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1) Seesaw girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Jade Blossom, who is impatient with the constraints put on her as an aristocratic girl living in Korea during the seventeenth century, determines to see beyond her small world.
3) Nightingale
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
June Hardie is everything a young woman in 1951 shouldn't be: independent, rebellious, a dreamer. June longs to travel, to attend college and to write the dark science fiction stories that consume her waking hours. Her mother grooms her to be a perfect little homemaker while her father pushes her to marry his business partner's domineering son. When June resists, she's committed to Burrow Place Asylum. Suburbia isn't the only prison for different...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Billy is a typical boy who loves to ride his bike and play video games. But when Billy tells his family and friends he wants to be a cheerleader, everyone is surprised and starts taunting him. But Billy practices and practices and when he shows his skills at the big game, everyone is impressed and becomes proud of him. Includes glossary, as well as questions to self-check comprehension.
6) Mehndi boy
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"If Tehzeeb wants to be the best mehndi artist in town, he needs to practice. Luckily, his friends and family can't get enough of the dazzling daisies and pretty peacocks he draws on their hands. Tehzeeb can't wait to show off his henna skills at his cousin Rahima's wedding...until his favorite uncle tells him mehndi isn't for boys. Rahim needs Tehzeeb's help--and his talents. Can he find the courage to be his true creative self?"--
Author
Series
Breadwinner series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
GN 710L
Language
English
Description
Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve--year-old Aisulu defies the expectations of her Kazakh family and tradition to train an eagle in order to save her brother, Serik, and prevent her family from giving up their nomadic life forever.
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