Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Shuri is a skilled martial artist, a genius, and a master of science and technology. But, she's also a teenager. And a princess. This story follows Shuri as she sets out on a quest to save her homeland of Wakanda. For centuries, the Chieftain of Wakanda (the Black Panther) has gained his powers through the juices of the Heart-Shaped Herb. Much like Vibranium, the Heart-Shaped Herb is essential to the survival and prosperity of Wakanda. But something...
Author
Series
Agatha Oddly volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Agatha Oddlow's set to become the youngest member of the Gatekeepers' Guild, but before that, she's got a mystery to solve. There's been a murder at the British Museum and, although the police are investigating, Agatha suspects that they're missing a wider plot going on below London - a plot involving a disused Tube station, a huge fireworks display and five thousand tonnes of gold bullion.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The young Jane Austen is not particularly interested in getting married, although she does find the mysterious Mr. Lefroy an intriguing possibility--but first she has to deal with the accusation that her cousin Eliza is a French spy, and solve a murder.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler. Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler expereinced an American childhood that shaped her into the groundbreaking science-fiction...
7) Frat girl
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frat house Delta Tau Chi is on the verge of being banned from the school after being accused of offensive, sexist behavior. With one shot at a scholarship to the school of her dreams, Cassie pitches an unusual research project: to pledge DTC, take on the boys' club and provide proof of their misogynistic behavior. After meeting some of the pledges, Cassie realizes things aren't as simple as they appeared. With her academic future on the line, and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"When best friends Abbi and Skylar witness a clandestine meeting between a mysterious woman and someone in a dark van, they're thrilled. Finally, a mystery to spice up the summer! Who could these people be? Why are they meeting? Are they spies? Criminals? The two girls are determined to find out. But then a local woman goes missing and is found dead in the woods. And Abbi and Skylar realize that their detective work could hold the keys to solving...
10) Joss
Author
Series
Girl of the year. 2020: Joss volume 1
Girl of the year. 2020 Joss volume 1
Girl of the year. Joss volume 01
Girl of the year. 2020 Joss volume 1
Girl of the year. Joss volume 01
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
"When the surf's up, she pops out her hearing aid, hops on her board and paddles out to the lineup. Joss is stoked to enter a surfing video contest with her friend Sofia and Murph, the surfing bulldog. If she can master a killer aerial like the frontside air and get her brother Dylan to catch it on video, maybe she'd even have a shot at winning. But Dylan throws her a curve: he dares her to try out for the cheer team. No way--Joss can't see herself...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1970 thirteen-year-old Marika dreams of going to Harvard to study economics, but her parents both believe that a woman's place is in the home; Marika does not understand why they are so attached to "traditional values," especially since they defied convention when they were married at a time when interracial marriages were illegal in many states--so Marika defies her parents and joins her Black friend, Beth, and her parents and attends the Women's...
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 50
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nancy and her friends find they have to overcome people's superstitions and fears in solving the case of a "jinxed" and threatened bird farm.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this imaginative biographical story, Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony sit down over a cup of tea in 1904 to reminisce about their struggles and triumphs in the service of freedom and women's rights.
14) Disappeared
Author
Series
Disappeared (Stork) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Description
Four months ago Sara Zapata's best friend, Linda, disappeared from the streets of Juarez, and ever since Sara has been using her job as a reporter to draw attention to the girls who have been kidnapped by the criminals who control the city, but now she and her family are being threatened--meanwhile her younger brother, Emiliano, is being lured into the narcotics business by the promise of big money, and soon the only way for both of them to escape...
15) Watch us rise
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jasmine and Chelsea are best friends on a mission--they're sick of the way women are treated even at their progressive NYC high school, so they decide to start a Women's Rights Club. They post their work online--poems, essays, videos of Chelsea performing her poetry, and Jasmine's response to the racial microaggressions she experiences--and soon they go viral. But with such positive support, the club is also targeted by trolls. When things escalate...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After losing his brother, mom, and most of his friends, Aaron Stein is left with his shambolic father alone in their moldering secondhand bookstore, but just when he considers selling the store he meets new people and takes on new challenges, helping him come to terms with what he has lost and who he wants to be.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cassidy Rain Berghoff didn't know that the very night she decided to get a life would be the night that Galen would lose his. It's been six months since her best friend died, and up until now Rain has succeeded in shutting herself off from the world. But when controversy arises around her aunt Georgia's Indian Camp in their mostly white Midwestern community, Rain decides to face the outside world again -- at least through the lens of her camera. Hired...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eleanor Roosevelt, Fighter for Justice shows young readers a different side of the former first lady. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) was a politician, activist, diplomat, and the longest-serving first lady of the United States. But she was more than that. She was a protector and advocate for those without a voice, speaking out on the labor movement and civil rights. Though now seen as a cultural icon, she was a woman who was deeply insecure about...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request