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21) Lucky boy
Author
Language
English
Description
"A heart-wrenching novel that gives voice to two mothers: a young undocumented Mexican woman and an Indian-American wife whose love for one lucky boy will bind their fates together Solimar Castro-Valdez is eighteen and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US/Mexican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin's doorstep in Berkeley, CA, dazed by first love found then lost, and pregnant. This was not the plan. But amid...
23) Illegal
Author
Series
Disappeared (Stork) volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
To escape the violent cartel that is after them in Ciudad Juárez, siblings Sara and Emiliano flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States and hoping to bring their pursuers to justice, only to discover that an even greater danger awaits them.
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.
25) El principito
Author
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
A pilot is forced to land in the Sahara Desert, where he meets a profoundly wise yet enigmatic little prince from another planet.
Author
Series
Remembrance War series volume 2
Publisher
Flame Tree Press, an imprint of Flame Tree Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Tajen's mission to seek aid from the Kelvaki Assembly is cut short when the Zhen invade Earth. Now he, Liam, and Kiri must return to Earth and liberate the colony from brutal occupation. When Tajen learns the Zhen plan to destroy a human fleet amassing in preparation to help Earth, he and his crew must escape the planet once more and warn them.
Author
Series
Welcome to Night Vale novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge. Nineteen-year-old Night Vale pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro is given a paper marked "KING CITY" by a mysterious man in a tan jacket holding a deer skin suitcase. Everything about him and his paper unsettles her, especially the fact that she can't seem...
Author
Series
Tara Holloway novels volume 11
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When the IRS is tasked with assisting the border patrol in pursuing individuals who transport illegal immigrants across the border, Tara Holloway must investigate her former flame Brett while convincing her fiance Nick that she doesn't still carry a torch for Brett.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When Earth is taken over by the overly confident Boov--an alien race in search of a new place to call home--all humans are promptly relocated, while all Boov get busy efficiently reorganizing the planet! But when one resourceful girl, Tip, manages to avoid capture, she finds herself the accidental accomplice of a banished Boov by the name of Oh. Equally stubborn and set in their ways, these two fugitives realize there's a lot more at stake than intergalactic...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"An undocumented Filipino teenager redefines his relationships with his mother, his culture, and the place he calls home"--
Excel spends his days trying to seem like an unremarkable American teenager, he carefully avoids the spotlight. But Excel knows that his family is far from normal. His mother, Maxima, was once a Filipina B-movie action star who now makes her living scamming men online. The old man they live with is not his grandfather, but Maxima's...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Isabel Allende parte de la célebre cita de Albert Camus -"en medio del invierno aprendí por fin que había en mí un verano invencible"- para urdir una trama que presenta la geografía humana de unos personajes propios de la América de hoy que se hallan "en el más profundo invierno de sus vidas": una chilena, una joven guatemalteca indocumentada y un maduro norteamericano. Los tres sobreviven a un terrible temporal de nieve que cae en pleno invierno...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the western edge of Los Angeles is the gorgeous beachside city of Santa Monica, where the sun-kissed, wealthy residents seem to inhabit real-life California dreams. When movie-star-handsome heartthrob fitness coach Zack Doheny, is found dead on the floor of his gym, the tragedy shocks the elite community, especially those who'd spent many hours each week exercising with the charismatic trainer. As the narrative flashes back to the months leading...
Author
Series
Tune volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Andy Go settles into life as an exhibit in an alien zoo where his house on Earth has been recreated in detail, but things turn sour when he learns he cannot go home on the weekends and that he unknowingly signed a lifetime contract.
35) World trigger: 8
Author
Series
World trigger volume 8
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
As the Neighbor invasion continues, Osamu's brave defense of Chika lands him in combat against the Neighbor commander! Border's weakest agent will have to do better than his best to win against a Trigger that seems to generate life itself.
36) The grief keeper
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After escaping a detention center at the U.S. border, seventeen-year-old Marisol agrees to participate in a medical experiment hoping to keep her and her younger sister, Gabi, from being deported to El Salvador.
Marisol and Gabi Morales are detainees of the United States government, caught crossing the U.S. border to escape the gang violence in their country after their brother was murdered. When Marisol learns that they are going to be sent home,...
37) Angles of attack
Author
Series
Frontlines (Marko Kloos) volume 3
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The alien forces known as the Lankies are gathering on the solar system's edge, consolidating their conquest of Mars and setting their sights on Earth. The far-off colony of New Svalbard, cut off from the rest of the galaxy by the Lanky blockade, teeters on the verge of starvation and collapse. The forces of the two Earth alliances have won minor skirmishes but are in danger of losing the war. For battle-weary staff sergeant Andrew Grayson and the...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Poco después de jubilarse de la universidad donde enseñaba literatura, Antonia Vega, una escritora latina, pierde a su adorado esposo y su vida parece desmoronarse de repente. Hasta entonces parecía haber encontrado consuelo en la literatura que ama--las palabras de sus autores preferidos dan vueltas en su cabeza como plegarias--, pero la desaparición de su hermana, con su personalidad impredecible y su gran corazón, junto con la aparición de...
39) Wink of an eye
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"On the run from a double-cross, Las Vegas private investigator Gypsy Moran shows up unexpectedly at his sister Rhonda's house in Wink, Texas. She introduces Gypsy to one of her former students, 12-year-old Tatum McCallen, who is in need of Gypsy's services. Tatum wants to hire Gypsy to investigate his father Ryce's alleged suicide. His dad was a deputy with the Sheriff's department and was found hanged in their backyard. Tatum believes his father...
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 15
Language
English
Description
"James Grippando's crusader Jack Swyteck is back in his sixteenth adventure, a timely and pulse-pounding thriller"--
Julia Rodriguez and her teenage daughter Beatriz escaped bloodthirsty gangs, random violence and, Julia's abusive husband back in El Salvador. Arriving in Miami, mother and daughter struggled to carve their own piece of the American dream. While life in the States is hard, it is safer, until Julia's rejects her boss's unwanted sexual...
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