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Beka Cooper volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
BEKA COOPER IS a rookie with the Provost's Guard, and she's been assigned to the Lower City. It's a tough beat, but Beka can hear the voices of the dead on the wings of pigeons, and Beka's birds clue her in to two major murderers on the loose. The rest of the Guard is busy investigating the fire opal killer, so it's up to Beka to nab the Shadow Snake.Tamora Pierce begins a new Tortall trilogy introducing Beka Cooper, a young woman who lived 200 years...
2) Bloodhound
Author
Series
Beka Cooper volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having been promoted from "Puppy" to "Dog," Beka, now a full-fledged member of the Provost's Guard, and her former partner head to a neighboring port city to investigate a case of counterfeit coins.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.
Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
4) Light it up
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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A girl walks home from school. She's tall for her age. She's wearing her winter coat. Her headphones are in. She's hurrying. She never makes it home. In the aftermath, while law enforcement tries to justify the response, one fact remains: a police officer has shot and killed an unarmed thirteen-year-old girl. The community is thrown into upheaval, leading to unrest, a growing movement to protest the senseless taking of black lives, and the arrival...
5) Sulfur heart
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Will returns home after his father is killed under mysterious circumstances.
6) Dear Martin
Author
Publisher
Ember
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
Author
Publisher
Square Fish, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In Joseon Dynasty-era Korea, a sixteen-year-old indentured servant within the police bureau named Seol becomes entangled in the politically-charged investigation into the murder of a noblewoman. -- Provided by publisher.
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