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1) Benito runs
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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Benito's father, Xavier, returns from Iraq after more than a year suffering from PTSD--post-traumatic stress disorder--and yells constantly. He causes such a scene at a school function that Benny is embarrassed to go back to Southside High. Benny can't handle seeing his dad so crazy, so he decides to run away. Will Benny find a new life, or will he learn how to deal with his dad--through good times and bad?
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In his first foray into short fiction, award-winning poet and memoirist Jimmy Santiago Baca explores the territory where old-world traditions meet new-world ambitions, and characters try to make something of themselves, while keeping their souls intact. In "Matilda's Garden," an old farmer pines for his wife of fifty years who died in her sleep one-night months before. He is lured to the garden in the middle of the night by what he thinks is her presence,...
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The engrossing story of one man's quest for love and for his soul from bestselling author Isabel Allende, now available with P.S.
Isabel Allende's first novel to be set in the United States and to portray American characters, The Infinite Plan is a vivid tale of one man's search for love, and his struggle to come to terms with a childhood of poverty and neglect. As he journeys from the Hispanic barrio in Los Angeles to the killing fields of Vietnam...
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Brooklyn brujas volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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"Alex is a bruja and the most powerful witch in her family. But she's hated magic ever since it made her father disappear into thin air. When a curse she performs to rid herself of magic backfires and her family vanishes, she must travel to Los Lagos, a land in-between as dark as Limbo and as strange as Wonderland, to get her family back"--
10) Allie's Bike
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Allie is all set to ride her bike! She has all her safety gear, including a new pink helmet. But riding a bike is a lot harder than it looks…
11) Accidental love
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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After unexpectedly falling in love with a "nerdy" boy, fourteen-year-old Marisa works to change her life by transferring to another school, altering some of her behavior, and losing weight.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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"Three sisters in San Antonio are shadowed by guilt and grief over the loss of their oldest sister, who still haunts their house"--
The Torres sisters dream of escape-- from their needy and despotic widowed father, and from their San Antonio neighborhood and its traditions and expectations. In the summer after her senior year of high school, Ana, the oldest sister, falls to her death from her bedroom window. A year later her three younger sisters,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
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When an urban legend rumored to trap people inside subway tunnels seems to be behind mysterious disappearances in the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Raquel and her friends team up to save their city--and confront a dark episode in its history in the process.
19) Like water
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When her father is diagnosed with Hungtington's disease, eighteen-year-old Vanni abandons her plan to flee her small New Mexico hometown after high school graduation and instead spends the summer keeping herself busy with part-time jobs and boys, but that changes after she meets Leigh, whose friendship dares Vanni to ask herself big questions and make new plans.
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