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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Privately questioning her remote community's superstitions about dangerous powerful spirits in their Devil's Alley home, Cecelia Rios experiments with the forbidden art of brujería to rescue her kidnapped sister.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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When she discovers her father's new girlfriend, Mariss, is actually a sea creature eager to take her place as his first love, Josephine must convince her friends to help her and use her cricket skills to save her dad from Mariss' clutches.
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The village of Caura is a place of beauty and rejuvenation. For many it is the ideal place to live and have children. But the people of Caura live with a hidden fear passed down from generations that one day the devil would come to take from among their daughters his bride. Mothers do their best to protect their children, but it is an inescapable fate for one young girl. Rachel is a captivating and intelligent beauty who knows of the legend too well....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Atmospheric woodcuts illustrate this Newbery Award–winning collection of 19 South American folktales. Charles J. Finger heard the tales firsthand from native storytellers, whose fables of talking animals, witches, giants, and ordinary people in supernatural settings provide remarkable insights into regional values and culture. The first of the stories, "A Tale of Three Tails," tells of an age when the rat had a tail like a horse, the rabbit had...
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The kingdom of the rabbits boasts vast expanses of tunnels, halls, storerooms, forests, rivers, burrows, vegetable fields, green pathways, and coastal shores with endless and unexplored seas.Discover through these three fables how the bravery, cleverness, and agility of the rabbits can unfold great adventures.for childrens regardless of their age and the size of their imagination
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Español
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La leyenda de las estrellas
El mundo imaginado de la mitología de la vida a este libro que inicia a los niños y niñas en el maravilloso descubrimiento de la cosmología mapuche.
Continuadora de la centenaria Editorial Salesiana, se dedica la edición, producción y comercialización de variadas publicaciones que comprenden desde textos escolares de Religión hasta colecciones de literatura infantil y juvenil.
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Emblem Island volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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After changing the fate he has known since birth, twelve-year-old Tor Luna, accompanied by his friends Engle and Melda, must visit the notorious Night Witch to break the curse he now faces.
10) The Hungry Wolf
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When a hungry young wolf spots a tasty-looking animal in the field above the river, he thinks he has found some dinner . . . but the fluffy little lamb is more clever than he has bargained for. Will the lamb become a tasty snack, or will she escape the wolf's hungry jaws?
Lari Don was born in Chile and brought up in Scotland. She has worked in politics and for the BBC, but now spends her time collecting and telling stories and making up new ones....
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Tia Lugo has a deadly secret.
Tia Lugo considers herself an ordinary thirteen-year-old girl. She just wants to enjoy the end of summer, which means hanging out with her best friend and neighbor, Julius, and ignoring her Puerto Rican grandmother's embarrassing reliance on creepy candles, weird-smelling herb bundles, and eerie statues-all available for sale at the nearby botánica. But when, Tia witnesses a murder late one night from her bedroom...
12) Visanthe in Ruin
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She is the princess the world was made to forget, he is the prince they are afraid to remember...
"One of these days, princess, those hands of yours will be marred with blood, and then you'll finally understand..."
Savara is dying. The soulbond on her cheek is draining her life force, and her powers are growing increasingly restless. When a dark knight offers her help, she's hesitant to accept. After all, this is the man who sentenced her to death....
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Galardonado creador Duncan Tonatiuh da vida a una querida leyenda mexicana ¡Mención de Honor del Premio Pura Belpré al Ilustrador y un Libro Infantil Notable de ALA/ALSC!
Itza era la princesa más hermosa de la tierra, y muchos pretendientes viajaban de todas partes para cortejarla. Aun siendo la hija del emperador, Itza no quería casarse con un hombre de poder y riqueza. En cambio, se enamoró de Popoca, un valiente guerrero que peleaba...
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Perfect for more advanced readers, this junior novel tells the story of Walt Disney Animation Studio's newest film, Encanto. Encanto tells the tale of an extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift from super strength to the power to heal-every...
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Nobel Peace Prize winner and noted Maya activist Rigoberta Menchu Tum brings the world of her childhood vividly alive in The Girl from Chimel.
Before the thirty-six year war in Guatemala, despite the hardships the Maya people had endured since the time of the Conquest, life in their highland villages had a beauty and integrity that were changed forever by the conflict and brutal genocide that were to come. Menchu's stories of her grandparents and...
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Seven-year-old Ixkem is chosen by her grandfather amongst all the villagers to inherit the responsibility for tending his special cornfield. Ixkem goes to the field and begins to shout and stomp to frighten away the animals who would like to share the harvest. Suddenly a mass of tiny creatures appear - the b'e'n - secret animal spirits of which there is one for every human on earth. They take Ixkem into the underworld, where she tells them the amazing...
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This leveled reader tells the story of Walt Disney Animation Studio''s newest film, Encanto. Encanto tells the tale of an extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift from super strength to the power to heal-every child except one, Mirabel. But...
18) The Honey Jar
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In this book - the companion volume to The Girl From Chimel - Nobel Peace Prize winner and Maya activist Rigoberta Menchu Tum returns to the world of her childhood.
The Honey Jar brings us the ancient stories her grandparents told her when she was a little girl, and we can imagine her listening to them by the fire at night. These Maya tales include creation myths, a classic story about the magic twins (which can also be found in the Popol Vuh), explanations...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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When fourteen-year-old godborn and shadow bruja, Renata, embarks on a quest to stop five rogue demigods from awakening the nine Aztec Lords of Night and overpowering the Maya gods, she confronts questions about her family, her magic, and her destiny.
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Français
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La déesse des mers australes confie sa fille à la vieille Kintunien pour la protéger des jalousies.
Il était une fois Kintunien qui vivait sur l'île de Chiloé, au bord d'une falaise... Il était une fois l'histoire d'amour d'un albatros et d'une petite sirène... Transmises de génération en génération, les légendes du peuple Mapuche ont traversé le temps pour parvenir jusqu'à nous, unissant le merveilleux et la poésie.
A travers ce...
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