Virginia Euwer Wolff
Author
Series
Make lemonade trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it--an occasion to rise to.
Author
Series
Make lemonade trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
In order to earn money for college, fourteen-year-old LaVaughn babysits for a teenage mother.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old learning-disabled Nick struggles to endure a life in which the other kids make fun of him, he has to take special classes, his date for the prom makes an excuse not to go with him, and he is haunted by the memory of his older sister who drowned while he was watching.
5) Bat 6
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.
Author
Publisher
Bowen Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
High-school-senior LaVaughn's perceptions and expectations of her life begin to change as she learns about the many unexpected connections between the people she loves best.
Author
Publisher
H. Holt and Company
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Presents the diary entries of a young woman living in the Jewish ghetto of Theresienstadt, a model concentration camp designed by the Nazis to show to the Red Cross and other humanitarian organizations.