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Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Annabelle must learn to stand up for what's right in the face of a manipulative and violent new bully who targets people Annabelle cares about, including a homeless World War I veteran"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"A collection of six connected stories that follows a group of fox kits as they fight to survive in an unforgiving wilderness"--
The haunted season has arrived in the Antler Wood. No fox kit is safe. When Mia and Uly are separated from their litters, they discover a dangerous world full of monsters. In order to find a den to call home, they must venture through field and forest, facing unspeakable things that dwell in the darkness: a zombie who hungers...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sent with her mother to the safety of a relative's home in Cincinnati when her Syrian hometown is overshadowed by violence, Jude worries for the family members who were left behind as she adjusts to a new life with unexpected surprises.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books For Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her family's troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as is.
10) El deafo
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles her hearing loss at a young age and her subsequent experiences with the Phonic Ear, a very powerful--and very awkward--hearing aid. The Phonic Ear gives Cece the ability to hear--sometimes...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Newbery honor book: 1955.
An eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness, and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
c2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be know as "Box," he "entered the world a slave." He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next -- as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left, bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hope -- and help -- came in the from of the Underground...
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