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. Just another hero

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Author:
Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Series:
Jericho trilogy volume 3.
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East Regional - Young Adult
YA DRAPER
Holly Springs Community - Young Adult
YA DRAPER
Northeast Regional - Young Adult
YA DRAPER
Description:
As Kofi, Arielle, Dana, November, and Jericho face personal challenges during their last year of high school, a misunderstood student brings a gun to class and demands to be taken seriously.

2. 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
YA POWELL
Middlecreek Community - Young Adult
YA POWELL
Description:
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.

3. The porcupine of truth

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Author:
Konigsberg, Bill
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Athens Drive Community - Young Adult Fiction
YA KONIG
North Regional - Young Adult
YA KONIGSBE
Southeast Regional - Young Adult
YA KONIGSBE
Description:
Seventeen-year-old Carson Speier is bored of Billings, Montana, and resentful that he has to help his mother take care of his father, a dying alcoholic whom he has not seen in fourteen years--but then he meets Aisha, a beautiful African American girl who has run away from her own difficult family, and together they embark on a journey of discovery that may help them both come to terms with their lives.

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.