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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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From Edward P. Jones comes one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory—winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs with
...3) Feast for 10
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A counting book that features an African-American family shopping for food, preparing dinner, and sitting down to eat. Lively read-aloud text paired with bright collage illustrations.
4) Twins
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Twins Maureen and Francine try to distinguish themselves for the first time by pursing separate interests at the beginning of the sixth grade.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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The acclaimed bestseller--a selection of Oprah's Book Club--that brings vividly to life the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, circa 1925, a community reeling from a young girl's tragic death.
Five-year-old Clara Bynum is dead, drowned in the Potomac River in the shadow of a seemingly haunted rock outcropping known locally as the Three Sisters. River, Cross My Heart, which marks the debut of a wonderfully gifted new storyteller, weighs...
7) Tempest
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"Regan Carmichael--an independent spirit equally at home in denims and dresses--travels to Wyoming to be the mail-order bride for Dr. Colton Lee--a widower who insists he only wants someone to care for his daughter. Despite family disapproval and an unseen enemy, Colt will soon risk all to make this marriage a true union"--
8) Scorpions
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Newbery honor book: 1989.
9) Harlem
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Building on the success of the Kingpins series, Carl Weber's Five Families series features some of Urban Books' most popular authors writing about crime in the boroughs of New York City, this time in Harlem.
Through the darkest tunnel comes the light, but for Caesar King, there is nothing, but more, darkness on the other side.
After the failed attempt on his life, he is afraid that the Pact of the Five Families is no more. He can trust nobody. Whoever...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Amari, a poor Black girl from the projects, gets an invitation from her missing brother to join the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs and join in the fight against an evil magician.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
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English
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An international bestseller that sold more than 300,000 copies when it first appeared in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin was dismissed by some as abolitionist propaganda; yet Tolstoy deemed it a great work of literature "flowing from love of God and man." Today, however, Harriet Beecher Stowe's stirring indictment of slavery is often confused with garish dramatizations that flourished for decades after the Civil War: productions that relied heavily on melodramatic...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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In Atlanta, just before Christmas, twelve teens band together to help a friend pull off the most epic apology of her life during the storm of the century, which results in a magical moment that changes everything.
14) Zora and me
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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A fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood with her best friend Carrie, in Eatonville, Florida, as they learn about life, death, and the differences between truth, lies, and pretending. Includes an annotated bibliography of the works of Zora Neale Hurston, a short biography of the author, and information about Eatonville, Florida.
15) Deathless divide
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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The sequel to the New York Times bestselling epic Dread Nation is an unforgettable journey of revenge and salvation across a divided America. After the fall of Summerland, Jane McKeene hoped her life would get simpler: Get out of town, stay alive, and head west to California to find her mother. But nothing is easy when you're a girl trained in putting down the restless dead, and a devastating loss on the road to a protected village called Nicodemus...
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The Vanderbeekers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Told that they will have to move out of their Harlem brownstone just after Christmas, the five Vanderbeeker children, ages four to twelve, decide to change their reclusive landlord's mind.
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Vanderbeekers volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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As they look forward to the New York City Marathon in which their friend Mr. B. will run, the Vanderbeeker children learn that one of their good friends is homeless.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"In the summer of 1965, Sophie's family becomes the first African Americans to move into their upper middle-class neighborhood in Los Angeles. When riots erupt in nearby Watts, she learns that life and her own place in it are a lot more complicated than they had seemed"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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A young girl's life changes forever when she investigates a mystery with the help of writers, artists, and musicians in 1920s Harlem Bessie Coulter has no idea why her father spirits her and her brother, Eddie, away from their home in Burlington, North Carolina, in the middle of the night, leaving their sick mother behind. But from the moment she steps off the train at Grand Central Station, she's captivated by this teeming, colorful city that's both...
20) Money hungry
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All thirteen-year-old Raspberry can think of is making money so that she and her mother never have to worry about living on the streets again.
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