Gary Soto
8) The skirt
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Miata leaves on the school bus the skirt that she is to wear in a dance performance, she needs all her wits to get it back without her parents' finding out that she has lost something yet again.
10) Canto familiar
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Company
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Twenty-five poems about the pleasures and woes that Mexican American children experience growing up.
11) Jesse
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two Mexican American brothers hope that junior college will help them excape their heritage of tedious physical labor.
12) 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) If the shoe fits
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After being teased about his brand new loafers, Rigo puts them away for so long he grows out of them.
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.
17) A summer life
Author
Publisher
University Press of New England
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
18) Petty crimes
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A collection of short stories about Mexican American youth growing up in California's Central Valley.