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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Description
Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college; they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation; and they never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter: that was Olga's role. When a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead, Julia is left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken, too. Instead, her...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Exquisite prose and wonderous storytelling have helped make Rudolfo Anaya the father of Chicano literature in English. Indeed, Anaya's tales fairly shimmer with the haunting beauty and richness of his culture. The winner of the PEN Center West Award for Fiction for his unforgettable novel Alburquerque, Anaya is perhaps best loved for his classic bestseller, BLESS ME, ULTIMA...Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
The author recounts the real-life events leading up to and surrounding the 1931 Superior Court of California school desegregation case of Roberto Alvarez v. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District, Lemon Grove, California.
Author
Series
Southwest Regional Laboratory technical note volume no. TN 2-82/13
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
13) Bless me, Ultima
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In New Mexico in the time of WWII, a young man goes to an aged medicine woman and forms a relationship which helps him challenge the fight amid the good and the evil that storms through his village.
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