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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Set in Monterey, California, Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, and Sweet Thursday, have become classic fare for both students and aficionados of American literature. Inspired by Arthurian legend, Tortilla Flat became popular in its own time as an escape from the daily grind of the Great Depression. Danny and his friends are paisanos, people of mixed breed who claim pure Spanish descent, live by their own rules, and decline
...3) Abuela
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
While riding on a bus with her grandmother, a little girl imagines that they are carried up into the sky and fly over the sights of New York City.
6) La isla
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Formats
Description
A young girl and her grandmother take an imaginary journey to the Caribbean island where her mother grew up and where some of her family still lives.
9) Dreams
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
One night while everyone is sleeping, a little boy watches his paper mouse save a cat from an angry dog.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Three sisters in San Antonio are shadowed by guilt and grief over the loss of their oldest sister, who still haunts their house"--
The Torres sisters dream of escape-- from their needy and despotic widowed father, and from their San Antonio neighborhood and its traditions and expectations. In the summer after her senior year of high school, Ana, the oldest sister, falls to her death from her bedroom window. A year later her three younger sisters,...
11) Papa and me
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A bilingual boy and his father, who only speaks Spanish, spend a day together.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pepita wants to talk only English so she doesn't have to repeat herself; but in the end she recognizes that she is capable of speaking the language.
Pepita no quiere hablar los dos idiomas porque está cansada de repetir todo, pero al final se da cuenta que es maravilloso hablar dos lenguas!
13) Little chanclas
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lily Lujan is known as Little Chanclas because she wears her chanclas, or flip flops, wherever she goes, especially to parties, so when the chanclas come apart while she is dancing at a family barbecue and Chewcho the bulldog eats one, Lily is inconsolable until Granny Lola arrives with a solution.
14) Accidental love
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
After unexpectedly falling in love with a "nerdy" boy, fourteen-year-old Marisa works to change her life by transferring to another school, altering some of her behavior, and losing weight.
15) Sanctuary
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In 2032, when sixteen-year-old Vali's mother is detained by the Deportation Forces, Vali must flee Vermont with her little brother, Ernie, hoping to reach their Tía Luna in the sanctuary state of California.
16) Crazy weekend
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After their photograph of a robbery is published in the newspaper, Hector and Mando find themselves pursued by two goofy thieves.
20) Salsa
Author
Publisher
Pinata Books
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rita, a young girl living in New York's El Barrio, describes the Afro-Caribbean dance music, salsa, and imagines being a salsa director.
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