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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an adventure reminiscent of Homer's Odyssey, fifteen-year-old Odilia and her four younger sisters embark on a journey to return a dead man to his family in Mexico, aided by La Llorona, but impeded by a witch, a warlock, chupacabras, and more.
3) Audacity
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early 20th century in New York."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
As autumn approaches Ilse Stern is thinking about her infatuation with Hermann Rød, and whether his determination to be a painter will interfere with their romance--but the reality of being Jewish in occupied Oslo is about to turn her whole world upside down, as the deportation of the Norwegian Jews begins.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized look at the last twenty years of Thomas Jefferson's life at Monticello through the eyes of three of his slaves, two of whom were his sons by his slave, Sally Hemings.
Author
Series
Apothecary series volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Follows a fourteen-year-old American girl whose life unexpectedly transforms when she moves to London in 1952 and gets swept up in a race to save the world from nuclear war.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day, then jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot suit wearing younger brother, Ray, as escort until the night racial violence leads to murder. Includes historical note.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Bolivia in 1999, when their father is unjustly arrested and their mother leaves, Francisco, seventeen, and his sister Pilar, eight, must move to the dirty, dehumanizing, and corrupt prison.
1999, Bolivia. Francisco's father is arrested on false charges and sent to prison by a corrupt system. Now Francisco and his young sister must move into prison with their father. There, they find a world unlike anything they've ever known. Prison life is dirty,...
11) Hattie Big Sky
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.
12) The finisher
Author
Series
Vega Jane volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Vega Jane has never left the village of Wormwood. But this isn't unusual, nobody has ever left the village of Wormwood. At least not until Quentin Herms vanishes into the unknown. Vega knows Quentin didn't just leave, but that he was chased. And he's left behind a very dangerous trail of clues that only she can decode. The Quag is a dark forest filled with terrifying beasts and bloodthirsty Outliers. But just as deadly are the threats that exist within...
13) Everfound
Author
Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
In the limbo that's Everlost, Mary, Nick, Allie, and others face the decisions that will determine whether that place and the Earth itself will continue to exist, as well as where their own futures lie.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vienna. 1936. Three young friends--Leo, Elsa, and Max--spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness and that events will soon mean that they are ripped apart from each other as their lives take very different directions... Inspired by a true story, this is an extraordinary novel that is as powerful as it is heartbreaking and shows the bonds of love, family and friendship allow glimmers of hope...
15) Rage of lions
Author
Series
Wereworld volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
When Lady Gretchen is abducted by the werelion Prince Lucas, Drew and his friends embark on a perilous chase to stop the prince from fleeing with her, but as they encounter terrifying new werelords, Drew must summon all his courage and strength to defeat the creatures.
Author
Series
Mirrorworld volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Jacob Reckless journeys to the Mirrorworld to tell his shapeshifting friend Fox that a fairy curse--a deadly moth in his chest--means he has only one year to live. The journey in Mirrorworld turns into a search against time and against a Goyl treasure hunter for an enchanted crossbow, which is known to strike down any army it faces, and less well known for its healing power when shot by a loved one"--
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Determined to stand up for their rights, eleven-year-old Rufus, a Black boy, and his friends participate in the 1963 civil rights protests in Birmingham, Alabama.
Rufus Jackson Jones is from Birmingham, the place Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called the most segregated place in the country. A place that in 1963 is full of civil rights activists including Dr. King. The adults are trying to get more attention to their cause--to show that separate is not...
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