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2) Caleb's wars
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Caleb's courageous commitment to justice grows as he faces a power struggle with his father, fights to keep both his temper and self-respect in dealing with whites, and puzzles over the German prisoners of war brought to his rural Georgia community during World War II.
3) Hummingbird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In spite of a busy life on the family pumpkin and watermelon farm in Jubilee, Georgia, twelve-year-old March Anne Tanner feels that something is missing, and when Grenna, the grandmother who has helped raise her since her mother died when she was three, also passes on, March Anne finds that she must act on her feelings of loss.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Genuine Sweet, twelve, of tiny, impoverished Sass, Georgia, inherited the ability to grant any wish except her own but with help from new friends, her life and town are improving until unexpected trouble arrives and Genuine learns the difference between wishing for a better life and building one.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
For eighteen years, Wren Gray has been the model daughter - which in her family means all As, zero boyfriends, and early acceptance into a pre-med program. But as graduation nears, Wren can no longer tell if her parents' ideas about her future align with her own. She knows she needs to honor her own desires, but how can she if she doesn't even know what they are? Charlie Parker, on the other hand, knows exactly what he wants. A gentle boy with a...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Scarlett Blaine discovers growing up on a farm and caring for her autistic brother amidst family tensions is far from peachy. When a tragic accident and financial difficulties place more pressures on Scarlett's shoulders, she has to find a hope to cling to before it's too late"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Love like sky volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eleven-year-old Georgie is still adjusting to leaving Atlanta for a small town, having a stepfather, and being unable to get close to her stepsister when her six-year-old sister, Peaches, suddenly becomes very ill"--Title verso page.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Emilia Torres struggles with ADHD, her controlling abuela, her mother's work commitments, her father's distance after returning from deployment, evolving friendships, and a conflict over school redistricting.
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
In 1947, his head filled with the advice and wisdom of his runaway father, thirteen-year-old Freddy moves his mother from their Georgia farm into town and takes on the challenge of holding his family together.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
An old journal seems to be eighth-grader Gracie's ticket to the worlds of magic of which she has read, but her writings not only come true, they have unexpected consequences for her family and her best friend, would-be boyfriend Dylan.
12) Freedom Train
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Clyde Thomason's older brother is a guard on the Freedom Train, which is carrying the Bill of Rights and other documents throughout the country in 1948, but Clyde is also learning about rights and freedom as he is saved from a beating by an African American boy, and later returns the favor when men in their Atlanta suburb decide to show the "Nigras" their place.
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