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Author
Series
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick-- a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins-- encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance.
Author
Series
Hap Collins and Leonard Pine novels volume 6
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Hap Collins and Leonard Pine head to Mexico to seek revenge for the murder of a beautiful young lady who had been involved with a Mexican mobster and who, along with her elderly father, had rescued them both from armed attackers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006, c1953
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Description
ugie March is a Jewish-American boy growing up fatherless and poor in Depression-era Chicago. He seeks a "special destiny," although his circumstances seem to position him for a uniquely disappointing life: his family consists of a simple-minded mother, a brother and "grandmother" who prove to be Machiavellian in their intentions, and an "idiot" youngest brother, Georgie.
8) Xibalbá
Author
Publisher
Nowtilus
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Español
Description
Zapatista guerrillas, drug traffic, political and military corruption, the inhospitable Chapas rain forest-- American expatriot David Wolf, and Smithsonian Institution archaeologist Karen Dumas risk their comfortable and peaceful academic careers to search for treasure: two mysterious Mayan books.
"La guerrilla zapatista, el tráfico de drogas, la corrupción política y militar, la inhóspita selva de Chapas... David Wolf, un estadounidense expatriado...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Detective Gideon Oliver and his wife are on vacation in Mexico when a local police chief requests his assistance on a case. After Oliver realizes the coroner has misidentified two bodies, he concludes these two mistakes are no coincidence.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The three Babcock sisters and their mother spend a lot of time at a Mexican clinic across the border from their San Diego home. There the mother is receiving alternative treatments for her leukemia. Vanessa, the middle child and a talented pianist, is trying to hold her family together despite the painful loss that they all know is inevitable. As she and her sisters navigate first loves and college dreams, they are completely unaware that an illness...
11) Curses!
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
©1989
Language
English
Description
Mayan ruins in the Yucatan ... a secret room in a tomb ... an ancient skeleton. To Gideon Oliver, anthropologist, this archaeological find is paradise on earth. He and his wife, Julie, have joined his old mentor, Abe Goldstein, at Tlaloc, Mexico, to make sure there are no dirty doings at the dig. Five years before scandal rocked the site when a colleague ran off with a priceless relic. Now Abe suspects something illegal is again going on. The discovery...
12) Don't look back
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Eve Hardaway, newly single mother of one, is on a trip she's long dreamed of--a rafting and hiking tour through the jungles and mountains of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. Eve wanders off the trail, to a house in the distance with a menacing man in the yard beyond it, throwing machetes at a human-shaped target. Disturbed by the sight, Eve moves quickly and quietly back to her group, taking care to avoid being seen. As she creeps along, she finds a broken...
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