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Author
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Appears on list
Description
Best friends Isaac and Marco face various challenges in sixth grade, such as Isaac getting better grades, Marco winning a spot on the basketball team, and both seeing their efforts make a change in their respective family lives. They hope their friendship and support for one another will be enough to help them from falling short.
3) Mud soup
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Josh tries to avoid eating the "mud soup" prepared by Rosa's abuela (grandmother). Includes a recipe for black bean soup.
4) Ambassador
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
6) Angel City
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
An old black man finds a baby abandoned in a dumpster and raises him in a rough Los Angeles neighborhood to know both African American and Mexican American ways.
Author
Series
Growing up Daisy volume 1
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Ten-year-old Daisy and her best friend Blanca are excited to be in Ms. Lilly's fourth grade class, and when they are assigned to write essays about their summer vacations, Daisy is determined to impress her teacher with her project.
10) Featherless
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Although Tomasito's spina bifida keeps him in a wheelchair, where he often feels as confined as his flightless and featherless pet bird, he discovers that he can feel free when he is on the soccer field.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Eighteen-year-old Barry competes in a non-sanctioned boxing match in hopes of helping his recently-widowed mother, unaware that his best friend and manager, Alby, has his own desperate need for a share of the purse that may put their friendship on the line.
13) Into the light
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group, Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Seventeen-year-old queer adoptee Manny, now homeless, sets out to find his sister Elena, who is still enmeshed in Christ's Dominion, the community that abandoned him, but the journey is fraught with danger, as he is forced to confront the religious trauma from his past."--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Illustrations and text follow a girl's journey to overcome her fear of the special dessert she loves so much: La Rosca de Reyes, a sweet bread with a baby Jesus figurine baked into it and eaten on Three Kings' Day.
Author
Series
Stella Diaz volume 5
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"When fifth-grader Stella D�iaz considers going to a different school than her closest friends, sees her big brother Nick receiving mail from colleges far away, and is forced to work on a project with her former bully, she suddenly realizes growing up is not quite as fun as she first thought."--
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Juanito accompanies his grandmother to a flea market in southern California, where he helps her and the other vendors and where they enjoy seeing old friends from their Mexican-American community.
Author
Publisher
Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Little Lobo and his friends are excited for the out-of-this-world book festival the Guadalupian Library hosts every year! Everyone has a special book they're looking for, but there's so much to see and do first. From cookbook demonstrations and comics workshops to mask making and language classes, this library has something for everyone. Can Little Lobo, Bernabae, Kooky Dooky, Coco Rocho, and La Chida each find the book of their dreams?"--
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books Llc
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Appears on list
Description
"A girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Best friends Parisa Naficy and Gabriela Gonzales grapple with the complexities of their relationship even while they spend their senior year apart due to a pandemic that disproportionately affects young people. Parisa Naficy, an earnest and privileged Iranian American, struggles to live up to her own impossible standards. Gabriela Gonzales, a cynical Mexican American, has all the confidence Parisa lacks but none of the financial stability. Despite...
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