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1) 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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
In Iran, where homosexuality is punishable by death, seventeen-year-olds Sahar and Nasrin love each other in secret until Nasrin's parents announce their daughter's arranged marriage and Sahar proposes a drastic solution.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left. As Sal entertains her grandparents with Phoebe's outrageous story, her own story begins to unfold, the story of a thirteen-year-old girl whose only wish is to be reunited with her missing mother. Here the author weaves together two tales,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
While working on a project for an after-school club, Julia, a Korean American girl, and her friend Patrick learn not just about silkworms, but also about tolerance, prejudice, friendship, patience, and more. Between the chapters are short dialogues between the author and main character about the writing of the book.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Description
Told from alternating perspectives, Bunny takes a basketball scholarship to an elite private school to help his family, leaving behind Nasir, his best friend, in their tough Philadelphia neighborhood.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
In Japan in 1853, at the time of U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry's visit to Japan, Yoshi, a young Japanese boy who dreams of becoming a samurai one day, learns about America from Majiro and has adventures with Jack, a young cabin boy aboard one of the U.S. ships. Includes historical notes and glossary.
8) The Graces
Author
Series
Graces volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Everyone loves the Graces. Fenrin, Thalia, and Summer Grace are attractive, rich, and glamorous, and they've cast a spell over their high school-and their entire town. They're also rumored to have powerful connections all over the world. If you're not in love with one of them, you want to be one of them. This is especially true for River: the new girl at school. River's different from the rest of the horde that both revere and fear the Grace family....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
When her blind dog slips his collar, twelve-year old Lily meets Salma Santiago, a young Hispanic girl whose migrant family are in Maine for the blueberry-picking season, and, based partly on their mutual love of dogs, the two forge a friendship while painting bee boxes for Lily's grandfather--but as the Blueberry Queen pageant approaches Lily and Salma are confronted with some of the hard truths of prejudice and migrant life.
11) The way we roll
Author
Series
Beta Gamma Pi volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Malloy Murray reluctantly decides to join a sorority to please her mother, but someone is trying to make trouble for her.
13) The Mzungu boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kariuki's life in a small village in central Kenya seems to be one grand adventure, and when he meets a young boy from England, he learns the world is full of even more adventures and challenges.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Marcos Rivas yearns for love, a working cell phone, and maybe a pair of sneakers that aren't falling apart. But more than anything, Marcos wants to get out of Maesta, his hood, away from his indifferent mom and her abusive boyfriend-which seems impossible.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Georgia learns a great deal about herself and her troubled best friend Riley when they become part of a group of suburban Pennsylvania teenagers that go to Anapra, a squatters village in the border town of Juarez, Mexico, to undertake a community construction project.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Stacey McGill is moving back to New York, and her friends must face the sadness of saying good-bye, hunt down the perfect farewell gift, and take on the difficult task of filling Stacey's place in the Baby-sitters Club.
17) Not a chance
Author
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When thirteen-year-old Dian arrives in the Dominican Republic for the summer, she learns that her friend, fourteen-year-old Aracely, is engaged to be married.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Overachiever Luz 'Lulu' Zavala has straight As, perfect attendance, and a solid ten-year plan ... Middle sister Milagro wants nothing to do with college or a nerdy class field trip ... On a journey from Baltimore all the way to San Francisco, Lulu and Milagro will become begrudging partners as they unpack weighty family expectations ... and maybe even discover the true meaning of sisterhood."--
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