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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Marie-Grace discovers a baby outside her father's office and a slave catcher claims the boy, she helps place him at a white orphanage where she becomes a volunteer, as her friendship with C?ecile grows and she hears rumors of yellow fever.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Ruby, a Black girl who loves studying insects, accidentally captures an alien bug, but when the creature escapes and starts wreaking havoc around the neighborhood, it is up to Ruby and her rag-tag group of friends to find this new invasive species before the feds do.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.
10) Bud, not Buddy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A 10-year-old boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Depression, escapes a foster home and sets out to find the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway.
11) Fast pitch
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Shenice Lockwood dreams of leading the Fulton Firebirds to the U12 softball regional championship. But Shenice's focus gets shaken when her great-uncle Jack reveals that a career-ending-and family-name-ruining-crime may have been a setup. It's up to Shenice to discover the truth about her family's past-and fast-before secrets take the Firebirds out of the game forever--
14) Tippy Lemmey
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Pbks
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"In Kenny Wright's active imagination he's a world famous superhero, but in the real world he's a sixth grade "Grandma's Boy" whose struggles to fit in at his Washington D.C. inner city school will put his grades and family loyalty to the test"--
16) Show way
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
Author
Series
Mia Mayhem volume 1
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Mia Macarooney is delighted to learn she is from a family of superheroes, but her acceptance into the Program for In Training Superheroes requires she take a placement exam.
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