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Jacob follows clues that take him to a mysterious island, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's School for Peculiar Children…
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children!
!by Ransom Riggs
After his grandfather's murder, apparently by a make-believe creature, 16-year-old Jacob Portman goes to Wales to learn the truth about his grandfather's past.!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWrNyVhSJUU!
His performances are record-breaking, but the side effects are terrible…
Gym Candy by Carl Deuker
!Mick Johnson is determined not to make the same mistakes his father, a failed football hero, made. But a8er being tackled just short of the end zone in a big game, Mick begins using “gym candy,” or steroids. !!!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-mRWxKHNi4!!!!
Their love is all-consuming. It’s also dangerous…
The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet !
(Graphic Novel)!by Gareth Hinds
An adaptation of William Shakespeare’s classic play Romeo and Juliet as a graphic novel…
This summer Nina decides to change things…
The Summer I Saved the World in 65 Days
by Michele Weber HurwitzIt's summerAme, and thirteen-‐year-‐old Nina Ross is feeling kind of lost. Her beloved grandma died last year; her parents work all the Ame; her brother's busy; and her best friend is into clothes, makeup, and boys. While Nina doesn't know what "her thing" is yet, it's definitely not shopping and makeup. !This summer, Nina decides to change things. She hatches a plan. There are sixty-‐five days of summer. Every day, she'll anonymously do one small but remarkable good thing for someone in her neighborhood, and find out: does doing good actually make a difference? !hTps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpUEztoLFzg
A fascinating story of the prejudice that faced black men and women in America’s armed forces in World War II…
Port Chicago 50 by Steve Sheinkin
On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked the segregated Navy base at Port Chicago, California, killing more than 300 sailors who were at the docks, criAcally injuring off-‐duty men in their bunks, and shaTering windows up to a mile away. On August 9th, 244 men refused to go back to work unAl unsafe and unfair condiAons at the docks were addressed. When the dust seTled, fi8y were charged with muAny, facing decades in jail and even execuAon. !hTps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIFtHI6Usfg
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