New Books- September 2009
Fiction
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Summer Girls. Hailey Abbott
Cousins Jessica, Lara, and Greer, aged fifteen to sixteen, approach
their family summer at a Maine beach cottage with very different attitudes, but all look forward to
the summer.
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Reality Check. Peter Abrahams
After a knee injury destroys sixteen-year-old Cody's college hopes, he
drops out of high school and gets a job in his small Montana town; but when his ex-girlfriend
disappears from her Vermont boarding school, Cody travels cross-country to join the search.
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Backtracked. Pedro de Alcantara
While playing a dangerous subway prank, a fifteen-year-old slacker, who
lives a comfortable life in Brooklyn, falls through a time-travel vortex and is transported to
different time periods in twentieth-century New York City, where he learns firsthand about
hardship.
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World War II 1939-1948: A Novel About the Aftermath of a Nazi Victory. Bem Allen
A novel about the possible world following a Nazi victory following
WWII. Written as a call for eternal watchfulness that is the only hope for preventing
war.
F Ama
A Certain Strain of Peculiar. Gigi Amateau
Tired of the miserable life she lives, Mary Harold leaves her mother
behind and moves back to Alabama and her grandmother, where she receives support and love and
starts to gain confidence in herself and her abilities.
F And
The Cure for Death by Lightning. Gail Anderson- Dargatz
Fifteen-year-old Beth Weeks comes of age on a farm in Turtle Valley,
British Columbia during World War II, coping with an abusive father, ineffectual mother, restless
brother, and an assortment of strange people and spirits from a nearby Indian reservation.
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Don’t You Know There’s A War Going On?. Avi
In wartime Brooklyn in 1943, eleven-year-old Howie Crispers mounts a
campaign to save his favorite teacher from being fired.
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Tales of the Madman Underground. John Barnes
In September 1973, as the school year begins in his depressed Ohio town,
high-school senior Kurt Shoemaker determines to be "normal," despite his chaotic home life with his
volatile, alcoholic mother and the deep loyalty and affection he has for his friends in the therapy
group dubbed the Madman Underground.
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Wartime Lies. Louis Begley
The story of a boy and his aunt, Polish Jews caught in the horror of the
Holocaust. Alone together, they manage to survive.
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The Amaranth Enchantment. Julie Berry
Orphaned at age five, Lucinda, now fifteen, stands with courage against
the man who took everything from her, aided by a thief, a clever goat, and a mysterious woman
called the Witch of Amaranth, while the prince she knew as a child prepares to marry, unaware that
he, too, is in danger.
F Bre
Darkwood. M.E. Breen
A clever and fearless orphan endures increasing danger while trying to
escape from greedy, lawless men and elude the terrifying "kinderstalks"--animals who steal
children--before discovering her true destiny.
F Bre
One Wish. Leigh Brescia
Wrenn Scott wins the lead role in the high school musical and sees it as
her chance at popularity, so she begins making a sincere effort to lose the weight she thinks has
always held her back, but takes things way too far.
F Bla
The Templar’s Apprentice. Kat Black
A fourteenth-century Scottish boy joins a Templar knight on a quest to
locate an ancient relic, while he tries to understand and control his own gift of prophetic
visions.
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A Soldier’s Legacy. Heinrich Boll
Presents the story of Wenk, a German soldier, bored with his mundane
duty as a guard along the Normandy coast in 1943, and describes the loneliness and misery of having
to forage for food from nearby farms because High Command refuses to supply its own men.
F Boo
Hiroshima Joe. Martin Booth
Captain Joe Sandingham was captured in Hong Kong, transferred to a
Japanese slave camp, and was present when the bomb dropped. He his haunted by the sounds &
voices of his past, debilitated by illness, and shattered by his wartime ordeal, but he is a man
whose compassion & will to survive comprise heroism.
F Bou
The Bridge over the River Kwai. Pierre Boulle
British prisoners of war are forced by their Japanese captors to build a
bridge in the jungles of Burma.
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Blade: Playing Dead. Tim Bowler
A fourteen-year-old British street person with extraordinary powers of
observation and self-control must face murderous thugs connected with a past he has tried to
forget, when his skills with a knife earned him the nickname, Blade.
F Bur
The Vast Fields of Ordinary. Nick Burd
The summer after graduating from an Iowa high school, eighteen-year-old
Dade Hamilton watches his parents' marriage disintegrate, ends his long-term, secret relationship,
comes out of the closet, and savors first love.
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Swim the Fly. Don Calame
In addition to the pact he makes with his best friends to see a naked
girl by the end of summer, Matt Gratton sets himself the goal of impressing the star of the swim
team, Kelly West, by swimming the one hundred-yard butterfly.
F Cal
The Secret Life of Prince Charming. Deb Caletti
Seventeen-year-old Quinn has heard all her life about how untrustworthy
men are, so when she discovers that her charismatic but selfish father, with whom she has recently
begun to have a tentative relationship, has stolen from the many women in his life, she decides she
must avenge this wrong.
F Cho
The Book of Michael. Lesley Choyce
Michael Grove is happy to be released from prison after being wrongfully
convicted of murdering his girlfriend at sixteen, but he is despondent when he finds that he is
still haunted by the ordeal he went through.
F Cla
The Roar. Emma Clayton
In an overpopulated world where all signs of nature have been
obliterated and a wall has been erected to keep out plague-ridden animals, twelve-year-old Mika
refuses to believe that his twin sister was killed after being abducted, and continues to search
for her in spite of the dangers he faces in doing so.
