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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 520L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tyler the tigon, who has a tiger dad and a lion mom, goes off on his own because he doesn't feel accepted by anyone, where he meets Lyla the liger, who has a lion dad and a tiger mom, and finds a friendship that allows them both to feel at home.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When fourteen-year-old Anthony "Ant" Jones from the ghetto of East Cleveland, Ohio, gets a scholarship to a prep school in Maine, he finds that he must change his image and adapt to a world that never fully accepts him, but when he goes home he discovers that he no longer truly belongs there either.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
It's been a hard year for Maisie Cannon, ever since she hurt her leg and could not keep up with her ballet training and auditions. Her blended family is loving and supportive, but Maisie knows that they just can't understand how helpless she feels. With everything she's dealing with, Maisie is not excited for their family midwinter road trip along the coast, near the Makah community where her mother grew up. But soon, Maisie's anxieties and dark moods...
4) Why am I me?
Author
Lexile measure
AD 200L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a poetic, philosophical exchange, two children of different races ask themselves why they are who and what they are, and speculate on how they could be different.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Language
English
Description
"When twelve-year-old Edie finds letters and photographs in her attic that change everything she thought she knew about her Native American mother's adoption, she realizes she has a lot to learn about her family's history and her own identity"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Maya J. Jenkins is bursting with questions: Will she get the MVP award at this year's soccer banquet? Who will win the big grill off between Daddy and Uncle J? When will she pass the swim test and get a green bracelet? For answers and a dose of good luck, 12-year-old Maya turns to her Wheel of Fortunes, a cardboard circle covered with the small slips of wisdom she's collected from fortune cookies. But can the fortunes answer her deep-down questions?...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"When Springville residents--at least the ones still alive--are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation . . . Maddy did it. An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept secret: Maddy is biracial. She...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lebanese-Australian Jamilah, known in school as Jamie, hides her heritage from her classmates and tries to pass by dyeing her hair blonde and wearing blue-tinted contact lenses, until her conflicted feelings become too much for her to bear.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Maria leaves her mother and their Puerto Rican home to live in the barrio of New York with her father, feeling torn between the two cultures in which she has been raised.
10) Show me a sign
Author
Series
Show me a sign volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Francisco Ortiz, a handsome straight-A student and gifted basketball player from the barrio, wins a full scholarship to an elite boarding school. His future seems promising. But soon after Francisco moves into the dorm, his new classmates assume the worst of him. Things are even more complicated when Francisco realizes that back home in the hood, he no longer fits in, though his friends still rely on him to solve their problems.
Author
Lexile measure
AD 510L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What does it mean to be Mi'kmaq? And if Swift Fox can't find the answer, will she ever feel like part of her family? When Swift Fox's father picks her up to go visit her aunties, uncles, and cousins, her belly is already full of butterflies. And when he tells her that today is the day that she'll learn how to be Mi'kmaq, the butterflies grow even bigger. Though her father reassures her that Mi'kmaq is who she is from her eyes to her toes, Swift Fox...
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