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#1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • In an inspiring follow-up to her acclaimed memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world.
There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life’s big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all...
There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life’s big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all...
42) Up from slavery
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Booker T. Washington, the son of a slave woman and a white man, recounts his rise from slavery to become the most influential black leader of his time in the U.S., and founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
43) Fallen angels
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.
44) Harbor me
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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"When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"--
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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"Expert quilter Kim Taylor shares a unique and powerful story of the celebration of the first Juneteenth, from the perspective of a young girl. On June 19, 1865, in Galveston, General Gordon Granger of the Union Army delivered the message that African Americans in Texas were free. Since then, Juneteenth, as the day has come to be known, has steadily gained recognition throughout the United States. ln 2020, a powerful wave of protests and demonstrations...
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Cameron Battle volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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With his mother trapped and his father still missing, Cameron is desperate to return to Chidani, but when a nasty bully in his new school is possessed by a mmo, Cameron and his trusty friends Zion and Aliyah are transported to Chidani sooner than anticipated.
49) Deathless divide
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Dread nation volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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"After the fall of Summerland, Jane McKeene hoped her life would get simpler: Get out of town, stay alive, and head west to California to find her mother. But nothing is easy when you're a girl trained in putting down the restless dead, and a devastating loss on the road to a protected village called Nicodemus has Jane questioning everything she thought she knew about surviving in 1880s America. What's more, this safe haven is not what it appears--as...
51) Uh-oh!
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Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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As an African American toddler keeps getting into mischief throughout the day, the reader is invited to discover what the trouble is with each page-turn and to say "uh-oh."
52) Shortcut
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1992
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1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
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[32] p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.
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English
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Children taking a shortcut by walking along a railroad track find excitement and danger when a train approaches.
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Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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60 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Trying to shape a new life of freedom in Philadelphia after having been a slave, Addy finds inspiration from a new friend.
58) Home
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Pub. Date
2012
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English
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"The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister"--
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English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movement in the 1960s—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. - "The finest essay I've ever read." —Ta-Nehisi CoatesAt once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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"In Kenny Wright's active imagination he's a world famous superhero, but in the real world he's a sixth grade "Grandma's Boy" whose struggles to fit in at his Washington D.C. inner city school will put his grades and family loyalty to the test"--
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