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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
990L
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"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. 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...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
From the Publisher: A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER "I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side-the Communist side-of the Iron Curtain." Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sis shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought questions....
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Publisher
Orchard Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Photographs and text document the experiences of five individuals who came to live in the Lower East Side of New York City as children or young adults from Belarus, Italy, Lithuania, and Romania at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A biography of Martin Luther King Jr. emphasizing how he overcame obstacles and achieved success as a civil rights leader. Includes brief information on the civil rights movement in general, King's home state of Georgia, and a lesson on writing biographies.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1995 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Amani longs to be a shepherd like her grandfather, Seedo. Like many Palestinians, her family has grazed sheep above the olive groves of the family homestead for generations, and she has been steeped in Seedo's stories, especially one about a secret meadow called the Firdoos--and the wolf that once showed him the path there.
16) Snapdragon
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Publisher
First Second
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 210L
Description
"Snap's town had a witch. At least, that's how the rumor goes. But in reality, Jacks is just a crocks-wearing, internet-savvy old lady who sells roadkill skeletons online--after doing a little ritual to put their spirits to rest. It's creepy, sure, but Snap thinks it's kind of cool, too. They make a deal: Jacks will teach Snap how to take care of the baby opossums that Snap rescued, and Snap will help Jacks with her work. But as Snap starts to get...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1090L
Description
Examines the role of African-Americans in the military through the history of the Triple Nickles, America's first black paratroopers, who fought against attacks perpetrated on the American West by the Japanese during World War II.
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