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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

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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