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21) Tender mercies
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Is She Really Leaving Forever? Tracing the difficulties and joys of carving out a life from the Dakota sod in the second half of the 800s, Tender Mercies continues Snelling's Red River saga and will pull your heartstrings and make you feel the joys and frustrations of life on the open lands of the 9th century mid-west. The rich farmlands of the Dakota Territory in 1887 are finally beginning to yield the abundant harvest the pioneers had dreamed about...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Katsuyamas never quit -- but seventeen-year-old CJ doesn't even know where to start. She's never lived up to her mom's type A ambition, and she's perfectly happy just helping her aunt, Hannah, at their family's flower shop. She doesn't buy into Hannah's romantic ideas about flowers and their hidden meanings, but when it comes to arranging the perfect bouquet, CJ discovers a knack she never knew she had. A skill she might even be proud of. Then her...
23) Good enough
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A Korean American teenager tries to please her parents by getting into an Ivy League college, but a new guy in school and her love of the violin tempt her in new directions.
24) O pioneers!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Swedish farmer John Bergson's daughter Alexandra encourages the family members to help keep his dream alive after his death.
25) Fish & Bones
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Bones, intent on collecting the reward for finding a bank robber, discovers some of the ugly secrets hidden in his small Florida town.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1992, c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 1941 a black youth, sadistically teased by two white boys in rural Mississippi, severely injures one of them with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.
27) The guardians
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In a small Florida town, a young lawyer is shot to death. A young black man, a former client, named Quincy Miller is charged and convicted. For 22 years, Miller maintains his innocence from inside prison. Finally, Guardian Ministries takes on Miller's case, but the Episcopal minister in charge gets more than he bargained for as powerful people do not want Miller exonerated.
29) The broker
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
John Grisham, delivers another legal thriller of unparalled suspense. With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington power broker, Joel Blackman, receives a surprise pardon from a lame-duck president. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Blackman has serious enemies from his past. As the CIA watches him closely, the question is not...
30) Ashes of roses
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Margaret Rose Nolan, newly arrived from Ireland, finds work at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory shortly before the 1911 fire in which 146 employees died.
33) An untamed land
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Proud of Their Heritage and Sustained by Their Faith, They Came to Tame a New Land She had promised herself that once they left the fjords of Norway, she would not look back. After three long years of scrimping and saving to buy tickets for their passage to America, Roald and Ingeborg Bjorklund, along with their son, Thorliff, finally arrive at the docks of New York City. It was the promise of free land that fed their dream and lured them from their...
34) The jungle
Author
Series
Publisher
Ann Arbor Media Group
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
A documentary novel portraying industry's conditions at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Sinclair's novel prompted public outrage which led President Theodore Roosevelt to demand an official investigation. This eventually led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug laws.
35) Slam!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.
Coretta Scott King author award book : 1997.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird.
Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: when her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. When she travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time, Leigh is determined to find her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Newbery honor book: 2009.
In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.
Author
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
c2004, c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Barack Obama tells the story of his life as the son of a black African father and a white American mother, searching for a workable meaning to his life as an African American.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While playing in a crucial basketball game on the very court where his best friend was murdered, Mackey tries to come to terms with his own part in that murder and decide whether to maintain his silence or tell J.R.'s father and the police what really happened.