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Series
Under the never sky trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Aria and Perry, two teens from radically different societies--one highly advanced, the other primitive--hate being dependent on one another until they overcome their prejudices and fall in love, knowing they can't stay together"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Zľie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
3) Yellow line
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The line between Native and White begins to blur for Vince as he finds himself falling for a First Nations girl.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family, and Lavinia may have to do the unimaginable to save herself and everyone she loves. Five centuries later, a pair of red shoes seal to Rosella Oliva's feet, making her dance uncontrollably. They draw her toward a boy who knows the dancing fever's history...
5) Internment
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"A terrifying, futuristic United States where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence"--
"Rebellions are built on hope. It's been one year since the census landed seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her family on the registry. Five months since the attorney general argued that Korematsu v. United States established precedent for relocation of citizens during...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
It’s 2002, a year after 9/11. It’s an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for someone like Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who’s tired of being stereotyped. Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. She’s tired of the rude stares, the degrading comments—even the physical violence—she endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every day. So she’s built up protective...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a girl she had met at an innercity church is murdered, fifteen-year-old Macey channels her grief into a school project that leads her to uncover prejudice she had not imagined in her grandparents and their wealthy Connecticut community.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the political strife and famine of the 1980's, two Ethiopian girls, one Christian and the other Jewish and blind, struggle to overcome many difficulties, including their prejudices about each other, as they make the dangerous journey out of Ethiopia.
9) Hooper
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For Adam Reed, basketball is a passport. Adam's basketball skills have taken him from an orphanage in Poland to a loving adoptive mother in Minnesota. When he's tapped to play on a select AAU team along with some of the best players in the state, it just confirms that basketball is his ticket to the good life: to new friendships, to the girl of his dreams, to a better future. But life is more complicated off the court. When an incident with the police...
10) Slam!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Claire is unable to face her fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to fit in with the popular crowd on Hackett Island, and her mother's alcoholism until the enigmatic Lani Garver helps her get control of her life at the risk of his own. The close-knit residents of Hackett Island have never seen anyone quite like Lani Garver. Everything about this new kid is a mystery: Where does Lani come from? How...
12) We are not free
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.
For fourteen-year-old budding artist...
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cassie, no longer a feisty eight-year-old, is a young woman now, searching for her place in the world. This journey takes fer from the Logan family home in Toledo to California and Colorado, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, home to Mississippi to be part of the voter registration drive of the 1960s. She is witness to the no-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north, the relentless racism of postwar America, and the rise...
14) Dig
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.
15) Generation dead
Author
Series
Generation Dead volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When dead teenagers who have come back to life start showing up at her high school, Phoebe, a goth girl, becomes interested in the phenomenon, and when she starts dating a "living impaired" boy, they encounter prejudice, fear, and hatred.
16) The Sky blues
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sky, openly gay but under the radar, decides to make a splashy Promposal - but his plans are leaked by an anonymous, homophobic hacker. This moves his classmates to help him expose the perpetrator.
17) Kiss of life
Author
Series
Generation Dead volume 2
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Adam's return from death has made Phoebe's love life even weirder. Now she has to choose between two zombie boys. She knows how Adam needs her, but she still has feelings for Tommy. Meanwhile, the zombie population of Oakville, Conn., continues to grow. As their numbers rise, the undead community is becoming increasingly divided.
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 11
Publisher
Atheneum Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eighth-grader Alice has lots of questions about sex, relationships, prejudice, and change.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1996, c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
As her mother battles a citizens' group that wants to ban all "anti-Christian" literature from the public library, Carla faces her own battle of torn loyalties when her boyfriend starts persecuting the homosexual owners of an antiques shop.
20) Guantanamo boy
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2011, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Khalid, a fifteen-year-old Muslim boy from England, is kidnapped while on holiday with his family in Pakistan and struggles to understand when he is taken to Guantanamo Bay and held without charge.
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