Kathryn Erskine
1) Mockingbird
Author
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Julian, who almost died when he was born, believes that he has a special connection to the universe because of that, and he wants to make his two moms and his sister (who turned into a black hole of discontentment when she turned fourteen) happy because he is convinced that soon he will die and travel to the dog star--but now they have moved to Maine and he resolves to also use his "uni-sense" ability to help Mr. X, their neighbor, who...
3) All of us
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
AD 330L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Friends can help us understand the world and ourselves, opening our eyes to unique cultures and ideas. In a story that travels the globe, it's easy to see how the world is a community made up of people who are more similar than we are different" --
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lily made her dad an important promise before he passed away; that she would...speak her mind at least five times. But speaking up one time, let alone five, is easier said than done. It'll be even harder now that Lily must attend public school for the first time. Fortunately, she meets curling-obsessed Hobart and quiet Dunya at the beginning of sixth grade...But when Lily and her friends are bullied by Ryan and his mean clique, she quickly discovers...
5) Seeing red
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Frederick "Red" Porter's father dies in 1972, his mother wants to sell their automobile repair shop and move her two sons back to Ohio, but Red is desperate to stop the sale even if it means unearthing some dark family secrets in a Virginia rife with racial tensions.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A harrowing picture biography of civil-rights activist and Grammy Award-winning South African singer Miriam Makeba.
"Miriam Makeba, a Grammy Award-winning South African singer, rose to fame in the hearts of her people at the pinnacle of apartheid--a brutal system of segregation similar to American Jim Crow laws. Mama Africa, as they called her, raised her voice to help combat these injustices at jazz clubs in Johannesburg; in exile, at a rally beside...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Mike, whose father is a brilliant mathematician but who has no math aptitude himself, spends the summer in rural Pennsylvania with his elderly and eccentric relatives Moo and Poppy, helping the townspeople raise money to adopt a Romanian orphan.