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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread, weave cloth, or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel's paintings are highly prized. But when she receives her first royal patron--Rook, the autumn prince--she makes a terrible mistake. She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes--a weakness that could cost...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Abortion is one of the most common of all medical procedures. But it is still stigmatized, ?and all too often people do not feel they can talk about their experiences.Making abortion illegal or hard to access doesn't make it any less common; it just makes it dangerous. Around the world, tens of thousands of women die from unsafe abortions every year.People who support abortion rights have been fighting hard to create a world in which the right to...
3) Rotters
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Description
Grave-robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? It's true that Leonardo da Vinci did it, Shakespeare wrote about it, and the resurrection men of nineteenth-century Scotland practically made it an art. But none of this matters to Joey Crouch, a sixteen-year-old straight-A student living in Chicago with his single mom. For the most part, Joey's life is about playing the trumpet and avoiding the daily humiliations of high school. Everything...
5) California
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the geography, history, economy, culture, and people of the state of California.
6) Alabama
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the geography, history, economy, culture, and people of the state of Alabama.
Author
Language
English
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Banned Books Week
Challenged in Washoe County Libraries
NYT - Young Adult
YA Books that Inspired Movies
Challenged in Washoe County Libraries
NYT - Young Adult
YA Books that Inspired Movies
Description
Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
The New York Times bestselling novel that inspired the hit film! This is the funniest book you’ll ever read about death. It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. But on the...
8) Georgia
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the geography, history, economy, culture, and people of the state of Georgia.
9) Florida
Author
Publisher
Children's Press, A Division of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the geography, history, economy, culture, and people of the state of Florida.
10) Colorado
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the geography, history, economy, culture, and people of the state of Colorado.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Description
Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price. It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students...
13) Feminism is
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
What is feminism? Combining insightful text with graphic illustrations, this engaging book introduces young adult readers to a subject that should matter to everyone. Feminism Is... tackles the most intriguing and relevant topics, such as intersectionality, the right to an equal education, and the gender pay gap. Find out what equality for women really means, get a short history of feminism, and take a look at the issues that affect women at work,...
Author
Series
Children of Eden volume 2
Publisher
Keywords Press, Atria
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Elite party girl Yarrow, the daughter of one of the most powerful women in Eden, and Rowan, whose very existence is illegal, discover threads that bind them and could change Eden forever.
15) Weird birds
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Some birds look bizarre. Some behave that way. In almost all cases, their appearance has an important function -- in evolution or every day. This colorful book exposes more than 50 strange birds, preening, stretching, and showing their strange bodily adaptations.
16) Out of darkness
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Banned Books Week
Challenged in Washoe County Libraries
Hispanic Heritage Month for Teens
Historical Fiction Featuring Young Women & Girls
Challenged in Washoe County Libraries
Hispanic Heritage Month for Teens
Historical Fiction Featuring Young Women & Girls
Description
Loosely based on a school explosion that took place in New London, Texas in 1937, this is the story of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black, and their dealings with race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people.
A dangerous forbidden romance rocks a Texan oil town in 1937, when segregation was a matter of life and death. A Top Ten Most Challenged Book of the Year "This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines...
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
For fans of vintage YA, a humorous and in-depth history of beloved teen literature from the 1980s and 1990s, full of trivia and pop culture fun. Those pink covers. That flimsy paper. The nonstop series installments that hooked readers throughout their entire adolescence. These were not the serious-issue novels of the 1970s, nor the blockbuster YA trilogies that arrived in the 2000s. Nestled in between were the girl-centric teen books of the 80s and...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
The story of the 19th Amendment and the nearly 80-year fight for voting rights for women discusses the politics and private challenges that inspired the achievements of such activists as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Sojourner Truth. By the author of Passenger on the Pearl.
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