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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stuck in Group A with the kids who can't read, upbeat first grader Lupe Lopez is made fun of by a rival but refuses to let that stop her from becoming a reading rock star.
3) Bluefish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Travis, living in cramped quarters with his alcoholic grandfather, longs for his old life in the country, and struggles in school to hide the fact that he cannot read, but a persistent teacher and a special girl open his eyes to a new world.
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ruby wants to be a teacher, but after her father's death in a logging accident she must quit school to care for her ten brothers and sisters, until a chance meeting with a lonely old blind woman transforms her life.
5) Miles' song
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1851 in South Carolina, Miles, a twelve-year-old slave, is sent to a "breaking ground" to have his spirit broken but endures the experience by secretly taking reading lessons from another slave.
13) Time capsule
Author
Publisher
Rigby
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
14) just Juice
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Realizing that her father's lack of work has endangered her family, nine-year-old Juice decides that she must return to school and learn to read in order to help her chances of surviving and keeping their house.
16) The perfect pet
Author
Publisher
Ribgy
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1859 twelve year old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.
19) Take me there
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After violating his parole, seventeen-year-old, semi-literate Dylan Dawson drives from California to Texas to try to see his father on death row in an attempt to figure out how his own life has gone so terribly awry.
20) Wolf!
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A wolf learns to read in order to impress a group of farmyard animals he has met.
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