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1) Fourmile
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Foster knows in his gut that Dax, his mother's boyfriend, is a bad seed. Then a mysterious man arrives at their Alabama farm and Foster thinks that he may have found an ally against Dax.
3) Hoodoo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
In 1930s Alabama, twelve-year-old Hoodoo Hatcher is the only member of his family who seems unable to practice folk magic, but when a mysterious man called the Stranger puts the entire town at risk from his black magic, Hoodoo must learn to conjure to defeat him.
4) Mare's war
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Teens Octavia and Tali learn about strength, independence, and courage when they are forced to take a car trip with their grandmother, who tells about growing up Black in 1940s Alabama and serving in Europe during World War II as a member of the Women's Army Corps.
5) Breathe
Author
Series
Sea Breeze volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"It was only supposed to be a summer job, not a summer fling. Just a quick way for seventeen-year-old Sadie to earn some money to support her very helpless--and very pregnant--single mother. But even with the help of her cute and friendly coworker, Marcus, Sadie learns firsthand that working as a domestic servant is tough, especially when the house is owned by none other than Jax Stone, one of the hottest teen rock stars in the world."--Page [4] of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the late 1940s, twelve-year-old Gussie, a minister's daughter, learns the definition of integrity while helping with a celebration at the Alabama School for the Deaf--her punishment for misdeeds against her deaf parents and their boarders.
8) Fake ID
Author
Series
Hunted volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
After a lifetime of moving and assuming new identities, sixteen-year-old Chass begins to piece together the disturbing past that haunts her and her mother and which involves a mysterious tape, a deceased popular singer, and the secrets of several people in a small Alabama town.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After seventeen-year-olds Chloe and Shara, Chloe's rival for valedictorian, kiss, Shara vanishes leaving Chloe and two boys, who are also enamored with Shara, to follow the trail of clues she left behind, but during the search, Chloe starts to suspect there might be more to Shara and her small Alabama town than she thought.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
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Description
Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words-and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Cort's father is a local expert on hunting and swamp lore in lower Alabama who has been teaching his son everything he knows. But when a deadly Gulf Coast hurricane makes landfall, Cort must unexpectedly put his all skills--and bravery--to the test"--
12) Wonderland
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
"Mavis Jeeter is fearless and bold, but she has never lived in one place long enough to have a real best friend. Her flighty mother has uprooted them yet again to another new home and taken a job as a housekeeper for the Tully family. Mavis wants this home to be permanent--which means fining herself a best friend. Rose Tully is a worrier who feels like she doesn't quite fit in with the other girls in her neighborhood. Her closest friend is Mr....
13) Going too far
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Forced to spend spring break in a Birmingham, Alabama, suburb riding along with an attractive rookie police officer on the night shift, rebellious seventeen-year-old Meg finds herself falling unexpectedly in love.
14) Run away home
Author
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
In 1886 in Alabama, an eleven-year-old African American girl and her family befriend and give refuge to a runaway Apache boy.
16) Into white
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"LaToya Williams lives in Montgomery, Alabama, and attends a mostly white high school. It seems as if her only friend is her older brother, Alex. Toya doesn't know where she fits in, but after a run-in with another student, she wonders if life would be different if she were . . . different. And then a higher power answers her prayer: to be 'anything but black.' Toya is suddenly white, blond, and popular. Now what?" -- Amazon.com.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
In Depression-era Alabama, twelve-year-old Mary Bayliss Pettigrew struggles to understand why her beloved older brother, Leo, died and whether she, miraculously, survived for some special purpose.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
In 1937 Alabama, eleven-year-old Brother helps with his mother's boardinghouse, gains insight into prejudice when he befriends the nephew of the family's maid, and dreams of riding a train one day with the railroadmen who serve as his substitute fathers.
Author
Series
Blackwater novel volume 03
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The twins, while sleeping in their tree house, overhear a plot. Later, they return to the Blackwater River to join Rad Fox and help Linc and Sheriff Clyde who are in danger from the Kl Klux Klan. Once again, good people join together to confront racial hatred"--
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