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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
Español
Description
The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.
Condenada a vida eterna después de beber el agua de un manantial encantado, la familia Tuck deambula tratando de vivir lo mas inadvertida y cómodamente posible. Cuando Winnie Foster, una niña de diez años, descubre su secreto,...
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.
8) Sin Salida
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Casey Slater can't believe her bad luck. Instead of the perfect summer vacation she'd planned, Casey is in a remote country town, where her parents are restoring an old, creaky, creepy house. Worst of all, everyone in town thinks the house is haunted. Soon Casey thinks so, too -- a vase explodes, a china cabinet falls over on its own -- and it seems like the ghost doesn't want them there. Casey thought she'd be dying of boredom, but now she's scared...
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.
12) 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.
13) Cartas a mi mamá
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Beech Tree Paperback Books
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Español
Description
A series of letters from Leigh Botts to an author, Mr. Henshaw, dealing with Leigh's aspirations of becoming an author, as well as excerpts from his diary showing the concerns of a bright young boy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Everest
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
Español
Description
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonás becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
20) 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.