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A teacher returns to school following their gender reassignment with a short tale from the ocean that they've written to help explain their new identity to their students.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.2 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Yijia's fifth-grade self has a knack for attracting attention from Mrs. Lou... but not the good kind of attention. One moment stands out in particular, one that she just can't ever forget.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 4.4 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
A famine threatens the village, and Fayola will do anything to keep her son from going hungry. Her situation quickly goes from bad to worse . . . but perhaps fortune will smile on her in the end.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 5.9 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Mateo's best friend Kat Nguyen breaks up with him, and he’s far from over it. He has to win her back, but how? The 1950s book "5 Steps to Win Her Heart" just might be the answer he’s looking for.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 1.1 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
When Aubree suggests stealing a rival high school's mascot right before the big game, she doesn't think her crush, Finn, will actually take her up on it. This is sure to be a night to remember.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.8 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Aunt Delly has always told Noelle that naughty children get taken away. But when Noelle comes to find herself "stolen" by the roaders, it's nothing like what she's been told.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 1.9 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Twelve-year-old Itanya works in a Kenyan factory with her mother in order to scrape by. Her dream is to eat and learn and live like a "normal child," but that dream feels so far from reach.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 3.3 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Zach uses his imagination to create a movie script about the Drake family. Maddy objects to Zach’s idea that, “all stories are true, and some of them actually happened."
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 2.7 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
In the final chapter of The Drake House Outhouse, Maddy and Zach have wrapped up their version of what happened in their corner of the world back in the days of the early pioneers.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 3.8 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Samar struggles to fit in at a new school. One classmate bullies her for being Muslim, and her friend Mina hates Christians. Can she help friends of different faiths find common ground?
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.4 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Huda and Asif are childhood friends growing up in Iraq whose innocence is lost as they take different paths in life. This is the story of a friendship torn apart by the harsh realities of the world.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 4.9 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Andrew's chronic illness makes his world grow smaller every day as his parents try to keep him safe. All he needs is one person to understand that there's more to living than staying alive.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.4 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Every time Jana gets used to a place and really starts to like it and make new friends, her mom tells her it's time to leave. Is this really happening again?
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 4.3 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Asa and her fellow fairies live happily in their small village... until nearby fairy villages are suddenly destroyed and Asa realizes her village might be next. Can she find help before it's too late?
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 5.5 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
They used to play together. They were best friends before they were separated by their countries, their tribes, and the war between them. Will Orchidea's and Roziel's paths ever cross again?
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 4.0 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
With her dark skin and coiled hair, Alicia doesn't look like the woman on the magazine cover. This leads her to question beauty: what does it mean to be beautiful? Is she? Can she ever be?
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 4.7 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Valuable jewelry is stolen along with a scrapbook of an old man's memories of being held as a boy in a Japanese-American internment camp in WWII. It's up to the People Movers to investigate.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.6 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
The People Movers bandmates risk everything to reunite Jorge, a refugee child, with the parents he's been separated from and get them out of an immigrant detention facility in Texas..
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.7 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Noah is angry, and getting bullied at his new school doesn't help. But when he befriends the principal's daughter, Noah learns how art and friendship can help him heal.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.0 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Elena's heart is set on Troy, but she doesn't know if he feels the same way about her. Can she resist the dark magic of a love potion that could make sure he does?
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 2.2 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Lester, a skeptical young man, is patrolling the village cemetery for his first night as the graveyard lookout. He expects a silent night, but it ends up being anything but quiet.
Interest Level: Post High School Reading Level: 4.6 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
