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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When a girl she had met at an innercity church is murdered, fifteen-year-old Macey channels her grief into a school project that leads her to uncover prejudice she had not imagined in her grandparents and their wealthy Connecticut community.
3) Linked
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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"Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika. Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? Who would do such a thing? Because Michael was the first person to see it, he's the first suspect. Because Link is one of the most popular guys in school, everyone's looking to him to figure it out. And because Dana's...
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Monster High (Lisi Harrison) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Frankie Stein was created in a laboratory, and when she enters Mount Hood High School camouflaged as a "normi," all she wants is to fit in, but it takes the help of another new student who believes that everyone should be treated equally before Frankie even has a chance.
7) Trouble
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Fourteen-year-old Henry, wishing to honor his brother Franklin's dying wish, sets out to hike Maine's Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog. But fate adds another companion--the Cambodian refugee accused of fatally injuring Franklin--and reveals troubles that predate the accident.
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Under the never sky trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"Aria and Perry, two teens from radically different societies--one highly advanced, the other primitive--hate being dependent on one another until they overcome their prejudices and fall in love, knowing they can't stay together"--
10) Clean getaway
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"For the life of him, William "Scoob" Lamar can't seem to stay out of trouble, and now the run-ins at school have led to lockdown at home. So when G'ma, Scoob's favorite person on Earth, asks him to go on an impromptu road trip, he's in the RV faster than he can say FREEDOM. With G'ma's old maps and a strange pamphlet called the 'Travelers' Green Book' at their side, the pair takes off on a journey down G'ma's memory lane. But adventure quickly turns...
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Series
Shiloh quartet volume 4
Pub. Date
c2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Marty and his best friend, Shiloh are on another adventure. Marty learns when a secret is too dangerous to keep, and that hate can spread like fire" --Provided by publisher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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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.
14) Witness
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A serious of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. Shes tired of the rude stares, the degrading commentseven the physical violenceshe endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every day. So shes built up protective walls and refuses to let anyone close enough to hurt her. Instead, she drowns her frustrations in music and spends her afternoons break-dancing with her brother
17) Internment
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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Rebellions are built on hope. Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens. With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the internment camp's Director and his guards. Heart-racing...
18) The cay
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
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When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
In Mississippi in the early 1900s, ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares their well water with both white and African-American neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year-old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers and then set off across the raging Rosa Lee River.