Robert Ramirez
1) Tertulia
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fluid, expansive new collection from a poet whose work "dazzles with [an] energetic exploration of the Puerto Rican experience in the new millennium" (NBC News)
Puerto Rican poet Vincent Toro's new collection takes the Latin American idea of an artistic social gathering (the "tertulia") and revises it for the Latinx context in the United States. In verses dense with juxtaposition, the collection examines immigration, economics, colonialism...
Puerto Rican poet Vincent Toro's new collection takes the Latin American idea of an artistic social gathering (the "tertulia") and revises it for the Latinx context in the United States. In verses dense with juxtaposition, the collection examines immigration, economics, colonialism...
2) Dogsong
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels assailed by the modernity of his life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself.
Author
Series
Heir chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Racing against time, Jonah and Emma, who possess unique magical gifts, work to uncover the truth about Thorn Hill, a peaceful commune that the Wizard Guild claims is a hotbed of underguild terrorists.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Adept at portraying Latino teenage culture, author Gary Soto has won many honors, including an ALA Best Book Award for his young adult novels. After an East Fresno student is murdered, his mind leaves his body. Now he must get used to being an invisible spirit-one who watches his friends and family deal with his death.
Author
Series
Publisher
Deborah Brodie Book/Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A loner who communes with the dead in the town cemetery hears the voice of a murdered cheerleader and tries to convince the adults that he knows what happened to her.
10) The wizard heir
Author
Series
Heir chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Seph, a powerful wizard, gets caught up in a conflict between the Wizard Council, smaller groups with their own agendas, and a rogue politician--the Dragon--whose identity and whereabouts the others seek to know.
11) The dragon heir
Author
Series
Heir chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"The covenant that was meant to keep the wizard wars at bay has been stolen, and Trinity must prepare for attack. When Jason Haley finds a powerful talisman --a huge opal called the Dragonheart--buried in a cave, his role takes on new importance. The stone seems to sing to Jason's very soulMadison Moss can feel the beating heart of the opal, too. Moral compasses spin out of control as a final battle storms through what was once a sanctuary for the...
12) The warrior heir
Author
Series
Heir chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
After learning about his magical ancestry and his own warrior powers, sixteen-year-old Jack embarks on a training program to fight enemy wizards.
Author
Series
Heir chronicles volume 5
Publisher
Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
While trying to clear their names as the prime suspects in a series of vicious murders, Emma and Jonah must take sides in an epic battle that will decide the fate of the magical world.
14) Bless Me, Ultima
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
This coming-of-age classic from "one of the nation's foremost Chicano literary artists" follows a young boy as he questions his faith and beliefs after a curandera woman introduces herbs and magic into his life (Denver Post).
Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family...
Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Skippyjon has found the bones of a gigantico ancient dinosaur, the Skipposaurus. But mom insists that they belong to Darwin the dog and he'd better return them soon. Skippyjon will return them (most of them)-but not before he enters the land of the Skipposaurus as none other than Skippito Friskito, the best muchacho around!