Digging for words : Jose Alberto Gutierrez and the library he built by Kunkel, Angela Burke 

BTSB Prebound(Schwartz & Wade Books, 2020)

BTSB #: 534870 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 4 LG Lexile: 730 AD

Genres: General Fiction

Subjects: Gutierrez, Jose Alberto - Fiction Libraries - Fiction Books and reading - Fiction Refuse collectors - Fiction Community life - Fiction Colombians - Fiction Bogota (Colombia) - Fiction Colombia - Fiction

Summary: In Bogota, Columbia, young Jose eagerly anticipates Saturday, when he can visit the library started by Jose Alberto Gutierrez, a garbage collector, and take a book home to enjoy all week. Includes note about Gutierrez's life and Bogota.

Infinite country by Engel, Patricia 

Paperback(Avid Reader Press, 2021)

BTSB #: 310750 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-18   


Genres:

Subjects: Colombians - United States - Fiction Juvenile delinquency - Fiction Voyages and travels - Fiction Unauthorized immigrants - Fiction Deportation - Fiction Bogota (Colombia) - Fiction

Summary: Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogota, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. If she misses her flight, she might also miss her chance to finally be reunited with her family in the north after they were splintered by deportation.

Rescatando palabras : Jose Alberto Gutierrez y la biblioteca que creo by Kunkel, Angela Burke 

BTSB PreboundSPANISH(Random House Studio, 2020)

BTSB #: 534916 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   
AR: 3.8 LG Lexile: 720 AD

Genres: Spanish Language General Fiction

Subjects: Gutierrez, Jose Alberto - Fiction Libraries - Fiction Books and reading - Fiction Spanish language - Reading materials Bogota (Colombia) - Fiction Colombia - Fiction

Summary: In Bogota, Columbia, young Jose eagerly anticipates Saturday, when he can visit the library started by Jose Alberto Gutierrez, a garbage collector, and take a book home to enjoy all week. Includes note about Gutierrez's life and Bogota. In Spanish.