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1) Ghost boys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
A powerful coming-of-age story about a girl whose encounters with loss, broken friendships, and newfound faith leave her forever changed, from Printz Honor winner and Morris Award Finalist Jessie Ann Foley
When Wendy Boychuck's father, a Chicago cop, was escorted from their property in handcuffs, she knew her life would never be the same. Her father gets a years-long jail sentence, her family falls on hard times, and the whispers around their neighborhood...
5) Panic
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When aspiring performer Madelaine finds a poem that helps her finish a song she is writing, she decides to find the author in hopes of starting a collaboration."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the city of Chicago tries to recover from the violent gang rule of the Death Mob, Lia Finch, a sixteen-year-old girl with severe asthma, works with an unexpected network of strangers to discover the truth behind her father's murder.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.
Author
Series
Maya and the rising dark volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this highly anticipated sequel, Maya and the godlings must return to the sinister world of The Dark to retrieve the one thing keeping the veil between the worlds from crumbling: her father's soul. Perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky and Willa of the Wood.
Author
Series
Jake and the League volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a disastrous 6th grade year, Jake is waiting for 7th grade where he hopes to start over. Jake's problems get bigger before they get better.
Author
Series
Jake and the League volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a Back-to-School night that became a frenzied fight for survival, seventh grade has finally settled down for Jake...that all changes when dangerous intruders descend on the historic Chicago hotel Jake calls home...
14) Simon B. Rhymin'
Author
Series
Simon B. Rhymin' volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Chicago fifth-grader Simon, an aspiring rapper who lacks self-confidence, uses his rhymes to help bring his community together.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Maya Aziz, seventeen, is caught between her India-born parents world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil, when a terrorist attack changes her life forever.
17) Hold fast
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
On a cold winter day in Chicago, Early's father disappeared, and now she, her mother and her brother have been forced to flee their apartment and join the ranks of the homeless--and it is up to Early to hold her family together and solve the mystery surrounding her father.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.
Author
Series
Black Panther. Young prince volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"He felt the mesh of the Vibranium under his fingertips, smooth yet hard at the same time. It almost seemed like it pulsed. Like it wanted to be worn. 'This is the suit of the Black Panther,' T'Challa whispered. 'The suit of my father and his father before him.' He let the fabric fall from his hands and unfurl toward the floor. 'I have to do this,' he said. 'I have no choice.'"--Page [4] of cover.
20) Green thumbs-up!
Author
Series
Friendship garden volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Third-grader Anna has had trouble making friends since her family moved from a small town in New York to Chicago, but a group project at school leads to new opportunities, including friendships, a club, and a garden she can work in, just like in her last home.