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2) The takeout
Author
Language
English
Description
"Mila may have moved to Coral Beach months ago, but it still doesn't feel like home. A few awkward incidents with her new friends make her wonder if she'll ever neatly fit into the super-samey small town. The only place she can be herself is at her dad's Filipino Indian food truck, the Banana Leaf. But when twin celebrity chefs the Fab Foodie Brothers open a restaurant nearby, it turns out the food they are serving is exactly the same as the Banana...
Author
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Ruby Santos, grappling with her mother's death and financial struggles, discovers her father's secret life as a magical underworld delivery person, leading her to take over his station and jump train lines, only to realize the perilous nature of the job and the dangerous world she has entered.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"During the summer before seventh grade, Kaia, who enjoys living in Southern California, visiting the beach with her family, and creating movie make-up effects, makes a film with her friends to win a contest and hopefully prevent her beloved great-grandfather from moving back to the Philippines"--Title verso page.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a devastating earthquake, a teen and her family are threatened by yet another disaster. A tsunami destroys their house. Their life in paradise is shaken as they try to survive the next blow"--
11) Blackbird fly
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Bullied at school, eighth-grader Apple, a Filipino American who loves the music of the Beatles, decides to change her life by learning how to play the guitar.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After moving to Sacramento to take over his grandparent's Filipino market, sixth-grader Alex seeks popularity by selling homemade slime at school, while his father insists he join a soccer team."--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Language
English
Description
"Some girls call their mother their best friend. Marisol Martin? She could never relate. She and her mom were forever locked in an argument with no beginning and no end. Clothes, church, boys -- no matter the topic, Marisol always felt like there was an unbridgeable gap between them. But when her mother dies suddenly, Marisol is left with no one to fight. Her dad seems completely lost, and worse, baffled by Marisol's attempts to connect with her mother's...
Author
Series
Tita Rosie's kitchen volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Death at a beauty pageant turns Tita Rosie's Kitchen upside down in the latest entry of this witty and humorous cozy mystery series by Mia P. Manansala, author of Arsenic and Adobo. Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal. Not in her love life, which she insists on keeping nonexistent despite the attention of two very eligible bachelors. Or her professional life, since she can't bring herself to open her new cafae after the unpleasantness that occurred...
Author
Series
Tita Rosie's kitchen volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The first book in a new culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishes-one that might just be killer.... When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She's tasked with saving her Tita Rosie's failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her with love and judgment. But when a notoriously nasty food critic...
17) Willie wins
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
Willie's father tells him there is something special in an old coconut bank brought from the Philippines, but Willie is embarrassed to take it to school for a contest, especially since he knows that one of his classmates will make fun of him.
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