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1) Freewater
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
After fleeing the plantation where they were enslaved, siblings Ada and Homer discover the secret community of Freewater, and work with freeborn Sanzi to protect their new home from the encroaching dangers of the outside world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On Isaac's street most of the houses are decorated in red and green for Christmas including his friend, Teresa's, while Isaac's house is blue and white for Hanukkah; then someone smashes Isaac's window in the night, and Teresa comes up with a way to show support her friend--and gets the whole community to rally around their Jewish family.
4) Windows
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Walking his dog at dusk, one boy catches glimpses of the lives around him in this lovely ode to autumn evenings, exploring your neighborhood, and coming home.
5) City beet
Author
Language
English
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Victoria and her neighbor, Mrs. Kosta, grow such a spectacular beet garden that they need the entire neighborhood's help to pull out a giant beet.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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What is a purple person? Great question. I mean, really great! Because purple people always ask really great questions. They bring their family, friends, and communities together, and they speak up for what's right. They are kind and hardworking, and they love to laugh (especially at Grandpa's funny noises)! A purple person is an everyday superhero! How do you become one? That's the fun part! Penny Purple will lead you through the steps. Get ready...
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Edited by award-winning and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride.
12) Humble and kind
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Series
Language
English
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"This picture book tells the story of a family who is striving to remain humble and kind. We follow the family through their daily lives as they find different ways to lend a hand to each other and to their broader community. Full of scenes of familial relationships, Humble and Kind will teach adults and children alike the power of family"--Amazon.com.
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Language
English
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When community members work together with trucks and ships to clean up the town's riverfront, an artist and her child hammer, chisel, weld and zap the found materials into something beautiful. Young makers will find inspiration in the playful, rhyming text and mixed media illustrations, while endnotes provide recycled-art activity ideas.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
While trying to jumpstart the zombie apocalypse, twelve-year-old Ernestine Montgomery and her new stepbrother, Charleston, stumble upon a murder mystery in the retirement apartments where their parents do maintenance.--Provided by Publisher.
15) Paletero man
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Follow along with our narrator as he passes through his busy neighborhood in search of the Paletero Man. But when he finally catches up with him, our narrator's pockets are empty. Oh no! What happened to his dinero? It will take the help of the entire community to get the tasty treat now"--Provided by publisher.
16) Seeds of change
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text illustrates how small acts become powerful seeds that improves oneself and the community.
Author
Language
English
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When Littletown Library is destroyed by a tornado, it seems like book-loving Nia is the only one who cares; so she starts the "new free library" under the tree where she used to read, and writes out familiar stories and rhymes that are just a little bit wrong, and encourages the people who check them out to correct them--until soon the whole of Littletown is filled with people reading and writing books.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Neva and her older brother Clayton have been left with their grandparents for the summer, and she is having a difficult time dealing with change: the changes to her body, changes with her relationships with her brother who is becoming involved with social activism and their multicultural community (and with Michelle, the sexy girl across the street), and with her best friend, Jamila, whose father is from Ghana--Neva is growing up and...
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Language
English
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Ukpik loves living in her camp in the North with her family. When a captain from the south arrives to trade with Ukpik's father, Ukpik is excited to learn how to use the forks, knives, and spoons he brings with him. At first, Ukpik enjoys teaching the other children how to use thses new tools. But soon, she starts to wonder if they'll need to use the new tools all the time, and if that means that everything in camp will change.