New Books Spring 2010
Fiction
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And
Twisted.
Laurie Halse Anderson
After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father,
seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but
when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his
destructive thoughts.
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Dream Factory.
Brad Barkley
Alternating chapters present the viewpoints of two teenagers who find summer employment as
costumed cartoon characters at Disney World and try to resist falling in love.
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Ben
Alice I Have Been.
Melanie Benjamin
Alice Liddell Hargreaves nears her eighty-first birthday regrets that her life has been
defined by the adventures she had seventy years ago after falling down the rabbit hole and wonders
how she can leave a more profound legacy for her children and grandchildren.
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Ben
Cassandra’s Sister: Growing Up Jane Austen.
Veronica Bennett
A fictionalized biography of Jane Austen focusing on her early life growing up with her
sister Cassandra in a large country parsonage family in southern England, and the experiences and
people which may have inspired the plots and characters of her famous novels.
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Bjo
My Invented Life.
Lauren Bjorkman
During rehearsals for Shakespeare's "As You Like It," sixteen-year-old Roz, jealous of her
cheerleader sister's acting skills and heartthrob boyfriend, invents a new identity, with
unexpected results.
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Bla
Valiant: A Modern Faerie Tale.
Holly Black
Seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City and befriends a group of very
unusual characters who live in the city's subway tunnels and soon finds herself bound into service
by a troll named Ravus.
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Bla
The Postmistress.
Sarah Blake
The lives of two women in a small Cape Cod town are impacted by the radio broadcasts of
Frankie Bard, an American journalist in London who hopes that by revealing details of World War II
she will encourage the United States to take up the cause.
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Bla
Knife Edge.
Malorie Blackman
Persephone Hadley, six-months pregnant with a mixed-race baby, risks her own life to save the
brother of the man she loves, who was hanged for terrorism months earlier.
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Blo
The Waters and the Wild.
Francesca Lia Block
Thirteen-year-old Bee realizes that she is a fairy who has been switched at birth with
another girl who now wants her life back.
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Bra
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery.
Alan Bradley
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is more
delighted than scared when a dead bird is found on the doorstep of her family's decaying mansion
with a postage stamp pinned to its beak, and a short time later she comes across a man in the
cucumber patch just as he is taking his dying breath.
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Bro
Dawn.
Kevin Brooks
Fifteen-year-old Dawn, who cares for her alcoholic mother, tries to suppress a painful
childhood memory as she contemplates killing God, whom she blames for her father's
disappearance.
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Bro
Hate List.
Jennifer Brown
Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of
their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure
herself whether she was a hero or a villain.
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Car
Soulless.
Gail Carriger
Alexia Tarabotti, a woman without a soul who is viewed as unable to marry, works with
werewolf Lord Conall Maccon to clear her name after she accidently kills a vampire and is suspected
of the disappearances of other undead members of high society.
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Cha
Because I Am Furniture.
Thalia Chaltas
The youngest of three siblings, fourteen-year-old Anke feels both relieved and neglected that
her father abuses her brother and sister but ignores her, but when she catches him with one of her
friends, she finally becomes angry enough to take action.
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Cob
Caught.
Harlan Coben
Reporter Wendy Tynes has made it her mission to bring down sexual prediators on national
television, but she begins to doubt her instincts after exposing social worker Dan Mercer until she
discovers a link between Mercer and Haley McWaid, a seventeen-year-old girl from suburban New
Jersey who has been missing for three months.
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Cob
Hold Tight.
Harlan Coben
Mike and Tia Baye, worried about their sixteen-year-old son Adam, wrestle with whether to spy
on his computer, and discover details about their son's friend Spencer's suicide while a killer
stalks the neighborhood.
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Cof
Listen.
Nancy Coffelt
The lives of three loners, eighteen-year-old Will, fourteen-year-old Kurt, and Carrie--a
middle-aged schizophrenic--intersect when Carrie, who hears the thoughts of neglected animals,
offers to pay Kurt to bring her "strays," but her rescuing brings about a dangerous
situation.
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Coh
Very LeFreak.
Rachel Cohn
Consumed with emailing, online video games, and the many distractions of her electronic
gadgets, hyper-frenetic Columbia University freshman Veronica, known as Very LeFreak, enters a
rehab facility for the technology-addicted after her professors and classmates stage an
intervention.
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Coo
A Brief History of Montmaray.
Michelle Cooper
On her sixteenth birthday in 1936, Sophia begins a diary of life in a fictional island
country off the coast of Spain, where she is among the last descendants of an impoverished royal
family trying to hold their nation together on the eve of the second World War.
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Con
L.A. Candy.
Lauren Conrad
When nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts is cast in a new reality show, she discovers that the
fame and fortune of her new life come at a high price to herself and her friendships.
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Cou
War Games.
Audre Couloumbis
What were once just boys' games become matters of life and death as Petros and his older
brother Zola each wonder if, like their resistance-fighter cousin, they too can make a difference
in a Nazi-occupied Greece.
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Cro
The Stolen One.
Suzanne Crowley
After the death of her foster mother, sixteen-year-old Kat goes to London to seek the answers
to her parentage, and surprisingly finds herself invited into Queen Elizabeth's court.
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Cur
Everything Matters!.
Ron Currie, Jr.
Junior Thibodeau comes of age in the 1980s with the knowledge that the world will end upon
his thirty-sixth year, a prophecy revealed to him in utero, which forces him to have an existential
crisis while dealing with his life and family.
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Dav
Lost.
Jacqueline Davies
In 1911 New York, sixteen-year-old Essie Rosenfeld must stop taking care of her irrepressible
six-year-old sister when she goes to work at the Triangle Waist Company, where she befriends a
missing heiress who is in hiding from her family and who seems to understand the feelings of
heartache and grief that Essie is trying desperately to escape.
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Den
Me, Myself, and Ike.
K.L. Denman
Kit and Ike are obsessed with the idea of becoming the next "Ice Man" and leaving behind
artifacts that reflect early twenty-first century life; and by the time their friends and family
discover their plan, Kit and Ike begin their journey to a nearby mountain.
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Dow
Solace of the Road.
