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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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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.
3) Parachutes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A wealthy Chinese teen is sent to America on her own to attend private school. Claire is a rich 11th grader in Shanghai; Dani is a scholarship student at a private school in Southern California who helps her mother clean houses. When Claire is parachuted into America to finish high school and Dani's mother needs the income from a boarder, they become unlikely housemates.
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Peace love and softball volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Sophia Garcia, thirteen, wants to excel at softball like her older sister, Ellie, and make her family proud, but when she is chosen for a different team and position than Ellie, she must learn to succeed by being herself.
8) Odder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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"Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. She's a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself--and about the humans who hope to save her"--
9) What light
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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When Sierra falls for Caleb, a boy who made a terrible mistake years before, she is determined to help him find forgiveness, despite the disapproval and suspicions they meet.
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I survived volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Traces the story of a boy who moves across the country to rural northern California, where his efforts to adjust are challenged by a fast-moving firestorm that places family homes and lives at risk. --
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Katsuyamas never quit -- but seventeen-year-old CJ doesn't even know where to start. She's never lived up to her mom's type A ambition, and she's perfectly happy just helping her aunt, Hannah, at their family's flower shop. She doesn't buy into Hannah's romantic ideas about flowers and their hidden meanings, but when it comes to arranging the perfect bouquet, CJ discovers a knack she never knew she had. A skill she might even be proud of. Then her...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Mia Tang thinks she's going to have the best year ever. She and her parents are the proud owners of the Calivista Motel, Mia gets to run the front desk with her best friend, Lupe, and she's finally getting somewhere with her writing! But as it turns out, sixth grade is no picnic."--Publisher.
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Language
Español
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A Mexican "Grapes of Wrath," based on a family story, from the award-winning author Pam Muñoz Ryan.
Esperanza pensaba que siempre viviría con su familia en su rancho en México, y que siempre tendía hermosos vestidos y una linda casa llena de sirvientes. Pero una tragedia inesperada las obliga a ella y a su madre a escapar a California en la época de la Gran Depresión, y a asentarse en un campamento para trabajadores agrícolas mexicanos.
...16) Frankly in love
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"High school senior Frank Li takes a risk to go after a girl his parents would never approve of, but his plans will leave him wondering if he ever really understood love--or himself--at all"--
17) Going vintage
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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When sixteen-year-old Mallory learns that her boyfriend, Jeremy, is cheating on her with his cyber "wife," she rebels against technology by following her grandmother's list of goals from 1962, with help from her younger sister, Ginnie.
18) The jerk magnet
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Series
Life at Kingston High volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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When sixteen-year-old Chelsea Martin's future stepmother gives her a total makeover, she attracts all of the wrong boys and drives away many girls, but her friend Janelle keeps telling Chelsea to be true to herself, while helping her find a way to catch the eye of Nicholas, the one "non-jerk" at school.
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Series
EllRay Jakes series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Eight-year-old EllRay Jakes decides to "borrow" his father's crystals to impress his classmates, but his plan to return the crystals before his father notices goes awry.