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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
A series of short stories by such authors as Walter Dean Myers, Rita Williams-Garcia, and Joseph Bruchac, interspersed with poems and photographs, provides different perspectives on a game of streetball played one steamy July day at the West 4th Street court in New York City known as The Cage.
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
cp2011
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Cole's behavior causes his mother to drive him from Detroit to Philadelphia to live with a father he has never known, but who soon has Cole involved with a group of African-American "cowboys" who rescue horses and use them to steer youths away from drugs and gangs.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Rosalinda Fitzroy, heir to the multiplanetary corporation UniCorp, is awakened after sixty years in stasis to find that everyone she knew has died and as she tries to make a new life for herself, learns she is the target of a robot assassin.
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Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
cp2012
Language
English
Description
The first time his father disappeared, Tucker Feye had just turned thirteen. The Reverend Feye simply climbed on the roof to fix a shingle, let out a scream, and vanished, only to walk up the driveway an hour later, looking older and worn, with a strange girl named Lahlia in tow. In the months that followed, Tucker watched his father grow distant and his once loving mother slide into madness. But then both of his parents disappear.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Shares insights into the teen transgender experience, tracing six individuals' emotional and physical journey as it was shaped by family dynamics, living situations, and the transition each teen made during the journey.
Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used her considerable skills to represent them thoughtfully and respectfully before, during, and after their personal acknowledgment...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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When Stink's parents win tickets to an aquarium sleepover for the whole family, could it be science-freak Stink's dream come true or his worst nightmare? He loves learning about sharks, but does he want to sleep in the same room with them? He's nuts about gross stuff, but does he want go to bed thinking about the eating habits of the vampire squid? Especially Bloody Mary, the mutant, glowing Frankensquid that's supposed to be on the prowl? Creepy,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Elena lives in the poor Russian countryside. Her father is dead and her brothers have been forced into the Tsar's army. Her mother is dying, and there is no food. But then a train arrives carrying untold wealth, a cornucopia of food, and a noble family; a family that includes Ekaterina, a girl of Elena's age. When the two girls meet, an adventure is set in motion that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito,...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Discovering Grandma Lou's mysterious "bucket list" of things that she wants to do in her lifetime, Judy Moody is inspired to create a list of her own goals, from learning to do a cartwheel to visiting Antarctica.
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Seven interwoven narratives spanning three tense hours on a fateful day share the perspectives of a girl with a rare memory condition, a teacher who fears a student may be planning an act of violence, and a girl about to embark on a cross-country plot.
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Tiring of being a studious girl when nobody sees anything about her beyond her weight, Leah calls an older man, pretending to be her thin, popular friend, only to find her life spinning out of control as she discovers herself and her true friends.
14) To stay alive
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A young survivor of the tragic Donner Party of 1846 describes how her family and others became victims of freezing temperatures and starvation.
15) The big lie
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Language
English
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In a gripping novel set in present-day England under a Nazi regime, a sheltered teen questions what it means to be “good” and how far she's willing to go to break the rules. Nazi England, 2014. Jessika Keller is a good girl a champion ice skater, model student of the Bund Deutscher Mädel, and dutiful daughter of the Greater German Reich. Her best friend, Clementine, is not so submissive. Passionately different, Clem is outspoken, dangerous,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Speed and self-confidence, that's Astrid's motto. Nicknamed "the little thunderbolt," She loves to spend her days racing down the hillside on her skis or sled, singing merrily as she goes, and drinking hot chocolate made from real chocolate bars with her grumpy best friend and godfather, Gunnvald. She just wishes there were other children to share in her hair-raising adventures. But her world is about to be turned upside down, first by the arrival...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The Loch Ness Monster. The Frogman. Bigfoot. Twelve-year-old Miranda Cho used to believe in it all, used to love poring over every strange footprint, every stray hair, everything that proved that the world was full of wonders. But that was before her mothers obsession with monsters cost Miranda her friends and her perfect school record, before Miranda found the stack of unopened bills and notices of foreclosure in the silverware drawer. Now the fact...
18) Blue window
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Tumbling through a mysterious window to another time and place, five siblings find themselves at the center of a battle with mysterious forces that threaten to break the siblings apart, even as they try to remain united and find their way home.
19) The dollar kids
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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When a family buys a house in a struggling town for just one dollar, they are hoping to start over, but they may have traded one set of problems for another.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Judy Moody is in a royal purple-mountain-majesties mood. Make that Majesty with a capital M! With Grandma Lous help, Judy has dug up proof that some old-timey Moodys (aka the brave Mudeyes) lived in merry olde England. In fact, if her grandpas notes are right, Judy might even be related to royal fanfare, please the Queen herself! Should Judy start packing her purple robe for a sleepover at Buckingham Palace? But then Judys family tree gets a few...
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