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Hidden Voices. Pat Lowery Collins
Luisa, Rosalba, and Anetta, three girls living at the Ospedale della
Pieta, an orphange known for its musical program in eighteenth-century Venice, study under the
tutelage of Antonio Vivaldi, while contemplating their futures and their hopes for love.
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Enter Three Witches: A Story of Macbeth. Caroline B. Cooney
After her father is killed for being a traitor, fourteen-year-old Lady
Mary, who is a ward of Lord and Lady Macbeth, is sent to the scullery, where she works as a maid
and uncovers the couple's secret plans. Includes lines from Shakespeare's play.
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If the Witness Lied. Caroline B. Cooney
Torn apart by tragedies and the publicity they brought, siblings Smithy,
Jack, and Madison, aged fourteen to sixteen, tap into their parent's courage to pull together and
protect their brother Tris, nearly three, from further media exploitation and a much more sinister
threat.
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Earthgirl. Jennifer Cowan
Sabine Solomon undergoes a transformation when she joins the
environmental movement and becomes involved with activist Vray Foret, but when his activities
involve something that is potentially illegal, she begins to question her identity and
values.
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Mare’s War. Tanita S. Davis
Teens Octavia and Tali learn about strength, independence, and courage
when they are forced to take a car trip with their grandmother, who tells about growing up Black in
1940s Alabama and serving in Europe during World War II as a member of the Women's Army
Corps.
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A Grey Moon Over China. Thomas A. Day
In the year 2017, while the inhabitants of Earth battle over the
planet's decreasing energy supply, army platoon leader Eduardo Torres uncovers designs for a
quantum energy battery, but instead of giving the life-saving technology to the people, he and a
group of engineers decide to leave the dying planet and travel to a distant planet.
F Dec
The One: A Chloe Gamble Novel. Ed Decter
Sixteen-year-old Chloe Gamble takes off to make it big in Hollywood,
along with her overbearing mother and good looking twin brother; but the fast track turns out to be
a lot more than Chloe expected.
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Alicia Afterimage. Lulu Delacre
Explores the life of Alicia, a popular sixteen-year-old, in the
aftermath of a fatal car crash, as her friends, family members, and others recall key episodes that
show her impact on their lives. Includes author's note about the real Alicia and how she inspired
the book, as well as resources on teen grief.
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Along for the Ride. Sarah Dessen
When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new
baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is
revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a
bike and dating.
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Just Another Hero. Sharon M. Draper
As Kofi, Arielle, Dana, November, and Jericho face personal challenges
during their last year of high school, a misunderstood student brings a gun to class and demands to
be taken seriously.
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The London Eye Mystery. Siobhan Dowd
When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye Ferris
wheel, the two siblings must work together--Ted with his brain that is "wired differently" and
impatient Kat--to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim.
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Everything is Fine. Ann Dee Ellis
When her father leaves for a job out of town, Mazzy is left at home to
try to cope with her mother, who has been severely depressed since the death of Mazzy's baby
sister.
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café. Fannie Flagg
Evelyn Couch, a woman caught in the slump of middle age, gains a new
outlook on life when she befriends eighty-year-old Ninny Threadgood who tells her the story of the
Whistle Stop Cafe and the two women who ran it in the 1930s, best friends Idgie and Ruth.
F Fol
A Mighty Wall. John Foley
Seventeen-year-old Jordan, a skilled, self-confident rock climber, plans
to turn his favorite sport into a lifelong career until an ascent near the small town of Vantage,
Washington, turns deadly.
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If I Stay. Gayle Forman
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents
and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weights whether to live with her
grief or join her family in death.
F Fra
Secrets of Truth & Beauty. Megan Frazer
Dara Cohen, a junior pageant princess turned chubby teenager, reconnects
with an estranged older sister whom her parents have disowned for mysterious reasons.
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Sea Change. Aimee Friedman
When her estranged grandmother dies and leaves her mother the family
home on Selkie Island, seventeen-year-old Miranda meets her mother on the Georgia island, where she
discovers mysterious family secrets and another side to her logical, science-loving self.
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Nothing. Robin Friedman
Despite his outward image of popular, attractive high-achiever bound for
the Ivy League college of his father's dreams, high school senior Parker sees himself as a fat,
unattractive failure and finds relief for his overwhelming anxieties in ever-increasing bouts of
binging and purging.
F Fro
Diamond Willow. Helen Frost
In a remote area of Alaska, twelve-year-old Willow helps her father with
their sled dogs when she is not at school, wishing she were more popular, all the while unaware
that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of dead ancestors and friends who care for
her.
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Red Gold. Alan Furst
Set in the streets of Paris and deep in occupied France, Furst writes
about the French resistance in the darkest days of World War II.
F Gar
Say the Word. Jeannine Garsee
After the death of her estranged mother, who left Ohio years ago to live
with her lesbian partner in New York City, seventeen-year-old Shawna Gallagher's life is
transformed by revelations about her family, her best friend, and herself.
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Blue Flame. Perfect Fire Trilogy, Book 1 K.M. Grant
The Blue Flame, sparked at the moment of Christ's death, is in danger of
falling into the wrong hands yet again as northern enemies draw near, and as a new religious
crusade begins, the love between lifelong friends Raimon, son of a Cathar weaver, and Yolanda,
daughter of a Catholic count, is threatened.
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Hunger: A Gone Novel. Michael Grant
Conditions worsen for the remaining young residents of a small
California coastal town isolated by supernatural events when their food supplies dwindle and the
Darkness underground awakens.
