tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12388307.post5221387800385235481..comments2009-05-07T17:33:29.863-04:00Mitali Perkinshttps://profiles.google.com/116303560568859248981noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12388307.post-33110426691258150512009-05-07T17:33:00.000-04:002009-05-07T17:33:00.000-04:00yo t pego un cipoteAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12388307.post-22747206673590191532007-12-22T19:06:00.000-05:002007-12-22T19:06:00.000-05:00IN THE BREAK by Jack Lopez and HATERS by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez from the Little, Brown list!alvinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04503984086482905226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12388307.post-17682271833499895552007-12-18T14:04:00.000-05:002007-12-18T14:04:00.000-05:00How about Alex Sanchez' coming-of-age-as-a-gay-youth novels, <I>Getting It</I> and <I>So Hard to Say</I>. Also, <I>Blue Coyote</I> by Lisa Ketchum.PiLibrarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16805093171994024908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12388307.post-69162625506550875502007-12-16T22:41:00.000-05:002007-12-16T22:41:00.000-05:00Glad to see Caridad Ferrer's ADIOS TO MY OLD LIFE on here. Add her second teen novel, IT'S NOT ABOUT THE ACCENT.Little Willowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17058463472836988047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12388307.post-15852220366436596992007-12-12T08:39:00.000-05:002007-12-12T08:39:00.000-05:00Thanks, all, I'll pass your additions on to Lisa.Mitali Perkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16081024119047826077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12388307.post-80936583068479270122007-12-11T15:58:00.000-05:002007-12-11T15:58:00.000-05:00The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros - but you should listen to it on tape. It's read by the author, which adds so much to it. I was mesmerized.Barbara O'Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11772206568826059623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12388307.post-77618947887814579732007-12-11T13:10:00.000-05:002007-12-11T13:10:00.000-05:00<I>Honey Blonde Chica</I> by Michelle Serros - conflict between the rich Chicanas and the rich Mexicanas, surfing, romance, some drinking/drugs that make it skew a little older - overall, a very fun book.<BR/><BR/>Two from Julia Alvarez: <I>Finding Miracles</I>, in which an adoptee becomes friends with a boy from her never-named native country, and then travels there, and <I>When Tía Lola Came to Stay</I>, which has a boy protagonist, and probably skews a bit younger.Sarah Rettgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00520851723152425929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12388307.post-13803498497126518892007-12-11T12:21:00.000-05:002007-12-11T12:21:00.000-05:00I would add:<BR/><BR/><I>Chasing the Jaguar</I> by Michele Dominguez Greene, about a 15-year-old Mexican-American girl, of Mayan descent, living in the barrio in Los Angles. Martika starts having strange dreams around the time of her quinceanera, and ends up using her special abilities to help solve a mystery. <A HREF="http://jkrbooks.typepad.com/blog/2006/06/chasing_the_jag.html" REL="nofollow">Reviewed here</A>.<BR/><BR/><I>Behind the Eyes</I> by Francisco X. Stork, about a son of Mexican immigrants living in a housing project in El Paso who, though a basically good kid, is dragged into gang trouble. <A HREF="http://jkrbooks.typepad.com/blog/2006/11/behind_the_eyes.html" REL="nofollow">Reviewed here</A>.Jen Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10343476550309656223noreply@blogger.com