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1) Shadowshaper
Author
Series
Shadowshaper cypher volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
When the murals painted on the walls of her Brooklyn neighborhood start to change and fade in front of her, Sierra Santiago realizes that something strange is going on--then she discovers her Puerto Rican family are shadowshapers and finds herself in a battle with an evil anthropologist for the lives of her family and friends.
2) Nilda
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young girl growing up in Spanish Harlem in the 1940's watches the secure world of her childhood years slowly erode away.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Maria leaves her mother and their Puerto Rican home to live in the barrio of New York with her father, feeling torn between the two cultures in which she has been raised.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1969 in Spanish Harlem, and fourteen-year-old Evelyn Serrano is trying hard to break free from her conservative Puerto Rican surroundings, but when her activist grandmother comes to stay and the neighborhood protests start, things get a lot more complicated--and dangerous.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The author describes Christmas at his grandmother's apartment in Spanish Harlem the year she introduced him to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Diego Velazquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja, which has had a profound and lasting effect on him.
Author
Series
Shadowshaper cypher volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
A war is brewing among the different Houses, some of Sierra's shadowshapers are still in jail, and the House of Shadow and Light has been getting threatening messages from whisper wraiths, and even though one spy was exposed Sierra is not quite sure who she can trust--but the deal with Death made by one of her ancestors has given her power, and she will need to control it and confront her family's past if she has any hope of saving the future.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence. When thirteen year old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling. One night, twelve years later, oldest sister Jessica spots a woman on her TV screen in Catfight, a raunchy reality show. She rushes to tell her younger sister, Nina: This woman's hair is dyed red, and she calls herself Ruby, but the beauty mark under her left...
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