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1) Rumble Fish
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1975]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
122 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A junior high school boy idolizes his older brother, the coolest, toughest guy in the neighborhood, and wants to be just like him.
2) Seedfolks
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
69 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Rejecting the police ruling that her boyfriend Chris, who is one of the few Black kids in town, has run away, Jessie begins writing him a letter describing her search for answers and the backlash from their community.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jake is just starting to enjoy life as his school's first openly gay kid. While his family and friends are accepting and supportive, the same can't be said about everyone in their small town. When Jake's dad hangs a comically large pride flag in their front yard in an overblown show of love, the mayor begins to receive complaints. A few people are even concerned the flag will lead to something truly outlandish: a pride parade. Except Jake doesn't...
6) Like Home
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
403 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Chinelo, 'Nelo' as her best friend Kate calls her, is all about her neighborhood Ginger East, but it isn't what it used to be though. After a deadly incident at the local arcade, most of her friends' families moved away. Kate, whose family owns the local corner store, is still there and as long as that stays constant, Nelo's good. When the store is vandalized the police and the media get involved, and more of the outside world descends upon Ginger...
Author
Series
Clown in a Cornfield volume 1
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Quinn and her father move to a tiny town with a weird clown for a mascot, they're looking for a fresh start. But ever since the town's only factory shut down, Kettle Springs has been cracked in half.
Most of the town believes that the kids are to blame. After all, the juniors and seniors at Kettle Springs High are the ones who threw the party where Arthur Hill's daughter died. They're the ones who set the abandoned factory on fire and who spend...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1941, and tensions are rising in the United States as the Second World War rages in Europe. Eleven-year-old Gusta's life, like the world around her, is about to change. Her father, a foreign-born labor organizer, has had to flee the country, and Gusta has been sent to live in an orphanage run by her grandmother. Nearsighted, snaggletoothed Gusta arrives in Springdale, Maine, lugging her one precious possession: a beloved old French horn, her...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
401 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Pip is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her. But she will have to break that promise when someone she knows goes missing. Jamie Reynolds has disappeared, on the very same night the town hosted a memorial for the sixth-year anniversary of the deaths of Andie Bell...