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Chandra is an exchange student missing her home in India as the time of Diwali, the Festival of Lights, approaches. But a friend shows her how Diwali's lights are tied to something much bigger.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 4.8 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Most of the graves here belong to Jessie's ancestors, but there is one, right at the beginning of the first line, that she knows nothing about. Who were Kimi and Pierre Lascaux?
Interest Level: Post High School Reading Level: 2.4 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Alex knows he wants to be a writer but doesn't know how to write very well. With the help of his English teacher, Alex learns how to improve his writing and how to use it to cope with family issues.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 3.1 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Emma is already under pressure from her family to plan the perfect Chinese New Year party. What will they think when she wants to have a Chinese-American version of the holiday?
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 4.2 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Dylan hates doing homework. So when his mother makes a deal with him that she'll do his homework for a day if he does her job, he takes it. How hard can it be to teach the fourth grade?
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 3.1 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Ana is sure that a special blue-green pigment will make her painting a success. When she sneaks out to another planet to buy it, she finds a friend who helps her see the beauty in her own landscape.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.8 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
A secret agency developed to reduce suicides in Japan. A lifeguard trained to help keep people alive. A woman who wants to disappear. And a chance meeting that will change everything.
Interest Level: Post High School Reading Level: 3.9 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Niyati gets a once-in-a-lifetime chance to work with Bollywood's favorite hero. But the ordinary guy whose story inspired a movie shows her what a real hero is.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.5 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
When Monica breaks up with Craig, he not only loses a girlfriend but also almost all his friends. When Craig's only brother gets lung cancer, he creates a plan to make sure he doesn't lose him too.
Interest Level: Post High School Reading Level: 3.6 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
When two young boys get their first dog, they find their neighbor doesn't love their new pet as much as they do. It takes an unexpected crisis to change hearts and break down invisible fences.
Interest Level: Late Elementary Reading Level: 3.7 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Newspaper editor James Miller tries to avoid thinking about the Vietnam War, but when the war intrudes on his own home and workplace, he has to make the choice to stand up for what's right.
Interest Level: Post High School Reading Level: 5.1 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
When real life brings problems her way, Leila escapes in her imagination to exciting places like New York and Paris. But when her problems get too big to escape, she has to learn to face reality.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.0 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Lily knows that her ADHD comes with strengths, but she experiences those strengths for the first time when she works with Tica to assemble a Quechua mosaic.
Interest Level: Late Elementary Reading Level: 2.2 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Seashells, Spice, and Everything Nice (These First Letters, Book Two)
Sara and Destiny seem different at first, but their love of cooking helps them find what else they have in common. Together, they decide to make the world around them a better place.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 1.2 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Kai is a teenager living on the Navajo reservation who wishes he was anywhere else. A scholarship might be his way out, but his grandmother's illness changes everything.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 1.6 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Life in a new country and caring for a little brother who's sick make Nina struggle to fit in at school. But when she joins an art club and finds new friends, she becomes the Trading Card Queen.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 1.7 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Newspaper editor James Miller tries to avoid thinking about the Vietnam War, but when the war intrudes on his own home and workplace, he has to make the choice to stand up for what's right.
WARNING This title may contain mature language and topics for some readers.
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