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Evernight. Claudia Gray
Sixteen-year-old Bianca, a new girl at the sinister Evernight boarding
school, finds herself drawn to another outsider, Jared, but dark forces threaten to tear them apart
and destroy Bianca's entire world.
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Stargazer. Claudia Gray
When evil wraiths attack her boarding school, Evernight Academy, teenage
vampire Bianca discovers she has become the target.
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Brutal. Michael Harmon
Forced to leave Los Angeles for life in a quiet California wine town
with a father she has never known, rebellious sixteen-year-old Poe Holly rails against a high
school system that allows elite students special privileges and tolerates bullying of those who are
different.
F Har
Once Dead, Twice Shy. Kim Harrison
Spunky teen Madison, though technically dead, uses a stolen amulet to
retain the illusion of a body and help her in the struggle between Light and Dark reapers.
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The Killing Way. Tony Hays
The swift election and murder of the new Rigotamos casts a shameful
shadow on young warrior Arthur, who is not yet king, when the collected blame for the woman's death
is put on Merlin, and Arthur turns to the one who hates him most, Malgwyn, for aid.
F Hea
North of Beautiful. Justina Chen Headley
Terra, a sensitive, artistic high school senior born with a facial
port-wine stain, struggles with issues of inner and outer beauty with the help of her Goth
classmate Jacob.
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Kisses and Lies. Lauren Henderson
Orphaned British teenager Scarlett Wakefield postpones her romance with
the handsome son of the school groundskeeper in order to travel to Scotland with her American
sidekick, Taylor, in search of clues to the murder of a boy who dropped dead after kissing
Scarlett.
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Cold Skin. Steven Herrick
In a rural Australian coal mining town shortly after World War II,
teenaged Eddie makes a startling discovery when he investigates the murder of a local high school
girl.
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Planet Pregnancy. Linda Oatman High
Sixteen-year-old Sahara struggles with an unplanned pregnancy, and all
its conflicting emotions, in this novel told in free verse.
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What We Do is Secret. Thorn Kief Hillsbery
Street kid and hustler Rockets Redglare realizes he has come to a
turning point in his life after his closest friend commits suicide, and Rocket struggles to find a
way to get off the streets before it is too late.
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If He Hollers Let Him Go. Chester Himes
Bob Jones, an African-American man in southern California during the
1940s, is constantly aware of the racism that permeates every aspect of his life, and his worst
fears are realized when he is falsely accused of a brutal crime.
F Hop
Tricks. Ellen Hopkins
Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for
freedom, safety, community, family, and love.
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You Are So Undead to Me. Stacey Jay
Megan Berry, a Carol, Arkansas, high school student who can communicate
with the Undead, must team up with her childhood friend Ethan to save homecoming from an army of
flesh-hungry zombies.
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The Reformed Vampire Support Group. Catherine Jinks
Fifteen-year-old vampire Nina has been stuck for fifty-one years in a
boring support group for vampires, and nothing exciting has ever happened to them--until one of
them is murdered and the others must try to solve the crime.
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Girl, Hero. Carrie Jones
High school freshman Lily pours her heart out in letters to her hero,
dead movie star John Wayne, in which she tells him about the death of her beloved stepfather, her
mother's abusive boyfriends, her fears that her father is gay, getting the lead in the high school
play, and her burgeoning romance with a classmate who reminds her of Mr. Wayne.
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Girlfriend Material. Melissa Kantor
When Kate and her mother stay in Cape Cod for the summer, Kate falls for
Adam, but is afraid he might consider her merely as a carefree fling.
F Kar
Jet Set. Carrie Karasyov
Lucy Peterson, the daughter of a career Army man, has always been
devoted to academics and tennis, but when her tennis ability wins her a scholarship to an elite
Swiss boarding school, distractions abound and her hardest task is telling friend from foe.
F Kla
Whirlwind: Book 2 of the Caretaker Trilogy. David Klass
Jack finds himself embroiled in another dangerous adventure when, after
a six-month absence, he returns to the Hudson River town where he grew up to find his girlfriend PJ
only to discover that she is missing and everyone believes him to be responsible for her
disappearance and the death of his family.
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A Sweet Disorder. Jacqueline Kolosov
When sixteen-year-old Miranda's father dies, she is sent to live with
her father's cousin, Count John Hardwood, who sells her to Court for profit; and as part of Queen
Elizabeth's court, Miranda attempts to leverage her seamstress skills to gain her independence and
reunite with Henry Raleigh, whom she has always loved.
F Lib
The Center of the Universe, Yep That Would be Me. Anita Liberty
An angst-ridden fictional memoir of Anita Liberty's last two years in
high school is presented through diary entries, poems, sarcastic advice, scorecards of parental
infractions, and definitions of SAT vocabulary words.
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The Carbon Diaries, 2015. Saci Lloyd
In 2015, when England becomes the first nation to introduce carbon
dioxide rationing in a drastic bid to combat climate change, sixteen-year-old Laura documents the
first year of rationing as her family spirals out of control.
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Before the War. D.J. MacHale
Describes the lives of Bobby Pendragon's fellow Travelers, including Vo
Spader, Gunny Van Dyke, and Kasha, before they joined him in his quest traveling through time and
space helping others from alternative dimensions.
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2 The Lost City of Faar. D.J. MacHale
When Pendragon finds himself in the war-stricken territory of Cloral, he
and his uncle take it upon themselves to rid the area of marauders and locate the legendary lost
land of Faar, which may hold the key to Cloral's survival.
