Ann Cameron
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Description
Relates episodes in seven-year-old Julian's life which include getting into trouble with his younger brother Huey, planting a garden, what he did to try to grow taller, losing a tooth, and finding a new friend.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Growing up with his grandmother in a small Guatemalan town, seven-year-old Juan discovers the value of hard work, the joy of learning, and the location of the most beautiful place in the world.
4) Colibri
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped when she was very young by an unscrupulous man who has forced her to lie and beg to get money, a twelve-year-old Mayan girl endures an abusive life, always wishing she could return to the parents she can hardly remember.
8) Gloria's way
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Gloria shares special times with her mother and father and with her friends Julian, Huey, and Latisha.
9) Colibrí
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
Español
Description
Kidnapped from a crowded bus in Guatemala City when she was four years old, twelve-year-old Rosa is forced into a life of lies and deceit by her abductor until she manages to escape and seek the help from the Day-Keeper who is able to locate her parents.
11) Gloria rising
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
A chance meeting with a woman astronaut encourages Gloria to try to be her best self, even with her difficult fourth-grade teacher, Mrs. Yardley.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Relates the experiences of an African prince who was kidnapped into slavery in 1775 and followed his various masters from the Americas to Europe and through the Caribbean.