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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Guided by her Navajo ancestors, seventh-grader Nizhoni Begay discovers she is descended from a holy woman and destined to become a monsterslayer, starting with the evil businessman who kidnapped her father. Includes glossary of Navajo terms.
2) Saige
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
124 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Upset that her New Mexico school can only afford music and art teachers in alternate years, fourth-grader Saige works with her grandmother, Mimi, to plan a fundraiser but when Mimi has an accident, Saige relies on new friend Gabi to help.
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
124 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Painting in her grandmother's studio and riding her favorite horse, Georgia, help fourth-grader Saige cope with missing Mimi and spark an idea for funding the school art program, but more creativity will be needed to keep Georgia from being sold.
4) Mystic
Author
Series
Soul seekers volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Since coming to Enchantment, New Mexico everything in Daire Santos life has changed. And not all for the better. While she's come to accept and embrace her new powers as a Soul Seeker, Daire struggles with the responsibility she holds navigating between the worlds of the living and the dead--
6) Miss Meteor
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A teen who secretly arrived with the meteor that gave her small hometown its name discovers that she is turning back into stardust and teams up with her best friend in an effort to secure her human existence by entering a local beauty pageant that has always been won by thin, blonde, white girls.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Cody is worried when his family on a New Mexico Navajo reservation runs out of water, but Darlene Arviso, called "The Water Lady," is on the way with her tanker truck. Includes glossary of Navajo terms and notes about Arviso and life on a reservation.
9) Tumble
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez reaches out to her estranged biological father--who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador--and the eccentric extended family of wrestlers she has never met, bringing Adela closer to understanding the expansive definition of family.
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Although her mother and sisters make fun of her decision to marry a green bird, to Mirabel he is a prince and so when her family's jealousy endangers him, she sets out to save his life and their love.
Author
Publisher
Rio Grande Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
41 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fanciful folk tale that helps explain the beautiful flowers that can be seen in all parts of New Mexico in the summer and fall. Escaping Herod's wrath, the Holy Family accepts the offer of the angel Sueǫ to fly them from Bethlehem to Egypt. On the way, true to his name, Sueǫ falls asleep and brings them to New Mexico instead. Safe from Herod, Jesus and his parents live peacefully and happily for a time with the Native peoples of the land. When...
12) Echo
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Daire Santos, having let a dark family of sorcerers loose in the Lowerworld while saving her grandmother's life and soul, teams up with her boyfriend, Dace, to find them and stop them from destroying the entire world, while Dace's evil brother forces Daire to face a horrifying prophecy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
85 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Josefina, the youngest of four sisters living in New Mexico in 1824, tries to help run the household after her mother dies.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Josefina and her sisters are excited when energetic young Aunt Dolores arrives at the rancho, bringing new ideas, new fashions, and new challenges, but they worry the changes will make them forget Mama, especially as Christmas approaches.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
293 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In early 1980s New Mexico, thirteen-year-old Jackson Jones recruits his cousins and sisters to help tend an elderly neighbor's neglected apple orchard for the chance to make big money and, perhaps, to own the orchard.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Jayden expects to see nothing but brown his first morning in New Mexico, but after being surprised by colorful rocks, flowers, birds, and animals, he wonders if this place could become home.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
70 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Josefina and her sisters distrust learning to read and write, as well as other changes their Ta̕ Dolores is bringing to the household, because they fear they will lose their memories of their mother.
Author
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
111 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Raymundo, of Spanish colonial New Mexico, overcomes his fear and asks a Native American woman to teach him to make clay pots, his faith and hard work lead to a miracle that saves both of their villages. Includes a glossary of Spanish terms.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Josefina discovers that she has a gift for healing when she tends an orphaned baby goat, finds the courage and creativity to mend her family's broken trust in an americano trader, and seeks to keep her family whole and happy when Tia Dolores plans to leave.
Author
Publisher
Rio Grande Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
39 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
In order to marry Sage, the girl he loves, Young Eagle must leave his home in New Mexico and undertake a long and perilous journey to the land of the Aztecs to bring back chile seeds for Sage's father. Includes glossary of Spanish terms.
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