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• Clean Getaway

  Stone, Nic,

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  Like Gonzalo in A Hero's Guide to Summer Vacation, Scoob is on a road trip with a grandparent. Like Gonzalo, Scoob learns more about his grandparent's past on the trip. Unlike Gonzalo, Scoob also suspects his grandmother may be on the run from the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• El Niño

  Ryan, Pam Muñoz,

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  Two years ago, Kai's sister, a champion swimmer, disappeared in the Pacific Ocean. Still struggling with the grief, Kai decides to become a swimmer himself. The book also includes fantasy elements, as Kai learns about the mythical underwater queen…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Benny Ramírez and the Nearly Departed

  Iriarte, José Pablo,

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  Like Gonzalo, Cuban-American Benny lives in the shadow of a famous grandfather. In his case, his grandfather, musician Ignacio Ramirez, is a ghost who needs Benny's help to make it to the afterlife.

• Cuba in My Pocket

  Cuevas, Adrianna,

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  If your favorite parts of A Hero's Guide were the parts narrated by Gonzalo's grandfather, then you'll like this book about Cumba, a 12-year-old from 1960s Cuba whose parents send him to Miami to prevent him being drafted into the military.

• Mexikid

  a Graphic Memoir

  Martin, Pedro, 1967-

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  In this graphic memoir, Pedro Martin recalls a chaotic family road trip from California to Mexico in the 1970s.

• The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez

  Cuevas, Adrianna,

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  This is probably the closest we have to The Chronicles of Gonzalo Sanz, the fictional book series written by Gonzalo's grandfather in A Hero's Guide. Cuban-American Nestor, who can speak to animals, must save his new town from a shape-shifting…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Maizy Chen's Last Chance

  Yee, Lisa,

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  Maizy has only met her grandparents once, but a summer spent with them at their restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota reveals family secrets and incredible stories about her great-great-grandfather's immigration from China to the US.

• Rick Kotani's 400 Million Dollar Summer

  Brown, Waka T.,

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  At first, Rick is mad that he'll be spending the summer helping take care of his grandfather. But that changes as he learns more about his grandfather's past and its parallels with a Japanese folktale about an underwater kingdom.

• The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise

  Gemeinhart, Dan,

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  After Coyote's mom and sisters died, her dad made their home a converted school bus that he drives across the country. But when a park in her old hometown is set to be demolished, Coyote has to convince her father to return home and face the past so…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lucky Broken Girl

  Behar, Ruth, 1956-

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  Things are finally looking up for ten-year-old Cuban-Jewish immigrant Ruthie, who lives in New York in the 1960s: she's gotten good enough at English to be moved out of the "dumb class." Then a car accident confines her to a full body cast, unable…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Trouble With Heroes

  Messner, Kate,

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  Finn is still full of anger from his dad's death two years ago. When that anger leads him to vandalize a headstone at the local cemetery, the daughter of the deceased issues him an assignment: climb every one of the Adirondack High Peaks in a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When I Hit the Road

  Cavanaugh, Nancy J.,

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  Another road-trip-with-a-grandparent story, though this one much more lighthearted, as Samantha joins her grandma and her grandma's friend from her retirement community on a trip across Florida to a karaoke contest.

• Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish

  Cartaya, Pablo,

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  Want to read more books by Pablo Cartaya? In this one, Marcus isn't thrilled about traveling with his mother and brother to Puerto Rico to see relatives he's never met. But Marcus does see an opportunity: the trip might help him find his father, who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora

  Cartaya, Pablo,

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  In this other Pablo Cartaya book (and 2019 One Book, One City for Kids selection!), Arturo fights to save his family's restaurant and its neighborhood from a greedy developer. You may also recognize one of the characters from A Hero's Guide!

• A Hero's Guide to Summer Vacation

  Cartaya, Pablo,

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  If you haven't gotten a chance to read this year's One Book, One City for Kids selection, check it out here! GRPL has multiple copies available in a range of formats. You are also invited to our Author Talk with Pablo Cartaya on March 18 at 1:00 at…Read moreRead more of this annotation