Sharon M Draper
Author
Series
Jericho trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
A two-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, Sharon Draper has penned numerous modern classics of youth literature. The third installment of her acclaimed Jericho trilogy, Just Another Hero returns to familiar territory for a new spin on her indelible characters. Arielle Gresham is faced with numerous problems at home, and a rash of petty crimes has beset her school. After alienating just about everyone who could help her, Arielle makes a fateful...
Author
Series
Out of my mind volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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"Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there's no delete button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school -- but no one knows it. Most people -- her teachers and doctors included -- don't think she's capable of learning, and up until recently her school days consisted of listening to the same preschool-level alphabet lessons again and again and again. If only she could...
3) Blended
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.
Author
Series
Out of my mind volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Because she loves horses but is scared of them, Melody wants to conquer her fears, so she hopes a summer camp will be the place to welcome someone with cerebral palsy who wants to learn to ride.
Author
Series
Hazelwood High trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Teenage Gerald, who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, faces the prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved.
Author
Series
Hazelwood High trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recovering from the recent suicide of her ex-boyfriend, senior class president Keisha Montgomery finds herself attracted to a dangerous, older man.
Author
Series
Hazelwood High trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.
10) Panic
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
As rehearsals begin for the ballet version of Peter Pan, the teenaged members of an Ohio dance troupe lose their focus when one of their own goes missing.
11) Copper sun
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
12) Double Dutch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three eighth-grade friends, preparing for the International Double Dutch Championship jump rope competition in their home town of Cincinnati, Ohio, cope with Randy's missing father, Delia's inability to read, and Yo Yo's encounter with the class bullies.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover that they attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet, but are harrassed by a gang whose members object to their interracial dating.
Author
Series
Jericho trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
A high school junior and his cousin suffer the ramifications of joining what seems to be a "reputable" school club.
15) November blues
Author
Series
Jericho trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
A teenaged boy's death in a hazing accident has lasting effects on his pregnant girlfriend and his guilt-ridden cousin, who gives up a promising music career to play football during his senior year in high school.
Author
Series
(Sharon Mills).Clubhouse mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Ziggy and the other members of the Black Dinosaurs go to space camp where they learn about the space program and speculate about the existence of extraterrestrial beings.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
While in Florida to celebrate her Grammy's birthday, nine-and-a-half-year-old Sassy worries that an approaching hurricane will ruin not only the party, but a nest of sea turtle eggs, as well. Includes facts about hurricanes and sea turtles.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Because she has a terrible singing voice, fourth-grader Sassy must use a different talent to be part of her school's musical performance on the importance of saving our planet. Includes "Fifteen ways that you can help save our earth."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1957, Sylvia Patterson's life--that of a normal African American teenager--is disrupted by the impending integration of Little Rock's Central High when she is selected to be one of the first black students to attend the previously all white school. Includes author's note and related websites.