Young Adult - High Interest Low Readability (High - Low) (copy)

These are books intended for an older, more mature, audience (young adults). They feature themes and topics that are high interest for this age group while also being low readability (lower reading levels/Lexile Levels). It sets struggling older readers up for reading success. copied from /MyAccount/MyList/52947 - List: Young Adult - High Interest Low Readability (High - Low)
 

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1. Eleanor & Park

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Author:
Rowell, Rainbow
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4.3 stars
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"Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try"--

2. Forever

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Author:
Blume, Judy
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East Regional - Young Adult
YA BLUME
Morrisville Community - Young Adult
YA BLUME
Northeast Regional - Young Adult has 2
YA BLUME
Description:
Katherine and Michael, along with various friends and acquaintances in suburban New Jersey, discover the possibilities and limitations of love and personal commitment. Two high school seniors believe their love to be so strong that it will last forever.

3. Loving vs. Virginia: a documentary novel of the landmark civil rights case

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Author:
Powell, Patricia Hruby, 1951-
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East Regional - Young Adult
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Middlecreek Community - Young Adult
YA POWELL
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Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Virginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.

4. The rock and the river

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Author:
Magoon, Kekla
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In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.