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Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Since losing both of her parents, fifteen-year-old Katie can see and talk to ghosts, which makes her a loner until fellow student Law sees her drawing of a historic house and together they seek a treasure rumored to be hidden there by illegal slave-traders.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In 1974, the first year of busing in Boston, Massachusetts, seventeen-year-old Ann Ahern's lesbianism, which has isolated her from other white students, draws her to her African French teacher and leads her to insights into Blacks' struggles in the post-Civil Rights era.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After his father dies and his mother goes into rehab, Eddie moves from the suburbs into his cousin's Boston loft, where he gradually adjusts to being one of the few white kids in a progressive private school, and learns how to feel like a normal teenager.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bused across town to a school in a white neigborhood of Boston in 1974, a young African American boy named Brewster describes his first day in first grade. Includes historical notes on the court-ordered busing.
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