Sherri L Smith
1) Orleans
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Set in a futuristic, hostile Orleans landscape, Fen de la Guerre must deliver her tribe leader's baby over the Wall into the Outer States before her blood becomes tainted with Delta Fever"--Provided by publisher.
2) Flygirl
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Journeyman toymaker Stefan Drosselmeyer is recruited by his mysterious cousin, Christian, to find a mythical nut that will save Boldavia's princess and his own kidnapped father from a fanatical Mouse Queen and her seven-headed Mouse Prince, who have sworn to destroy the Drosselmeyer family.
4) Pasadena
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Language
English
Description
When Jude's best friend is found dead in a California swimming pool, her family calls it an accident, her friends call it suicide, but Jude calls it murder, and the suspects are family and friends.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, seventeen-year-old kamikaze pilot Taro and fifteen-year-old war worker Hana meet in 1945 Japan, he with no future and she, haunted by the past. Includes historical notes and glossary.
Japan 1945. Taro is a talented violinist and a kamikaze pilot in the days before his first and only mission. He believes he is ready to die for his country . . . until he meets Hana. Hana hasn't been the same since the day she was buried alive in...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Lucy, the largest girl in her school, leaves her small Alaska town and her alcoholic father and discovers hardship--and friendship--posing as an adult aboard a commercial fishing boat.