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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
At age fourteen, Cyndy Etler had escaped from her violent home only to be reported as a runaway and sent to a drug rehabilitation facility that changed her world. Behind the closed doors of Straight, Inc., the program used bizarre and intimidating methods to treat its patients. In this memoir, Cyndy recounts the living nightmare that she endured for sixteen months at Straight, Inc.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age twelve to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly re-creates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with...
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
xv, 205 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
Presents a collection of humorous stories from over two dozen contemporary female writers, as well as autobiographical essays, comics, poems, and comic strips.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
930L
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Before Odom landed the role Aaron Burr in the Broadway musical Hamilton, he put in years of hard work as a singer and an actor. Now he asks the questions that will help you unlock your true potential and achieve your goals even when they seem impossible. What work did you put in today that will help you improve tomorrow? How do you surround yourself with people who will care about your dreams as much as you do? How do you know when to play it safe...
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Akilah Hughes's world, family--and life--are often complicated, but always funny. Through intimate and hilarious essays, Akilah takes readers along on her journey from the small Kentucky town where she was born--and eventually became a spelling bee champ and 15-year-old high school graduate--to New York City, where she took careful steps to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer and performer. Like Tiffany Haddish's The Last Black Unicorn or Mindy...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
329 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
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Description
"The first middle-grade book from a picture book master-a harrowing, heartrending, illustrated account of his childhood escape from the terrors of war"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night - and discovered the magic and impact of writing. For many years, Nikki's notebooks were her most enduing companions. In this accessible and inspiring...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
228 pages : color illustrations, color portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Through the lens of the author's personal experience and playful voice, she digs into themes such as finding your passion, keeping strong in the face of adversity, appreciating your individualism, the importance of being loyal, and never giving up.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
250 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Simone takes you through the events, challenges, and trials that carried her from an early childhood in foster care to a coveted spot on the 2016 Olympic team" --
Through years of hard work and determination, Biles has relied on her faith and family to stay focused and positive, while having fun competing at the highest level and doing what she loves. In her own words she takes you through the events, challenges, and trials that carried her from...
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 27 cm
Language
Español
Description
Alfredo y su papá deben cruzar la frontera en un viaje difícil de México a los Estados Unidos. ¿Encontrarán el nuevo hogar que están buscando en el otro lado? Basándose en hechos reales, esta historia cobra vida gracias a la ilustradora Mexicana Claudia Navarro, y está repleta de notas al final del texto para iniciar conversaciones sobre inmigración.
Join a young boy and his father on a daring journey from Mexico to Texas to find a new life....
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Scott Kelly was born for adventure. But exploring takes a lot of energy--and sleep is the super fuel to turbocharge dreams. Luckily, sleeping can be exciting if you're drifting off in the right place. Scott has fallen asleep at the bottom of the ocean, in the cockpit of an F-14 fighter jet, in a yurt on Mount Everest, and of course in space! Join Scott on his many adventures, and maybe they'll inspire dreams of your own!" -- Amazon.com.
"The second...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
xii, 356 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
'I wasn't depressed because I was gay. I was depressed *and* gay.' Shaun David Hutchinson was nineteen. Confused. Struggling to find the vocabulary to understand and accept who he was and how he fit into a community in which he couldn't see himself. The voice of depression told him that he would never be loved or wanted, while powerful and hurtful messages from society told him that being gay meant love and happiness weren't for him. A million moments...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"The inspiring autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped launch Apollo 11"--
"As a young girl, Katherine Johnson showed an exceptional aptitude for math. In school she quickly skipped ahead several grades and was soon studying complex equations with the support of a professor who saw great promise in her. But ability and opportunity did not always go hand in hand. As an African American and a girl growing up in an era of brutal...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
280 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"At thirteen, bright-eyed, straight-A student Sara Saedi uncovered a terrible family secret: she was breaking the law simply by living in the United States. Only two years old when her parents fled Iran, she didn't learn of her undocumented status until her older sister wanted to apply for an after-school job, but couldn't because she didn't have a Social Security number. Fear of deportation kept Sara up at night, but it didn't keep her from being...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 209 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the story of a Secret Service agent who protected three American presidents, describing how he pursued his job after the assassination of JFK and how he met a range of challenges throughout a career shaped by major historical events.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teen activist and trailblazer Jazz Jennings--named one of "The 25 most influential teens" of the year by Time--shares her very public transgender journey, as she inspires people to accept the differences in others while they embrace their own truths.
18) Imagine
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Juan Felipe Herrera was very young, he picked flowers, helped his mama feed the chickens, slept under the starry sky, and learned to say goodbye to his amiguitos each time his migrant family moved on. When he grew up, Juan Felipe Herrera became a poet. His breathtaking poem 'Imagine' and Lauren Castillo's evocative illustrations will speak to every reader and dreamer searching for this place in life."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1120L
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In this poetic memoir Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War. Her heart was in Cuba, her mother's tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy tale kingdom. But most of the time she lived in Los Angeles, lonely in the noisy city and dreaming of the summers when she can take a plane through the enchanted air to her beloved...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Spanish language edition, 2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Spanish translation of the picture book autobiography of Sonia Sotomayor, Turning Pages"--
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