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Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
Think you know what rural America is like? Discover a plurality of perspectives in this enlightening anthology of stories that turns preconceptions on their head.
Gracie sees a chance of fitting in at her South Carolina private school, until a "white trash"–themed Halloween party has her steering clear of the rich kids. Samuel's Tejano family has both stood up to oppression and been a source of it, but now he's ready to own his
1302) Mortal heart
Author
Series
His fair assassin volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
Description
Annith's worst fears are realized when she discovers that, despite her lifelong training to be an assassin, she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever shut up in the convent of Saint Mortain.
1303) Wild is the witch
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"After a night of magic turns deadly, Iris Gray vows to never let another person learn she's a witch. It doesn't matter that the Witches' Council found her innocent or that her magic was once viewed as a marvel—that night on the lake changed everything. Now settled in Washington, Iris hides who she really is and vents her frustrations by writing curses she never intends to cast. And while she loves working at the wildlife refuge she runs with her...
1304) Loveless
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Description
This is the funny, honest, messy, completely relatable story of Georgia, who doesn't understand why she can't crush and kiss and make out like her friends do. She's surrounded by the narrative that dating + sex = love. It's not until she gets to college that she discovers the A range of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum — coming to understand herself as asexual/aromantic. Disrupting the narrative that she's been told since birth isn't easy — there are many...
1305) Orchards
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Winner of the APALA Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature
An ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book. After a classmate commits suicide, Kana Goldberg—a half-Japanese, half-Jewish American—wonders who is responsible. She and her cliquey friends said some thoughtless things to the girl. Hoping that Kana will reflect on her behavior, her parents pack her off to her mother's ancestral home in Japan for the summer. There...
An ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book. After a classmate commits suicide, Kana Goldberg—a half-Japanese, half-Jewish American—wonders who is responsible. She and her cliquey friends said some thoughtless things to the girl. Hoping that Kana will reflect on her behavior, her parents pack her off to her mother's ancestral home in Japan for the summer. There...
1306) The call of the wild
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
Stolen From Home and sold into a harsh life as a sled dog in northern Canada, Buck must quickly learn to survive. He soon takes his place as leader of the hardworking team, and his strength and courage become legendary among men. But the call of the wild is strong, awakening primal feelings of a life among wolves...
One of the greatest of all wildlife stories, The Call of the Wild will enthrall today's readers as it has since its first publication...
1307) The iron flower
Author
Series
Black Witch chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 27
Description
"Elloren Gardner and her friends were only seeking to right a few wrongs when they rescued a Selkie and freed a military dragon. The last thing they expected was to be thrust into a realm-wide underground resistance against Gardnerian conquest. While the Resistance struggles to fight back against the harsh rulings of the Mage Council, more and more Gardnerian soldiers descend upon the University, led by none other than Lukas Grey, now commander of...
1308) Surviving the city
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Tasha Spillet's graphic-novel debut, Surviving the City, is a story about womanhood, friendship, resilience, and the anguish of a missing loved one. Miikwan and Dez are best friends. Miikwan's Anishinaabe; Dez is Inninew. Together, the teens navigate the challenges of growing up in an urban landscape - they're so close, they even completed their Berry Fast together. However, when Dez's grandmother becomes too sick, Dez is told she can't stay with...
1309) The year of the book
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
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Follows a young Chinese American girl, as she navigates relationships with family, friends, and her fourth-grade classroom, and finds a true best friend.
1310) The Fixer
Author
Series
The fixer (Jennifer Lynn Barnes) volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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Description
Her older sister is DC's number-one "fixer," making politicians' scandals go away. Now Tess is following in her sister's footsteps, solving problems for her fellow Hardwicke Academy Students.
1311) A death-struck year
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When the Spanish influenza epidemic reaches Portland, Oregon, in 1918, seventeen-year-old Cleo leaves behind the comfort of her boarding school to work for the Red Cross.
1312) Betting on you
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Description
When they first meet, Bailey and Charlie cannot stand one another, but when they met a year later as coworkers, Charlie secretly bets a colleague he can get Bailey to go out with him, and their relationship gets more complicated as they get closer and closer.
1313) Mistwalker
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Forbidden to set foot on her family's lobster boat after her brother's death, sixteen-year-old Willa will do anything to help her grieving, financially-troubled family, even turn to the weird Grey Man who haunts the lighthouse near her small Maine village.
1314) The Broken Lands
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Description
"Set in the seedy underworld of nineteenth-century Coney Island during the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, two orphans are determined to stop evil forces from claiming the city of New York"--
1315) Kiss of Frost
Author
Series
Mythos Academy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Now in her second year as a warrior-in-training at Mythos Academy, Gwen Frost learns that one of her fellow students is secretly a Reaper who wants her dead.
1316) The demon tide
Author
Series
Black Witch chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Newly exposed as the Black Witch of Prophecy, Elloren Gardner Grey is on the run, not knowing if she'll find friends or foes. With her fastmate, Lukas Grey, either dead or in the hands of High Mage Marcus Vogel, Elloren knows the only chance of turning the tide of the coming war is to seek allies who will listen long enough not to kill her on sight. In the Eastern Realm, Water Fae Tierney Calix and Elloren's brother Trystan have joined the Wyvernguard...