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Author
Publisher
Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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2022 ALA Youth Media Awards
All Together Now - Ages 0-5
Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
All Together Now - Ages 0-5
Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
Description
Using their new truck to carry party supplies over the bridge, Little Lobo and his dog Bernabe are stuck in traffic and decide to throw an epic party to pass the time.
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"--
64) Shame the stars
Author
Publisher
Tu Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
"In the midst of racial conflict and at the edges of a war at the Texas-Mexico border in 1915, Joaquín and Dulceña attempt to maintain a secret romance in this reimagining of Romeo and Juliet"--
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
Kokila
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"A boy and his father cross the United States-Mexico border every other Saturday, visiting their favorite places, spending time with family and friends, and sharing in the responsibility of community care"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
1998-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Tia Dolores, the beloved aunt who has cared for the Montoya family since the death of their mother, announces that she is planning to leave, Josefina and her sisters try to find a way to change her mind.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As Lola helps her mother at the family's hotel, she learns about compassion, social injustice, and how one voice can lead to change. Includes author's note on Dolores Huerta, a labor organizer who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association.
69) Again, Essie?
Author
Series
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Rafael tries to save his toys from his baby sister, Essie, by building a wall from shoeboxes, toilet paper rolls, and other household objects in this playful exploration of spatial sense and geometry"--
71) Ambassador
Author
Series
Ambassador (William Alexander) volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Appointed Earth's ambassador to the universe, twelve-year-old Gabe Fuentes faces two sets of "alien" problems when he discovers his parents are illegal aliens and face deportation and the Earth is in the path of a destructive alien force causing multiple mass extinctions.
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the 1950s, fourteen-year-old Elena Padilla and her father move into a haunted house in Duston, Arizona, where only Elena can see and help the ghost of the young girl who died there.
74) Efrén divided
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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All Together Now - Ages 12-18
Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
Hispanic Heritage Month for Kids
One World, Many Stories 6th - 8th
Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
Hispanic Heritage Month for Kids
One World, Many Stories 6th - 8th
Description
While his father works two jobs, seventh-grader Efrén Nava must take care of his twin siblings, kindergartners Max and Mia, after their mother is deported to Mexico. Includes glossary of Spanish words.
75) Incognita
Author
Series
Tabula rasa trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Angel discovers that the memory-altering program she was part of may still be active--and her life may in more danger than ever"--
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.
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Brothers Teodoro and Manny Avila take a road trip to address Manny's PTSD following his tour in Iraq, and to help T. change his life and win the heart of Wendy Martinez. Includes information and resources about PTSD.
80) The quiet place
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The story of young immigrant Isabel, who misses her family and friends back in Mexico while decorating a large box as a place of quiet contemplation and encountering new experiences, including a first snowstorm and a kind teacher.
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