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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless--an outcast--because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her.
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After sneaking out against her mother's wishes, Artie Irvin spots a massive wolf--then watches it don a bathrobe and transform into her mom. Thrilled to discover she comes from a line of werewolves, Artie asks her mom to share everything--including the story of Artie's late father. Her mom reluctantly agrees. And to help Artie figure out her wolflike abilities, she recruits some old family friends. Artie thrives in her new community and even develops...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Denise Farber, her mom, and her stepfather are moving back to New Orleans, into the Argonne house, which is over 150 years old, and really showing its age, but which her mother plans to turn into a bed-and-breakfast--but old houses have histories, and sometimes ghosts, and a mysterious old comic book that Denise finds in the attic may hold the answer to a crime and the terrifying things that keep happening in what she thinks of...
Author
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"They Called Us Enemy is Takei's firsthand account of years behind barbed wire, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future."--Publisher.
7) Ichiro
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ichiro's mother decides they should move from New York City to his grandfather's home in Japan after Ichiro's American father is killed in Iraq. As his grandfather shows him significant places in Japan and he experiences a supernatural encounter with gods and creatures of Japanese mythology, Ichiro reflects on nature, humanity, the divine, and war.
Author
Series
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of Abdo
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Sensei Lawrence tells his students about his senior year of high school when the new kid makes moves on the girl that broke his heart, and he vows to settle the score and win back her heart"--
12) Spring
Author
Series
Miki Falls volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Miki Yoshida has decided that her final year of high school is going to be her best. Then, Hiroo Sakurai shows up, with a secret that Miki desperately wants to know. Then she starts to fall for him and nothing, even Hiro himself, can stop her.
14) Winter
Author
Series
Miki Falls volume 4
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As Miki and Hiro trek through the frozen north they wonder if their love can survive the freezing conditions and frightening forces attempting to tear them apart.
16) Autumn
Author
Series
Miki Falls volume 3
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It's autumn, and Miki Yoshida's life is finally settling into a routine, She and Hiro are spending all their time together, and Miki couldn't be happier, There's just one problem. Hiro's breaking all the rules to be with Miki, and the more time they spend together - and the more they fall for each other - the more there is at stake. With jealous Reika on the prowl, Miki knows they can't hide forever.
18) Drama
Author
Publisher
Graphix/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Callie loves theater. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of Moon Over Mississippi, she's a terrible singer. Instead she's the set designer for the stage crew, and this year she's determined to create a set worthy of Broadway on a middle-school budget. But how can she, when she doesn't know much about carpentry, ticket sales are down, and the crew members are having trouble working together? Not to mention the onstage...
Author
Publisher
NBM Comics Lit
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Grocers are being murdered in the dead of night by someone grabbing their axes and hacking them right in their own beds. The man is never found for sure, but speculations abound. The text contains graphic descriptions of violence.
20) Superman versus the Ku Klux Klan: the true story of how the iconic superhero battled the men of hate
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
This book tells a group of intertwining stories that culminate in the historic 1947 collision of the Superman Radio Show and the Ku Klux Klan.