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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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
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"Domingo Martinez lays bare his interior and exterior worlds as he struggles to make sense of the violent and the ugly, along with the beautiful and the loving. Partly a reflection on the culture of machismo and partly an exploration of the author's boyhood spent in his sister's hand-me-down clothes, this book delves into the enduring and complex bond between Martinez and his deeply flawed, but fiercely protective older brother. It features a cast...
Author
Series
Growing up Daisy volume 6
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When Daisy became student council president, she asked Principal Johnson to le the fourth grade hold a spring dance and he said yes! Now it's time to plan the dance and Daisy needs help. Blanca suggests holding a contest to pick the theme. The contest is a success, but will everyone come together to make it happen? Or will the Spring Dance be a major disaster?" -- p. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
This volume is a collection of short stories originally published in 1991 that reflect the author's experience of being surrounded by American influences while still being familiarly bound to her Mexican heritage as she grew-up north of the Mexico-US border. The short vignettes focus on the social role of women and their relationships with the men and other women in their lives. The majority of the characters are stereotypes: men embody machismo while...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The author of "Alburquerque" presents the story of young Antonio Marez, who has been raised under the protective wing of a mystic and herbal healer and seeks out his family heritage while learning the secrets of his mentor.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A spunky young girl explains the many uses of her mother's red rebozo, a traditional Mexican woven shawl.
Sumario en espaǫl: Una valiente nią explica los ml͠tiples usos de el rebozo rojo de su madre, un chal tejido tradicional mexicano.
10) Marisol
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Marisol loves to dance and when her family moves to Illinois she has to find a new dance teacher.
Author
Series
Fronteras volume no. 1
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the history of Tex-Mex music in the twentieth century, discussing its origins in Mexican culture, the diversity and complexity of the music, its importance to Mexican Texas culture in the context of Anglo-Mexican relations.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus with his older brother Alex, a college student and ex-gang member, high school senior Carlos is not ready to give up his wild ways until he meets a shy classmate named Kiara and becomes unwillingly involved in a drug ring.
13) Too many tamales
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Maria tries on her mother's wedding ring while helping make tamales for a Christmas family get-together. Panic ensues when hours later, she realizes the ring is missing.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Frist edition.
Language
English
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Description
"1890: When Desiderya Lopez, The Sleepy Prophet, finds an abandoned infant on the banks of an arroyo, she recognizes something in his spirit and brings him home. Pidre will go on to become a famous showman in the Anglo West whose main act, Simodecea, is Pidre's fearless, sharpshooting wife, who wrangles bears as part of his show. 1935: Luz "Little Light" Lopez and her brother Diego work the carnival circuit in downtown Denver. Luz, is a tea leaf reader,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Mike Muñoz is a young Mexican American not too many years out of high school--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew. Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he can't seem to get a break. But then things start to change for Mike, and after a raucous, jarring, and challenging trip, he finds he can finally see the future and his place in it"--
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