Catalog Search Results
1) The last 8
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After an alien attack devastates the Earth, pilot and future astronaut Clover Martinez bands with seven other teens in a struggle to survive.
5) The first 7
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After leaving Earth, now devastated by an alien attack, and exploring the galaxy, Clover Martinez and her fellow teen survivors return home to find crystal formations in the soil that are threatening to destroy the planet, and a colony of survivors who are not who they seem.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Best friends Isaac and Marco face various challenges in sixth grade, such as Isaac getting better grades, Marco winning a spot on the basketball team, and both seeing their efforts make a change in their respective family lives. They hope their friendship and support for one another will be enough to help them from falling short.
8) On the hook
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Sixteen-year-old Mexican American Yami Flores starts Catholic school, determined to keep her brother out of trouble and keep herself closeted, but her priorities shift when Yami discovers that her openly gay classmate Bo is also annoyingly cute.
10) Warrior girl
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A novel in verse about the joys and struggles of a Chicana girl who is a warrior for her name, her history, and her right to choose what she celebrates in life"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A boy and his father cross the United States-Mexico border every other Saturday, visiting their favorite places, spending time with family and friends, and sharing in the responsibility of community care"--
15) Shame the stars
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In the midst of racial conflict and at the edges of a war at the Texas-Mexico border in 1915, Joaqun̕ and Dulceą attempt to maintain a secret romance in this reimagining of Romeo and Juliet--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Mara̕ Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Mal)͠ 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.
17) Into the light
Author
Language
English
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.
18) Sylvia & Aki
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Artemisia (Sia) Martinez's mother was deported to Mexico by ICE and disappeared in the Sonoran Desert trying to make it back to her American family; Sia believes that she was as-good-as murdered by ICE and the sheriff in their small Arizona town on the edge of the national park, and wants revenge against him and his son, Jeremy--but her search for the truth will uncover many more secrets than she counted on.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Francisco Jimenez immigrated with his family to California from Tlaquepaque, Mexico. As a child he worked in the fields of California, and the stories in The Circuit are largely autobiographical, as is his first picture book, La Mariposa. He received both his master's degree and Ph.D. at Columbia University and is now chairman of the Modern Language Department at Santa Clara University. He lives in Santa Clara, California, with his wife and three...
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