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MY FAVORITES

Age Range

14 - 17

Genre

fiction

Page Count

184

Publisher

Point

Grade Level

10th - 11th

ISBN

9780545402422

Lexile

640L

Themes

fiction

Border Town: Falling Too Fast

Written by Malín Alegría

The Texas border town of Dos Rios is divided — the Whites and the Mexican-Americans, the legal and the illegal, the haves and the have-nots — but the Garza sisters always have each other. Mature content

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Age Range

14 - 17

Genre

fiction

Page Count

184

Publisher

Point

Grade Level

10th - 11th

ISBN

9780545402422

Lexile

640L

Themes

fiction

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