Sharon M Draper
Author
Series
Out of my mind volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town.
3) Copper sun
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
4) Double Dutch
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Three eighth-grade friends, preparing for the International Double Dutch Championship jump rope competition in their home town of Cincinnati, Ohio, cope with Randy's missing father, Delia's inability to read, and Yo Yo's encounter with the class bullies.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A teenaged boy's death in a hazing accident has lasting effects on his pregnant girlfriend and his guilt-ridden cousin, who gives up a promising music career to play football during his senior year in high school.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Keisha Montgomery's junior year was devastating. Her best friend died, and her ex-boyfriend committed suicide. But Keisha is getting her life back on track. She's been elected senior class president, and she has met Jonathan Hathaway, the new 23-year-old track coach. Tall and handsome, Jonathan actually talks to Keisha like she's a woman instead of a girl. But when this forbidden relationship takes a frightening turn, Keisha once again finds herself...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
As Kofi, Arielle, Dana, November, and Jericho face personal challenges during their last year of high school, a misunderstood student brings a gun to class and demands to be taken seriously.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover that they attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet, but are harrassed by a gang whose members object to their interracial dating.
12) Blended
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Piano-prodigy Isabella, eleven, whose black father and white mother struggle to share custody, never feels whole, especially as racial tensions affect her school, her parents both become engaged, and she and her stepbrother are stopped by police.
13) Out of my heart
Author
Series
Out of my mind volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Because she loves horses but is scared of them, Melody wants to conquer her fears, so she hopes a summer camp will be the place to welcome someone with cerebral palsy who wants to learn to ride.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1957, Sylvia Patterson's life--that of a normal African American teenager--is disrupted by the impending integration of Little Rock's Central High when she is selected to be one of the first black students to attend the previously all white school. Includes author's note and related websites.
Author
Series
Sassy stories volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Fashion-savy Sassy does not like being the smallest student in her fourth-grade class, until a family emergency calls for a pint-sized hero.
Author
Series
Sassy stories volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
While in Florida to celebrate her Grammy's birthday, nine-and-a-half-year-old Sassy worries that an approaching hurricane will ruin not only the party, but a nest of sea turtle eggs, as well. Includes facts about hurricanes and sea turtles.
Author
Series
Sassy stories volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Because she has a terrible singing voice, fourth-grader Sassy must use a different talent to be part of her school's musical performance on the importance of saving our planet. Includes "Fifteen ways that you can help save our earth."