Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
Español
Description
Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body.
"Anna Fitzgerald no está enferma, aunque pudiera parecerlo. Con apenas trece años de edad ha soportado innumerables operaciones, inyecciones y transfusiones para que su hermana mayor Kate pueda de alguna manera...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A seven-year-old girl is amazed when her mother's singing suddenly begins to make her listeners float, but Grandma says she must stop, making Mama terribly sad until her daughter makes her smile again.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
Español
Description
A vivid and funny first novel about three generations of a Cuban family divided by conflicting loyalties over the Cuban revolution, set in the world of Havana in the 1970s and '80s and in an emigre neighborhood of Brooklyn. It is a story of immense charm about women and politics, women and witchcraft, women and their men.
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
Ixchel, a young Mayan girl who is not allowed to use her mother's thread to weave, exercises her ingenuity and repurposes plastic bags to create colorful weavings. Includes glossary and author's note.
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.
9) El blanco
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
Español
Description
After the death of her aunt, Emily finds that her life has been a lie and she has to search for the truth about where she came from and who she is.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espa©łol, una divisi©đn de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
Español
Description
When her sister, considered the perfect Mexican daughter by her parents, dies, Julia tries to reassemble her shattered family despite her own grief and her mother's penchant for pointing out every possible way Julia has failed.
16) Ladydi
Author
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Quien habla es Ladydi García Martínez, una chiquilla de ojos color café que vive en las montañas de Guerrero; una tierra sin maridos, sin padres y casi sin hermanos porque todos se han ido a buscar fortuna al otro lado y ninguno se ha molestado en volver. Ése es el lugar donde lo mejor que le puede ocurrir a una niña es nacer fea, porque en cuanto los narcos tienen noticia de que una joven hermosa anda por ahí, acuden como buitres en busca...
Author
Publisher
BridgeWater Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
While living with her grandparents when her mother goes to work in the city, a young Panamanian girl memorizes her mother's favorite poem, "Caperucita Roja," for her school's Christmas pageant.
Author
Publisher
Punto de Lectura
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Evacuated from London as a thirteen year old girl, Edies mother is chosen by the mysterious Juniper Blythe, and taken to live at Milderhusrt Castle with the Blythe family: Juniper, her twin sisters and their father, Raymond, author of the 1918 childrens classic The True History of the Mud Man. Fifty years later, as Edie chases the answers to her mothers riddle, she, too, is drawn to Milderhurst Castle and the eccentric Sisters Blythe. Old ladies now,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Yasmin struggles with Ms. Alex's assignment to write an essay about her hero until she realizes that her hero is someone very close to her.
"La Srta. Alex ha asignado a la clase de Yasmin la tarea de escribir sobre sus héroes y heroínas. A Yasmin le encanta escribir, pero no sabe qué persona elegir. Después de descartar muchas ideas, ¿podría ser que el héroe o heroína de Yasmin hubiera estado junto a ella todo el tiempo"--
20) Ella no está
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Una niña desaparecida, una madre presa de la desesperación, una llamada que trae de vuelta los fantasmas del pasado a un presente desgarrador Joy Fielding combina con maestría los ingredientes precisos en una apasionante novela de suspense psicológico.