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1) New Mexico
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
An introduction to the history, culture, geography, industries, wildlife, and sights of New Mexico, featuring photographs, maps, charts, and sidebars.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
Guided by her Navajo ancestors, seventh-grader Nizhoni Begay discovers she is descended from a holy woman and destined to become a monsterslayer, starting with the evil businessman who kidnapped her father. Includes glossary of Navajo terms.
4) New Mexico
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
""Engaging images accompany information about New Mexico. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--Provided by publisher"--
5) Tortilla sun
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
While spending a summer in New Mexico with her grandmother, twelve-year-old Izzy makes new friends, learns to cook, and for the first time hears stories about her father, who died before she was born.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Nathan, a young Navajo boy from Phoenix, Arizona, goes on an epic hero's journey."--Kirkusreviews.com
"When Nathan goes to visit his grandma, Nali, at her mobile summer home on the Navajo reservation, he knows he's in for a pretty uneventful summer, with no electricity or cell service. Still, he loves spending time with Nali and with his uncle Jet, though it's clear when Jet arrives that he brings his problems with him. One night, while lost in...
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In 1826, strange occurrences on eleven-year-old Josefina's New Mexican "rancho" lead the young healer to wonder if old legends of lost treasure and the wandering ghost called La Llorona may be true. Includes a Spanish glossary and historical background information.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In early 1980s New Mexico, thirteen-year-old Jackson Jones recruits his cousins and sisters to help tend an elderly neighbor's neglected apple orchard for the chance to make big money and, perhaps, to own the orchard.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
"In 1947, during the early years of the Cold War, a field in Roswell, New Mexico was disturbed by a strange crash and smattering of debris. Some say the bodies of extraterrestrial beings were strewn across the ground, that a UFO had crashed there, and that the government was covering up the evidence in a massive conspiracy. But what really happened at Roswell? The infamous "crash from outer space" has become a fixture in our culture, inspiring a surge...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
Eleven-year-old tomboy Lucy feels betrayed by everyone when a bobcat stalks the neighborhood, her friend Mora suddenly becomes boy-crazy about Lucy's best friend, and the town considers selling the soccer field where she plays.
13) Days of the dead
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
"Glorieta Magdalena Davis Espinosa is happy that Papi married Alice. She's happy that he can smile again after years of mourning Mama. But the urn containing Mama's ashes disappeared into a drawer the day Alice moved in. If everything about Glorieta's life is going to change, then she wants one thing to go her way: She wants to hear stories about her mama when the family gathers on the last night of los Dias de los Muertos. And that can only happen...
14) Tumble
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez reaches out to her estranged biological father--who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador--and the eccentric extended family of wrestlers she has never met, bringing Adela closer to understanding the expansive definition of family.
15) Geronimo
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Examines the life of the Apache chief Geronimo, who led one of the last Indian uprisings.
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