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Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Purple
Hibiscus.
While his Nigerian
community sees him as a devout Christian and highly respected
man, Kambili's fanatically religious father has privately always
demanded perfection of his family and doled out brutal punishment
for anything less. When an outspoken aunt reenters their lives
during the political turbulence of a military coup, the fragile
family order begins to crumble, ultimately resulting in tragedy.
(YA Fic Adichie; Fic Adichie)
Bell, Hilari. The
Goblin Wood.
A young hedgewitch,
a disgraced but honorable knight, and a myriad of goblins are
at the center of events in a magical world at war. (Juv
Fic SF Bell)
Bird, Eugenie. Fairie-Ality:
The Fashion Collection.
What will the fairies
be wearing this season? Calla lilies and rose petal dresses, gerbera
daisy bell-bottoms, or snakeskin bikinis? This fashion catalogue
for the wee folks will set the trends. (YA 398.21 Bird)
Bray, Libba. A
Great and Terrible Beauty.
In 1895 Victorian
England, rebellious sixteen-year-old Gemma Doyle finds herself
embroiled in a decades-old supernatural mystery at a stuffy finishing
school that she is being forced to attend after her mother's tragic
death abroad. (YA Fic M Bray)
Brennan, Herbie. Faerie
Wars
Atherton, a teen from "our"
world, and his octogenarian employer Mr. Fogarty join forces with
an animal-loving boy from the faerie world who is in danger. (YA
Fic SF Brennan)
Brooks, Kevin. Lucas.
Caitlin becomes isolated
as the other young adults of Hale Island develop and immediate
and intense hatred for the attractive and mysterious newcomer
she befriends. (YA Fic Brooks)
Brooks, Martha. True
Confessions of a Heartless Girl.
After stealing her
boyfriend's money and truck, newly-pregnant Noreen leans in the
small town of Pembina Lake and becomes the catalyst for change
for the town's residents. (YA Fic Brooks)
Buckingham, Dorothea N. STARING
DOWN THE DRAGON
Rell is in cancer
remission but can't quite resume her normal life - she feels as
though no one truly understands what's been through or how the
disease has changed her life.
Burt, Guy. Sophie.
Adult Mattie recounts
his strange childhood with his sister Sophie, his hostage. (Fic
Burt)
Calhoun, Dia. White
Midnight.
Rose, discounted as
timid, ugly and inconsequential by her community, finds the inner
strength to face her fears as well as "The 'Thing' who lives
in the Bighouse's attic, in order to save her beloved Greengarden.
(Juv Fic SF Calhoun)
Capuzzo, Michael. Close
to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916.
A description of both
the mass hysteria that gripped the Jersey shore in 1916 and the
voyage of the shark that caused it before man knew what a danger
a shark could be. (597.31 C175c)
Coburn, Jake. PREP.
Long after a tragedy
caused Nick to abandon his Krylon cans and his crew, he is forced
to dive back into the prep schoolgangster underworld in order
to save the life of Danny, the younger brother of the female friend
Nick secretly loves.
Cofer, Judith Ortiz. THE MEANING
OF CONSUELO.
A young girl tells
her tragic story of coming of age in 1950s Puerto Rico. Consuelo
struggles to understand her place in the world as her father embraces
each technological advance and the promise of wealth it offers,
her mother reaches for the past and the natural beauty of the
island, her closest friend and cousin begins to reveal his homosexuality,
and her younger sister slips quietly into madness.
Crowe, Chris. Getting
Away With Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case.
When Emmett Till,
a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Money,
Mississippi, violated the most serious tenet of white supremacy
in the summer of 1955, his murder touched off the Civil Rights
Movement of the 1960s. (j364.1523 Crowe)
Crutcher, Chris. King
of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography.
The autobiography
of award-winning author Chris Crutcher recounts hysterically-funny
vignettes of his childhood, profound-yet-simple truths that he
learned along the way, and the path and elements leading to writing
his honest and gritty young adult books. (YA 921 C979AAk)
Davis, Amanda. Wonder
When You'll Miss Me.
When everything in
her life spirals out of control, 16-year-old Faith/Annabelle runs
away to the circus. (Fic Davis)
Donnelly, Jennifer. A
Northern Light.
In Upstate New York,
in 1906, against the background of a true, and truly scandalous
murder, fictional character Mattie Gokey fights her family and
the societal constraints of the times to become her own person.
