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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, gather to play mah jong, remember the past, and gossip into the night. United in unspeakable loss and new hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, memories that reveal these women's strength, worries, and determination, which their American-born daughters reject as irrelevant. The daughters, in turn,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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It is summer in Phoenix, and seventeen-year-old Maximo offers to help Jordan, a fellow student in high school, with the food truck that belonged to Jordan's deceased father, and which may be the only thing standing between homelessness for Jordan and his mom; the boys are strongly attracted to each other, but as their romance develops it is threatened by the secrets they are hiding--and by the racism and homophobia of those around them.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother. The son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white, James McBride...
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Kane Miller, A Division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Jazz's best friend, Annika, has been kidnapped. She can't call the cops, so she forges a truce with her nemesis, Phoenix. In a race against time, Jazz and Phoenix only have 48 hours to collect the evidence, profile the kidnapper and find their schoolmate's location, or Anika will die"--Page [4] of cover.
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Series
48 hours (Gabrielle Lord) volume 2
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"One missing suspect. One stolen supercomputer. Two amateur investigators. 48 hours to solve the crime. Vicious thieves smash a cursed Medusa statue and steal the supercomputer Sapphire in a terrifying museum raid. Jazz and Phoenix are first on the scene and they soon find themselves in the midst of a dangerous mystery. Their friend and museum owner, Dr Zhang, is the prime suspect, but he is nowhere to be found. Determined to prove him innocent and...