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81) Gold dust
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In 1975, twelve-year-old Richard befriends Napolean, a Caribbean newcomer to his Catholic school, hoping that Napolean will learn to love baseball and the Red Sox, and will win acceptance in the racially polarized Boston school.
83) Hidden
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Fourteen-year-old Alix is faced with a huge moral dilemma when she helps pull an illegal Iraqi immigrant from the incoming tide on the coastal English island where she lives.
84) Yes No Maybe So
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
Jamie Goldberg, who chokes when speaking to strangers, and Maya Rehrman, who is having the worst Ramadan ever, are paired to knock on doors and ask for votes for the local state senate candidate.
86) Rebound
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Determined to make the varsity basketball team, seventeen-year-old Ray finds his efforts to play both hindered and helped by the atmosphere of racism in his town.
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Formats
Description
For twelve-year-old Martha "Sonny" Creech, there is no place more beautiful than her family's cotton farm. She, her two brothers, and her parents work hard on their land, but only Sonny loves the rich, dark earth the way her father does. When a tragic accident claims his life, her stricken family struggles to fend off ruin until their rich, reclusive neighbor offers to help finance that year's cotton crop. Sonny is dismayed when her mama accepts Frank...
88) Silent partner
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
When Angela Day is offered the opportunity of a lifetime by Jake Lawrence, one of the world's wealthiest entrepreneurs, she discovers the dangers of unlimited power, influence, and riches as enemies target him--and anyone around him--for death.
89) Monster
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
Artemisia (Sia) Martinez's mother was deported to Mexico by ICE and disappeared in the Sonoran Desert trying to make it back to her American family; Sia believes that she was as-good-as murdered by ICE and the sheriff in their small Arizona town on the edge of the national park, and wants revenge against him and his son, Jeremy--but her search for the truth will uncover many more secrets than she counted on.
91) Concrete rose
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them all financially could leave them all bearing his responsibilities...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
When Springville residents--at least the ones still alive--are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation . . . Maddy did it. An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept secret: Maddy is biracial. She...
94) Zom-B clans
Author
Series
Zom-B volume 8
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"While saving the town of New Kirkham, B's old friend, Vinyl, is kidnapped by the Ku Klux Klan. The Angels are prepared to do what it takes to save him, but B will have to make some very hard decisions about her loyalties"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"This is the story of sixteen-year-old Khadija, who flees her home in a stolen hot air balloon to escape life in an arranged marriage. Khadija loves the ancient tales of jinn and renegade princesses... but real life is closing in and her destiny as a ghadæan girl is marriage and boredom. When her father arranges a match, Khadija leaps at the chance of escape - a rogue hot air balloon fighting its ropes for the sky. Soon, Khadija is flying over the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Sixteen-year-old Alex Rufus is trying his best. He tries to be the best employee he can be at the local ice cream shop; the best boyfriend he can be to his amazing girlfriend, Talia; the best protector he can be over his little brother, Isaiah. But as much as Alex tries, he often comes up short. It’s hard to for him to be present when every time he touches an object or person, Alex sees into its future. When he touches a scoop, he has a vision...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"The Flanagan sisters are as different as they come. Seventeen-year-old Annalie is bubbly, sweet, and self- conscious, whereas nineteen-year-old Margaret is sharp and assertive. Margaret looks just like their mother, while Annalie passes for white and looks like the father who abandoned them years ago, leaving their Chinese immigrant mama to raise the girls alone in their small, predominantly white Midwestern town. When their house is vandalized with...
100) Marriage material
Author
Pub. Date
c2016
Description
After his father's death leaves him in control of the family's convenience store, Arjan struggles with his new duties and becomes increasingly more appreciative of the courage and sacrifices of his forbearers.