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Series
Sal and Gabi volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In order to heal after his mother's death, Sal learned how to meditate. But no one expected him to be able to take it further and 'relax' things into existence. Turns out he can reach into time and space to retrieve things from other universes,
Author
Series
Sal and Gabi volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"When best friends Sal and Gabi try to repair the damage they created when they altered the universe to help their families, they end up creating even more chaos"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Angry with his mother for having too little time for him, eleven-year-old Felix takes advantage of an opportunity to become bat boy for a minor league baseball team, hoping to someday be like his father, a famous Cuban outfielder. Includes glossaries of baseball terms and Spanish words and phrases.
Author
Series
Outlaw Saints volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old Mateo and Chela discover each other and their powers during a political battle between neighborhood factions, they set aside their differences to unravel the mystery behind their sunken homeland and to stop a dangerous political operative who is trying to harness their gifts to unleash terror on the world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rosa Santos, a Cuban American, works to save her Florida town, seeks admittance to study abroad in her homeland, and wonders if love can break her family's curse. Rosa Santos is cursed by the sea-at least, that's what they say. Dating her is bad news, especially if you're a boy with a boat. But Rosa feels more caught than cursed. Caught between cultures and choices. Between her abuela, a beloved healer and pillar of their community, and her mother,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sofía Acosta, a fifth grader trying to fit into her ballet-obsessed Cuban American family and her affluent suburban New York community, learns to speak up for herself and others when she mistakenly reveals a visiting dancer's plan to defect to the United States.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Cuando visitamos a abuelo, lo ayudo a vender frutas,
pregonando los nombres de cada una
mientras caminamos: nuestros pasos repican como tambores,
nuestras manos, cual maracas, que suenan
agitan los brillantes colores de las frutas…
Vivo lejos de abuelo,
pero podemos cantar rimas
de ida y vuelta entre nuestros dos países,
nuestros versos en papel vuelan como aves cantoras,
cada sílaba un abrazo
hecho de palabras.
While visiting her abuelo in...
13) Alas Salvajes
Author
Language
Español
Description
"Los seres alados han de ser libres. Y también lo han de ser los artistas, pero el gobierno cubano ha criminalizado cualquier arte que no tenga su aprobación. Soleida y sus padres protestan contra esta injusticia con su jardín secreto de esculturas de aves encadenadas. Luego, un huracán derriba las paredes y deja al descubierto el arte ilegal, y sus padres son arrestados...Soleida huye sola a Centroamérica y se une a miles de refugiados cubanos...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Cuando Ruthie Mizrahi se muda con su familia desde su tierra natal, Cuba, a las animadas calles de Nueva York, tiene mucho que asimilar: nuevos paisajes, nuevos sonidos y un nuevo idioma.
Ruthie Mizrahi and her family recently emigrated from Castro's Cuba to New York City. Just when she's finally beginning to gain confidence in her mastery of English and enjoying her reign as her neighborhood's hopscotch queen, a horrific car accident leaves her...
Author
Series
Merci Suárez volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
Español
Description
"El séptimo grado va a ser difícil para Merci Suárez. Su sensata profesora de ciencias espera que sea tan inteligente como su hermano, Roli. Le han asignado la gestión conjunta de la tienda de la escuela con Wilson Bellevue, un chico al que apenas conoce pero podría realmente gustar. Y luego está Edna Santos, que está más detestable que nunca ahora que está a cargo del Heart Ball anual. Sin embargo, una cosa es segura: Merci Suárez no puede...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
"Para convertir una casita en mal estado en un hogar acogedor, todo lo que se necesita es una familia con un corazón muy grande, decidida a ayudar a los demás, y ... un poquito de esperanza. La casita ofrece un hogar a aquellos que no tienen adonde ir. Es un lugar sin miedo y sin peligro en un país nuevo, y Esperanza siempre es la primera en darles la bienvenida a todos."
"When Esperanza and her family arrive in the United States from Cuba, they...
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