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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Romeo and Juliet is the tragic love story of the "star-crossed lovers," Romeo and Juliet. Set in the city of Verona, Italy, the play revolves around the feud between two affluent families, the Montagues and the Capulets. Despite the enmity, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall passionately in love and wed in secret. However, the enmity between both disapproving families overpowers and leads everything to go terribly wrong.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1090L
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English
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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And it was just the beginning,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"The term 'Apple' is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly 'red on the outside, white on the inside.' Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Simone Biles' entrance into the world of gymnastics may have started on a daycare field trip in her hometown of Spring, Texas, but her God-given talent, passion, and perseverance have made her one of the top gymnasts in the world, as well as a four-time winner of Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro. But there is more to Simone than the nineteen medals -- fourteen of them gold -- and the Olympic successes. Through years of hard work and determination, she...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
1220L
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English
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"Going beyond the story of America as a country "discovered" by a few brave men in the "New World," Indigenous human rights advocate Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals the roles that settler colonialism and policies of American Indian genocide played in forming our national identity. The original academic text is fully adapted by renowned curriculum experts Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza, for middle-grade and young adult readers to include discussion topics,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Sibert Award Winner: This true story of five years of starvation in Ireland is “a fascinating account of a terrible time” (Kirkus Reviews).
In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six million people. Over the next five years, the blight attacked again and again. These...
In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six million people. Over the next five years, the blight attacked again and again. These...
13) Heartless
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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In this prequel to Alice in Wonderland, Cath would rather open a bakery and marry for love than accept a proposal from the King of Hearts, especially after meeting the handsome and mysterious court jester.
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World History volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.6 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Describes the late Middle Ages, the people, working conditions, village life, religion, and conquests.
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Series
World History volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Describes the early Middle Ages, the people, working conditions, village life, religion, and conquests.
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English
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Fleeing to Ireland to find her missing mother and Finn, a gorgeous Irish exchange student who makes her feel safe from the troubling colorful light she suddenly sees around people, Cora Sandoval discovers the meaning of her newfound powers and their role in a conspiracy spanning centuries -- one that could change mankind forever ... and end her life.
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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,...
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