(YA Fic Donnelly)
FIREBIRDS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF ORIGINAL
FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION. Sharyn November, ed.
A broad range of solidly
written sci-fi/fantasy that showcases major authors of the genre
with all new original stories, including ones by heavy hitters
like Lloyd Alexander, Nancy Springer and Garth Nix.
Fleming, Candace. Ben
Franklin's Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's
Life.
A topically organized
biography of the printer, writer, scientist, statesman and inventor,
the only Founding Father who signed all four of the documents
that are the basis of our country today, modeled on his own Poor
Richard's Almanac. (j921 F854f1)
Fradin, Dennis Brindell and Judith Bloom Fradin. Fight
On! Mary Church Terrell's Battle for Integration.
A biography of an
indomitable fighter against all forms of discrimination who, in
her late 80s, conducted a successful campaign to integrate D.C.
restaurants and movie theaters. (j323.4 Fradin)
Frank, E. R. Friction
An innocent young girl's
budding sexuality contributes to the terrible confusion-and, ultimately,
to the tragic consequences-when a new classmate begins an insidious
campaign to portray their popular teacher as a pervert. (YA
Fic Frank)
Freedman, Russell. In
Defense of Liberty: The Story of America's Bill of Rights.
The first ten amendments
to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791, listed the individual
freedoms guaranteed Americans, but court cases and societal changes
have broadened and changed our understanding of those freedoms
over the years. (j342.73 Freedman)
Frost, Helen. Keesha's
House.
A verse novel in which
Joe, whose aunt had taken him into her house when he was young
and in need, now owns that house and does the same for a variety
of kids with their own problems. (YA Fic Frost)
Going, K. L. Fat
Kid Rules the World.
At 17, Troy struggles
with obesity and depression. He is rescued from a near-suicide
attempt by a chance encounter with a homeless teenage punk-rock
icon, who convinces Troy to become a drummer for his new band.
(YA Fic Going)
Goodman, Alison. SINGING THE DOGSTAR BLUES.
Seventeen-year-old
Joss consoles herself with her blues music as she faces an assassin,
unruly demonstrators, a peeved professor, and intrusive high tech
security when she is selected as a partner by Mavkel, the first
alien to study time travel at the Center for Neo-Historical Studies.
Greenberg, Jan and Sandra Jordan. Runaway
Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois.
The French artist
Louise Bourgeois was definitely a woman ahead of her time. Known
for her post modern arachnid sculptures, hemp and naturalistic
material pieces and rebellious attitude, she is known for coining
the phrase "Art is the promise the artist makes to the community
that they will not commit murder." (j730.92 Greenberg)
Haddon, Mark. The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Welcome to the world
of a 15-year-old autistic teen who knows it will be a "super
good day" if he sees 5 red cars in a row or a "black
day" if he sees 4 yellow cars in a row. Christopher can solve
quadratic equations in his head but can't bear to be touched or
to eat foods that are touching one another on his plate. (YA
Fic Haddon; Fic Haddon)
Hampton, Wilborn. September
11, 2001: Attack on New York City.
The destruction of
the World Trade Center told through the experiences of people
closely involved including survivors who escaped the falling towers,
a man who lost his wife, firemen, the mayor, and a perpetrator
as well as the author. (YA 973.931 Hampton)
Hautman, Pete. Sweetblood.
16-year-old Lucy comes
to terms with her out-of-control sugar diabetes by comparing her
disease to being like that of a blood-dependent vampire and immersing
herself in Goth culture. (YA Fic Hautman)
Hearn, Lian. Across
the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori, Book One
An adventure of epic proportions
begins for Kateo when his village is slaughtered and he is rescued
by Lord Otori, who somehow guesses at his secret identity. (YA
Fic Hearn; Fic Hearn)
Henkes, Kevin. Olive's
Ocean.
When Martha's classmate,
Olive, is killed in a hit-and-run accident, Martha sets out to
accomplish the things that Olive never had the chance to. (YA
Fic Henkes)
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki. A
Stir of Bones.
14-year-old Susan
Backstrom may be perfect in every way, but she's also hiding a
perfectly horrible secret that only three new friends, a love-struck
ghost and a helpful haunted House can help her face. (Juv
Fic SF Hoffman)
Holt, Kimberly Willis. Keeper
of the Night.
