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1) Saturnalia
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six years earlier, leads a productive and contented life as a printer's apprentice but is increasingly anxious to make some connection with his Indian past.
Author
Series
Shiloh quartet volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor, Judd Travers, change his mean ways, even though their West Virginia community continues to expect the worst of him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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 walls and refuses...
5) Trouble
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Henry, wishing to honor his brother Franklin's dying wish, sets out to hike Maine's Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog. But fate adds another companion--the Cambodian refugee accused of fatally injuring Franklin--and reveals troubles that predate the accident.
6) Spotty
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having been excluded from a party because his spots make him different, Spotty the bunny runs away from home.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 5
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Sadistically teased by two white boys in 1940's rural Mississippi, a black youth severely injures one of the boys with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.
Author
Language
English
Description
From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel. North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she finds herself serving a three-year stint in the North Carolina Women's Correctional Center. Her dream of a career in art is put on hold-until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will see her released immediately. Her assignment: restore an old post...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Suspicious of sixteen-year-old Marnie, a newcomer to their village, the residents accuse her of witchcraft when she discovers that the village madman is not crazy but deaf and she begins to communicate with him through hand gestures.
11) Prelude to war
Author
Series
American adventure volume 35
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
12) Best of all
Author
Publisher
Crossway Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In a village where everyone has been carved from wood, an uppity Miss Bess Stovall claims her maple "ancestree" is superior until the day a shunned willow fellow saves her life.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 6
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year-old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers and then set off across the raging Rosa Lee River.
Author
Series
Faithgirlz!Girls of 622 Harbor View volume 3
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
At her aunt's request, Carlie befriends a fun but difficult new girl in town, but while she would also like to spend time with the girls in her club, she is concerned that Chelsea's attitudes would only cause trouble there.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 7
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In Mississippi in the early 1900s ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares their well water with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.
17) Land of promise
Author
Series
Days of Laura Ingalls Wilder volume 8
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Laura and the other inhabitants of Mansfield, Missouri, face the problems of racism and a clash of cultures when Chinese immigrants try to settle in the pioneer community.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1865, Addy finds inspiration from a new friend and chooses a birthday for herself as she and her parents try to shape a new life of freedom in Philadelphia despite the racial prejudice they encounter throughout the city.
20) Kit's home run
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1933 Cincinnati, Kit is an enthusiastic baseball player whose home run slide has surprising consequences. Includes historical notes on major league baseball and the Cincinnati Reds in the 1930s and provides ideas for decorating a baseball cap.
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