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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
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
When Tia Dolores, the beloved aunt who has cared for the Montoya family since the death of their mother, announces that she is planning to leave, Josefina and her sisters try to find a way to change her mind.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Josefina hopes to become a "curandera" or healer like TÃa Magdalena, and she is tested just before her tenth birthday when a friend receives a potentially fatal snakebite.
5) La mariposa
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Because he can only speak Spanish, Francisco, son of a migrant worker, has trouble when he begins first grade, but his fascination with the caterpillar in the classroom helps him begin to fit in.
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As they prepare to make the traditional Christmas cookies known as bizcochitos, Christina's grandmother tells her the story of how a magical butterfly first introduced these sweet treats to her great-grandfather, a shepherd in the hills of New Mexico.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Español
Description
Sixth-grader Amalia learns many important life-lessons while spending Friday afternoons with her beloved grandmother, and the teaching goes on even after Abuelita's sudden death as Amalia finds a way to connect with relatives and a friend who has moved away.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
Español
Description
"Antonio Marez tiene seis años cuando Última viene a quedarse con su familia. Última es una curandera, una persona que cura con hierbas y magia. Bajo su protección, Antonio va a eclporar las ataduras de la familia que le rasgan y comprometen, y se va a descrubrir a si mismo en los secretos mágicos y el pasado pagaon--legado mítico tan palpable como el catolicismo de América Latina"--Container of audiobook version.
Author
Publisher
Piñata Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As they prepare to make the traditional, pillowy bread called sopaipilla, Christina's grandmother tells about the time her great-grandfather, aided by a scarecrow, brought an end to a drought and, in the process, helped make the first sopaipilla.
11) La llaman Amřica
Author
Publisher
Curbstone Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
A mixteca Indian from Oxaca, Amřica Soliz, suffrs from the poverty and hopelessness of her Chicago ghetto, made more enduarable by a desire and determination to be a poet.
12) My very own room
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
With the help of her family, a resourceful Mexican American girl realizes her dream of having a space of her own to read and to think.
13) Cuentos: tales from the Hispanic Southwest : based on stories originally collected by Juan B. Rael
Author
Publisher
Museum of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
c1980
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Buenas Letras
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Introduce al boxeador mexicano-americano que ganãOo una medalla de oro en las Olimpiadas.
Introduces the Mexican American boxer whose skills won him a gold medal in the Olympics.
16) Los perseguidos
Author
Publisher
Océano Gran Travesía
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
"Secuela de Los vivientes, Los perseguidos es una apasionante historia de supervivencia, llena de la acción del mejor estilo. Luego de que un megaterremoto sacudiera la tierra bajo el océano del crucero en el que trabajaba, Shy jamás imaginó ser uno de los pocos sobrevivientes del naufragio. Tras los acontecimientos narrados en Los vivientes, y luego de perder la compañía de Addie en circunstancias por demás extrañas, Shy consuela su frustración...
18) null Book, Books
Author
Publisher
Pinata Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Monica, who wants to be a baker like her grandmother, finds the doll hidden in the bread on the feast for the Three Kings and thus gets to bake cookies for the next fiesta.
Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A spunky young girl explains the many uses of her mother's red rebozo, a traditional Mexican woven shawl.
Sumario en español: Una valiente niña explica los múltiples usos de el rebozo rojo de su madre, un chal tejido tradicional mexicano.
Author
Publisher
Piñata Books/Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As they prepare to make the traditional "chile ristras," strings of red peppers, Christina's grandmother tells her the story of how magical chile seeds given to her great grandfather, a farmer in the hills of New Mexico, ensured the continuation of the chile pepper.