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42) DJ rising
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Marley Diego-Dylan's career as "DJ Ice" is skyrocketing, but his mother's heroin addiction keeps dragging him back to earth.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Who was Ruth McBride Jordan? Not even her son knew the answer to that question until he embarked on a twelve-year journey that changed himself and his family forever. Born Rachel Deborah Shilsky, she began life as the daughter of an angry, failed orthodox Jewish rabbi in the South. To escape her unhappy childhood, Ruth ran away to Harlem, married a black man, became Baptist and started an all-black church. Her son James tells of growing up with
...46) Pride
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri is forced to find common ground with Darius, while struggling with her four wild sisters, a handsome boy vying for her attention, and college applications.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Overview: Every spring, Little Leaguers across the country mimic his stance and squabble over the right to wear his number, 2, the next number to be retired by the world's most famous ball team. Derek Jeter is their hero. He walks in the footsteps of Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, and Mantle, and someday his shadow will loom just as large. Yet he has never been the best player in baseball. In fact, he hasn't always been the best player on his team. But...
48) Golden girl
Author
Series
American fairy trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a child of prophecy and daughter of the legitimate heir to the Seelie throne, fourteen-year-old Callie poses a huge threat to the warring fae factions who have attached themselves to the most powerful people in 1930s Hollywood.
49) The Black Dragon
Author
Series
Mysterium (Julian Sedgwick) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Magician Danny and dwarf strongman Zamora try to find the connection between the end of the circus Mysterium, where Danny's parents were killed, and the disappearance of his guardian aunt, who is investigating gangs in Hong Kong.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
Español
Formats
Description
�C�omo expresarte cuando sientes que nadie te escucha? En esta conmovedora novela en verso que Lisa Fipps, autora galardonada con un Printz Honor Award, llama "potente" , una ni�na enfrenta su segundo a�no de escuela intermedia mientras lidia con problemas de salud mental. Deber�a encontrar la manera de usar su voz para pedir la ayuda y la comprensi�on que merece.
Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental...
Author
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
2008, c2006
Edition
First Yearling edition.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Clara Luna spends the summer with her grandparents in the tiny, remote village of Yucuyoo, Mexico, learning about her grandmother's life as a healer, her father's decision to leave home for the United States, and her own place in the world.
53) Shallow graves
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After waking in a shallow grave, Breezy, a high school senior, crosses the country seeking answers about her death and resurrection, discovering along the way a host of supernatural creatures, as well as a human cult determined to "free" them at any cost.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twenty miles from Oakland, California, where fires have led to racial tension, multi-racial fifteen-year-old Nina faces the bigotry of long-time friends, her parents' divorce, and her brother's misbehavior, while learning of her great-great grandmother Sarah's escape from slavery.
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Description
"[I]n New York ... Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance"--Container....
56) Good job, Kanani
Author
Series
Girl of the year. 2011: Kanani volume 2
Girl of the year. 2011 Kanani volume 2
American girls collection volume 2
Girl of the year. 2011 Kanani volume 2
American girls collection volume 2
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When a ten-year-old Hawaiian girl spends more time selling "shave ice" and less time surfing, her relationship with her best friend begins to unravel.
57) Endangered
Author
Series
Ape quartet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Sophie is not happy to be back in the Congo for the summer, but when she rescues an abused baby bonobo she becomes more involved in her mother's sanctuary--and when fighting breaks out and the sanctuary is attacked, it is up to Sophie to rescue the apes and somehow survive in the jungle.
58) Belle
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Although Dido Elizabeth Belle ... , an 18th century English woman of mixed race, is raised in privilege by her aristocratic great-uncle ... and his wife ... , she is denied a proper social standing because of her skin color. But when Dido falls in love with a young idealist lawyer ... who aspires to create positive change, she finds herself caught between two worlds"--Container.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the early 1700s, twelve-year-old Suzette, an Ojibwa-French girl, hopes that her father will win the fur-trapping contest so that he can quit being a voyageur and stay with his family year-round, but when he is accused of stealing, Suzette must use her knowledge of both French and Ojibwa ways to find the real thief.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family's dispersal after Jefferson's death in 1826. It brings to life not only Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson but also their children and Hemings's...
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