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(0)Pam Muñoz Ryan
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Esperanza believed her life would be wonderful forever. She would always live on her family's ranch in Mexico. She would always have fancy dresses and a beautiful home filled with servants. Papa and Abuelita would always be with her. Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.
4) The dreamer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.
5) Mañanaland
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Max, who loves the legend Buelo tells him about a mythical gatekeeper who can guide brave travelers on a journey into tomorrow, sets out on a dangerous quest to discover if he is true of heart and what the future holds, armed with a treasured compass, a mysterious stone rubbing, and Buelo's legend as his only guides.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
Español
Description
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
9) Hello ocean
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Using rhyming text, a child describes the wonder of the ocean experienced through each of her five senses.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Naomi Soledad Leon Outlaw has a lot to deal with- like having the funniest last name in the universe for onw. then there are her clothes (sewn in polyester by gram), her difficulty speaking up, and her status at school as nobody special.
11) The flag we love
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge Pub
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A patriotic poem celebrating the flag of the United States, including historical footnotes about its origins and history
12) Tony Baloney
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tony, a macaroni penguin, is a middle child with very exasperating siblings, and although he never looks for trouble, it often finds him.
13) Mice and beans
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this rhythmic cumulative tale Rosa Maria spends the week getting ready for her granddaughter's birthday party and trying to avoid attracting mice--unaware that the mice in her walls are preparing for a party of their own.
Author
Series
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
19--]
Language
English
Description
Crayons aren't just for coloring anymore! This colorful rhyme teaches counting by twos–two different ways. First, use the even numbers to count up to 24. Then start over with the odd numbers. Along the way you'll learn unusual colors, like iguana and fiddlehead. Do any of them sound familiar? They should! They come from the pages of Jerry Pallotta's alphabet books. Counting has never been more fun or colorful!
16) Nacho and Lolita
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A very rare pitacohi bird falls in love with a swallow and plucks his colorful feathers to transform dry, barren San Juan Capistrano into a haven of flowers and flowing water, which the swallows can easily find when returning from their annual migration.
Author
Series
Tony Baloney volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It is the first day of school for Tony Baloney, the macaroni penguin, and he wants to follow all the class rules, but Tony has a way of finding trouble.
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