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Author
Series
Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures volume 5
Publication Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Confident that Stanley can succeed where international spies and thieves have failed, Stanley's mom who loves to cook mails him to Mexico to get a secret herbal ingredient that she must have.
Author
Publication Date
2024
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
Gloria's father always yells the grito to start Diez y Seis de Septiembre, but when he becomes ill, Gloria volunteers and must step up and find her voice to start the annual Mexican Independence Day fiesta.
Author
Publication Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In modern Mexico, Sitlali is all alone after the death of her beloved abuela. Targeted by a dangerous gang member, she flees to the United States. As a memento, she takes with her an ancient conch shell. In 1521, Calizto is trapped in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan. He has fought valiantly for his people against Spanish invaders, but hope is fading. Desperate, he takes up a sacred conch and sounds a plea to the gods. The conch holds magic neither...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton volume 83
Publication Date
2024
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Thea goes missing along with an ancient Mayan necklace, Geronimo Stilton is fast on the case, scouring Chichén Itzà for clues to find them.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Publication Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
A little lamb uses her clever wiles to keep a coyote from eating her up. What's a little lamb to do about a big, oafish coyote that wants to eat her? Why, trick him, of course! This folk tale from the west of Mexico is energetically told and comfortably packed with many recognizable motifs. Mathers enlarges upon the humorous elements of the story in her boldly colored paintings. Aardema and Mathers are felicitously paired in a tale of trickery rewarded...
Author
Publisher
Raven Tree Press
Publication Date
c2008
Language
Spanish
Description
It's the Night of the Radishes and don Pedro wants to carve the best radish sculpture in town. But one radish won't cooperate. The Night of the Radishes is an annual festival held on the evening of December 23rd in Oaxaca, Mexico.
10) Race to the sun
Author
Publication Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Guided by her Navajo ancestors, seventh-grader Nizhoni Begay discovers she is descended from a holy woman and destined to become a monsterslayer, starting with the evil businessman who kidnapped her father. Includes glossary of Navajo terms.
11) Hour of the bees
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Publication Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
At first, twelve-year-old Carol is not happy to be spending the summer helping her parents move her grandfather to an assisted living home, but as the summer wears on, she finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by his amazing stories.
12) Pedro's burro
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Publication Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
Pedro and his papa go to the market to look for the perfect burro.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Publication Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
"Miguel loves music, but his family says it is not allowed. Will he ever change their minds?"--Page 4 of cover.
15) Pescadito
Author
Publisher
Kane/Miller Book Publishers
Publication Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
Spanish
Description
Rosa is bored, but Grandmother is too busy making tortillas for market to notice. But when a little fish leaps out of the water right into Rosa's lap, well, there's nothing boring about that, especially when the little fish starts to become a great big one.
16) Fated
Author
Series
Publication Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Strange things are happening to Daire Santos. Crows mock her, glowing people stalk her, time stops without warning, and a beautiful boy with unearthly blue eyes haunts all her dreams. Fearing for her daughter's sanity, Daire's mother sends her to live with the grandmother she's never met, but who recognizes the visions for what they truly are-the call to her destiny as a Soul Seeker-one who can navigate the worlds between the living and dead."--Publisher's...
17) Pilgrim codex
Author
Publication Date
2025
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
A picture book about one immigrant family's journey north through the eyes of a child, illustrated in the vein of an ancient codex and drawing upon Mesoamerican mythology.
Author
Series
Publication Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"On vacation in Mexico, Eddie Red and his best friend Jonah must once again rely on Eddie's talent for drawing and his photographic memory to uncover clues to catch a crook when Eddie's father is falsely accused of a crime"-- Provided by publisher.