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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
This book tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong, not to her run-down neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Capturing her thoughts and emotions in poems and stories, she is able to rise above hopelessness and create a quiet space for herself in the midst of her oppressive...
2) See me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot. At 28, he's focused only on walking a straight line - getting his teaching degree, working out at the gym religiously, and avoiding all the places and people that proved so destructive in his earlier life. The last thing he's looking for is a serious relationship. But when Maria Sanchez crosses paths with him on a rainswept night in North Carolina, his plans are upended in a way that will rattle...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1997, c1992
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the help and interference of her cat Chica, Cecilia prepares a surprise gift for her great-aunt's ninetieth birthday.
Author
Series
Aristotle and Dante volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
Author
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 herlife"--
Author
Series
Perfect chemistry series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Living on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus with his older brother Alex, a college student and ex-gang member, high school senior Carlos is not ready to give up his wild ways until he meets a shy classmate named Kiara and becomes unwillingly involved in a drug ring.
Author
Series
Perfect chemistry series volume 3
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.
10) Too many tamales
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maria tries on her mother's wedding ring while helping make tamales for a Christmas family get-together. Panic ensues when hours later, she realizes the ring is missing.
Author
Series
Paola Santiago volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Paola Santiago must return to the void to rescue her best friend Dante and face her biggest foe yet : El Cucuy, the lord of nightmares"--
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Hector Lopez runs against the frigid Chicago wind clutching the bleeding girl in his arms, he hopes his ailing heart doesn't fail before he reaches the medical clinic. Even after safely delivering the child and continuing on his way to work, Hector cannot forget the image of the little girl curled up like a rag doll in a small pool of mostly frozen blood. And if he could possibly forget the incident, the Chicago Police Department will not let him--particularly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
80 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Daisy, having gotten permission for a spring dance when she became student council president, thinks that all the fourth graders should help plan the event, but with so many opinions to consider she begins to worry the dance will be a disaster.
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
80 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Daisy, excited to start fourth grade along with her best friend Blanca, decides to write an essay about her summer vacation that will impress her wonderful new teacher, Ms. Lilly.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
70 p. : col. ill.
Language
English
Description
Josefina and her sisters distrust learning to read and write, as well as other changes their Tia Dolores is bringing to the household, because they fear they will lose their memories of their mother.
18) The quiet place
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A little girl moves to the United States from Mexico with her family and writes letters to her aunt in Mexico about her new life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
80 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Min, DeShaye, and Blanca nominate Daisy for student council president, but Daisy is not sure she wants to go up against bossy Madison, who has all but declared herself the winner.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
As he travels with his family of migrant farmworkers, Diego relies on his radio to provide him with companionship and help connect him to all the different places in which he lives.
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