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(0)Jacqueline Woodson
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
"A young girl uses crystal meth to escape the pain of losing her mother and grandmother in Hurricane Katrina, and then struggles to get over her addiction"--
26) Visiting day
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 1150L
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.
28) Lena
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lena and her younger sister Dion mourn the death of their mother as they hitchhike from Ohio to Kentucky while running away from their abusive father.
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
When Margaret's best friend Maizon returns from boarding school and joins her in the eighth grade, they try to resume their friendship while dealing with personal problems and watching their Brooklyn neighborhood undergo changes.
Author
Publisher
Bantam, Doubleday Dell Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old Staggerlee, the daughter of a racially mixed marriage, spends a summer with her cousin Trout, she begins to question her sexuality to Trout and catches a glimpse of her possible future self.
31) Behind you
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
After fifteen-year-old Jeremiah is mistakenly shot by police, the people who love him struggle to cope with their loss as they recall his life and death, unaware that 'Miah is watching over them.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Other students laugh when Rigoberto, an immigrant from Venezuela, introduces himself but later, he meets Angelina and discovers that he is not the only one who feels like an outsider.
Habrá veces en que entres a un lugary no veas a nadie como tú. Hay muchas razones por las que uno se puede sentir diferente. Quizá sea por tu apariencia o por la forma en que hablas o de dónde vienes. A lo mejor es por lo que comes o por algún motivo similar....
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Nací en Ohio, pero las historias de Carolina del Sur corrían ya, como ríos, por mis venas. Hablan de crecer en distintos hogares, de una época que arrastra todavía los residuos de las leyes Jim Crow y del movimiento de los derechos civiles como respuesta.
Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s,...
34) Our Gracie Aunt
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Description
When a brother and sister are taken to stay with their mother's sister because their mother neglects them, they wonder if they will see their mother again.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree about an unforgettable family on a road-trip during one of the most important times in the civil rights movement. When the Watson family--ten-year-old Kenny, Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron--sets out on a trip south to visit Grandma in Birmingham, Alabama, they don't realize that they're heading toward one of the darkest moments in America's history. The...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
From basketball dreams and family fiascos to first crushes and new neighborhoods, this anthology, written by award-winning children's authors, celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us.
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century...
