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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1110L
Description
The true story of the all-black high school basketball team that broke the color barrier in segregated 1950s Indiana. By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten teens from an Indianapolis school shattered the myth of their inferiority. Their brilliant coach had fashioned an unbeatable team from a group of boys born in the South and raised in poverty. Anchored by the astonishing Oscar Robertson, the Crispus Attucks Tigers...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
970L
Description
At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage, infuriating the Germans, who eventually had the boys tracked...
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