John Coy
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Picture Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Discover the true story of how in 1944, Coach John McLendon orchestrated a secret game between the best players from a white college and his team from the North Carolina College of Negroes. At a time of widespread segregation and rampant racism, this illegal gathering changed the sport of basketball forever"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Jackson lives for baseball, but becomes distracted by the approach of middle school, his mother's latest boyfriend, and the presence of a girl--his good friend's sister--on his team.
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Jackson has a rough start in middle school, with bullies on the bus, few classes with his friends, and changes at home but some good teachers, meeting a girl, joining a club, and playing football soon turn things around.
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Middle-schooler Jackson's baseball skills are not of much help when he and his friends go to soccer camp, and while there he learns that his mother's boyfriend has invited them to move into his house, and friend Diego's father is deployed to Afghanistan.
9) Box out
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
High school sophomore Liam jeopardizes his new position on the varsity basketball team when he decides to take a stand against his coach who is leading prayers before games and enforcing teamwide participation.
11) Gap life
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Despite acceptance from his father's college, Cray decides to take a gap year with Rayne, who helps him find a job at a home for developmentally disabled adults, and he learns more about himself and others than any university could teach him.
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Jackson confronts many challenges in his first year of middle school as his mother plans to get married, the best player on his basketball team leaves, he needs to ask a girl to go to a school dance with him, and his best friend's father is injured in Afghanistan.
14) Vroomaloom zoom
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Daddy takes Carmela on an imaginary car ride, lulling her to sleep with various sounds, from the wurgle lurgle of swamps to the hoopty doopty swoopty loopty of driving in circles.
15) Around the world
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Portrays a gritty game of street basketball, "Around the world," being played literally around the world, from New York to Australia to China, and elsewhere, and then back to New York.
16) Gearing
Author
Publisher
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
18) Shasta Dam
Author
Publisher
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Pub. Date
2006?]
Language
English
Description
Shasta Dam, Central Valley Project, California.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In this unique collaboration, four authors lyrically explore where they each come from-literally and metaphorically. Richly layered illustrations connect past and present in this accessible and visually striking look at history, family, and identity"--