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81) Our celebracion!
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
A brief rain shower does not dampen a Latino family's enjoyment of their town's parade and summer celebration, which includes street food, bands, a corn princess, and fireworks. Spanish words, interspersed in the rhyming text, are defined in a glossary.
82) Gracias
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young multiracial boy celebrates family, friendship, and fun by telling about some of the everyday things for which he is thankful.
83) ChupaCarter
Author
Series
Chupacarter volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"Uprooted from his home in Los Angeles and sent to live with his cantankerous grandparents in New Mexico, twelve-year-old Jorge struggles with loneliness until he meets a new friend who happens to be a chupacabra"--
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After her father's landscaping business fails and the family loses their house, sixth-grader Griselda Zaragoza follows her sister's example and begins selling Alma cosmetics while hiding her changed circumstances from friends.
86) Three Kings' Day
Author
Pub. Date
[1992]
Description
Encourages awareness and appreciation of Hispanic American cultures.
89) Mountain dog
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When his mother is sent to jail in Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Tony goes to live with his forest ranger great-uncle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Tony experiences unconditional love for the first time through his friendship with a rescue dog.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Two girls find friendship on their path to mental health in a story of acceptance, recovery, and resilience"--
Dani comes from the richest, most famous Black family in Texas and seems to have everything a girl could want. So why does she keep using and engaging in other self-destructive behavior? Camila's Colombian-American family doesn't have much, but she knows exactly what she wants out of life and works her ass off to get it. So why does she...
Author
Series
Lola Levine volume 3
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"A new girl has joined Lola Levine's second-grade class. When they get off on the wrong foot, they are forced to spend time together...and learn they have more in common than they thought"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Eleven-year-old Danny Monteverde believes in magic, he believes that the enchanted land of Rio Luna in his older sister's favorite book is real, and most of all he believes that if he can find the way to Rio Luna he will find his sister, Pili, there, because he does not believe that his sister would run away from the group home where they lived and leave him behind; but after years of being passed from one foster family to another, his faith begins...
96) Count on pablo
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Pablo demonstrates how good he is at counting while helping his grandmother, his "abuela," prepare to sell vegetables at the market.
99) Each tiny spark
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Sixth-grader Emilia Torres struggles with ADHD, her controlling abuela, her mother's work commitments, her father's distance after returning from deployment, evolving friendships, and a conflict over school redistricting.
Author
Series
Charlie Hernandez volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Steeped in Hispanic folklore since childhood, middle schooler Charlie Hernández learns the stories are true when, shortly after his parents disappearance, he grows horns and feathers and finds himself at the heart of a battle to save the world.