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1) Cloaked
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Johnny is approached at his family's struggling shoe repair shop in a Miami, Florida, hotel by Alorian Princess Victoriana, who asks him to find her brother who was turned into a frog.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Since her mother died, twelve-year-old Lily has struggled to care for her severely autistic half-brother, Adam, in their Miami home, but she is frustrated and angry because her oncologist step-father, Don, expects her to devote her time to Adam, and is unwilling to admit that Adam needs professional help. When Adam bonds with a young dolphin with cancer Lily is confronted with another dilemma: should her family's happiness take precedence over the...
Author
Series
Jack Henry books volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Moving with his unbearable sister to Miami, Florida, Jack tries to break some of his bad habits but finds himself irresistibly drawn to things disgusting, gross, and weird.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
When his family's restaurant and Cuban American neighborhood in Miami are threatened by a greedy land developer, thirteen-year-old Arturo, joined by Carmen, a cute poetry enthusiast, fight back, discovering the power of poetry and protest through untold family stories and the work of Jose\0301 Marti\0301.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
In his family's new rental home on a down-at-the heels street in sun-beaten Miami -- with dog-eating alligators in the canal out back, a dangerously attractive girl across the road, and the unhinged Pagoda family next door -- fourteen-year-old Jack is adrift, losing a sense of who he is and what he's all about. Which is why he ends up trying to morph himself into someone he's not, that someone being sixteen-year-old Gary Pagoda, a.k.a. Scary Gary,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
"Eighteen-year-old Carmen takes on a summer internship that has her reuniting with estranged family for an over-the-top quinceañera, reluctantly reconnecting to a long-lost ex-boyfriend, and finding happiness in the chaos"--
Carmen Aguilar just wants to make her happily ever after come true. Which involves being stuck in an unpaid summer internship-- performing in a ball gown-- during the summer-- in Miami! Then the company is hired for her spoiled...
Author
Series
Maggie Diaz volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
This humorous and heartfelt middle-grade novel by Nina Moreno is perfect for fans of Celia C. Pérez and Terri Libenson.
Spring semester is here and Maggie is killing it! Her grades are up, she's loving outdoor track and field, and being a seventh grader means the awesome spring break trip to St. Augustine is almost here. She can't wait for her first overnight trip away from her overprotective parents, lovesick sister, and busybody abuela. Nothing...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When unrest hits the streets of Havana, Cuba, Julian's parents must make the heartbreaking decision to send him and his two brothers away to Miami via the Pedro Pan operation. But when the boys get to Miami, they are thrust into a world where bullies seem to run rampant and it's not always clear how best to protect themselves. Inspired very much by his own experiences of leaving Cuba when he was a boy, Flores-Galbis offers up a coming-of-age story...
Author
Series
Amigas volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Carmen is turning fifteen and her friends Sarita, Alicia, Jamie, and Gaz plan to throw her a quinceañera; but when the group decides to join a reality show competition, Carmen feels like her party is becoming less important.
11) Deep zone
Author
Series
Football genius novels volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2012, �2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old football stars Troy White and Ty Lewis are eager to face each other in a seven-on-seven tournament being held at the Super Bowl in Miami, unaware that bad choices made my members of their families will put both boys in danger.
12) Fifteen candles
Author
Series
Amigas volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
For Alicia Cruz and her three best friends--Carmen, Jamie, and Gaz--quinceñeras, the fantastic parties thrown for Latina girls turning fifteen, are a staple of the Miami social scene. But this summer after meeting the new girl in town, Alicia ends up volunteering to help organize Sarita's quince. Soon Alicia is drowning in preparations and turning into a quince-zilla. Will she learn to trust her amigas and rock the party?
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight, an impring to Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Vivo sets off for a short trip to Miami, but there's nothing short about the journey he ends up taking! Join him as he sings and dances his way on his quest to keep a promise, and as he makes new friends along the way!"--
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