreaking photographs of Japanese Americans interned during World War II put human faces on some of the darkest episodes in America's history. Restless Spirit is an intimate portrait of a woman who struggled...
Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African-American Achievement
AuthorKareem Abdul-Jabbar
ISBN0380813416
In this ideal introduction to black history, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar examines the lives of heroic African Americans and offers their stories as inspiring examples for young people, who too rarely encounter positive black role models in history books or in the media.

Profiled here are Peter...
Slumming
AuthorKristen D. Randle
ISBN0060010223
Everybody has two eyes and a nose and a mouth. What makes some people beautiful and some people not?

Nikki never imagined that this offhand thought would change the course of her senior year forever. But when she poses the question to her best friends, Alicia and Sam, Alicia is suddenly inspired,...
Vinegar Boy: Encounter Christ Through the Dramatic Story of Vinegar Boy
AuthorAlberta Hawse
ISBN0802465889
Abandoned by his parents and shunned from society, Vinegar Boy is certain he'll be adoped once Jesus removes the ugly birthmark that scars his cheek. But when he carries the drugged vinegar wine to a crucifixion, he finds himself face to face with the only One who can heal his face. Is there still time...
Long Live the Suicide King
AuthorAaron Michael Ritchey
ISBN0985564385
Seventeen-year-old Jim JD Dillinger knows exactly how his miserable suburban life is going to play out. At least drugs added a little chaos to his life, but after almost losing his soul, JD knows he has to quit. Now clean, he figures he has another sixty years of plain old boring life followed by a nasty...
Chain of Fire
AuthorBeverley Naidoo
ISBN0064404684
The South African government is forcing Naledi an the other villagers to move to a new location: a "homeland" of iron huts and barren soil. And it seems that no one is willing to resist.

No one, that is, except Naledi's friend Taolo, whose family has often spoken out against apartheid. Taolo gives...
Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 4
AuthorStan Lee
ISBN0785111891
Introduction by Stan Lee: I've a confession to make!In order to write these seemingly endless introductions to our much-vaunted Marvel Masterworks series, I've had to re-read the stories that we're so
generously reprinting to refresh my memory so that I'll know what I'm writing about; which,...
Two-Minute Mysteries
AuthorDonald J. Sobol
ISBN0590447874
Some of them are products of their time and are impossible to know if you're younger than say 40. Some of them are impossible to know unless you just happen to know the particular esoteric twist - for example, what a Pullman car is and how it's loaded. Some of them are just retreads of Encyclopedia Brown stories...
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