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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
Español
Description
A #1 bestseller in Mexico in 1990, this charming, imaginative, and just plain fun novel of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico includes unique recipes at the beginning of each chapter for a variety of traditional dishes.
3) Eragon
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 26
Language
Español
Description
In Alagas︠ia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
En el reino legendario de Alagas︠ia la guerra se est ̀gestando. Cuando Eragon, un joven de 15 aǫs que vive en una pequeą aldea, se encuentra con una piedra preciosa en medio del bosque a donde ha ido a cazar, poco se espera que...
4) Rebeldes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
Español
Description
Rivalry between rich and poor gangs in 1960s Oklahoma leads to the deaths of three teenagers and intense soul-searching for one of the youths involved, a sensitive fourteen-year-old writer named Ponyboy.
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.
Author
Publisher
Rourke Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An introduction to rodeos that discusses events, such as saddle bronc riding, steer wrestling, and barrel racing, as well as related organizations, competitors, and the history of the rodeo. Presented in English and Spanish.
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
La historia de un sombrío y aterrador futuro Guy Montag pertenece a una extraña brigada de bomberos. Su misión, paradójicamente, no es la de sofocar incendios sino la de provocarlos para quemar libros. Ha sido bombero durante más de 10 años, y siempre le gustó su trabajó. Nunca cuestionó nada ni la emoción de las salidas a medianoche ni el placer de ver las hojas arder hasta que conoció a una niña de diecisiete años que le mostró un...
9) Stargirl
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Leo se siente tan fascinado como intimidado por Stargirl, la nueva de la escuela, una chica especial e inmune a las duras críticas del resto y que además no hace más que llamar la atención, algo que jamás haría él. In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
10) The invasion
Author
Series
Animorphs. Main series volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The Earth is being invaded, but no one knows about it. When Jake, Rachel, Tobias, Cassie, and Marco stumble upon a downed alien spaceship and its dying pilot, they're given an incredible power - they can transform into any animal they touch. With it, they become Animorphs, the unlikely champions in a secret war for the planet. And the enemies they're fighting could be anyone...even the people closest to them.
11) Romeo y Julieta
Author
Publisher
Panamericana Editorial
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of the play in which two children from warring families fall in love, with a tragic result.
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A collection of classic tales from New Mexico, including "Pedro and Diablo," "La Hormiguita," "La Llorona," and "Juan Camisón," in both Spanish and English.
Una colección de historias clásicas de Nuevo México, inlcuyendo "Pedro y el Diablo," "La Hormiguita." 'La llorrona," y Juan Camisón".
14) Hoyos
Author
Publisher
Ediciones SM
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
Español
Description
Young Stanley Yelnats begins a journey of self-discovery when he is sent to a juvenile detention center in Texas, where the boys are forced to dig five-foot-deep holes as punishment--a process for which Stanley suspects the warden has ulterior motives.
Author
Series
Publisher
Everest
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
After his disgrace at the hands of a treacherous enemy, Remo finds himself caught up in power struggles within the kingdom and becomes a member of a party intent upon hunting down Moga, the powerful necromancer and enemy of the king.
17) 1984
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
A dictatorship called Big Brother rules the people in a collectivist society where Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth. Winston joins the underground where he becomes involved in a forbidden love affair.
18) El hobbit
Author
Publisher
Booket
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
Español
Description
Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to share in an adventure from which he may never return.
Author
Series
Publisher
B de Blok
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Rose Howard esta obsesionada con los homonimos. Esta encantada de que su propio nombre sea un homonimo, y deliberadamente le dio a su perro un nombre con dos homonimos. Cuando una tormenta golpea su pueblo rural, los rios se desbordan, los caminos se inundan y su perro se escapa. El padre de Rose no lo debio haber dejado salir. Ahora Rose tiene que encontrar a su perro, incluso si esto significa dejar su rutina y buscar en los lugares seguros. Los...
Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
Español
Description
La magica historia de Paul Coelho, que trata sobre Santiago, un nino pastor andaluz que viaja en busca de un tesoro material, nos ensena la importancia que tiene el saber esuchar lo que nos dice el corazon, a aprender a leer los presagios dispersados por el camino de nuestras vidas y, sobre todo, a seguir nuestros suenos.
An Andalusian shepherd boy travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of treasure buried in the pyramids....