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1) Ghost
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
Children's Book Battles: 6th and 7th Grade_2023
Children's Book Battles: 6th-8th Grade
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Description
Ghost. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team -- a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. Ghost has a crazy natural talent, but no formal training....
2) Wringer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
3) Fourmile
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious stranger arrives at a boy's rundown Alabama farm home, just as a dangerous situation is unfolding for the twelve-year-old and his widowed mother"--
4) Who the man
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Earl Pryor is much too big for his age, and much too powerful for the anger that rages within him when classmates tease him, the girl he likes disappoints him, or his parents' problems get too real.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Awards: C. S. King Award for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Awards: Caldecott Honor for Quality Illustrations
Children's Awards: Sibert Honor for Nonfiction
Children's New Books: April 2022 Nonfiction
Children's Awards: Caldecott Honor for Quality Illustrations
Children's Awards: Sibert Honor for Nonfiction
Children's New Books: April 2022 Nonfiction
Formats
Description
On May 31 and June 1, 1921, an armed mob looted homes and businesses as Black families fled. The police did nothing to protect Greenwood, and as many as three hundred African Americans were killed, most buried in unmarked graves. Thousands were left homeless. No official investigation occurred until seventy-five years later. Unspeakable helps young readers understand the events of the Tulsa, Oklahoma race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial...
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the 1870s, Benjamin Franklin Orville, a boy from a wealthy Baltimore family, is kidnapped and forced to work on an oyster dredger whose captain has no qualms about murdering any crewman who fails to meet his demands.
9) Coyote queen
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
"Twelve-year-old Fud feels trapped. She lives a precarious life in a cramped trailer with her mom and her mom's alcoholic ex-boxer boyfriend, Larry. Fud can see it's only a matter of time until Larry explodes again, even if her mom keeps on making excuses for his behavior. If only Fud could find a way to be as free as the coyotes roaming the Wyoming countryside: strong, smart, independent, and always willing to protect their own. When Larry comes...
10) Franny Parker
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Through a hot, dry Oklahoma summer, twelve-year-old Franny tends wild animals brought by her neighbors, hears gossip during a weekly quilting bee, befriends a new neighbor who has some big secrets, and learns to hope.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Told from two viewpoints, sixth-graders Karina and Chris use social media to stand up to racism in Houston, Texas, after an attack puts Karina's Indian American grandfather in the hospital.
12) Colombia
Author
Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses Colombia's history, how the drug trade has affected the politics of the country since the mid-1900s, and the efforts taken to suppress the drug rings since that time.
14) Night on fire
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When thirteen-year-old Billie Sims learns that the Freedom Riders, a civil rights group protesting segregation on buses in the summer of 1961, will be traveling through Anniston, Alabama, she thinks change could be coming to her stubborn town. But what starts as angry grumbles soon turns to brutality, and Billie is forced to reconsider her own views"--
Author
Publisher
Disney * Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
"Ever since her father died in a terrible accident, Maddy Gaines has worried a lot. She calls the police so often that she's on a first-name basis with the Sheriff. When a new boy moves to town, Maddy is convinced that he's not who he says he is-he's a boy who went missing six months ago. Maddy, her dog, her best friend, and her stepdad team up to see what he's hiding"--
Author
Series
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A brief introduction into the violent Tulsa Race Massacre that occurred on May 31-June 1 1921. Additional features include detailed captions and sidebars, critical-thinking questions, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research." -- Amazon.com
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