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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thelonius Mitchell is tired of being labeled. He's in special ed, separated from the "normal" kids at school who don't have any "issues." That's enough to make all the teachers and students look at him and his friends with a constant side-eye. (Although his disruptive antics and pranks have given him a rep too.) When a gun is found at a neighborhood hangout, Thelonius and his pals become instant suspects. Thelonius may be guilty of pulling crazy...
3) Revolution
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
It's 1964 in Greenwood, Mississippi, and Sunny's town is being invaded by people from up north who are coming to help people register to vote. Her personal life isn't much better, as a new stepmother, brother, and sister are crowding into her life, giving her little room to breathe.--From publisher description.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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"As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuse to be left behind. With communism sweeping the globe, the two nations begin a neck-and-neck competition to build even more destructive bombs and conquer the Space Race. In their battle for dominance,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
A first-hand graphic novel account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights continues to cover his involvement in the Freedom Vote and Mississippi Freedom Summer campaigns, and the Selma to Montgomery march.
6) Sparrow
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Sparrow Cooke of Brooklyn has always been the kind of child who prefers reading books to playing with friends (not that she has many of those) and since fifth grade the one person who seemed to understand her was the school librarian--so when Mrs. Wexler was killed in an accident, Sparrow's world came apart, and when she was found on the edge of the school roof everyone assumed that it was a suicide attempt, which Sparrow denies,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Born into the middle of World War II, Gary Paulsen's turbulent childhood provided plenty of subject matter for his bestselling novels, and the librarians in his life gave him the inspiration and support to explore the world through books. As a soldier himself, his storytelling technique developed, and for the first time he shares his own.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Caitlin has never had a real boyfriend before. When she starts seeing Blade, she throws herself into the relationship with fervor. She ignores her friends who warn her that Blade may be a phony and that she is taking the whole thing too seriously. Caitlin is smitten. She doesn't care if she loses her friends. All she wants is Blade. When Caitlin sees Blade with another girl, she completely loses it. She snaps. Everything goes red. When she comes...
9) Unfadeable
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A young graffiti artist learns to fight smart against the gentrification threatening her neighborhood"--
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"A heart-healing, mocs-on-the-ground story of music, family and friendship." -- Cynthia Leitich Smith, author of Tantalize and Rain is Not My Indian Name.
Lewis "Shoe" Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he's not used to is white kids being nice to him -- kids like George Haddonfield, whose family recently moved to town...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories.
Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he's been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake.
Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli's best friend, will drive their...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Beals' recollection of white oppression and her rise above it will haunt readers. A must-read for teens." —School Library Journal
From the legendary civil rights activist and author of the million-copy-selling Warriors Don't Cry comes an ardent and profound childhood memoir of growing up while facing adversity in the Jim Crow South.
Long before she was one of the Little Rock Nine, Melba Pattillo
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Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arriving in America, the so-called beautiful country, Anna, a young Taiwanese girl, finds it anything but beautiful as she and her family struggle to make a place for themselves in this world and learn the true meaning of home.
15) Solo
Author
Publisher
Blink
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Blade endeavors to resolve painful issues from his past and navigate the challenges of his former rockstar father's addictions, scathing tabloid rumors, and a protected secret that threatens his own identity.
16) So Done
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When best friends Tai and Mila are reunited after a summer apart, their friendship threatens to combust from the pressure of secrets, middle school, and the looming dance auditions for a new talented-and-gifted program.
Fans of Renée Watson's Piecing Me Together will love this memorable story about a complex friendship between two very different African American girls—and the importance of speaking up.
Jamila
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Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller The Blind Side, The Invisible Thread tells of the unlikely friendship between a busy executive and a disadvantage young boy, and how both of their lives changed forever.