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1) Mockingbird
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Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
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Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
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740L
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English
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Nine-year-old Julian, who almost died when he was born, believes that he has a special connection to the universe because of that, and he wants to make his two moms and his sister (who turned into a black hole of discontentment when she turned fourteen) happy because he is convinced that soon he will die and travel to the dog star--but now they have moved to Maine and he resolves to also use his "uni-sense" ability to help Mr. X, their neighbor, who...
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English
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"Lily made her dad an important promise before he passed away; that she would...speak her mind at least five times. But speaking up one time, let alone five, is easier said than done. It'll be even harder now that Lily must attend public school for the first time. Fortunately, she meets curling-obsessed Hobart and quiet Dunya at the beginning of sixth grade...But when Lily and her friends are bullied by Ryan and his mean clique, she quickly discovers...
4) Seeing red
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Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
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When twelve-year-old Frederick "Red" Porter's father dies in 1972, his mother wants to sell their automobile repair shop and move her two sons back to Ohio, but Red is desperate to stop the sale even if it means unearthing some dark family secrets in a Virginia rife with racial tensions.
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Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
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A harrowing picture biography of civil-rights activist and Grammy Award-winning South African singer Miriam Makeba.
"Miriam Makeba, a Grammy Award-winning South African singer, rose to fame in the hearts of her people at the pinnacle of apartheid--a brutal system of segregation similar to American Jim Crow laws. Mama Africa, as they called her, raised her voice to help combat these injustices at jazz clubs in Johannesburg; in exile, at a rally beside...
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English
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National Book Award winner Kathryn Erskine presents unique novel about a sickly boy's epic journey through England and Scotland at the height of Medieval times.
Adrian is small for his age, even for a twelve year old. It doesn't help that he's an albino, which makes those he meets wonder if he's an angel or a devil. His father is a bowyer, and all Adrian wants to do is become apprenticed and go off to war as a long bowman. But that's not what...
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Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
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Fourteen-year-old Mike, whose father is a brilliant mathematician but who has no math aptitude himself, spends the summer in rural Pennsylvania with his elderly and eccentric relatives Moo and Poppy, helping the townspeople raise money to adopt a Romanian orphan.
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English
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Award-winner Kathryn Erskine teams up with Keith Henry Brown on this lyrical picture book that celebrates music and Black identity.
Trevor's dad is a DJ, and he always picks the best music-
tunes jivin', beat drivin', high fivin'!
-he's DJ Dap Daddy!
But after his parents split up and Dad moves out, Trevor feels like the pitch doesn't fit between them. Trevor has his own music now-hip-hop-and Dad can't seem to let go of his old soul favorites....
9) All of us
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Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
AD 330L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Friends can help us understand the world and ourselves, opening our eyes to unique cultures and ideas. In a story that travels the globe, it's easy to see how the world is a community made up of people who are more similar than we are different" --