F Mac Book 3
The Never War. D.J. MacHale
Bobby Pendragon's most recent traveling takes him to the familiar First
Earth, where he and fellow Traveler Spader must stay on the tracks of Saint Dane and his new evil
plot, while also dealing with the tumult of New York City in 1937.
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4
The Reality Bug. D.J. MacHale
In his ongoing battle to save Earth and its parallel worlds from the
demon Saint Dane, fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon travels to Veelox, a world whose inhabitants
have abandoned their real lives in favor of virtual reality.
F Mac Book 5
Black Water. D.J. MacHale
Bobby Pendragon must choose whether to endanger himself and the other
residents of Halla in order to save the residents of Eelong who are infected with a mysterious
plague.
F Mac Book 6
The Rivers of Zadaa. D.J. MacHale
The demonic Saint Dane attempts to take over Loor's home planet of
Zadaa, opposed once again by the teenaged Pendragon and other Travelers.
F Mac Book 7
The Quillan Games. D.J. MacHale
With more questions than answers about Saint Dane, Bobby travels to the
territory of Quillan and is forced to play games where only the winner survives.
F Mac Book 8
The Pilgrims of Rayne. D.J. MacHale
With Saint Dane seemingly on the verge of toppling all of the
territories, Pendragon and Courtney set out to rescue Mark and find themselves traveling--and
battling--their way through different worlds as they try to save all of Halla.
F Mac Book
10
The Soldiers of Halla. D.J. MacHale
Each of the Travelers returns home to learn the truth about their
origins before being reunited for a final, inevitable confrontation with Saint Dane, whose efforts
to control Halla are destroying its very foundations.
F Mac
The Season. Sarah MacLean
Showing no interest in the sumptuous balls, lavish dinner parties, and
country weekends enjoyed by the rest of early nineteenth-century London society, seventeen-year-old
Lady Alexandra Stafford seeks adventure as she investigates the puzzling murder of the Earl of
Blackmoor, father of devilishly handsome Gavin.
F Mcc
In Ecstasy. Kate McCaffrey
Fifteen-year-old best friends Sophie and Mia find their lives changing
in ways they never could have imagined after Sophie convinces Mia they should try ecstasy.
F Mcc
Fourth Comings. Megan McCafferty
Jessica Darling ponders her life in New York, the tiny room she sublets
with her friend Hope, and her on-again, off-again relationship with her boyfriend Marcus.
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Surf Mules. G. Neri
When a tragic accident and sudden financial woes cause recent high
school graduate Logan to question plans for his future, he agrees to make a road trip with his best
friend and surfing buddy, Z-boy, transporting marijuana from southern California to Orlando,
Florida.
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The Celebutants: To the Penthouse. Antonio Pagliarulo
Unless wealthy teenage triplets Madison, Park, and Lexington Hamilton
solve the murder of a promising young sculptor during an Ambassadors for the Arts Luncheon at the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, their dear friend, Coco McCaid, may go to jail.
F Pec
Sprout. Dale Peck
Moving from Long Island to Kansas after his mother dies, a teenaged boy
nicknamed Sprout is surprised to find new friends, a fascinating landscape, and romantic
love.
F Pey
Blue Skies & Gunfire. K.M. Peyton
Josie, in her final term of school, is urged by her mother to leave
London amid threats of an invasion by German troops, and though she is not expecting to like the
countryside, Josie soon finds herself tangled in a web of romance along with the Patterson
brothers, Jumbo and Chris.
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Prom Queen Geeks. Laura Preble
When self-proclaimed "queen geek" Becca decides there should be an
alternative to the prom at her San Diego high school, her best friend Shelby cannot decide whether
to support her friends or to go with her boyfriend to the traditional prom.
F Pre
The Queen Geek Social Club. Laura Preble
Seeking more of their own kind and wanting to shake things up at school,
fifteen-year-old Shelby and her new best friend, Becca, start a club, but geek solidarity may not
solve their problems with weird single parents, guys, or popularity.
F Rey
Shut Up. Marilyn Reynolds
When their mother is sent to fight in Iraq, Mario Barajas and his
younger brother, Eddie, are sent to live with their aunt, but the situation becomes intolerable
when Mario discovers that their aunt's boyfriend is abusing Eddie.
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Play Me. Laura Ruby
Disappointed when he does not get the MTV production deal he so wants,
high school senior Eddy leaves his girlfriend to take a road trip to find the mother who has left
him and his younger stepbrother and taken a bit part in a television show.
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Maybe. Brent Runyon
Sixteen-year-old Brian struggles with life at a new school and his
unresolved feelings about the loss of his older brother.
F Rya
Five Minutes More. Darlene Ryan
D'Arcy learns to cope with pain and feelings of sorrow while dealing
with her father's death--which she wants to be an accident but knows is a suicide--as her mother
struggles with torment of her own.
F Sco
Love You Hate You Miss You. Elizabeth Scott
After coming out of alcohol rehabilitation, sixteen-year-old Amy sorts
out conflicting emotions about her best friend Julia's death in a car accident for which she feels
responsible.
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Something Maybe. Elizabeth Scott
Hannah tries to avoid behaving like her embarrassing parents, but her
plans become complicated when she falls hard for a cute coworker but then discovers that another,
the one who annoys her the most, has fallen hard for her.
F She
Kris Longknife: Intrepid. Mike Shepherd
Kris Longknife uncovers a plot to assassinate the aristocratic Peterwald
family, but when she discovers that she is going to be framed, Kris leads her crew in an effort to
prevent events that could create a war between the Peterwald and the Longknife families.
