02634cam a2200409 i 4500 623623470 TxAuBib 20191120120000.0 181005s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018041547 9780553534221 trade hardcover 055353422X trade hardcover (OCoLC)1056201217 DLC DLC eng eng rda rda rda DLC BDX rda DLC YDX TOH ILC OI6 UAB OCLCO TXW OCLCF NYP EHH NZAUC OCLCQ MSC TxAuBib BDX YDX TOH ILC OI6 UAB OCLCO TXW OCLCF NYP EHH NZAUC OCLCQ MSC TxAuBib rda Budhos, Marina Tamar, author. The Long Ride / By Marina Budhos. First edition. New York : Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, 2019. 200 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier In the tumult of 1970s New York City, seventh graders are bussed from their neighborhood in Queens to integrate a new school in South Jamaica. Jamila Clarke. Josie Rivera. Francesca George. Three mixed-race girls, close friends whose immigrant parents worked hard to settle their families in a neighborhood with the best schools. The three girls are outsiders there, but they have each other. Now, at the start seventh grade, they are told they will be part of an experiment, taking a long bus ride to a brand-new school built to "mix up the black and white kids." Their parents don't want them to be experiments. Francesca's send her to a private school, leaving Jamila and Josie to take the bus ride without her. While Francesca is testing her limits, Josie and Jamila find themselves outsiders again at the new school. As the year goes on, the Spanish girls welcome Josie, while Jamila develops a tender friendship with a boy--but it's a relationship that can exist only at school. HL590L Lexile. Decoding demand: 89 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 83 (very high) Structure demand: 89 (very high) Lexile. Accelerated Reader AR MG 3.9 5 504400. 20191120. School integration Juvenile fiction. Friendship Juvenile fiction. Junior high schools Juvenile fiction. Race relations Fiction. Racially mixed people Juvenile fiction. Children's stories. Historical fiction. Fiction. TXKPL