Frankie Corzo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
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...
2) Sleep, bear!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
270L
Language
English
Description
"Follow a bear cub and its family as they prepare to hibernate for the winter. Through engaging text features, such as the vocabulary tree and the wrap-up activity, kids will be introduced to vocabulary in concept groups--helping them make connections between words and expanding their understanding of the world" --
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Veronica's photograph of her introverted girlfriend goes viral, they are sent into a spiral of fame and lethal danger as they navigate the turbulent waters of their relationship, secrets, acclaim, and the underground San Diego art scene.
Author
Series
Merci Suarez volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Merci Suarez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older brother, Roli, are scholarship students. They don't have a big house or a fancy boat, and they have to do extra community service to make up for their free tuition. So when bossy Edna Santos sets her sights on the new boy who happens to be Merci's...
5) Someone new
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
The new kids seem different.... Who will be their friends? Maria is new. She's from Guatemala. Jesse can't understand her very well. Jin is new. He's from Korea. Jason can't read his writing. Fatimah is new. She's from Somalia. Emma can't see anything they have in common. Eventually-with a little courage and curiosity-Jesse, Jason, and Emma reach out to their classmates. Maybe making a new friend isn't so tricky after all.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
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
Series
Paola Santiago volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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.
8) Off planet
Author
Series
Aunare chronicles volume 01
Language
English
Description
Maite Martinez has always yearned for more than waitressing in a greasy diner, especially when most people have left the polluted ruins of Earth behind for a better life on other planets. It's not just working at the diner that's making life hard for her. Being a half-human, half-alien girl has never been trickier. With the corporate government hunting down the last of her father's alien Auanare race living on Earth, hiding her growing special abilities...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
High school bites--especially when you want to kill your classmates. Based on the original Archie Comics characters! Everyone knows the characters from Riverdale: Popular Archie Andrews, sophisticated Veronica Lodge, girl-next-door Betty Cooper, and angsty Jughead Jones. But this is not the Riverdale you know and love. Something twisted has awoken in the town with pep. Inspired by the iconic Archie Horror comics, this reimagined universe takes the...
10) On mission
Author
Series
Aunare chronicles volume 04
Language
English
Description
Amihanna di Aetes has finally accepted her place in the Aunare world. In a matter of weeks, she'll marry Lorne and become their High Queen, but no matter how hard she tries, she finds that she's always doing the wrong thing. At least that's what the High Council keeps telling her... There's only so much rejection a girl can take, which means she's spending her days trying to get out of High Council meetings. She's going back to what she does best:...
Author
Language
English
Description
Told from alternating perspectives and group chats, a prom night sex pact goes awry for seven friends as they navigate friendships and relationships, embrace the uncertainty of life after high school, and search for a lost cat.
It's the night of senior prom. Julia and her friends have secured a secluded cabin in the woods, one night without parental supervision, and plenty of condoms. But as they leave the dance, their pact begins to unravel. Alex's...
12) I'm new here
Author
Lexile measure
AD 390L
Language
English
Description
Three children from other countries (Somalia, Guatemala, and Korea) struggle to adjust to their new home and school in the United States.