Robert Ramirez
1) Dogsong
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
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.
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Series
Heir chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
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"The covenant that was meant to keep the wizard wars at bay has been stolen, and Trinity must prepare for attack. Everyone is doing their part -- Seph is monitoring the Weirwalls; Jack and Ellen are training their ghostly army; even Anaweir Will and Fitch are setting booby traps around the town's perimeter. But to Jason Haley, it seems like everyone wants to keep him out of the action. He may not be the most powerful wizard in Trinity, but he's prepared...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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"Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. Ultima is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family ties that bind and rend him as he discovers himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past-a mythic legacy as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America. And at each life turn, there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world . . . and will nurture...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
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Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father, Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiance, and her own search-and-rescue blood hound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall. And then a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a secret that changes the world as she knows its.
5) The good dog
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
McKinley, a malamute, is torn between the domestic world of his human family and the wild world of Lupin, a wolf that is trying to recruit dogs to replenish the dwindling wolf pack.
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Series
Skippyjon Jones (Picture books) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Skippyjon Jones is a Siamese cat who wants to be a Chihuahua dog.
Author
Series
Skippyjon Jones (Picture books) volume 4
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Skippyjon Jones, the Siamese cat that wants to be a Chihuahua dog, goes hunting for dinosaurs.
10) A tree is nice
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Briefly describes the value of a tree.
11) Taking sides
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
Fourteen-year-old Lincoln Mendoza, an aspiring basketball player, must come to terms with his divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white suburban neighborhood.
12) Buried onions
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
When nineteen-year-old Eddie drops out of college, he struggles to find a place for himself as a Mexican American living in a violence-infested neighborhood of Fresno, California. A junior college dropout, 19-year-old Eddie is trying to support himself in this story set in the barrio of Fresno, California. Annotation. For Eddie there isn't much to do in his rundown neighborhood but eat, sleep, watch out for drive-bys, and just try to get through each...
13) The warrior heir
Author
Series
Heir chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
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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.
14) The wizard heir
Author
Series
Heir chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
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Description
Everyone has a secret to keep: Jason Haley, a fellow student who has been warned to stay away from Seph; the enchanter Linda Downey, who knew his parents; the rogue wizard Leander Hastings; and the warriors Jack Swift and Ellen Stephenson. This wizard war is one that Seph may not have the strength to survive.
16) The afterlife
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
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A senior at East Fresno High School lives on as a ghost after his brutal murder in the restroom of a club where he had gone to dance.
18) Jesse
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
Two Mexican American brothers hope that junior college will help them escape their heritage of tedious physical labor.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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When Buster the dog's owner goes away for a few days, he sends Buster to Sagebrush Kennels for Cowboy Camp, where Buster is homesick at first, but then has fun herding balls into the corral, gathering sticks for a campfire, and making wanted posters with his pawprints.