Siobhan Dowd
While running away from a London foster home just before her fifteenth birthday, Holly has
ample time to consider her years of residential care and her early life with her Irish mother, whom
she is now trying to reach.
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Dow
A Swift Pure Cry.
Siobhan Dowd
Coolbar, Ireland, is a village of secrets and Shell, caretaker to her younger brother and
sister after the death of their mother and with the absence of their father, is not about to reveal
hers until suspicion falls on the wrong person.
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Dun
In the Coils of the Snake.
Clare B. Dunkle
After learning that the new goblin king, her promised groom, plans to marry an elf instead,
the human Miranda flees the goblin kingdom and is rescued from despair by a mysterious elf
lord.
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Eas
Hiroshima Dreams.
Kelly Easton
Lin O'Neil, a talented but shy girl growing up in Providence, Rhode Island, develops a close
relationship with her Japanese grandmother, who shares Lin's gift of precognition.
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Elk
How to Ruin my Teenage Life.
Simone Elkeles
Living with her Israeli father in Chicago, seventeen-year-old Amy Nelson-Barak feels like a
walking disaster, worried about her boyfriend in the Israeli army; her mother, new stepfather, and
the baby they are expecting; and a classmate named Nathan who has moved into her apartment building
and says she is a snob.
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Elk
How to Ruin Your Boyfriend’s Reputation.
Simone Elkeles
Spoiled Amy Nelson-Barak is excited about going to see her boyfriend, who is in the Israeli
Army, until Amy learns that she has to take basic training and her boyfriend is going to be her
commanding officer.
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Fis
Incarceron.
Catherine Fisher
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of
Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner
escape.
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Fri
For Keeps.
Natasha Friend
Just as sixteen-year-old Josie and her mother finally begin trusting men enough to start
dating seriously, the father Josie never knew comes back to town and shakes up what was already
becoming a difficult mother-daughter relationship.
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Fuq
King of the Pygmies.
Jonathon Scott Fuqua
After hearing what he believes are other peoples' thoughts, high school sophomore Penn learns
that he may have schizophrenia and makes some important decisions about how to live his
life.
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Gar
Beautiful Creatures.
Kami Garcia
In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War,
sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic
connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth
birthday.
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Geo
Princess of the Midnight Ball.
Jessica Day George
A retelling of the tale of twelve princesses who wear
out their shoes dancing every night, and of Galen, a former soldier now working in the king's
gardens, who follows them in hopes of breaking the curse.
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Gil
Right Behind You.
Gail Giles
After spending over four years in a mental institution for murdering a friend in Alaska,
fourteen-year-old Kip begins a completely new life in Indiana with his father and stepmother under
a different name, but has trouble fitting in and finds there are still problems to deal with from
his childhood.
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Gil
Soul Enchilada.
David Macinnis Gill
Eighteen-year-old Bug Smoot, having just learned that her irascible grandfather has given
away both her car and her soul in a deal with the Devil, has two days to come up with a way to
outsmart the Prince of Darkness and his demons.
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Gre
Paper Towns.
John Green
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks
in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman,
Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously
disappears.
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Gro
The Magicians.
Lev Grossman
High school senior Quentin Coldwater's real world never quite measures up to Fillory, the
enchanted land in his favorite fantasy novels, and even an education at the mysterious Brakebills
College for Magical Pedagogy leaves him without purpose, but when he discovers a way into Fillory,
his life becomes a dangerous adventure.
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Hab
The Pluto Project.
Melissa Glenn Haber
As his home life spirals downward and hope for a romance sputters out, thirteen-year-old Alan
Green tries to convince his friends that their spying game has uncovered a real conspiracy to
assassinate the governor.
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Han
The Summer I Turned Pretty.
Jenny Han
Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her
life, but this time things are very different as she finds herself falling for a boy she has known
since childhood.
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Her
The Great Wide Sea.
M.H. Herlong
Still mourning the death of their mother, three brothers go with their father on an extended
sailing trip off the Florida Keys and have a harrowing adventure at sea.
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Hoo
A Samurai Never Fears Death.
Dorothy Hoobler
Returning home to investigate the possible connection of his family's tea shop with
smugglers, Seikei, now a samauri in eighteenth-century Japan, becomes involved in murder at a local
puppet theater and saving the life of his sister's accused boyfriend.
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Hub
The Secret Year.
Jennifer R. Hubbard
Reading the journal of the high-society girl he was secretly involved with for a year helps
high school senior Colt cope with her death and come closer to understanding why she needed him
while continuing to be the girlfriend of a wealthy classmate.
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Hun
The Everafter.
Amy Huntly
After her death, seventeen-year-old Maddy finds a way to revisit moments in her life by using
objects that she lost while she was alive, and she thereby attempts to figure out the complicated
emotions, events, and meaning of her existence.
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Ibb
The Landing.
John Ibbitson
Ben, who manages to grab some practice on his violin between chores at his Uncle Henry's
business at Cooks Landing, gets a job fixing the grand old cottage on Pine Island and meets Ruth, a
rich, cultured woman from New York who introduces Ben to a new, more liberating world until a storm
on Lake Muskoka changes everything.
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Joh
Sweet, Hereafter.
Angela Johnson
Sweet leaves her family and goes to live in a cabin in the woods with the quiet but
understanding Curtis, to whom she feels intensely connected, just as he is called back to serve
again in Iraq.
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Joh
Accidents of Nature.
Harriet McBryde Johnson
Having always prided herself on blending in with "normal" people despite her cerebral palsy,
seventeen-year-old Jean begins to question her role in the world while attending a summer camp for
children with disabilities.
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Joh
Muchacho: A Novel.
Louanne Johnson
Living in a neighborhood of drug dealers and gangs in New Mexico, high school junior Eddie
Corazon, a juvenile delinquent-in-training, falls in love with a girl who inspires him to rethink
his life and his choices.
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Kat
Almost Perfect.
Brian Katcher
With his mother working long hours and in pain from a romantic break-up, eighteen-year-old
Logan feels alone and unloved until a zany new student--who is hiding a big secret--arrives at his
small-town Missouri high school.
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Kel
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate.
Jacqueline Kelly
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her
mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world
with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
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Kin
The Dust of 100 Dogs.
