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A 12-year-old girl decides to look into her family history when her stepfather proposes adoption. When she starts investigating her biological father, who she’s never met, she finds an extended family of Luchadores, or professional wrestlers.The novel "Tumble" takes us along on the journey with Adela Ramirez. It’s written by Celia Pérez, whose other novels include "The First

There’s been a lot of discussion recently in Arizona about how English language learners are taught to speak English. But a new picture book for kids takes a different approach to that question.Over the past year, The Show has heard from authors of books for middle-grade and young adult readers dealing with issues of race, gender, disability and socioeconomic differences,

The idea of how to teach American history has been very much in the news over the past few years; much of the debate centers on how to talk about some of the more difficult and troubling parts of the country’s past.That idea is a big part of author Kelly McWilliams’ latest young adult novel, called “Your Plantation Prom is Not Okay.”

A 9-year-old girl’s effort to translate her great-great grandmother’s stories from Lipan Apache to Spanish and the impacts of technology and climate change on that effort are among the themes of the novel “A Snake Falls to Earth.”The young adult novel has been called a “coming-of-age story that beautifully combines tradition and technology.”This is the second novel from author

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