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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.
A war has destroyed most of the country, and a team of young women must go on a dangerous mission to find power cells. Their camp of survivors depends on their success.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 2.3 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
The Palace is old and sad. People fear it, and for good reason. Every year, a lottery is held in town to determine who will be sent to The Palace as a sacrifice to keep the evil at bay.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.6 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Everyone deserves a place to feel welcome and safe—it’s common sense. Perry, Gael, Dawson, Marina, and Valentina fight for the creation of a Gay-Straight Alliance club.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 4.3 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
They finally have a name, a label, for Sandy: autism. With the help of Granny Tess and her lilacs, Sandy learns that she is so much more than any label and that different isn't bad; it's beautiful.
Interest Level: Post High School Reading Level: 4.9 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
“Oh yeah? I'll show you!” hollered Davy over the din of students heading to class. “I can get a prom date JUST LIKE THAT!” The question is . . . can he?
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.4 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Jade is miserable when she has to transfer to a new high school in order to avoid being held back. But she starts to see things differently after a scare at the school one night.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.7 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Gwen and her dad have their annual summer hiking trip coming up, but right now things are complicated between them. Will the time together help them to meet in the middle or drive them farther apart?
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 4.1 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
After the death of Jessica's parents she's sent to live with Great-Aunt Genevieve, who robs her of all her belongings but one: her mother's watch. But any minute now, her life will change forever.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 4.6 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Two beetle leaves, three beetle nuts, an unbroken coconut, and a five-paise coin. Will the forest goddess, Maramma, accept these offerings and heal the boy who delivers them to her?
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 3.9 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
The Goodman Public Library bake sale is a terrific success... until the money from the sale goes missing. Who would have taken it? Aariz and Annie are determined to find out.
Interest Level: Late Elementary Reading Level: 4.4 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
It's the most unlikely alliance during World War II: Naomi, a young Jewish girl; Blaze, the young soldier who should want to kill her; and Michaela, the German girl who should thank him for it.
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 2.2 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Pluto is different from other planets... kind of like Kaira is different from other people. She's all too familiar with how it feels to not fit in, but maybe things are about to change.
Interest Level: Middle School Reading Level: 3.0 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
Brittney doesn't want to hurt her best friend Beauti's feelings, but there's no way Beauti can win the Miss Libertyville High Pageant. Shouldn't Beauti know?
Interest Level: High School Reading Level: 3.1 To read this and hundreds of other great titles, contact us for more details.
