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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved, Pulitzer Prize–winning author comes "an intimate picture of middle-class family life" (The New York Times) that challenges the notion that home is a fixed place, and celebrates the subtle complexities of life on all sides of the American experience.
Two families meet at the Baltimore airport while waiting for their baby girls...
Two families meet at the Baltimore airport while waiting for their baby girls...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set against the backdrop of Tehran and Los Angeles, this sweeping intergenerational story, examining queer identity at the end of different decades, follows three boys in the same Iranian family as they each gain a new understanding of their history, culture--and themselves.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
High school junior Leila's Persian heritage already makes her different from her classmates at Armstead Academy, and if word got out that she liked girls life would be twice as hard, but when a new girl, Saskia, shows up, Leila starts to take risks she never thought she would, especially when it looks as if the attraction between them is mutual, so she struggles to sort out her growing feelings by confiding in her old friends.
Author
Series
Darius the Great volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Darius Kellner has everything he thought he wanted--a new boyfriend, a new internship, and a spot on the soccer team--but growing up makes him question everything"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fleeing to Rome in the wake of coming out to his Muslim family, a failed relationship, and blackmail, eighteen-year-old Amir Azadi embarks on a more authentic life with new friends and dates in the Sistine Chapel before an encounter with a U.S. Customs officer places his hard-won freedom at risk.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Colonel Behrani, once a wealthy man in Iran, is now a struggling immigrant willing to bet everything he has to restore his family's dignity. Kathy Nicolo is a troubled young woman whose house is all she has left, and who refuses to let her hard-won stability slip away from her. Sheriff Lester
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Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Despite the strained relationship between them, teenaged Sami Sabiri risks his life to uncover the truth when his father is implicated in a terrorist plot.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Best friends Parisa Naficy and Gabriela Gonzales grapple with the complexities of their relationship even while they spend their senior year apart due to a pandemic that disproportionately affects young people.