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Author
Series
Amazing Grace (Picture books) volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1991.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.
3) Fairest
Author
Series
Ella enchanted volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In a land where beauty and singing are valued above all else, Aza eventually comes to reconcile her unconventional appearance and her magical voice, and learns to accept herself for who she truly is.
4) Pezzettino
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
[1975]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Little Pezzettino is so small he is convinced he must be a piece of somebody else. A wise man helps him discover the truth.
5) The island
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Wil discovers himself and the wonders of nature when he leaves home to live on an island in northern Wisconsin.
7) So many me's
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A girl contemplates the many different roles she plays in her family and community, including daughter, granddaughter, sister, cousin, student, patient, and friend.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In a futuristic alternative school set in a shopping mall where video game-playing students are observed and used by corporate sponsors for market research, Katey "Kid" Dade struggles to figure out where she fits in and whether she even wants to.
10) What can I be?
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A young girl wonders what she can be as she tries on different costumes from her dress-up box, and finds that being herself is the best choice.
Author
Publisher
North-South
Pub. Date
2007, 2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tired of always changing colors, Chameleon is surprised to discover that other jungle animals are bored with their appearances, and he sets out to make each whatever color and pattern he or she wishes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Brought up in France as the African slave companion of a nobleman's daughter, thirteen-year-old Zettie records the events of 1763, when she and her mistress escape to the New World where they are inadvertently drawn into the hostilities of the ongoing French and Indian War and, eventually, find a new direction to their lives.
13) Someday
Author
Series
Every day volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When A learns he is not the only person waking up in a different person's body every day, he gains new understanding of the extremes where love and loneliness can lead. Told from multiple perspectives.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives forever. Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge--aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner--is determined to make it through yet another sad summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rufus, a young wolf, has a hard time fitting in at the Big Bad Wolf Academy where he has been sent to learn to huff and puff until the day he uses his true talent. Rufus doesn't like school at first. He loves being a wolf and doing wolf stuff -- like running through the woods or howling at the moon. But Rufus, like all wolves, must go to school to learn real wolf work, like wearing clever disguises and speaking sheep. While Rufus learns, he also teaches:...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"I'd seen the Senator speak a few times before my life got caught up, however distantly, with his, but the first time I can remember paying real attention was when he delivered the speech announcing his run for the Presidency. When David first hears the Senator from Illinois speak, he feels deep ambivalence. Intrigued by the Senator's idealistic rhetoric, David also wonders how he'll balance the fervent belief and inevitable compromises it will take...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Dee secretly hosts a popular true-crime podcast but when a missing child seems linked to the disappearance of her best friend ten years ago, she considers revealing her identity to uncover the truth.
Ten years ago Delia 'Dee' Skinner witnessed the abduction of her best friend, Sibby. She told the police everything she remembered, but it wasn't enough. Sibby was never seen again. Dee deals with her guilt by becoming someone else:...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A collection of four pre-Divergent stories plus three additional scenes from Divergent, all told from Tobias's point of view, that follow Tobias's transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his Dauntless initiation, the first clues that a foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions, and the weeks after he meets Tris Prior.
20) Soul of stars
Author
Series
Iron kingdom duology volume 2
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Once Ana was an orphaned space outlaw. Then she was the Empress of the Iron Kingdom. Now, thought dead by most of the galaxy after she escaped from the dark AI program called the HIVE, Ana is desperate for a way to save Di from the HIVE's evil clutches and take back her kingdom. Ana's only option is to find Starbright, the one person who hacked into the HIVE and lived to tell the tale. But when Ana's desperation costs the crew of the Dossier a terrible...
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