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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
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Description
A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remains a woman of indomitable spirit.
2) Forever
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
Two high school seniors believe their love to be so strong that it will last forever.
5) Kent State
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
Told from different points of view--protesters, students, National Guardsmen, and "townies"--recounts the story of what happened at Kent State in May 1970, when four college students were killed by National Guardsmen, and a student protest was turned into a bloody battlefield.
Author
Series
Program volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Working with rebels to bring down The Program, a suicide prevention treatment in which painful memories are erased, Sloane and James consider taking The Treatment to unlock their memories.
7) Artifice
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
Isa de Smit grew up in her parents' art gallery in Amsterdam, but in the middle of the war she survives by selling fake paintings to the Nazis while trying to help her friend, Truus, smuggle Jewish babies to safety--but in 1943 it is hard to know who to trust.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
"In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District--a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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Description
Sometimes, life in the Big Easy is tough. No one knows that better than Tiana, though she also believes that hard work can go a long way. But when the notorious Dr. Facilier backs her into a corner, she has no other choice but to accept an offer that will alter the course of her life in an instant. Soon Tiana finds herself in a new reality where all her deepest desires are realized--she finally gets her restaurant, her friends are safe and sound,...
10) Bluebird
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 17
Description
In 1946 Eva arrives in New York City, from the rubble of Berlin, supposedly looking for a new life, but actually seeking justice against the Nazis that "escaped" with the help of the CIA; one in particular, the doctor who knows who Eva really is, because her identity is the product Project Bluebird, an experiment of the concentration camps involving brainwashing and mind control, which both the Americans and the Soviets would like access to--and Eva...
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers abut his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.
13) Becoming Beatriz
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"In 1984 in the barrios of Newark, Beatriz Mendez is looking forward to dancing at her fifteenth birthday, because dancing is her true passion in life, but when her brother Juni, gang-leader of the Puerto Rican gang the Diablos, is killed by the rival Haitian Macoute gang she finds herself thrust into the role of gang-leader and drug dealer--until she meets Nassar, a dorky Haitian boy who shares and reignites her passion for dancing."--
1984, in...
14) Family of liars
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Carrie Sinclair tells the ghost of her son Johnny about the summer of 1987, when "the boys" arrive on Beechwood Island, setting off events that will haunt her for years to come.
15) Any sign of life
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Paige Miller fears she is the only person left alive in Ohio until she meets a handful of other survivors, and together they struggle with the knowledge that their new reality is the first part of an alien invasion.
16) Attack on titan
Author
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Hundreds of years ago, mindless giants called Titans appeared, preying on whatever humans they could find. Unable to effectively combat them, mankind was forced to barricade themselves within large walls surrounding what may be humanity's last safe haven. In the present day, life within the walls has finally found peace. But the state of tranquility is suddenly shattered by the attack of a massive 60-meter Titan. On that day, Eren Yeager makes a promise...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
"A YA nonfiction story about Ariel and her twin sister's experience living with Crouzon Syndrome"--
At only eight months old, identical twin sisters Ariel and Zan were diagnosed with Crouzon syndrome, a rare condition where the bones in the head fuse prematurely. They were the first twins known to survive the disease. They endured numerous appearance-altering procedures as they grew up. Surgeons would break the bones in their heads and faces to make...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
Evan goes from being a nobody to everyone's hero and a social media superstar after a chance encounter with Connor just before his suicide leads others to believe Evan was his only friend.
Evan is shy, lonely, and bullied for it. He has a chance encounter with Connor Murphy-- just before Connor commits suicide. Evan's life suddenly gets turned around, and suddenly he isn't invisible anymore to the girl of his dreams-- Connor's sister, Zoe, who believes...
19) When we make it
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Sarai uses verse to navigate the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn, questioning the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she lives.
A first-generation Puerto Rican eighth grader, Sarai can see with clarity the truth, pain, and beauty of the world both inside and outside her Bushwick apartment. Together with her older sister Estrella she...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgórska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store in for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemsyl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) and only Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything...
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