Isabel, who is a Guam
teenager, and her family, try to survive and heal after her mother's
suicide. (YA Fic Holt)
Horvath, Polly. The
Canning Season.
Ratchet Clark is quite
surprised when her mother sends her off to spend the summer with
her twin aunts PenPen and Tilly -the last thing she expects to
find is a real home. (YA Fic Horvath)
Jenkins, A. M. OUT OF ORDER
High school sophomore,
Colt Trammel, struggles to maintain his macho image despite problems
with both his girlfriend and his classwork.
Johnson, Angela. The
First Part Last.
The story of Bobby
Morris, a teenage father first introduced in Johnson's Heaven,
is told by filling in the "now" and "then"
of his life in New York City raising his daughter, Feather. (YA
Fic Johnson)
Johnson, Kathleen Jeffrie. Target.
Grady struggles through his senior year, haunted by the memory
of the gang rape that destroyed his sense of security and self-worth.
Juby, Susan. Alice,
I Think.
Not many girls have given a counselor a breakdown by the age of
fifteen, but hopefully Alice Macleod has nowhere else in her small
town to go but up. (YA Fic)
Koja, Kathe. Buddha
Boy.
Justin is shaken from his safe little niche at school when he
meets Jinsen; an unusual new student who will only smile at the
abuse he faces at the hands of the school's predators. (YA
Fic)
Korman, Gordon. Jake,
Reinvented.
A mysterious new high school student -who instantly becomes the
center of the social scene and a star on the football team-harbors
secrets from his past that threaten to topple the new identity
he's constructed for himself. (YA Fic)
Krisher, Trudy. Uncommon
Faith.
The livery fire in 1837 was only the beginning of the changes
in Millbrook, Massachusetts, when young people who felt invisible
began to question the established authority, to compare the status
of women to the status of slaves, and to object to them both.
(YA Fic)
Levithan, David. Boy
Meets Boy.
"Gay boy" Paul finds himself on an emotional rollercoaster
as he tries to establish a new relationship with Noah while at
the same time caring for Kyle. (YA Fic)
Little, Jason. Shutterbug
Follies.
Bee's job as a technician in a one-hour photo lab leads her into
a bizarre murder mystery involving an art photographer's grisly
subjects. (Fic)
Lowachee, Karin. BURNDIVE.
Ryan Azarcon is drawn
into an interstellar war when his famous family is targeted by
assassins.
Mack, Tracy. BIRDLAND.
Jed's East Village
video documentary and the people he meets help him deal with the
grief over the recent death of his brother, Zeke, a poet and jazz
fan.
Mackler, Carolyn. The
Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things.
15-year-old Virginia
learns how to manage her weight, the wandering hands of Froggy
Welsh the Fourth, and an accusation of date rape against her perfect
older brother when her best friend moves to Washington, forcing
her to deal with her problems on her own for the first time in
her life. (YA Fic Mackler)
Martinez, Manuel Luis. DRIFT.
Set adrift by his
family after his dad splits one too many times and his mom has
a nervous breakdown, sixteen-year-old Robert Lomos tries to put
his life together but keeps screwing up - getting into fights
and getting high. Only his iron-willed Grams truly believes in
him.
Maynard, Joyce. The
Usual Rules.
13-year-old Wendy
tries to pick up the pieces of her shattered life after her beloved
mother, an executive secretary, dies in the World Trade Center
on September 11, 2001. (Fic Maynard)
McNamee, Graham. Acceleration.
While working a summer
job in the subterranean Lost and Found Office of the Toronto Transit
Commission, Duncan discovers a lost journal containing a man's
plans to murder women. (YA Fic M McNamee)
Meyer, L.A. Bloody
Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky"
Faber, Ship's Boy.
Reduced to begging
and thievery on the streets of London, Mary transforms herself
into Jacky Faber, ship's boy on the British warship Dolphin. (YA
Fic Meyer)
Murphy, Jim An
American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever
Epidemic of 1793.
Yellow fever disrupted
the federal government, divided the medical establishment and
destroyed the lives of thousands of Philadelphians in the disastrous
epidemic of 1793, one of many in cities around the world until
the cause of the disease was identified at the beginning of the
20th century. (j614.541 Murphy)
Murphy, Jim. Inside
the Alamo.
