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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
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Formats
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.
6) The last 8
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
After an alien attack devastates the Earth, pilot and future astronaut Clover Martinez bands with seven other teens in a struggle to survive.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When Victoria Cruz wakes up in the psychiatric ward of a Texas hospital after her failed suicide attempt, she still has no desire to live, but as the weeks pass, and she meets Dr. Desai and three of the other patients, she begins to reflect on the reasons why she feels like a loser compared with the rest of her family, and to see a path ahead where she can make a life of her own.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Mexican American Yami Flores starts Catholic school, determined to keep her brother out of trouble and keep herself closeted, but her priorities shift when Yami discovers that her openly gay classmate Bo is also annoyingly cute.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Surfing is Juan Barrela's life but when his best friend Jamie faces a violent home situation, the tenth-grader steals his mother's car and drives with Jamie's sister Amber to Mexico to help her brother hide until tragedy strikes the trio.
10) On the hook
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Living in fear after a gang leader’s younger brother threatens to kill him, a talented young chess player who works to help support his family makes a difficult decision to protect the safety of a loved one.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
"Three Mexican-Americans--Juan, JD, and Fabi--each try to overcome their individual struggles as they all grapple with how to make a better life for themselves when it seems like brown lives don't matter"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
Told in two voices, Pen, whose dream of taking over her family's restaurant has been destroyed, and Xander, a new, undocumented, employee seeking his father, form a bond.
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2018].
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
When resentment surges during the Great Depression in a Texas border town, Estrella, fifteen, organizes a protest against the treatment of tejanos and soon finds herself with her mother and baby brother in Mexico.
14) The first 7
Author
Series
Last 8 volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After leaving Earth, now devastated by an alien attack, and exploring the galaxy, Clover Martinez and her fellow teen survivors return home to find crystal formations in the soil that are threatening to destroy the planet, and a colony of survivors who are not who they seem.
15) Chain reaction
Author
Series
Perfect chemistry series volume 3
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When he returns to Illinois and the gang culture on the south side of Fairfield after six years in Colorado, high school senior Luis Fuentes, who dreams of becoming an astronaut, falls for a girl and enters a dark world after learning some disturbing news about his family.
16) Joyride
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Who says opposites don't attract? It's been several years since Carly Vega's parents were deported. Carly lives with her older brother, studies hard, and works the graveyard shift at a convenience store to earn enough to bring her parents back from Mexico. Arden Moss used to be the star quarterback at school. He used to date popular blondes and have fun pranking with his older sister. But now all that's changed, and Arden needs a new accomplice....
17) Echoes of Grace
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
In Eagle Pass, Texas, Grace struggles to understand the echoes she inherited from her mother--visions which often distort her reality. One morning, as her sister, Mercy, rushes off to work, a disturbing echo takes hold of Grace, and within moments, tragedy strikes. Attending community college for the first time, talking to the boy next door, and working toward her goals all help Grace recover, but her estrangement from Mercy takes a deep toll. And...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author Laekan Zea Kemp's heart-wrenching novel-in-verse follows two teens who must come together to heal the pain from their pasts, perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo and Nicola Yoon. Danna Mendoza Villarreal's grandfather is slowly losing himself as his memories fade, and Danna's not sure her plan to help him remember through the foods he once reviewed will be enough to bring him back. Especially when her own love of food makes...
19) Undead girl gang
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
"A fun, fast read...it will resonate with readers who dabble in any sort of arts, dark or otherwise." --NPR.org "With a singular and hilariously cutting teen voice, UNDEAD GIRL GANG is sure to be one of the most talked-about YA novels of the year." --BookPage Veronica Mars meets The Craft when a teen girl investigates the suspicious deaths of three classmates and accidentally ends up bringing them back to life to form a hilariously unlikely--and unwilling--vigilante...
Author
Series
Aristotle and Dante volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Aristotle and Dante continue their journey to manhood in this achingly romantic, tender tale set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic in 1980s America. In Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, two boys fell in love. Now they must learn what it means to stay in love-and to build their relationship in a world that doesn't seem to want them to exist. In their senior year at two different schools, the boys find ways to spend...
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