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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
Hispanic Heritage Month for Kids
One World, Many Stories PreK - 2nd
SRC - Ages 0-5 Fiction
Hispanic Heritage Month for Kids
One World, Many Stories PreK - 2nd
SRC - Ages 0-5 Fiction
Description
Carmela, finally old enough to run errands with her brother, tries to think of the perfect wish, while his wish seems to be that she stayed home.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"On a body-strewn Pacific hell, nine Japanese surrender to American troops.Then another handful. Then another. Soon hundreds give up, urged by a lone warrior fighting tough and speaking their language. But the warrior isn't a countryman. He's Marine Guy Gabaldon, a non-Asian kid from the streets of East L.A. From Guy's cross-cultural upbringing in a Japanese-American family to his heroism as he repeatedly risks his life to save untold numbers of fellow...
3) Popped star
Author
Series
Gum Girl volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Gabby Gomez knows she needs to come clean with her family about her secret identity. But just as she works up the courage, trouble pops up again as Ninja-Rina twirls onto the scene! Has Gum Girl finally met her match? Is Ninja-Rina tutu much to handle? Buckle up for more flavored-packed action as Gum Girl takes on someone a little more her size. It's another exciting adventure with the ever-elastic, super-stretchy superhero, Gum Girl!
Author
Series
Lola Levine volume 5
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lola is named after her tía Lola, who lives in Lima, Peru. Lola misses her aunt and dreams of visiting her. After Lola's dad has a successful art show, Lola's dream comes true. The Levines are going to Peru! Thousands of miles from home, Lola and Ben discover all the new adventures Lima has to offer. But will Lola and Ben manage to stay out of trouble?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
Mysterious disappearances. An urban legend rumored to be responsible. And one group of friends determined to save their city at any cost. Stranger Things meets Jordan Peele in this utterly original debut from an incredible new voice. For over a year, the Bronx has been plagued by sudden disappearances that no one can explain. Sixteen-year-old Raquel does her best to ignore it. After all, the police only look for the white kids. But when her crush...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Family members head into the kitchen to help Abuelita bake a tres leches cake for Papi's birthday.
Family traditions are special, especially when they include baking a "delicioso" cake with your abuelita! This Step 2 Reader includes some words in Spanish! It's Papi's birthday! Which means it's time to get in the kitchen and bake the traditional family cake — Tres Leches! Together, we'll measure the ingredients and when some of it sticks to the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Almost ten years before Brown vs. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez and her parents helped end school segregation in California. An American citizen of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage who spoke and wrote perfect English, Mendez was denied enrollment to a whites-only school. Her parents took action by organizing the Hispanic community and filing a lawsuit in federal district court. Their success eventually brought an end to the era of segregated...
10) Harbor me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Formats
Description
It all starts when six kids have to meet for a weekly chat--by themselves, with no adults to listen inches There, in the room they soon dub the ARTT Room (short for "A Room to Talk"), they discover it's safe to talk about what's bothering them--everything from Esteban's father's deportation and Haley's father's incarceration to Amari's fears of racial profiling and Ashton's adjustment to his changing family fortunes. When the six are together, they...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Reina Ramos Works It Out is a Level Two I Can Read story about Reina Ramos, a loyal friend whose high-spirited antics sometimes cause chaos, but who always finds a way to make things right. Perfect for social emotional learning! Reina Ramos is excited about dressing up as Frida Kahlo for the class wax museum. Frida was a strong person like her mami and abuela-plus Reina has the perfect headband for the costume! But when her best friend Nora picks...
12) Class mom
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this Level 1 Ready-to-Read story, Nia helps her mom pull off an amazing bilingual party for her class! Nia volunteers her mama to plan a party for Mrs. Connor’s first grade class. Everyone is excited—but Nia’s mama doesn’t know she’s been volunteered! Nia knows her mother is shy about speaking English and is much more comfortable with her native Spanish. With the party fast approaching, can Nia and her mama pull off the perfect party?...
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Camila and her Papa enter a televised baking competition, but trying to do everything herself results in a mess so Papa helps to bake strawberry-iced cake pops that could make them stars.
Author
Series
Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol volume 20
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Desmond and best friend Andres attend the town's birthday celebration with a petting farm, bumper cars, cotton candy machines, and ghosts, but mostly this Kersville Town Clown Extravaganza is full of creepy clowns of all kinds.
"Clowns of all shapes and sizes turn the town into a circus in this twentieth spooky adventure in the Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol series! When Kersville celebrates the town’s birthday, they pull out all the stops. There’s...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An intergenerational story of family ties, cultural pride, and spelling bee victory following a young boy who bonds with his beloved abuela over a love of Spanish. As a boy prepares for his school’s Spanish spelling bee, he asks his grandmother for help with some of the words he doesn’t know how to spell yet. When she studies with him, she tells him how different things were back when she was a girl, when she was only allowed to speak English...
Author
Series
Catalina Incognito volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Catalina Castaneda is not persnickety, even though that’s what her parents and sister, Coco, like to think. Catalina just likes things the way she likes them—perfect. That’s why it’s very hard to hide her disappointment when her glamorous Tía Abuela, a famous telenovela actress, gives her an old sewing kit for her eighth birthday. However, Catalina soon discovers the sewing kit isn’t as boring as she thinks—it’s magic, turning ordinary...
Author
Publisher
Piñata Books/Arte Publico Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Young Enrique, who loves to eat desserts, learns how to control-- and appreciate-- his sweet tooth, with the help of his mother and El Coco, a fearsome creature with a huge mouth and sticky hair.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Marcos Rivas is desperate to escape the projects, his neglectful mother, and her abusive boyfriend, but when he is picked for a class at his high school targeting smart students who are underperforming, he initially resists.
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