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Author
Series
Hazelwood High trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Teenage Gerald, who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, faces the prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved. "Gerald Nickelby, a minor character in 'Tears of a Tiger' (1994), emerges full-fledged and courageous in this companion story. His stable life with a firm but loving aunt (who is caring for him while his mother serves a prison sentence for child neglect) is shattered when...
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover that they attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet, but are harrassed by a gang whose members object to their interracial dating.
Author
Series
Hazelwood High trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Recovering from the recent suicide of her ex-boyfriend, senior class president Keisha Montgomery finds herself attracted to a dangerous, older man.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
From a map Ziggy and his friends discover an old tunnel that was once used as a safe haven by escaped slaves. While checking out the tunnel, the trap door gets stuck and the boys are forced to use the old, dark, damp tunnels that just may be haunted.
10) Panic
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
As rehearsals begin for the ballet version of Peter Pan, the teenaged members of an Ohio dance troupe lose their focus when one of their own goes missing.
11) Copper sun
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
12) November blues
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
When November Nelson loses her boyfriend, Josh, to a pledge stunt gone horribly wrong, she thinks her life can't possibly get any worse. But Josh left something behind that will change November's life forever. She's pregnant and now she's faced with the biggest decision of her life. How in the world will she tell her mom? And how will Josh's parents take the news? She's never needed a friend more. Jericho Prescott lost his best friend when he lost...
Author
Series
Jericho trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jericho, November, Arielle, and their friends must step up big time to prevent a deadly school tragedy in this harrowing conclusion to Sharon M. Draper's Jericho Trilogy. Arielle Gresham, disliked and mistrusted by most of the students at her school, has a secret past, an unbelievably complicated present, and a shaky future. But no one knows or cares because she has managed to alienate anyone who could help her. She tries to cope with problems at...
14) Double Dutch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three eighth-grade friends, preparing for the International Double Dutch Championship jump rope competition in their home town of Cincinnati, Ohio, cope with Randy's missing father, Delia's inability to read, and Yo Yo's encounter with the class bullies.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
In 1957, Sylvia Patterson's life--that of a normal African American teenager--is disrupted by the impending integration of Little Rock's Central High when she is selected to be one of the first black students to attend the previously all white school.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Because she has a terrible singing voice, fourth-grader Sassy must use a different talent to be part of her school's musical performance on the importance of saving our planet. Includes "Fifteen ways that you can help save our earth."
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
While in Florida to celebrate her Grammy's birthday, nine-and-a-half-year-old Sassy worries that an approaching hurricane will ruin not only the party, but a nest of sea turtle eggs, as well. Includes facts about hurricanes and sea turtles.
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