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One and only Ivan stories volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Ivan has been happily living in a wildlife sanctuary, with his friend Ruby next door in the elephant enclosure, frequent visits from his canine friend Bob, and his mate Kinyani by his side. And in the happiest turn of all, Ivan and Kinyani have welcomed a set of twins to their family!
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Joe Oak is used to living on unsteady ground. His mom can’t be depended on as she never stays around long once she gets “the itch,” and now he and his beloved grandmother find themselves without a home. Fortunately, Joe has an outlet in his journals and drawings and takes comfort from the lessons of comic books—superheroes have a lot of “and then, boom” moments, where everything threatens to go bust but somehow they land on their feet....
3) Crazy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
While growing up in the 1960s, Laura uses art to cope with her mother's mental illness.
Author
Language
English
Description
Finding Baba Yaga is a mythic yet timely novel-in-verse by the beloved and prolific New York Times bestselling author and poet Jane Yolen, "the Hans Christian Andersen of America" (Newsweek).
A young woman discovers the power to speak up and take control of her fate-a theme that has never been more timely than it is now…
You think you know this story.
You do not.
A harsh, controlling father. A quiescent mother. A house that feels like anything...
5) One
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tippi and Grace. Grace and Tippi. For them, it's normal to step into the same skirt. To hook their arms around each other for balance. To fall asleep listening to the other breathing. To share. And to keep some things private. The two sixteen-year-old girls have two heads, two hearts, and each has two arms, but at the belly, they join. And they are happy, never wanting to risk the dangerous separation surgery. But the girls' body is beginning to fight...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Raj is happiest flying kites with his best friend, Iqbal. As their kites soar, Raj feels free, like his beloved India soon will be, and he can't wait to celebrate their independence. But when a British lawyer draws a line across a map, splitting India in two, Raj is thrust into a fractured world. With Partition declared, Hindu, Sikh, and Muslim families are torn apart--and Raj's Hindu and Iqbal's Muslim families are among them. Forced...
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Language
English
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Description
The Poet X meets A Very Large Expanse of Sea in a bold novel-in-verse starring a Persian American teen navigating his first crush, his family's post-9/11 dynamics, and the role of language in defining who we are.
"A dazzling story with a whole lot of heart. Read it."-Michael L. Printz Award winner Daniel Nayeri, author of Everything Sad Is Untrue
"Funny on one page, poignant on the next, and often both at the same time, this beautiful tale of a...
10) Mid-Air
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Isaiah grapples with the loss of his best friend as he strives to fit into a world that expects him to toughen up, which leads him on a exploration of identity and vulnerability.
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