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2) Witness
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A serious of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
7) Saturnalia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six years earlier, leads a productive and contented life as a printer's apprentice but is increasingly anxious to make some connection with his Indian past.
10) Light years
Author
Series
Light years (Kass Morgan) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. Shes tired of the rude stares, the degrading commentseven the physical violenceshe endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every day. So shes built up protective walls and refuses to let anyone close enough to hurt her. Instead, she drowns her frustrations in music and spends her afternoons break-dancing with her brother
12) Archon
Author
Series
Psi chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Twelve-year-old Taemon struggles with the fallout from his role in ending the city of Deliverance's ability to use telekinetic powers and embarks on a dangerous journey with Amma to find his missing father in a Republik.
13) The last human
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
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.
15) Borderline
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Despite the strained relationship between them, teenaged Sami Sabiri risks his life to uncover the truth when his father is implicated in a terrorist plot.
16) Trial by fire
Author
Series
Description
"Riley Donovan is the new kid in town. When her next-door neighbor's barn catches on fire, with him inside it, Riley helps save him. But rather than being hailed a hero, Riley finds herself a target of harassment. When her neighbor is accused of starting the fire, Riley believes he is innocent and is determined to prove it--even if it means making powerful enemies."--
17) Circle of fire
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In 1958, Mendy puts herself in danger when she discovers that the Ku Klux Klan is planning to bomb the Highlander Folk School in order to disrupt a visit from Mendy's hero, Eleanor Roosevelt.
18) The shuteyes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
After being carried off to a planet where sleeping is a crime, Chester Dumbello realizes how much he misses his old life and his unusual, dream-interpreting mother.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Description
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.
20) Crossing Jordan
Author
Series
Neighborhood series (Adrian Fogelin) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
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.