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Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Georgia learns a great deal about herself and her troubled best friend Riley when they become part of a group of suburban Pennsylvania teenagers that go to Anapra, a squatters village in the border town of Juarez, Mexico, to undertake a community construction project.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Seventeen year-old dirt-bike-riding daredevil Arlo Santiago catches the eye of the U.S. military with his first-place ranking on a video game featuring drone warfare, and must reconcile the work they want him to do with the emotional scars he has suffered following a violent death in his family"--
3) Disappeared
Author
Series
Disappeared (Stork) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Description
Four months ago Sara Zapata's best friend, Linda, disappeared from the streets of Juarez, and ever since Sara has been using her job as a reporter to draw attention to the girls who have been kidnapped by the criminals who control the city, but now she and her family are being threatened--meanwhile her younger brother, Emiliano, is being lured into the narcotics business by the promise of big money, and soon the only way for both of them to escape...
4) Eruption
Author
Series
Storm runners volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Chase and his friend Nicole Rossi attempt to rescue the Rossi Brothers' Circus--lions, tigers, elephants, and all--in Mexico, where a massive earthquake has struck, leading to the imminent eruption of a volcano.
5) Red glass
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Sophie has been frail and delicate since her premature birth, but discovers her true strength during a journey through Mexico, where the six-year-old orphan her family hopes to adopt was born, and to Guatemala, where her would-be boyfriend hopes to find his mother and plans to remain.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen-year old crown prince Acolmiztli wants nothing more than to see his city-state of Tetzcoco thrive. A singer, poet, and burgeoning philosophical mind, he has big plans about infrastructure projects and cultural initiatives that will bring honor to his family and help his people flourish. But the two sides of his family, the kingdoms of Mexico and Acolhuacan, have been at war his entire life - after his father risked the wrath of the Tepanec...
8) Mystic
Author
Series
Soul seekers volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Since coming to Enchantment, New Mexico everything in Daire Santos life has changed. And not all for the better. While she's come to accept and embrace her new powers as a Soul Seeker, Daire struggles with the responsibility she holds navigating between the worlds of the living and the dead"--
9) Fated
Author
Series
Soul seekers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
"Strange things are happening to Daire Santos. Crows mock her, glowing people stalk her, time stops without warning, and a beautiful boy with unearthly blue eyes haunts all her dreams. Fearing for her daughter's sanity, Daire's mother sends her to live with the grandmother she's never met, but who recognizes the visions for what they truly are-the call to her destiny as a Soul Seeker-one who can navigate the worlds between the living and dead."--Publisher's...
10) Echo
Author
Series
Soul seekers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Daire Santos and her boyfriend, Dace, team up again to find the Richters, a dark family of sorcerers, before they upset the balance between good and evil, and Dace's brother Cade, who forces Daire to confront the horrifying prophecy that brought them all together and claim her true destiny as a Seeker.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Pancho is bent on avenging the senseless death of his sister, but after he meets D.Q., who is dying of cancer, and Marisol, one of D.Q.'s caregivers, both boys find their lives changed by their interactions.
12) Frontera
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
YALSA 2024 Great Graphic Novels for Teens
2024 Texas Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List
Mateo makes the dangerous journey back home to the United States through the Sonoran Desert with the help of a new friend, a ghost named Guillermo, in a supernatural borderland odyssey by debut graphic novelists Julio Anta and Jacoby Salcedo.
As long as he remembers to stay smart and keep
...13) Bless me, Ultima
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
Series
Notes from a spinning planet volume 3
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When Maddie joins her journalist aunt on vacation in Mexico, she finds a rival for Ryan's affection, a friend who has a drinking problem, and most important, a new trust in God.
15) In too deep
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Persuaded by her teacher to seek Cortez's long-lost treasure during a school trip to Mexico, Annie Fleet, master scuba diver and history buff, finds that her plans to get Josh to notice her are not the only thing in danger as rival treasure-hunters try to do away with her.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Pondering math problems is Esther Ainsworth's obsession. If only life's puzzles required logic. Her stepfather's solution? Avoidance. He's exiled the family to Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, to erase a big secret from Esther's past. So much for the truth. Now for the consequences: an empty swimming pool, a water-sucking cactus outside her window, a goldfish rescued from a church festival, and Esther's thirst for something real. Step one: forget...
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