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2) 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.
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...
4) Me, too!
Author
Lexile measure
230L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Perfectly captures the rhythms of youngsters' friendships and emotions, while also reminding them that there's always room for new people in their lives"--Publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Formats
Description
One Chinese New Year, her mother sends Goldy Luck to the pandas next door with a plate of turnip cakes, but the pandas are out and disaster follows. Includes a recipe for turnip cakes and an explanation of Chinese New Year.
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.
7) Lockdown
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Teenage Reese, serving time at a juvenile detention facility, gets a lesson in making it through hard times from an unlikely friend with a harrowing past.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jina and her classmates are determined to collect the most food for the local food pantry so they can pick out books for the library--but when a classmate's home is damaged in a fire, the class votes to donate much of the food they collected to his familyinstead.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When they are given the seemingly impossible task of turning thread into gold, the seven Ashanti brothers put aside their differences, learn to get along, and embody the principles of Kwanzaa. Includes information on Kwanzaa, West African cloth weaving, and instructions for making a belt.
Author
Lexile measure
HL 600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From Dene artist and bioethicist Lisa Boivin comes this healing story of hope, dreams, and the special bond between grandfather and granddaughter. When a little girl dreams about a bear, her grandfather explains how we connect with the knowledge of our ancestors through dreams. Bear, Hawk, Caribou, and Wolf all have teachings to share to help us live a good life. But when Grampa gets sick and falls into a coma, the little girl must lean on his teachings...
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