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2) Cold snap
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A cold snap has everyone in the town of Toby Mills feeling down, until the mayor's wife thinks of a way to warm things up again.
5) Be a tree!
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Compares the structures and functions of trees to human bodies, shows the interconnectness and dependence of trees in a forest, and urges readers to communicate, share, and care for one another. Includes notes on the anatomy of a tree, ways to help save trees, and how to help in one's community.
7) Un amor
Author
Series
Narrativas hispánicas volume 651
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A Latino picture book retelling of the . . . [Scottish] folktale 'Always Room for One More,' which follows Don Manuel, Doña Lila, and their children and assorted pets as they welcome all to their one-room casita for a fiesta before chaos ensues"--Provided by publisher.
11) Echoes
Author
Publisher
Book-of-the-Month Club
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
In a small seaside Irish town in the late 1950s, two very different children are growing up, shouting their hearts desires into the echo cave, praying that their destiny will lead them far from Castlebay, a place empty and gloomy in winter but bustling with visitors in the gaudy days of summer. One of the children is Clare, shopkeeper Tom O'Brien's younger daughter. She wins a scholarship to University College, Dublin, and seems set for academic glory....
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Jillian Robichaux's coastal Louisiana town of Boutin suffers a catastrophic flood that might be too much for her community to overcome, but she is determined to keep both Boutin and its indomitable spirit alive.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"17-year-old Morgan is a black teen triumphantly figuring out her identity when her conservative town deems depression as a lack of faith, and blackness as something to be politely ignored"-- Provided by publisher.
15) Unfadeable
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"A young graffiti artist learns to fight smart against the gentrification threatening her neighborhood"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In a story inspired by her own family's desire to help others, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor takes young readers on a journey through a neighborhood where kids and adults, activists and bus drivers, friends and strangers all help one another to build a better world for themselves and their community"-- Provided by publisher.
17) Who will you be?
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A picture book about how family and community help shape the wonderful people our children become"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"For fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Brit Bennett, a striking coming-of-age debut about friendship, community, and resilience, set in the housing projects of Chicago during one life-changing summer"--
19) The talent show
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After a devastating tornado destroys much of Cape Bluff, Kansas, residents come together as a community to put on a talent show as a fund-raiser.
20) Cannery Row
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as is--both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Creating characters based on his memories of real inhabitants of Monterey, California, Steinbeck interweaves the stories of Doc, Henri, Mack, and the boys in a world where only the fittest survive.
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