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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When Schroff first met Maurice on a New York City street corner, she had no idea that she was standing on the brink of an incredible and unlikely friendship that would inevitably change both their lives. As one lunch at McDonald's with Maurice turns into two, then into a weekly occurrence, she learns heart-wrenching details about Maurice's horrific childhood.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Language
English
Description
Tandy Angel is, along with her brothers, a suspect in their parents' murder but having grown up under Malcolm and Maud Angel's perfectionist demands, Tandy decides she must clear the family name no matter what.
Author
Series
Shadowshaper cypher volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
Sierra and Shadowhouse have been thrust into an ancient struggle with enemies old and new -- a struggle they didn't want, but are determined to win. Revolution is brewing in the real world as well, as the shadowshapers lead the fight against systems that oppress their community. To protect her family and friends in every sphere, Sierra must take down the Hound and master the Deck of Worlds . . . or else she could lose all the things that matter most....
5) Shadowshaper
Author
Series
Shadowshaper cypher volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
When the murals painted on the walls of her Brooklyn neighborhood start to change and fade in front of her, Sierra Santiago realizes that something strange is going on--then she discovers her Puerto Rican family are shadowshapers and finds herself in a battle with an evil anthropologist for the lives of her family and friends.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
As she fights for the family company, Tandy Angel's detective prowess is called into question and her paranoia builds, forcing her to face the possibility that her stalker could be all in her head--or the very real danger that will finally bring her down.
Author
Series
Inquisitor's apprentice volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In early twentieth-century New York, Sacha Kessler's ability to see witches earns him an apprenticeship to the police department's star Inquisitor, Maximillian Wolf, to help stop magical crime and, with fellow apprentice Lily Astral, Sacha investigates who is trying to kill Thomas Edison, whose mechanical witch detector that could unleash the worst witch-hunt in American history.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Examines the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire through the stories of five women who lost their lives that day.
The tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911 resulted in the deaths of over a hundred young people. Most were immigrant girls who were locked in the factory, under appalling working condition. Discover how that fire became a turning point in American history, through the lens of five young women who worked there.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1969 in Spanish Harlem, and fourteen-year-old Evelyn Serrano is trying hard to break free from her conservative Puerto Rican surroundings, but when her activist grandmother comes to stay and the neighborhood protests start, things get a lot more complicated--and dangerous.
Author
Series
Shadowshaper cypher volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
A war is brewing among the different Houses, some of Sierra's shadowshapers are still in jail, and the House of Shadow and Light has been getting threatening messages from whisper wraiths, and even though one spy was exposed Sierra is not quite sure who she can trust--but the deal with Death made by one of her ancestors has given her power, and she will need to control it and confront her family's past if she has any hope of saving the future.
Author
Series
Confessions (James Patterson) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
As she fights for the family company, Tandy Angel's detective prowess is called into question and her paranoia builds, forcing her to face the possibility that her stalker could be all in her head--or the very real danger that will finally bring her down.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison.
13) Game
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new--white--student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him.
14) Those that wake
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a consumer-driven future society runs amok, unleashing near-cosmic forces, Mal and Laura search for their families only to find that something or someone has erased them from the memories of everyone they have ever known.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discusses how in 1969, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people stood up for their rights against a society that criminalized their natural feelings, launching a movement whose legacy continues to this day.
16) Scarlett fever
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Scarlett, who is beginning to get over her break-up with Eric, stays busy as assistant to her theatrical-agent friend who is not only promoting Scarlett's brother Spencer, but also a new client whose bad-boy brother has transferred to Scarlett's school.
17) Code orange
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While conducting research for a school paper on smallpox, Mitty finds an envelope containing 100-year-old smallpox scabs and fears that he has infected himself and all of New York City.
18) Audacity
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
"A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early 20th century in New York."
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emma's senator-father is running for president, and when her rebellious style and indifference to rules and convention create problems, she relies on her good friends, who are also the daughters of well-known people, to help her gain perspective.
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Nadira, her sister, and their parents leave Bangladesh for New York City, but the expiration of their visas and the events of September 11, 2001, bring frustration, sorrow, and terror for the whole family.
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