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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"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"--
3) Internment
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"In 1937, there are recesses in Appalachia no outsiders have ever explored. Two government-sponsored documentarians from Cincinnati, Ohio - a writer and photographer - are dispatched to penetrate this wilderness and record what they find for President Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration. For photographer Clay Havens, the assignment is his last chance to reboot his flagging career. So when he and his journalist partner are warned away from the...
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel. North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she finds herself serving a three-year stint in the North Carolina Women's Correctional Center. Her dream of a career in art is put on hold-until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will see her released immediately. Her assignment: restore an old post...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
Newbery honor book: 1996.
Author
Publisher
ABRAMS, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"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'"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Astrid Jones copes with her small town's gossip and narrow-mindedness by staring at the sky and imagining that she's sending love to the passengers in the airplanes flying high over her backyard. Maybe they'll know what to do with it. Maybe it'll make them happy. Maybe they'll need it. Her mother doesn't want it, her father's always stoned, her perfect sister's too busy trying to fit in, and the people in her small town would never allow her to love...
12) 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
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
When Carey Parker, a genderqueer teen who dreams of being a diva like their hero Mariah Carey, is cast as the female lead in the school musical, they must fight against discrimination and injustice from their closed-minded school administration.
Carey Parker dreams of being a diva, and bringing the house down with song. They can hit every note of all the top pop and Broadway hits, but emotional scars from an incident with a homophobic classmate and...
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Marty and his best friend, Shiloh are on another adventure. Marty learns when a secret is too dangerous to keep, and that hate can spread like fire"-- Provided by publisher.
15) Hooper
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
For Adam Reed, basketball is a passport. Adam's basketball skills have taken him from an orphanage in Poland to a loving adoptive mother in Minnesota. When he's tapped to play on a select AAU team along with some of the best players in the state, it just confirms that basketball is his ticket to the good life: to new friendships, to the girl of his dreams, to a better future.
16) The last human
Author
Publisher
ABRAMS, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
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.-- Provided by Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town.
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When a racist incident rocks her small Michigan town, eleven-year-old Lekha must decide whether to speak up or stay silent, even as she struggles to navigate her life at home, where she can be herself, and at school, where she is teased about her culture.
20) Monster high
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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.
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