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Author
Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
"One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The magic tree house has returned and it's taking Jack and Annie back in time to Alaska, 1925. There they meet Balto, a jet-black Siberian husky destined to save victims of the diphtheria epidemic. But the trail isn't easy, and Balto is going to need Jack and Annie's help!
3) Zora and me
Author
Series
Zora and me volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood with her best friend Carrie, in Eatonville, Florida, as they learn about life, death, and the differences between truth, lies, and pretending. Includes an annotated bibliography of the works of Zora Neale Hurston, a short biography of the author, and information about Eatonville, Florida.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of...
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Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
At the reading of their grandmother's will, Dan and Amy Cahill are given the choice of receiving a million dollars or uncovering the 39 clues hidden around the world that will lead to the source of the family's power, but by taking on the clues, they end up in a dangerous race against their own family members.
6) Allies
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
June 6, 1944: The Nazis are terrorizing Europe, on their evil quest to conquer the world. The only way to stop them? The biggest, most top-secret operation ever, with the Allied nations coming together to storm German-occupied France.Welcome to D-Day.Dee, a young U.S. soldier, is on a boat racing toward the French coast. And Dee -- along with his brothers-in-arms -- is terrified. He feels the weight of World War II on his shoulders.But Dee is not...
Author
Series
Spy school volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Following Murray Hill to an undisclosed location to identify SPYDER leadership, Ben Ripley and Erica Hale face rogue agents, trained killers, and crocodiles in a race against the clock to find out what SPYDER is up to this time and stop them.
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Quarter-midget car racer Michael Haynes and his twin brother Mark, the team's mechanic, are used to winning their races, but when a new, unscrupulous racer starts competing, even causing Michael to be injured in a race, the twins are tempted to start using different tactics themselves.
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
An army of fairy space probes have returned to Earth reprogrammed to destroy Atlantis and only Artemis Fowl can stop them. As he races to save the subaquatic city, he must also combat an onslaught of obsessive compulsive and delusional disorders, both byproducts of prodigious intellect and immense stress.
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 37
Publisher
Scholastic Incorporated
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Geronimo Stilton participates in the Race Across America on his bicycle with his friend Bruce Hyena.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Over the course of the summer of 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young discovers the passion within her when eighteen-year-old King-Roy Johnson, accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, comes to live with her family.
13) Sheltie races on
Author
Series
Pony days volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Cam Jansen mysteries. Super specials volume 2
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Supersleuth Cam Jansen solves three mysteries during her class's Sports and Good Nutrition Day.
15) Finding my place
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After moving to an affluent suburb of Denver in 1975, ninth-grader Tiphanie feels lonely at her nearly all-white high school until she befriends another "outsider" and discovers that prejudice exists in many forms.
16) Man o' War
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized biography of the American race horse who won twenty of twenty-one races, told by a stable boy who grew up with the great horse.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Two black girls living in the North are proud of their family's beautiful new Cadillac until they take it on a visit to the South and encounter racial prejudice for the first time.
18) Racing the wind
Author
Series
Dolphin diaries volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Jody has arrived in the South American rain forest, desperate to see some botos- amazing, bubble-gum-pink river dolphins. She has heard that when the river floods the forest, these magical creatures can be seen swimming between the trees!
Author
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
"Amidst the Chinese-Malay conflict in Kuala Lumpur in 1969, sixteen-year-old Melati must overcome prejudice, violence, and her own OCD to find her way back to her mother"--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Rose Lee Carter, a thirteen-year-old African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi cotton fields during the summer of 1955, but when Emmett Till is murdered and his killers are unjustly acquitted, Rose is torn between seeking her destiny outside of Mississippi or staying and being a part of an important movement.
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