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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
Description
Evie is disillusioned about love ever since her dad left her mum for another woman - she's even throwing out her beloved romance novel collection.
When she's given a copy of a book called Instructions for Dancing, and follows a note inside to a dilapidated dance studio, she discovers she has a strange and unwelcome gift. When a couple kisses in front of her, she can see their whole relationship play out - from the moment they first catch each other's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.
Author
Series
Hazelwood High trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.
7) Foul trouble
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"College recruiters are clambering to sign up Terrell Jamerson, the #1 high school basketball player in the country. But not all of these recruiters are straight shooters, and Terrell will have to think fast if he wants to stay in the game"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sadistically teased by two white boys in 1940's rural Mississippi, a black youth severely injures one of the boys with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.
9) Promise boys
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
J.B., Ramón, and Trey, students of the Urban Promise Prep School, must follow the school's strict rules, but when their principal is murdered, the three boys must band together to track down the real killer before they are arrested.
10) Nerdcrush
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Shy sixteen-year-old Ramona uses cosplay as a way to escape her shyness and feel seen, but when she emails her crush using her online persona, Rel, and he starts to fall for her, Ramona must decide whether to hide behind her character forever or take a chance and let her crush see the real her.
Ramona Lambert's best friend has moved away; her parents don't quite understand her love of cosplay; and she is pretty sure her crush has no idea she exists....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When hospitalized for her clinical depression, Whimsy connects with a boy named Faerry, who also suffers from the traumatic loss of a sibling, and together they work to unearth buried memories and battle the fantastical physical embodiment of their depression.
13) Dear Justyce
Author
Series
Dear Martin volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Language
English
Description
An unflinching look into the tragically flawed practices and silenced voices in the American juvenile justice system. Vernell LaQuan Banks and Justyce McAllister grew up a block apart in the Southwest Atlanta neighborhood of Wynwood Heights. Years later, though, Justyce walks the illustrious halls of Yale University ... and Quan sits behind bars at the Fulton Regional Youth Detention Center. Through a series of flashbacks, vignettes, and letters to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
As high school junior Michie plans for her future and explores a new relationship, she tries to reconcile with some uncomfortable truths about her life which becomes more complicated when she is contacted by her estranged mother.
15) The friendship
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly black man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Jeremy Sims is ashamed of the harsh racism of his father and other white adults. He wants to make friends with the black Logan family to make amends, only to see them thrown off the overloaded local bus. But as the rain pours down and the river swells, disaster looms!
18) The Blackwoods
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Blackwoods. Everyone knows their name. Blossom Blackwood burst onto the silver screen in 1962, becoming one of the most celebrated actors of her time--and the matriarch of Hollywood's most famous Black family. To her great-granddaughters, Hollis and Ardith, she has always just been Bebe. And when she passes away, it changes everything. Hollis Blackwood was never interested in fame, but she's surrounded by it, at home with her family and at the...
19) Blood debts
Author
Series
Blood debts volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Thirty years ago, a young woman was murdered, a family was lynched, and New Orleans saw the greatest magical massacre in its history. In the days that followed, a throne was stolen from a queen. On the anniversary of these brutal events, Clement and Cristina Trudeau--the sixteen-year-old twin heirs to the powerful, magical, dethroned family--are mourning their father and caring for their sick mother. Until, by chance, they discover their mother isn't...
20) Whiteout
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
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.
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