Sisi Aisha Johnson
Author
Series
Out of my mind volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
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Description
"Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there's no delete button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school--but no one knows it. Most people--her teachers and doctors included--don't think she's capable of learning, and up until recently her school days consisted of listening to the same preschool-level alphabet lessons again and again and again. If only she could speak...
Author
Series
Girls who code volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Looking forward to joining the new coding club at school so that she can develop her app idea, Lucy is disappointed by the lukewarm reception she receives from the club's other members, who work with her to decipher mysterious coding notes.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
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Description
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
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English
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"Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the bodies when the police responded to an anonymous call...
Author
Series
Out of my mind volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
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Description
Because she loves horses but is scared of them, Melody wants to conquer her fears, so she hopes a summer camp will be the place to welcome someone with cerebral palsy who wants to learn to ride.