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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
She had her whole life planned. She knew who she was and where she was going. Until the truth changed everything. Jasmine de los Santos has always done what's expected of her. She's studied hard, made her Filipino immigrant parents proud and is ready to reap the rewards in the form of a full college scholarship to the school of her dreams. And then everything shatters. Her parents are forced to reveal the truth: their visas expired years ago....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Racial Justice in America: AAPI Excellence and Achievement series celebrates Asian achievement and culture, while exploring racism in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. In the Vibrant Neighborhoods book, students learn more about America's Asian communities from Little Manila during the 1940s to Chinatowns and Koreatowns and other Asian American enclaves scattered across the country. Series is written by Virginia Loh-Hagan, a prolific...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Racial Justice in America: AAPI Excellence and Achievement series celebrates Asian achievement and culture, while exploring racism in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. In the Excellence in the Arts book, students learn about the creative Asian men and women who have contributed so much to the artistic fabric of America-from poetry to painting to writing to music. Series is written by Virginia Loh-Hagan, a prolific author, advocate,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Racial Justice in America: AAPI Excellence and Achievement series celebrates Asian achievement and culture, while exploring racism in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. In the Political Power book, students learn about Asian American men and women in politics. Series is written by Virginia Loh-Hagan, a prolific author, advocate, and director of the San Diego State University Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Resource Center....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Racial Justice in America: AAPI Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in education due to racial bias. Developed in conjunction with educator, advocate, and author Virginia Loh-Hagan to reach children of all races and encourage them to approach our history with open eyes and minds. Japanese American Incarceration explores the events in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Themes: education, biography, inspiration, changemaker, role model. “Growing up in Pakistan”, Malala Yousafzai's life was turned upside down by the Taliban. It forbade girls her age from going to school, but Malala refused to accept this. Speaking out nearly cost the young activist her life. Still, she didn't give up. Today, Malala continues to fight for a free, safe education for all girls around the world.
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Series
In the beautiful country volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Arriving in America, the so-called beautiful country, Anna, a young Taiwanese girl, finds it anything but beautiful as she and her family struggle to make a place for themselves in this world and learn the true meaning of home.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Racial Justice in America: AAPI Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in education due to racial bias. Developed in conjunction with educator, advocate, and author Virginia Loh-Hagan to reach children of all races and encourage them to approach our history with open eyes and minds. Angel Island Immigration Station explores the events in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate...
Author
Series
In the beautiful country volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"After a rocky first year, Anna's family has settled into life in California. Their small restaurant is even turning a profit. Then her parents make a shattering discovery: their visas have expired. Anna's world is quickly overwhelmed by unfamiliar words like "undocumented" and "inequality." She longs to share the towering secret that looms over every aspect of her life with a friend, but her parents strictly forbid her from telling anyone. As Anna...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Candace Park knows a lot about playing a role. For most of her life, she's been playing the role of the quiet Korean girl who takes all AP classes and plays a classical instrument, keeping her dreams of stardom-and her obsession with SLK, K-pop's top boyband-to herself. She doesn't see how a regular girl like her could possibly become one of those K-pop goddesses she sees on YouTube. Even though she can sing. Like, really sing. So when Candace secretly...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
"The Racial Justice in America: AAPI Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in education due to racial bias. Developed in conjunction with educator, advocate, and author Virginia Loh-Hagan to reach children of all races and encourage them to approach our history with open eyes and minds. Colonization of Hawaiʻi explores the events in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
A week before high school graduation, Harvard-bound Higgs suddenly finds his life falling apart and the other students turning against him, and somehow it all started with a hypothetical question about donating a kidney--but really it goes much deeper, all the way back to the death of his older brother.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
The thought-provoking and timely new novel from Melissa de la Cruz, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Alex & Eliza: A Love Story, will have you crying with Jasmine as she finds out she's undocumented – then cheering her on as she fights to stay in the country she loves. She had her whole life planned. She knew who she was and where she was going. Until the truth changed everything. Jasmine de los Santos has always done what's expected...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Racial Justice in America: AAPI Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in education due to racial bias. Developed in conjunction with educator, advocate, and author Virginia Loh-Hagan to reach children of all races and encourage them to approach our history with open eyes and minds. Colonization of Hawai'i explores the events in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Racial Justice in America: AAPI Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in education due to racial bias. Developed in conjunction with educator, advocate, and author Virginia Loh-Hagan to reach children of all races and encourage them to approach our history with open eyes and minds. Southeast Asian Refugee Resettlement in the U.S. explores the events in a comprehensive, honest,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Racial Justice in America : AAPI Excellence and Achievement series celebrates Asian achievement and culture, while exploring racism in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. In the AAPI in STEM book, students learn about some of the inventions and discoveries Asian men and women have made in the world of science, technology, engineering, and math. Series is written by Virginia Loh-Hagan, a prolific author, advocate, and director of...
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