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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Narrator Fred Berman brings gravitas to the events of this memoir while still creating a voice for Michael [Bornstein] that sounds young and vulnerable. Berman also excels at the use of Yiddish, Polish, and German accents where needed to create a sense of the time and place." — AudioFile Magazine
This program includes a preface read by both authors with an afterword read by Michael Bornstein. A bonus conversation with the
Author
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Explores the controversy surrounding vaccinations, discussing how vaccines changed history, vaccine errors that damaged public trust, possible links with autism, and the resurgence of old diseases due to reduced vaccination.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
At the outset of World War II, deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. The young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage against the Germans, who eventually had the boys tracked down and arrested. But their efforts were not in vain: the boys' exploits helped spark a full-blown Danish...
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Presents a graphic memoir detailing the author's experiences as a child prisoner in the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II, reflecting on the choices his family made in the face of institutionalized racism.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of the journals, fiction, letters and sketches of Esther Grace Earl, a cancer patient who passed away in 2010 at age sixteen, includes photographs and essays by family and friends that help tell Esther's story.
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An essential overview of the science behind stereotypes explains why brains form them, why applying stereotypes to people can cause great harm, how stereotypes influence the sense of self, and how to recognize and overcome personal biases to promote a fairer world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
""Presents the biography of Benazir Bhutto against the backdrop of her political, historical, and cultural environment."-Provided by publisher"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Presents the adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft. Universally acclaimed as one of the greatest creations of American fiction, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of those few books that are read over and over again, with ever increasing enjoyment.
11) Uglies
Author
Series
Uglies volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.
13) Catching fire
Author
Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
Author
Series
Seven Realms novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Relates the intertwining fates of former gang leader Han Alister and headstrong Princess Raisa, as Han takes possession of an amulet that once belonged to an evil wizard and Raisa uncovers a conspiracy in the Grey Wolf Court.
15) Crystal storm
Author
Series
Falling kingdoms volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When Mytica is threatened by an epic clash between gods and mortals, Magnus and Cleo are forced to test the strength of their love in the face of a redemption-seeking King Gaius.
16) Brian's hunt
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Two years after having survived a plane crash into the Canadian wilderness, a sixteen-year-old returns to the wild to befriend a wounded dog and hunt a rogue bear.
17) Red kayak
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Living near the water on Maryland's Eastern Shore, thirteen-year-old Brady and his best friends J.T. and Digger become entangled in a tragedy which tests their friendship and their ideas about right and wrong.
18) The rise of nine
Author
Series
Lorien Legacies volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
John, Six, and Seven desperately try to find the rest of the Lorien Nine before it's too late.
Author
Series
Gallagher girls volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Cammie wakes up in a convent high in the Alps, she slowly comes to realize that she's been tortured, the last four months have been erased from her mind, and an ancient terrorist organization is hunting for her.
20) Frozen tides
Author
Series
Falling kingdoms volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
While Cleo sets aside her feelings about Magnus to fulfill her royal duties, a betrayed Lucia teams up with a vengeful Fire god, Jonas becomes a pawn in the hunt for the Kindred, and King Gaius sails across the Silver Sea to forge a dubious alliance.
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