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In this acclaimed novel from Newbery Medalist Erin Entrada Kelly, two sisters from the Philippines, abandoned by their father and living in impoverished circumstances in Louisiana, fight to make their lives better. Soledad has always been able to escape into the stories she creates. Just like her mother always could. And Soledad has needed that escape more than ever in the five years since her mother and sister died, and her father moved Sol and her...
4) The takeout
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Twelve-year-old Mia uses Filipino folk magic to take down the shady chef brothers who are threatening her family's food truck.
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Eighteen-year-old Ruby Santos, grappling with her mother's death and financial struggles, discovers her father's secret life as a magical underworld delivery person, leading her to take over his station and jump train lines, only to realize the perilous nature of the job and the dangerous world she has entered.
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Maybe Marisol volume 3
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Marisol and her best friend Jada love to ride their bikes, except when they have to ride past a dangerous beast they call Daggers, but when Daggers gets loose, Marisol unexpectedly rescues him, conquering one of her biggest fears.
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Seventeen-year-old Deedee longs to escape the stifling world her Filipino mom has created since her husband died, so when Jay, the boy next door, offers to teach her to drive it seems like a way out--but both of them are haunted by family ghosts and traumas that force them apart.
12) Box of dreams
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2024]
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English
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Helping her mama pack up a special balikbayan box for their relatives in the Philippines, a little girl sends along a secret wish to one day meet her family and to see and experience all the places where her mother grew up.
13) Kailani's gift
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WaterBrook, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"A Filipino-American girl works hard to learn a traditional Filipino dance, the Tinikling, to surprise her grandparents on their anniversary"-- Provided by publisher.
14) Eighteen roses
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Filipina American Lucia grapples with teenage angst, family expectations, and friendship woes as she reluctantly prepares for her debutante ball.
Lucia Cruz may be turning eighteen this year, but she is not the debutante type. Everything about a traditional Filipino debut feels all wrong for her. Besides, custom dictates that eighteen friends attend her for a special ceremony on her birthday, and Lucia only has one friend-- Esmé Mares. They've stuck...
15) We belong
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Through a bedtime story to her daughters, a woman weaves together her immigration story and Filipino mythology. Includes glossary, songs, and author's note.
16) Adrift
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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The resilience of two cousins is tested when one of them is lost at sea and washes up on a deserted island while the other remains at home, holding on to the belief that her beloved cousin is still alive.
Cousins Coral and Isa grew up on the same small island. When Coral and her parents leave on a months-long sea voyage amid the islands of Indonesia, the two vow to write to each other no matter what. When Coral's boat capsizes at sea, her parents...
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Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Some girls call their mother their best friend. Marisol Martin? She could never relate. She and her mom were forever locked in an argument with no beginning and no end. Clothes, church, boys -- no matter the topic, Marisol always felt like there was an unbridgeable gap between them. But when her mother dies suddenly, Marisol is left with no one to fight. Her dad seems completely lost, and worse, baffled by Marisol's attempts to connect with her mother's...
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