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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...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"Ty and Corey love to visit the museum. When they step through the doors, they become scientists. They study bugs and hunt for fossils. They catch the wind. When Ty can't participate in a lab activity because of his age, he uses his big imagination at home. Discovering new things is so much fun!"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
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"Eleven-year-old Kofi Offin dreams of water. Its mysterious, immersive quality. The rich, earthy scent of the current. The clearness, its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets' Kofi has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, in the village where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father's father, a girl named Ama, and, of course, swimming. Some say he moves like a minnow, not...
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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Ryan is caught between two friends who both want to be her best friend, her brother ruins her latest baking project, and a classmate keeps teasing her at school, yet Ryan still looks for a way to see the bright side of things and not let anything steal her joy.
45) Wedgie & Gizmo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
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While his human Elliot adjusts to his new home and stepfamily, Gizmo, an evil genius guinea pig, searches for a new evil lair where he can plot to take over the world, but Gizmo is constantly thwarted by Elliot's little stepsister Jasmine (who likes to play dress-up), Abuela (who may or may not like to eat cavies), and Wedgie (a Corgi superhero and Gizmo's nemesis).
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
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When the electricity goes out, twelve-year-old Eddie and his friends set out to investigate what is going on when they make the startling discovery that they are the only ones left in their neighborhood--and perhaps the only people left anywhere.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 15
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"Sarah Dunbar is one of the first black students to attend the previously all-white Jefferson High School ... Linda Hairston is the daughter of the town's most vocal opponents of school integration ... Forced to work together on a school project, Sarah and Linda must confront harsh truths about race, power and how they really feel about one another"--Jacket.
49) One crazy summer
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Gaither sisters volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
50) Ninth Ward
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
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In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them.
51) Harbor Me
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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"When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"--
Six kids discover the power of sharing their secrets and their stories ... It all starts when six kids are sent to a room for a weekly chat - by themselves, with no adults to listen in. At first they fear this new unfamiliar and wonder...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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"In 1963, thirteen-year-old Arthur is sentenced to community service helping the neighborhood Junk Man after he throws a brick at the old man's head in a moment of rage, but the junk he collects might be more important than he suspects. Inspired by the work of American folk artist James Hampton"--
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EllRay Jakes series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
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All the boys in EllRay's third-grade class have something they can brag about. Corey's on the swim team, Kevin is super tall, Jared's dad has an ATV. But EllRay's dad is a geologist - not much to brag about. After all, rocks are boring. Then EllRay sees the crystals in his dad's office, and they are really cool looking. If EllRay just "borrows" them to show his classmates, he knows they'd be impressed. And his dad will never have to know. It's a perfect...
55) Shattered
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Series
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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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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Bluford series volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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When a frightening ordeal turns her life upside down, Darcy reaches out to her friends for help, but discovers that one of them has an even bigger secret.