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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Loosely based on a school explosion that took place in New London, Texas, in 1937, this is the story of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black, and their dealings with race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people.
3) The Insiders
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Héctor Muñoz, fleeing from bullies, discovers a magical closet that not only provides him sanctuary, but also unites him with two other kids facing similar problems at their own schools, helping them find friendship and strength in each other.
Author
Series
Perfect chemistry series volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus with his older brother Alex, a college student and ex-gang member, high school senior Carlos is not ready to give up his wild ways until he meets a shy classmate named Kiara and becomes unwillingly involved in a drug ring.
Author
Series
Perfect chemistry series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When he returns to Illinois and the gang culture on the south side of Fairfield after six years in Colorado, high school senior Luis Fuentes, who dreams of becoming an astronaut, falls for a girl and enters a dark world after learning some disturbing news about his family.
7) The living
Author
Series
The living volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an earthquake destroys California and a tsunami wrecks the luxury cruise ship where he is a summer employee, high schooler Shy confronts another deadly surprise.
8) On the hook
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living in fear after a gang leader's younger brother threatens to kill him, a talented young chess player who works to help support his family makes a difficult decision to protect the safety of a loved one.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Español
Formats
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
Aristotle and Dante volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Mateo, a Mexican-American fourth grader from California, spots two skunks stealing his sister's trike. He launches a crusade to retrieve the trike and soon learns that the skunks are not only thieves--they can talk, too!"--
13) Ambassador
Author
Series
Ambassador (William Alexander) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Appointed Earth's ambassador to the universe, twelve-year-old Gabe Fuentes faces two sets of "alien" problems when he discovers his parents are illegal aliens and face deportation and the Earth is in the path of a destructive alien force causing multiple mass extinctions.
15) Pedro & Daniel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Growing up in 1970s Ohio, Mexican American brothers Pedro and Daniel, who are not like other boys, manage an abusive home life, school, coming out, first loves, first jobs, and the AIDS epidemic, leaning on each other always and forever.
17) 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.
20) Into the light
Author
Language
English
Formats
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.
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