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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.
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.
5) 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.
Author
Publisher
Libros Tigrillo
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
Español
Description
A young African Cuban girl is sent to live with her aunt and cousins after the death of her mother and begins to write letters to her deceased mother telling of the misery, racial prejudice, and mistreatment at the hands of those around her.
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...
10) Carrie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
Español
Description
El escalofriante caso de una joven de apariencia insignificante que se tranformó en un ser de poderes anormales, sembrando el terror en la ciudad. Con pulso mágico para mantener la tensión a lo largo de todo el libro, Stephen King narra la atormentada adolescencia de Carrie, y nos envuelve en una atmósfera sobrecogedora cuando la muchacha realiza una serie de descubrimientos hast llegar al terrible momento de la venganza. Esta novela fue llevada...
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.