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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now. Written by #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds.
82) All he knew
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1939 six-year-old Henry, who is deaf, is taken from his family and placed in a home for the feeble-minded where, years later, his friends include a conscientious objector serving there during World War II.
83) Rez dogs
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Malian lives with her grandparents on a Wabanaki reservation during the COVID-19 pandemic"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Two years after being airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, Matt Pin is haunted by the terrible secret he left behind and, now, in a loving adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events forces him to confront his past.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people ... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance -- and Papi's secrets -- the two girls are forced to...
86) Blood moon
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"After school one day, Frankie, a lover of physics and astronomy, has her first sexual experience with quiet and gorgeous Benjamin - and gets her period. It's only blood, they agree. But soon a gruesome meme goes viral, turning an intimate, affectionate afternoon into something sordid, mortifying, and damaging. In the time it takes to swipe a screen, Frankie's universe implodes. Who can she trust? Not Harriet, her suddenly cruel best friend, and certainly...
87) Chlorine sky
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Picked on at home, criticized for talking trash while beating boys at basketball, and always seen as less than her best friend, a girl struggles to like and accept herself.
Author
Publisher
Balzar + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Mack is a hopeless romantic...Mack has had a crush on Karim for as long as he can remember and he can't believe it when gorgeous, popular Karim seems into him too. But when Mack's father takes on a new directing project in Scotland, Mack has to move away, and soon discovers how painful long-distance relationships can be...Then Mack meets actor Finlay on set, and the world turns upside down again. Fin seems fearless -- and his confidence...
89) Salt the water
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A confrontation with a teacher and a family crisis force high school senior Cerulean Gene to drop out of twelfth grade and derails their dreams of moving cross-country and living off the grid.
91) May B: a novel
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, Pa pulls twelve-year-old May from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.
92) Burying the moon
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A beautifully illustrated novel in verse about a young Indian girl who tackles the taboos around sanitation in her village. In Latika's village in rural India, there are no toilets. No toilets mean that the women have to wait until night to do their business in a field. There are scorpions and snakes in the field, and germs that make people sick. For the girls in the village, no toilets mean leaving school when they reach puberty. No one in the village...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Laura Rodríguez Colón has a plan: no matter what the grown-ups say, she will live with her parents again. Can you blame her? It's tough to make friends as the new kid at school. And while staying at her aunt's house is okay, it just isn't the same as being in her own space. So when Laura finds a puppy, it seems like fate. If she can train the puppy to become a therapy dog, then maybe she'll be allowed to visit her parents. Maybe the dog will help...
94) Punching the air
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. The story that I thought was my life didn't start on the day I was born. Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a...
95) Junk boy
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Bobby, who is bullied by the kids at school for living in a home with a front yard that is filled with garbage, meets a young artist who teaches him to see himself as more than "Junk Boy.""--
Junk. That's what the kids at school call Bobby Lang. Trying desperately to live under the radar at school-- and at the home he shares with his angry, neglectful father-- Bobby develops a sort of proud loneliness. The only buffer between him and the uncaring...
96) Serendipity & me
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
©2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Sara and her father start to heal from her mother's death when a white kitten lands on their doorstep"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Harlem. Ever since her body grew into curves, Xiomara Batista has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. She pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers-- especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. Mami is determined to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, and Xiomara understands...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"In the two years since his mother was killed in an automobile crash, Colin has been anticipating further disasters, writing down what to do in the event of an avalanche or mentally practicing the Heimlich maneuver just in case--but the real trouble is that his mathematician father is obsessed with a classic math problem and has a hoarding problems that is spiraling out of control, leaving Colin desperate to hide this chaos from his friends and everyone...
99) Northwood
Author
Publisher
Black Balloon Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Part fairy tale, part horror story, Northwood is a genre-breaking novella told in short, brilliant, beautifully strange passages. The narrator, a young woman, has fled to the forest to pursue her artwork in isolation. While there, she falls in love with a married man she meets at a country dance. The man is violent, their affair even more so. As she struggles to free herself, she questions the difference between desire and obsession--and the brutal...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Etan has stopped speaking since his mother left. His father and grandfather don't know how to help him. His friends have given up on him. When Etan is asked to deliver a grocery order to the outskirts of town, he realizes he's at the home of Malia Agbayani, also known as the creature. Malia stopped going to school when her acute eczema spread to her face, and the bullying became too much. Soon, other kids tease Etan for being friends with the creature....
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