Matt de la Peña
Author
Series
DC icons volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When the dawn breaks, a hero rises. Clark Kent has always been faster, stronger--better--than everyone around him. But it's not like he's earned his powers yet. Lately it's difficult to hold back and keep his heroics in the shadows. When Clark follows the sound of a girl crying, he comes across Gloria Alvarez and learns that people are disappearing from the Mexican-American and undocumented worker community in Smallville. Teaming up with his best...
3) Love
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read text celebrate the bonds of love that connect us all.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Carmela, finally old enough to run errands with her brother, tries to think of the perfect birthday wish, while his wish seems to be that she stayed home.--
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
La Música exists in many places and brings color and life wherever she goes, connecting people to a grand harmony. When La Música discovers a boy with longing in his heart and no music in his home, she vows to help him find his passion. This jacketed picture book pairs Newbery Winner Matt de la Pena and Pixar artist Ana Ramirez with the highly anticipated Pixar Studios film, Coco. Featuring a beautiful original story based on the characters of...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
While Milo and his sister travel to a detention center to visit their incarcerated mother, he observes strangers on the subway and draws what he imagines their lives to be.
7) The living
Author
Series
The living volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After an earthquake destroys California and a tsunami wrecks the luxury cruise ship where he is a summer employee, high schooler Shy confronts another deadly surprise.
Author
Publisher
Editorial Corimbo
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Primera edicion.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
Español
Description
Jackson y su abuela toman el autobus y juntos descubren la belleza y la magia de la vida cotidiana y del mundo que los rodea.
A young boy rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things.
10) The hunted
Author
Series
The living volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After surviving the earthquake and tsunami, Shy manages to make it back to land but he is far from safe because a secret his cruise ship co-worker, Addie, shared with him is one that people have killed for, and now that Shy knows, he has become a moving target.
11) I will save you
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
First edition
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Kidd Ellison runs away to work for the summer at a beach campsite in California where his hard work and good looks lead to friendship and love but painful past memories surface in menacing ways.
12) We were here
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
First edition
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the event that sentences him to time in a group home, Miguel breaks out with two unlikely companions and together they begin their journey down the California coast hoping to get to Mexico and a new life.
13) Ball don't lie
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sticky lives for basketball and plays at school and at the Lincoln Rec Center in Los Angeles but he is unaware of the many dangers--including his own past--that threaten his dream of playing professionally.
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
321 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you're going to fall in love with My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories by twelve bestselling young adult writers, edited by the international bestselling Stephanie Perkins. Whether you enjoy celebrating Christmas or Hanukkah, Winter Solstice or New Years, there's something...