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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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This is the highly anticipated second novel by Angie Thomas, the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning The Hate U Give. Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bris got massive shoes to fill. But its hard to get your come up when youre labeled a hoodlum at school, and your fridge...
2) Sinner
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When a string of racially motivated lynchings threatens to tear the country apart, two orators sweep into Washington and demand that the constitution be modified to allow for a law that will end the widespread violence. Racial and religious speech that undermines others' beliefs must be classified as hate speech and must be severely punished.
Author
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In a post-Second Civil War lawless West, sharpshooter Serendipity "Pity" Jones stars in, and lives at, the Theater Vespertine, but there is a dark cost to her freedom that Pity may not be willing to pay.
4) The Kingdom
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
A half-android, half-human girl is accused of murder in Jess Rothenberg's tautly paced YA thriller, The Kingdom, perfect for fans of Westworld and The Lunar Chronicles. "Wildly addictive and beautifully terrifying... Readers will leave this glittering theme park forgetting what is real and what is fairy tale." (Dhonielle Clayton, New York Times-bestselling author of The Belles) Welcome to the Kingdom...where "happily ever after" isn't just a promise...
Author
Series
Word$ volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"A chilling, unnerving, and timely debut novel about what it means to speak out, even in silence. "Katharine McGee, New York Times bestselling author of The Thousandth Floor In a world where every word and gesture is copyrighted, patented or trademarked, one girl elects to remain silent rather than pay to speak, and her defiant and unexpected silence threatens to unravel the very fabric of society. Speth Jime is anxious to deliver her Last Day speech...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Octavian Nothing is raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers. He and his mother are the only people in their household assigned names. Young Octavian begins to question the purpose behind his guardians' fanatical studies, only after he dares to open a forbidden door does he learn the hideous nature of their experiments.
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"After a childhood cut short by war and the harsh strictures of life in Nazi Germany, sixteen-year-old Wilm is finally tasting freedom. In spite of the scars World War II has left on his hometown, Leipzig, and in spite of the oppressive new Soviet regime, Wilm is finding his own voice. It is dangerous, of course, to be sneaking out at night to leave messages on police buildings. But it is exciting too, and Wilm feels justified, considering his family...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the Freedom Summer murders, traces the events surrounding the KKK lynching of three young civil rights activists who were trying to register African Americans for the vote.
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