A.S. King
Emer Morrisey, a famed seventeenth-century pirate, was ready to retire early with her amassed
wealth and her one true love when she was cursed with the dust of one hundred dogs; after one
hundred lives as a dog, she reincarnates as an American teenager with all of her memories
intact.
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Kle
Lady Macbeth’s Daughter.
Lisa Klein
In alternating chapters, ambitious Lady Macbeth tries to bear a son and win the throne of
Scotland for her husband, and Albia, their daughter who was banished at birth and raised by three
weird sisters, falls in love, learns of her parentage, and seeks to free Scotland from tyranny in
this tale based on Shakespeare's Macbeth.
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Kno
Jumping Off Swings.
Jo Knowles
Tells, from four points of view, the ramifications of a pregnancy resulting from a "one-time
thing" between Ellie, who feels loved when boys touch her, and Josh, an eager virgin with a
troubled home life.
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LaC
Hold Still.
Nina LaCour
As she reads the journal left by her best friend, who committed suicide, Caitlin struggles
with powerful feelings of loss, sadness, and guilt, but friends and a first love help her to cope
with her negative emotions.
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Lak
Blood Ninja.
Nick Lake
After his father is murdered and a ninja saves his life, Taro discovers the connection
between ninjas and vampires and finds himself being dragged into a bitter conflict between the
rival lords ruling Japan.
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Las
Ashes.
Kathryn Lasky
In 1932 Berlin, thirteen-year-old Gaby Schramm witnesses the beginning of Hitler's rise to
power, as soldiers become ubiquitous, her beloved literature teacher starts wearing a jewelled
swastika pin, and the family's dear friend, Albert Einstein, leaves the country while Gaby's
parents secretly bury his books and papers in their small yard.
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Lev
The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had.
Kristin Levine
Harry "Dit" Sims and his newest friend Emma Walker work together to come up with a plan that
could save the town barber, an African-American, who is on put on trial and faces a horrible
end.
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Liv
Darklight.
Lesley Livingston
After a dangerous encounter in Central Park, actress Kelley Winslow, who has only recently
learned that she is a Faerie, journeys to the Otherworld and begins to untangle the strands of a
magical conspiracy with far-reaching consequences.
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Liv
Wondrous Strange.
Lesley Livingston
Seventeen-year-old actress Kelley Winslow, an understudy for a production of "A Midsummer
Night's Dream," meets Sonny Flannery, who guards the Samhain Gate that connects the mortal realm
with the Otherworld and is determined to protect Kelley as she learns about her own magical
fate.
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Llo
The Carbon Diaries: 2017.
Saci Lloyd
In 2017, two years after England introduces carbon dioxide rationing to combat climatic
change, eighteen-year-old Laura chronicles her first year at a London university as natural
disasters and political upheaval disrupt her studies.
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Lo
Ash.
Malinda Lo
A variation on the Cinderella story in which a girl named Ash grows up believing in the fairy
realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose
between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress, whom she loves.
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Lyg
Goth Girl Rising.
Barry Lyga
Kyra, who is also known as Goth Girl, returns home from the Maryland Mental Health Unit to
find out that things have changed, particularly her friend Fanboy, who has transformed into
somebody she barely recognizes, which causes her anger and dark memories to return.
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Mad
Flash Burnout.
L.K. Madigan
After he takes a photograph of a woman who is living on the streets and discovers it to be
the meth-addicted mother of his closest friend Marissa, Blake finds himself spending more time with
Marissa than with his girlfriend.
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Mah
The Magician of Hoad.
Margaret Mahy
A young farm boy who possesses mysterious powers is chosen by the king to be the court's
royal magician.
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Mal
ReturnersU.
Gemma Malley
Will Hodges wonders why "freaks" began following him after his mother drowned, but when he
finally discovers what they want, he can begin to make sense of the nightmares he has always had
and try to do something about the anti-immigrant hatred that his father so vehemently
espouses.
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McC
Purple Heart.
Patricia McCormick
While recuperating in a Baghdad hospital from a traumatic brain injury sustained during the
Iraq War, eighteen-year-old soldier Matt Duffy struggles to recall what happened to him and how it
relates to his ten-year-old friend, Ali.
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McK
The Devil’s Paintbox.
Victoria McKernan
In 1866, fifteen-year-old Aidan and his thirteen-year-old sister Maddy, penniless orphans,
leave drought-stricken Kansas on a wagon train hoping for a better life in Seattle, but find there
are still many hardships to be faced.
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Mea
Vampire Academy.
Richelle Mead
Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her
guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on
mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip,
cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots.
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Mea
Shadow Kiss.
Richelle Mead
While Rose is coping with the darker effects of being shadow-kissed, her relationship with
Dimitri is finally taking off, and when he disappears during a Strigoi attack on St. Vladimir's
Academy, she must make a terrible choice.
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Mea
Frostbite.
Richelle Mead
While on a school skiing trip, guardian-in-training Rose faces everything from
misunderstandings between friends to fights among factions of Moroi as reports of horrific Strigoi
attacks raise tensions, ultimately leading Rose and some of those closest to her into a battle that
teaches her much about life, death, and love.
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Mey
Mississippi Jack.
L.A. Meyer
In 1806, the exploits of Jacky Faber continue as she heads west to avoid capture by the
British and discovers adventure aboard a keelboat on the mighty Mississippi River.
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Mey
The Murderer’s Daughters.
Randy Susan Meyers
After Lulu and Merry's mother is killed in a drunken rage by their father, who is sent to
prison, they become orphans and are sent to a terrifying group home where they cling to each other
for support, but thirty years later, the girls have yet to come to terms with the events and each
has a different view of their incarcerated father.
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Mil
Gringolandia.
Lyn Miller-Lachmann
In 1986, when seventeen-year-old Daniel's father arrives in Madison, Wisconsin, after five
years of torture as a political prisoner in Chile, Daniel and his eighteen-year-old "gringa"
girlfriend, Courtney, use different methods to help this bitter, self-destructive stranger who
yearns to return home and continue his work.
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Mou
Winter’s End.
Jean-Claude Mourlant
Fleeing across icy mountains from a pack of terrifying dog-men sent to hunt them down, four
teenagers escape from their prison-like boarding schools to take up the fight against the
tyrannical government that murdered their parents fifteen years earlier.
