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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE • The riveting history of how Pauli Murray—a brilliant writer-turned-activist—and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt forged an enduring friendship that helped to alter the course of race and racism in America.
“A definitive biography of Murray, a trailblazing legal scholar and a tremendous influence on Mrs. Roosevelt.” —Essence
In 1938, the twenty-eight-year-old...
“A definitive biography of Murray, a trailblazing legal scholar and a tremendous influence on Mrs. Roosevelt.” —Essence
In 1938, the twenty-eight-year-old...
482) Flamer
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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In the summer between middle school and high school, Aiden Navarro navigates friendships, deals with bullies, and finds himself drawn to Elias, a boy he can't stop thinking about.
Author
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Mars Patel volume 2
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Finally reaching Oliver Pruitt’s colony on Mars, Mars Patel soon realizes that there are other inhabitants on the planet and must survive long enough to discover the planet’s dark secrets and why Pruitt is so invested in him.
Author
Series
Johnny Boo volume 12
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Kids love to eat snow! It looks a lot like ice cream... hey, maybe it really IS ice cream! Johnny Boo and Squiggle are excited to find out, unless the Ice Cream Monster eats it all first. Armed with his gigantic and mighty Ice Cream Fork, he seems unstoppable... until all that cold snow in his tummy knocks him down for the count. Can Johnny Boo and Squiggle warm up their frozen frenemy with mittens from their secret mitten box? Or will they get lost...
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Publisher
Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The tomboy daughter of a preacher rebels against conventional beliefs about the proper role she should conform to and ends up getting into trouble with her posse of friends before a love triangle complicates her relationships and makes her aware of her gender identity.
486) The imposter
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Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Skunk wants to be a dog. Every dog seems to have exactly what he's looking for: a home and a family. When Skunk sees a "lost" poster for Max the dog, he wonders if he can pass himself off as the missing pet. He enlists the help of three neighborhood critters who train him in the art of being a dog with hilarious results.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Rising sophomore Travis and his best friend, Creature, spend a summer in a Eugene, Oregon, trailer park dealing with cancer, basketball, first love, addiction, gang violence, and a reptilian infestation.
488) Paper planes
Author
Publisher
Maverick for Mad Cave Comics Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After a life altering incident, Dylan and Leighton are sent to a summer camp for troubled youth. Can Dylan and Leighton save their friendship and protect their future while trying to survive camp?
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Series
Marya Khan volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
When Marya's third-grade class participates in taking care of the school's new garden, Marya wants to be the student leader in charge, but every time she tries to prove she has what it takes to be a leader things get messy.
490) The stolen slipper
Author
Series
Never after volume 2
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Filomena Jefferson-Cho and her friends, Jack Stalker, Alistair, and Gretel are once again in Never After, to help Gretel fulfill a promise to her father to recover the glass slipper he made for her cousin, Hortense, which was stolen by the cunning and manipulative Cinderella, who is determined to become Princess of Eastphalia--to do that the friends will have to infiltrate the castle, and, of course, avoid being eaten by monsters.
491) Strays like us
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Fred (never Winifred) is being fostered by the eccentric but kind Margery Dawson while her mother is dealing with addiction problems, and mostly Fred is determined not to form any attachments to anybody--until the condition of Toby, the abused dog next door, captures first her attention and then her heart, and somehow it becomes increasingly difficult to stay detached from the people who are helping her.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In Muffuletta, being good at eating is the key to success. After failing a school eating test, picky eater Minerva is placed in the lowest eating track of all: Remedial Eating to Change Habits. RETCH class is full of kids with weird personalities and even weirder food preferences. And to make matters worse, Minerva's best friends, in the Gifted and Gourmet class, no longer speak to her. But soon Minerva finds she is not alone in her pickiness, and...
493) Dungeon Critters
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Join the Dungeon Critters, a tight-knit squad of animal companions, on a wild adventure investigating a sinister botanical conspiracy among the furry nobility. As they risk their lives traveling through haunted dungeons, swamps, and high society balls, they also become closer as friends.
494) The sleepover
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Matt's friends plan a fun sleepover to try and cheer him up after he falls into a deep grief over the death of his nanny, but the sleepover quickly takes a turn when they realize the family's new nanny may be an actual monster.
495) Pumpkin
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Creating a drag-show audition tape that culminates in an unkind nomination for prom queen, an overweight and openly gay teen partners with a girl who has been nominated for prom king to embrace their true selves.
496) Blood Moon
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
A science-loving teen's first sexual experience with a quiet, unassuming boyfriend implodes into a viral meme of shame and embarrassment that causes her to doubt the trustworthiness of a best friend.
Author
Series
Phoebe and her unicorn volume 15
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Phoebe Howell and her best friend, the dazzling unicorn Marigold Heavenly Nostrils, have all kinds of exciting things planned for the summer. Their adventures include constructing a secret clubhouse, and preparing for a trip to Marigold's unicorn family reunion. Along the way, readers will meet all kinds of new characters, learn what magic spells are best avoided, and have all kinds of sparkling unicorn fun."--
498) Spin
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When DJ ParSec (Paris Secord), rising star of the local music scene, is found dead over her turntables, the two girls who found her, Kya (her pre-fame best friend) and Fuse (her current chief groupie) are torn between grief for Paris and hatred for each other--but when the lack of obvious suspects stalls the investigation, and the police seem to lose interest, despite pressure from social media and ParSec's loyal fans, the two girls unite, determined...
499) Paper heart
Author
Publisher
Putnam/G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Mere months after her best friend's death, thirteen-year-old Tess spends a summer with family in Wyoming, making friends at art camp while being haunted by Colette and her own anxieties.
500) Dawn of the jaguar
Author
Series
Shadow bruja volume 2
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After negotiating with the queen of the underworld for ten days aboveground, teenage bruja Ren sets out to save her friends and put the Lords of Night back to sleep forever, all without the help of her shadow magic and time rope.
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