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Struggle for Freedom

Description: Freshman,HMH, Collection 2: Independent Reading Choices

Rank Title Author Added

1

March: Book Three

1,509 members

95 reviews

½ 4.6

3 Members: hipdeep, cej1027, gghslibrary

2

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

by Jeannette Walls

20,617 members

797 reviews

4.2

2 Members: dara85, gghslibrary

3

by Laurie Halse Anderson

6,412 members

238 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, gghslibrary

4

by Lauren Oliver

2,314 members

202 reviews

4

2 Members: dara85, gghslibrary

5

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

by Mildred D. Taylor

11,808 members

382 reviews

3.9

2 Members: cej1027, gghslibrary

6

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

32,981 members

328 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, gghslibrary

7

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

by Malala Yousafzai

6,456 members

269 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, gghslibrary

8

Jefferson's Sons

by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

515 members

27 reviews

4.2

2 Members: cej1027, gghslibrary

9

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

by Avi

6,785 members

147 reviews

4

2 Members: dara85, gghslibrary

10

The Scorpio Races

by Maggie Stiefvater

3,465 members

270 reviews

4.2

Member: gghslibrary

11

by Kirby Larson

1,649 members

95 reviews

4.1

2 Members: dara85, gghslibrary

12

Girl in the Blue Coat

by Monica Hesse

1,071 members

38 reviews

4

2 Members: dara85, gghslibrary

13

by Holly Goldberg Sloan

2,775 members

220 reviews

4.2

Member: gghslibrary

14

The Bitter Side of Sweet

by Tara Sullivan

256 members

18 reviews

4.2

Member: gghslibrary

15

by Kelley Skovron

164 members

11 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: gghslibrary

16

by Lindsay Smith

261 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gghslibrary

17

The Passion of Dolssa

458 members

25 reviews

4.2

Member: gghslibrary

18

Where Things Come Back

by John Corey Whaley

1,148 members

77 reviews

3.8

Member: gghslibrary

19

by Nancy Werlin

1,781 members

124 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gghslibrary

20

by Sherri L. Smith

949 members

46 reviews

3.9

Member: gghslibrary

21

Rose Under Fire

by Elizabeth Wein

1,260 members

98 reviews

4.2

Member: gghslibrary

22

1,869 members

160 reviews

3.9

Member: gghslibrary

23

602 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: gghslibrary

24

by Sandra Neil Wallace

68 members

2 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: gghslibrary

25

Death on the River

36 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: gghslibrary

26

The Space Between Trees

by Katie Williams

170 members

14 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: gghslibrary

27

The Winter Place

by Alexander Yates

45 members

1 review

4

Member: gghslibrary

28

A Northern Light

by Jennifer Donnelly

3,970 members

173 reviews

4

Member: gghslibrary

29

Elijah of Buxton

by Christopher Paul Curtis

3,569 members

114 reviews

4.1

Member: gghslibrary

30

The Tyrant's Daughter

by J.C. Carleson

348 members

44 reviews

3.8

Member: gghslibrary

31

by Caragh M. O'Brien

1,642 members

121 reviews

3.8

Member: gghslibrary

32

by Tara Sullivan

219 members

12 reviews

4.1

Member: gghslibrary

33

Every Last Word

by Tamara Ireland Stone

1,130 members

34 reviews

4.1

Member: gghslibrary

34

Walk on Earth a Stranger

874 members

54 reviews

4

Member: gghslibrary

35

The Impossible Knife of Memory

by Laurie Halse Anderson

1,380 members

84 reviews

4

Member: gghslibrary

36

Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow

by Jessica Day George

910 members

68 reviews

3.8

Member: gghslibrary

37

Silver in the Blood

by Jessica Day George

337 members

29 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: gghslibrary

38

The Weight of Feathers

by Anna-Marie McLemore

422 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gghslibrary

39

Boys Don't Knit

by T. S. Easton

206 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: gghslibrary

40

Eleanor and Park

by Rainbow Rowell

9,105 members

639 reviews

4.1

Member: gghslibrary

41

by Tahereh Mafi

6,368 members

353 reviews

3.8

Member: gghslibrary

42

The Scorpion Rules

562 members

58 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gghslibrary

43

The Oathbreaker's Shadow

by Amy McCulloch

134 members

10 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: gghslibrary

44

The Witch of Salt and Storm

by Kendall Kulper

36 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: gghslibrary

45

Velvet Undercover

91 members

1 review

3.9

Member: gghslibrary

46

Out of Darkness

by Ashley Hope Pérez

434 members

27 reviews

4.1

Member: gghslibrary

47

Come August, Come Freedom: The Bellows, The Gallows, and The Black General Gabriel

by Gigi Amateau

103 members

8 reviews

4

Member: gghslibrary

48

by Mary Jane Auch

486 members

24 reviews

4

Member: gghslibrary

49

City of Orphans

by Avi

519 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gghslibrary

50

Sophia's War: A Tale of the Revolution

by Avi

659 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gghslibrary

51

The Tightrope Walkers

by David Almond

108 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: gghslibrary

52

by Lucy Christopher

1,880 members

141 reviews

3.9

Member: gghslibrary

53

by Victoria Aveyard

9,061 members

350 reviews

3.8

Member: gghslibrary

54

by C. J. Redwine

809 members

69 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: gghslibrary

55

An Ember in the Ashes

5,078 members

214 reviews

4

Member: gghslibrary

56

I'll Give You the Sun

by Jandy Nelson

3,551 members

165 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: gghslibrary

57

The Smell of Other People's Houses

by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock

570 members

33 reviews

4

Member: gghslibrary

58

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

38,592 members

435 reviews

3.9

Member: gghslibrary

59

by Daphne Du Maurier

20,795 members

613 reviews

4.2

Member: gghslibrary

60

The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963

by Christopher Paul Curtis

7,487 members

397 reviews

4.1

Member: gghslibrary

61

The Storyteller

by Jodi Picoult

3,573 members

167 reviews

4.1

Member: gghslibrary

62

by Lauren Oliver

1,308 members

79 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: gghslibrary

63

The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly

by Stephanie Oakes

487 members

30 reviews

4

Member: gghslibrary

64

Because I am Furniture

by Thalia Chaltas

466 members

37 reviews

3.8

Member: gghslibrary

65

Snow Like Ashes

1,474 members

70 reviews

3.8

Member: gghslibrary

66

The False Prince

by Jennifer A. Nielsen

2,933 members

161 reviews

4.1

Member: gghslibrary

67

Code Name Verity

by Elizabeth Wein

4,836 members

387 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: gghslibrary

68

by Daniel Chacon

17 members

1 review

3

Member: gghslibrary

69

Washington Black

2,289 members

135 reviews

3.9

Member: gghslibrary

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Started: gghslibrary
November 2016
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