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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
The author and poet recalls the anguish of her childhood in Arkansas and her adolescence in northern slums.
"Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
"In Silver Springs, Arizona, her mother's stories of the monstrous La Llorona are thrilling but unbelievable to science-loving Paola until she and her best friends Dante and Emma take a walk through a cactus field near the Gila River."--
Author
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
Series
American girls collection. Josefina, 1824 volume 1
American girl.Josefina volume 01
American girl 1824 volume 01
American girls collection. Josefina 1824 volume 1
American girl.Josefina volume 01
American girl 1824 volume 01
American girls collection. Josefina 1824 volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Josefina, the youngest of four sisters living in New Mexico in 1824, tries to help run the household after her mother dies.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
While his father works two jobs, seventh-grader Efrén Nava must take care of his twin siblings, kindergartners Max and Mia, after their mother is deported to Mexico. Includes glossary of Spanish words.
Author
Series
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
Cut off from the life of ranching he has come to love by his grandfather's death, John Grady Cole flees to Mexico, where he and his two companions embark on a rugged and cruelly idyllic adventure.
Author
Series
American girls collection. Josefina, 1824 volume 3
American girl.Josefina volume 03
American girls collection. Josefina 1824 volume 3
American girl 1824 volume 03
American girl.Josefina volume 03
American girls collection. Josefina 1824 volume 3
American girl 1824 volume 03
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
The second Christmas after their mother has died, Josefina and her three sisters find that participating in the traditioins of Las Posadas helps keep memories of Mama alive.
10) Santa Fe edge
Author
Series
Ed Eagle novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Ed Eagle, the six-feet-six, take-no-prisoners Santa Fe attorney, has recovered from his encounters with Mexican organized crime and--more treacherously--his ex-wife, Barbara. Now a mysterious new client has come his way, one who may shed light into some dark corners of Ed's past ... and put him in danger once more.
Author
Series
American girls collection. Josefina, 1824 volume 4
American girl.Josefina volume 04
American girls collection. Josefina 1824 volume 4
American girl 1824 volume 04
American girl.Josefina volume 04
American girls collection. Josefina 1824 volume 4
American girl 1824 volume 04
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Josefina hopes to become a "curandera" or healer like Tía Magdalena, and she is tested just before her tenth birthday when a friend receives a potentially fatal snakebite.
12) Long shot
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
A point guard for his school basketball team, Pedro decides to run for class president, but his running mate, Ned, who happens to be the most popular boy in school and Pedro's teammate, does not appreciate the competition.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 380L
Language
English
Description
Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship-the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Mexican American Yami Flores starts Catholic school, determined to keep her brother out of trouble and keep herself closeted, but her priorities shift when Yami discovers that her openly gay classmate Bo is also annoyingly cute.
15) Lando
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Orlando Sackett got to Texas with a damn good idea of the whereabouts of buried gold across the border in Mexico. In Mexico he had bad luck. His party had to run for it, and when Lando stood rear guard they pulled out and left him. Six years in a Mexican prison put muscles in his arms, fire in his heart and pure recklessness in his head. He survived by using his skills as a boxer and by making three vows. One was to find the men who betrayed him....
16) Depth of winter
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Walt Longmire's worst nightmare. Winter is creeping closer, but for Sheriff Longmire this one is looking to be harsh in a way to which he is wholly unaccustomed. He has found himself in the remotest parts of the north Mexican desert, a lawless place where no horse or car can travel, where no one speaks his language or trusts an outsider, far from his friends and his home back in Wyoming. An international hit man and the head of one of...
Author
Series
American girls collection. Josefina, 1824 volume 2
American girl.Josefina volume 02
American girl 1824 volume 02
American girls collection. Josefina 1824 volume 2
American girl.Josefina volume 02
American girl 1824 volume 02
American girls collection. Josefina 1824 volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Josefina, the youngest of four sisters living in New Mexico in 1824, tries to help run the household after her mother dies.
Josefina and her sisters distrust learning to read and write, as well as other changes their Tía Dolores is bringing to the household, because they fear they will lose their memories of their mother.
18) Cry macho
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder who, in 1978, takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man's young son home and away from his alcoholic mom. Crossing rural Mexico on their way back to Texas, the unlikely pair faces an unexpectedly challenging journey, during which the world-weary horseman may find his own sense of redemption through teaching the boy what it means to be a good man.
Author
Series
Petra Luna volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
"Based on a true story, the tale of one girl's perilous journey to cross the U.S. border and lead her family to safety during the Mexican Revolution."--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Rebel historian" Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands. Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Magón, the magonistas were a motley band of journalists, miners, migrant workers, and more, who...
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