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81) The summoner
Author
Series
Zora and me volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Zora navigates her showboating father's mayoral campaign before a lynch mob crosses the border into once-idyllic Eatonville to pursue a fugitive at the same time a grave robber exposes disturbing historical secrets"--
82) Intensely Alice
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 21
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
During the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, Maryland teenager Alice McKinley volunteers at a local soup kitchen, tries to do "something wild" without getting arrested, and wonders if her trip to Chicago to visit boyfriend Patrick will result in a sleepover.
83) Secret soldiers
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1917, Thomas, a thirteen-year-old coal miner seeking his missing brother, James, joins the Claykickers, who tunnel beneath the battlefields of the Western Front as they learn to be men.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When her older siblings go on an adventure without her, little Tickles the bunny reads from her book, "How to Be a Bigger Bunny," and winds up on an adventure of her own before she is challenged to summon up the courage to save her family.
85) Nigeria Jones
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
'From Ibi Zoboi, bestselling, award-winning author of American Street and co-author of Punching the Air, comes a bold new YA coming-of-age story, which explores race, feminism, and complicated family dynamics. The ideal next read for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, Jacqueline Woodson, and Roxane Gay. Warrior Princess. That’s what Nigeria Jones’s father calls her. He has raised her as part of the Movement, a Black separatist group based in Philadelphia....
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
During a thirteen-hundred mile journey from Kansas to the Bitterroot Mountains, Caleb O'Toole faces deserts, tornadoes, wolves, and the infamous Blackstone Gang as he tries to honor his promise to his dying mother and keep his sisters safe.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Accompanying her mother on a gap-year visit to New Delhi after a beloved aunt's death, Noreen rediscovers her cultural heritage alongside a handsome youth before their growing feelings trigger a family scandal.
91) In other lands
Author
Publisher
Big Mouth House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Despite his aversion to war, work, and most people (human or otherwise), teenaged Elliott, a human transported to a fantasy world where he attends a school for warriors and diplomatic advisors, finds that two unlikely ideas, friendship and world peace, may actually be possible.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever.
93) Willow
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 1848 Willow, a fifteen-year-old educated slave girl faces an inconceivable choice -- between bondage and freedom, family and love -- as free born, seventeen-year-old Cato, a black man, takes it upon himself to sneak as many fugitive slaves to freedom as he can on the Mason-Dixon Line.
94) The lake effect
Author
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Fleeing hometown troubles for a summer job on Lake Michigan, Briggs Henry is floored by his elderly employer's announcement that he will be helping her plan her imminent funeral, an arrangement further complicated by social gaffes, beach activities and a mystifying girl next door who completely resists his charms.
95) If you read this
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"When Brie was younger, her mama used to surprise her with treasure hunts around their island town. After she died three years ago, these became Brie's favorite memories. Now, on her twelfth birthday, her mama has another surprise: a series of letters leading Brie on one last treasure hunt. The first letter guides Brie to a special place. The next urges her to unlock a secret. And the last letter will change life as she knows it"--
Author
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
While exploring her grandmother's past at an ashram in India with her cousin Anandi, seventeen-year-old Raya finds herself and, perhaps, true love in this modern retelling of the legend of Dushyanta and Shakuntala.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When a series of chance events leaves him in possession of an urn with ashes, sixteen-year-old Londoner, Lucas Swain, becomes convinced that its occupant, Violet Park, is communicating with him, initiating a voyage of self-discovery that forces him to finally confront the events surrounding his father's sudden disappearance.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After spending her life moving from place to place with her single mother, pregnant seventeen-year-old Lemon takes a bus to San Francisco to seek the father she never knew, as well as truths about her mother and herself.
99) The king's arrow
Author
Publisher
Viking Childrens Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In England's New Forest on the second day of August, 1100, eighteen-year-old Simon Foldre, delighted to be allowed to participate in a royal hunt as squire to the Anglo-Norman nobleman Walter Tirel, finds his future irrevocably altered when, during the hunt, he witnesses the possible murder of King William II.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Ally, Bree, and Jack meet at the one place the Great Eclipse can be seen in totality, each carrying the burden of different personal problems, which diminish when compared to the task they embark upon and the friendship they find.
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