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Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While volunteering for the summer at the local lighthouse in her hometown of Rocky Point, sixteen-year-old Mandy Sullivan falls for the grandson of a local artist, and as the two explore all the lovely adventures the seaside town has to offer, Mandy wonders if their relationship is more than a summer fling--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
This mesmerizing narrative nonfiction draws on contemporary accounts as it traces the roots of an explosion that had been building for decades in race relations, politics, business, and clashes of culture.
Coretta Scott King Award winner * Carter G. Woodson Book Award from the National Council for the Social Studies
On a hot day in July 1919, five black youths went swimming in Lake Michigan, unintentionally
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Two young siblings flee the Chernobyl disaster with their parents, but the Communist party is on their heels. Meanwhile, the friends and family they were forced to leave behind must contend with a disinformation campaign that's determined to pretend nothing is wrong--even as deadly radiation spills into the air"--
6) Spin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When DJ ParSec (Paris Secord), rising star of the local music scene, is found dead over her turntables, the two girls who found her, Kya (her pre-fame best friend) and Fuse (her current chief groupie) are torn between grief for Paris and hatred for each other--but when the lack of obvious suspects stalls the investigation, and the police seem to lose interest, despite pressure from social media and ParSec's loyal fans, the two girls unite, determined...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While staying with his dad and uncle in a seaside cabin in Oregon, Jeremy meets and forms a friendship with local boy Evan that turns into something neither boy expected, but something they both wished for.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
387 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Raised in a family of psychics and witches, teen Daisy Goodnight is happy to help local police solve cold cases but when the FBI seeks her talents, she becomes involved in a mess that even has the spirits terrified.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Offers the true story of the pioneers who crossed the Atlantic to establish a new world in Massachusetts, the challenges they faced upon their arrival, and their relationship with the local Native Americans.
11) Indivisible
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
New York City high school student Mateo dreams of becoming a Broadway star, but his life is transformed after his parents are deported to Mexico.
12) No place
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Dan and his parents can no longer pay their mortgage, they end up homeless and living in a local tent city. It's a bad situation, and it only gets worse when the leader of the tent city is brutally beaten. Who is trying to shut down the tent city, and why?--
13) Frosted kisses
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her parents' separation Penny and her mother moved from New York City to upstate Hog's Hollow--now, six months later, Penny is still coping with the dynamics of her new situation, including possible boy friends, enemies at school, and getting swept up in her best friend Tally's campaign to raise money to save the local animal shelter.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the conclusion of the March trilogy, in which Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell to bring the lessons of history to life for a new generation.
15) The 57 bus
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
A nonfiction book for teens about race, class, gender, crime, and punishment that tells the true story of a teen who was set on fire by another teen while riding a bus in Oakland, California.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Presents a graphic memoir detailing the author's experiences as a child prisoner in the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II, reflecting on the choices his family made in the face of institutionalized racism.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
As she tries to escape her poor Chicago neighborhood by winning a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school, shy and studious eighth-grader Patrice discovers that she has more options in life than she previously realized.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
125 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
The glory-seeking Sir Yvain sets out from King Arthur's court, defeating a local lord in battle and unwittingly intertwining his future with the lives of Lady Laudine, widow of the fallen lord, and her sorcerous maid, Lunette.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"For African American women, the fight for the right to vote was only one battle. An eye-opening book that tells the important, overlooked story of Black women as a force in the suffrage movement--when fellow suffragists did not accept them as equal partners in the struggle."--Publisher's description.
When the epic story of the suffrage movement in the United States is told, the most familiar leaders, speakers at meetings, and participants in marches...
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