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Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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Basada en la vida real de Charley Parkhurst, excelente amazona que durante toda su vida se hizo pasar por hombre y se convirtió en uno de los conductores de diligencias más famosos de su época.
A fictionalized account of Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst who ran away from an orphanage, posed as a boy, moved to California, and fooled everyone by her appearance. By the age of 12, Charlotte Parkhurst knows the world of the 1860s holds more opportunities...
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Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
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After eleven-year-old Zitlally's father is deported to Mexico, she takes refuge in her trailer park's forest of rusted car parts, where she befriends a spunky neighbor and finds a stray dog that she nurses back to health and believes she must keep safe so that her father will return. Includes author's note about immigration from Mexico to the United States, and Nahuatl and Spanish glossaries.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
4) El soñador
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Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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A fictionalized biography of Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who grew up as a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.
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