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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
Rome, 1605: After her mother's death, Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father's paint. She chose paint. Artemisia became...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
During Mile's in-school suspension, he finds himself in a fierce battle with a classmate turned insidious termite who is determined to destroy books and the Black and Brown history they contain, and only Miles can stop him.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"After a rocky first year, Anna's family have settled into life in California--their small restaurant is even turning a profit. Then her parents make a shattering discovery: their visas have expired. Anna's world is quickly overwhelmed by unfamiliar words like "undocumented" and "inequality." She longs to share the towering secret that looms over every aspect of her life with a friend, but her parents strictly forbid her from telling anyone. As Anna...
24) The red pencil
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"After her tribal village is attacked by militants, Amira, a young Sudanese girl, must flee to safety at a refugee camp, where she finds hope and the chance to pursue an education in the form of a single red pencil and the friendship and encouragement of a wise elder" --
25) El crossover
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"El fenómeno del básquetbol, Josh Bell, y su hermano gemelo, Jordan, son los reyes de la cancha, con esos crossovers inesperados que hacen llorar a los jugadores más duros. Pero cuando Jordan conoce a la nueva chica del colegio, lazos entre los gemelos se empiezan a desanudar. El baloncesto y la hermandad se entrelazan para mostrarles a Josh y Jordan que la vida no viene con un manual de jugadas y que, a veces, el asunto no es ganar."--
Fourteen-year-old...
Author
Series
Eleanor Kane books volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"As the days go on, nine-year-old Eleanor realizes that maybe being at summer camp isn't so bad after all, and is full of special surprises"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Olivia has been Macy McMillan's best friend ever since Macy transferred to Hamiliton Elementary from Braeside School for the Deaf. But then their sixth grade teacher assigned that embarrassing family tree project, and Olivia made a joke about Macy's father, and now neither girl is speaking -- signing -- to the other. It couldn't have happened at a worse time. With her mother getting married and an ugly For Sale sign jammed into their yard, Macy could...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
In 1920s Cuba, Rima is bullied and shunned for her illegitimacy, but finds solace in riding her horse and forges unexpected friendships with others who share her dreams of freedom and suffrage. Includes historical note.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In 1920s Cuba, Rima is bullied and shunned for her illegitimacy, but finds solace in riding her horse and forges unexpected friendships with others who share her dreams of freedom and suffrage. Includes historical note.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The six sections of the book explore what it means to be a young woman living in a world that doesn't always hear her and tell the story of Kiran as she flees a history of trauma and raises her daughter, Sahaara, while living undocumented in North America. Delving into current cultural conversations including sexual assault, mental health, feminism, and immigration, this narrative of resilience, healing, empowerment, and love will galvanize readers...
31) Wolfpack
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A group of teenage girls living in a cult are ensnared by suspicision and paranoia when one of them goes missing.
33) Full cicada moon
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1969 twelve-year-old Mimi and her family move to an all-white town in Vermont, where Mimi's mixed-race background and interest in "boyish" topics like astronomy make her feel like an outsider.
Author
Series
Eleanor Kane books volume 3
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A new girl at school throws nine-year-old Eleanor's relationship with her best friend Pearl into disarray.
Author
Series
Gone fishing volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Camping is fun. Until it's time to sleep. Then, Lucy wonders, what kinds of creatures lurk in the dark? With only her brother and grandpa as tent mates, will Lucy be able to face her camping fears? Includes a variety of poetic forms--from aubade to haiku--as well as writing tips about rhyme and rhythm"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there.
38) Trouper
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Trooper, a three-legged dog, remembers his life as a stray, before he was adopted.
39) African Town
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the story of the last Africans brought illegally to the United States on the Clotilda in 1860.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Rynn was born with a hole in her heart--literally. Although it was fixed long ago, she still feels an emptiness there when she wonders about her birth family. As her relationship with her adoptive mother fractures, Rynn finally decides she needs to know more about the rest of her family. Her search starts with a name, the only thing she has from her birth mother, and she quickly learns that she has a younger sister living in foster care in a nearby...
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