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I survived volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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"It's 1863, and Thomas and his little sister, Birdie, have fled the farm where they were born and raised as slaves. Following the North Star, looking for freedom, they soon cross paths with a Union soldier. Everything changes : Corporal Henry Green brings Thomas and Birdie back to his regiment, and suddenly it feels like they've found a new home. Best of all, they don't have to find their way north alone -- they're marching with the army. But then...
62) The getaway
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Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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"Jay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of the world’s most famous resorts. He’s got his family, his crew, and an incredible after-school job at the property’s main theme park. Life isn’t so great for the rest of the world, but when people come here to vacation, it’s to get away from all that. As things outside get worse, trouble starts seeping into Karloff. First, Jay’s friend Connie and her family disappear in the middle...
64) The yellow house
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"A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom's The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother's struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina. The Yellow House expands...
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Heaven trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.
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Becoming Muhammad Ali volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
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"Before he was a household name, Cassius Clay was a kid with struggles like any other. Kwame Alexander and James Patterson join forces to vividly depict his life up to age seventeen in both prose and verse, including his childhood friends, struggles in school, the racism he faced, and his discovery of boxing. Readers will learn about Cassius' family and neighbors in Louisville, Kentucky, and how, after a thief stole his bike, Cassius began training...
72) Shattered
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Bluford series volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
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Teenager Darcy Wills must deal with painful secrets from her past in order to save her family and her friendships.
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Ryan Hart novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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The Hart family of Portland, Oregon, faces many setbacks after Ryan's father loses his job, but no matter what, Ryan tries to bring sunshine to her loved ones.
75) Kwanzaa
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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"Kwanzaa is about celebrating! It honors African American heritage. Some people mark the holiday by lighting the kinara. Families and friends gather to eat a big feast. Readers will discover how a shared holiday can have multiple traditions and be celebrated in all sorts of ways"--
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This poison heart volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
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Briseis has a gift: she can grow plants from tiny seeds to rich blooms with a single touch. When Briseis's aunt dies and wills her a dilapidated estate in rural New York, Bri and her parents decide to leave Brooklyn behind for the summer. Hopefully there, surrounded by plants and flowers, Bri will finally learn to control her gift. But their new home is sinister in ways they could never have imagined—it comes with a specific set of instructions,...
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[2021]
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"The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more...
80) Song of Solomon
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Everyman's library volume no. 216
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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Macon Dead, Jr., known as Milkman, grows up in "his father's money-haunted, death-haunted house with his silent sisters and strangely passive mother" and with his friend Guitar who is connected to the secret avengers called the Seven Days, falls in love with his cousin Hagar, learns from bootlegging Aunt Pilate, and then heads south, lured by the promise of buried gold and the mysteries of his heritage.