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Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A tale of adolescence whose hero is Charlie, a high school freshman in Pennsylvania. The novel follows Charlie as he is introduced to love, literature and pot. A debut in fiction by a filmmaker.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes the various sociocultural factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. This is the gripping, terrifying story of his escape from this no-exit prison-- to freedom in South Korea.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph as her "second father," when she was placed in his care after her parents left Haiti for America. And so she was both elated and saddened when, at twelve, she joined her parents and youngest brothers in New York City. As Edwidge made a life in a new country, adjusting to being far away from so many who she loved, she and her family continued to fear for the...
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
1996, c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A biography of Arthur Agee and William Gates, two promising high school basketball players in Chicago whose experiences were captured in the documentary film "Hoop Dreams."
11) Red River
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The intertwining stories of two Louisiana families--three generations of African-American men--and their struggles to make a place for themselves in a country deeply divided in the aftermath of the Civil War and beyond"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ali Nujood, the first child bride in Yemen to win a divorce, tells the story of her experiences after her father arranged for her to be married in 2008 at the age of ten to a man three times her age, describes what happened when she sought out a judge in order to get a divorce, and discusses the impact of her actions on traditional Yemen culture and society.
15) Marzi
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
16) Home town
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
A disparate group of individuals finds a common cause and a code of values that transforms their small Massachusetts town into a home.
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and family, and the great and unique obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations.--
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