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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"A novel in verse about a boy escaping slavers during the nineteenth century"--
11-year-old Kofi Offin dreams of water. Its mysterious, immersive quality. The rich, earthy scent of the current. The clearness, its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets... Kofi has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, in the village where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father's father, a...
2) Moonwalking
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In 1980s Brooklyn, new student JJ Pankowski, an autistic, punk-rock-lover, befriends Pie Velez, an Afro-Latinx math geek and graffiti artist.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Eleven-year-old Lacey rediscovers life and the soothing power of nature and art after she, her little sister, and mom escape from their controlling and abusive father.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"An inspirational nonfiction novel-in-verse about Zhanna Arshanskaya, a young Ukrainian Jewish girl using the alias Anna, whose phenomenal piano-playing skills saved her life and the life of her sister, Frina, during the Holocaust--from award-winning author Susan Hood, with Zhanna's son, Greg Dawson"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Through the eyes of her family and friends we see the young Rachel as she explores nature and overcomes obstacles to write about harmful chemical practices and launch the global environmental movement. Written in blank verse.
7) Wave
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
A coming-of-age novel in verse set in 1980s Southern California, about a Persian American girl who rides the waves, falls, and finds her way back to the shore
Thirteen-year-old Ava loves to surf and to sing. Singing and reading Rumi poems settle her mild OCD, and catching waves with her best friend, Phoenix, lets her fit in-her olive skin looks tan, not foreign. But then Ava has to spend the summer before ninth grade volunteering at the hospital,...
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