In February 1836,
General Santa Anna led the Mexican Army to the town of San Antonio
de Bexar, where they fought and massacred almost all of the men
holed up inside the complex of the Alamo Mission defending the
newly formed territory of Texas from Santa Anna's attempts to
reclaim it for Mexico. (j976.4 Murphy)
Murray, Jaye. BOTTLED UP.
Pip is a 17-year-old
badass who gets his kicks by drinking, smoking, cutting class,
and generally getting in lots of trouble. But then the school
principal gets involved and Pip is forced to come to terms with
what he's doing and the impact it has on his six-year-old brother.
Myracle, Lauren. Kissing
Kate.
A brief, intimate
episode between two long-time high school girlfriends results
in an unbridgeable rift when they react in radically different
ways to what has happened at that party - a shared, intimate kiss.
(YA Fic Myracle)
Naidoo, Beverley. Out
of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope.
Seven short stories,
set in South Africa between 1948 and 2000 and focused on individual
experiences, white, black and colored, chronicle the stiffening
and then collapse of the legal segregation of the races on South
Africa known as apartheid. (Juv Fic Naidoo)
Napoli, Donna Jo. Breath.
In the late 1200s
in rat-infested Hameln, Germany, a young boy with a terrible disease
(cystic fibrosis) meets the piper. Stark and full of vivid imagery
of a disease-infested landscape, this book is incredibly addictive.
Napoli based this story on events that truly happened and cleverly
manipulates them with the tale of the pied piper. Rats take the
blame for everything. (YA Fic Napoli)
Osa, Nancy. Cuba
15.
Fifteen-year-old Violet
Paz is struggling to understand her Cuban heritage while her Abuela
plans her quinceanero, and she gathers great material for her
speech team performances from her crazy family. (YA Fic
Osa)
Parker, Jeff. THE INTERMAN.
Van Meach is the INTERMAN,
a global project worked on in secret by several governments to
attempt to create the perfect war machine, an assassin who can
adapt to his surroundings no matter what the situation. Now that
these government leaders have decided that Van is too dangerous
to live, they are finding that their prototype has become far
more successful than they ever hoped.
Pattou, Edith. East.
Rose agrees to travel
far from her home on the back of the mysterious White Bear, a
journey that leads her "East of theSun and West of the Moon"
on an adventure she never imagined. (Juv Fic SF Pattou)
Paulsen, Gary. How
Angel Peterson Got His Name: And Other Outrageous Tales About
Extreme Sports.
Gary Paulsen relates
a series of bizarre and daredevil feats attempted by his friends
during their childhood in Minnesota. (j921 P285AAh)
Peck, Richard. The
River Between Us.
In 1916, Howard Leland
Hutchings travels to his father's ancestral home in Southern Illinois
and meets Tilly who tells him the story of his father's kin during
the Civil War era. (YA Fic Peck)
Pierce, Tamora. Trickster's
Choice.
When Aly decides to
avoid her famous warrior mother she never dreams that she will
be captured by slavers, but finds that this gives her the opportunity
to prove that she has all the makings of a spy. (Juv Fic
SF Pierce)
Pratchett, Terry. The
Wee Free Men: A Story of Discworld.
Armed with an iron
frying pan, Tiffany Aching goes with the wee free men who have
made her their leader to rescue her little brother, one of a series
of young people kidnapped by the Queen of Fairyland. (Juv
Fic SF Pratchett)
Rapp, Adam. 33 SNOWFISH.
Boobie, Curl and Custis
are on the run with Boobie's baby brother in tow as they each
attempt to escape their demons and cling to one another in their
darkest hours.
Rees, Celia. Pirates!:
The True and Remarkable Adventures of Minerva Sharpe and Nancy
Kington, Female Pirates
In the 1720s, dire circumstances
propel two girls - a wealthy merchant's daughter from England
and her father's Jamaican slave - into a life of piracy. (YA
Fic Rees)
Reeve, Philip. Mortal
Engines.
In a future so bleak
that cities travel on huge tank-like tracks hunting and consuming
smaller towns, four teens uncover a diabolical plan to reconstruct
the very weapons that killed civilization as we know it. (Juv
Fic SF Reeve)
Roach, Mary. Stiff:
The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.
