Walter Dean Myers
1) Monster
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
2) Slam!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.
3) Kick
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Told in their separate voices, thirteen-year-old soccer star Kevin and police sergeant Brown, who knew his father, try to keep Kevin out of juvenile hall after he is arrested on very serious charges.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.
6) Dracula
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"Jonathan Harker is travelling to Castle Dracula to see the Transylvanian noble, Count Dracula. He is begged by locals not to go there, because on the eve of St. George's Day, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will come full sway. But business must be done, so Jonathan makes his way to the Castle - and then his nightmare begins. His beloved wife Meena and other lost souls have fallen under the Count's horrifying spell....
9) Dear America: My Name is America - The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins, A World War II Soldier
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Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Fifteen interrelated stories explore different aspects of love, such as a dying father's determination to help start a family business--a beauty salon--and the relationship of two teens who plan to remain celibate until they marry.
15) Harlem: a poem
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Pub. Date
©1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A poem celebrating the people, sights, and sounds of Harlem.
16) Invasion
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Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In May of 1944 Josiah Wedgewood, a recruit for the US Army, sees in the "colored" regimen a black man he thinks he knows. Closer inspection shows the man to be his friend, Marcus Perry, and the two are glad to meet each other again in the fight against the Nazis. However, as the war heats up the future of these two young men is far from certain as they learn what it really means to fight.
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Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Traces the 1839 revolt of Africans against their Spanish captors aboard the slave ship Amistad, their landing in the United States and arrest for piracy and murder, and trials which ended in their acquittal by the Supreme Court.