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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 26
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
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Description
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father, a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man, has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey - first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration...
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English
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast. In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys' descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated,...
4) Family tree
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Language
English
Description
When a white couple gives birth to a baby with distinctly black features, a family is thrown into turmoil.
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Language
English
Description
Half Cheyenne and half white, Yakima Henry is used to receiving disrespect. But he won't tolerate incivility being shown to a lady, especially to widow Beth Holgate. She came to Red Hill to wed again, but her new husband is making her life hell. And Yakima is forced to help her, creating more enemies in town. But he has bigger problems - like his employer, voluptuous Rae Roman, who's hell-bent on ruining all the men around her and has the crooked...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.
Author
Series
Shadow volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A rich, dark fantasy of destiny, death, and the supernatural world hiding beneath the surface. Nettie Lonesome lives in a land of hard people and hard ground dusted with sand. She's a half-breed who dresses like a boy, raised by folks who don't call her a slave but use her like one. She knows of nothing else. That is, until the day a stranger attacks her. When nothing, not even a sickle to the eye can stop him, Nettie stabs him through the heart...
10) Miracle's boys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother Charlie changes after Charlie is released from a detention home and blames Lafayette for the death of their mother.
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Language
English
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"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
"The Eternal Wonder tells the coming-of-age story of Randolph Colfax (Rann for short), an extraordinarily gifted young man whose search for meaning and purpose leads him to New York, England, Paris, a mission patrolling the DMZ in Korea that will change his life forever--and, ultimately, to love. Rann falls for the beautiful and equally brilliant Stephanie Kung, who lives in Paris with her Chinese father and has no contact with her American mother,...
13) Orchards
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Sent to Japan for the summer after an eighth-grade classmate's suicide, half-Japanese, half-Jewish Kana Goldberg tries to fit in with relatives she barely knows and reflects on the guilt she feels over the tragedy back home.
14) Tiger Woods
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the talents, successful career, and ethnic background of the golfer Tiger Woods.
15) The elvenbane
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
1993.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
17) Plain City
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Buhlaire, a "mixed" child who feels out of place in her community, struggles to unearth her past and her family history as she gradually discovers more and more about her long-missing father.
Author
Series
What We Saw At Night volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
After glimpsing an older man in a room with a dead girl, sixteen-year-old Allie, who has a life-threatening allergy to sunlight, discovers she is the lone key to stopping a serial killer.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
As the world now knows, Barack Obama has made history as our first African-American president. With black-and-white illustrations throughout, this biography is perfect for primary graders looking for a longer, fuller life story than is found in the author's bestselling beginning reader Barack Obama: United States President.