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Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
To come to terms with who she is and what she wants, Ailey, the daughter of an accomplished doctor and a strict schoolteacher, embarks on a journey through her family's past, helping her embrace her full heritage, which is the story of the Black experience in itself.
The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about what he called "Double Consciousness," a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. From an early age,...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
During World War II, eleven-year-old Felicity is sent from London to Bottlebay, Maine, to live with her grandmother, aunt, uncle, and a reclusive boy who helps her decode mysterious letters that contain the truth about her missing parents.
323) Pink is not a color
Author
Publisher
Two Lions
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Pink loves her rosy world, from her pink toy dinosaur to her pet flamingo, Phil. But when she sees the Primaries and Secondaries getting ready for the Rainbow Extravaganza, she begins to wonder why she isn't in the rainbow--and if that means she's not really a color. Then she meets the Tints, and she's even more confused. Luckily, a friend shows her the many ways she spreads joy--reminding Pink that she is truly one of a kind, rainbow or not. Featuring...
324) I want to be a vase
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"This is a story about a plunger who wants to be a vase. It's also about a vacuum cleaner and a cup and a sink and some flowers. The flowers don't talk though; they're just flowers. It's also a story about being exactly who you want to be. In a lot of ways you could say it's about -- Well, why don't you see for yourself? It's more fun that way."
Author
Formats
Description
"A coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of an eleven-year-old over the course of a single summer, as she tries to make sense of her new life with her estranged grandfather and sister after the death of her father and disappearance of her mother"--
After their father dies of an overdose and the debts incurred from his addiction cause the loss of the family home in Detroit, Kenyatta Bernice (KB) and her sister, Nia, are sent by their overwhelmed...
326) Cytonic
Author
Series
Skyward volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Fighter pilot Spensa Nightshade has been embroiled in an alien empire's war and now, to figure out what she really is, she must leave her world behind to enter the Nowhere, a mysterious realm from which those who enter rarely ever return.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
Seventh-grader Lewis "Shoe" Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George Haddonfield from the local Air Force base, but in 1975 upstate New York there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and Whites--and Lewis is not sure that he can rely on friendship.
328) Show me a sign
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Mary Lambert has always felt safe and protected on her beloved island of Martha's Vineyard. Her great-great-grandfather was an early English settler and the first deaf islander. Now, in 1805, over a hundred years later, many people there -- including Mary -- are deaf, and nearly everyone can communicate in sign language. Mary has never felt isolated. She is proud of her lineage. But recent events have delivered winds of change. Mary's brother died,...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
American pie: Four friends make the pact to lose their virginity by prom night in an unforgettable story about high school, band camp, and warm apple pie.
The big Lebowski: The cult classic about the "Dude," his buddies, a case of mistaken identity, kidnapping and bowling.
Billy Madison: 27-year-old Billy Madison must repeat all 12 grades of school in just 24 weeks to earn his father's respect and prove he has what it takes to run the family's multi-million-dollar...
330) The midwinter witch
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Aster always looks forward to the Midwinter Festival, a reunion of the entire Vanissen family that includes competitions in witchery and shapeshifting. This year, he's especially excited to compete in the annual Jolrun tournament-as a witch. He's determined to show everyone that he's proud of who he is and what he's learned, but he knows it won't be easy to defy tradition. Ariel has darker things on her mind than the Festival-like the mysterious...
331) Sorceline: Book 1
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Welcome to the Island of Vorn, where mythical creatures roam free and only the brightest students are invited to study them. Sorceline, a gifted young cryptozoologist-in-training must learn to tame powerful beasts -- including her own inner demons. For as long as she can remember, Sorceline has had a knack for the study of mythical creatures. Now a student at Professor Archibald Balzars? prestigious school of cryptozoology, she's eager to test her...
332) Remember
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Picture book adaptation of US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's iconic poem, Remember"--
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
The Lake District, 1899. The Earl is dead and cruel Cousin Clarence has inherited everything. Twelve-year-old Lady Agatha Asquith is cast out of Gosswater Hall to live in a tiny, tumbledown cottage with a stranger who claims to be her father. Aggie is determined to discover her real identity, but she is not alone on her quest for the truth. On the last day of the year, when the clock strikes midnight, a mysterious girl of light creeps through the...
334) 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...
335) Supernaturally
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Sixteen-year-old Evie thinks she has left the International Paranormal Containment Agency, and her own paranormal activities, behind her when she is recruited to help at the Agency, where she discovers more about the dark faerie prophecy that threatens her future.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
When Speed enters the elite Racing Academy, he shifts gears for a series of futuristic adventures. Trouble follows at every turn as Speed uncovers the secrets of his identity. Not only is the legendary Speed Racer his father, but also that his top competitor, racer X, is his brother. Speed also finds the top secret plans for his racing car the Mach-6. Evil billionaire, Zile Zazic, will do everything in his power to stop Speed from discovering the...
337) Set me free
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Three years after being kidnapping from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she is now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who is being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child; a little scared, but intrigued, and bored with domestic life, Mary agrees--only...
338) Pinch hit
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"When movie star Trevor and regular Little League player Sam discover that they are identical twins who were separated at birth, they decide to trade places for a while so that Sam can live the Hollywood life and Trevor can play baseball"--
339) The English Patient
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
2004, 1996
Description
During WWII, a mysterious stranger is cared for by British allies unaware of his dangerous past. Yet, as the mystery of his identity is revealed, an incredible tale of passion, intrigue and adventure unfolds.
340) Queen's hope
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney/Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Padmé is adjusting to being a wartime senator during the Clone Wars. Her secret husband, Anakin Skwyalker, is off fighting the war, and excels at being a wartime Jedi. In contrast, when Padmé gets the opportunity to see the casualties on the war-torn front lines, she is horrified. The stakes have never been higher for the galaxy, or for the newly-married couple. Meanwhile, with Padmé on a secret mission, her handmaiden Sabé steps into the role...
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