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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Kids - Chapter Books (Staff Favorites)
Kids - Historical Fiction for Middle Graders
Kids - Suggestions for Fifth Graders
Kids - Historical Fiction for Middle Graders
Kids - Suggestions for Fifth Graders
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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
Language
English
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Description
A radiant and epic new novel that is among the finest achievements of Mexico's greatest man of letters.
The Years With Laura Diaz is Carlos Fuentes' most important novel in several decades. Like his masterpiece The Death of Artemio Cruz, the action begins in the state of Veracruz and moves to Mexico City--tracing a migration during the Revolution and its aftermath that was a feature of Mexico's demographic history and that is a significant element...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Español
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Description
Sixth-grader Amalia learns many important life-lessons while spending Friday afternoons with her beloved grandmother, and the teaching goes on even after Abuelita's sudden death as Amalia finds a way to connect with relatives and a friend who has moved away.
Author
Series
Stella Diaz volume 5
Language
English
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Description
When fifth-grader Stella Díaz 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
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
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Description
"The ghost of a weeping woman dressed in white, La Llorona, is often spotted beside bodies of water. People in Mexico and in the southwestern United States have claimed to hear her wailing in the night, crying out for her drowned children. This centuries-old legend says that if the wailing woman gets too close, she will drag you to a watery grave."--Amazon.com.
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Language
English
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Description
Honest, engaging, and inspiring, Our School tells the story of Downtown College Prep, a public charter high school in San Jose that recruits underachieving students and promises to prepare them for four-year colleges and universities. The average student enters ninth grade with fifth-grade reading and math skills. Many have slid through school without doing homework. Some barely speak English.
Tracking the innovative and pioneering program, award-winning...
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Series
Lou Lou and Pea volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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Description
Two best friends with a flair for adventure use their gardening and art skills to catch a criminal during the Day of the Dead.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Victoria Cruz wakes up in the psychiatric ward of a Texas hospital after her failed suicide attempt, she still has no desire to live, but as the weeks pass, and she meets Dr. Desai and three of the other patients, she begins to reflect on the reasons why she feels like a loser compared with the rest of her family, and to see a path ahead where she can make a life of her own.
10) Cinco de Mayo
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 410L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A song describes how people in Mexico and the United States celebrate Cinco de Mayo and the meaning of the Mexican holiday.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
"The true story of Sarah Sierra, a 10-year-old member of a traveling, performing group from Brooklyn, New York. Mexican American Sarah loves playing the lead role of Kid Quixote because, just like Don Quixote, she wants to make the world a better place. Through this memoir, adapted from the adult companion book written by Sarah's teacher, she lets readers into her world, gathering inspiration from her family, friends, and community as she develops...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and what happened when, at fifteen, her parents were forced back to Mexico in this galvanizing yet tender memoir. Born to Mexican immigrants south of the RillitoRiver in Tucson, Arizona, Elizabeth had the world at her fingertips as she entered her freshman year of high school as the number one student. But suddenly, Elizabeth's own country took away the most...
13) Jumped in
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the two years since his mother left him with his grandparents in Des Moines, Washington, Sam has avoided making friends and perfected the art of being a slacker, but being paired with a frightening new student for a slam poetry unit transforms his life.
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Language
English
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Description
The notorious 1942 "Sleepy Lagoon" murder trial in Los Angeles concluded with the conviction of seventeen young Mexican American men for the alleged gang slaying of fellow youth Jose Diaz. Just five months later, the so-called Zoot Suit Riot erupted, as white soldiers in the city attacked minority youths and burned their distinctive zoot suits. Eduardo Obregon Pagan here provides the first comprehensive social history of both the trial and the riot...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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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.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"When Reyna Grande was nine-years-old, she walked across the US-Mexico border in search of a home, desperate to be reunited with the parents who had left her behind years before for a better life in the City of Angels. What she found instead was an indifferent mother, an abusive, alcoholic father, and a school system that belittled her heritage."--Amazon.com.
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