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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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The Torres sisters dream of escape. Escape from their needy and despotic widowed father, and from their San Antonio neighborhood, full of old San Antonio families and all the traditions and expectations that go along with them. In the summer after her senior year of high school, Ana, the oldest sister, falls to her death from her bedroom window. A year later, her three younger sisters, Jessica, Iridian, and Rosa, are still consumed by grief and haunted...
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Questioneers volume 4
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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When her abuelo is injured at the local landfill, second-grader Sofia is determined to transform the dangerous Mount Trashmore into a park, taking on City Hall in the process.
4) Promise boys
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Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
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J.B., Ramón, and Trey, students of the Urban Promise Prep School, must follow the school's strict rules, but when their principal is murdered, the three boys must band together to track down the real killer before they are arrested.
5) Abuela
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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While riding on a bus with her grandmother, a little girl imagines that they are carried up into the sky and fly over the sights of New York City.
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Jimmy Vega novels volume 1
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Latino homicide detective Jimmy Vega must investigate the ethnically charged murder of a Hispanic woman found fifty miles north of New York City, as well as locate the baby pictured in a photograph found on the dead woman.
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Furry Friends Animal Shelter volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Can Lety find her voice before it's too late? Lety Muñoz's first language is Spanish, and she likes to take her time putting her words together. She loves volunteering at the Furry Friends Animal Shelter because the dogs and cats there don't care if she can't always find the right word. When the shelter needs a volunteer to write animal profiles, Lety jumps at the chance. But grumpy classmate Hunter also wants to write profiles--so now they have...
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"A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots, all in the wake of Hurricane María. It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers....
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Brooklyn brujas volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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"Alex is a bruja and the most powerful witch in her family. But she's hated magic ever since it made her father disappear into thin air. When a curse she performs to rid herself of magic backfires and her family vanishes, she must travel to Los Lagos, a land in-between as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland, to get her family back"--
11) Bruja born
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Brooklyn brujas volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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Next in the Brooklyn Brujas series of fantasy novels that follow three witch born sisters as they develop their powers and battle magic in their hometown and the worlds beyond, from the author of The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina.
Lula must let go of the ghosts of her past to face the actual living dead of her present.
Lula Mortiz feels like an outsider. Her sister's newfound Encantrix powers have wounded her in ways
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Zapato Power volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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When a freak spring blizzard buries Starwood Park, Freddie works with Mr. Vaslov to clear the sidewalks using a new invention—Zapato Power snowshoes! But not even the snow can stop a thief from causing trouble in the neighborhood. Can Freddie solve the case, even if it means helping Erika, the Starwood Park bully?
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Marisol McDonald volume 1
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Marisol McDonald, a biracial, nonconformist, soccer-playing pirate-princess with brown skin and red hair, celebrates her uniqueness.
15) Wedgie & Gizmo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
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While his human Elliot adjusts to his new home and stepfamily, Gizmo, an evil genius guinea pig, searches for a new evil lair where he can plot to take over the world, but Gizmo is constantly thwarted by Elliot's little stepsister Jasmine (who likes to play dress-up), Abuela (who may or may not like to eat cavies), and Wedgie (a Corgi superhero and Gizmo's nemesis).
16) Pedro the ninja
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Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Pedro enters the same karate class that his friends Katie and JoJo, and learns some of the ninja moves that he admires in the movies.
18) Brothers in Arms
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Bluford series volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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Martin Luna is in deep trouble. Just months ago, a horrible tragedy took his little brother, and now it threatens to take him too. On one side are his desperate mother, a friendly teacher at Bluford High School, and a pretty girl named Vicky. On the other are his old neighborhood and his hunger for revenge. Torn between the two, Martin stands at a crossroad, with his life hanging in the balance. Which way will he go?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
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When her blind dog slips his collar, twelve-year old Lily meets Salma Santiago, a young Hispanic girl whose migrant family are in Maine for the blueberry-picking season, and, based partly on their mutual love of dogs, the two forge a friendship while painting bee boxes for Lily's grandfather--but as the Blueberry Queen pageant approaches Lily and Selma are confronted with some of the hard truths of prejudice and migrant life.