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Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media
Pub. Date
c2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Have you ever looked up and seen a skyscraper or tower? How were these amazing structures built? It took thousands of years to create and perfect the technology needed to help these giants withstand the forces of nature. In this scientific text, students will learn all about famous skyscrapers and towers around the world and why they are considered engineering wonders!"--Back cover.
82) Light years
Author
Series
Light years (Kass Morgan) volume 1
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
After centuries of exclusivity, the Quatra Fleet Academy finally accepts students from the settler planets, forcing four teenagers from different backgrounds, with different ambitions, motives, and missions, to work together to outmaneuver a mysterious alien enemy.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and present. This book takes you on that journey, showing how racist ideas started and were spread, and how they can be discredited"--Dust jacket flap.
84) People like us
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"When a girl is found dead at her elite boarding school, soccer-star Kay Donovan follows a scavenger hunt which implicates suspects increasingly close to her, unraveling her group of popular friends and perfectly constructed life"--
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Coupled with the speed and networking capacities of social media, #blacklivesmatter was the hashtag heard round the world. But Alicia Garza well knew that the distance between a hashtag and real change would take more than a single facebook to cover. Itwould take a movement. Garza was a lifelong activist who had spent the previous decades educating herself on the hard lessons of organizing. She started as a kid, working on sexual education for her...
Author
Series
My weirder-est school volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ella Mentary School is having a science fair! Guest scientist Dr. Snow has arrived to help A.J. and his friends conduct their own cool experiments. But what is "the snowman" really planning? And what does STEM even stand for anyway?
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
As his own son gets ready to leave for college, Vincent Bianco recalls his final summer before college in 1979, during which he received an education of a lifetime while working alongside two Vietnam vets as a laborer on a construction site.
89) Kalahari
Author
Series
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Deep in the Kalahari Desert, a Corpus lab protects a dangerous secret. But what happens when that secret takes on a life of its own? When an educational safari goes wrong, five teens find themselves stranded in the Kalahari Desert without a guide"--
90) Unfadeable
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"A young graffiti artist learns to fight smart against the gentrification threatening her neighborhood"--
Author
Series
Slacker volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Cameron Boxer, king of the slackers, has found something worth his time. By playing video games online in front of an audience he can find both fame AND fortune -- especially with Elvis (a beaver who seems to love video games as much as Cam) at his side. The only problem? Things keep getting in Cam's way. Like school. And the club he accidentally started. And the misguided people in his life who don't think beavers should be playing video games....
93) Pinocula
Author
Series
Creature from my closet volume 3
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Things are going pretty well for Rob Burnside until Pinocula--a cross between Pinocchio and a vampire--emerges from his closet, lying, joking, and doing his best to drive Rob crazy.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
One day, third-grade teacher Kyle Schwartz asked her students to fill the blank in this sentence: "I wish my teacher knew _____." The results astounded her. Some answers were humorous, others were heartbreaking, but all were profoundly moving and enlightening. The results opened her eyes to the need for educators to understand the unique realities their students face in order to create an open, safe and supportive place in the classroom.
95) Dead Wednesday
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Can playing dead bring you back to life? Maybe only on Dead Wednesday... On this day the worlds of a shy boy and a gone girl collide, and the connection they make will change them both forever."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eva Mozes Kor and her twin Miriam were ten years old when they were subjected to the medical experiments of the Auschwitz Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. The story of their fight for survival, recovery, and forgiveness are told again and updated here in this new edition with interesting details and important context in a new afterword. Eva turned her triumph over pain and suffering into a life-long work for peace, human rights, and Holocaust education....
97) Ms. Todd is odd!
Author
Series
My weird school volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A.J. and his friends think that Ms. Todd is the strangest substitute teacher in the world, and they decide to investigate her.
98) Lucy and Linh
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Australia, Lucy tries to balance her life at home surrounded by her Chinese immigrant family, with her life at a pretentious private school.
Author
Series
Maddox brothers volume 3
Publisher
Jamie McGuire
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Falyn Fairchild can walk away from anything. Already leaving behind her car, her education, and even her parents, the daughter of the next governor of Colorado is back in her hometown, broke and waiting tables for the Bucksaw Cafe. After every shift, Falyn adds to her shoebox of cash, hoping to one day save enough to buy her a plane ticket to the only place she can find forgiveness: Eakins, Illinois. The moment Taylor Maddox is seated in Falyn's...
100) The map trap
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Alton Barnes loves maps, and when his portfolio of secret maps is stolen, he begins getting notes with orders that he must obey to get the maps back but, with the help of a popular classmate, he just might succeed before his teacher, principal, or someone else learns he has been studying and mapping things about them.
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