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Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A fictional account of the 1839 revolt of Africans aboard the slave ship Amistad and the subsequent legal case argued before the Supreme Court in 1841 by former president John Quincy Adams.
4) Clementina
Author
Publisher
Bruño
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Español
Description
While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Marga, eight-year-old Clementina gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.
Author
Series
Junie B. Jones series volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Unable to compete with her friends' fancy clothes and running ability, irrepressible six-year-old Junie B. finds her own way to make the new boy at school like her.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When journalist Robert Torres is assigned to write a book about Josemaria Escriva, the controversial founder of Opus Dei, he hopes it will bring him closer to his father, Escriva's childhood friend. As Torres uncovers more about his father's past, he learns dark secrets that will change his world forever.
10) ¡Hoy volaré!
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
While Piggie is determined to fly Elephant is skeptical, but when Piggie gets a little help from others, amazing things happen.
11) Grown ups
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Five friends and former teammates reunite on the Fourth of July weekend to honor the passing of their former high school basketball coach.
13) El pequeño mago
Author
Publisher
Picarona
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
A young wizard who cannot learn to fly feels very sad and lonely, until he meets a friendly dragon who is willing to teach him how to fly.
16) Amistad
Publisher
DreamWorks
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the writers behind the acclaimed documentary series Enslaved (starring Samuel L. Jackson), comes a rich and timely narrative of the true global and human scope of the transatlantic slave trade. The trade existed for four-hundred years, during which twelve million people were trafficked, and almost two million died at sea. Throughout this journey we meet the remarkable group, Diving With A Purpose (DWP), as they dive sunken slave ships around...
18) Hermano
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
Español
Description
Raised as brothers, teammates and competitors on the soccer field: the gregarious, swaggering Julio and the wiry, focused Daniel have remained virtually inseparable ever since the newborn Daniel was found abandoned in a trash heap in their La Ceniza slum. The opportunity of their lives arrives when a scout invites them to try out for the city's top professional team, just as a tragic act of violence threatens to tear them apart and prevent them from...
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 2
Publisher
Molino/Lectorum
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Español
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