F Tan
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Nagaru Tanigawa
On the first day at a Japanese high school, an impressible girl
announces her lack of interest in "ordinary humans" and proceeds to form a club dedicated to
finding aliens, time travelers, and other forms of supernatural life, with the intention of having
fun with them. Includes black-and-white illustrations and a color insert.
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Chasing Boys. Karen Tayleur
With her father gone and her family dealing with financial problems, El
transfers to a new school, where she falls for one of the popular boys and then must decide whether
to remain true to herself or become like the girls she scorns.
F Tho
Psych Major Syndrome. Alicia Thompson
College freshman and psychology major, Leigh Nolan, finds her
problem-solving skills woefully inadequate when it comes to her increasingly tangled and
complicated romantic relationships.
F Tur
Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story. Carolyn Turgeon
Lillian, a former fairy godmother who cheated Cinderella out of her life
with Prince Charming, is cast out from the world of fairies and into the human world; but she has
one chance for redemption if she can find a soul mate for Veronica, a young girl she meets one
day.
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Raven. Allison Van Diepen
New York City breakdancer Nicole loves fellow dancer Zin, who keeps her
at a distance, harboring a very old secret.
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Same Difference. Siobhan Vivian
Feeling left out since her long-time best friend started a serious
relationship, sixteen-year-old Emily looks forward to a summer program at the Philadelphia College
of Art but is not sure she is up to the challenges to be faced there, including finding herself and
learning to balance life and art.
F Vol
Black and White. Paul
Volponi
Two star high school basketball players, one black and one white,
experience the justice system differently after committing a crime together and getting
caught.
F Vol
Response. Paul Volponi
When an African American high school student is beaten with a baseball
bat in a white neighborhood, three boys are charged with a hate crime.
F Vol
Rucker Park Setup. Paul Volponi
While playing in a crucial basketball game on the very court where his
best friend was murdered, Mackey tries to come to terms with his own part in that murder and decide
whether to maintain his silence or tell J.R.'s father and the police what really happened.
F Wal
Leftovers Heather Waldorf
While forced to do community service hours at a summer program for
shelter dogs, Sarah is befriended by a fellow teen and a dog, who help her recover from years of
sexual abuse inflicted by her stepfather.
F Wal
Tripping. Heather Waldorf
Eleventh-grader Rainey and five other students embark on a cross-country
field trip that will change her life forever as she discovers her true calling, learns the truth
about her mother, who abandoned her years earlier, and begins a new relationship with a fellow
classmate.
F Wal
Perpetual Check. Rich Wallace
Brothers Zeke and Randy participate in an important chess tournament,
playing against each other while also trying to deal with their father's intensely competetive
tendencies.
F Wea
Saturday Night Dirt. Will Weaver
In a small town in northern Minnesota, the much-anticipated Saturday
night dirt-track race at the old-fashioned, barely viable, Headwaters Speedway becomes, in many
ways, an important life-changing event for all the participants on and off the track.
F Wea
Super Stock Rookie. Will Weaver
Trace Bonham knows he is fortunate to be offered a chance at being a
paid super stock driver when he is still in high school, but regrets that he must leave his friends
and home track and wonders if the sponsor is legitimate.
F Wes
The Killing of Worlds. Scott Westerfeld
Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial frigate Lynx fights what seems to be
an unwinnable battle to stop a vastly superior Rix ship from reaching the planet Legis.
F Wri
When the Black Girl Sings. Bil Wright
Adopted by white parents and sent to an exclusive Connecticut girls'
school where she is the only African-American student, fourteen-year-old Lahni Schuler feels like
an outcast, particularly when her parents separate, but after attending a local church where she
hears gospel music for the first time, she finds her voice.
F Woo
Everything Asian. Sung J. Woo
David Kim celebrates his twelfth birthday shortly after he leaves his
home in Seoul, Korea, with his mother and teenage sister, to join his father in New Jersey, and
starts to work at his father's gift shop.
F Wya
Funny How Things Change. Melissa Wyatt
Remy, a talented, seventeen-year-old auto mechanic, questions his
decision to join his girlfriend when she starts college in Pennsylvania after a visiting artist
helps him to realize what his family's home in a dying West Virginia mountain town means to
him.
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The Uninvited. Tim Wynne- Jones
After a disturbing freshman year at New York University, Mimi is happy
to get away to her father's remote Canadian cottage only to discover a stranger living there who
has never heard of her or her father and who is convinced that Mimi is responsible for leaving
sinister tokens around the property.
STORY COLLECTION
SC Lov Love Is Hell.
Collects five supernatural romance stories, and features selections from
Melissa Marr, Scott Westerfeld, Justine Larbalestier, Gabrielle Zevin, and Laurie Faria
Stolarz.
SC Nos No Such Thing as the Real World: Stories about Growing Up & Getting a Life.
Collects short stories from six young adult authors--An Na, M. T.
Anderson, K. L. Going, Beth Kephart, Chris Lynch, and Jacqueline Woodson--that all feature teen
protagonists who have to face the "real world" for the first time.
NONFICTION
031.02 Sun
The Geeks’ Guide to World Domination. Garth Sundem
Contains brief entries that provide pop-culture trivia, instructions for
paper airplanes, quotations, tap dance steps, alternative hand symbols for rock-paper-scissors, and
other miscellaneous information.
170.842 Wei
Is It Still Cheating if I Don’t Get Caught? Bruce Weinstein
Whether it is about the use of the Internet, sports, family, school, or
affairs of the heart, five simple and clear ethical principles provide the basis for answers to
tough choices teens face every day.
