Lyn Miller-Lachmann
1) Torch
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When 17-year-old Pavol fatally sets himself on fire in Prague in 1969 to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, his three best friends must figure out how to survive an oppressive regime without him"--
2) Rogue
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
An eighth-grade girl with Asperger's syndrome tries to befriend her new neighbor, facing many challenges along the way.
4) Ways to play
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Riley has plenty of ways to play; like lining up dolls and stuffies by size and shape. Tearing up newspapers and making piles into mountains, using sharp crayons to draw big swirly patterns. But bossy cousin Emma thinks those ways are wrong, wrong, and wrong. And she makes no bones about letting Riley know exactly what her opinion is. Fortunately, Charlie the dog is on hand to help with a breakthrough demonstration that there are MANY ways to play;...
5) Eyes open
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Living under the Salazar dictatorship in 1960s Portugal, Sónia must find her voice as a poet and an activist after the government arrests her boyfriend and shuts down her family's business.
6) Moonwalking
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1980s Brooklyn, new student JJ Pankowski, an autistic, punk-rock-lover, befriends Pie Velez, an Afro-Latinx math geek and graffiti artist.
7) Pardalita
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"16-year-old Raquel lives in a small town in Portugal, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else's business. Her parents are divorced and she's just been suspended for cursing out a school aide asking about her father's new marriage. She has two best friends, Lus̕a and Fred, but wants something more. Then, from afar, she sees Pardalita, a senior and a gifted artist who's moving to Lisbon to study in the fall. The two girls get to know...
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A child who has not yet learned how to read looks out at the world and sees language as lines and squiggles that don't exactly make pictures but don't seem to make anything else either. Then, when the child starts to go to school and begins to learn his letters, his way of seeing begins to change"--