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Author
Pub. Date
[1991]
Description
Ceci anxiously awaits her first posada, the special Mexican Christmas party, and the opportunity to select a piñata for it.
Este año, por primera vez, Ceci, con sus cinco años, tiene edad suficiente para celebrar su propia posada, una de las fiestas especiales que se hacen en México durante las nueve noches anteriores a la Navidad. Toda la gente del pueblo asistirá y habrá muchas cosas deliciosas para comer. Y lo mejor de todo es que Ceci podrá...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 24
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
"Jack and Annie search for the fourth secret of greatness for Merlin the Magician in Mexico City at the 1970 World Cup Games. They hope to learn something new from soccer player great, Pele"--
6) Masterminds
Author
Series
Masterminds trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
"Efrén Nava's Amá is his Superwoman--or Soperwoman, named after the delicious Mexican sopes hist mother often prepares for the family. Both Amá and Apá work hard all day to provide for the family, making sure Efrén and his younger siblings Max and Mía feel safe and loved. But Efrén worries about his parents; although he's American-born, his parents are undocumented. And according to the neighborhood talk, or local chisme, families like his...
12) River thunder
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
Despite some reservations, sixteen-year-old Jessie joins her companions from the previous year's adventure on the Colorado River for a legal rafting trip through the Grand Canyon.
13) North of happy
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
A wealthy dual citizen of Mexico and the United States rebels against his family's strict plans for his future in the aftermath of his older brother's tragic death, an event that compels him to secure a job with his favorite celebrity chef, a relationship that becomes complicated when he falls for his boss's daughter.
14) Hour of the bees
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
While her friends are spending their summers having pool parties and sleepovers, twelve-year-old Carolina (Carol) is spending hers in the middle of the New Mexico desert, helping her parents move the grandfather she's never met into a home for people with dementia. At first, Carol avoids prickly Grandpa Serge. But as the summer wears on and the heat bears down, Carol finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by the crazy stories he tells her about a...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Spike is a scary-looking salamander who keeps trying to frighten other animalsNuntil he finds that using fear is not the best way to make friends. And since Spike lives in Mexico (he is an endangered species called the axolotl), this story is peppered with easy-to-understand Spanish words. Includes a glossary. Full color.
Author
Series
Serie Harry Potter volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
"Con las manos temblorosas, Harry le dio la vuelta al sobre y vio un sello de lacre púrpura con un escudo de armas: un león, un águila, un tejón y una serpiente, que rodeaban una gran letra hache." Harry Potter jamás ha oído hablar de Hogwarts hasta que las cartas comienzan...
17) Going home
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Although a Mexican family comes to the United States to work as farm laborers so that their children will have opportunities, the parents still consider Mexico their home.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
A re-telling of Ernest Thompson Seton's epic wilderness drama, "Lobo, the King of Currumpaw," follows the leader of a wolf pack and the man hired to trap him, looking at how their interaction changed the hunter's life and led to wildlife conservation.