Shana Burg
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Laugh with the Moon Thirteen-year-old Clare Silver is stuck. Stuck in denial about her mother’s recent death. Stuck in the African jungle for sixty-four days without phone reception. Stuck with her father, a doctor who seems able to heal everyone but Clare. Clare feels like a fish out of water at Mzanga Full Primary School, where she must learn a new language. Soon, though, she becomes immersed in her new surroundings and impressed with her fellow...
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
As the civil rights movement in the South gains momentum in 1963 and violence against African-Americans intensifies, residents of the small town of Kuckachoo, Mississippi, including seventh-grader Addie Ann Pickett, begin their own courageous struggle for racial justice.