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1) Rain Rising
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rain is keeping a big secret from everyone around her: She's sad. All the time. Rain struggles with her image and feels inferior to her best friend, Nara. Not even her all-star student-athlete big brother (and personal superhero), Xander, can help Rain with her dark thoughts and low self-esteem.
And when Xander becomes the victim of violence at a predominantly white university, Rain’s life and mind take a turn for the worse. But when her favorite...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arriving in America, the so-called beautiful country, Anna, a young Taiwanese girl, finds it anything but beautiful as she and her family struggle to make a place for themselves in this world and learn the true meaning of home.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a rocky first year, Anna's family have settled into life in California--their small restaurant is even turning a profit. Then her parents make a shattering discovery: their visas have expired. Anna's world is quickly overwhelmed by unfamiliar words like "undocumented" and "inequality." She longs to share the towering secret that looms over every aspect of her life with a friend, but her parents strictly forbid her from telling anyone. As Anna...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Trace's relationship with his older brother Will becomes increasingly complicated after Will suffers a traumatic brain injury and becomes addicted to pain pills"--
Trace Reynolds has always looked up to his brother, mostly because Will, who is five years older, has never looked down on him. When Will was knocked out cold during a football game, resulting in a brain injury, everything changed. Sixteen months later their family is still living under...
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