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Author
Publisher
Darby Creek Pub
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Everyone has probably seen the white mice or rabbits with pink eyes. Learn about these and other albino animals, the genetics that cause albinism, and the survival challenges albinos face. Have you ever seen an albino mouse or rabbit? What makes them albino? Albino animals carry a specific gene that makes their hair, their skin, and their eyes have no color. Albinos exist in virtually every species on earth-insects, birds, fish, and mammals-even humans....
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Take a rhyming journey around the globe to explore the little-known world of albino animals. Along the way, learn how different animals can end up without any natural protective coloring, and the effect that has on their lives. This beautifully crafted book adds to kids' knowledge of the animal world.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Now stronger, feistier, and a bit older, Sunny Nwazue, along with her friends from the Leopard Society, travel through worlds, both visible and invisible, to the mysterious town of Osisi, where they fight in a climactic battle to save humanity.
"A year ago, Sunny Nwazue, an American-born girl Nigerian girl, was inducted into the secret Leopard Society. As she began to develop her magical powers, Sunny learned that she had been chosen to lead a dangerous...
4) Lu
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
570L
Description
"Lu knows he can lead Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and the team to victory at the championships, but it might not be as easy as it seems. Suddenly, there are hurdles in Lu's way--literally and not-so-literally--and Lu needs to figure out, fast, what winning the gold really means"--
5) Golden boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Formats
Description
"A Tanzanian albino boy finds himself the ultimate outsider, hunted because of the color of his skin"--
Light eyes, yellow hair and white skin-- Habo is an albino, strange and alone. His father, unable to accept Habo, abandons the family. When they are forced from their small Tanzanian village, Habo knows he is to blame. The family seeks refuge with an aunt in Mwanza. But they hunt Albinos in Mwanza because Albino body parts are thought to bring...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
While preparing for the most dreaded assignment at the prestigious Irving School, the Tragedy Paper, Duncan gets wrapped up in the tragic tale of Tim Macbeth, a former student who had a clandestine relationship with the wrong girl, and his own ill-fated romance with Daisy.
7) Akata Woman
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
With the help of her friends, fifteen-year-old Sunny embarks on a mission to find a precious object and return it to the spider deity Udide, but defeating the guardians of Udide's ghazal will put all of Sunny's hard lessons and abilities to the test.
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The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world...
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