ESOL Books: Print, Ebooks and Audiobooks: Level 6

12-year-old Lily and Salma Santiago, a young Hispanic girl whose migrant family are in Maine for the blueberry-picking season, bond over their shared love of dogs. When the Blueberry Queen pageant approaches, Lily and Selma are confronted with some of the hard truths of prejudice and migrant life.

Based on a legend told and retold for many generations in the remote Yukon River region of northeast Alaska, this is the tragic and shocking story (with an unexpected upbeat ending) of two elderly women who are abandoned by a migrating band facing starvation because of unusually harsh Arctic weather and a shortage of fish and game.

Jennie has been a widow for two years. Her son and friend think it's about time she started dating, so she signs up to an online dating site. Within hours, she has several dates lined up for the week. It's only one date, right? How bad could it be? Humorous fiction.

Warm, feisty, and intelligent, the Delany sisters speak their mind in a book that is at once an historical record and a moving portrait of two remarkable African American women who continued to love, laugh, and embrace life after over a hundred years of living side by side. Bessie Delany breaks barriers to become a dentist; Sadie Delany quietly integrates the New York City system as a high school teacher. Their extraordinary story helps us understand U.S. history. Biography

A marine biologist discovered a surprising connection between sea otters and sea grass on the coast of northern California

This is the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong -- not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become. Youth fiction

12-year-old Jonas lives in a colorless world of conformity and contentment. When he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory, he begins to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community.

When Esperanza and Mama are forced to flee to the bountiful region of Aguascalientes, Mexico, to a Mexican farm labor camp in California, they must adjust to a new life. When Mama falls ill and a strike for better working conditions threatens to uproot their new life, Esperanza must relinquish her hold on the past learn to embrace a future ripe with the riches of family and community.

Ignatius "Brother" Alderman, a 12-year-old boy, promises to help his grandparents keep the family's Oregon ranch the same while his brothers are away and his father is sent to fight to Iraq. But change is inevitable, and Brother comes to see the man he is meant to be.

Learn about the history of international soccer and the World Cup's greatest moments.

Between 1854 and 1930, more than 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children were sent west on orphan trains to find new homes. Some were adopted by loving families; others were not as fortunate. This is one boy's story.

A year after being diagnosed with hearing loss, twelve-year-old Rayne is doing her best to live a "normal" life and act like nothing has changed. Along the way, she discovers that "normal" can have many meanings—and that even though her ears may be broken, she is not. Youth fiction

After a year in exile on an Alaskan island as punishment for severely beating a fellow student, Cole Matthews returns to school in Minneapolis having made peace with himself and his victim--but he finds that surviving the violence and hatred of high school is even harder than surviving in the wilderness.

This is the story of Karana, the Indian girl who lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. The novel is not only an unusual adventure of survival, but also a tale of natural beauty and personal discovery.