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Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
This coming-of-age memoir, set during the Iranian Revolution, tells the true story of a young girl who moves to Tehran from the U.S. and has to adjust to living in a new country, learning a new language, and starting a new school during one of the most turbulent periods in Iran's history. When five-year-old Nioucha Homayoonfar moves from the U.S. to Iran in 1979, its open society means a life with dancing, women's rights, and other freedoms. But soon...
Author
Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books, a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Discover 25 women who challenged the status quo and fought for what they believed in. From all corners of the world, these women show us that barriers are meant to be broken and obstacles can be overcome. Learn about some of the fierce women who persevered in the face of adversity to fight for what they thought was right.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Empower yourself in today's highly connected, socially conscious world as you learn how to wield your passions, digital tools, and the principles of social entrepreneurship to affect real change in your schools, communities, and beyond. Contains profiles of successful projects, step-by-step guides to applied changemaking, and a variety of resources.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"America is the greatest democracy in the world...isn't it? Author Elizabeth Rusch examines some of the more problematic aspects of our government but, more importantly, offers ways for young people to fix them"--
6) Maggot moon
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
"An unlikely teenager risks all to expose the truth about a heralded moon landing. What if the football hadn't gone over the wall. On the other side of the wall there is a dark secret. And the devil. And the Moon Man. And the Motherland doesn't want anyone to know. But Standish Treadwell--who has different-colored eyes, who can't read, can't write, Standish Treadwell isn't bright--sees things differently than the rest of the "train-track thinkers."...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
"A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love. George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"The true story of a group of boy resistance fighters in Denmark after the Nazi invasion"--
"At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed...
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"A girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person...
12) Glimmerglass
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"Normal. It's all she's ever wanted to be, but it couldn't be further from her grasp. Dana Hathaway doesn't know it yet, but she's in big trouble. When her alcoholic mom shows up at her voice recital drunk, again, Dana decides she's had enough and runs away to find her mysterious father in Avalon: the only place on Earth where the regular, everyday world and the captivating, magical world of Faerie intersect. But from the moment Dana sets foot in...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
Russell Freedman tells the story of Austrian-born Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie. They belonged to Hitler Youth as young children, but began to doubt the Nazi regime. As older students, the Scholls and a few friends formed the White Rose, a campaign of active resistance to Hitler and the Nazis. Risking imprisonment or even execution, the White Rose members distributed leaflets urging Germans to defy the Nazi government. Their belief that freedom...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
Describes how global warming has made the Arctic's oil, gas, natural resources, and minerals more accessible and how competition between nations and corporate interests for control of the resources is endangering the Arctic's fragile ecosystems. --Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
This book recounts the three months of protest that took place before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s landmark march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery to promote equal rights and help African-Americans earn the right to vote.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"This is YA nonfiction. It's the memoir of a boy named Sungju who grew up in North Korea and, at the age of twelve, was forced to live on the streets and fend for himself after his parents disappeared. Finally, after years of being homeless and living with a gang, Sungju is reunited with his maternal grandparents and, eventually, his father"--
"Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the intense...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Coretta Scott King Honor winner Bolden sheds light on new research and interpretations of one of America's most influential African Americans. She focuses on Douglass the man rather than the historical icon. In chronicling his shortcomings and the low points in his life as well as his victories, Bolden creates a portrait of this relentless warrior as a speaker, a once-enslaved abolitionist, but most importantly, as a human being.
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