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This updated and expanded edition is the first and only book to offer a leadership model firmly based on the Latino experience and culture. By 2045 Latinos will make up 1 in 4 Americans. They are projected to be 78% of the new entries into the labor force in the next ten years. By sheer numbers alone, Latinos will shape the 21st Century. What does it take to lead such a varied and vibrant people who hail from twenty-six countries and are a blend of...

"In classic stories remixed, Latinx characters take center stage. Pride and Prejudice is launched into outer space, Frankenstein is plunged into the depths of the ocean, and The Great Gatsby floats to an island off the coast of Costa Rica. A shape-shifter gives up her life to save the boy she loves from an evil bruja. La Ciguapa covets a little mermaid's heart of gold. Two star-crossed teens fall in love while the planet burns around them. Whether...

Roberto is very angry when his older brother Miguel promises to walk him home from school and then forgets.

"In the title story, a once-elegant hotel - now a rundown apartment building for mostly single men and a few desperate families - burns to the ground, killing seven people. City building inspector Roberto Morales had recently reviewed it and knows there was nothing wrong with the wiring, even before he's hustled off to a "meeting" with a local mafioso. As he pounds the pavement of San Francisco's grimy Mission District, looking for clues to the fire,...

Two hamsters, one named Tip and the other Tucker, one fearful and one fearless, are purchased from a pet store by Mr. Lopez for his classroom.