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3) Long shot
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pedro, an avid basketball player, decides to run for class president, challenging a teammate who is also one of the most popular boys in school.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
If you want God to laugh, tell him your plans."For Jose the cook and Nina the beautiful waitress life has not turned out the way either had planned. Living with the weight of guilt and lost dreams, each struggles to survive and to make sense of what life now holds. But the events of one ordinary day in New York City turn into an unforgettable experience that changes both of their lives forever.Based on the #1 top-rated movie of 2007 and one of the...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"'La frontera'... I heard it for the first time back in the late 1940s when Papa and Mama told me and Roberto, my older brother, that someday we would take a long trip north, cross la front era, enter California, and leave our poverty behind." So begins this honest and powerful account of a family's journey to the fields of California - to a life of constant moving, from strawberry fields to cotton fields, from tent cities to one-room shacks, from...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Josefina and her sisters distrust learning to read and write, as well as other changes their Tía Dolores is bringing to the household, because they fear they will lose their memories of their mother.
13) Echoes of Grace
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
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 for work, a disturbing echo takes hold of Grace. Within moments tragedy strikes. Grace sets goals and begins to recover, but is estranged from Mercy. As Grace's echoes brings ghosts and premonitions, they also bring memories of when Grace fled to Mexico to the house of her...
14) Chato's kitchen
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
To get the "ratoncitos," little mice, who have moved into the barrio to come to his house, Chato the cat prepares all kinds of good food: fajitas, frijoles, salsa, enchiladas, and more.
15) Jesse
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1996,c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Two Mexican American brothers hope that junior college will help them escape their heritage of tedious physical labor.
Author
Series
Stella Diaz volume 5
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When fifth-grader Stella Díaz considers going to a different school than her closest friends, sees her big brother Nick receiving mail from colleges far away, and is forced to work on a project with her former bully, she suddenly realizes growing up is not quite as fun as she first thought.
18) The afterlife
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A senior at East Fresno High School lives on as a ghost after his brutal murder in the restroom of a club where he had gone to dance.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Tía 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.
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