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1) Crazy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While growing up in the 1960s, Laura uses art to cope with her mother's mental illness.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Kasienka and her mother have immigrated to Coventry, England from Poland, searching for Kasienka's father, but everyone is unfriendly except for an African neighbor and a boy Kasienka meets at the swimming pool, which is her only refuge from an alien society.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The six sections of the book explore what it means to be a young woman living in a world that doesn't always hear her and tell the story of Kiran as she flees a history of trauma and raises her daughter, Sahaara, while living undocumented in North America. Delving into current cultural conversations including sexual assault, mental health, feminism, and immigration, this narrative of resilience, healing, empowerment, and love will galvanize readers...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fifth-grader Claire can do a perfect triple handspring. She can do a giant pirouette on the uneven bars. What she can't do is read. With a lot of effort, she hides her secret until an alert vice principle suggests she get evaluated for a learning disability. Now Claire has to convince her mother--who's afraid her daughter will be labeled "stupid"--to let her get tested. And that turns out to be even harder than reading"--
6) High
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is impossible not to root for Ceti, almost fifteen, who tells her story of growing up in shelters, learning soccer from her Gramps, and sleeping in her Mom's red truck where they listened over and over to Rolling Stones discs someone left behind. Following in the steps of her hero, Lionel Messi, Ceti is a shooting star on the field. A U.S. scout is coming to watch her play in the State Championship; she has Ruby, her best friend since kindergarten...
8) Starfish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Language
English
Description
"Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Reha feels torn between two worlds: school, where she's the only Indian American student, and home, with her family's traditions and holidays. But Reha's parents don't understand why she's conflicted--they only notice when Reha doesn't meet their strict expectations. Reha feels disconnected from her mother, or Amma, although their names are linked--Reha means "star" and Punam means "moon"--but they are a universe apart. Then Reha finds out that her...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Days into summer vacation, sixteen-year-old Cayleigh feels like a criminal. She finds herself in O'Hare Airport, her luggage open on the floor, for her flight to Israel. Her dad reassures her that everything is okay, only it's not. Her mom is not with them for the trip.
11) Noelle
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Seven days before summer vacation begins, fifty-seven days before her seventeenth birthday, Noelle finds her father's camera on her bed. Her father died seventeen years ago, seven months before she was born. Her mother is still so heart-broken that she is only able to share the details of their life together in bits and pieces, snapshots. An avid photographer, Noelle finds herself rising early, despite it being summer vacation and prime-time to sleep...
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