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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.
3) 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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
Español
Description
After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their farm from foreclosure, Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers that they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
La familia de Mari se encuentra a la deriva, con una gran necesidad de trabajo, pero se ve forzada a esconderse por miedo a que las autoridades los devuelvan a México y a la pobreza.La familia de Tyler lucha...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
Español
Description
Seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, where she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not entirely human.
6) Luna nueva
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
Español
Description
When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways.
7) Divergente
Author
Publisher
Molino
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
Español
Description
In a future Chicago, Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she does not fit into any one group.
8) Eldest
Author
Series
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 39
Language
Español
Description
After successfully evading an Urgals ambush, Eragon is adopted into the Ingeitum clan and sent to finish his training so he can further help the Varden in their struggle against the Empire.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
Español
Description
"El gran Gatsby es un retarto de la Jazz Age que captura el espÃrtu de la generaciÃçn de Scott Fitzgerald y le concede un trono permanente en el Olimpo de la literature norteamericana. El millonario hecho a sà mismo., Jay Gatsby, personaliza una de las obsesiones del autor y de la sociedad de su paÃs: la combinaciÃçn de dinero, ambiciÃçn y lujuria como promesa de nuevos comienzos. Una extraordinaria fábula--y como tal, no exenta...
Author
Series
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Español
Description
Sixth-year Hogwarts student Harry Potter gains valuable insights into the boy Voldemort once was, even as his own world is transformed by maturing friendships, schoolwork assistance from an unexpected source, and devastating losses.