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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
1280L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Often revealingly autobiographical, Du Bois explores topics as diverse as the death of his infant son and the politics of Booker T. Washington. In every essay, he shows the consequences of both a political color line and an internal one, as he grapples with the contradictions of being black and being American.--Publisher's description.
3) Monster
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 74
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Part of a two-volume set of works by Zora Neale Hurston, Novels and Stories features the acclaimed 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God-- plus Jonah's Gourd Vine, Moses Man of the Mountain, Seraph on the Suwanee, and selected stories. Includes a newly researched chronology of Hurston's life, detailed notes, and a brief essay on the texts.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Clotee, a twelve-year-old slave on a Virginia plantation in 1859, teaches herself to read and write while fanning the master's son during his daily lessons, and determines to use her secret knowledge to help herself and her friends reach freedom.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 500L
Language
English
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Description
The adventures of Peter, a little boy in the city on a very snowy day. No book has captured the magic and sense of possibility of the first snowfall better than this book. With its universal appeal, the story has become a favorite with millions, as it reveals a child's wonder at a new world, and the hope of capturing and keeping that wonder forever. -- Publisher description.
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross tells the story of an ancestor, Abraham Cross, and his experiences with lawyer Ben Corbett, recounting one man's pursuit of justice in the face of the resurgence of Ku Klux Klan racism and violence in 1906 Eudora, Mississippi.
9) Pet show!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
300L
Language
English
Description
When he can't find his cat to enter in the neighborhood pet show, Archie must do some fast thinking to win a prize.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This novel is a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, the story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope...
12) The glory field
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Follows a family's two hundred forty-one year history, from the capture of an African boy in the 1750s through the lives of his descendants, as their dreams and circumstances lead them away from and back to the small plot of land in South Carolina that they call the Glory Field.
13) Fallen angels
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.
Author
Series
I survived volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
Barry's family tries to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina hits their home in New Orleans. But when Barry's little sister gets terribly sick, they're forced to stay home and wait out the storm. At first, Katrina doesn't seem to be as bad as predicted. But overnight the levees break, and Barry's world is literally torn apart. He's swept away by the floodwaters, away from his family. Can he survive the storm of the century -- alone?
16) Hi, cat!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Archie's day would have been great if he had not started it by greeting the new cat on the block.
20) Beloved
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the...