Meg Medina
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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It is the summer of 1977, and New York is suffering under a heat wave, a massive blackout, and a killer named the Son of Sam, while seventeen-year-old Cuban American Nora Lopez wants to escape her increasingly violent younger brother and worries about college applications and paying rent to spend her days working at the deli with the cute new Colombian boy and her nights at the disco dancing with her best friend Kathleen.
Nora Lopez is seventeen...
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Merci Suarez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older brother, Roli, are scholarship students. They don't have a big house or a fancy boat, and they have to do extra community service to make up for their free tuition. So when bossy Edna Santos sets her sights on the new boy who happens to be Merci's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Publisher Annotation: In a satisfying finale to her trilogy, Newbery Medalist Meg Medina follows Merci Suarez into an eighth-grade year full of changes-evolving friendships, new responsibilities, and heartbreaking loss.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Sonia Ocampo was born on the night of the worst storm Tres Montes had ever seen. And when the winds mercifully stopped, an unshakable belief in the girl's protective powers began. All her life, Sonia has been asked to pray for sick mothers or missing sons, as worried parents and friends press silver milagros in her hands. Sonia knows she has no special powers, but how can she disappoint those who look to her for solace? Still, her...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Winner of the 2014 Pura Belpré Author Award
In Meg Medina's compelling new novel, a Latina teen is targeted by a bully at her new school — and must discover resources she never knew she had.
One morning before school, some girl tells Piddy Sanchez that Yaqui Delgado hates her and wants to kick her ass. Piddy doesn't even know who Yaqui is, never mind what she's done to piss her off. Word is that Yaqui thinks Piddy is stuck-up,