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2) Saturnalia
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six years earlier, leads a productive and contented life as a printer's apprentice but is increasingly anxious to make some connection with his Indian past.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
A year after 9/11, Muslim teenager Shirin has completely withdrawn from social life, until she meets Ocean James in her biology class and is tempted to actually let her guard down.
4) Archon
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Twelve-year-old Taemon struggles with the fallout from his role in ending the city of Deliverance's ability to use telekinetic powers and embarks on a dangerous journey with Amma to find his missing father in a Republik.
5) Darby
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2006, c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In 1926, nine-year-old Darby Carmichael stirs up trouble in Marlboro County, South Carolina, when she writes a story for the local newspaper promoting racial equality.
Author
Series
Generation dead volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
©2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Karen, a zombie teenager, attempts to pass as human and prove her zombie friends' innocence when they are accused of murder.
10) Re-vamped!
Author
Series
My sister the vampire volume no.3
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
When Olivia and Ivy tell their classmates and parents that they are identical twins, the word spreads to the vampire officials and Olivia must prove that she is worthy of keeping Ivy's true identity a secret.
11) The friendship
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly black man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
East Dragon and West Dragon are suspicious of one another although they have never met, but when the western king is captured in the Eastern Kingdom and West Dragon goes to rescue him, they find they have much in common.
Author
Series
Sugar Creek Gang volume 31
Publisher
Moody Press
Pub. Date
1999
Description
When a mysterious stranger takes up residence in the treehouse they've just built, Bill and the gang learn a lesson about racism.
16) Trouble
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Fourteen-year-old Henry, wishing to honor his brother Franklin's dying wish, sets out to hike Maine's Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog. But fate adds another companion--the Cambodian refugee accused of fatally injuring Franklin--and reveals troubles that predate the accident.
17) Project Mulberry
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
While working on a project for an after-school club, Julia, a Korean American girl, and her friend Patrick learn not just about silkworms, but also about tolerance, prejudice, friendship, patience, and more. Between the chapters are short dialogues between the author and main character about the writing of the book.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town.
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When the school in Mayfield Crossing is closed, the students are sent to larger schools, where the black children encounter racial prejudice for the first time. Only baseball seems a possibility for drawing people together.
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