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1) Dreamers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
"An illustrated picture book autobiography in which award-winning author Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A biography of Cesar Chavez, from age ten when he and his family lived happily on their Arizona ranch, to age thirty-eight when he led a peaceful protest against California migrant workers' miserable working conditions.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Description
When Reyna Grande's father leaves his wife and three children behind in a village in Mexico to make the dangerous trek across the border to the United States, he promises he will soon return from "El Otro Lado" (The Other Side) with enough money to build them a dream house where they can all live together. His promises become harder to believe as months turn into years. When he summons his wife to join him, Reyna and her siblings are deposited in...
4) Cesar Chavez
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
This is a biography of the union activist who led the struggle of migrant farm workers for better working conditions.
6) Cesar Chavez
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Simple text and photographs depict the life of the Mexican American labor leader who achieved justice for migrant farm workers by creating a union to protect their rights.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Join a young boy and his father on a daring journey from Mexico to Texas to find a new life. They ll need all the resilience and courage they can muster to safely cross the border - la frontera - and to make a home for themselves in a new land.
11) Selena
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Discusses the life and work of the award-winning Texas singer who had begun to popularize Tejano music when she was shot and killed by the president of her fan club.
13) Cesar Chavez
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book introduces Cesar Chavez, who worked to improve the lives of poor farm workers.
15) Cesar Chavez
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A brief biography of Cesar Chavez, the Mexican American union leader who fought to get migrant farm workers better wages.
18) Cesar Chavez
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
The life and historical significance of the Mexican American labor organizer who demanded rights for migrant farm workers.
19) Selena
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Looks at the life and career of Selena, the award-winning Tejano singer who was shot and killed by the president of her fan club in a dispute over finances.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
"Pedro Martin's grown up in the U.S. hearing stories about his legendary abuelito, but during a family road trip to Mexico, he connects with his grandfather and learns more about his own Mexican identity in this moving and hilarious graphic memoir"--