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Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
A Cherokee boyhood of the 1930's is remembered in generous, loving detail ... an unbelievably rich life.
Forrest Carter, from the age of four or five, was inseparable from his part-Cherokee grandfather, who owned a farm and ran a country store nearby. Granpa called him Little Sprout; when he grew taller, he became Little Tree. From Granpa he absorbed the Cherokee ethic; to give love without expecting gratitude, to take from the land only what you...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Traces the parallel lives of two youths with the same name in the same community, describing how the author grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar and promising business leader while his counterpart suffered a life of violence and imprisonment.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
" No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply-some would say totally-involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today's young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book they explore what it means to be "app-dependent" versus "app-enabled" and how life for this generation differs from life before the digital era. Gardner and Davis are concerned with three vital areas of adolescent...
Series
New directions for youth development volume No. 139, fall 2013
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
The story of a generation of German young people who devoted all their energy to the Hitler Youth and the propaganda that brought Hitler his power. This books also tells the stories of the young people who resisted the Nazi movement.
14) Stormy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
An outlaw dog and a courageous boy fight for their lives against dangerous foes.
16) House rules
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
With Asperger's syndrome, teenager Jacob Hunt is unable to have the same kind of social life other boys his age have. However, like other kids with AS, he has homed in on one particular interest: forensic analysis. He normally shows up to crime scenes and helps solve the case, but this time he is the prime suspect. When a murder leads police to question Jacob, they interpret his AS symptoms as a sign of guilt and cast a very public spotlight on Jacob...
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Thousands of homeless youths' chaotic lives lead them to move frequently with or without their parents to homeless shelters, motels, homes of relatives and friends; or to seek refuge in abandoned houses or on the streets. Housing insecurity among young people is a global problem that affects teens who live in cities and rural areas"--