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Author
Series
Legacy of Orisha volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
2) Internment
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Forced into an interment camp for Muslim-American citizens in a near-future United States, 17-year-old Layla Amin helps forge an alliance of new friends and outside sympathizers before becoming the leader of a revolution against the camp's corrupt guards.
Author
Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Scout Finch, daughter of the town lawyer Atticus, has just started school; but her carefree days come to an end when a black man in town is accused of raping a white woman, and her father is the only man willing to defend him.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Astrid Jones copes with her small town's gossip and narrow-mindedness by staring at the sky and imagining that she's sending love to the passengers in the airplanes flying high over her backyard. Maybe they'll know what to do with it. Maybe it'll make them happy. Maybe they'll need it. Her mother doesn't want it, her father's always stoned, her perfect sister's too busy trying to fit in, and the people in her small town would never allow her to love...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in 1687. Alone and desperate, she has been forced to leave her beloved home on the island of Barbados and join a family she has never met. Torn between her quest for belonging and her desire to be true to herself, Kit struggles to survive in a hostile place. Just when it seems she must give up, she finds
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young Nigerian girl, displaced during their civil war, begins a powerful love affair with another refugee girl from a different ethnic community until the pair are discovered and must learn the cost of living a lie amidst taboos and prejudices.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Valancy Stirling, an inhibited twenty-nine-year-old spinster whose daydreams of the blue castle console her, undergoes a total personality change when a doctor tells her she has no more than one year to live. Oppressed by family and small-town prejudice, her apparently imminent death gives her the courage to assert herself and seek love.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Lebanese-Australian Jamilah, known in school as Jamie, hides her heritage from her classmates and tries to pass by dyeing her hair blonde and wearing blue-tinted contact lenses, until her conflicted feelings become too much for her to bear.
12) Flawed
Author
Series
Flawed (Cecelia Ahern) volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a future society where 'flawed' people who have committed crimes are branded with an F, a young girl takes a stand"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
2002. A year after 9/11, it's an extremely turbulent time politically for Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who's tired of being stereotyped. She's tired of the rude stares, the degrading comments, even the physical violence she endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every day. Now she drowns her frustrations in music and spends her afternoons break-dancing with her brother. When she meets Ocean James., he seems...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1945, thirteen-year-old Levi is sent to find the father he has not seen in three years, going from Chicago, to segregated North Carolina, and finally to Pendleton, Oregon, where he learns that his father's unit, the all-Black 555th paratrooper battalion, will never see combat but finally has a mission. Includes historical notes.
15) We are not free
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
16) Bear and Bee
Author
Series
Bear and Bee volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A hungry bear discovers that bees are not terrible monsters who never share their honey.
18) Poppy's return
Author
Series
Poppy and friends volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.
19) Perfect
Author
Series
Flawed (Cecelia Ahern) volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Since Celestine, eighteen, was declared a public menace, she has been on the run with Carrick, the one person she can trust, but she has a secret that may save all of those branded Flawed.
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