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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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AANHPI Heritage Month for Teens
Historical Fiction Featuring Young Women & Girls
One World, Many Stories 9th - 12th
Historical Fiction Featuring Young Women & Girls
One World, Many Stories 9th - 12th
Description
"1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady'"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Three immigrant girls from different parts of the world meet and become close friends in a small New Jersey town where their mothers have found domestic work, but their relationships are tested when one girl's mother is accused of stealing a precious heirloom.
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Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Mary Quinn is ordered to work undercover after a petty thief steals from Buckingham Palace, she receives attention from a prince, wonders at a murder suspect's shared name with her father, and struggles with her feelings for James Easton.
4) Lost
Author
Series
Tom Moon volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Tom Moon and his multi-talented team face off against an international crime ring looking to seize control of America's most vibrant city, Miami. The city of Miami is Detective Tom Moon's back yard. He's always kept it local, attending University of Miami on a football scholarship, and, as a Miami PD officer, protecting the city's most vulnerable. Now, as the new leader of an FBI task force called "Operation Guardian," it's his mission to...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The life and career of the fiercely principled Supreme Court Justice, now a popular icon, with dramatic accounts of her landmark cases that moved the needle on legal protection of human rights, illustrated with black and white archival photographs.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
Español
Description
Daniel Hernandez helped save the life of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, and his life experience is a source of true inspiration in this heartfelt memoir, told in Spanish.
"Cuando Daniel Hernǹdez tena̕ veinte aǫs, trabajaba como pasante con la congresista Gabrielle Giffords. El 8 de enero de 2011, alguien dispar ̤contra Giffords. La agilidad mental de Daniel le salv ̤la vida a Giffords hasta que llegaron los paramďicos y la llevaron al hospital....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the story of the seven bloody years that transformed Daniel Ellsberg from a government insider into "the most dangerous man in America," and of the storm that would follow when the secrets of the Vietnam War were finally known.
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