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Book, CD + Book, eAudiobook

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1

Lexile measure

580L

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.

2) Baseball in April and other stories

Author

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4

Lexile measure

830L

Language

English

Formats

Description

A collection of eleven short stories focusing on the everyday adventures of Hispanic young people growing up in Fresno, California.

3) The afterlife

Author

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5

Lexile measure

810L

Language

English

Formats

Description

A senior at East Fresno High School lives on as a ghost after his brutal murder in the restroom of a club where he had gone to dance.

4) Buried onions

Author

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6

Lexile measure

850L

Language

English

Formats

Description

When nineteen-year-old Eddie drops out of college, he struggles to find a place for himself as a Mexican American living in a violence-infested neighborhood of Fresno, California.

5) Accidental love

Author

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5

Lexile measure

780L

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.

6) The skirt

Author

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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.

7) Jesse

Author

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6

Lexile measure

900L

Language

English

Formats

Description

Two Mexican American brothers hope that junior college will help them escape their heritage of tedious physical labor.

8) Pacific crossing

Author

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4

Lexile measure

750L

Language

English

Formats

Description

Fourteen-year-old Mexican American Lincoln Mendoza spends a summer with a host family in Japan, encountering new experiences and making new friends.

9) Taking sides

Author

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4

Lexile measure

750L

Language

English

Formats

Description

Fourteen-year-old Lincoln Mendoza, an aspiring basketball player, must come to terms with his divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white suburban neighborhood.

10) Help wanted: stories

Author

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7

Lexile measure

780L

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

Description

Presents ten short stories for teens that portray the struggles and hopes of young Mexican Americans.

11) Chato and the party animals

Author

Book, CD + Book, eAudiobook

Series

Chato

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1

Lexile measure

AD 620L

Language

English

Formats

Description

Chato decides to throw a "pachanga" for his friend Novio Boy, who has never had a birthday party, but when it is time to party, Novio Boy cannot be found.

12) My little car

Author

Pub. Date

2006.

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

Teresa loves to show off her shiny, new, pedal-powered lowrider car from Grandpa, but the toy soon looks old when she neglects it.

13) Chato y los amigos pachangueros

Author

Chato
Weston Woods read-along CD

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1

Language

Español

Formats

CD + Book, eAudiobook

Description

Chato's friend, Novio Boy, has never had a birthday party. As a matter of fact, he doesn't even know when his birthday is because he's from the pound. So Chato, being the good friend that he is, decides to throw him one—a "pachanga, " and everyone is invited—including you!

14) Snapshots from the wedding

Author

Pub. Date

[1997]

Language

English

Description

Maya, the flower girl, describes a Mexican American wedding through snapshots of the day's events, beginning with the procession to the altar and ending with her sleeping after the dance.

15) Chato goes cruisin'

Author

Book, Book + CD, CD + Book

Language

English

Formats

Description

Chato and Novio win a cruise but are disappointed to find that everyone else on board is a dog, and things go from bad to worse when the dogs party themselves sick and it is up to the cats to find help.

16) If the shoe fits

Author

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.

17) Big bushy mustache

Author

Pub. Date

[1998]

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

In order to look more like his father, Ricky borrows a mustache from a school costume, but when he loses it on the way home his father comes up with a replacement.

18) The cat's meow

Author

Pub. Date

c1995

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

Eight-year-old Graciela, who is half Mexican, is amazed when her cat Pip starts speaking in Spanish.

19) The pool party

Author

Pub. Date

[1993]

Language

English

Description

While helping his father and grandfather work as gardeners in Fresno, California, ten-year-old Rudy sees some differences between his Mexican-American family and the wealthy families that live nearby.

20) Living up the street: narrative recollections

Author

Series

Laurel-leaf books

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8

Lexile measure

1140L

Language

English

Description