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1) Tolerance
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes tolerance as a virtue and suggests ways in which it can be recognized and practiced.
2) Wishtree
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A red oak tree and a crow help their human neighbors work out their differences"--
An old red oak tree tells how he and his crow friend, Bongo, help their human neighbors get along after a threat against an immigrant family is carved into the tree's trunk.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When nineteen-year-old Gem of the Desert People, called Monstrous by the Smooth Skins, becomes the prisoner of the seventeen-year-old Smooth Skin queen, Isra, age-old prejudices begins to fall aside as the two begin to understand each other.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. Erin Gruwell confronted a room of "unteachable, at-risk" students. One day she intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature, and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust - only to be met by uncomprehending looks ... With powerful entries from the students' own diaries and a narrative text by [her,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the wake of 9/11, Shadi, a child of Muslim immigrants, tries to navigate her crumbling world of death, heartbreak, and bigotry in silence, until finally everything changes.
2003: the US has officially declared war on Iraq, and the American political world has evolved. Hate crimes are on the rise, FBI agents are infiltrating local mosques, and the Muslim community is harassed and targeted more than ever. Shadi, who wears hijab, keeps her head down....
Language
English
Description
Quasimodo ventures from his tower to the joyous festival of fools, but the crowd turns cruel and rejects him because of the way he looks. The gypsy Esmeralda rescues him and he finds himself battling to save the people and the city he loves--while reminding us to see people as they are rather than how they appear.
Author
Series
The half bad trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
In modern-day England, where witches live alongside humans, Nathan, son of a White witch and the most powerful Black witch, must escape captivity before his seventeenth birthday and receive the gifts that will determine his future.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In modern-day England, where witches live alongside humans, Nathan, son of a White witch and the most powerful Black witch, must escape captivity before his seventeenth birthday and receive the gifts that will determine his future.
Author
Series
TBH volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Told entirely in text messages, emails, and notes, best friends Prianka, Gabby, and Cecily find their friendship tested by busily planning a spring fair, bullying, and boys.
12) The Mountain
Author
Language
English
Description
"The bear knows exactly what the mountain looks like a forest. The sheep, octopus, and ant also know the mountain. It's a meadow! It's surrounded by water ... The chamois and snow hare have their opinions too. It seems the mountain looks different to every animal. How can that be? And whose point of view is right?"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Zak knows he's not quite like his siblings and classmates. Bright lights and big crowds send him into freak-out mode. Hugs make him uncomfortable, too. His atypical behaviors, from flapping his arms to spinning his body, seem so out of place. But for Zak, that's just how he copes. Despite some peculiar behaviors, Zak's desires and disappointments are as ordinary as any child's. He loves watches; he hates being excluded. As Zak embraces life the only...
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