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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Guided by her Navajo ancestors, seventh-grader Nizhoni Begay discovers she is descended from a holy woman and destined to become a monsterslayer, starting with the evil businessman who kidnapped her father. Includes glossary of Navajo terms.
Author
Series
Birthright (Gabrielle Zevin) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 2083, seventeen-year-old Anya Balanchine seeks a way to make Balanchine Chocolate legitimate, and although a trip to Mexico gives her new insights and ideas, escaping her mobster family's legacy of violence may prove impossible.
Author
Series
Spy school volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Following Murray Hill to an undisclosed location to identify SPYDER leadership, Ben Ripley and Erica Hale face rogue agents, trained killers, and crocodiles in a race against the clock to find out what SPYDER is up to this time and stop them.
5) Dream carver
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this story, inspired by the real life of Oaxacan woodcarver Manuel Jimenez, a young boy dreams of colorful, exotic animals that he will one day carve in wood.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Painting in her grandmother's studio and riding her favorite horse, Georgia, helps fourth-grader Saige cope with missing Mimi and sparks an idea for funding the school art program, but more creativity will be needed to keep Georgia from being sold.
8) Saige
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Upset that her New Mexico school can only afford music and art teachers in alternate years, fourth-grader Saige works with her grandmother, Mimi, to plan a fundraiser but when Mimi has an accident, Saige relies on new friend Gabi to help.
Author
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When his father goes to America to find a job that pays more than toymaking, young Pablo has to act as the man of the house, protecting their small farm and trying to keep his mother and sisters from worrying.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Two cousins, one in Mexico and one in New York City, write to each other and learn that even though their daily lives differ, at heart the boys are very similar.
11) Home for Navidad
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Rosa hopes that her mother, whom she has not seen for three years, will leave her job in New York and come home to Santa Catarina, Mexico, for Christmas and maybe even longer. Includes a glossary of Spanish words used.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
On the Hill of Dust, in the remote mountains of Mexico, an eleven-year-old Mixtec boy called Teo lives with his family and the animals that he has healed, but one day a Romany caravan rolls into town with a young girl who calls herself Esma, the Gypsy Queen of Lightning--it is the beginning of a life-long friendship that will change both their lives.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Georgia learns a great deal about herself and her troubled best friend Riley when they become part of a group of suburban Pennsylvania teenagers that go to Anapra, a squatters village in the border town of Juarez, Mexico, to undertake a community construction project.
Author
Series
Notebooks trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After down-to-earth Zeeta and her flighty mother, Layla, settle in the idyllic beachside town of Mazunte, Mexico, where Zeeta's true love, Wendell, has an internship photographing rare sea turtles, Zeeta discovers that paradise has its dark side as she and Wendell dig deeper to unearth her elusive father's past.
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
In Cuidad Juarez, Mexico in 1999, where kidnapping of girls and women is common, a woman approaches thirteen-year-old Anamaria claiming to be her future self, offering advice and requesting help.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen year-old dirt-bike-riding daredevil Arlo Santiago catches the eye of the U.S. military with his first-place ranking on a video game featuring drone warfare, and must reconcile the work they want him to do with the emotional scars he has suffered following a violent death in his family"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Clara Luna spends the summer with her grandparents in the tiny, remote village of Yucuyoo, Mexico, learning about her grandmother's life as a healer, her father's decision to leave home for the United States, and her own place in the world.
Author
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Growing up on a pineapple farm in Mexico, a young girl discovers the magic in everyday transformations that take place around her.
"In her acclaimed debut as author and illustrator, Mirelle Ortega shares her own story of growing up near her family’s pineapple farm in Mexico, where she learned the true meaning of magic A 2023 Pura Belpré Youth Illustration Honor Book Growing up on a pineapple farm in Mexico, a girl discovers the true meaning...
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