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1) Dear pen pal
Author
Series
Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Four very different friends in Concord, Massachusetts, and their mothers continue their book club, reading Jean Webster's "Daddy Long-Legs," while getting to know their own pen pals from Wyoming.
2) Extra credit
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
When Abby's first letter arrives at a small school in Afghanistan, Sadeed Bayat is chosen to be her pen pal...well, kind of. He is the best writer, but he is also a boy, and in his village it is not appropriate for a boy to correspond with a girl. So his younger sister dictates and signs the letter, until Sadeed decides what his sister is telling Abby isn't what he'd like Abby to know. As letters go back and forth between Illinois and Afghanistan,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old knuckleball pitcher Vivy Cohen, who has autism, becomes pen pals with her favorite Major League baseball player after writing a letter to him as an assignment for her social skills class"--Title verso page.
Author
Language
English
Description
"It's summer 1977 and closeted lesbian Tammy Larson can't be herself anywhere. Not at her strict Christian high school, not at her conservative Orange County church and certainly not at home, where her ultrareligious aunt relentlessly organizes antigay political campaigns. Tammy's only outlet is writing secret letters in her diary to gay civil rights activist Harvey Milk--until she's matched with a real-life pen pal who changes everything. Sharon...
Author
Series
Ashbury/Brookfield books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Three female students from Ashbury High write to three male students from rival Brookfield High as part of a pen pal program, leading to romance, humiliation, revenge plots, and war between the schools.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
Description
When an email falls into the wrong hands, sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly gay Simon is blackmailed into playing wingman for a classmate or risk having his sexual identity revealed and the privacy of the boy he's been emailing compromised.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara, who traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her pen pal, Amy. When she arrives, however, she finds that Amy's funeral has just ended. Luckily, the townspeople are happy to look after their bewildered tourist--even if they don't understand her peculiar need for books. Marooned in a farm town that's almost beyond repair, Sara starts a bookstore in honor of her friend's memory. All she wants...
10) Same sun here
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old Indian immigrant in New York City and a Kentucky coal miner's son become pen pals, and eventually best friends, through a series of revealing letters exploring such topics as environmental activism, immigration, and racism.
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