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Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self-respect they need to survive.
3) Why we fly
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Language
English
Description
Told from alternating points of view, Chanel and Eleanor's rocky start to senior year gets more complex when the cheerleading team kneels for the national anthem and each girl grapples with the consequences.
4) Forge
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Curzon, having matured from boy to man over the course of the winter with the army at Valley Forge, worries that someone will learn he is a runaway slave passing for free, and tries to figure out the meaning of his friendship with Isabel.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Language
English
Description
After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.
6) Heaven
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Marley's seemingly perfect life in the small town of Heaven is disrupted when she discovers that her father and mother are not her real parents.
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...
8) Dope sick
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Seeing no way out of his difficult life in Harlem, seventeen-year-old Jeremy "Lil J" Dance flees into a house after a drug deal goes awry and meets a weird man who shows different turning points in Lil J's life when he could have made better choices.
9) Flygirl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
All Ida Mae Jones wants to do is fly.Ida's daddy was a pilot, and when he took her flying she never wanted to come down again. But after his death, the sky is off-limits to a young black woman such as Ida. When America enters WW II, the Army forms the WASP-Women Airforce Service Pilots-an Ida has a chance to join, if she's willing to use her light skin to pass as a white girl. She wants to fly more than anything, but Ida soon learns that denying one's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
"When Rowan finds a skeleton on her family's property, investigating the brutal, century-old murder leads to painful discoveries about the past. Alternating chapters tell the story of William, another teen grappling with the racial firestorm leading up to the 1921 Tulsa race riot, providing some clues to the mystery."--
11) Tears of a tiger
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.
12) Bronx masquerade
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.
14) Fake ID
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
Description
"An African-American teen in the Witness Protection Program moves to a new town and finds himself trying to solve a murder mystery when his first friend is found dead"--
15) Legendborn
Author
Series
Legendborn volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
"To discover the truth behind her mother's mysterious death, a teen girl infiltrates a magical secret society claiming to be the descendants of King Arthur and his knights."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When fourteen-year-old Anthony "Ant" Jones from the ghetto of East Cleveland, Ohio, gets a scholarship to a prep school in Maine, he finds that he must change his image and adapt to a world that never fully accepts him, but when he goes home he discovers that he no longer truly belongs there either.
17) Invisible son
Author
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Description
"Andre Jackson is determined to reclaim his identity. But returning from juvie doesn't feel like coming home. His Portland, Oregon, neighborhood is rapidly gentrifying, and COVID-19 shuts down school before he can even return. And Andre's suspicions about his arrest for a crime he didn't commit even taint his friendships. It's as if his whole life has been erased. The one thing Andre is counting on is his relationship with the Whitaker kids--especially...
18) Swing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Language
English
Description
"Noah and his best friend Walt want to become cool, make the baseball team, and win over Sam, the girl Noah has loved for years. When Noah finds old love letters, Walt hatches a plan to woo Sam. But as Noah's love life and Walt's baseball career begin, the letters alter everything."--
19) Out of darkness
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on a school explosion that took place in New London, Texas in 1937, this is the story of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black, and their dealings with race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people.
20) This wicked fate
Author
Series
This poison heart volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
"Briseis races to save her family even as she discovers more about their ties to ancient goddesses and deadly curses"--
"Would you tempt even the most dangerous fate to save the ones you love? Briseis has one chance to save her mother, but she'll need to do the impossible: find the last fragment of the deadly Absyrtus Heart. To locate the missing piece, she must turn to the blood relatives she's never known, learn about their secret powers, and take...
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