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1) While the world watched: a Birmingham bombing survivor comes of age during the civil rights movement
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
On September 15, 1963, a Klan-planted bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Fourteen-year-old Carolyn Maull was just a few feet away when the bomb exploded, killing four of her friends in the girl's rest room she had just exited. It was one of the seminal moments in the Civil Rights movement, a sad day in American history . . . and the turning point in a young girl's life. While the World Watched is a poignant and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastati
Author
Series
DC icons volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
"Diana, Princess of the Amazons, journeys to the World of Man in this coming-of-age young adult story"--
Author
Series
I survived volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
No grizzly has ever killed a human in Glacier National Park before . . . until tonight. Melody Vega and her family come to Glacier every year. Mel loves it here-the beautiful landscapes and wildlife make it easy to forget her troubles. But this year is different. With Mom gone, every moment in the park is a reminder of the past. Then Mel comes face-to-face with the mighty grizzly. Now her only thought is one of survival. Mel will soon be part of one...
7) Troublemaker
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
On the first night of rioting in the wake of the Rodney King verdict, Jordan's father leaves to check on the family store, spurring twelve-year-old Jordan and his friends to embark on a dangerous journey through South Central and Koreatown to come to his aid, encountering the racism within their community as they go.
8) Release
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Adam Thorn doesn't know it yet, but today will change his life. Between his religious family, a deeply unpleasant ultimatum from his boss, and his own unrequited love for his sort-of ex, Enzo, it seems as though Adam's life is falling apart. At least he has two people to keep him sane: his new boyfriend (he does love Linus, doesn't he?) and his best friend, Angela. But all day long, old memories and new heartaches come crashing together, throwing...
Author
Language
English
Description
A deliciously funny, sharply observed novel of family, wealth, love and tennis, this zeitgeisty debut follows three women in an old Brooklyn Heights clan: one who was born with money, one who married into it, and one, the millennial conscience of the family, who wants to give it all away. Darley, the eldest daughter in the Stockton family, has never worried about money. The product of generational wealth and capitalist success, Darley renounced her...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Bill Geist reflects on his coming of age in the American heartland of the Midwest and traces his evolution as a man and a writer, in the summers between high school and college, before he went off to Vietnam and the country went to Hell."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Boyd Mills Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"A young woman, burdened by a terrible secret, must decide to reveal the secret and betray her best friend or to keep the secret and send her friend to prison in this coming-of-age story set in Missouri in 1906." - from t.p. verso.
14) Things that grow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
The Boston Globe Love Letters columnist and author of Chemistry Lessons follows the experiences of a girl who learns about life and love while on a road trip to scatter her late grandmother's ashes in favorite gardens.
15) Swimmer
Author
Publisher
Paws IV Pub
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
The story of the Chinook salmon--Swimmer's journey over 10,000 miles illustrates the cycles of life for the salmon and the girl Katya who is coming of age.
Author
Series
Diary of an awesome friendly kid volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
From the imagination of Rowley Jefferson comes an adventure of epic proportions. Join Roland and his best friend, Garg the Barbarian, as they leave the safety of their village and embark on a quest to save Roland's mom from the White Warlock. Will our heroes survive? Find out in Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure! --
18) The great Gatsby
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A True classic of twentieth-century literature, this edition of The Great Gatsby has been updated by Fitzgerald scholar James L. W. West 3 to include the author's final revision and features a note on the composition and text, a personal foreword by Fitzgerald's granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan, and a new introduction by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.
The Great Gatsby, F. Scoot Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement...
19) Breathing room
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1940, thirteen-year-old Evvy Hoffmeister and her newfound friends struggle to get well at Loon Lake Sanatorium, where they are being treated for tuberculosis.
Author
Language
English
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Description
In this 1950s coming-of-age story, two sisters are left reeling when their father is accused of being a member of the Communist party. Bertha finds a haven with the All-American Girls Baseball League. Flossie finds herself in an unexpected friendship. Both are about to discover how much good there is in the world-even in the hardest of circumstances--
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