The book is a journey
into the afterlife of human cadavers. The author gives a humorous,
yet touching and respectful and poignant look at how scientists
utilize every precious element of the human body. (611 R53s)
Rowling, J.K. Harry
Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Harry Potter is haunted
by dreams that foreshadow a terrifying secret. Being a 15-year-old
adolescent doesn't help matters either. In his fifth year at Hogwarts
Harry is snappier and moodier than ever and his hormones and emotions
fluctuate continuously. (Juv Fic SF Rowling)
Rylant, Cynthia. God
Went to Beauty School.
Very funny, yet thoughtful,
collection of poems presenting an alternative view of God. (YA
Fic Rylant)
Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis:
The Story of a Childhood.
Marjane, the daughter
of radical Marxists, grows up in Iran during the time of its revolution
and subsequent war with Iraq. (YA 955.0542 Satrapi; 741.5999 Sa83p)
Sis, Peter. The
Tree of Life: A Book Depicting the Life of Charles Darwin: Naturalist,
Geologist & Thinker.
An introduction to
the nineteenth century scientist who sailed around the world and
wrote a book that changed it, including material from Darwin's
own diaries and detailed illustrations by the author. (j921
D259s)
Slade, Arthur. Dust.
11-year-old Robert
is the only person in Horshoe, Saskatchewan who remains impervious
enough to the dazzling visitor and his promise of a rainmaking
machine to wonder where all the town's missing people have gone.
(YA Fic M Slade)
Spinelli, Jerry. Milkweed.
A resourceful orphan
steals to survive the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto in Nazi-occupied
Poland. (Juv Fic Spinelli)
Stroud, Jonathan. The
Amulet of Samarkand: Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One.
A brilliant, self-taught
young magician named Nathaniel aims to take revenge by conjuring
up a powerful djinni named Bartimaeus and commanding him to steal
the Amulet of Samarkand from Simon Lovelace, the magician who
was responsible for humiliating Nathaniel. (Juv Fic SF Stroud)
Thompson, Craig. Blankets:
An Illustrated Novel.
This graphic novel,
autobiographical in scope, vibrantly depicts the life of the author.
Simultaneously weaving childhood, adolescence and adulthood, Thompson
illuminates the trials and tribulations of being an outcast, attending
a zealous bible camp and meeting the girl of his dreams. (Fic
Thompson)
Trueman, Terry. Inside
Out.
While waiting for
his mom in the coffee shop, sixteen-year-old Zach Wahhsted, who
suffers from adolescent onset schizophrenia, becomes the voice
of reason when a foiled robbery by a pair of armed teens turns
into a hostage situation. (YA Fic Trueman)
Vance, Susanna. Deep.
Enthusiastically spoiled
13-year-old Birdie Sidwell and solemn, sea-faring 17-year-old
Morgan become unlikely allies when they both come in contact with
a ruthless, utterly charming modern pirate. (YA Fic M Vance)
Vande Velde, Vivian. Heir
Apparent.
Trapped in a virtual
reality game by outside religious agitators who have stormed the
video arcade and harmed the sensitive equipment, fourteen-year-old
Giannine isn't just playing to win, she's playing for her life!
(Juv Fic SF Vande Velde)
Wittlinger, Ellen. Zigzag.
Robin discovers more
than the sights during her cross-country trek. (YA Fic Wittlinger)
Woodson, Jacqueline. Locomotion.
A verse novel in which
11-year-old Lonnie recovers from the trauma that results when
his parents are killed in a fire. (Juv Fic Woodson)
Wrede, Patricia C. and Caroline Stevermer. Sorcery
& Cecelia, Or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: Being the Correspondence
of Two Young Ladies of Quality Regarding Various Magical Scandals
in London and the Country.
Cousins Cecelia and
Kate, who have grown up raucously in the country, correspond in
lively letters during the course of Kate's first season in London.
(YA Fic SF Wrede)
Yolen, Jane. Sword
of the Rightful King: A Novel of King Arthur.
Assassins, treachery,
and sorcery abound in this inventive version of King Arthur's
early days of rule, including the magician's very risky staging
of the test of the sword in the stone. (Juv Fic SF Yolen)
Zahn, Timothy. Dragon
and Thief: A Dragonback Adventure.
Jack Morgan's efforts
to be cleared of a theft he didn't make are complicated when he
allows Draycos, a symbiotic dragon, to take up residence on his
back in the form of a moving tattoo. (Fic SF Zahn)
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