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2) Solo
Author
Publisher
Blink
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Blade endeavors to resolve painful issues from his past to navigate the challenges of his former rockstar father's addictions, scathing tabloid rumors, and a protected secret that threatens his own identity.
3) Samira surfs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After months of rebuilding a new life in Bangladesh with her family, Samira decides to become a Bengali surfer girl of Cox's Bazar, in this novel in verse about a young Rohingya girl's journey from isolation and persecution to sisterhood, and from fear to power.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the help and understanding she deserves, but in the meantime her new friend calls her crazy and her abuela Mimi dismisses the therapy and medicine Iveliz needs to feel like herself.
8) Amber & Clay
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
A novel in verse relates the story of Rhaskos and Melisto, one a common slave and the other a spoiled aristocrat, who are bound together by fate and form an unlikely friendship that crosses the boundary of life and death.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Etan, who doesn���t speak, and Malia, who is also known as "the Creature" due to her acute eczema, become friends, Etan must convince his family and hers that he might have a cure for her condition.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arriving in America, the so-called beautiful country, Anna, a young Taiwanese girl, finds it anything but beautiful as she and her family struggle to make a place for themselves in this world and learn the true meaning of home.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Cuba's "special period in times of peace" of 1991, Liana and Amado find love after their severe hunger gives both courage to risk government retribution by skipping a summer of labor to seek food. Told in their two voices plus that of the stray dog that brought them together.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A young survivor of the tragic Donner Party of 1846 describes how her family and others became victims of freezing temperatures and starvation.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Ivy, feeling a lot of stress about her expanding body, her parents' divorce, and her best friend's distance, develops an eating disorder.
16) Wave
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A coming-of-age novel in verse set in 1980s Southern California, about a Persian American girl who rides the waves, falls, and finds her way back to the shore
Thirteen-year-old Ava loves to surf and to sing. Singing and reading Rumi poems settle her mild OCD, and catching waves with her best friend, Phoenix, lets her fit in-her olive skin looks tan, not foreign. But then Ava has to spend the summer before ninth grade volunteering at the hospital,...
17) Rain rising
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Rain, who struggles with low self-esteem, must overcome sadness after her older brother Xander is severely beaten up at a frat party, but through the help of an after-school circle group, Rain finds the courage to help herself and her family heal.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
163 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A biographical novel about Antonio Chuffat, a Chinese-African-Cuban messenger boy in 1870s Cuba who became a translator and documented the freedom struggle of indentured Chinese laborers in his country.
19) Audacity
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early twentieth century in New York.--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
161 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
A biographical novel about Antonio Chuffat, a Chinese-African-Cuban messenger boy in 1870s Cuba who became a translator and documented the freedom struggle of indentured Chinese laborers in his country.
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