297.5 Haf
The American Muslim Teenager’s Handbook. Dilara Hafiz
A discussion of the basic beliefs and customs of Islam includes
responses of questionnaires filled out by modern American Muslim teenagers that show the varied
ways they show faith in daily life.
303.3 Esp
Should Music Lyrics Be Censored for Violence and Exploitation?
Contains twelve articles that define the debate over whether music
lyrics should be censored for violence and exploitation.
305.235 Bur
Girls Against Girls: Why We are Mean to Each Other & How We Can Change. Bonnie
Burton
Explains why girls can sometimes be mean to each other, what victims of
bullies can do, and the importance of treating other girls with respect.
305.235 Fra
One Hundred Young Americans. Michael Franzini.
Draws on the photographer's travels throughout all fifty states, during
which he interviewed teens from a diverse array of ethnicities, cultures, socioeconomic groups, and
educational backgrounds to capture the essence of young adulthood in today's America.
305.896 New
Letters from Black America. Ed. By Pamela Newkirk
Offers a narrative history of African-Americans through a collection of
correspondences from a variety of men and women, including slaves, politicians, civil rights
activists, entertainers, and others.
306.4 Bur
Rap Music & Culture. Kate Burns, ed.
Contains over twenty essays that offer varying perspectives on
controversial issues related to rap music, such as if it is a significant American cultural music
and if it harms women.
306.874 Uhl
Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love.
The author reflects on his experiences growing up in Brooklyn during the
1940s and being the oldest son of two deaf parents.
306.9 Sch
The Whole Death Catalog: A Lively Guide to the Bitter End. Harold Schechter
Contains a collection of facts and humorous anecdotes on the subject of
death, including deathbed and funeral etiquette, famous last words, alternative burial choices, and
unusual wills.
323.3
Bid Immigrants’ Rights After 9/11. Wendy E. Biddle
Discusses the topic of immigration and the rights of both legal and
illegal immigrants in the United States in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks,
providing arguments on either side of the issue.
325.73 Bau
Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories From the Dark Side of American Immigration. Ann
Bausum
An award-winning author examines the history of American immigration--a
critical topic in 21st century America--particularly those lesser-known stories of immigrants who
were denied entrance into the States or detained for security reasons.
333.7 Gol
Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change
Everything. Daniel Goleman
Explores some of the inconsistencies present in many environmental
movements, maintaining that consumers are unaware of the impact of some of the products they
purchase and believe them to be environmentally safe.
333.72 Nag
Living Green. Jeanne Nagle
Presents an overview of the green movement, covering the reasons for
living green, key crusaders in the movement, the politics of environmental legislation, and
developments and options for the future.
338.2 Hou
Something’s Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal. Silas House
Describes the plight of of the people who oppose mountaintop removal
mining in the Appalachian Mountains, and examines the physical destruction of the land, and how it
also affects the local cultures and societies.
341.4 Rob
Every Human Has Rights. Mary Robinson
Combines photographs with poetry to offer an overview of the thirty
rights granted to all people by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
342.7302 Bee
Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution
Provides an account of the making of the U.S. Constitution, discussing
the meetings that took place in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to design a new government, and
examining the ideas brought by such men as James Madison, George Washington, Roger Sherman, and
other delegates.
355 Car
Behind the Lines: Powerful and Revealing American & Foreign War Letters- And One Man’s
Search to Find Them. Andrew Carroll
From the editor of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller War Letters
comes an even more powerful, more revealing collection of rare and previously-unpublished letters
from every major war in American history -- all discovered during Andrew Carroll's extraordinary
three-year journey throughout the U.S. and to thirty-five countries around the world.
362.5 Sin
The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty. Peter Singer
Discusses world poverty in the twenty-first century, and describes the
ethical reasons to support a seven- point plan to improve the lives of impoverish peoples, which
includes determining how must to spend, how to spend it, raising political awareness within local
communities, and contacting representatives.
363.738 Del
Earth in the Hot Seat. Marfe Ferguson Delano
Explains global warming, discussing its current signs, its effect on
climate and animals, and identifying efforts being made around the world to try to control it and
minimize its impact.
363.9 Ros
Birth Control. Beth Rosenthal, ed.
Contains twenty-three essays that provide varying perspectives on issues
regarding birth control, debating how it affects society, who should control access to it, whether
teens should have access to birth control, and what they should be taught about birth control
options.
381
Gri
Macy’s: The Store. The Star. The Story. Robert M. Grippo
Chronicles the history of Macy's, and discusses the trends, traditions,
and business decisions that have carried the store from its founding in 1858 through to the
twenty-first century.
519.5 Tak
The Manga Guide to Statistics. Shin Takahashi
An introduction to statistics, featuring manga illustrations, which
explain how to calculate means, medians, and standard deviations, determine probability, graph
data, and more.
546 Lew
Acids & Bases. Kristi Lew
Learn about acids and bases, chemical components of the natural world
that play key roles in medicine and industry.
546 Wes
Carbon Chemistry. Krista West
An introduction to carbon chemistry, featuring a brief review of atoms
and elements, and covering carbon compounds, biomolecules, the carbon cycle, global warming, carbon
products, and other topics.
551.6 Kus
Climate Change: Shifting Glaciers, Deserts, and Climate Belts. Timothy
Kusky
Examines global climate change, both natural and human-induced, and its
affects on the environment that include desertification, drought, melting ice caps, and changes in
sea level.
551.9 Cob
Earth Chemistry. Allan B. Cobb
Explores the various chemical and physical changes on the Earth,
describing how the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere interact with one
another.
