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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.
Author
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In a 1930s Massachusetts town torn by the Depression and other hardships, as well as racial tension, Charlie Anne and Phoebe, the black girl who moves to the farm next door, form a friendship that begins to transform their community.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1967 Tanzania, when President Nyerere urges his people to work together as one extended family, the people of Litongo move to a new village which, to some, seems cursed, but where thirteen-year-old Shida, a healer, and her female cousins are allowed to attend school. Includes glossary and author's note.
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