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Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Twelve-year old Essie believes that Black people should be allowed to vote, and she's willing to march for that right. On Sunday, March 7, 1965, Essie puts on her best dress to join protesters as they plan to visit the governor in Montgomery, Alabama. But as the 600 marchers approach the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, they are stopped by angry state troopers who will do whatever it takes to stop the peaceful protesters"--Provided by publisher.
2) No brainer
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Series
Formats
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"Up until now, middle school hasn't exactly been a joyride for Greg Heffley. So when the town threatens to close the crumbling building, he's not too broken up about it. But when Greg realizes this means he's going to be sent to a different school than his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, he changes his tune. Can Greg and his classmates save their school before it's shuttered for good? Or is this the start of a whole new chapter for Greg?" --
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 18
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
When the town threatens to close their crumbling middle school and Greg realizes he'd have to go to a different school than his best friend, he rallies his classmates to save their school before it's shuttered for good.
6) Kent State
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
Told from different points of view--protesters, students, National Guardsmen, and "townies"--recounts the story of what happened at Kent State in May 1970, when four college students were killed by National Guardsmen, and a student protest was turned into a bloody battlefield.
Author
Series
Violet Mackerel books volume 6
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Violet and Rose organize a protest to save the big oak tree in Clover Park.
9) Viva's voice
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Since the day she was born, Viva's voice has always been the mightiest in the room. But when Papi's bus driver union goes on strike, quiet Papi is the family member who must speak up. He feels nervous, but Viva's strength gives Papi the courage he needs to find his own powerful voice." --publisher's website.
10) Sarah rising
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Inspired by the Minneapolis uprising after the killing of George Floyd, this story follows a little Black girl attending a protest with her father and realizing that she has the power to protect what and whom she loves. Includes author's note.
11) Dawn raid
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Sophia is like most girls in 1976 New Zealand. How is she going to earn enough money for those boots? Why does she have to give that speech at school? Who is she going to be friends with this year? It comes as a surprise to Sofia and her family when her big brother, Lenny, starst talking about protests, "overstayers," and injustices against Pacific Islanders by the government. Inspired by the Black Panthers in America, a group has formed called the...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
What do you do when the world shuts down? A heartwarming story of friendship and overcoming adversity in a time of COVID, this book is about community, giving back, and understanding the world around us through the power of generosity from debut middle grade author K. Ibura. Nobody expected a tiny little virus to change the whole world in such a big way, especially not Shayla, Liam, Ai, and Ben. But when school closes to keep everyone safe, their...
14) Hands up!
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
"A young girl lifts her hands up in a series of everyday moments before finally raising her hands in resistance at a protest march"--
16) Angry young man
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
A boy reaches an unimaginable conclusion when he takes a journey of self-discovery.
17) Momentum
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
With energy wars flaring across the globe, oil prices gone crazy, regular power cuts, and soldiers keeping the Outsiders in check, Hunter, one of the privileged of society, is fascinated by the Outsiders, so when he meets Uma he is quickly drawn into her circle of the poor and disenfranchised.
18) Pirate cinema
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 22
Description
In a dystopian, near-future Britain, sixteen-year-old Trent, obsessed with making movies on his computer, joins a group of artists and activists who are trying to fight a new bill that will criminalize even more harmless internet creativity.
19) Alien lockdown
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Fifth-grader Yin is really excited about her class trip to the International Space Station Three and the station museum's newest exhibit, the Star Cabbage, an alien plant discovered floating in space and considered harmless; but the station is on lockdown, the crew is not in evidence, and something large and growling is stalking the halls--but Yin is determined to investigate and find out whether the plant has mutated, or whether the real culprit...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In 2017, two years after England introduces carbon dioxide rationing to combat climatic change, eighteen-year-old Laura chronicles her first year at a London university as natural disasters and political upheaval disrupt her studies.