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"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.
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"A tense, psychological novel about what propels one 8-year-old girl to murder, and the complex ways this past chases her down in later life. Chrissie is eight years old and she has a secret: she has just killed a boy. The feeling of it made her belly fizz like soda pop. Across her neighborhood, Chrissie's playmates and their parents are tearful and terrified. But Chrissie rules the roost - she's the best at wall-walking, she knows how to get free...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...
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"Seth--a small town journalist raised by foster parents--is assigned to write about a young boy found in a ditch after a car and train collision. As he works to discover the boy's identity, he also finds the story of his own history and the father who gave up everything to get him back"--
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Series
Wings of fire volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Turtle the SeaWing dragon has long dreamed of being a hero, but when the companioinadvertentlytly free Darkstalker, the oldest and most powerful dragon, from the spell that has trapped him, the best he can come up with is a spell that prevents the ancient dragon from seeing him or hearing his thoughts--Darkstalker claims he has changed, but Turtle suspects that he still plans to control dragonkind.
7) Moon rising
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Series
Wings of fire volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Peace has come to Pyrrhia... for now. The war between the tribes is finally over, and now the dragonets of the prophecy have a plan for lasting peace: Jade Mountain Academy, a school that will gather dragonets from all the tribes and teach them to live together, perhaps even as friends. Moonwatcher isn't sure how she feels about school, however. Hidden in the rainforest for most of her life, the young NightWing has an awful secret. She can read minds,...
Author
Series
Bromance book club volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"A hacktivist and a cat café owner decode the friend zone in this romantic comedy from the author of Undercover Bromance. Alexis Carlisle and her cat café, ToeBeans, have shot to fame after she came forward as a victim of a celebrity chef's sexual harassment. When a new customer approaches to confide in her, the last thing Alexis expects is for the woman to claim they're sisters. Unsure what to do, Alexis turns to the only man she trusts-her best...
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Demi-god Percy Jackson and his friends must journey into the Sea of Monsters to save their camp. But first Percy will discover a secret that makes him wonder whether being claimed as Poseidon's son is an honor or a cruel joke.
10) Criss cross
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
11) Soul of stars
Author
Series
Heart of Iron volume 2
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Description
"Once Ana was an orphaned space outlaw. Then she was the Empress of the Iron Kingdom. Now, thought dead by most of the galaxy after she escaped from the dark AI program called the HIVE, Ana is desperate for a way to save Di from the HIVE's evil clutches and take back her kingdom. Ana's only option is to find Starbright, the one person who hacked into the HIVE and lived to tell the tale. But when Ana's desperation costs the crew of the Dossier a terrible...
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Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"The Margrave of Thornbeck has two weeks to find a noble bride. What will happen when he learns he has fallen for Avelina, a lovely servant girl in disguise? But something else is afoot in the castle. Something sinister that could have far worse--far deadlier--consequences. Will Avelina and Lord Thornbeck be able to stop the evil plot?"--
13) The pigs' picnic
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Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2001, c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Mr. Pig, on his way to call on Miss Pig, allows his animal friends to persuade him to don various handsome portions of their own bodies, with an alarming result.
Author
Publisher
Child's Play
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Keith is a cat, but he'd rather be a pigeon. He loves to watch them and learn their ways, but they won't let him get too close. Will Keith ever make friends with the pigeons and learn how it feels to be one? Will he ever find out who he really is and feel comfortable just being Keith?
15) Just like me
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
In this story about unlikely friendships and finding your place in the world, three very different girls, adopted as babies from the same Chinese orphanage, spend a week at a summer camp, where the adoption agency coordinator wants them to journal their "bonding" experience.
16) I like myself!
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Description
In rhyming text, a little girl expresses confidence and joy in her uniqueness, no matter her outward appearance.
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Series
Publisher
Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"How do the identities you hold--like your racial or gender identity--impact you every day? . . . Part of being your true self means learning about group identities and how they affect our experience of the world. . . . This text will help young kids explore their identities and how it shapes their experience"--
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Series
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
While uncovering mysteries from his past, reluctant orphan-turned-spy Max Segredo discovers intrigue at the Merry Sunshine Orphanage and must confront an international group bent on world domination.
20) Be yourself!
Publisher
RP Kids
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Identifies such positive traits in each Peanuts character as Charlie Brown's determination, Sally's loving-kindness, and Snoopy's creativity, and emphasizes the message that everyone possesses special and unique qualities.
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