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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Jamie Goldberg is cool with volunteering for his local state candidate - as long as he's behind the scenes. There's no way he'd ever knock on doors to ask people for their votes...until he meets Maya. Maya Rehman's having the worst Ramadan ever. Her best friend is too busy to hang out, her summer trip is cancelled, her parents are separating and now her mother thinks the solution to her problems is political canvassing - with some awkward guy she...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
One conversation can change everything. Meg has her entire life set up perfectly: she and her best friend, Emily, plan to head to Cornell together in the fall, and she volunteers at a voter registration call center in her Philadelphia suburb. But everything changes when one of those calls connects her to a stranger from small-town Ohio. Colby is stuck in a rut, reeling from a family tragedy and working a dead-end job. The last thing he has time for...
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Series
Gospel according to Larry volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
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Not yet eighteen years old, Josh, a.k.a. Larry, comes out of hiding and returns to public life, this time to run for President as an advocate for issues of concern to youth and to encourage voter turnout.
6) Verify
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Series
Verify volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
Description
When Meri Beckley looks at the peaceful Chicago streets, she feels pride in the era of unprecedented hope and prosperity over which the governor presides. But when her mother is killed, Meri suddenly has questions that no one else seems to be asking. And when she tries to uncover her mother's state of mind in her last weeks, she finds herself drawn into a secret world with a history she didn't know existed. Faced with a choice between accepting the...
7) Believe me
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Juliette and Warner fought hard to take down the Reestablishment once and for all. Life in the aftermath isn't easy, as they and their friends at the Sanctuary work with their limited resources to stabilize the world. Warner has his sights set on more than just politics. Since he proposed to Juliette two weeks ago, he's been eager to finally marry her, the person he loves more than anything and has endured so much to be with. But with so much chaos...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
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"2018. Guatemalan-American high school senior Milagros "Millie" Vargas has lived in Corpus Christi, Texas, since her parents sought asylum there when she was a baby. Now a citizen, Millie cares for her younger siblings while her mom works as a housekeeper for the wealthy Wheeler family. She is disturbed by what is happening to asylum-seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border, but doesn't see herself as an activist or a change-maker. Then Mr. Wheeler, a U.S....
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Series
Crown of coral and pearl volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Ever since Nor was forced to go to a nearby kingdom in her sister's stead, she's wanted nothing more than to return to the place and people she loves. But when her wish comes true, she soon finds herself cast out from both worlds, with a war on the horizon. As an old enemy resurfaces more powerful than ever, Nor will have to keep the kingdom from falling apart with the help of Prince Talin and Nor's twin sister, Zadie. There are forces within the...
10) Fire becomes her
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English
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In a world where magic can be bottled and power sipped, seventeen-year-old Ingrid Ellis tries to rise in society on the arm of Lindon Holt, but when she agrees to spy on his father's political opposition in exchange for his approval, she begins to question where her true allegiances lie.
11) In trouble
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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In 1950s New York, sixteen-year-old Jamie's life is unsettled since her father returned from serving time in prison for refusing to name people as Communists--and when her best friend turns to Jamie for help with an unplanned pregnancy.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old prankster Maxwell Connors tries to maintain his identity in a mid-twenty-first century world where the children of his elite corporate town of New Middletown are treated with a drug to turn them into obedient, well-mannered citizens.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sixteen-year-old Cuban American joins a salsa class to meet a girl, then invites her to spend the summer with his family in Havana. They investigate his mother's reasons for leaving Cuba decades earlier, learning about the impact politics can have on individual lives.
14) Insurgent
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Series
Divergent trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Description
One choice can transform you -- or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves -- and herself -- while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love. Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable...
15) Milly for Mayor
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English
Description
Milly for Mayor is a fictional tale about a small Midwestern farming community that has a mayoral election go hilariously awry. When the citizens realize what has happened, they step up to the challenge to make things work out. That, of course, leads to more problems.
The book is, aimed at teachers of middle school-age kids as a lesson in the importance of voting. It advocates for no particular political party or platform, but it does expose the...
16) Walls
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Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
This powerful Cold War novel tells the story of two cousins, one German and the other an American Army brat, as they navigate the political and social turmoil that threatens their friendship and ends in the abrupt rise of the Berlin Wall–which may separate them forever.
Drew is an army brat in West Berlin, where soldiers like his dad hold an outpost of democracy against communist Russia. Drew's cousin Matthias, an East Berliner, has grown...
18) The jungle
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
"1906 bestseller shockingly reveals intolerable labor practices and unsanitary working conditions in the Chicago stockyards as it tells the brutally grim story of a Slavic family that emigrates to America full of optimism but soon descends into numbing poverty, moral degradation, and despair. A fiercely realistic American classic that will haunt readers long after they've finished the last page." --Amazon.com
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Three young candidates for student body president at Lincoln High School are forced to sink to unprecedented levels of rivalry in a campaign that is shaped by popularity, duplicity and a love of chocolate milk: Stacey Wynn was the clear front-runner for Lincoln High student council president. But then French-Canadian transfer student Julia Romero entered the race and put the moves on Stacey's best friend/campaign adviser, Brian. Stacey also didn't...
20) Unwanted
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English
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She's been raised to be a slave, sold to the highest bidder. He's been raised to be a soldier in a military experiment. Now a world unknown to them awaits, but can this new world handle them?Georgia and Kyle are both Unwanteds -- children born outside of a federal child-restriction law, stolen from their parents, and used for a totalitarian government's own purposes. They've spent the first twelve years of their lives in a government facility, known...
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