https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y en-us 2020-09-19 02:00:31 UTC 2024-05-13 12:26:55 UTC hello@padlet.com hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/765095171 When resentment surges during the Great Depression in a Texas border town, Estrella, fifteen, organizes a protest against the treatment of tejanos and soon finds herself with her mother and baby brother in Mexico.]]> 2020-09-21 16:53:06 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/765095171 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/765115543 Told in two voices, when Arthur, a summer intern from Georgia, and Ben, a native New Yorker, meet it seems like fate, but after three attempts at dating fail they wonder if the universe is pushing them together or apart.]]> 2020-09-21 16:57:05 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/765115543 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/765121496 After escaping a detention center at the U.S. border, seventeen-year-old Marisol agrees to participate in a medical experiment hoping to keep her and her younger sister, Gabi, from being deported to El Salvador.]]> 2020-09-21 16:58:19 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/765121496 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/765136627 Sixteen year old Nalah leads the fiercest all-girl crew in Mega City, but when she sets her sights on giving this life up for a prestigious home in Mega Towers, she must decide if she's willing to do the unspeakable to get what she wants.]]> 2020-09-21 17:01:27 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/765136627 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/765153649 Sixteen-year-old Danny searches for his identity amidst the confusion of being half-Mexican and half-white while spending a summer with his cousin and new friends on the baseball fields and back alleys of San Diego County, California]]> 2020-09-21 17:04:56 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/765153649 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/765158973 Dani must question everything she's worked for as she learns about the corruption of the Median government.]]> 2020-09-21 17:06:02 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/765158973 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/765597620 In 1984 Newark, Beatriz Mendez navigates romance, gang culture, and her family's past. After her gang-leader brother is killed, Beatriz gives up her dreams of dancing in order to run the gang. But her eyes are reopened to her dream of a career in dance when the school brainiac asks her to compete in a dance competition with him--but will the gang let her go?"]]> 2020-09-21 18:37:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/765597620 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/765601943 Juliet, a self-identified queer, Bronx-born Puerto Rican-American, comes out to her family to disastrous results the night before flying to Portland to intern with her feminist author icon--whom Juliet soon realizes has a problematic definition of feminism that excludes women of color]]> 2020-09-21 18:38:10 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/765601943 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/765608051 The del Cisne girls have never just been sisters; they're also rivals, Blanca as obedient and graceful as Roja is vicious and manipulative. They know that, because of a generations-old spell, their family is bound to a bevy of swans deep in the woods. They know that, one day, the swans will pull them into a dangerous game that will leave one of them a girl, and trap the other in the body of a swan. But when two local boys become drawn into the game, the swans' spell intertwines with the strange and unpredictable magic lacing the woods, and all four of their fates depend on facing truths that could either save or destroy them.]]> 2020-09-21 18:39:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/765608051 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/765613620 Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.]]> 2020-09-21 18:40:58 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/765613620 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/765617677 With her daughter to care for and her abuela to help support, high school senior Emoni Santiago has to make the tough decisions and do what must be done. The one place she can let her responsibilities go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness. Still, she doesn't have enough time for her school's new culinary arts class, doesn't have the money for their trip to Spain---and certainly can't follow her dreams of working in a real kitchen someday. But even with all the rules she has for her life---and all the rules everyone expects her to play by---once Emoni starts cooking, her only choice is to let her talent break free.]]> 2020-09-21 18:41:57 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/765617677 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766174538 Alex is a bruja and the most powerful witch in her family. But she's hated magic ever since it made her father disappear into thin air. When a curse she performs to rid herself of magic backfires and her family vanishes, she must travel to Los Lagos, a land in-between as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland, to get her family back"]]> 2020-09-21 22:26:08 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766174538 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766176045 2020-09-21 22:27:12 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766176045 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766177296 A young girl living in a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends.]]> 2020-09-21 22:28:09 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766177296 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766195209 https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoraidacordova/ya-books-by-latinx-authors-2020]]> 2020-09-21 22:41:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766195209 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766197440 2020-09-21 22:42:43 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766197440 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766200189 Dominican-American poet and author.]]> 2020-09-21 22:44:52 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766200189 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766210735 2020-09-21 22:52:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766210735 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766212310 2020-09-21 22:53:53 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766212310 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766216849 Twitter feed]]> 2020-09-21 22:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766216849 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766218695 Fantasy and Science Fiction]]> 2020-09-21 22:58:58 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766218695 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766221857 2020-09-21 23:01:34 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766221857 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766234553 2020-09-21 23:11:39 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766234553 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766240422 You will need to log into Destiny using your Google email address.]]> 2020-09-21 23:16:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766240422 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766261015 Available at CML. Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-white school, but when family secrets come out and racism at school gets worse than ever, she must decide what she believes in and take a stand"-- Provided by publisher.]]> 2020-09-21 23:31:36 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766261015 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766262592 Available at CML. In 2032, when sixteen-year-old Vali's mother is detained by the Deportation Forces, Vali must flee Vermont with her little brother, Ernie, hoping to reach their Tía Luna in the sanctuary state of California.]]> 2020-09-21 23:32:48 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766262592 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766265367 Available at CML. Seventeen-year-old Clara runs away from home to join a vigilante monster-flghting squad, only to discover that sometimes the most dangerous monsters are where you least expect them.]]> 2020-09-21 23:34:51 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766265367 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766268500 Available at CML. The Torres sisters dream of escape. Escape from their needy and despotic widowed father, and from their San Antonio neighborhood, full of old San Antonio families and all the traditions and expectations that go along with them. In the summer after her senior year of high school, Ana, the oldest sister, falls to her death from her bedroom window. A year later, her three younger sisters, Jessica, Iridian, and Rosa, are still consumed by grief and haunted by their sister's memory. Their dream of leaving Southtown now seems out of reach. But then strange things start happening around the house: mysterious laughter, mysterious shadows, mysterious writing on the walls. The sisters begin to wonder if Ana really is haunting them, trying to send them a message--and what exactly she's trying to say.]]> 2020-09-21 23:37:02 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766268500 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766271295 Available at CML. Told in two voices, ballet dancer and private school student Isabelle Warren and poet and baseball star Alex Rosario grow closer after meeting on a subway, bonding over their parents' expectations and their own dreams.]]> 2020-09-21 23:38:57 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/766271295 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/767882434 Books as mirrors are important!]]> 2020-09-22 12:57:53 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/767882434 hastings_kate https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/768069826 Memoir "The Distance Between Us" and "A Dream Called Home.]]> 2020-09-22 13:36:40 UTC https://padlet.com/hastings_kate/gq3e66kba4wmlx6y/wish/768069826