612
Rei
The Human Body. Kathleen M Reilly
Explains the workings of the different systems of the human body,
covering the circulatory, respiratory, and digestive
systems, muscles, bones, cells, skin, the brain, senses, reproduction,
and diseases and immunity, and provides
instructions for twenty-five related projects and activities.
614.5 Zah
The Black Death. Diane Zahler
This book discusses the pivotal moment in history when one out of three
people died and changed the course of world history, the Black Death.
618.2 Fis
Childbirth. Christina Fisanick, ed.
Contains twenty-six articles that provide a variety of perspectives on
issues related to childbirth, discussing questions of how to assure safety and comfort during
childbirth, the best conditions for childbirth, rights and preferences during childbirth, and who
should assist and be present during childbirth.
641.5 Ste
Sam Stern’s Get Gooking. Sam Stern
Provides a collection of recipes made from the author's friends'
favorite ingredients, including Irish soda bread, mushroom curry, sausage Yorkshires, and
shepherd's pie.
730 Pha
Vitamin 3-D : New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation
741.51 Byr
Cartooning. John M Byrne
A step-by-step guide to drawing cartoon characters covers everything
from strips and caricatures to cartoons and manga, in a reference for beginning and
intermediate-level illustrators.
741.9242
Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing.
Profiles 109 artists, who use drawing as a primary medium, including
several representative works and a brief discussion of the artist's techniques and themes. Arranged
alphabetically.
775
Fre
Mastering HDR Photography: Combining Technology and Artistry to Create High Dynamic Range
Images. Michael Freeman
779
Art
Our Living Earth: A Story of People, Ecology, and Preservation.
Looks at the long-term consequences of human interference in the natural
world and the personal stories of people around the world "going green" to do what they can to help
the planet.
791
Fri
Rejected: Takes of the Failed, Dumped, and Canceled. Jon Friedman (ed)
Collects stories, jokes, cartoons, articles, and sketches that describes
human reactions to rejection, and features selections from Bob Wiltfong, Meredith Hoffa, Joel
Stein, Dave Wain, Michael Ian Black, and others.
796.22 Stu
Skateboarding Field Manual. Ryan Stutt
A comprehensive guide to skateboarding that covers tricks, gear, and
safety tips.
811 Eng
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom. Margarita Engle
A collection of poems in which Rosa, a healer, describes her experiences
trying to help Cuban peasants who have been forced to leave their farms and villages in 1896 and
given eight days to find their way to "reconcentration camps" or be killed.
814
Bis
Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays. Eula Biss
A collection of essays in which Eula Biss explores topics related to
race, identity, and belonging in twenty-first-century America.
823
Sta
The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol Rescued his Career and Revived our Holiday Spirits. Les
Standiford
Traces the many influences in Charles Dickens's life that led to his
writing the classic holiday story, "A Christmas Carol."
843
Cel
North. Celine
Louis-Ferdinand Celine chronicles his family's frantic flight from
France in the final months of World War II.
917.404 Bry
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. Bill Bryson
Author Bill Bryson provides an account of his experiences hiking the
Appalachian Trail with a childhood friend, telling of how they survived a blizzard, got lost, and
had encounters with eccentric characters, and rude yuppies along the way.
918.1 Gra
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon. David Grann
Details English explorer Percy Fawcett's exploration for a lost city in
the jungles of South America and relates efforts made by the author and other individuals to find
out what happened to him.
956.7044 Smi
Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI. Ryan Smithson
Recounts the author's experiences as an Army engineer in the Iraq
War.
973.09 Bos
The New York Times on the Presidency: 1853-2008. Meena Bose
Combines news articles, editorials, and data from "The New York Times"
to examine the presidency and American political system from 1853 through the administration of
George W. Bush.
973.7 Osb
Traveling the Freedom Road: From Slaver & The Civil War Through
Reconstruction. Linda Barrett Osborne
Presents a history of slavery in the United State, from the early
establishment of the slave trade prior to the American Revolution, to the abolitionist movement,
emancipation, and the upheavals of the Reconstructive period of the late nineteenth century.
973.4 Stg
The Duel: The Parallel Lives of Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr. Judith St.
George
Highlights similar aspects of the lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron
Burr, and examines how the two war heroes and founding fathers ended up in a duel that cost one of
them his life.
GRAPHIC COLLECTION
070.4 Gui
The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders. Emmanuel
Guibert
A graphic novel and photo journal that follows reporter Didier Lefevre
on a dangerous journey through Afghanistan with the Doctors Without Borders mission.
305.38 Lan GRAPHIC
Pitch Black. Youme Landowne
Youme describes her unique collaboration with artist Anthony Horton,
which began as the two traveled together on the New York subway system.
741.5 Ash
Sand Chronicles 1. Hinako Ashihara
Ann, having moved to her mother's hometown in rural Shimane after the
divorce of her parents, struggles to get used to her new surroundings, until a tragedy forces her
to appreciate the people around her.
741.5 Ash
Sand Chronicles 2. Hinako Ashihara
Ann, having made a new life and good friends in the country following
her parents' divorce and her mom's suicide, does not know what to do when her father asks her to
come and live with him in Tokyo.
741.5 Ash
Sand Chronicles 3. Hinako Ashihara
Eager to reconnect with her boyfriend Daigo, sixteen-year-old Ann
returns to Shimane from Tokyo for the summer, but the interference of Fuji and Shika might
complicate the young couple's romantic attachment.
741.5 Ash
Sand Chronicles 4. Hinako Ashihara
Ann and Daigo's long distance relationship is tested as time passes and
they each spend more time with their aristocratic childhood friends, brother and sister Fuji and
Shika, than each other.
