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Author
Series
Under the never sky trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Aria and Perry, two teens from radically different societies--one highly advanced, the other primitive--hate being dependent on one another until they overcome their prejudices and fall in love, knowing they can't stay together"--
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author of A Room of My Own and A Place Called Morning, Ann Tatlock returns with the soul-searching inspirational novel, All the Way Home. Augie Schuler recalls her childhood, dim and depressing except for her one true friendship with Sunny Yamagata and her family. Through this gift from God, Augie was able to experience glimpses of happiness. But the girls were torn away from each other and times changed. Will they ever reunite?
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Winner of the Newbery Medal, this remarkably moving novel has impressed the hearts and minds of millions of readers.
Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, this is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face of racism and social injustice. And it is also Cassie's story—Cassie Logan, an independent girl who discovers over the course of an important year why having...
Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, this is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face of racism and social injustice. And it is also Cassie's story—Cassie Logan, an independent girl who discovers over the course of an important year why having...
6) Internment
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"A terrifying, futuristic United States where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence"--
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.
Author
Series
Under the never sky trilogy volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In their effort to reach the fabled Still Blue, Aria and Perry will have to rescue Cinder, defeat Sable and Hess, and unite the Dwellers and the Outsiders once and for all"--
Their love and their leadership have been tested. Now it's time for Perry and Aria to unite the Dwellers and the Outsiders in one last desperate attempt to bring balance to their world.
10) Witness
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
Author
Publisher
ABRAMS, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A sixteen-year-old biracial girl in rural Oregon in the 1920s searches for the truth about her father's death while avoiding trouble from the Ku Klux Klan in this YA historical novel inspired by Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'"--
12) The last human
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After machines take control of Earth, following the extinction of humans, twelve-year-old robot XR 935A confronts its prejudices about humans and begins to reconsider its own existence within robot society after discovering and befriending a twelve-year-old human girl.--
13) Monster high
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Melody is new, Frankie is newer - can they survive the "horrors" of high school.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
15) Dig
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In a small East Texas town largely ruled by prejudices and bullies, fourteen-year-old Austin sets out to win a ride in the next parade and, in the process, grows in her understanding of friendship and helps her widowed mother through her mourning.
17) 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
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While trying to earn money for a motor bike, fourteen-year-old Joe Pederson becomes involved with the Mexicans who work on his family's farm and develops a better relationship with his father.