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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Written without a trace of sentimentality or apology, this is an unforgettable personal story-the truth as a remarkable young woman named Anne Moody lived it. To read her book is to know what it is to have grown up black in Mississippi in the forties an fifties-and to have survived with pride and courage intact. In this now classic autobiography, she details the sights, smells, and suffering of growing up in a racist society and candidily reveals...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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When German prisoners of war are brought to her Arkansas town during World War II, twelve-year-old Patty, a Jewish girl, befriends one of them and must deal with the consequences of that friendship.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1981, c1979 (1983 printing)
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A bomber crew member at fifteen, Jack Raab has his dreams of heroism ended abruptly when his plane is shot down during a mission, forcing him to bail out behind enemy lines.
8) Canyons
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s.
9) The crossing
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Manny, a street kid fighting for survival in a Mexican border town, develops a strange friendship with an emotionally disturbed American soldier who decides to help him get across the border.
11) Troubling a star
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Series
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
As she tries to stay alive after being left on an iceberg in the Antarctic, sixteen-year-old Vicky recalls the series of events that brought her to the bottom of the world and involved her in a dangerous mystery.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999, c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Matt tries to find a family for an eight-year-old foster child, his attempt backfires and both of them need a Christmas miracle.
Author
Series
His dark materials volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
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Lyra and Will find themselves at the center of a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by Lyra's father, Lord Asriel.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell Laurel-Leaf
Pub. Date
2000, c1974
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.
15) The silent boy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Presents twelve short stories about the experiences of young children and teenagers in war, showing a variety of perspectives, and provides factual notes on each conflict dramatized.
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