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Author
Publisher
Compendium, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In 1966, the world believed it was impossible for a woman to run the Boston Marathon. Bobbi Gibb was determined to prove them wrong. She said she would do it, she wasn't a liar; she'd show them by running like the wind in the fire." -- back cover.
Author
Publisher
little bee books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Georgia decided to help the best way she knew how. She worked together with a group of women and together they purchased the supplies they needed--bread, lettuce, and chickens. And off they went to cook. The women brought food to the mass meetings that followed at the church. They sold sandwiches. They sold dinners in their neighborhoods. As the boycotters walked and walked, Georgia cooked and cooked. Georgia Gilmore was a cook at the National Lunch...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's spring and Dani is going to Rome for her father's wedding. But Ella is not invited; Dad said no. What will Ella think when she learns she hasn't been invited to her best friend's dad's wedding?
7) I am Jazz!
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she had a girl's brain in a boy's body. She loved pink and dressing up as a mermaid and didn't feel like herself in boys' clothing. This confused her family, until they took her to a doctor who said that Jazz was transgender and that she was born that way.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Talking about others makes Sister feel like she is special, even if what is said might not be true. But when rumors are spread about her, Sister begins to understand just how hurtful gossip can be"--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Meet Katherine Johnson, a brilliant mathematician who worked at NASA in the early 1950s until retiring in 1986. Katherine's unparalleled calculations (done by hand) helped plan the trajectories for NASA's Mercury and Apollo missions (including the Apollo 11 moon landing). She is said to be one of the greatest American minds of all time.
Author
Series
Junie B. Jones series volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After hearing from a classmate at kindergarten that people have monsters under their beds, Junie B. Jones is afraid to go to sleep that night.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
We woke up in the usual way, but it was not a usual day. Out on the lawn, plain as could be, stood an orange wishing tree. "I wish!" I said. "I wish!" said you. And so our double wishes grew. Wishes are a magical part of childhood. Whether we wish on stars or blow out candles on a cake, our dreams matter. Nancy Tillman captures the wonder of wishes as only she can, with love.
13) Lunchtime rules
Author
Series
Go girl! (Feiwel and Friends) volume 6
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lunchtime at school has been torture for Samantha since one of the boys said she is too small and runs too slowly to join in the sports she loves to play, but her mother has an idea that might let Samantha have fun again.
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"Selena Quintanilla's music career began at the age of nine when she started singing in her family's band. She went from using a hairbrush as a microphone to traveling from town to town to play gigs. But Selena faced a challenge: People said that she would never make it in Tejano music, which was dominated by male performers. Selena was determined to prove them wrong."--provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Meet Sadie, a real dog who works with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, in this inspiring, Level 2 Ready-to-Read based on one of the winners of the annual American Humane Association's Hero Dog Awards! Meet Sadie. Sadie has an important job as an Arson Dog with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Because her sense of smell is 100 times stronger than a human's, she helps firefighters and police officers find the causes of fires. That makes her...
Author
Series
I am Otter volume 5
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This year the Easter Bunny brought Otter lots of chocolate eggs -- her favorite! Otter Keeper said she had to share them with her friends, but sharing is very hard... and eating chocolate is very easy. Otter didn't want Teddy, Giraffe, and Pig to be sad, though. Someone had to save Easter -- and she knew just the right Otter for the job!
17) Wilma Rudolph
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Wilma was born into a family with 22 brothers and sisters, in the segregated South. She contracted polio in her early years and her doctors said she would never walk again. But Wilma persisted with treatment, and she recovered her strength by the age of 12. At school, Wilma showed a talent for basketball and sprinting, earning the nickname "Skeeter" (mosquito) as she ran so fast. Wilma was in college when she went to the 1960 Olympics. She not only...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book is based on the viral photograph of African American toddler Parker Curry, who, during a visit to the National Portrait Gallery, became mesmerized by Amy Sherald's portrait of Michelle Obama, who she thought was a queen. One rainy afternoon, Parker's mother (co-author Jessica Curry) makes the suggestion that they visit the museum, little sister Ava in tow. At the museum, they see Parker's friend Gia and her mother. The three girls dance...
19) Secret Santa
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Katie draws Andrew's name in the first-grade Christmas gift exchange, she decides not to give him a present because he has said mean things about her reindeer sweater.
Author
Series
Adventures of Sophie Mouse volume 17
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Sophie meets a ladybug setting up for a surprise party in Silverlake Forest. Sophie offers to run some errands in town to help her new friend. But by the time Sophie gets to town, she's forgotten what the ladybug said! Will Sophie's friends be able to help her in time to pull off the big surprise?"--