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81) Shooting Star
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Wheelchair-bound Stella can secretly fly but soon after becoming a superhero, she faces an escaped prisoner and is unable to change into her costume without revealing her true identity.
Author
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"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"In the distant future, when a new species rules the earth, thirteen-year-old Prince Leo struggles to hide a dangerous and forbidden power he cannot control while trying to unlock the mysteries of his origins"--
Author
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.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Morgan can't count the number of times she's been the only non-white person at the sleepover, been teased for her "weird" outfits, and been told she's not "really" black. She's spent most of her summer crying in bed; it feels like the whole world is listening to the same terrible track on repeat, and Morgan sees life as a never-ending hamster wheel of agony. She knows why she's in therapy. When Morgan makes friends with fellow outcasts, blasts music...
88) The name jar
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, her new classmates help her decide what her name should be.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
Description
"Uriel the angel and Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) are the only two supernatural creatures in their shtetl (which is so tiny, it doesn't have a name other than Shetl). The angel and the demon have been studying together for centuries, but pogroms and the search for a new life have drawn all the young people from their village to America. When one of those young people, Essie, goes missing. Uriel and Little Ash set off to find her. Along the way...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Red's factory-applied label clearly says that he is red, but despite the best efforts of his teacher, fellow crayons and art supplies, and family members, he cannot seem to do anything right until a new friend offers a fresh perspective.
91) 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.
92) The fold
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Korean American high school student Joyce Kim feels like a nonentity compared to her beautiful older sister, and when her aunt offers to pay for plastic surgery on her eyes, she jumps at the chance, thinking it will change her life for the better.
93) Lost and found
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Twelve-year-old identical twins Jay and Ray have long resented that everyone treats them as one person, and so they hatch a plot to take advantage of a clerical error at their new school and pretend they are just one.
94) Fragments
Author
Series
Partials volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 25
Formats
Description
Kira Walker has found the cure for RM, but the battle for the survival of humans and Partials is just beginning. Kira has left East Meadow in a desperate search for clues to who she is. That the Partials themselves hold the cure for RM in their blood cannot be a coincidence -- it must be part of a larger plan, a plan that involves Kira, a plan that could save both races. Her companions are Afa Demoux, an unhinged drifter and former employee of ParaGen,...
95) The knowing
Author
Publisher
Rise x Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Singer-songwriter, activist, feminist, and best-selling author Ani Di Franco has written something for her youngest audience: a picture book that invites young readers to ponder the distinction between outer forms of identity and the inner light of consciousness that is even more central to our being. In her signature folk style, Di Franco weaves a story that incorporates themes of individual power and collective responsibility. First-time illustrator...
96) Heart of iron
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Ana is a scoundrel by nurture and an outlaw by nature. Found as a child drifting through space with a sentient android called D09, Ana was saved by a fearsome space captain and the grizzled crew she now calls family. But D09 -- one of the last remaining illegal Metals -- has been glitching, and Ana will stop at nothing to find a way to fix him. Ana's desperate effort to save D09 leads her on a quest to steal the coordinates to...
97) Unleashed
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Description
When the pressure of perfection wears on Daniel Morning, he finds himself falling for the rebellious Misty, who can shapeshift, but Daniel soon finds the freedom he is looking for while prowling the night as a wolf comes with a price.
98) The cholo tree
Author
Publisher
Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Recovering from a shooting and stereotyped as a Chicano gangbanger, fourteen-year-old Victor Reyes loves reading books, has a genius girlfriend and an art teacher who mentors and encourages him to apply to art schools, but Victor cannot seem to overcome society's expectations for him.
99) Suck it up
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
After graduating from the International Vampire League, a scrawny, teenaged vampire named Morning is given the chance to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming a superhero when he embarks on a League mission to become the first vampire to reveal his identity to humans and to demonstrate how peacefully-evolved, blood-substitute-drinking vampires can use their powers to help humanity.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
A collection of four pre-Divergent stories plus three additional scenes from Divergent, all told from Tobias's point of view, that follow Tobias's transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his Dauntless initiation, the first clues that a foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions, and the weeks after he meets Tris Prior.
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