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Mur
The Off Season.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
High school junior D.J. staggers under the weight of caring for her badly injured brother,
her responsibilities on the dairy farm, a changing relationship with her friend Brian, and her own
athletic aspirations.
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Mye
Lockdown.
Walter Dean Myers
Teenage Reese, serving time at a juvenile detention facility, gets a lesson in making it
through hard times from an unlikely friend with a harrowing past.
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Nap
Alligator Bayou.
Donna Jo Napoli
Fourteen-year-old Calogero Scalise and his Sicilian uncles and cousin live in small-town
Louisiana in 1898, when Jim Crow laws rule and anti-immigration sentiment is strong, so despite his
attempts to be polite and to follow American customs, disaster dogs his family at every
turn.
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Nel
The Sky is Everywhere.
Jandy Nelson
In the months after her sister dies, seventeen-year-old Lennie falls into a love triangle and
discovers the strength to follow her dream of becoming a musician.
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Nes
The Ask and the Answer.
Patrick Ness.
Chaos Walking, Book 2
Alternate chapters follow teenagers Todd and Viola, who become separated as the Mayor's
oppressive new regime takes power in New Prentisstown, a space colony where residents can hear each
other's thoughts.
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Nik
The Long Division.
Derek Nikitas
Jodie Larkin flees Atlanta and her housecleaning job with stolen money to look for the son
she put up for adoption; and meanwhile, Wynn Johnston, a college student, is hunted by drug dealers
and a police officer on the trail the shooter in a double murder case.
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Nad
The Mark.
Jen Nadol
While in Kansas living with an aunt she never knew existed and taking a course in philosophy,
sixteen-year-old Cass struggles to learn what, if anything, she should do with her ability to see
people marked to die within a day's time.
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Nic
Seeker. William Nicholson
Having been rejected by the Nomana--the revered warrior-monk order they long to
join--sixteen-year-olds Seeker and Morning Star, along with a curious pirate named Wildman, attempt
to prove that they are worthy of joining the community, after all.
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Noe
Evermore: The Immortals.
Alyson Noel
Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see
auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other people until she
meets Damen, another psychic teenager who is hiding even more mysteries.
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Nor
Gentlemen.
Michael Northrop
When three teenaged boys suspect that their English teacher is responsible for their friend's
disappearance, they must navigate a maze of assorted clues, fraying friendships, violence, and
Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" before learning the truth.
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Omo
Dirty Little Secrets.
C.J. Omololu
When her unstable mother dies unexpectedly, sixteen-year-old Lucy must take control and find
a way to keep the long-held secret of her mother's compulsive hoarding from being revealed to
friends, neighbors, and especially the media.
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Pee
Exposure.
Mal Peet
Paul Faustino, South America's best soccer journalist, reports on the series of events that
hurl Otello from the heights of being a beloved and successful soccer star, happily married to the
pop singer Desdemona, into a downward spiral, in this novel loosely based on Shakespeare's play,
Othello.
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Per
Vintage Veronica.
Erica S. Perl
After getting a job at a vintage clothing shop and quickly bonding with two older girls,
fifteen-year-old Veronica finds herself making bad decisions in order to keep their
friendship.
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Pet
By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead.
Julie Anne Peters
High school student Daelyn Rice, who has been bullied throughout her school career and has
more than once attempted suicide, again makes plans to kill herself, in spite of the persistent
attempts of an unusual boy to draw her out.
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Ree
Fever Crumb.
Philip Reeve
Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London,
England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered
world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the
present.
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Ros
The Bride’s Farewell.
Meg Rosoff
Pell Ridley, having left home on the day she was to marry her childhood sweetheart with the
intention of finding a more fulfilling life, meets a poacher with whom she travels through the
countryside, but soon becomes overwhelmed by her emotional ties to her family, home, and
lover.
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Rub
Bad Apple.
Laura Ruby
Tola Riley, a high school junior, struggles to tell the truth when she and her art teacher
are accused of having an affair.
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Rud
Paralyzed.
Jeff Rud
Senior linebacker Reggie Scott deals with accusations that he is a cheater while trying to
figure out if he still wants to play football.
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Run
Surface Tension: A Novel in Four Summers.
Brent Runyon
During the summer vacations of his thirteenth through his sixteenth year at the family's lake
cottage, Luke realizes that although some things stay the same over the years that many more
change.
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Rya
The Rules for Hearts.
Sara Ryan
When he reappears in her life after a four-year absence, Battle Hall Davies spends the summer
before college with her brother Nick and learns a lot about Nick and herself.
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Sch
Useful Fools.
C.A. Schmidt
A fifteen-year-old Peruvian boy, whose mother runs a clinic for poor village children,
becomes caught up in the war after Senderistas bomb the clinic, killing his mother and throwing his
family into turmoil.
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Sed
Revolver.
Marcus Sedgwick
Fourteen-year-old Sig is stranded at a remote cabin in the Arctic wilderness with his father,
who died just hours earlier after falling through the ice, when a terrifying man arrives, claiming
Sig's father owes him a share of a horde of stolen gold and that he will kill Sig if he does not
get his money.
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Sha
The Demonata: Blood Beast.
Darren Shan
Grubbs Grady has defeated demons and managed to move on with his life, but strange symptoms
during the full moon show him his dark days are not over--and he may not be able to fight his
werewolf genes.
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Sha
The Demonata: Dark Calling.
Darren Shan
The Disciples are being controlled by dark forces and only Kernel Fleck can save them.
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Sha
The Demonata: Wolf Island.
Darren Shan
Grubbs Grady leads his team in pursuit of the Lambs, demonic sheep that may have information
about the Shadow's army, and battle other demonic beings along the way.
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Sho
Intertwined.
Gena Showalter
Aden Stone, a sixteen-year-old boy who has four souls living inside him and who simply wants
to find peace, meets Mary Ann, a girl who can silence the voices, and as their friendship develops,
their bond is tested by a werewolf shape-shifter and a vampire princess.
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Shu
Everwild.
Neal Shusterman
Nick, known as the dreaded "Chocolate Ogre," is trying to find all the children in Everlost
and release them from the limbo they are in, while Mikey and Allie have joined a band of
skinjackers and are putting themselves in danger by visiting the world of the living.
