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Author
Series
Lexile measure
AD 490L
Language
English
Description
"Hands are for saying hello - and for playing, making music, learning, counting, helping, and much more. With simple words and charming illustrations, this gentle, encouraging book teaches young children that violence is never okay, that they can manage strong feelings, and that they are capable of positive, loving actions" --
2) The fort
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
"The morning after Hurricane Leo rips trough town, friends Evan, Jason, Mitchell, and CJ meet to explore the devastation. The group is dismayed to find that Evan has brought along Ricky, who is new to their town and school, and doesn't have any friends yet. Ricky is the one to find an old bomb shelter, unearthed by the hurricane. Inside, the boys find an undergroud lair, complete with electricity and food. What started out as a fun place to escape...
Author
Language
English
Description
Beck and Vivian never could stand each other, but they always tried their best for their mutual friend, Cassie. Until Cassie was murdered by her ex-boyfriend at school five months ago. After the town moves on from that tragedy too fast, Beck and Vivian finally find common ground: vengeance. they memorialize Cassie by secretly painting murals of her around town, a message to the world that Cassie was there, and she won't be forgotten. But Beck and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1100L
Language
English
Description
"Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history"--
6) Dreamland
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Malala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called attention to what was happening in her beautiful corner of Pakistan and realized that words can bring about change. She has continued to speak out for the right of all children to have an education. In 2014 she won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When star soccer player Peyton Rios receives an offer from her first-choice college, senior year starts off exactly as planned. But when Peyton uncovers her boyfriend's dark secret, she confronts him and finds herself falling down a flight of stairs. Peyton's knee and maybe her dream of going pro is shattered. Everyone is talking: Was she pushed, or did she fall?
12) Vinyl moon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"A teen girl hiding the scars of a past relationship finds home and healing in the words of strong Black writers. A beautiful sophomore novel from a critically acclaimed author and poet that explores how words have the power to shape and uplift our world even in the midst of pain. When Darius told Angel he loved her, she believed him. But five weeks after the incident, Angel finds herself in Brooklyn, far from her family, from him, and from the California...
15) Blended
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
""You're so exotic!!" "You look so unusual." "But what are you really?" Eleven-year-old Isabella - whose father is black and mother is white - is used to these kinds of comments, but it doesn't mean she likes them. And now that her parents are divorced (and getting along WORSE THAN EVER), Isabella feels like a push-me-pull-me toy. Being split between Mom and Dad is more than switching houses, switching nicknames, switching backpacks: It's switching...
16) All we have left
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
In interweaving stories of sixteen-year-olds, modern-day Jesse tries to cope with the ramifications of her brother's death on 9/11, while in 2001, Alia, a Muslim, gets trapped in one of the Twin Towers and meets a boy who changes everything for her as flames rage around them.
17) The outsiders
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society. When it was first published in 1967, The Outsiders defied convention with its immediate, deeply sympathetic portrayal of Ponyboy and his struggle to find a place for himself in a difficult world. Thirty years later, it speaks to teenagers as powerfully as ever.
18) Monster
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
19) Mary underwater
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gaining courage from Joan of Arc, fourteen-year-old Mary Murphy navigates the waters of Chesapeake Bay in a submersible built with her friend, Kip, escaping the home where her violent father has just returned from prison. Includes facts about domestic violence and submersibles."-- Publisher's description.
20) Disappeared
Author
Series
Disappeared (Stork) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Description
Four months ago Sara Zapata's best friend, Linda, disappeared from the streets of Juarez, and ever since Sara has been using her job as a reporter to draw attention to the girls who have been kidnapped by the criminals who control the city, but now she and her family are being threatened--meanwhile her younger brother, Emiliano, is being lured into the narcotics business by the promise of big money, and soon the only way for both of them to escape...
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