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Author
Series
Jericho trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
A teenaged boy's death in a hazing accident has lasting effects on his pregnant girlfriend and his guilt-ridden cousin, who gives up a promising music career to play football during his senior year in high school.
3) Jimi & me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
After his father's tragic death, twelve-year-old Keith James moves from Brooklyn to a small midwestern town where his mixed race heritage is not accepted, but he finds comfort in the music of Jimi Hendrix and the friendship of a white classmate.
4) The Cruisers
Author
Series
Cruisers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Description
Friends Zander, Kambui, LaShonda, and Bobbi, caught in the middle of a mock Civil War at DaVinci Academy, learn the true cost of freedom of speech when they use their alternative newspaper, The Cruiser, to try to make peace.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.