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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Oscar, an overweight Dominican from a New Jersey ghetto, dreams of becoming a writer and finding love, but a Fuku curse has haunted his family for generations, and may well prevent him from attaining his desires.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Named A Great American Novel by The Atlantic!
From the international bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and Afterlife, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is "poignant...powerful... Beautifully captures the threshold experience of the new immigrant, where the past is not yet a memory." (The New York Times Book Review)
Julia Alvarez’s new novel,...
From the international bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and Afterlife, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is "poignant...powerful... Beautifully captures the threshold experience of the new immigrant, where the past is not yet a memory." (The New York Times Book Review)
Julia Alvarez’s new novel,...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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A modern retelling of the myth, Orpheus and Eurydice, in which Eury leaves Puerto Rico for the Bronx, haunted by losing all to Hurricane Maria and by evil spirit Ato, and meets a bachata-singing charmer, Pheus.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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When Xiomara Batista, who pours all her frustrations and passion into poetry, is invited to join the school slam poetry club, she struggles with her mother's expectations and her need to be heard.
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