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"In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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When an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy, Albom goes back to his nonfiction roots and becomes involved with a Detroit pastor--a reformed drug dealer and convict--who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof. A timely, moving, and inspiring look at faith: not just who believes, but why.
3) Smile
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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From sixth grade through tenth, Raina copes with a variety of dental problems that affect her appearance and how she feels about herself.
Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after girl scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with the on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of...
4) The 57 bus
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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This riveting nonfiction book for teens about race, class, gender, crime, and punishment tells the true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by another teen while riding a bus in Oakland, California
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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Powerful account of the brutal slaying of a Kansas family by two young ex-convicts.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writing it. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches...
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The popular film and television actor evaluates the personal philosophy that has enabled his positive outlook in spite of his battle with degenerative Parkinson's disease, in an uplifting account that considers how he has become a happier and more satisfied person by recognizing the gifts of everyday life.
7) Pyramid
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Text and black-and-white illustrations follow the intricate step-by-step process of the building of an ancient Egyptian pyramid.
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Discusses the story of the Hemingses, an American slave family that had blood ties to Thomas Jefferson, who had an intimate relationship with Sally Hemings, his slave, and covers how the family of Elizabeth Hemings and John Wayles came under ownership to Jefferson through his marriage to Martha Wayles.
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Everyman's library volume 304
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Alfred A. Knopf
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[2006]
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English
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A compilation of essays and nonfiction writings spanning more than forty years includes the author's reflections on politics, lifestyle, place, and cultural figures, including such topics as Haight-Ashbury, the Manson family, the Black Panthers, California earthquakes, and Bill Clinton.
16) Goats
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Lerner Publications Company
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
18) Worms
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Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
20) Snakes
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Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A basic overview of the life cycle of a snake and the behavior of young snakes as they grow.
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