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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"During the summer before seventh grade, Kaia, who enjoys living in Southern California, visiting the beach with her family, and creating movie make-up effects, makes a film with her friends to win a contest and hopefullly prevent her beloved great-grandfather from moving back to the Philippines."
6) We belong
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
201 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm
Description
Through a bedtime story to her daughters, a woman weaves together her immigration story and Pilipino mythology. Includes glossary, songs, and author's note.
Author
Series
Maybe Marisol volume 3
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
145 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Corazon Tagubio is an outcast at her Catholic school. She's attending on scholarship, she keeps to herself, and her crush on her teacher Ms. Holden doesn't help anything. Cory's less-than-perfect grades disappoint her mom and dad, who are already working overtime to support her distant half brother in the Philippines. When an accident leaves her dad comatose, Cory feels like Ms. Holden is the only person who really sees her. After Cory's mother catches...
10) The takeout
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Mia uses Filipino folk magic to take down the shady chef brothers who are threatening her family's food truck.
Mila may have moved to Coral Beach months ago, but it still doesn't feel like home. She wants to belong, but a few awkward incidents with her new friends make her wonder if she'll ever neatly fit into the super-samey small town. Mila feels the only place she can be herself is at her dad's Filipino-Indian food truck, The Banana...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
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Description
"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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Fans of Adib Khorram and Randy Ribay will love this coming-of-age debut about a Filipina American teen drowning under pressure and learning to trust her heart. "My Heart Underwater is a lovely, magnificent wonder of a novel that will leave you with the rarest of tender heartaches: life-affirming, life-inspiring, life-loving; a heartache of joy and becoming. You won't walk freely, or willingly, from these pages."-- New York Times bestselling author...
13) Blackbird fly
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Bullied at school, eighth-grader Apple, a Filipino American who loves the music of the Beatles, decides to change her life by learning how to play the guitar.
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