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22) So done
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"When best friends Metai and Jamila are reunited after a summer apart, their friendship threatens to combust from the pressure of secrets, middle school, and looming auditions for a potentially life-changing new talented-and-gifted program"--
Author
Series
Dragon warrior volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jade Society member Faryn Liu may be destined to command the Jade Emperor's army of demon-fighting dragons, but first she must complete a daring quest across San Francisco's Chinatown before the Lunar New Year.
24) Sincerely Sicily
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Sicily Jordan learns to use her voice and to find joy in who she is--a Black Panamanian fashionista who rocks her braids with pride--while confronting prejudice both in the classroom and at home.
25) Adrift
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The resilience of two cousins is tested when one of them is lost at sea and washes up on a deserted island while the other remains at home, holding on to the belief that her beloved cousin is still alive.
26) Meet me halfway
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When seventh-grade classmates Mattie Gómez and Mercedes Miller realize they have the same Colombian father, they hatch a plan to run away from a school field trip to meet him for the first time.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the help and understanding she deserves, but in the meantime her new friend calls her crazy and her abuela Mimi dismisses the therapy and medicine Iveliz needs to feel like herself.
28) Double play
Author
Series
Baseball genius volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When New York Yankee James "JY" Yager tries to show that he can still hit in the majors without the help of twelve-year-old Jalen's baseball genius, Jalen focuses on his own baseball career as he tries to carve out a spot with the Rockton Rockets.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After something strange happens during a camping trip, twelve-year-old alien-obsessed Simon suspects he has been abducted, but was it real or just his overactive imagination?
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1986 Malaysia, as she worries about her parents' constant fighting, ardent soccer fan Maya, age eleven, trains herself and pulls together a team at her girls' school, despite soccer being a "boys' game."
32) Beauty woke
Author
Publisher
Versify/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Beauty--who is of Taino Indian, African, and Boricua heritage--was taught to be strong and proud, but hatred toward people who look like her bruises her heart until her community opens her eyes to the truth.
Author
Series
Goldie Vance novels volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In early 1960s Florida, sixteen-year-old Goldie, an aspiring detective at the Crossed Palms Resort Hotel, investigates when a diamond-encrusted swim cap goes missing during the filming of a movie at the resort.--
34) Atty at law
Author
Publisher
Triangle Square Books for Young Readers/Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Atticus "Atty" Peale fights for the rights of animals, copes with having a racially-mixed family in small-town Alabama, navigates the social scene of middle school, and determines to help her father prove Jethro Gersham innocent of murder.
35) My brown skin
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomishia Booker
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A heartwarming story about embracing who you are. A child's first words of confidence and pride. You are wonderfully made. You are amazing. Your skin is the perfect shade of brown!"--Back cover.
36) Indigo and Ida
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Indigo, an eighth-grade investigative reporter, is torn between fighting a racist school policy and keeping her friends -- until she discovers a series of letters written by Black journalist and activist Ida B. Wells"--
37) The long ride
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In New York in 1971, Jamila and Josie are bused across Queens where they try to fit in at a new, integrated junior high school while their best friend, Francesca, tests the limits at a private school.--
38) Love by Sophia
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Encouraged by her teacher to approach her art assignment from new points of view, Sophia produces a piece she is proud of, but can she persuade her hard-to-impress family to take a chance on a different perspective?
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 1830s Canada, a thirteen-year-old Cree girl journeys westward from York Factory to the Red River valley, lured by a Norfolk trotter horse and determined to find her Scottish fur trader father.
Author
Publisher
Oceano Travesía
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Cada color tiene su personalidad: los rojos son chillones, los amarillos, alegres y los azules, tranquilos. Y no deben mezclarse, cada uno tiene que permanecer puro y vivr en su lugar sin... ¡Esperen! ¿Qué están haciendo?"--Page [4] of cover.
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