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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
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Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Jaime, twelve, and Angela, fifteen, discover what it means to be living as undocumented immigrants in the United States, while news from home gets increasingly worse.
Author
Publisher
Seventeen Fiction from Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
After learning of her family's illegal immigrant status, Jasmine realizes that college may be impossible and that deportation is a real threat, uncertainties she endures as she falls for the son of a congressman who opposes an immigration reform bill.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Oliver "Spaghetti-O" Jones's dad is about to be jailed for a crime he didn't commit, and Oliver believes the only way to save him is with the help of his favorite lucha-libre wrestler turned action star, Tito the Bonecrusher. Together with his best friend, Brianna (a.k.a. "Brain"), and their new ally Paul "Popcorn" Robards, Oliver devises a madcap plan to spring his dad from a Florida correctional facility. Heartwarming and hilarious, this book looks...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
"Una niña y su papá emprenden un viaje hacia un lugar que la pequeña desconoce. Nadie le indica su destino. La niña confía en su padre, quien la protege y encuentra trabajo para conseguir dinero. Las ilustraciones muestran los obstáculos del camino hacia la frontera: hambre, deportaciones, violencia, pero también solidaridad, regalos y conejos. Libro álbum que requiere de una lectura de imágenes profunda para descifrar los símbolos. Un relato...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Cuando un padre es apartado de su familia y enfrenta la deportación, su familia se queda sufriendo con el duelo y deseando saber qué sucederá después. Maricela, Manuel y su madre enfrentan los muchos desafíos al tener que su vida es cambiada completamente por la ausencia de su padre y su esposo. Mudarse a una casa nueva, juegos de fútbol perdidos, fiestas de cumpleaños, y el vacío son ahora la norma del día a día. La Luna Mango muestra cómo...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Betita, de nueve ąos, y sus padres huyeron de M̌xico despǔs de que los c̀rteles mataran a su t̕o, y se establecieron en Los ℓngeles en busca de asilo pol̕tico y seguridad en lo que su padre llama Aztl̀n, la tierra de las grullas; Pero ahora han sido barridos por el Servicio de Control de Aduanas de Inmigraci̤n del gobierno, su padre deportado a M̌xico y Betita y su madre confinadas en un campo de detenci̤n familiar - Betita encuentra coraz̤n...
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