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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.
Author
Series
Last human volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After machines take control of Earth, following the extinction of humans, twelve-year-old robot XR 935A confronts its prejudices about humans and begins to reconsider its own existence within robot society after discovering and befriending a twelve-year-old human girl.--
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Dara Palmer dreams of being an actress, but when she does not get a part in the school play she wonders if it is because of her different looks as an adopted girl from Cambodia, so Dara becomes determined not to let prejudice stop her from being in the spotlight.
7) Dig
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.
8) Bear and Bee
Author
Series
Bear and Bee volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
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.
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Westly is as ready as his caterpillar friends to keep their beautiful territory free of lesser creatures as they await the day they turn into delicate butterflies, but when he finally emerges from his crysalis, he discovers he is vastly different from his friends.
10) Witness
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A series 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.
11) Poppy's return
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
650L
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.
12) Saving Shiloh
Author
Series
Shiloh quartet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor, Judd Travers, change his mean ways, even though their West Virginia community continues to expect the worst of him.
13) Slam!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Follows six teenagers as they are brought into close contact over the course of one tense week, in a town with political and personal tensions that build until one fires a fatal gunshot.
15) Sincerely Sicily
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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.
16) The jacket
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
An incident at school forces sixth grader Phil Morelli, a white boy, to become aware of racial discrimination and segregation, and to seriously consider if he himself is prejudiced.
18) Point guard
Author
Series
Home team novels volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"It's basketball season for the home team but Gus must wrestle with prejudice when he's the only one bothered by Cassie joining the boys' team and his teammate Steve makes fun of Gus's Dominican heritage"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Chicken Little runs into the Big Bad Wolf (literally), her first instinct is to fly, like the other chickens, but she decides to investigate instead--and finds that this particular wolf is not interested in eating chickens, he is just looking for a place to call home.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
450L
Language
English
Description
When Mr. Lincoln, "the coolest principal in the whole world," discovers that Eugene, the school bully, knows a lot about birds, he uses this interest to help Eugene overcome his intolerance.
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