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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
3) Dreamers
Author
Publisher
Neal Porter Books, Holiday House
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"An illustrated picture book autobiography in which award-winning author Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Maria, Juan, and their mother go to the border between California and Mexico to visit their grandmother at Christmas, Maria must devise a way to get Juan's gift over the fence.--
Author
Publisher
Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Recovering from a shooting and stereotyped as a Chicano gangbanger, fourteen-year-old Victor Reyes loves reading books, has a genius girlfriend and an art teacher who mentors and encourages him to apply to art schools, but Victor cannot seem to overcome society's expectations for him.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
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
Paola Santiago volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Silver Springs, Arizona, her mother's stories of the monstrous La Llorona are thrilling but unbelievable to science-loving Paola until she and her best friends Dante and Emma take a walk through a cactus field near the Gila River.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Mexican-American Stef Soto is hoping to break free from her overprotective parents and embarrassing reputation from her family's taco truck business, but she soon learns that family, friendship, and the taco truck are important and wonderful parts of her life"--
12) 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
Series
Paola Santiago volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Months after confronting the legendary La Llorona, Paola starts dreaming again, this time about fantasmas that are stalking her and someone who might be even more dangerous--her estranged father.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lupe Impala, Elirio Malaria, and El Chavo Flapjack are now the proud owners of their own garage--but when a series of earthquakes hit their town and Genie, their beloved cat, disappears they find themselves traveling to the realm of Mictlantecuhtli, Aztec god of the Underworld, who is keeping Genie prisoner.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sophia knits a special hat for her elderly neighbor and knitting teacher, Mrs. Goldman.
When Sophia was a baby, Mrs. Goldman knit a tiny baby hat to keep her warm. Last year, she taught Sophia how to knit. Now Sophia wants to knit a special hat for Mrs. Goldman. And she wants to do it all by herself!
17) Lowriders
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
19) Out of darkness
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
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.
20) Desert Angel
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In the California desert, fourteen-year-old Angel is on the run from the man who abused her, killed her mother, and intends to kill her too.
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