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Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
2) Bluebird
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1946 Eva arrives in New York City, from the rubble of Berlin, supposedly looking for a new life, but actually seeking justice against the Nazis that "escaped" with the help of the CIA; one in particular, the doctor who knows who Eva really is, because her identity is the product Project Bluebird, an experiment of the concentration camps involving brainwashing and mind control, which both the Americans and the Soviets would like access to--and Eva...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
High school senior Ben takes his younger brother Noah and three friends to their family's abandoned cabin, where Noah is frightened by the legendary mothman but the others do not believe him.
Author
Series
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
[1970]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary ramps up the humor and adventure in the second book in the Mouse series. With a motorcycle to rev and the open road to see, Ralph S. Mouse is itching to run away from his overprotective family. But once he escapes to a summer campground nearby, the horrors of the wild make him doubt his plan. Angry cats, scary watchdogs, and grouchy gophers are only the half of it! But then he befriends Garf, a sad and friendless...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Berlin, 1989. As the wall between East and West falls, Miriam Winter cares for her dying father, Henryk. When he cries out for someone named Frieda - and Miriam discovers an Auschwitz tattoo hidden under his watch strap - Henryk's secret history begins to unravel.Searching for more clues of her father's past, Miriam finds an inmate uniform from the Ravensbrück women's camp concealed among her mother's things. Within its seams are dozens of letters...
7) Displacement
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself stuck back in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class. She...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Mia Tang is going for the goal in the fourth Front Desk novel by New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang! The Women's World Cup coming to Southern California, everyone is soccer-crazy -- especially Mia Tang! The U.S. is playing China in the finals, and Mia feels like her two identities are finally coming together. Less exciting, though? The fact that her P.E. teacher wants Mia to get out of the soccer field, too -- or fall short of the grade...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Esperanza and Mama are forced to flee the bountiful region of Aguascalientes, Mexico, to a Mexican farm labor camp in California, they must adjust to a life without the fancy dresses and servants they were accustomed to on Rancho de las Rosas. Now they must confront the challenges of hard work, acceptance by their own people, and economic difficulties brought on by the Great Depression. When Mama falls ill and a strike for better working conditions...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 31
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Jack and Annie are about to meet the fiercest warriors of all--the soldiers of the ancient Roman legion! When the magic tree house whisks them back to a ROman army camp, they learn their mission: Be like warriors. That is easier said than done--Roman soldiers are the best fighters in the world! When Jack and Annie find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time, they're in big trouble. Who will save Jack and Annie?"--Page [2] of cover.