In The Break
Juan Barrela's best friend Jamie faces a violent home situation, so the tenth-grader steals his mother's car and drives with Jamie's sister Amber to Mexico.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 890
Cecilia And Miguel Are Best Friends
Cecilia and Miguel are best friends no matter what, even though they each succeed and fail at different things.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: best friends [X], mexican americans [X], spanish language materials, bilingual books, friendship, picture books for children
Lou Lou And Pea And The Mural Mystery
"Two best friends with a flair for adventure use their gardening and art skills to catch a criminal during Dia de los Muertos"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: best friends [X], friendship, all souls' day, mexican americans [X], detective and mystery fiction, humorous fiction
Barely Missing Everything
Three Mexican-Americans---Juan, JD, and Fabi---each try to overcome their individual struggles as they all grapple with how to make a better life for themselves when it seems like brown lives don't matter.
FIC
year:
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: families, conduct of life, prejudices, mexican americans [X], best friends [X], el paso (tex.)
Soccer Superstar
Thirteen-year-old Javier Moreno has just transferred to Howard Middle School, but his skill as a striker is already well known and the Bisons are expecting that he will turn their season around; but soon the fame goes to his head, and he starts hogging the ball and showing off--and it is up to his friend Aimee to remind him that soccer is a team sport.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 560
subjects: soccer, teamwork (sports), selfishness, best friends [X], friendship, mexican americans [X], cartoons and comics, sports comics, graphic novels
United To Strike
"The Delano Grape Strike brings Filipino and Mexican farmworkers together, but threatens Tala Mendoza's relationship with her best friend"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: chavez, cesar, united farm workers, best friends [X], friendship, agricultural laborers, grape strike, calif., 1965-1970, family life, investigative reporting, filipino americans, mexican americans [X], california, strikes, reporters and reporting, historical fiction
Falling Short
Best friends Isaac and Marco--one athletically gifted and one academically gifted--have more in common than they realize when their goals intersect, forcing them to find a way to support each other so they don't fall short.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 53
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: best friends [X], friendship, basketball stories, middle school students, schools, families, mexican americans [X], basketball, family life, school stories, school fiction, sports fiction, hispanic americans
I Miss You, I Hate This
Best friends Parisa Naficy and Gabriela Gonzales grapple with the complexities of their relationship even while they spend their senior year apart due to a pandemic that disproportionately affects young people.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: epidemics, quarantine, best friends [X], friendship, social classes, iranian americans, mexican americans [X]
Casi Alcanzar Todo
"Three Mexican-Americans--Juan, JD, and Fabi--each try to overcome their individual struggles as they all grapple with how to make a better life for themselves when it seems like brown lives don't matter"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: friendship, mexican americans [X], prejudices, conduct of life, families, best friends [X], family life, spanish language materials, el paso (tex.)
The Broke Hearts
A year after losing their best friend, JD and Danny are still brokenhearted.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Chronically Dolores
"Dolores Mendoza is not thriving. She was recently diagnosed with a chronic bladder condition called interstitial cystitis.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: interstitial cystitis, autistic people, families, best friends [X], mexican americans [X], patients, family life, friendship