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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Journalist Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin -- the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, 2 to 3 times purer than its white powder cousin -- to the veins of people across the United States. Communities where heroin had never been seen before -- from Charlotte, North Carolina and...
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Publisher
Holiday House
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
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Description
Overweight sixteen-year-old Charlie yearned for her first kiss while her perfect best friend, Amelia, fell in love, so when she finally starts dating and learns the boy asked Amelia out first, she is devastated.
3) The Odyssey
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 24
Description
"The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. In this fresh, authoritative version--the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman--this stirring tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic comes alive in an entirely new way. Written in iambic pentameter verse...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 12
Description
When Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II, inherited the throne in 1894, he was unprepared to do so. With their four daughters (including Anastasia) and only son, a hemophiliac, Nicholas and his reclusive wife, Alexandra, buried their heads in the sand, living a life of opulence as World War I raged outside their door and political unrest grew into the Russian Revolution. Maneuvering between the lives of the Romanovs and the plight of Russia's peasants...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
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"The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and present. This book takes you on that journey, showing how racist ideas started and were spread, and how they can be discredited"--Dust jacket flap.
"A history of racist and antiracist...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
"Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the people behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of people displaced worldwide. Malala's experiences visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider her own displacement-- first as an Internally Displaced Person when she was a young child in Pakistan, and then as an international activist who could travel anywhere in the world except to the home she loved. In We Are...
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"An anthology of essays and illustrations that illuminate mental health topics in a straightforward way"--
To understand mental health, we need to talk openly about it. This collection explores a wide range of topics, from the authors' personal experiences with mental illness and understanding how our brains are wired, to exploring the do's and don'ts of talking about mental health."--Adapted from back cover
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Thirty-seven contributors--including model Tyra Banks, gymnast Aly Raisman, and bestselling YA authors--explore the world in their unique bodies through essays, lists, comics, and art, from the award-winning editor of (Don't) Call Me Crazy"--
We all experience the world in a body, but we don't usually take the time to explore what it really means to have and live in one. In this collection of essays, lists, comics and art, readers will explore how...
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Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Bianca Cooper, a normal sixteen-year-old student, escapes into the world of Minecraft after getting into a terrible car accident. Soon, however, she realizes she is trapped inside the game, and the in-game characters who have been attacking her resemble figures from her real life."--
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Series
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Culinary Arts, which includes interviews with professionals in the field, covers five main areas of this field that have proven to be stable, lucrative, and growing professions: Chefs; Pop-up and traditional restaurant owners; Caterers; Media and art-related careers; Bakers"--
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Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Told in two voices, Nadja grows up in war-torn Bosnia in the 1990s and, in the present, refuses to discuss her youth with her daughter, Zara, until both are traumatized by a terrorist attack in Rhode Island.
13) Kingdom
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Publisher
Nobrow
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
A journey through the inbetween places of the British landscape to the bleak coast, 'Kingdom' follows a family on their holiday to a small caravan park, where teenager Andrew explores the dunes, and half-remembered stories from the past are shared. Once again, Jon McNaught creates a beautiful graphic novel that makes the ordinary, extraordinary.
14) Hawking
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Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"From his early days at the St Albans School and Oxford, Stephen Hawking's brilliance and good humor were obvious to everyone he met. A lively and popular young man, it's no surprise that he would later rise to celebrity status."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
After losing his brother, mom, and most of his friends, Aaron Stein is left with his shambolic father alone in their moldering secondhand bookstore, but just when he considers selling the store he meets new people and takes on new challenges, helping him come to terms with what he has lost and who he wants to be.
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Once upon a time, there was a girl named Maud who adored stories. When she was fourteen years old, Maud wrote in her journal, "I love books. I hope when I grow up to be able to have lots of them." Not only did Maud grow up to own lots of books, she wrote twenty-four of them herself as L. M. Montgomery, the world-renowned author of Anne of Green Gables. For many years, not a great deal was known about Maud's personal life. Her childhood was spent with...
Author
Publisher
Free Spirit Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Huegel Madrone provides realistic advice for teens who are LGBTQ, questioning whether they might be, or are just interested in knowing more about LGBTQ history and rights. Also included are practical suggestions on dealing with homophobia; dating; creating a more accepting school environment; and reconciling your sexual/gender identity with cultural and religious beliefs.
20) Crunch time
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Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Four students, who have formed a study group to prepare for the SAT exam, sustain each other through the emotional highs and lows of their junior year in high school.
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