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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 2
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"This book explores controversies in sports, including black boxer Jack Johnson, Jessie Owens in the 1936 Olympics, Jackie Robinson breaking baseball's color barrier, Muhammad Ali's refusal to fight in the Vietnam War, #MeToo and the US gymnastics team, and much more"--
42) What are you?
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Roaring Brook Press
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A puggle and two poodles discuss what things they are good at and why.
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An illustrated, middle-grade treatment of the Dreyfus Affair told from the perspectives of Jewish army captain Alfred Dreyfus and writer Emile Zola. When a Jewish army captain is falsely accused of treason and sent to prison, a writer uses his pen to fight for justice. In 1895 a prisoner watches the ocean through the bars of his cell. Accused of betraying France, Captain Alfred Dreyfus is exiled to a prison on Devil's Island, far from his wife and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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Michael's parents are leaders of a new anti-immigrant political party called Aussie Values which is trying to halt the flood of refugees from the Middle East; Mina fled Afghanistan with her family ten years ago, and just wants to concentrate on fitting in and getting into college--but the mutual attraction they feel demands that they come to terms with their family's concerns and decide where they stand in the ugly anti-Muslim politics of the time....
45) Running loose
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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Louie, a high school senior in a small Idaho town, learns about sportsmanship, love, and death as he matures into manhood.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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990L
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Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child's soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson's...
47) White socks only
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Grandma tells the story about her first trip alone into town during the days when segregation still existed in Mississippi.
48) Zora and me
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Zora and me volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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A fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood with her best friend Carrie, in Eatonville, Florida, as they learn about life, death, and the differences between truth, lies, and pretending. Includes an annotated bibliography of the works of Zora Neale Hurston, a short biography of the author, and information about Eatonville, Florida.
49) One crazy summer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
50) Dear Justyce
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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Incarcerated teen Quan Banks writes letters to Justyce McCallister, with whom he bonded years before over family issues, about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system.
51) 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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
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Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.
53) Dark Dude
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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In the 1960s, Rico Fuentes, a pale-skinned Cuban American teenager, abandons drug-infested New York City for the picket fence and apple pie world of Wisconsin, only to discover that he still feels like an outsider and that violent and judgmental people can be found even in the wholesome Midwest.
55) Yankee girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
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When her FBI-agent father is transferred to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964, eleven-year-old Alice wants to be popular but also wants to reach out to the one black girl in her class in a newly-integrated school.
56) All my rage
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
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A family extending from Pakistan to California, deals with generations of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness.
Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family....
57) Molly's Pilgrim
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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Told to make a Pilgrim doll for the Thanksgiving display at school, Molly is embarassed when her mother tries to help her out by creating a doll dressed as she herself was dressed before leaving Russia to seek religious freedom.
58) Girl of Kosovo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
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Although Zana, an eleven-year-old Albanian girl, experiences the turmoil and violence of the 1999 conflict in her native Kosovo, she remembers her father's admonition to not let her heart become filled with hate.
59) Lucy and Linh
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Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
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Lucy is a bit of a pushover, but she's ambitious and smart, and she has just received the opportunity of a lifetime: a scholarship to the prestigious school Laurinda, and a ticket out of her broken-down suburb of Stanley. Linh is blunt, strong-willed, and fearless - everything Lucy once loved about herself. She is Lucy's last solid link to her life before Laurinda, but she is growing tired of being eclipsed by the glamour of Laurinda. As Lucy floats...
60) Through my eyes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 2
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Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement, as a six-year-old, in the integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960.
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