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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1984 Newark, Beatriz Mendez navigates romance, gang culture, and her family's past. After her gang-leader brother is killed, Beatriz gives up her dreams of dancing in order to run the gang. But her eyes are reopened to her dream of a career in dance when the school brainiac asks her to compete in a dance competition with him--but will the gang let her go?"--
2) Mascaras
Publisher
Third Woman Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
199 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
425 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1980s Minnesota, when auditions for a concert with Prince are announced, 16-year-old Rosa Dominguez, the daughter of a tyrannical ballet master, is desperate to escape her pointe shoes and show everyone what she can do"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Piñata Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
x, 126 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Civil rights leader Jose Gutierrez chronicles the life of Severita Lara, a little-known female activist in the Hispanic Civil Rights Movement. Lara's ascent from a willful child to the mayor of Crystal City, Texas all began with the Crystal City High student walkout in 1969."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Friends Smiles and Nike spend the summer of 1983 in the South Bronx working a job at a summer camp, chasing girls, and breakdancing"--
Author
Publisher
Pinata Books, an imprint of Arte Publico Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
[69, 74] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dennis Chávez was born in the small farming community of Los Chávez in 1888 in what was then the Territory of New Mexico. His childhood home had dirt floors and no indoor plumbing. As a boy, he tended his father's crops and sheep. He spoke only Spanish and never went to high school or college. This bilingual "flip" book for intermediate readers recounts the inspiring story of Dennis Chávez, who in spite of having to drop out of school in the seventh...
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