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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace.
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children...
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"It's Nimra Sharif's first time going to public school. Nimra's nervous, but as long as she has her best friend, Jenna, by her side, she figures she can take on just about anything. Unfortunately, middle school is hard. The teachers are mean, the schedule is confusing, and Jenna starts giving hijab-wearing Nimra the cold shoulder aorund the other kids. Desperate to fit in and save her friendship with Jenna, Nimra accepts an unlikely invitation to...
4) The teacher
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English
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"Something isn't right at Caseham High School. Last year, the school was rocked by scandal: a teacher was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student. Now, Addie is a pariah and will do anything to get through the year. More than that, she's desperate to keep the truth from coming to light. Evie, a colleague of the disgraced teacher, is horrified to find Addie in her class. She knows the girl can't be trusted and soon realizes she's...
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English
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"2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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The story of a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago. Capturing her thoughts and emotions in poems and stories, she is able to rise above hopelessness and create a quiet space for herself in the midst of her oppressive surroundings.
7) Glass sword
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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The electrifying next installment in the Red Queen series escalates the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world they've always known -- and pits Mare against the darkness that has grown in her soul. Mare Barrow's blood is red -- the color of common folk -- but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In "one of Morrison's most haunting works" (New York Times) the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the story of a mother and a daughter—a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.
In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still
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Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
This book provides step-by-step directions for twenty-two crafts designed for those who want to decorate their bedrooms with projects such as a treasure shelf, days of the week hangers, a friends and family photo garland, a jewelry pouch, and more.
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Rockridge Press
Language
English
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"Growing up means changes, and during puberty, those changes can feel overwhelming. Celebrate Your Feelings is here to help young girls -- ages 8-12 -- understand themselves better and deal with their ever-changing emotions, thoughts, moods, relationships, and more! This practical puberty book for girls is packed with powerful new ways to keep calm and feel good, like simple breathing techniques, practicing mindfulness, exercising, and self-care tips....
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English
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"A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice"-the ability to speak for herself and decide her own future. But instead, Adunni's...
17) Red queen
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood -- those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief in a poor, rural village, until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver court. Before the king, princes, and all the nobles, she discovers she has an ability of her own. To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess...
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Publisher
ParentMap
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
If you have a teenage girl, there's a 50 percent chance she's already sexually active and a 33 percent chance she's been solicited by an online predator in the past year. How prepared is she for the risks and realities of sex? You hold in your hands a comprehensive crash course for girls into staying safe -- emotionally, mentally, and physically -- while navigating the danger-laden worlds of teenage sex and sexuality in a digital age. This book is...
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