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IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
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"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time. In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, The Progressive magazine republished one of its most famous pieces: James Baldwin's 1962 "Letter to My Nephew,"...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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I may be in trouble...but there's more to my story.
School has never been fun for Chace. Because of his huge jaw and crooked teeth, he rarely gets through a day of classes without bullies like Ivan taunting him. Things worsen when Chace's mom starts dating an Iranian man and Ivan's harassment takes a racist turn.
Chace has had enough and decides to retaliate. But when Chace's Internet threats backfire, the result is a suspension from school....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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The story of Eichmann's capture is now a major motion picture starring Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingsley, Operation Finale!
In 1945, at the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final Solution, walked into the mountains of Germany and vanished from view. Sixteen years later, an elite team of spies captured him at a bus stop in Argentina and smuggled him to Israel, resulting in one of the century's most important trials...
5) Mudbound
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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The International Bestseller
Now a major motion picture from Netflix, directed by Dee Rees, nominated in four categories for the Academy Awards.
In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm-a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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When Kai sneaks into a classroom to look at an upcoming exam, he discovers his math teacher is altering standardized test results. But when he shares this information, he's accused of lying. Can he prove he's telling the truth?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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A philologist of world renown, a professor at Oxford, and the author of academic treatises, J.R.R. Tolkien was far more than a fantasy book writer. His lifelong fascination with medieval texts and languages gave him a unique vision and endless inspiration for his tales. His broad interests made possible his creation of faery worlds and entire races of beings, as well as the languages, cultures, and characters that make his books as engaging today...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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For Poni, life in her small village in southern Sudan is simple and complicated at the same time. Stay in school. Beat up any boy who tries to show attention. Watch out for the dangers in the river. But then the war comes. And when soldiers arrive in her village, and bombs begin to rain from the sky, there is only one thing for Poni to do. Run. Run for her life. Poni does run from the bombs, and though many of the villagers do not escape, she does....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"Don't get me wrong. I loved my sister. I never, not once, wished her dead." Brady and Sabine Wilson are sisters born eleven months apart, but they couldn't be more different. Popular Sabine, the head cheerleader dating the high school hunk, seems to have all the luck, while her younger, artsy sister "Brady Brooder" is a loner who prefers the sidelines to the limelight. After Sabine dies in a horrific cheerleading accident, grief unravels Brady and...
10) The Confessional
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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I may be in trouble...but there's more to my story. All Jenny Vang wants to do is fit in. Not be popular. Not be cool. Just fit in. After changing schools more than once, she's an expert at it. The way to fit in at Monona High is to talk trash or make boasts on The Confessional, the school's unofficial gossip site. So of course Jenny joins in. But when Jenny lies about hooking up with a teacher, she's slammed with a two-month suspension. She's guilty....
11) Over the Tracks
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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When a serious illness strikes her mother, Lucy must grow up quickly. As money gets tighter, Lucy becomes desperate and starts selling her mom's medical marijuana-and gets caught. Will Lucy ever be able to make it up to her mom?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Documents the true story of the legendary samurai who was raised in the household of the enemies who killed his father before being sent to live in a monastery where, against the odds, he learned and perfected his fighting skills.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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This first-ever LGBTQ history book of its kind for young adults will appeal to fans of fun, empowering pop-culture books like Rad American Women A-Z and Notorious RBG.
World history has been made by countless lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals-and you've never heard of many of them.
Queer author and activist Sarah Prager delves deep into the lives of 23 people who fought, created, and loved on their own terms. From high-profile...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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In early 2018, teen-led March for Our lives events across the United States protested gun violence, demanded change to save lives, and registered voters toward that end. This authoritative exploration of guns, gun violence, and gun control explores the Second Amendment, the history of guns and gun laws in the United States, legal restrictions to gun ownership, and the devastation of mass shootings. Through an objective look at individual versus collective...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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No scientific quest is as compelling as the search for the key to understand the universe-the elusive unified "Theory of Everything"-a theory so concise it could fit on a T-shirt. Lively and thought-provoking, Universe on a T-Shirt tells the fascinating story of the search for the Holy Grail of physics.
Dan Falk places this intriguing story in its historical context, tracing the quest from ancient Greece to the breakthroughs of Newton, Maxwell, and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Since the revolution-turned-civil war in Syria began in 2011, over 500,000 civilians have been killed and more than 12 million Syrians have been displaced. Rania Abouzeid, one of the foremost journalists on the topic, follows two pairs of sisters from opposite sides of the conflict to give readers a firsthand glimpse of the turmoil and devastation this strife has wrought. Sunni Muslim Ruha and her younger sister Alaa withstand constant attacks by...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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What do people do when their civilization is invaded? Indigenous people have been faced with disease, war, broken promises, and forced assimilation. Despite crushing losses and insurmountable challenges, they formed new nations from the remnants of old ones, they adopted new ideas and built on them, they fought back, and they kept their cultures alive.
When the only possible "victory" was survival, they survived.
In this brilliant follow up to Turtle...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"This book is a guide for every young person who believes in a better world for all"-Malala Yousafzai
Adults are aware of their universal human rights of freedom and equality, but children often are ignorant of the rights they possess before reaching the age of majority. Enter Know Your Rights, written in partnership with Amnesty International, Angelina Jolie, and Geraldine Van Bueren.
Know Your Rights details the rights promised in the United...
19) Main Street
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 30
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English
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Describes the lonely predicament of Carol Kennicott, who is caught between her desires for social reform and individual happiness. Her dilemma is intensified by the fact that she lives in a small, self-satisfied, Midwestern town.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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When you read about war in your history book or hear about it in the news, do you ever wonder what happens to the families and children in the places experiencing war? Many families in these situations decide that they must leave their homes to stay alive. What happens to them?
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 70.8 million people around the world have been forced to leave their homes because of war or persecution...
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