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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode
3) The dreamer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world
Author
Series
Tony Baloney volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tony Baloney wants to stand out from the crowd during his school's Halloween parade, but he has to make sure to keep his costume intact until then
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Discusses the Freedom Rides, an important event in the Civil Rights Movement, including the riders who risked their lives, the violence the riders faced, and the successful integration of interstate buses and terminals"--Provided by publisher
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
For twelve history-making days in May 1961, thirteen black and white civil rights activists, also known as the Freedom Riders, traveled by bus into the South to draw attention to the unconstitutional segregation still taking place. Despite their peaceful protests, the Freedom Riders were met with increasing violence the further south they traveled
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. This is the gripping, terrifying story of his escape from this no-exit prison-- to freedom in South Korea
8) Ride with me
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Language
English
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Description
"As a driver for her local ride share app, Charlie Owens loves what the open road gives her: freedom, extra cash for an epic road trip, and a path to getting out of her sleepy town ... But when a routine post-party pick-up ends with Charlie crashing into Andre, her school's notorious party boy, she's forced to make a deal to drive him anywhere he needs to go, anytime, until his car can be repaired ... But Andre's charm wins over Charlie's passengers,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When a Philadelphia girl intercepts a message about an impending British attack against her father's regiment, commanded by General Washington, in White Marsh, she travels alone by horseback to warn the Patriot army
10) Centered riding
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's/Marek
Pub. Date
©1985
Language
English
Description
Examines how proper breathing, centering, and balance enable the novice to handle the basic fundamentals of riding a horse
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Jovita didn't want to cook and clean like her sisters, and she especially didn't want to wear the skirts her abuela gave her. She wanted to race her brothers and climb the tallest mesquite trees in Rancho Palos Blancos, ride horses, and wear pants! When her father and brothers joined the Cristeros War to fight for the right to practice religion, she wanted to help. She wasn't allowed to fight, but that didn't stop her from observing how her father...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When Sharon Langley was born, amusement parks were segregated, and African American families were not allowed in. This picture book tells how a community came together--both black and white--to make a change. In the summer of 1963, because of demonstrations and public protests the Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in Maryland became desegregated and opened to all for the first time. Sharon and her parents were the first African American family to walk into...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the life Martin Luther King, Jr. Including how he organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott and African American people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights
Author
Language
English
Description
"Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to 'ride Jim Crow' on the rails, the train compartment became a contested space of leisure and work. Riding Jane Crow examines four instances of Black female railroad travel: the travel narratives of Black female intellectuals such...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1964, as the Civil Rights movement boiled over, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sent more than seven hundred college students to Mississippi to help black Americans already battling for democracy, their dignity and the right to vote. The campaign was called "Freedom Summer." But on the evening after volunteers arrived, three young civil rights workers went missing, presumed victims of the Ku Klux Klan. The disappearance...
16) Night on fire
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Hoping that the arrival of Freedom Riders in her town will help her community shed its antiquated views, thirteen-year-old Billie is forced to confront her own mindset when things turn tragic
"Personally I don't mind them coming here but they might bother some of my customers." Thirteen-year old Billie Sims has heard things like this all her life, from the grocer down the road, from her neighbors at church, from her parents. But Billie never understood...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward-written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers. At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement who left Washington, D.C. by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans. This purposeful mix of black and white, male and female activists-including future Congressman John Lewis, Congress of Racial...
Author
Publisher
Harper an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A dynamic family exchange that pivots between the voices of a father and son, The Movement Made Us is a unique work of oral history and memoir, chronicling the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and its living legacy embodied in Black Lives Matter. David Dennis Sr, a core architect of the movement, speaks out for the first time, swapping recollections both harrowing and joyful with David Jr, a journalist working on the...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"The traces of the Underground Railroad hide in plain sight: a great church in Philadelphia; a humble old house backing up to the New Jersey Turnpike; an industrial outbuilding in Ohio. Over the course of four years, David Goodrich rode his bicycle 3,000 miles east of the Mississippi to travel the routes of the Underground Railroad and delve into the history and stories in the places where they happened. He followed the most famous of conductors,...
20) Elijah of Buxton
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom
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