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Tells the life story of baseball star Alex Rodriguez, describing his childhood in Florida and career highlights with such teams as the Seattle Mariners and the New York Yankees.

Worried that Papa Espada cannot find a job, T?a Lola, Juanita, Miguel, and the "Sword" sisters decide to start a bed and breakfast at Colonel Charlebois's Vermont house.

Two best friends, a writer and a runner, deal with bullies, family issues, social pressures, and their quest for success coming out of Harlem.

Juanita and Miguel's great aunt, T?ia Lola, comes from the Dominican Republic to help take care of them after their parents divorce, and soon she is so involved in their small Vermont community that when her visa expires, the whole town turns out to support her.

Although ten-year-old Miguel is at first embarrassed by his colorful aunt, Tia Lola, when she comes to Vermont from the Dominican Republic to stay with his mother, his sister and him after his parents' divorce, he learns to love her.

Two best friends, a writer and a runner, deal with bullies, family issues, social pressures, and their quest for success coming out of Harlem.

Gus and Cassie have always been on the same team off the field but can they stay friends when they're on the same court?.

When three girls and their father visit for a week in the summer, it takes T?ia Lola to make Miguel forget his unhappiness at the absence of any boys and embrace the adventures that ensue.

When three girls and their father visit for a week in the summer, it takes T?ia Lola to make Miguel forget his unhappiness at the absence of any boys and embrace the adventures that ensue.

As a boy, Dan-el Padilla Peralta came to the United States legally with his family. But life in New York city was harder than they imagined. Their visas lapsed and Dan-El's father returned to Santo Domingo. But Dan-el's mother was determined to stay and make a better life for her bright sons. Without papers, that seemed impossible. But she continued to persevere. Soon they were homeless. In a shelter the grade-school aged Dan-el met Jeff, a young art teacher from a wealthy family. Taken with Dan-el's passion for books and learning, Jeff helped him to earn a scholarship tp Collegiate, the oldest private school in the country. Dan-el soon rose to the top of his class and learned to navigate the rough streets of East Harlem where hid lived with his mother and brother and the ultra-elite halls of a Manhattan private school. From Collegiate, Dan-el went on to Princeton. He decided to "cone out" as an undocumented student in a Wall Street Journal profile a few months before he gave the salutorian's traditional address in Latin at his commencement. After earning a PH.D in classics at Stanford University, he is currently a Mellon Research Fellow at Columbia University.