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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Mark and Bryon have been like brothers since childhood, but now, as their involvement with girls, gangs, and drugs increases, their relationship seems to gradually disintegrate.
2) Rumble fish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
A junior high school boy idolizes his older brother, the coolest, toughest guy in the neighborhood, and wants to be just like him.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Alternate chapters follow teenagers Todd and Viola, who become separated as the Mayor's oppressive new regime takes power in New Prentisstown, a space colony where residents can hear each other's thoughts.
9) Hard times
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
Thomas Gradgrind is an eminently practical man who believes in facts and statistics and has brought up his two children, Louisa and Tom, accordingly, thoroughly suppressing the imaginative sides of their nature. They are raised in ignorance of love and affection, and the consequences are devastating. No other work of Dickens presents so harsh an indictment against the attitude of life he associated with Utilitarianism. With savage bitterness Dickens...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
13) Meet John Doe
Language
English
Description
Fired from her job, reporter Ann Mitchell invents a fictitious "John Doe" to write an idealistic letter threatening suicide in protest of social ills. The public response to the letter is so enormous that Ann's newspaper rehires her and hires an out-of-work baseball player, John Willoughby to play the part of John Doe. He enters into the hoax for the money but ultimately rebels against the evil, self-serving despots who attempt to further their own...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
Every generation inherits the problems created by the ones before them, but no generation will inherit as many problems--as many crises--as the current generation of young people. From the devastations of climate change to the horrors of gun violence, from rampant transphobia to the widening wealth gap, from the lack of health care to the lack of housing, the challenges facing the next generation can feel insurmountable. But change, even revolution,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1952.
Language
English
Description
"Candida centers on a romantic triangle and parodies courtly love and the domestic drama of Ibsen. It abounds with classical allusions, the fervor of a religious revival, and poetic inspiration and aspirations."--Publisher's description.
Series
Publisher
University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]-
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Social Problems: Continuity and Change is a realistic but motivating look at the many issues that are facing our society today. As this book’s subtitle, Continuity and Change, implies, social problems are persistent, but they have also improved in the past and can be improved in the present and future, provided that our nation has the wisdom and will to address them. It is easy for students to read a social problems textbook and come away...