Joe Cepeda
1) The swing
Author
Publisher
A. A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Josey uses the new swing attached to the tree in her messy yard, she retrieves all the things her parents thought they had lost over the years, including Leopoldo, their dog.
2) I hop
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
A boy rides a pogo stick to a visit with grandma.
3) I help
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"When a boy finds a canteen in his garage, he finds his superpower--helping everyone, from the postman to the local birds"--
5) Up
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"On a very windy day, a boy stands by a window with his pinwheel and is suddenly whisked into the sky where he can see a pig, a hen, a cow, and a sheep"--
10) Mice and beans
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this rhythmic cumulative tale Rosa Maria spends the week getting ready for her granddaughter's birthday party and trying to avoid attracting mice--unaware that the mice in her walls are preparing for a party of their own.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Three afternoons a week, Brandon reluctantly stays with his imaginative classmate, Hannah, and her oversized cat, Buttercup, playing games, but their adventures really begin when a new neighbor moves in with a ferocious chihuahua named Bucky.
13) The cat's meow
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Eight-year-old Graciela, who is half Mexican, is amazed when her cat Pip starts speaking in Spanish.
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the Book trade by Publishers Group West
Pub. Date
©2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When his mother is sent back to Mexico for not having the proper immigration papers, José and his father travel from San Diego, California, to visit her in Tijuana.
Cuando su madre es enviada de vuelta a México por no tener los documentos adecuados de inmigración, José y su padre van desde San Diego, California, a visitarla en Tijuana.
Author
Series
Get ready for Gabí volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In Northern California, Maritza Gabriela Morales Mercado struggles to deal with the third grade bully, to control her temper, and to remember to speak Spanish at home and English at school.
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Something special happened when Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez met. Together, they fought for the rights of countless farmworkers. Side by side, inspiring hope, they changed history.
Algo especial sucedió cuando Dolores Huerta y César Chávez se conocieron. Ellos lucharon juntos por los derechos de los campesinos. Lado a lado cultivaron esperanza, cambiando el curso de la historia.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Con sus relucientes gafas de sol, su lonchera clásica y sus lápices tamborileros, Lupe Lopez llega el primer día a kínder lista para el rock. "¡Soy famosa!" anuncia Lupe mientras tamborilea sobre cualquier cosa--pupitres, sillas y mesas--, mientras más ruidoso, mejor. En la escuela hay muchas reglas, pero las estrellas de rock no obedecen las reglas, así que Lupe tampoco. Antes de que acabe el día, la maestra le ha quitado todas sus preciadas...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Jamey Tortoise is smarter than anyone else and Jimi Hare is faster, but when a race is announced each consults a reporter about how to get what he really wants when and if he should win in this updated twist on the familiar fable.
20) Freddy in peril
Author
Series
Golden hamster saga volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2006], 2004
Description
A cat, two guinea pigs, and a colony of brave sewer rats band together in order to save Freddy, a golden hamster, from an evil scientist who's discovered that Freddy can read and write, and plans to hamster-nap him in order to dissect his brain.