Danielle Joseph
1) Pure red
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Cassia Bernard gives basketball a chance in an attempt to capture the interest of a boy named Graham Hadley, but when her father, an experienced artist, agrees to mentor Graham with his art project, all of his attention is focused on her father instead of her.
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Ruth First was born in South Africa, where her Jewish family fled from danger in Europe in the early 1900s. South Africa was a safe place for Jews, but not for Black people. Inspired by her parents' example, a teenage Ruth started a secret book club with her friends to talk about inequality, but she knew she also had to speak out in public. In college, she protested with other students, including Nelson Mandela, and wrote stories for the newspaper...
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English
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Sydney Frankel, soon to be a sixth-grader, is looking forward to a summer of fun with her best friend, Maggie. She figures she deserves some time to herself to do what she wants before her mom delivers Sydney's new sibling in just four months. Too bad Sydney's mom has other plans for her.
Sydney's forced to take a summer course at the South Miami Community Center. She's allowed to take any class, except for what she really wants-a reading course....