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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Eleven-year-old (nearly twelve) Celi Rivera, who is a mix of Black-Puerto Rican-Mexican Indian is uncomfortable about her approaching period, and the changes that are happening to her body; she is horrified that her mother wants to hold a traditional public moon ceremony to celebrate the occasion--until she finds out that her best friend Magda is contemplating an even more profound change of life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Español
Description
La vida de Celi Rivera es un torbellino de preguntas... por los cambios en su cuerpo, por sentirse atraída por un chico por primera vez y por la exploración que hace su mejor amiga de lo que significa ser género fluido.
Pero, sobre todo, por la insistencia de su madre en hacerle una ceremonia lunar cuando le llegue su primer periodo. Se trata de un ancestral ritual mexica que Mima y su comunidad han rescatado, pero Celi se promete a sí misma...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Español
Description
From the prolific author of The Moon Within comes the heart-wrenchingly beautiful story in verse of a young Latinx girl, who learns to hold on to hope and love even in the darkest of places, a family detention center for migrants and refugees.
Betita, de nueve años, sabe que es una grulla. Papi le contó la historia desde antes que su familia emigrara a Los Ángeles buscando refugio de la guerra del narco en México. Los aztecas procedían de un...
Author
Series
Wings of fire (Graphic novels) volume 6
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Peace has come to Pyrrhia... for now. The war between the tribes is finally over, and now the dragonets of the prophecy have a plan for lasting peace: Jade Mountain Academy, a school that will gather dragonets from all the tribes and teach them to live together, perhaps even as friends. Moonwatcher isn't sure how she feels about school, however. Hidden in the rainforest for most of her life, the young NightWing has an awful secret. She can read minds,...
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
On the red, dusty moon of Rodmark, life is only possible within the dome walls of Lysande, because the air outside is poisonous, and there are monsters, or at least that is what all the citizens have been told; but thirteen-year-old Flossy has seen lights and people moving outside and she is determined to find out the truth of what is beyond the Dome--even if it means she can never go back.