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1) Old Yeller
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the rugged landscape of early frontier Texas, fourteen-year-old Travis faces taking over his family's farm and making a painful, important decision.
2) Green queen
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Earth Day is coming, and Kylie Jean and the other second graders decide that the perfect way to celebrate is to clean up and beautify the school playground--and the whole town.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Guatemalan-American high school senior Millie Vargas struggles to balance her family's needs with her own ambitions, especially after her mother's employer, a Senate candidate, uses Millie as a poster child for 'deserving' immigrants"--
4) Illegal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nora, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl, faces the challenges of being an illegal immigrant in Texas when she and her mother cross the border in search of Nora's father.
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 58
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an odd turn of events brings a parrot to the ranch, Hank ignores the mimicking bird and struggles to keep up with Sally May and Loper's persistent requests to bark louder and dig up the flowers.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sadie Scofield is entered in the Texas River Odyssey, 260 miles of brutal canoeing, but a chance to finally make up for ruining her father's chance of winning the previous year; but her brother Tanner suddenly opts to paddle for a different team, and sheis left with Cully, a young man who was her best friend years ago, but no longer--260 miles in the same boat to sort out her relationship with the boy she once tried to defend from his abusive father,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Quijana is a biracial girl, desperately trying to understand the changes that are going on in her life; her mother rarely gets home before bedtime, her father suddenly seems to be trying to get in touch with his Guatemalan roots (even though he never bothered to teach Quijana Spanish), she is about to start seventh grade in the Texas town where they live and she is worried about fitting in--and Quijana suspects that her parents are...
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) Confetti girl
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of her mother, Texas sixth-grader Lina's grades and mood drop as she watches her father lose himself more and more in books, while her best friend uses Lina as an excuse to secretly meet her boyfriend.
11) Illegal
Author
Series
Disappeared (Stork) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
To escape the violent cartel that is after them in Ciudad Juaarez, siblings Sara and Emiliano flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States and hoping to bring their pursuers to justice, only to discover that an even greater danger awaits them.
13) Wishbone
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told in alternating timelines, fifteen-year-old overweight Pilar ignores her persistent bullies and pursues her dream of acting in the school production of "Our Town," while in 1976 her grandmother finally finds the strength to leave her abusive husband.
14) Hoop queen
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everyone else in Kylie Jean Carter's family loves basketball, but she is no good at it, having a hard time dribbling and shooting baskets. She must find a way to win the Free Throw Tournament and become the Little Dribbler Queen.
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 61
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Everyone knows that bears live in the mountains-- and there are no mountains in the Texas Panhandle. So, when Slim claims to have seen a bear cross the road, no one knows what to believe. It must have been a burro. That's it, it was a donkey. But then, Deputy Kile reports that there really is a bear on the loose in Ochiltree County! With news like this, the ranch's Security Force goes on Red Alert. Will Hank be able to defend the ranch from a raging,...
16) Starfish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Told in verse, Ellie lives by Fat Girl Rules to avoid being bullied, but with the support of her dad, her therapist and her neighbor Catalina, can Ellie set aside these rules and just be herself?
17) Cheesus was here
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Delaney Delgado knows miracles aren?t real?if they were, her kid sister wouldn?t be dead. So when the image of baby Jesus appears on a Babybel cheese wheel, she?s not buying the idea that God?s got a dairy obsession. Soon, religious signs begin turning up all over Del?s hometown, tiny Clemency, Texas. Overnight, news vans fill the streets and religious pilgrims start searching for God in the discount aisle of the grocery store. Hell-bent...
18) Dumplin'
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson (dubbed "Dumplin'" by her former beauty queen mom) has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini on your body. With her all-American beauty best friend, Ellen, by her side, things have always worked... until Will takes a job at Harpy's, the local fast-food joint. There she meets Private School Bo, a hot former jock. Will isn't surprised to find herself...
19) Poached
Author
Series
FunJungle volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Teddy Fitzroy is the prime suspect when FunJungle's newly-acquired koala goes missing, thanks to a prank staged by middle school bully Vance Jessup.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
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