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1) Girlfight
Publisher
Columbia/TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
Diana Guzman is always fighting, whether at home in the housing projects with her abusive dad or at high school. She finds a new outlet for her anger at her brother's boxing gym. With hard-core training from veteran boxing coach Hector, Diana learns she has the guts and talent to be a contender.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They're going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they're both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There's an app for that. It's called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure--to live a lifetime in a single...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
For Alicia Cruz and her three best friends--Carmen, Jamie, and Gaz--quinceneras, the fantastic parties thrown for Latina girls turning fifteen, are a staple of the Miami social scene. But this summer after meeting the new girl in town, Alicia ends up volunteering to help organize Sarita's quince. Soon Alicia is drowning in preparations and turning into a quince-zilla. Will she learn to trust her amigas and rock the party?
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Carmen Aguilar just wants to make her happily ever after come true. Which involves being stuck in an unpaid summer internship-- performing in a ball gown-- during the summer-- in Miami! Then the company is hired for her spoiled cousin Ariana's over the top quinceañera. And her new dance partner at work is none other than Mauro Reyes, Carmen's most deeply regrettable ex. If Carmen can manage dancing in the blistering heat, fending off Mauro's texts,...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"It is summer in Phoenix, and seventeen-year-old Maximo offers to help Jordan, a fellow student in high school, with the food truck that belonged to Jordan's deceased father, and which may be the only thing standing between homelessness for Jordan and his mom; the boys are strongly attracted to each other, but as their romance develops, it is threatened by the secrets they are hiding--and by the racism and homophobia of those around them."--
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