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1) Ground Zero
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the events of 9/11.
Author
Series
Ruby red trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since learning she is the Ruby, the final member of the time-traveling Circle of Twelve, nothing has gone right for Gwen and she holds suspicions about both Count Saint-German and Gideon, but as she uncovers the Circle's secrets she finally learns her own destiny.
Author
Publisher
One Elm Books, an imprint of Red Chair Press LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Hannah Higgins is convinced her summer is ruined when she is forced to travel to Africa and work in a remote village in Kenya with her mom and uncle ... Just when she thinks nothing could make this trip any worse, she learns people there are dying of hunger and preventable disease. Hannah becomes frustrated and wants to help ... "--
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
2023. Rory Ann Miller is on the run with her best friend Feliza Lopez because they are accused of bombing their posh Californian high school during an American Virtue Ball. Rory's mom, a social activist and lawyer, has been arrested and implicated in her daughter's "crimes" whereas her dad is cooperating with the authorities. Rory is cynical and scared, furious and scathing, betrayed and looking for something or someone to trust. As she blogs their...
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"They find her just as the sun is beginning to rise in the early morning mist. They had begun at dawn, the group of searchers keen to get going. A missing child spurred everyone on. In the end, it was a flash of colour, a bright neon pink that caught her eye. They had been looking for pink. Nothing tests your faith like being a mother. The first time your children walk to school alone, their first sleepover, when they finally fly the nest. As a parent,...
6) Red rage
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Mara, who has a violent temper, uses rage to offer her relief from the world, but when an unspeakable event occurs, she is forced to look inward and discover something about herself.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Christine Heppermann's powerful collection of free verse poems explore how girls are taught to think about themselves, their bodies, their friends--as consumers, as objects, as competitors. Based on classic fairy tale characters and fairy tale tropes, the poems range from contemporary retellings to first person accounts set within the original stories. From Snow White cottage and Rapunzel's tower to health class and the prom, these poems are a moving...