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Lexile/Reading Level
660L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

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Hiroshima

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Hiroshima, A Novella by Laurence Yep is a colorful and compelling story about the terrible and twisted story of the bombing of the Japanese City, Hiroshima. This powerful book follows two Japanese girls, Sachi and Riko, who are forced to work for the Japanese military in the city. Their lives are changed forever when the Enola Gay, a US bomber, drops one bomb on the city, the Atom Bomb. Now Hiroshima and the girls have to overcome the terrible bombing. In the midst of all the bombing and killing, Sachi and Riko are forced to flee the city.Later Sachi travels to America for plastic surgery to help with her scars.

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Wonder

I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse.

August (Auggie) Pullman was born with a facial deformity that prevented him from going to a mainstream school—until now. He’s about to start 5th grade at Beecher Prep, and if you’ve ever been the new kid then you know how hard that can be. The thing is Auggie’s just an ordinary kid, with an extraordinary face. But can he convince his new classmates that he’s just like them, despite appearances?

R. J. Palacio has written a spare, warm, uplifting story that will have readers laughing one minute and wiping away tears the next. With wonderfully realistic family interactions (flawed, but loving), lively school scenes, and short chapters, Wonder is accessible to readers of all levels.

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