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1) Broken pride
Author
Series
Bravelands volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
For generations, the animals of the African plains have followed a single rule: only kill to survive. But when an unthinkable act of betrayal shatters the peace, the fragile balance between predators and prey will rest in the paws of three unlikely heroes.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1918, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to travel to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
4) Freewater
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After fleeing the plantation where they were enslaved, siblings Ada and Homer discover the secret community of Freewater, and work with freeborn Sanzi to protect their new home from the encroaching dangers of the outside world.
Author
Series
Tristan Strong volume 1
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Tristan is dreading the month he's going to spend on his grandparents' farm. But on his first night there, a sticky creature shows up and steals Eddie's notebook. Tristan chases after it, and a tug-of-war ensues between them underneath a...
7) Harbor me
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"--
8) Hair love
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A little girl's daddy steps in to help her arrange her curly, coiling, wild hair into styles that allow her to be her natural, beautiful self.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 37
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to Africa where they must use magic to save a rhino and her baby from poachers"--
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
As a future conservation zoologist whose mother is the United States Ambassador to Ethiopia, thirteen-year-old Lucy uses her knowledge for survival when she is kidnapped and subsequently escapes.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In this novel-in-verse that picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only Bob, Ruby recounts her life before the circus when her caretaker from the elephant orphanage in Africa comes for a visit.
Ruby's story picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only Bob . Now living in a wildlife sanctuary, Ruby's caretaker from the elephant orphanage in Africa where she grew up is visiting. Seeing him again brings back a flood of memories...
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
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
Ryan Quinn volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Ryan Quinn and his best friend, Danny, stowaway on a plane to Africa in an attempt to save two revolutionary musicians whose identities have been compromised by a traitor within the Emegency Rescue Committee, while Ryan's parents, and ERC operatives, try to track the turncoat back in New York.
15) The crossover
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Thirteen-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
Publisher
LITTLE, BROWN
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When an incident with "King" Alan leads to Donte's arrest and suspension, he knows the only way to get even is to beat the king of the school at his own game: fencing. With the help of a former Olympic fencer, Donte embarks on a journey to carve out a spot on Middlefield Prep's fencing team and maybe learn something about himself along the way.
Author
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"In 1963, thirteen-year-old Arthur is sentenced to community service helping the neighborhood Junk Man after he throws a brick at the old man's head in a moment of rage, but the junk he collects might be more important than he suspects. Inspired by the work of American folk artist James Hampton"--
19) Corduroy
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1968
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A toy bear in a department store wants a number of things, but when a little girl finally buys him he finds what he has always wanted most of all."
20) Small steps
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along.
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