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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
"The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and present. This book takes you on that journey, showing how racist ideas started and were spread, and how they can be discredited"--Dust jacket flap.
"A history of racist and antiracist...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
This Christian classic, originally published in 1678, has become one of the most significant and influential books in the English language. Travel with Christian on the road to the Celestial City as he fights temptation, evil, spiritual terrors, and religious pitfalls, but also encounters such helpful characters as Hopeful, Faithful, and Charity. This classic staple of religious literature is beautifully filled with profound allegories that accurately...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District--a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
The 50th Anniversary Edition of the Lord of the Flies is the volume that every fan of this classic book will have to own! Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Throughout the past year, teacher Chasten Glezman Buttigieg has emerged on the national stage, having left his classroom in South Bend, Indiana, to travel cross-country in support of his husband, former mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Pete's groundbreaking presidential campaign. Chasten Buttigieg relays his experience of growing up in America and embracing his true self, while inspiring others to do the same.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Long-recognized master of Norse mythology Kevin Crossley-Holland pairs with award-winning artist Jeffrey Alan Love for a collection with tales of Norse mythology featuring the powerful Odin, Thor and his hammer, Mjolnir, Loki, the final battle of Ragnarok, and power stuggles among the figures.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Mexican American Yami Flores starts Catholic school, determined to keep her brother out of trouble and keep herself closeted, but her priorities shift when Yami discovers that her openly gay classmate Bo is also annoyingly cute.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"When a young professional woman, Miss Letitia Glover, shows up on Sherlock's doorstep, it is Enola who steps up. It seems that Letitia's sister, the former Felicity Glover, married the Earl of Dunhench and per a curt note from the Earl, has died. But Letitia Glover is convinced this isn't the truth"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
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"Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel: a bildungsroman that depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens's second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
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Description
A haunting coming of age novel told in a series of letters to an unknown correspondent reveals the life of Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent. It's a story of what it's like to grow up in high school, tracing a course through uncharted territory in the world of first dates, family dramas and new friends.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, "The Old Man and the Sea" has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.
15) Lady midnight
Author
Series
Dark artifices volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
"Shadowhunter Emma Carstairs and her parabatai Julian Blackthorn race to stop a demonic plot that threatens Los Angeles"-- Provided by publisher.
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Series
Ranger's apprentice. Main series volume 3
(John Anthony).Ranger's apprentice volume 03
(John Anthony).Ranger's apprentice volume 3
(John Anthony).Ranger's apprentice volume 03
(John Anthony).Ranger's apprentice volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
Chasing the Skandian slave-traders who kidnapped Will and Evanlyn, Ranger Halt and warrior student Horace find themselves in the frozen northern islands, where they battle a ruthless black-clad knight as they attempt to rescue their friends.
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Series
Underland chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
In his second adventure, eleven-year-old Gregor returns to the world beneath New York City to rescue his kidnapped sister, Boots, and fulfill a prophecy that will restore peace to the people, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders who populate the underworld. Gregor is summoned back to the Underland by the terms of a second prophecy. Spies have reported the sighting of a Rat King, a character who has been legendary since the Middle Ages. Recognizable...
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