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Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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!"--
43) Quince clash
Author
Series
Border town volume 2
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Hoping to celebrate her quinceañera abroad instead of having a traditional party, Fabi clashes with a mean-spirited rival and resolves to put the girl and her squad of friends to shame with the biggest quince the town has ever seen.
44) Ugly Cat & Pablo
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ugly Cat and Pablo couldn't be more different, but when these two major amigos come together, there are loads of laughs, slithery misunderstandings, and tasty treats. Ugly Cat is dying for a paleta (ice pop) and his friend Pablo is determined to help him get one by scaring a little girl who is enjoying a coconut paleta in the park. Things go horribly wrong when, instead of being scared, the little girl picks Pablo up and declares that he would make...
46) Sparrow Hawk Red
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ricky Diaz, the Mexican American son of a former Drug Enforcement Agency agent, tries to avenge his mother's murder by crossing over into Mexico to steal a high-tech radar plane from drug smugglers.
47) Summer on wheels
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Hector and his best friend Mondo enjoy many exciting adventures when they take a six-day bike trip from their East Los Angeles neighborhood to the Santa Monica beach during summer vacation.
Author
Series
Stella Diaz volume 5
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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.
50) Again, Josefina!
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Publications
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nine-year-old Josefina wants to give up learning to play the piano until she sees how much joy her music gives to her baby nephew. Discusses the importance of music on the New Mexican frontier and describes how to dance La Vaquerita.
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Domingo Martinez lays bare his interior and exterior worlds as he struggles to make sense of the violent and the ugly, along with the beautiful and the loving. Partly a reflection on the culture of machismo and partly an exploration of the author's boyhood spent in his sister's hand-me-down clothes, this book delves into the enduring and complex bond between Martinez and his deeply flawed, but fiercely protective older brother. It features a cast...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Mexican-American Stef Soto is hoping to break free from her overprotective parents and embarrassing reputation from her family's taco truck business, but she soon learns that family, friendship, and the taco truck are important and wonderful parts of her life"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mouse smells some yummy candy in a piñata hung high up in a tree for the Cinco de Mayo festival. He NEEDS to have one! But first he wants to eat some mouse-meal-sized tamale crumbs and watch heel-stomping dancers in bright-colored dresses. Everything will be perfect so long as he stays away from the cat following him down the street.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From the beloved author of The House on Mango Street: a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography: an intimate album of a literary legend's life and career. From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango Street to her abode in Mexico, in a region where "my ancestors lived for centuries," the places Sandra Cisneros has lived...
55) A day's work
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Francisco, a young Mexican American boy, tries to help his grandfather find work, he discovers that even though the old man cannot speak English, he has something even more valuable to teach Francisco.
56) Bump
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"MJ knows what it means to hurt. Bruises from gymnastics heal, but big hurts, like her dad not being around anymore, don't go away. Now her mom needs to work two jobs, and MJ doesn't have friends at school to lean on. There is only one thing MJ loves: the world of professional wrestling. She especially idolizes the luchadores and the stories they tell in the ring. When MJ learns that her neighbor, Mr. Arellano, runs a wrestling school, she has a new...
57) Desert Angel
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In the California desert, fourteen-year-old Angel is on the run from the man who abused her, killed her mother, and intends to kill her too.
58) The insiders
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When his family moves from a small Mexican village to North Carolina, Eduardo asks how soon he will feel at home, and slowly his Tio Miguel's seemingly impossible replies come true until, at last, he can put out the Nativity scene he carved with his grandfather.
60) Only pieces
Author
Publisher
West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Edgar wants nothing more than to live his life out loud. But telling the truth about his sexuality isn't so easy in his traditional Mexican-American family, and his Amá has made it clear she won't accept who he is. Things get even harder when Edgar's macho father returns home after months away, and the house erupts into fighting and simmering tension. Edgar worries what would happen if he told his father the truth about who he is, and feels he'll...
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