Natasha Deen
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
The people of fourteenth-century Florence, Italy, starving after years of bad weather and natural disasters, now face the Black Plague but twelve-year-old Maria is determined to survive. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion question.
4) Terminate
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
After a friend goes missing, Josie begins to investigate why so many homeless teenagers with beaten bodies are being found dead in the city.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"It's the third day of summer vacation, and Lark's halmoni--that's Korean for grandmother--has promised to take Lark and her twin brother, Connor, to the library. The only trouble is, they arrive to discover that Mrs. Robinson, the town librarian, has lost her key. Can rookie detectives Lark and Connor solve the mystery of the missing key?"--Back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Nira Ghani has always dreamed of becoming a musician. Her Guyanese parents, however, have big plans for her to become a scientist or doctor. Nira's grandmother and her best friend, Emily, are the only people who seem to truly understand her desire to establish an identity outside of the one imposed on Nira by her parents. When auditions for jazz band are announced, Nira realizes it's now or never to convince her parents that she deserves a chance...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Aspiring screenwriter Altuna Rashad has big plans for the last summer before she leaves Ontario, California, for the college in Georgia, the most important of which is securing the loving attention of her crush, Tristan Dangerfield; however she also has to get out from the obsessive over-protectiveness of her older brother, Robby, who mocks their family's devotion to the old Caribbean traditions and superstitions, while grieving the loss of his life...
10) The ghost tree
Author
Series
Spooky sleuths volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"When Asim moves to a new town, he must save his new teacher when an evil spirit from Guyanese folklore begins to wreak havoc"--
11) Burned
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
After a fire kills Josie's family, she is living on the streets while she finds a way to bring her family's killer to justice.
12) Nothing but net
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Layla's hard work pays off when she moves from a substitute to starting player and captain of the basketball team, but her best friend and teammate Danika causes trouble.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Twelve-year-old Jasmine Lopez loves exploring the coral reefs around Fiji where her marine biologist parents are stationed, and though young, she is already a certified scuba diver, a fact that her ten-year-old brother Arjun seems to resent; in fact he seems to believe he already knows everything about diving, and certainly does not want help from his older sister--until his overconfidence and defiance leads them both into a confrontation with a reef...