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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
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"Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy ... Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal's bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words,...
2) Gone wolf
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined -- to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is called a Blue -- the color of sadness. She lives in a small-small room with her dog, who is going wolf more often - he's pacing and imagining he's free. Inmate Eleven wants to go wolf too, she wants to know why she feels so Blue and what is beyond her small-small room. In the present, Imogen...
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Series
Nic Blake and the Remarkables volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
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"It's not easy being a Remarkable in the Unremarkable world. Some things are cool--like getting a pet hellhound for your twelfth birthday. Others, not so much--like not being trusted to learn magic because you might use it to take revenge on an annoying neighbor. All Nic Blake wants is to be a powerful Manifestor like her dad. But before she has a chance to convince him to teach her the gift, a series of shocking revelations and terrifying events...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"A little girl who misses her father because he's away in prison shares how his absence affects different parts of her life. Her greatest excitement is the days when she gets to visit her beloved father. With gorgeous illustrations throughout, this book illuminates the heartaches of dealing with missing a parent."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Publisher Annotation: Caleb has spent his life roaming southern England with his Pa, little to their names but his father?s signet ring and a puppet theater for popular, raunchy Punch and Judy shows ? until the day Pa is convicted of a theft he didn?t commit and sentenced to transportation to the colonies in America. From prison, Caleb?s father sends him to the coast to find an aunt Caleb never knew he had. His aunt welcomes him into her home, but...
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 7
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"When his best friend Woody is arrested--an unwitting accomplice to a robbery--Theodore Boone must work to prove his innocence"--
Theodore Boone is back on the case in an all-new adventure! Bestselling author John Grisham delivers a page-turning legal thriller for a new generation of readers. Theo has been worried about his good friend Woody Lambert. Woody is struggling at school and making bad choices. But when Woody is arrested--an unwitting accomplice...
7) Rapunzel
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 700L
Description
A retelling of the German folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress. Includes a note on the origins of the story.
8) Sapphique
Author
Series
Incarceron volume Book 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
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Description
After his escape from the sentient prison, Incarceron, Finn finds that the Realm is not at all what he expected, and he does not know whether he is to be its king, how to free his imprisoned friends, or how to stop Incarceron's quest to be free of its own nature.