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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
"Lately, seventh grader Nizhoni Begay has been able to detect monsters, like that man in the fancy suit who was in the bleachers at her basketball game. Turns out he's Mr. Charles, her dad's new boss at the oil and gas company, and he's alarmingly interested in Nizhoni and her brother, Mac, their Navajo heritage, and the legend of the Hero Twins. Nizhoni knows he's a threat, but her father won't believe her. When Dad disappears the next day, leaving...
4) Tumble
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ramr̕ez 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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In 1824 New Mexico, nine-year-old Josefina is happy when her grandparents and aunt come to visit, but she thinks she must choose between meeting her grandmother's expectations and being true to herself. Includes historical notes on women's rights in New Mexico in 1824 as well as a recipe for apple empanaditas.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
While her friends are spending their summers having pool parties and sleepovers, twelve-year-old Carolina (Carol) is spending hers in the middle of the New Mexico desert, helping her parents move the grandfather she's never met into a home for people with dementia. At first, Carol avoids prickly Grandpa Serge. But as the summer wears on and the heat bears down, Carol finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by the crazy stories he tells her about a...
9) Cold case
Author
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When thirteen-year-old Oz Keiller finds a dead body in his family's Santa Fe, New Mexico, restaurant, he is determined to solve the mystery in which his older brother is implicated, but which also involves their long-dead father, who was accused of being a spy.
10) Mystic
Author
Series
Soul seekers volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Since coming to Enchantment, New Mexico everything in Daire Santos life has changed. And not all for the better. While she's come to accept and embrace her new powers as a Soul Seeker, Daire struggles with the responsibility she holds navigating between the worlds of the living and the dead"--
Author
Series
World of adventure volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
After Sam's anthropoligist father fails to meet them at the airport, cousins Katie, Sam and Shala set out for the ancient cliff dwellings located across a deep and rocky canyon at El Debajo.
13) Tortilla sun
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
While spending a magical summer in New Mexico with her grandmother, twelve-year-old Izzy makes new friends, learns to cook, and for the first time hears stories about her father, who died before she was born.
14) Abuelos
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Young Ray and Amelia move to a new village in New Mexico and experience the fright and fun of "los abuelos" for the first time. In the cold months of midwinter, village men disappear to disguise themselves as scary old men and then descend on the children, teasing them and asking if they've been good. Abstract: Sumario en español: Ray y Amelia, descubren por primera vez una vieja tradición de Nuevo México llamada´ "los abuelos." En el medio de...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Painting in her grandmother's studio and riding her favorite horse, Georgia, helps fourth-grader Saige cope with missing Mimi and sparks an idea for funding the school art program, but more creativity will be needed to keep Georgia from being sold.
16) Yossel's journey
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Yossel, along with his family, flees anti-Jewish Russian pogroms in the late nineteenth century and settles in the American Southwest where he forges a friendship with Thomas, a Native American Navajo boy"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Upset that her New Mexico school can only afford music and art teachers in alternate years, fourth-grader Saige works with her grandmother, Mimi, to plan a fundraiser but when Mimi has an accident, Saige relies on new friend Gabi to help.
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
With Christmas only days away, it snows so heavily that Jacobo the wood carver and his visiting grandson are afraid the roads will not be cleared in time for the rest of the family to come from the city, and that a sick neighbor will not get the help he needs. Presented in English and Spanish.
19) Fated
Author
Series
Soul seekers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 17
Description
"Since coming to Enchantment, New Mexico everything in Daire Santos life has changed. And not all for the better. While she's come to accept and embrace her new powers as a Soul Seeker, Daire struggles with the responsibility she holds navigating between the worlds of the living and the dead"--
Author
Series
Junior explorer series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
Budding naturalists Lucy, Benjamin, and Gabe camp in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico, and travel to White Sands National Monument and Carlsbad Caverns, exploring their environment and becoming Junior Rangers along the way.