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The Giver

author: Lowry, Lois, Russell, P. Craig, Bridges, Jeff, Noyce, Phillip
Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 1623
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760

Bud, Not Buddy

author: Curtis, Christopher Paul
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 620
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 950

Gathering Blue

author: Lowry, Lois
Companion book to the Newbery Award winner The Giver. Kira, an orphan with a twisted leg, lives in a world where the weak are cast aside.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 391
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680

The Chocolate War

author: Cormier, Robert, Cormier, Cormier, R
A homework pack that contains book and audio versions of "The Chocolate War," a story in which a high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fundraising drive; and includes a student worksheet and teacher's guide.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 74
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820

The Car

author: Paulsen, Gary
A teenager left on his own travels west in a kit car he built himself, and along the way picks up two Vietnam veterans, who take him on an eye-opening journey.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 46
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 900

Before We Were Free

author: Alvarez, Julia
Anita, a typically self-absorbed twelve-year-old living in the Dominican Republic in the early 1960s, is surprised to discover her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 53
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 890

Finding Miracles

author: Alvarez, Julia
Fifteen-year-old Milly Kaufman is an average American teenager until Pablo, a new student at her school, inspires her to search for her birth family in his native country.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770

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