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Sim
The Rise of Lubchenko.
Michael Simmons
Suspecting that his father's business partner is selling smallpox virus to terrorists,
sixteen-year-old Evan Macalister travels to France with his friends, Ruben and Erika, to search for
Lubchenko, the elusive spymaster whose help they need to avert a major disaster.
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Smi
In the Path of Falling Objects.
Andrew Smith
In 1970, after their older brother is shipped off to Vietnam, sixteen-year-old Jonah and his
younger brother Simon leave home to find their father, who is being released from an Arizona
prison, but soon find themselves hitching a ride with a violent killer.
F
Smi
Eternal.
Cynthia Leitich Smith
When Miranda's guardian angel Zachary recklessly saves her from falling into an open grave
and dying, the result is that she turns into a vampire and he is left to try to reinstate his
reputation by finally doing the right thing.
F
Smi
Tantalize.
Cynthia Leitich Smith
When multiple murders in Austin, Texas, threaten the grand re-opening of her family's
vampire-themed restaurant, seventeen-year-old, orphaned Quincie worries that her best
friend-turned-love interest, Keiren, a werewolf-in-training, may be the prime suspect.
F
Spi
The Amethyst Road.
Louise Spiegler
Having fled the city of Oestia after attacking an official, sixteen-year-old Serena--an
outcast as well as a mixed-race child of a Gorgio father and Yulang mother--seeks to reunite her
family and regain her honor.
F
Sta
How to Say Goodbye in Robot.
Natalie Standiford
After moving to Baltimore and enrolling in a private school, high school senior Beatrice
befriends a quiet loner with a troubled family history.
F
Ste
When You Reach Me.
Rebecca Stead
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000
Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes
received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
F
Sti
Lament. Maggie Stiefvater
On the day of an important music competition, talented but painfully introverted and nervous
Deirdre Monaghan is helped to perform by the compelling and enigmatic Luke Dillon and finds herself
inexorably drawn into the mysteries and dangers of the faerie world.
F
Sti
Shiver.
Maggie Stiefvater
In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been
particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with
increasing intensity.
F
Sto
The Help. Kathryn Stockett
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights
movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a
town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
F
Sto
The Last Summer of the Death Warriors.
Francisco X. Stork
Seventeen-year-old Pancho is bent on avenging the senseless death of his sister, but after he
meets D.Q, who is dying of cancer, and Marisol, one of D.Q.'s caregivers, both boys find their
lives changed by their interactions.
F
Str
Heroes of the Valley.
Jonathan Stroud
Halli Sveinsson, a mischievous young man who does not fit in with his peers and siblings,
plays a trick on Ragnor that goes too far, forcing him to embark on a hero's quest in which he will
face highway robbers, monsters, an intriguing girl, and truths about his family and the legends he
grew up with.
F
Sum
Some Girls Are.
Courtney Summers
Regina, a high school senior in the popular--and feared--crowd, suddenly falls out of favor
and becomes the object of the same sort of vicious bullying that she used to inflict on others,
until she finds solace with one of her former victims.
F
Sup
Artichoke’s Heart.
Suzanne Supplee
When she is almost sixteen years old, Rosemary decides she is sick of being overweight,
mocked at school and at Heavenly Hair--her mother's beauty salon--and feeling out of control, and
as she slowly loses weight, she realizes that she is able to cope with her mother's cancer, having
a boyfriend for the first time, and discovering that other people's lives are not as perfect as
they seem from the outside.
F
Tha
The Spectacular Now.
Tim Tharp
In the last months of high school, charismatic eighteen-year-old Sutter Keely lives in the
present, staying drunk or high most of the time, but that could change when he starts working to
boost the self-confidence of a classmate, Aimee.
F
Tho
Creature of the Night.
Kate Thompson
Bobby's mother, concerned at the reckless life he leads in Dublin, moves the family to the
country, but Bobby suspects that their cottage might not be as quaint as it seems.
F
Tur
A Conspiracy of Kings.
Megan Whalen Turner
Kidnapped and sold into slavery, Sophos, an unwilling prince, tries to save his country from
being destroyed by rebellion and exploited by the conniving Mede empire.
F
Wal
One Good Punch.
Rich Wallace
Eighteen-year-old Michael Kerrigan, writer of obituaries for the Scranton Observer and
captain of the track team, is ready for the most important season of his life--until the police
find four joints in his school locker, and he is faced with a choice that could change
everything.
F
Wal
Half Broke Horses.
Jeannette Walls
Lily Casey Smith grows up breaking horses with her father and leaves home at fifteen to ride
five hundred miles in order to teach in a frontier town before encountering various difficulties,
marrying a rancher, and speaking out against prejudice in various parts of the U.S.
F
Wil
The Chosen One.
Carol Lynch Williams
In a polygamous cult in the desert, Kyra, not yet fourteen, sees being chosen to be the
seventh wife of her uncle as just punishment for having read books and kissed a boy, in violation
of Prophet Childs' teachings, and is torn between facing her fate and running away from all that
she knows and loves.
F
Wil
Jumped.
Rita Williams-Garcia
The lives of Leticia, Dominique, and Trina are irrevocably intertwined through the course of
one day in an urban high school after Leticia overhears Dominique's plans to beat up Trina and must
decide whether or not to get involved.
F
Wil
Flames of the Tiger.
John Wilson
Dieter grows to be a young man in Germany believing in the pronouncements and policies of
Hitler and the Nazis, but as World War II intensifies and he is called upon to fight for his
country, Dieter begins to question everything he once believed.
F
Woo
After Tupac and D Foster. Jacqueline Woodson
In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of
Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they
live.
F
Woo
Feathers.
Jacqueline Woodson
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter
of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new
light.
F
Woo
Miracle’s Boys. Jacqueline Woodson
Twelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother Charlie changes after
Charlie is released from a detention home and blames Lafayette for the death of their
mother.
F
Yan
The Monstrumologist.
Rick Yancy
In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a
scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod
of Anthropophagi.
F
Zar
Once Was Lost.
Sara Zarr
As the tragedy of a missing girl enfolds in her small town, fifteen-year-old Samara, who
feels emotionally abandoned by her parents, begins to question her faith.
