Bound To Stay Bound

Curveball by Cartaya, Pablo 

BTSB Prebound New title, awaiting publication or binding.(Disney/Hyperion)

BTSB #: 196158 Temp OS

Dewey: 741.5/NAges: 8-12   


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Summary: Elena Rueda loves baseball--and is the best player on her team--but recently has stopped having fun, so during a summer spent with her brother's quirky friends she reflects on who she is and maybe learns to love to play again. In graphic novel format.

Each tiny spark by Cartaya, Pablo 

BTSB Prebound(Kokila, 2019)

BTSB #: 196168 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.4 MG RC: 4.2 3-5 Lexile: 680 F&P: V

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Father-daughter relationship - Fiction Attention deficit disorder - Fiction Family life - Georgia - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction School stories Latinos (U.S.) - Fiction Georgia - Fiction

Summary: Sixth-grader Emilia Torres struggles with ADHD, her controlling abuela, her mother's work commitments, her father's distance after returning from deployment, evolving friendships, and a conflict over school redistricting.

Epic fail of Arturo Zamora by Cartaya, Pablo 

BTSB Prebound(Viking, 2017)

BTSB #: 196174 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5 MG RC: 4.6 6-8 Lexile: 750 F&P: V

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Interpersonal relations - Fiction Community life - Fiction Family life - Fiction Latinos (U.S.) - Fiction Miami (Fla.) - Fiction

Summary: Save the restaurant. Save the town. Get the girl. Make Abuela proud. Can thirteen-year-old Arturo Zamora do it all or is he in for a BIG, EPIC FAIL?

Last beekeeper by Cartaya, Pablo 

BTSB Prebound(Harper, 2022)

BTSB #: 196163 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.7 MG

Genres: Science Fiction Animals

Subjects: Climate change - Fiction Survival skills - Fiction Bees - Fiction Beehives - Fiction Dystopian fiction

Summary: To prove that she belongs in a place where only the smartest and most useful are welcomed, twelve-year-old Yolanda learns that her survival rests on the rediscovery of a long-extinct beehive that could be the answer to everything.

Marcus Vega doesn't speak Spanish by Cartaya, Pablo 

BTSB Prebound(Viking, 2018)

BTSB #: 196186 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 3.9 MG RC: 4.3 6-8 Lexile: 580 HL

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Families - Fiction Puerto Ricans - United States - Fiction Down syndrome - Fiction People with mental disabilities - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction School stories Puerto Rico - Fiction

Summary: After a fight at school leaves Marcus facing suspension, Marcus's mother takes him and his younger brother, who has Down syndrome, to Puerto Rico to visit relatives they do not remember or have never met, and while there Marcus starts searching for his father, who left their family ten years ago and is somewhere on the island.

Marcus Vega no habla espanol by Cartaya, Pablo 

BTSB PreboundSPANISH(Vintage Espanol, 2024)

BTSB #: 196188 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   


Genres: Spanish Bilingual Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Spanish language - Reading materials Families - Fiction Puerto Ricans - United States - Fiction Down syndrome - Fiction People with mental disabilities - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction School stories

Summary: After a fight at school leaves Marcus facing suspension, Marcus's mother takes him and his younger brother, who has Down syndrome, to Puerto Rico to visit relatives they do not remember or have never met, and while there Marcus starts searching for his father, who left their family ten years ago and is somewhere on the island. In Spanish.