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41) Light years
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Light years (Kass Morgan) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
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After centuries of exclusivity, the Quatra Fleet Academy finally accepts students from the settler planets, forcing four teenagers from different backgrounds, with different ambitions, motives, and missions, to work together to outmaneuver a mysterious alien enemy.
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"Kei Miller explores the silences in which so many important things are kept. Miller examines the experience of discrimination through this silence and what it means to breach it - 'to risk words, to risk truth; and through the body and the histories those bodies inherit' the crimes that haunt them, and how the meanings of our bodies can shift as we move through the world, variously assuming privilege or victimhood. Through letters to James Baldwin,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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"Our communities are stronger when we come together and take time to understand, support, and celebrate one another. In Celebrating All Appearances, readers will learn the importance of acceptance and empathy as they relate to appearances, both chosen and genetic, and how to practice these in their daily lives. Social and emotional learning (SEL) concepts support growth mindset throughout, while "Grow with Goals" activities and "Mindfulness Exercises"...
45) Ruby Lee & Me
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
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Everything's changing for Sarah Beth Willis. After Robin's tragic accident, everyone seems different somehow. Days on the farm aren't the same, and the simple fun of riding a bike or playing outside can be scary. And now, Sarah will be attending a different school.There's talk in town about the new sixth-grade teacher at Shady Creek School. Word is spreading quickly - Mrs. Smyre is like no other teacher anyone has ever seen around these parts....
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"Khalil, a young Black boy, starts at a new school and is excited to join the basketball team--until he begins to experience and witnesses subtle and not-so-subtle forms of racism among his new teammates. Khalil struggles with how to react and stand up for himself and others against his new friends who have taken him in"--Amazon
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"This is the story of sixteen-year-old Khadija, who flees her home in a stolen hot air balloon to escape life in an arranged marriage. Khadija loves the ancient tales of jinn and renegade princesses... but real life is closing in and her destiny as a ghadæan girl is marriage and boredom. When her father arranges a match, Khadija leaps at the chance of escape - a rogue hot air balloon fighting its ropes for the sky. Soon, Khadija is flying over the...
48) Perfect
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Flawed (Cecelia Ahern) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
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Since Celestine, eighteen, was declared a public menace, she has been on the run with Carrick, the one person she can trust, but she has a secret that may save all of those branded Flawed.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
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"Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family, and Lavinia may have to do the unimaginable to save herself and everyone she loves. Five centuries later, a pair of red shoes seal to Rosella Oliva’s feet, making her dance uncontrollably. They draw her toward a boy who knows the dancing fever’s history...
50) The last human
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
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After machines take control of Earth, following the extinction of humans, twelve-year-old robot XR 935A confronts its prejudices about humans and begins to reconsider its own existence within robot society after discovering and befriending a twelve-year-old human girl.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Westly is as ready as his caterpillar friends to keep their beautiful territory free of lesser creatures as they await the day they turn into delicate butterflies, but when he finally emerges from his crysalis, he discovers he is vastly different from his friends.
52) Eagle song
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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After moving from a Mohawk reservation to Brooklyn, New York, eight-year-old Danny Bigtree encounters stereotypes about his Native American heritage.
53) Crossing Jordan
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Neighborhood series (Adrian Fogelin) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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Twelve-year-old Cass meets her new African-American neighbor, Jemmie, and despite their families' prejudices, they build a strong friendship around their mutual talent for running and a pact to read Jane Eyre.
56) Dog lost
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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After living happily in a warm home with an eleven-year-old boy, a pit bull terrier is forced to survive on the streets, where its brave deeds surprise many residents who dislike or fear pit bulls.
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What if our interactions with those different from us are strongly influenced by things happening below the radar of awareness, hidden even from ourselves? Deep Diversity explores this question and argues that "us vs. them" is an unfortunate but normal part of the human experience due to reasons of both nature and nurture. To really work through issues of racial difference and foster greater levels of fairness and inclusion, argues Shakil Choudhury,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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Sixteen-year-old Claire is unable to face her fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to fit in with the popular crowd on Hackett Island, and her mother's alcoholism until the enigmatic Lani Garver helps her get control of her life at the risk of his own.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
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When a racist incident rocks her small Michigan town, eleven-year-old Lekha must decide whether to speak up or stay silent, even as she struggles to navigate her life at home, where she can be herself, and at school, where she is teased about her culture.