F
Zul
An Off Year.
Claire Zulkey
Upon arriving at her dorm room, eighteen-year-old Cecily decides to postpone her freshman
year of college and return to her Chicago home, where she spends time thinking about her options
and what she really wants to do with her life.
STORY COLLECTION
SC
Bla
The Poison Eaters and Other Stories.
Holly Black
A collection of short stories for younger readers that feature fantasy elements and
illustrations, including "The Coldest Girl in Coldtown," "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," "Paper Cuts
Scissors," and more.
SC
Fir
Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Contains sixteen original science fiction and fantasy stories, including selections by
Charles de Lint, Tamora Pierce, Alan Dean Foster, Sharon Shinn, and others.
SC
Hal
Half-Minute Horrors.
An anthology of very short, scary stories by an assortment of authors and illustrators
including Chris Raschka, Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Jack Gantos, and Lane Smith.
SC
McK
Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits.
Robin McKinley
Collects five tales about mythical animals, such as a dragon and a phoenix, and other
characters who have experiences with the element of fire.
SC
Tay
Lips Touch Three Times.
Laini Taylor
Contains three short stores of supernatural love, each focusing on a kiss that has
consequences for the kissers' souls.
SC
Wil
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth.
Kevin Wilson
Collects eleven short stories from American author Kevin Wilson, including "Grand Stand-in,"
Blowing Up On the Spot,"and "The Dead Sister Handbook: a Guide for Sensitive Boys."
NON-FICTION
070.082
Gou
War, Women & the News: How Female Journalists Won the Battle to Cover World War II.
Catherine Gourley
Provides a look at the influential and powerful female reporters who ventured into dangerous
territory to cover the major events of World War II, including profiles and photographs of Margaret
Burke-White, Shelley Mydans, and Lee Miller.
155.2
Twe
The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement.
Joan M. Twenge
Examines the rise of narcissism in American culture and the serious consequences it poses to
society and the future of the United States.
158
Pin
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future.
Daniel H. Pink
Explores how the business world is changing in the twenty-first century, becoming more
"right-brain" based and allowing people more creative and artistic than earlier generations succeed
more than those with left-brain dominance.
200
Wil
The Religion Book: Places, Prophets, Saints, and Seers.
Jim Willis
Contains nearly three hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about
people, places, and events in the history of religion, covering major and minor religions; sacred
sites; prophets, founders, saints, seers, and charismatic leaders; religious movements; figures
from legend and folklore; and approaches to religion and religious study. Includes cross-references
and an index.
306.874
Son
House Rules: A Memoir.
Rachel Sontag
The author reflects on her father's control and abusiveness and discusses how she broke free
from his rules.
323.1196
Ada
The Civil Rights Movement: An Interactive History Adventure. Heather Adamson
Contains three story paths which allow the reader to explore the people and events of the
U.S. civil rights movement from the perspectives of a Freedom Rider, a protester in Birmingham,
Alabama, and a resident of Little Rock, Arkansas. Includes a timeline and resources for further
study.
330.9
Ind
Industrialization and Empire 1793-1914.
Discusses the time period from 1783-1914, covering various empires, religions, cultural
movements, developments, political alliances, and civilizations around the world, with detailed
maps depicting expansion, migration, populations, and more.
332.1196
Lew
The Shadows of youth: The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation.
Andrew B. Lewis
Examines the lives of the African-Americans activists who worked with the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee in the 1960s--Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, John Lewis, Marion
Barry, Bob Zellner, and Diane Nash--and discusses the impact their actions had on the civil rights
movement, politics, and twentieth-century society.
345.73
Mar
The Devil on Trial: Witches, Anarchists, Atheists, Communists, and terrorists in America’s
Courtrooms.
Phillip Margulies
Examines five cases throughout history as examples of situations where people have
compromised their principles in the name of safety, and covers the Salem witch trials, the
Haymarket Affair trial, the Scopes "Monkey" trial, and others.
364.152
Alp
An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank.
Elaine Marie Alphin
Describes the life and fate of Leo Frank, a Jewish American factory worker who was convicted
of murdering thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan and later kidnapped from the prison and hung by a
mob.
364.16
Hou
Museum of the Missing: The High Stakes of Art Crime. Simon Houpt
An investigation of the underworld of art theft, telling the stories of priceless works that
have famously gone missing, and discussing why art theft has been on the rise since the
1950s.
394.26
Gay
African-American Holidays, Festivals, and Celebrations: The History, Customs, an Symbols
Associated with Both Traditional and Contemporary Religious and Secular Events Observed by
Americans of African Descent.
Kathlyn Gay
Profiles the history of over 100 holidays, festivals, and events observed by
African-Americans; and includes narrative overviews, chronology of historical events, geographical
listings, and web sites.
394.26
Hol
Holidays, Festivals, and Celebrations of the World Dictionary.
Ed. Cherie D. Abbey
Contains descriptions of over three thousand secular and religious holidays, festivals, holy
days, feasts and fasts, and other special days celebrated by people of different countries,
cultures, and religions around the world; arranged alphabetically by name of holiday.
420
Urd
Last Word: The English Language: Opinions and Prejudices.
Laurence Urdang
Explores the differences in how English was spoken before the middle of the twentieth century
and in the early years of the twenty-first century, arguing that the quality of the language is in
decline.
510
Bur
Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas.
Edward B. Burger
Offers mathematical insights into some of the world's greatest, most timeless questions,
revealing the hidden mathematical elements that unite everything in the universe.
511.3
Mao
To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite.
Eli Maor
Discusses the impact of the concept of infinity on people throughout history, examining its
role in mathematics, geometry, aesthetics, and cosmology.
519.5
Huf
How to Lie With Statistics.
Darrell Huff
Probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, and
the ways in which numbers are used to fool rather than to inform.
523
Cha
Outer Planets.
Glenn F. Chaple
A comprehensive guide to the universe that focuses on the outer planets, which includes
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and beyond; discussing the evolving view of the solar system
throughout history, characteristics of the planets, and the search for planets beyond the Milky
Way.
523.2
Riv
Asteroids, Comets, and Dwarf Planets.
