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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place. All the other kids picked countries like France or Germany, but when Caitlin saw Zimbabwe written on the board, it sounded like the most exotic place she had ever heard of -- so she chose it. Martin was lucky to even receive a pen pal letter. There were only ten letters, and forty kids in his class. But he was the top student, so he got...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
183 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Through the alternating stories of twins Callie and Charlie, their fictional counterparts, teenagers Ryan Elizabeth Peete and RJ Peete discuss what it is like for RJ as a teenager with autism and Ryan as a teenager with an autistic sibling.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
176 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents an introduction to the popular science fiction television program, discussing its characters, plot lines, villains, gadgets, monsters, aliens, weaponry, and spaceships.
5) It's Trevor Noah : born a crime: stories from a South African childhood : adapted for young readers
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The comedian traces his coming of age during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed, offering insight into the farcical aspects of the political and social systems of today's world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital center of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across America. How that happened is the riveting story of Dreamland. Quinones explains how the rise of the prescription drug OxyContin, a miraculous and extremely addictive painkiller...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
c2018
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
139 pages : ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gail Jarrow reveals in riveting detail the events leading up to the 1938 broadcast of H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds. Listeners were terrified that the United States was actually being invaded by and army with strange and powerful weapons.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
A groundbreaking portrait of Vincent Chin and the murder case that took America's Asian American community to the streets in protest of injustice. America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiments simmer, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving Vincent Chin-a Chinese American man-beaten to death at the hands of two white men, autoworker...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
272 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Since the civil war in Syria began in 2011, over 500,000 civilians have been killed and more than 12 million Syrians have been displaced. Rania Abouzeid, one of the foremost journalists on the topic, follows two pairs of sisters from opposite sides of the conflict to give readers a firsthand glimpse of the turmoil and devastation this strife has wrought. Sunni Muslim Ruha and her younger sister Alaa withstand constant attacks by the Syrian government...