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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Harlem teenager Nala is looking forward to a summer of movies and ice cream until she falls in love with the very woke Tye and pretends to be a social activist.
Nala Robertson reluctantly agrees to attend an open mic night for her cousin-sister-friend Imani's birthday. Tye Brown, the MC is perfect, except-- he is an activist and is spending the summer putting on events for the community when Nala would rather watch movies and try out the new seasonal...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
"When a radical band of teen activists [claims] that Alix's powerful father covers up wrongdoing by corporations that knowingly allow innocent victims to die in order to make enormous profits from unsafe products, she must decide if she will blow the whistle on his misdeeds"--
Author
Series
Miranda and Maude volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Fed-up with standardized testing, Miranda and Maude's teacher decides to put on a school play, inspiring the girls to fight for other positive changes--and leading to their first fight.--
4) Unstoppable!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When a bird and a crab team up to combine the advantages of flight and claws, it gives them an idea: why not expand the team to include other animals who have a special trait--and soon they all set out to rescue their lake from development, because united together they are unstoppable.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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"As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the power to make changes--big or small--in the world, in their communities, and in most importantly, in themselves"--
7) Speak up
Author
Formats
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text encourage the reader to speak up about everything from their own name being mispronounced to someone bring a weapon to school. Includes author's note about real people who have found their voices, when to speak up, and how to express oneself without speaking. oneself without speaking.
Author
Series
Slacker volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Dedicated slacker Cameron Boxer thinks he has found gamer heaven: playing video games online for an audience (and money), but the Positive Action Group (the club he created to keep his parents off his back) keeps getting in the way with meetings and fund-raisers for worthy causes, and his friends keep turning to him for plans and girlfriend advice, plus Elvis the beaver is back chewing on the back wall--and all Cameron wants to do is to conquer the...
9) Slacker
Author
Series
Slacker volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming--but before he knows it other kids are taking it seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything is now the center of everything, whether he likes it or...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
After Ofelia, Aster, Cat, and Lane fail to persuade a local girls club to change an outdated tradition, they form an alternative group that shakes up their sleepy Florida town. Includes tips for beginning birders, characteristics of crystals, a cookie recipe, tips for aspiring journalists, directions for creating badges, and facts about the killing of birds for fashion.
13) Say something!
Author
Fountas & Pinnell
K
Formats
Description
"From the creator of the New York Times bestseller The Word Collector comes an empowering story about finding your voice, and using it to make the world a better place. The world needs your voice. If you have a brilliant idea... say something! If you see an injustice... say something! In this empowering new picture book, beloved author Peter H. Reynolds explores the many ways that a single voice can make a difference. Each of us, each and every day,...
16) Not so small
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Celebrates the many ways people can join together to become something bigger--an unstoppable force. Each and every one of us can use our voices to make a difference"--
Author
Series
Stella Diaz volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"Stella gets a big surprise when her mom plans a trip to visit their family in Mexico! Stella loves marine animals, and she can't wait to see the ocean for the first time ... until she arrives and learns that the sea and its life forms are in danger due to pollution. Stella wants to save the ocean, but she knows she can't do it alone. It's going to take a lot of work and help from old and new friends to make a difference, but Stella Díaz never gives...