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Aristotle and Dante volume 1
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Flr - Teen
TEEN FICTION SAENZ
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TEEN FICTION SAENZ
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Teen
TEEN FICTION SAENZ
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TEEN FICTION SAENZ
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Teen
TEEN FICTION SAENZ
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TEEN FICTION SAENZ
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - AUDIOBOOK3
TEEN CD FICTION SAENZ
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Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship -- the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Flr - Teen
TEEN FICTION ALVAREZ
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TEEN FICTION ALVAREZ
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In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.
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To get the "ratoncitos, " little mice, who have moved into the barrio to come to his house, Chato the cat prepares all kinds of good food: fajitas, frijoles, salsa, enchiladas, and more.
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - Kids Biography
J B CARRENO
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J B CARRENO
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J B CARRENO
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J B CARRENO
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J B CARRENO
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J B CARRENO
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Looks at the life and accomplishments of Teresa Carreño, one of the most famous pianists who, by age nine, performed for President Abraham Lincoln at the White House.
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - Kids Biography
J B RIVERA
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J B RIVERA
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An introduction to the life, career, and influence of the Mexican painter Diego Rivera.
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - Kids Picture Books
E MORA
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E MORA
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Kids Picture Books
E MORA
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E MORA
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Doña Flor, a giant lady with a big heart, sets off to protect her neighbors from what they think is a dangerous animal, but soon discovers the tiny secret behind the huge noise.
7) The dreamer
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - Kids
J FICTION RYAN
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J FICTION RYAN
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A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world. Includes author's note about the poet.
8) Dreamers
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - Kids Picture Books
E MORALES
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E MORALES
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E MORALES
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E MORALES
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E MORALES
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E MORALES
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"An illustrated picture book autobiography in which award-winning author Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story"--
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Kids Picture Books
E ENGLE
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E ENGLE
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E ENGLE
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E ENGLE
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Follows a girl in the 1920s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there has never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.
10) Efrén divided
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - Kids
J FICTION CISNEROS
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J FICTION CISNEROS
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Kids
J FICTION CISNEROS
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J FICTION CISNEROS
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Kids
J FICTION CISNEROS
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J FICTION CISNEROS
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - Kids Audiobooks
J PLAYAWAY FICTION CISNEROS
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J PLAYAWAY FICTION CISNEROS
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""We need books to break open our hearts, so that we might feel more deeply, so that we might be more human in these unkind times. This is a book doing work of the spirit in a time of darkness." --Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street Efrén Nava's Amá is his Superwoman--or Soperwoman, named after the delicious Mexican sopes his mother often prepares. Both Amá and Apá work hard all day to provide for the family, making sure Efrén...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - Kids Nonfiction
J 811 ENG
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J 811 ENG
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J 811 ENG
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J 811 ENG
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"In this ... memoir, Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War"--Amazon.com.
In this poetic memoir Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War. Her heart was in Cuba, her mother's tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy tale kingdom....
12) Esperanza rising
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - Kids
J FICTION RYAN
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J FICTION RYAN
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J FICTION RYAN
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J FICTION RYAN
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Kids
J FICTION RYAN
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J FICTION RYAN
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - Kids Audiobooks
J CD FICTION RYAN
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J CD FICTION RYAN
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When Esperanza and Mama are forced to flee to the bountiful region of Aguascalientes, Mexico, to a Mexican farm labor camp in California, they must adjust to a life without the fancy dresses and servants they were accustomed to on Rancho de las Rosas. Now they must confront the challenges of hard work, acceptance by their own people, and economic difficulties brought on by the Great Depression. When Mama falls ill and a strike for better working conditions...
13) Furia
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Flr - Teen
TEEN FICTION MENDEZ
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TEEN FICTION MENDEZ
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"In Rosario, Argentina, Camila Hassan lives a double life. At home, she is a careful daughter, living within her mother's narrow expectations, in her rising-soccer-star brother's shadow, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father. On the field, she is La Furia, a powerhouse of skill and talent. When her team qualifies for the South American tournament, Camila gets the chance to see just how far those talents can take her. In her wildest...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - Kids - Holiday
HALLOWEE E MONTES
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HALLOWEE E MONTES
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Easy to read, rhyming text about Halloween night incorporates Spanish words, from las brujas riding their broomsticks to los monstruos whose monstrous ball is interrupted by a true horror.
15) Grandma's gift
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - Kids - Holiday
CHRISTMA E VELASQUE
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CHRISTMA E VELASQUE
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The author describes Christmas at his grandmother's apartment in Spanish Harlem the year she introduced him to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Diego Velazquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja, which has had a profound and lasting effect on him.
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Flr - Teen
TEEN FICTION VASQUEZ
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TEEN FICTION VASQUEZ
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TEEN FICTION VASQUEZ
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TEEN FICTION VASQUEZ
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Teen
TEEN FICTION VASQUEZ
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TEEN FICTION VASQUEZ
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - AUDIOBOOK3
TEEN CD FICTION VASQUEZ
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TEEN CD FICTION VASQUEZ
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"The Hating Game meets I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter in this Pura Belpré Award-winning novel that's an irresistible romance starring a Mexican American teen who discovers love and profound truths about the universe when she spends her summer on a road trip across the country. When her twin sister reaches social media stardom, Moon Fuentez accepts her fate as the ugly, unwanted sister hidden in the background, destined to be nothing more...
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Eleven-year-old Celeste Marconi is a dreamer, a writer, a collector of words. But then a new whispered word trickles into her life: "Subversives." Her beloved country of Chile has been taken over by a military dictatorship, and subversives--people considered a threat to the new government--are in increasing danger. Celeste's doctor-parents must go into hiding to remain safe, and Celeste, heartsick, must say good-bye to them. But the situation continues...
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In this version of a traditional tale, Senor Calavera arrives at Grandma Beetle's door, ready to take her to the next life, but after helping her count, in English and Spanish, as she makes her birthday preparations, he changes his mind.
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As Señor Calavera prepares for Grandma Beetle's birthday he finds an alphabetical assortment of unusual presents, but with the help of Zelmiro the Ghost, he finds the best gift of all.
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - Kids
J FICTION HIGUERA
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J FICTION HIGUERA
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Kids
J FICTION HIGUERA
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J FICTION HIGUERA
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Kids
J FICTION HIGUERA
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J FICTION HIGUERA
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"A girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person...