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61) Guantanamo boy
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Khalid, a fifteen-year-old Muslim boy from England, is kidnapped while on holiday with his family in Pakistan and struggles to understand when he is taken to Guantanamo Bay and held without charge.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"The Smeds (who are red) never mix with the Smoos (who are blue). So when a young Smed and Smoo fall in love, their families strongly disapprove. But peace is restored and love conquers all in this happiest of love stories. There is even a gorgeous purple baby to celebrate!"--OCLC.
Author
Description
"When asked simple questions about global trends--what percentage of the world's population live in poverty; why the world's population is increasing; how many girls finish school -- we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. Professor and TED presenter Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators,...
65) Forest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Amber has been spending a lot of time in the forest lately. She feels at home there. Safe. She's also discovered a strange and unexpected world in the upper branches of the trees. A world filled with peace and a quiet beauty. She's even found a new friend. But Amber is about to discover that everyone doesn't feel the same way about her special place. That they will actually want to destroy it. And she will do everything she can to make sure...
Author
Series
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...
68) Here today
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
In 1963, when her flamboyant mother abandons the family to pursue her dreams of becoming an actress, eleven-year-old Ellie Dingman takes charge of her younger siblings, while also trying to deal with the outcast status in school and frightening acts of prejudice toward the "misfits" that live on her street.
69) The Cay
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Chris, bitterly hating the Yankees for invading his Tennessee mountain home, learns a difficult lesson about the waste of war and the meaning of tolerance and courage when he reports the approach of a Yankee supply troop to the Confederates, only to learn that his brother is probably part of that troop.
72) Trouble
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Henry, wishing to honor his brother Franklin's dying wish, sets out to hike Maine's Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog. But fate adds another companion--the Cambodian refugee accused of fatally injuring Franklin--and reveals troubles that predate the accident.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
"Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family, and Lavinia may have to do the unimaginable to save herself and everyone she loves. Five centuries later, a pair of red shoes seal to Rosella Oliva's feet, making her dance uncontrollably. They draw her toward a boy who knows the dancing fever's history...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
In a world where the pale-skinned naughts are discriminated against by the politically and socially powerful dark-skinned Crosses, teenagers Callum--a naught--and Sephy--a Cross--test whether their love is strong enough to survive their society's racism.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
When a racist incident rocks her small Michigan town, eleven-year-old Lekha must decide whether to speak up or stay silent, even as she struggles to navigate her life at home, where she can be herself, and at school, where she is teased about her culture.
76) The Sky blues
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sky, openly gay but under the radar, decides to make a splashy Promposal - but his plans are leaked by an anonymous, homophobic hacker. This moves his classmates to help him expose the perpetrator.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
In late nineteenth-century California, when Chinese immigrants are being driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites, fifteen-year-old Eliza Jane McCully defies the townspeople and her lighthouse-keeper father to help a Chinese boy who has been kind to her.
79) Jungle crossing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Kat wants to be at "mini-camp" with classmates rather than touring the jungles near Cancun, Mexico, on a family vacation, but a story told by one of her Mayan guides helps her understand that by always trying to please her friends, she is losing herself.
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