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"As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not. In this book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories...
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Chai Masala Club romances volume 1
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English
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"Kiran Mathur knows firsthand just how dangerous love can be. After all, her sister's marriage in India nearly destroyed Kiran's family. So she's decided to redeem romance herself-by not falling for anyone who might disappoint her parents. That is, until she meets her new neighbor Nash Hawthorne..."--
Author
Series
Selection series volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon. But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition...
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"This work is based on Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, copyright © 2020 by Isabel Wilkerson. Originally published in the United States in hardcover by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC"--
The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power-- which groups have it and which do not. Wilkerson explores how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system,...
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Naruto (Manga) volume 10
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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In the village of Konohagakure, school is literally a battlefield where classmates are ninjas in training competing to become the greatest ninja in the land.
"With only a few matches left to be fought in the preliminaries to the third portion of the Journeyman Ninja Selection Exams, the highly anticipated bout between mysterious Sand ninja Gaara and intense, earnest Konoha ninja Rock Lee begins. Will Gaara's bloodlust and his strange powers of sand...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not. In this book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories...
Author
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Naruto (Manga) volume 11
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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"Now preparing for the finals of the Chunin Selection Exams, Naruto studies with naughty new mentor Jiraiya and struggles to harness the power of the Nine-Tailed Fox chakra locked within him. Meanwhile, other ninja villages are forming secret alliances against Konohagakure"--Cover.
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Naruto (Manga) volume 25
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Naruto must pass the difficult test to enter the Ninja Academy, deal with his rival Konohamaru, and learn to get along with his new classmates, Sasuke and Sakura.
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Naruto (Manga) volume 13
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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In the village of Konohagakure, school is literally a battlefield where classmates are ninjas in training competing to become the greatest ninja in the land.
Author
Series
Naruto (Manga) volume 26
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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As the battle between Naruto and his former best friend Sasuke grows more heated, Naruto fears Sasuke is willing to risk anything, including Naruto's life, to gain power over the Mangekyo.
Author
Series
Naruto (Manga) volume 1
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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As Sakura, Sasuke, and Naruto train with separate sensei, they find it is difficult to perfect their ninja training without the help of their friends.
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Naruto (Manga) volume 24
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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As Naruto continues on his quest to defeat Sasuke, Kankuro, Temari, and Gaara unexpectedly help Konohagakure against the Sound Ninja, leading all to wonder if the old alliance between Leaf and Sand may be formed once again.
Author
Series
Naruto (Manga) volume 14
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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In the village of Konohagakure, school is literally a battlefield where classmates are ninjas in training competing to become the greatest ninja in the land.
Author
Series
Naruto (Manga) volume 21
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Description
In the village of Konohagakure, school is literally a battlefield where classmates are ninjas in training competing to become the greatest ninja in the land.
16) Divergent
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
Author
Series
Naruto (Manga) volume 19
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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In the village of Konohagakure, school is literally a battlefield where classmates are ninjas in training competing to become the greatest ninja in the land.
Author
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste. His father, himself a Korean national, was lured to the new Communist country by promises of abundant work, education for his children, and a higher station in society....
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Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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$A Sakura takes her place at the front of the fight to save Naruto. With Granny Chiyo at her side, she must battle Sasori, who can create golems from the undead. But Granny Chiyo is a puppet master too - only it could be Sakura's strings she's pulling!
Naruto and Gaara face a common enemy in the Akatsuki.
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Series
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke have signed up for the Journeyman Ninja Selection Exams, which they must pass as a group; if the tests of skill, stealth, and battle prowess don't kill them, the other junior ninja just might.
"They've danced along the brink of death during training, but Naruto and friends now face their most terrifying challenge: exams! The ninja-in-training have signed up for the Chûnin Exams, which they must pass to advance to the rank...
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