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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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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: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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In a racially polarized classroom in 1970 Alabama, Lus talent for running track makes her a new best friend and tests her mettle as she navigates the schools social cliques. Miss Garretts classroom is like every other at our school. White kids sit on one side and black kids on the other. I'm one of the few middle-rowers who split the difference. Sixth-grader Lu Olivera just wants to keep her head down and get along with everyone in her class. Trouble...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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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: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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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...
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[2016]
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Thoughtful, strong-willed sixth-grader Merci Suarez navigates difficult changes with friends, family, and everyone in between in a resonant new novel from Meg Medina. Merci Suarez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older brother, Roli, are scholarship students. They dont have a big house or a fancy...
11) Otherwood
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"'Hatred combined with lies and secrets can break the world." Grandpa Zach used to say that before he died, but Stuey never really knew what he meant. It was kind of like how he used to talk about quantum physics, or how he used to say ghosts haunted the overgrown golf course. But then one day, when Stuey and his best friend, Elly Rose, are playing in the deadfall in the middle of the woods, something totally unbelievable happens. As Stuey and Elly...
12) The dollar kids
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
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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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Reluctantly attending camp away from the uncle who saved her from foster care and an elderly next-door neighbor who shares stories and warm cookies, 11-year-old Tash is dismayed when she returns home and discovers that her neighbor has gone missing, a situation that compels her to test the power of a key that the neighbor has always insisted possesses magic.
"Tash doesn't want to go to camp, doesn't want to spend the summer with a bunch of strangers,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Delphernia Undersea wants to sing. But everyone on Blightsend knows music belongs to the Masters and girls with singing throats are swallowed by the sea. On the strange, stormy island of Blightsend, twelve-year-old Delphernia Undersea has spent her whole life in the cloister of turnaway girls, hidden from sea and sky by a dome of stone and the laws of the island. Outside, the Masters play their music. Inside, the turnaway girls silently make that...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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With the United States on the verge of World War II, eleven-year-old Gusta is sent from New York City to Maine, where she discovers small-town prejudices and a huge family secret. It's 1941, and tensions are rising in the United States as the Second World War rages in Europe. Eleven-year-old Gusta's life, like the world around her, is about to change. Her father, a foreign-born labor organizer, has had to flee the country, and Gusta has been sent...
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Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2011
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English
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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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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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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...
19) To stay alive
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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A young survivor of the tragic Donner Party of 1846 describes how her family and others became victims of freezing temperatures and starvation.
20) Blue window
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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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.
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