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2) The last 8
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Eight teenagers struggle to survive after an alien attack.
After an alien attack devastates the Earth, pilot and future astronaut Clover Martinez bands with seven other teens in a struggle to survive.
Author
Series
Perfect chemistry series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
When he returns to Illinois and the gang culture on the south side of Fairfield after six years in Colorado, high school senior Luis Fuentes, who dreams of becoming an astronaut, falls for a girl and enters a dark world after learning some disturbing news about his family.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
660L
Formats
Description
Loosely based on a school explosion that took place in New London, Texas in 1937, this is the story of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black, and their dealings with race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people
Author
Series
Perfect chemistry series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
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.
Author
Series
Paola Santiago volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
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Description
In Silver Springs, Arizona, her mother's stories of the monstrous La Llorona are thrilling but unbelievable to science-loving Paola until she and her best friends Dante and Emma take a walk through a cactus field near the Gila River.
7) Ambassador
Author
Series
Ambassador (William Alexander) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
Appointed Earth's ambassador to the universe, twelve-year-old Gabe Fuentes faces two sets of "alien" problems when he discovers his parents are illegal aliens and face deportation and the Earth is in the path of a destructive alien force causing multiple mass extinctions.
8) Desert Angel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
In the California desert, fourteen-year-old Angel is on the run from the man who abused her, killed her mother, and intends to kill her too.
9) Jesse
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Two Mexican American brothers hope that junior college will help them escape their heritage of tedious physical labor.
10) Joyride
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
"A popular guy and a shy girl with a secret become unlikely accomplices for midnight pranking, and are soon in over their heads--with the law and with each other."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
A point guard for his school basketball team, Pedro decides to run for class president, but his running mate, Ned, who happens to be the most popular boy in school and Pedro's teammate, does not appreciate the competition.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
Nonbinary teen Ander is ready to leave their family's taquería and focus on their art, but when Santi, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, begins to work at the restaurant, the two teens spark a romance made complicated by immigration police.
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Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Xochi's life changed when she became governess to precocious twelve-year-old Pallas, but the duo unintentionally summons a pair of ancient creatures determined to right the wrongs of Xochi's adolescence.
Xochi is on her own in San Francisco, running from a painful past. She accepts a position as governess to Pallas, a precocious twelve-year-old with a rockstar family that lives in one of the city's storybook Victorian mansions....
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Sophia knits a special hat for her elderly neighbor and knitting teacher, Mrs. Goldman.
When Sophia was a baby, Mrs. Goldman knit a tiny baby hat to keep her warm. Last year, she taught Sophia how to knit. Now Sophia wants to knit a special hat for Mrs. Goldman. And she wants to do it all by herself!
17) Falling short
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Best friends Isaac and Marco face various challenges in sixth grade, such as Isaac getting better grades, Marco winning a spot on the basketball team, and both seeing their efforts make a change in their respective family lives. They hope their friendship and support for one another will be enough to help them from falling short.
18) Homestretch
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Five months after losing his mother, seventeen-year-old Gas runs away from an abusive father and gets a job working at an Arkansas race track, surrounded by the illegal Mexican immigrants that he and his father blame for her death.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
Best friends Parisa Naficy and Gabriela Gonzales grapple with the complexities of their relationship even while they spend their senior year apart due to a pandemic that disproportionately affects young people.
Parisa Naficy, an earnest and privileged Iranian American, struggles to live up to her own impossible standards. Gabriela Gonzales, a cynical Mexican American, has all the confidence Parisa lacks but none of the financial stability. Despite...
Author
Series
Paola Santiago volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
Months after confronting the legendary La Llorona, Paola starts dreaming again, this time about fantasmas that are stalking her and someone who might be even more dangerous--her estranged father.
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