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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Banned Books Week
Challenged in Washoe County Libraries
Hispanic Heritage Month for Teens
Historical Fiction Featuring Young Women & Girls
Challenged in Washoe County Libraries
Hispanic Heritage Month for Teens
Historical Fiction Featuring Young Women & Girls
Description
Loosely based on a school explosion that took place in New London, Texas in 1937, this is the story of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black, and their dealings with race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people.
A dangerous forbidden romance rocks a Texan oil town in 1937, when segregation was a matter of life and death. A Top Ten Most Challenged Book of the Year "This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines...
Author
Series
Aristotle and Dante volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship-the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves...
3) The living
Author
Series
The living volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Formats
Description
After an earthquake destroys California and a tsunami wrecks the luxury cruise ship where he is a summer employee, high schooler Shy confronts another deadly surprise.
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Juanito accompanies his grandmother to a flea market in southern California, where he helps her and the other vendors and where they enjoy seeing old friends from their Mexican-American community.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Artemisia (Sia) Martinez's mother was deported to Mexico by ICE and disappeared in the Sonoran Desert trying to make it back to her American family; Sia believes that she was as-good-as murdered by ICE and the sheriff in their small Arizona town on the edge of the national park, and wants revenge against him and his son, Jeremy--but her search for the truth will uncover many more secrets than she counted on.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tomas finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library.
Includes Spanish words or phrases.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When his parents and grandfather are late on Christmas Eve, it's up to Carlos to take over his grandfather's role in the traditional Mexican reenactment of the Nativity called Las Posadas.
13) La mariposa
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Because he can only speak Spanish, Francisco, son of a migrant worker, has trouble when he begins first grade, but his fascination with the caterpillar in the classroom helps him begin to fit in.
14) Pacific crossing
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Mexican American Lincoln Mendoza spends a summer with a host family in Japan, encountering new experiences and making new friends.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1993.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As he travels with his family of migrant farmworkers, Diego relies on his radio to provide him with companionship and help connect him to all the different places in which he lives.
18) My abuelita
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With great gusto, a child's grandmother performs deep knee bends, consumes a breakfast of "huevos estrellados," and practices vocal exercises before going to work as a storyteller.
20) Home at last
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When she and her family move from Mexico to the United States, eight-year-old Ana helps her mother adjust to the new situation by encouraging her to learn English.
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