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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
3) Lu
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
"Lu knows he can lead Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and the team to victory at the championships, but it might not be as easy as it seems. Suddenly, there are hurdles in Lu's way--literally and not-so-literally--and Lu needs to figure out, fast, what winning the gold really means"--
Author
Series
Alston Boys volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
When adventurous cousins Otto and Sheed Alston accidentally extend the last day of summer by freezing time, they find the secrets between the unmoving seconds are not as much fun as they expected.
6) Harbor me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
"When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 550L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Bri hopes to become a great rapper, and after her first song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, must decide whether to sell out or face eviction with her widowed mother.
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
The Vanderbeeker children, ages six to thirteen, race to help save their mother's baking business from closure after it fails an inspection.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Freed from slavery, Mariah and her young brother Zeke join Sherman's march through Georgia, where Mariah meets a free black named Caleb and dares to imagine the possibility of true love, but hope can come at a cost.
12) Freewater
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After fleeing the plantation where they were enslaved, siblings Ada and Homer discover the secret community of Freewater, and work with freeborn Sanzi to protect their new home from the encroaching dangers of the outside world.
13) Monarch rising
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In a dystopian future seventeen-year-old Josephine Monarch has grown up in the Ashes, the poverty stricken borderlands of New Georgia, but today is the Lineup and if she is chosen she gets a chance to leave that behind--even though it will mean leaving all her loved ones behind, and embracing an uncertain future.
14) Finding Langston
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
15) Bayou magic
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
410L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Visiting her grandmother in the Louisiana bayou, ten-year-old Maddy begins to realize that she may be the only sibling to carry on the gift of her family's magical legacy.
16) Ghost boys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
HL 360L
Language
English
Description
"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--Provided by publisher.
17) King of the ice
Author
Series
Miles Lewis volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"When his friend RJ bets that Miles will wipe out at the ice rink, he is determined to prove him wrong."--
18) Julius
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Maya and Julius, the pig her grandfather brings her from Alaska, learn about fun and sharing together"--
19) Rain rising
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Rain, who struggles with low self-esteem, must overcome sadness after her older brother Xander is severely beaten up at a frat party, but through the help of an after-school circle group, Rain finds the courage to help herself and her family heal.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Capturing the shock and reverberations of the COVID-19 pandemic . . . [in this novel in verse], as Garvey's life goes into lockdown and his father becomes sick, Garvey must find a way to use his newfound musical skills to bring hope to both his father and himself"--Provided by publisher.
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