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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"Not long ago, people believed girls shouldn't play sports. That math and science courses were too difficult for them. That higher education should be left to the men. Nowadays, this may be hard to imagine, but it was only fifty years ago all of this changed with the introduction of the historical civil rights bill Title IX. This is the story about the determined lawmakers, teachers, parents, and athletes that advocated for women all over the country...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
For fans of The First Rule of Punk and Save Me a Seat, Barakah Beats is a sweet, powerful, and joyous celebration of novel about a muslim girl who finds her voice on her own terms...by joining her school's most popular boy band.
Twelve-year-old Nimra Sharif has spent her whole life in Islamic school, but now it's time to go to "real school."
Nimra's nervous, but as long as she has Jenna, her best friend who already goes to the public school,...
4) The hero two doors down: based on the true story of friendship between a boy and a baseball legend
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Eight-year-old Steve Satlow is thrilled when Jackie Robinson moves into his Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn in 1948, although many of his neighbors are not, and when Steve actually meets his hero he is even more excited--and worried that a misunderstanding over a Christmas tree could damage his new friendship.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
680L
Description
"Nine-year-old Maria Singh learns to play softball just like her heroes in the All-American Girls' League, while her parents and neighbors are struggling through World War II, working for India's independence, and trying to stay on their farmland"--
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