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1) Keeper
Author
Series
Paul Faustino novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an interview with a young journalist, World Cup hero, El Gato, describes his youth in the Brazilian rain forest and the events, experiences, and people that helped make him a great goalkeeper and renowned soccer star.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The summer after his absentee father is killed in a random shooting, Paul volunteers at a Harlem soup kitchen where he listens to lessons about "the social contract" from an elderly African American man, and mentors a seventeen-year-old unwed mother who wants to make it to college on a basketball scholarship.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Samantha and her mother move to Jackson, Mississippi, on 1962 after her father is killed in Vietnam, and during the year they spend there, Sam encounters both love and hate as she learns about photography from a new friend of her mother's and witnesses the prejudice and violence of the segregationists of the South.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Alaine Beauparlant has heard about Haiti all her life... ...but the stories were always passed down from her dad--and her mom, when she wasn't too busy with her high-profile newscaster gig. But when Alaine's life goes a bit sideways, it's time to finally visit Haiti herself. What she learns about Haiti's proud history as the world's first black republic (with its even prouder people) is one thing, but what she learns about her own family is another....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
"Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago's life has been about making the tough decisions, doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen. There, she lets her hands tell her what to cook, listening to her intuition and adding a little something magical every time, turning her food into straight-up goodness. Even though she's always dreamed of working in a kitchen...
8) Dark Dude
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the 1960s, Rico Fuentes, a pale-skinned Cuban American teenager, abandons drug-infested New York City for the picket fence and apple pie world of Wisconsin, only to discover that he still feels like an outsider and that violent and judgmental people can be found even in the wholesome Midwest.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mani Semilla is determined not to go to Guatemala until she finds letters written between her mother and her journalist aunt who has disappeared, revealing both the beauty of the country and its history of violence against women, which slowly transforms her into a budding activist.
10) Nikhil out loud
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed actor and Stonewall Honor-winning author of The Best at It, Maulik Pancholy, comes a new middle grade novel about a gay Indian American boy who learns the power of using his voice. Thirteen-year-old Nikhil Shah is the beloved voice actor for Raj Reddy on the hit animated series Raj Reddy in Outer Space. But being a star on TV doesn't mean you have everything figured out behind the scenes. . . . When his mom temporarily moves them...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Danny Dawson lives on a cattle station in the Australian outback. The whole station is preparing for the annual cattle muster, and normally Danny would be bursting with excitement. But everything is different now. Because Danny's beloved older brother died in an accident last year, and nobody will talk about it. Because his teenage sister is pregnant and won't tell anyone who the father is. Because his mother can't cope with any of it and has hired...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"From the NAACP Image Award-nominated author of Happily Ever Afters comes a dual POV rom-com about Reggie and Delilah, who fall in love through missed connections and chance meetings on holidays over the course of a year. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Jenny Han, with crossover appeal for readers of Jasmine Guillory and Talia Hibbert romances. Delilah always keeps her messy, gooey insides hidden behind a wall of shrugs and yeah, whatevers. She...
13) The wish list
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Description
Meg Finn is in trouble. She's dead, but not at peace--she's in limbo, her good deeds perfectly balanced against her bad deeds; Heaven or Hell wait, a tip of the scale away. So she's back on Earth trying to tip the scale to the good by helping her last victim, and her former "partner" is also back, trying to force her to tip the scale to the bad.
15) Sounder
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
A young black boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man. Learning to read and discovering that things do not die but become part of other things, brings the youngster new hope.
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