741.5 Cle
Atomic Robo. Brian Clevinger
Collects no. 1-6 of "Atomic Robo" comics in which Atomic Robo, a robot
with automatic intelligence built by Nikola Tesla in 1923, grows in stature with the U.S. military
and as founder of Tesladyne, a think tank that explores the fringes of scientific inquiry.
741.5 Ber
Britten and Brulightly. Hannah Berry
Private detective Fernández Britten longs to expose a truth that does
not bring someone pain--for once--but his newest case, to determine whether Berni Kudos really
committed suicide, leads him through a family's dark secrets and farther from where he wanted to
end up.
741.5 Dig
Green Arrow: Year One. Andy Diggle
Traces the origins of Green Arrow Oliver Queen, a rich outdoor
adventurer who finds himself stranded on an island where he fights for survival against the
elements and the drug runners who left him to die.
741.5 Ino
Real. Takehiko Inoue
Kiyohiko Togawa, confined to a wheelchair after a bout with cancer,
struggles to overcome his physical limitations and fulfill his dreams of being a basketball
star.
741.5 Ino
Real. V.1 Takehiko Inoue
Suffering life-changing events that leave them in wheelchairs, three
young men find their passion for basketball helps ease their pain and brings them closer
together.
741.5 Ino
Real. V.4 Takehiko Inoue
Athlete Kyoharu Togawa, chosen to compete for a spot on Japan's National
Wheelchair Basketball Team, looks back over how far he has come since losing a leg to
cancer.
741.5 Joh
Dead Space. Anthony Johnston
Security officer Bram Neumann is caught between religious hysteria,
insane miners, and the mining corporation's machines as he tries to discover the Marker's secrets
on the distant mining colony of Aegis VII. Collects "Dead Space" no. 1-6.
741.5 Kam
Samurai Deeper 33. Akimine Kamijyo
After Kyo's Group defeats Yuan and Tokito, with Akira's help, they
continue into the Crimson Tower and fall upon a sinister experiment designed to reconstruct the
Mibu clan while Yukimura takes on the powerful Crimson King in an attempt to rescue Sakuya and
Yuya.
741.5 Kam
Samurai Deeper 34. Akimine Kamijyo
Akari, controlled by Hishigi's Medusa Eye, turns from friend to foe, and
Shinrei, Hotaru, and Yuan mount a futile strike against the Elders while Kyo, sucked away from the
battle by his sword Tenro, faces the spirit of the original Crimson King.
741.5 Mac
Pendragon, Book One: The Merchant of Death. D.J. MacHale
Fourteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon receives a visit from his Uncle,
learns he is a Traveler of time and space, and ends up on Denduron, a medieval world where Bedoowan
enslave the peaceful Milagos and Bobby's job is to set them free by teaming up with other Travelers
and a girl named Loor.
741.5 Nil
Dead, She Said. Steve Niles
Hard-boiled detective Joe Coogan wakes up in his apartment with his guts
hanging out and rigor mortis setting in, and realizing he is dead, sets out into the city--with his
body already starting to rot--to find out who killed him.
741.5 Par
Y Square Plus. Judith Park
Yagate, looking for the man of his dreams, has his heart set on handsome
college student Ra-Myun, but learns he is going to have to fight for him; while Yoshitaka must
gather his nerve to tell Ju-Jin how he feels about her before she finds another boyfriend.
741.5 Pow
Swallow Me Whole. Nate Powell
Teenage stepsiblings Ruth and Perry try to make sense of their
psychological problems while dealing with the trials and tribulations of adolescence.
741.5 She
Frankenstein: The Graphic Novel. Original Text. Mary Shelley
Presents an adaptation of Shelley's story of a scientist who creates
life with unintended consequences.
741.5 She
Frankenstein: The Graphic Novel. Quick Text. Mary Shelley
Presents an adaptation of Shelley's story of a scientist who creates
life with unintended consequences. The full story in quick modern English for a fast-paced
read.
741.5 Sal
Cat Burglar Black. Richard Sala
K. Westree arrives at Bellsong Academy, where she hopes to leave her
past as a cat-burglar behind, but she quickly learns that the school contains a hidden treasure
left by its founder, and as she resumes her old habits, she starts to question whether she really
wants a normal life.
741.5 Yan
The Eternal Smile. Gene Luen Yang
A collection of three graphic stories featuring Duncan, a charming
prince hoping to win the princess's hand; Gran'pa Greenbax, a greedy old frog who longs to find
true happiness; and Janet, a busy working woman who thinks she has found true love with a Nigerian
prince who contacts her through an email asking for her help in liberating his family.
PROFESSIONAL COLLECTION
Prof 025.5
Bel
Online Searching. Suzanne S. Bell
Presents a comprehensive librarian's guide to doing online research that
shows how to work with databases covering most academic subject areas as well as teaching others
about databases.
Prof 347.73
Sto
Supreme Court Decisions: Scenarios, Simulations, and Activities for Understanding and Evaluating
14 Landmark Court Cases. Jeffrey D. Stocks
Presents fourteen U.S. Supreme Court cases that changed history, with
activities and discussion questions to generate active participation, and includes quick reference
facts and background information for the teacher.
Prof 371.33 Cra
Using Web 2/0 Tools in the K-12 Classroom. Beverley E. Crane
Offers library media specialists and educators guidelines, models, and
strategies for using Web 2.0.
Prof 371.9
Kar
Inclusion Strategies That Work for Adolescent Learners. Toby J. Karten