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Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 52
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack and Annie search for the fourth secret of greatness for Merlin the Magician in Mexico City at the 1970 World Cup Games where they hope to learn something new from soccer player great Pele.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Nathan goes to visit his grandma, Nali, at her mobile summer home on the Navajo reservation, he knows he's in for a pretty uneventful summer, with no electricity or cell service. Still, he loves spending time with Nali and with his uncle Jet, though it's clear when Jet arrives that he brings his problems with him. One night, while lost in the nearby desert, Nathan finds someone extraordinary: a Holy Being from the Navajo Creation Story--a Water...
Author
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
On the Hill of Dust, in the remote mountains of Mexico, an eleven-year-old Mixtec boy called Teo lives with his family and the animals that he has healed, but one day a Romany caravan rolls into town with a young girl who calls herself Esma, the Gypsy Queen of Lightning--it is the beginning of a life-long friendship that will change both their lives.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
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.
8) Lando
Author
Series
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Orlando Sackett got to Texas with a damn good idea of the whereabouts of buried gold across the border in Mexico. In Mexico he had bad luck. His party had to run for it, and when Lando stood rear guard they pulled out and left him. Six years in a Mexican prison put muscles in his arms, fire in his heart and pure recklessness in his head. He survived by using his skills as a boxer and by making three vows. One was to find the men who betrayed him....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Lizzie and Gael share an irresistible challenge, to find the peacock ring that once belonged to artist Frida Kahlo, Paloma decides it is the perfect way to honor her father.
Author
Series
Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume no. 5
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
580L
Physical Desc
89 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
1020L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"This moving, beautifully illustrated biography tells the remarkable story of how model and teacher Luz Jǐmnez became "the soul of Mexico"--a living link between the indigenous Nahua and the rest of the world. Through her deep pride in her roots and her unshakeable spirit, the world came to recognize the beauty and strength of her people." -- inside front jacket flap.
A fictionalized account of a Nahua woman who grew up in Mexico during the early...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old spy in training Ben Ripley is sent to Mexico to try to thwart the evil organization, SPYDER--the CIA's main enemy.
Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley has been caught in the snares of SPYDER more than once and knows well enough to be suspicious of anything that seems too good to be truedespite needing special tutoring in advanced survival techniques. So when Murray Hill finally breaks his silence with an offer to hand over the SPYDER elite,...
13) Cowgirl grit
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sydney Todachine is looking forward to a summer on the beaches of San Diego before starting sixth-grade, but instead she finds herself on her Grandfather's ranch on the Navajo Nation reservation with no wi-fi, and while a couple of the kids are pretty nice, her cousin Hadley is as nasty as ever--but Sydney bonds with a spirited horse called Midnight, and together they start training at night for the upcoming rodeo.
14) Tumble
Author
Description
Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ram©Ưrez reaches out to her estranged biological father--who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador--and the eccentric extended family of wrestlers she has never met, bringing Adela closer to understanding the expansive definition of family.
Twelve-year-old Adela {28}Addie
15) Tumble
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez reaches out to her estranged biological father--who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador--and the eccentric extended family of wrestlers she has never met, bringing Adela closer to understanding the expansive definition of family.
Twelve-year-old Adela {28}Addie
16) Lotería
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Oaxaca City, Mexico, ancient friends Life and Death discuss free will while engaged in a game of chance, with eleven-year-old Clara as the protagonist of their theories and a pawn in their game, moving inevitably towards her ultimate fate. Includes author's notes and reader's guide.
Author
Series
Boxcar children mysteries volume 37
Pub. Date
1993
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
While visiting a Navaho Indian reservation in New Mexico, the Aldens try to save a forest under threat of development by proving it is the site of a lost, buried village, but someone is sabotaging their dig.
18) Loter©Ưa
Author
Lexile measure
740L
Description
In Oaxaca City, Mexico, ancient friends Life and Death discuss free will while engaged in a game of chance, with eleven-year-old Clara as the protagonist of their theories and a pawn in their game, moving inevitably towards her ultimate fate. Includes author's notes and reader's guide.
19) Eruption
Author
Series
Storm runners volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Chase and his friend Nicole Rossi attempt to rescue the Rossi Brothers' Circus--lions, tigers, elephants, and all--in Mexico, where a massive earthquake has struck, leading to the imminent eruption of a volcano.
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
190 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On the eve of her Quinceañera, Princess Solimar discovers that it will take more than magic to save her kingdom and prevent the destruction of the Monarch butterfly.