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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
The three-time Newbery Honor-winning author of Hatchet shares the story of his turbulent childhood, his escape into military service and the life-changing impact of an encouraging librarian who handed him his first book.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Explores the turbulent lives of the three literary siblings and the oppressive times in which they lived, and offers insight into their classic nineteenth-century novels.
3) Unthinkable
Author
Series
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When her struggles with anxiety worsen in the aftermath of a family death, Lottie is bequeathed a series of letters from her late aunt, a best-selling author, who leaves instructions to help Lottie overcome her fears and explore her own literary voice.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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AANHPI Heritage Month for Teens
All Together Now - Ages 19+
Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
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All Together Now - Ages 19+
Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
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Description
Shares the author's experiences as an only child born to a single mother in Korea, who abruptly moved to the United States as a teenager and the difficulties she had fitting in in both countries.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In free verse, evokes the voice of Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, a book-loving writer, feminist, and abolitionist who courageously fought injustice in nineteenth-century Cuba. Includes historical notes, excerpts from her writings, biographical information, and source notes.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
Español
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Description
"La vida de un nino nacido en la frontera no es facil, pero Guero sabe como hacerle frente: escribiendo poemas. Guero tiene doce anos y es mexicano y americano al mismo tiempo. Sabe sentirse en casa en ambos lados del rio, y en su vida hay tanto espanol como ingles. Guero ha comenzado el septimo ano en la escuela, y su profe de ingles hace que hasta los poemas suenen cool. Guero es como llaman a los chicos como el: palidos. Pero no te equivoques,...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Lee tells the story of his life with the same inimitable wit, energy, and offbeat spirit that he brought to the world of comics. Moving from his impoverished childhood in Manhattan to his early days writing comics, through his military training films during World War II and the rise of the Marvel empire in the 1960s to the current resurgence in movies, Amazing Fantastic Incredible documents the life of a man and the legacy of an industry and career"...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Janusz Korczak, a Polish Jewish doctor who ran an orphanage for Jewish children in Poland and was eventually executed by the Nazis along with his staff and wards.
Janusz Korczak was more than a good doctor. He was a hero. The Dr. Spock of his day, he established orphanages run on his principle of honoring children and shared his ideas with the public in books and on the radio. He famously said that "children are not the people...
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