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4) Sounder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and through his relationship with his devoted dog Sounder.
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
As they look forward to the New York City Marathon in which their friend Mr. B. will run, the Vanderbeeker children learn that one of their good friends is homeless.
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When catastrophe strikes their beloved upstairs neighbors, the Vanderbeeker children set out to build the best, most magical healing garden in Harlem--in spite of a locked fence, thistles and trash, and the conflicting plans of a wealthy real estate developer"--
Author
Series
Zoe Washington stories volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows fourteen-year-old Zoe and her recently exonerated father as they build their new relationship and work to open a restaurant together.
9) Freewater
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for her life, Homer knows there's no turning back, not with the overseer on their trail. Through tangled vines, secret doorways, and over a sky bridge, the two find a secret community called Freewater, deep in the swamp. In this society created by formerly enslaved...
Author
Series
Ryan Hart novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The Hart family of Portland, Oregon, faces many setbacks after Ryan's father loses his job, but no matter what, Ryan tries to bring sunshine to her loved ones.
Author
Series
Ali Cross volume 3
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Ali Cross and his friends chase police cases while Ali is caught up in a debate about policing"--
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Vanderbeeker children, ages six to thirteen, race to help save their mother's baking business from closure after it fails an inspection.--
Author
Series
Nic Blake and the Remarkables volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's not easy being a Remarkable in the Unremarkable world. Some things are cool--like getting a pet hellhound for your twelfth birthday. Others, not so much--like not being trusted to learn magic because you might use it to take revenge on an annoying neighbor. All Nic Blake wants is to be a powerful Manifestor like her dad. But before she has a chance to convince him to teach her the gift, a series of shocking revelations and terrifying events...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1864, after her father and brother are sold to another owner, nine-year-old Addy Walker and her mother escape from their cruel life of slavery in North Carolina to freedom in Philadelphia.
17) Ophie's ghosts
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discovering her ability to see ghosts when a cruel act ends her father's life and forces her to move in with relatives in 1920s Pittsburgh, young Ophelia forges a helpful bond with a spirit whose own life ended suddenly and unjustly.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Addy and Harriet feud over everything, including fund-raising plans to help the families of freed slaves, but tragedy finally forces them to stop fighting and work together.
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