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Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Stan and Elpidia find hope in an unexpected friendship as they navigate challenging family circumstances and a dangerous local gang in the desolate Southern California desert.
Author Matt Wallace delivers a deeply moving story exploring that first formative friendship, navigating challenging family circumstances, and finding hope and strength in a forgotten desert town. Perfect for fans of Ernesto Cisneros and Julie Murphy. The isolation...
2) Borderless
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Caught in the cross hairs of gang violence, seventeen-year-old fashion designer, Maya, and her mother set off on a perilous journey from Guatemala City to the US-Mexico border.
"Caught in the crosshairs of gang violence, a teen girl and her mother set off on a perilous journey from Guatemala City to the US border in this heart-wrenching young adult novel from the author of Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From. For seventeen-year-old Maya, trashion...
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Told with interstitial historical chapters, fourteen-year-old Taaina (Ty) must draw from the strength of her Taaino ancestors to bring her family and community hope and healing after a devastating incident.
Fourteen-year-old Taína just learned that she is a descendant of a long line of strong Taíno women, but will knowing this help her bring peace and justice to her family and community? Despite her name, Taína Perez doesn't know anything about...
Author
Series
Battle dragons volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"In a modern mega-city built around dragons, one boy gets caught up in the world of underground dragon battles and a high-stakes gang war that could tear his family apart. In the city of Drakopolis, dragons and humans have co-existed for centuries. Dragons burn the city's garbage, taxi its busy citizens from place to place, and even compete in vicious underground battles for ganglike kins. But the dragons also compete in legal sports, like the spectacular...
Author
Series
Virginia mysteries volume 3
Publisher
MyBoys3 Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Ghosts from the Civil War seemed like just a legend until they saw the lights over the water. Sam, Derek, and Caitlin solve a mystery centered around the 150th anniversary of the Fall of Richmond.
"Legend says that the haunting lights over the rapids on the James River at night are the ghosts of long-dead soldiers still fighting the Civil War. Just past the water lies historic Belle Isle, the former Union soldier prisoner-of-war camp, now a city...
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