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1) Ninth Ward
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them"--Title verso page.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom, where they read the plays of William shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
Author
Series
Zora and me volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Zora navigates her showboating father's mayoral campaign before a lynch mob crosses the border into once-idyllic Eatonville to pursue a fugitive at the same time a grave robber exposes disturbing historical secrets"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Lily made her dad an important promise before he passed away; that she would...speak her mind at least five times. But speaking up one time, let alone five, is easier said than done. It'll be even harder now that Lily must attend public school for the first time. Fortunately, she meets curling-obsessed Hobart and quiet Dunya at the beginning of sixth grade. But when Lily and her friends are bullied by Ryan and his mean clique, she quickly discovers...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
An abridged version of the tale set in the spring of 1863 when, while engaged in the fierce battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1923, in Pierre, Indiana, a fourteen-year-old Andy realizes a dream when he makes the high school basketball team, but when an accident keeps him from playing, he ventures into journalism and begins to understand the meaning of sportsmanship.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sofía Acosta, a fifth grader trying to fit into her ballet-obsessed Cuban American family and her affluent suburban New York community, learns to speak up for herself and others when she mistakenly reveals a visiting dancer's plan to defect to the United States.
10) Music for tigers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Middle-schooler Louisa wants to spend the summer practicing violin for a place in the youth symphony, but is instead sent to the Tasmanian rainforest camp of her Australian relatives. There she learns that her family secretly protects the last of the supposedly extinct Tasmanian tigers. When an encroaching mining operation threatens the hidden sanctuary, Louisa realizes her music can help."--
11) Ghost Hawk
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the end of a winter-long journey into manhood, Little Hawk returns to find his village decimated by a white man's plague and soon, despite a fresh start, Little Hawk dies violently but his spirit remains trapped, seeing how his world changes.
Author
Series
Leven Thumps volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Leven is summoned to the abode of the Want, not knowing whether that leader's intentions are to harm or to help Foo, and soon Leven is separated from his good friends as he continues his battle to save that mythical land.
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