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Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
309 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Any Zhou is used to being what people need him to be: the good kid for his parents, and now grandparents visiting from Shanghai, or the helpful sidekick for his best friend Cindy's rebellious plans and schemes.
So when Cindy decides they should try out for Movement after school on the first day of sixth grade, how can Andy say no? But between feeling out of place with the dancers, being hassled by his new science partner Jameel, and sensing tension...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson. Includes a note from the author's daughter, Helena Estes.
"Wanda wears the same faded blue dress to school every day -- yet she says she has one hundred beautiful dresses at home, "all lined up." The other girls don't believe it, and when Peggy starts a daily game of teasing Wanda about the hundred dresses, everyone joins in. Maddie,...
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
222 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A biracial girl finally gets the chance to meet the African American side of her family"--
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[40] p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Using the alphabet to introduce its contents, this book includes topic such as abolitionists, cowboys, Harlem Renaissance, and Kwanzaa"--Provided by publisher.
47) The winter room
Author
Series
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
103 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young boy growing up on a northern Minnesota farm describes the scenes around him and recounts his old Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost mythological logging past.
49) Room to dream
Author
Series
Front desk volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
While visiting family in China, Mia Tang witnesses some of the big changes the country is going through, which makes her think about the changes in her own life that need to be dealt with.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Pearl Li tries to gain her family's acceptance and save her favorite boba tea shop by selling her crocheted amigurumi dolls.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
170 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the diary account of her journey from Ireland in 1847 and of her work in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Mary reveals a great longing for her family.
53) Wild girl
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
147 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old Lidie leaves Brazil to join her father and brother on a horse ranch in New York, she has a hard time adjusting to her changed circumstances, as does a new horse that has come to the ranch.
54) Key player
Author
Series
Front desk volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
274 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Women's World Cup coming to Southern California, everyone is soccer-crazy--especially Mia Tang. Less exciting, though? The fact that her P.E. teacher wants Mia to get out of the soccer field, too--or fall short of the grade she needs to earn a spot at journalism camp...As Mia aims for her goals, she'll have to face prejudice, discrimination, and her own fears. But if anyone can find a way to win, it's Mia Tang!"--
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
206 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Lise spends the summer on an island in Maine with her self-reliant mother and bright--but oddly mute--younger brother, her formerly safe world is complicated by an aged Indian neighbor, her mother's childhood friend, and a hurricane.
58) Sounder
Author
Pub. Date
1969
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Winner of Newbery Medal, 1970. A young negro boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man.
59) Amina's song
Author
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Feeling pulled between two cultures after a month with family in Pakistan, Amina shares her experiences with Wisconsin classmates through a class assignment and a songwriting project with new student Nico.
Author
Series
Middle school volume 9
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
After winning a school-wide art competition, Rafe sets off to Australia on an adventure, but he soon finds himself facing unwelcoming host-siblings, torturous temperatures, and animals ready to sting him or eat him alive all around.