Ofelia Dumas Lachtman

• Jan-1995
• / General Fiction
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A world of adventure greets Elena and her little brother, Carlos, once they leave their Mexican seaside village to find their father, who has suddenly disappeared in the masses of immigrants attempting to make a living in Los Angeles in order to supp...

• Mar-1995
• / Literary
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From the moment nine-year-old Angela Martin sees her father led away on a summer day by immigration officers, she spends her life denying her Mexican roots. As the novel opens, Angela Martin Raine, a woman with a newly born fear and a newly awakened ...

• Jan-1997
• / General Fiction
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This intriguing, fast-paced novel traces the blossoming relationship between young Rosario Silva and her enigmatic cousin Leticia. As Rosario and Leticia begin to share more and more, Rosario learns her cousin's shocking secret....

• Oct-1997
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2001
• / Mystery
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When sixteen-year-old Monica and her widowed father go back to Los Angeles, reluctantly moving from a wealthy neighborhood to the barrio house her mother grew up in, Monica tries to locate a missing neighbor, and in the process learns about her mothe...

• Oct-2002
• / General Fiction
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Hoping to escape the lonely house her mother keeps in Los Angeles, Maggie goes to join her grandfather in the isolated town of Twisted Creek. But from the minute Maggie arrives, her new home is a major adjustment. After navigating the neglected road ...

• Oct-2002
• / General Fiction
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The spitfire heroine Pepita has been given a school assignment to find out things about her parents or another older member of her family. But who wants to hear about her family? How can she make her report very, very important if no one has anything...

• Oct-2002
• / General Fiction
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A bright bilingual picture book about learning to accept others' differences

In a little green house in a city by the sea, Tina searches for a friend. The tall building crept in like weeds and ruined the neighborhood. The bulldozers crushed the ho...

• Jan-2004
• / Mystery
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Monica is looking forward to a quiet end of the summer on Lucia Street. She's even beginning to accept her neighborhood and get accustomed to the view from her porch--a street lined with run-down houses, tall skinny palms, and here and there, a gnarl...

• May-2005
• / General Fiction
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The trouble with you is that you have a wild imagination, people tell Tessa. So what if she calls herself Athena, the goddess of wisdom and a woman of the twenty-first century? It’s that wild imagination that will make her a good writer. When T...

• Nov-2007
• / Suspense
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Sixteen-year-old Carolina Caro Torres is excited about spending six weeks of her summer vacation working for her Tia Matilde, mainly because she needs money to buy the car she has been eyeing. But her excitement turns to bewilderment when she finds h...

• Sep-2008
• / General Fiction
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Who says that Lupita is "too little"? Not Chief Cobb, the friendly policeman. Not Mrs. Foote, the local gas station owner. Not even Mr. Grabb, the strange new visitor to town. But Mama always sighs, "Muy, muy chica", every time Lupita tries to help o...

• Nov-2008
• / General Fiction
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Pepita is almost always happy. But she isn't today. She's not happy because everything is new on Pepper Street. There's no familiar grocery store on the corner, and no tortilla shop squeezed right next to it. Tia Rosa's house isn't down the street, a...

• May-2011
• / General Fiction
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Pepita is back! And though she likes her new school, she has decided that--after three days--she isn't going back. She's sorry too, because she likes her teacher, Miss Chu, who has black eyes and a sunny smile. She likes her bright, colorful classroo...

• Sep-2011
• / General Fiction
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Frustrated at constantly being stopped to translate, Pepita decides to stop speaking Spanish, not realizing that this means she can’t talk to her grandmother, sing with her friends, and worst of all, her dog Lobo won’t come to her when sh...