Andrew S. Rivkin
A scientific exploration of small bodies in the universe, describing the historical
backgrounds, orbits, composition, atmospheres, and dynamics of asteroids, comets, and dwarf
planets; and discussing how the universe and small bodies are formed, spacecraft missions, and
related topics.
529
Rel
Religious Holidays and Calendars: An Encyclopedic Handbook
Provides a general overview of the development of calendars and other methods of time
keeping, and looks at the calendars and holidays of the world's major faiths and other smaller
faith communities, including background information on each religion.
546
Gra
The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe.
Presents a photographic representation of the over 100 elements in the periodic table; and
includes facts, figures, and stories of the elements, data on the properties of each, and the year
and location in which it was discovered.
609
Tec
Technology Through the Ages: The Scientific Revolution
Explores how the development of new technologies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,
including theories about gravity and motion, the production of cheaper iron, and the invention of
the steam engine, aided in the development of humankind.
609
Tec
Technology Through the Ages: The Early 20
th Century
Explores how technological advances in the early twentieth century, including television,
radio, radar, and computers, laid the foundation for many modern inventions that have changed life
on Earth.
609
Tec
Technology Through the Ages: Medieval Period and the Renaissance
Describes how technological advances in China and the Arab world during the medieval
period helped make up for the lack of scientific discovery that took place in Europe after the fall
of the Roman Empire and explores how the Renaissance became a great period of European learning and
discovery.
609
Tec
Technology Through the Ages: Prehistory and the Classical Period
Explores how new technologies, including the cultivation of plants and animals, the use of
fire, and the invention of writing, influenced the development of humankind from prehistoric times
through the classical period.
609
Tec
Technology Through the Ages: The Ages of Steam and Electricity
Explores how technological discoveries and advances during the nineteenth century, including
the spread of the railroads, the electric telegraph, and the telephone, influenced life on
Earth.
609
Tec
Technology Through the Ages: The Modern World
Explores the technological advances that took place during the late twentieth and early
twenty-first centuries and discusses how they impacted life on Earth.
629.45
Sto
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women who Dared to Dream.
Tanya Lee Stone
Profiles thirteen women who challenged social norms and government policies to prove they
could be exceptional astronauts.
709
Kal
Pablo Picasso.
Stuart A. Kallen
Chronicles the life of artist Pablo Picasso and examines the themes, techniques, and lasting
influence of his work.
709.02
Kal
Renaissance Art.
Stuart A. Kallen
Examines art produced during the Renaissance, an era of cultural advancement that occurred
between the 1320s and the 1660s, describing the origins of the movement in Italy, its
characteristics, and its spread throughout Europe, and introducing representative artists and
works.
709.04
Kal
Postmodern Art.
Stuart A. Kallen
Chronicles the history of the postmodern art movement, discussing its precursors and roots
and analyzing conceptual, installation, and appropriation art as well as neo-Expressionism.
738
Eme
Pottery.
Phyllis Raybin Emert
Examines the history of pottery, the artists who created major works of art, and their
various styles and techniques through a collection of photographs and diagrams.
741.5
Gei
Considering Maus: Approaches to Art Spiegelmqan’s “Survivor’s Tale” of the Holocaust.
Deborah R. Geis
Contains eight essays in which the authors analyze various aspects of Art Spiegelman's
two-volume comic book "Maus: A Survivor's Tale" which chronicles his father's experiences in the
Holocaust and later immigration to New York.
741.6
Eme
Graphic Design.
Stuart A. Kallen
Examines the history of graphic design, discusses how the field has changed throughout time,
and examines how it is used.
759.4
Kal
Claude Monet.
Stuart A. Kallen
Describes the life of the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet, and covers his
childhood, early art exploration, and how he influenced the art world toward Impressionism, the
nineteenth-century art movement.
791.3
Fle
The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman PT Barnum.
Candace Fleming
Chronicles the life of showman P. T. Barnum, discussing how he created his legendary circus,
the people and events that shaped his life, and the impact Barnum had on the entertainment
industry.
791.43
Dob
Historical Dictionary of Animation and Cartoons.
Nichola Dobson
Contains more than two hundred cross-referenced, alphabetically arranged entries that provide
information about the history of animation and cartoons, and includes a chronology, an
introduction, photographs, and a bibliography.
808.81
Fir
Fire in the Soul: 100 Poems for Human Rights.
A collection of 100 poems that address issues of human rights and the creativity of the
human spirit.
811
Tim
Time You Let Me In.
A collection of poems selected by Naomi Shihab Nye from twenty-five poets, each under
twenty-five years of age.
811.54
Eng
The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano.
Margarita Engle
Born a slave, raised by a woman not his mother, and denied an education, Juan overcame all
the personal obstacles he faced as a child in order to reach freedom, pursue his natural talents,
and become the celebrated poet he was destined to be.
811.54
Nel
The Freedom Business: Including A Narrative of the Life & Adventures of Venture, a Native of
Africa.
Marilyn Nelson
Told through verse, this true narrative of a slave from Africa, who was the first man to
document his capture and life as an American slave, details how he worked through a lifetime of
slavery to buy not only his own freedom, but also the freedom of his wife and children.
813
Cam
Robert Cormier: Daring to Disturb the Universe.
Patty Campbell
Analyzes several of young adult author Robert Cormier's novels and novellas, from 1974's "The
Chocolate War" to 2001's "The Rag and Bone Shop.".
813
Gre
Critical Insights: The Great Gatsby
Collects seventeen critical essays on F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby, including
selections by Jascha Hoffman, Barbara Will, Leland S. Person Jr., and others; and includes a
chronology of the life of the author.
813
Han
Critical Insights: The Handmaid’s Tale
Collects critical essays on Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale," including selections
by Jascha Hoffman, Shirley Neuman, Eleonora Rao, and others; and includes a chronology of the life
of the author.
821
And
Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous.
Catherine M. Andronik
Profiles several English Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century such as Wordsworth,
Byron, Shelley, and Keats; and shows how their work was regarded as subversive by their
contemporaries and notes their lasting influence on literature.
909
Bla
Black Firsts: 4000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Historical Events
A record of African-American achievement, featuring four thousand chronologically arranged
entries that provide information about barrier-breaking pioneers in arts and entertainment,
business, civil rights and protest, education, government, journalism, the military, religion,
science, sports, and others.
