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21) Unlocked
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
While trying to impress a beautiful, unattainable classmate, fourteen-year-old Andy discovers that a fellow social outcast may be planning an act of school violence.
22) Punching the Air
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Appears on list
Formats
Description
From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds, Walter Dean Myers, and Elizabeth Acevedo.
The story that I thought
was my life
didn’t start on the day
I was born
Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he’s seen as disruptive...
23) Audacity
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early 20th century in New York."--
24) El crossover
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In free verse, evokes the voice of Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, a book-loving writer, feminist, and abolitionist who courageously fought injustice in nineteenth-century Cuba. Includes historical notes, excerpts from her writings, biographical information, and source notes.
27) The wild book
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In early twentieth-century Cuba, bandits terrorize the countryside as a young farm girl struggles with dyslexia. Based on the life of the author's grandmother.
28) Sold
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
29) Orchards
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Winner of the APALA Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature
An ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book. After a classmate commits suicide, Kana Goldberg—a half-Japanese, half-Jewish American—wonders who is responsible. She and her cliquey friends said some thoughtless things to the girl. Hoping that Kana will reflect on her behavior, her parents pack her off to her mother's ancestral home in Japan for the summer. There...
An ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book. After a classmate commits suicide, Kana Goldberg—a half-Japanese, half-Jewish American—wonders who is responsible. She and her cliquey friends said some thoughtless things to the girl. Hoping that Kana will reflect on her behavior, her parents pack her off to her mother's ancestral home in Japan for the summer. There...