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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
In 1945, thirteen-year-old Levi Battle travels to find the father he has not seen in three years, going from Chicago to segregated North Carolina and finally to Pendleton, Oregon, where he learns that his father's unit, the all-black 555th paratrooper battalion, will never see combat but finally has a mission. Includes historical notes.
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
920L
Description
With the land to hold them together, nothing can tear the Logans apart. Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year -- the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she is black -- to show Cassie that having a place of their own is the Logan family's lifeblood. It is the land that gives the Logans their courage and pride, for no matter...
65) Turning point
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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"Best friends Rasheeda and Monique navigate the ups and downs of a teenager's summer, Mo at home in the Cove; Sheeda at a sleepaway ballet intensive"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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A biography of Martin Luther King Jr. emphasizing how he overcame obstacles and achieved success as a civil rights leader. Includes brief information on the civil rights movement in general, King's home state of Georgia, and a lesson on writing biographies.
67) Malcolm X
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-126) and index. A biography, in text and photographs, describing the life of the controversial African-American civil rights activist from his troubled childhood, through his years as a national leader in the Nation of Islam, to his assassination. The most highly recognized series on African Americans celebrates Black History Month all year long! Journey to Freedom: The African American Library provides...
68) The Cruisers
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Cruisers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Friends Zander, Kambui, LaShonda, and Bobbi, caught in the middle of a mock Civil War at DaVinci Academy, learn the true cost of freedom of speech when they use their alternative newspaper, The Cruiser, to try to make peace.
70) Lightning's run
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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Bullied relentlessly, Hiram Goldfarb, a Jewish immigrant in nineteenth-century New York City, learns bareknuckle fighting from a former slave wanted for a heinous crime in the South.
71) Freewater
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for her life, Homer knows there's no turning back, not with the overseer on their trail. Through tangled vines, secret doorways, and over a sky bridge, the two find a secret community called Freewater, deep in the swamp.
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Legendary Alston Boys adventure volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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"In this third Legendary Alston Boys adventure from Edgar Award nominated author Lamar Giles, Otto and Sheed have to team up with the Ellison twins to take down a corporation obsessed with the weirdness of Logan County and that's turning its residents into Money-Zombies. Otto and Sheed are back in yet another legendary adventure that just might take all their deduction skills, and a good bit of help from friends and family, to solve. With the Rorrim...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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A 50th-anniversary tribute shares the story of the youngest person to complete the momentous Selma to Montgomery March, describing her frequent imprisonments for her participation in nonviolent demonstrations and how she felt about her involvement in historic Civil Rights events.
74) Serena says
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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"After her best friend, JC, has a kidney transplant, Serena feels that they are falling out of touch, especially as JC makes a new best friend in the hospital"--
75) Patina
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Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
710L
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"Patina, "Patty" Jones is the fastest girl on the Defenders track team. A newbie to the track team, Patty must learn to rely on her family and teammates as she tries to outrun her problems. She runs to show the kids that taunt her at her fancy new school that she's going to be someone some day. She runs for her fellow newbie teammates to make them proud. She runs to show her little sister Maddy how to be strong and brave. And she runs for her mother,...
76) Come Juneteenth
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
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Fourteen-year-old Luli and her family face tragedy after failing to tell their slaves that President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation made them free.
77) Ghost boys
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
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Twelve-year-old Treasure Daniels and her younger sister must move in with Great-aunt Grace until their mother sorts herself out, but life in Black Lake, Virginia, where segregation lingers, is hard and Grace is a nightmare--at least on the surface.
79) Lunch-box dream
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Told from multiple points of view, a white family on a 1959 road trip between Ohio and Florida, visiting Civil War battlefields along the way, crosses paths with a black family near Atlanta, where one of their children has gone missing.
80) Locomotion
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
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Inspired by his teacher, eleven-year-old Lonnie begins to write about his life in a series of poems in which he discusses his feelings about his friends, his foster mom, his little sister Lili, and the death of his parents.
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