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Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
195 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1963 in the Bronx, New York, eighth-graders Fiona and Yolanda help one another face hard decisions at home despite family and social opposition to their interracial friendship, but Fiona is on her own when popular classmates start paying attention to her and give her a glimpse of both a different way of life and a new kind of hatefulness.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice"--
Author
Series
The summer I turned pretty volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Ivy, Mateo, and Cal used to be close. Now all they have in common is Carlton High and the beginning of a very bad day. When Cal pulls into campus late for class and runs into Ivy and Mateo, they decide to ditch and go into the city. Just the three of them, like old times. Until they spot another Carlton High student skipping school-- and follow him to the scene of his own murder. Their day just turned deadly. And it's about to get worse. Mateo, and...