921
Man
Three Shaker: The Story of Nelson Mandella.
Bill Keller
Explores the life and accomplishments of Nelson Mandela, discussing his political protests,
imprisonment, selection as president of South Africa, and more.
921
Mar
Up Close: Thurgood Marshall.
Thurgood Marshall became the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but
it's his life leading up to that point--from school troublemaker to passionate lawyer--that makes
him both accessibly real and a role model to Americans of every color.
940.53
Eds
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History.
Robert M. Edsel
Presents an account of those who were part of a special force of American and British
curators, art historians, museum curators, and other experts who risked their lives to prevent the
destruction of cultural artifacts and structures while also trying to locate missing items that had
been stolen by the Nazis during World War II.
940.53
Hil
The Holocaust: Primary Sourcebook Series. Jeff Hill
Contains one hundred primary source documents that provide insights into the major aspects of
the Holocaust, covering such issues as the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, Kristallnacht, the
"Final Solution," resistance movements, and others; and features supplemental background
information, a glossary, and a chronology.
940.53
Hil
Defining Moments: The Attack on Pearl harbor.
Laurie Collier Hillstorm
Presents a narrative overview of the attack on Pearl Harbor, with biographies of leading
figures of the era, such as Mitsuo Fuchida, Douglas MacArthur, and Chester W. Nimitz, and includes
a variety of primary sources, including letters and memoirs.
940.53
Rya
Deaf People in Hitler’s Europe.
Donna F. Ryan
A collection of essays that examine the experiences of deaf people living in Hitler's Europe,
discussing how they were affected by Hitler's ideas of racial hygiene, how Nazi's manipulated the
eugenics theory to justify the murders of those considered socially undesirable, and how deaf
people were persecuted by the Nazis.
940.5314
Eds
Rescuing Da Vinci.
Robert M. Edsel
Hitle and the Nazis stole Europe’s great art.
America and her allies recovered it.
940.54
Sle
With the Old Breed.
E.B. Sledge
A former member of the First Marine Division gives a front-line description of two World War
II Pacific campaigns--the bloody campaigns at Peleliu and Okinawa--in which he participated as a
teenage soldier.
956.7044
Fin
The Good Soldiers.
David Finkel
Presents the true story of the January 2007 surge into Iraq and President Bush's order to
increase the number of American troops in order to provide security to Baghdad and Al Anbar
Province.
970.004
Nat
Native North Americans: Arts, Society, and Religion
Photographs and text examine the cultural achievements of various Native American
civilizations, along with their myths and spiritual beliefs.
970.004 Nat Native North Americans: History
970.004
Nat
Native North Americans: Peoples of the East, Southeast, and Plains.
Examines notable people and places in Native American history, focusing on peoples of the
East, Southeast, and Plains; arranged alphabetically by tribe.
970.004
Nat
Native North Americans: Peoples of the Southwest, West, and North.
Examines notable people and places in Native American history, focusing on peoples of the
Southwest, West, and North; arranged alphabetically by tribe.
970.004
Nat
Native North Americans: Personalities and Places.
Photographs and text describe various ancient Native American civilizations and sites, and
examines individuals who helped to shape their culture.
970.004
Nat
Native North Americans: Warfare, Economy, and Technology.
Photographs, illustrations, and text describe the cultural, economic, and social development
of Native American peoples from the earliest civilizations to the nineteenth century.
973.049
Bla
Black Heroes.
Jessie Carney Smith
Contains alphabetically arranged profiles of 150 African-American men and women who have
scored major achievements in the fields of politics, art, sports, entertainment, literature, civil
rights, business, medicine, education, and law. Includes photographs.
973.7
Sil
I’ll Pass for Your Comrade: Women Soldiers in the Civil War.
Anita Silvey
Profiles the lives and service of a number of women who disguised themselves as men and
fought during the Civil War.
974.7
Wel
The Kids are All Right: A Memoir.
Diana Welch, Liz Welch, Amanca Welch, Dan Welch
The four Welch siblings--Amanda, Liz, Dan, and Diana--describe the hardships and struggles
they faced during their childhoods, which culminated with the death of their actress mother, Ann,
and resulted in their separation from one another.
741.5
Bla
The Good Neighbors: Book 2
Holly Black & Ted Naifeh
Rue Silver must travel deep into the faerie realm in order to rescue her mother and at the same
time try and stop the faerie realm from venturing into the human world.
GRAPHIC COLLECTION
305.42
Hug
No Girls Allowed: Tales of Daring Women Dressed as Men for Love, Freedom and Adventure.
Susan Hughes
Contains graphic style stories about seven daring young women from around the world who
disguised themselves as men in order to achieve their goals, including Hatshepsut,Mu Lan, Alfhild,
Esther Brandeau, James Barry, Ellen Craft, and Sarah Rosetta Wakeman.
741.5
Hik
From Far Away.
Kyoko Hikawa
Multiple volumes
741.5
Seo
Dragon Hunter.
Hong Seock Seo
Multiple volumes
741.5
Stu
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow.
James Sturm
A graphic novel account of the career of Negro League pitcher Satchel Paige, discussing the
show he put on as a popular player, as well as the respect he demanded as an
African-American.
Prof
372.9 Mil
The Book Whisperer.
Donalyn Miller
Teacher Donalyn Miller describes the instructional approach she uses to turn children into
readers, based on a combination of individual choice, a program of independent reading, a
collection of high-interest books, and appropriate and authentic reading behavior modeling.
Prof
612.8 Wol
The Proust & the Squid.
Maryanne Wolf
Explores how the intellectual evolution of man was forever altered when, just a few thousand
years ago, the human brain evolved enough to learn how to read and understand written words.
Prof
650.1 Gar
5 Minds for the Future.
Howard Gardner
In Five Minds for the Future, Howard Gardner shows how we will each need to master the "five
minds" that the fast-paced future will demand - from minds able to synthesize and communicate
complex ideas to minds that can respect human differences and fulfill the higher responsibilities
of work life and citizenship. Otherwise, we risk being overwhelmed by information, unable to
succeed in the workplace, and without the judgment needed to thrive both personally and
professionally....