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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"Troy believes El embarrassing him was some form of trickery, but as he learns about telekinesis and follows El into the woods, he encounters some strange events. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. " --
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
"The Upside Down, a place only seen before in psychic visions and nightmares. Will Byers doesn't know what to call the shadowy realm he finds himself in, but he is certain that he is alone and far away from anything close to safe. A strange shrieking monster lurks around every corner and familiar voices drift through the air from the other side. To survive, Will holds onto the lessons he's learned in the camaraderie of his friends, and the hope...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
"Troy and James head into the woods to find out what El and the gang are up to, but when they stumble upon some terrifying creatures, they have to run for their lives. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards." --
Author
Series
Bill Hefflin novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Bill Hefflin is a man apart--apart from life, apart from his homeland, apart from love. At the start of the 1989 uprising in Romania, CIA analyst Bill Hefflin--a disillusioned Romanian expat--arrives in Bucharest at the insistence of his KGB asset, code-named Boris. As Hefflin becomes embroiled in an uprising that turns into a brutal revolution, nothing is as it seems, including the search for his childhood love, which has taken on mythical proportions....
28) The 1980s
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Essays discuss the political, social, and cultural trends of the 1980s as well as such pivotal events as the Iran-Contra affair, the fall of the Berlin wall, the Challenger disaster, and the beginning of the AIDS epidemic
29) The 1980s
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Discusses the political, historical, and cultural life of the United States in the 1980s, including the end of communism, the Iran-Contra affair, and pop culture of the time.
30) Becoming Beatriz
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"In 1984 Newark, Beatriz Mendez navigates romance, gang culture, and her family's past. After her gang-leader brother is killed, Beatriz gives up her dreams of dancing in order to run the gang. But her eyes are reopened to her dream of a career in dance when the school brainiac asks her to compete in a dance competition with him--but will the gang let her go?"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"Tyler and his friends make a truce with the pirate crew to save Stef and the guys from an elder guardian; Tyler stands up to his bully. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards." --
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"1927. Olivia "Livy" West is a fearless young pilot with a love of adventure. She yearns to cross oceans and travel the skies. When she learns of the Dole Air Race -- a high-stakes contest to be the first to make the 2,400 mile Pacific crossing from the West Coast to Hawaii -- she sets her sights on qualifying. But it soon becomes clear that only men will make the cut. In a last-ditch effort to take part, Livy manages to be picked as a navigator for...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Set in 1982, in rural, racially divided Ricksville, Mississippi Wade in the Water tells the story of Ella, a black, unloved, precocious eleven-year-old, and Ms. St. James, a mysterious white woman from Princeton who appears in Ella’s community to carry out some research. Soon, Ms. St. James befriends Ella, who is willing to risk everything to keep her new friend in a town that does not want her there. The relationship between Ella and Ms. St. James,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Years after escaping Hawkins Lab, two of Dr. Brenner's former subjects seek to live normal lives. When news reaches them that the lab was shut down, they go on a harrowing search for Nine, a powerful pyrokinetic whose shattered psyche threatens to burn them all to ashes if they can't find her and free her from her own malevolent imagination. As they get closer to Nine,they'll find even more secrets buried within Hawkins Lab. Will they be able to...
Description
Javed, a British teen of Pakistani descent, is growing up in England in 1987. Amidst the racial and economic turmoil of the times, he writes poetry as a means to escape the intolerance of his hometown and the inflexibility of his traditional father. But when he is introduced to the music of 'the Boss,' Javed sees parallels to his working-class life in Springsteen's powerful lyrics.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Prepare to visit the darkest and most chilling corners of Hawkins. Dustin, Lucas, Max, and their friends want to rent videos one night. But when a blackout changes their plans, they swap seven twisted tales based on their hometown. What secrets lurk in an old asylum? Does a mutant creature live at the bottom of Lovers' Lake? Is a harmless teddy bear actually controlled by a supernatural force? These are just a few of the monstrous mysteries in this...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Marcy and Ricky rush to the facility where Nine is being kept, but when they arrive, they find it engulfed in flames; they head into the forest to find Nine and have a fiery encounter. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Most people know Andrew McCarthy from his movie roles in Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Weekend at Bernie's, and Less than Zero, and as a charter member of Hollywood's Brat Pack. That iconic group of ingenues and heartthrobs included Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, and Demi Moore, and has come to represent both a genre of film and an era of pop culture. In his memoir Brat: An '80s Story, McCarthy focuses his gaze on that singular moment...
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Series
Stranger things Science Camp volume V 4
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Dustin arrives at Camp Know Where to navigate the new social hierarchy without the support of his Hawkins adventuring party. While also faced with nerdy bullies, a new menace haunts the young scientists and camp counselors. A mysterious figure with sinister intent arrives to disrupt the serene woodland scene. When camp counselors start to disappear, the solution won't take rocket science, but Dustin will have to get on the same wavelength as Suzie...