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68 Pages·2011·0.11 MB·English

Author Title Summary
A deceptively simple story about the
rise and fall of Okonkwo, a Nigerian
man caught between his warrior
Achebe, ancestors and British administrators
Chinua Things Fall Apart infiltrating his village.
Junior, an artist and basketball player,
leaves his school on the reservation to
The Absolutely True attend an all-white school in town. A
Alexie, Diary of a Part-Time heartbreaking but funny story of trying
Sherman Indian to overcome the worst.
Zachary Wallace realizes he holds the
key to unlocking the mystery of the
Loch Ness monster, but as his
memories drive him to madness, he
searches for anything that can help him
Alten, Steve The Loch reclaim his life and career.
Eighteen-year-old Kate, who
sometimes chafes at being a
preacher's daughter, finds herself
losing control in her senior year as she
faces difficult neighbors, the possibility
that she may not be accepted by the
Anderson, college of her choice, and an
Laurie Catalyst unexpected death.
Eighteen-year-old Ash wants nothing to
do with senior prom, but when disaster
strikes and her desperate friend, Nat,
Anderson, needs her help to get it back on track,
Laurie Halse Prom Ash's involvement transforms her life.
Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms
with her best friend's death frm
Anderson, anorexia as she struggles with the
Laurie Halse Wintergirls same disorder.
Diaries and letters chronicle the
The Astonishing Life experiences of Octavian, as he is
of Octavian Nothing, brought up as part of a science
Anderson, Traitor to the Nation experiment in the years leading up to
M.T. (Volume 1 or 2) and during the Revolutionary War.
In the future, most people have
computer implants in their heads to
control their environment and sell them
Anderson, things. A boy meets an unusual girl
M.T. Feed who is in serious trouble.
Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in
sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya
The Complete Angelou writes from the heart and
Collected Poems of celebrates life as only she has
Angelou, Maya Maya Angelou discovered it.
Ansary, son of an Afghan father and
American mother, describes living in
Afghanistan and in America, where he
West Of Kabul, has lived since he was 16. On Sept.
East Of New York: 12, 2001 he emailed his friends to
An Afghan express his feelings about the Taliban,
Ansary, Tamin American Story and gained worldwide attention.
Armstrong, It’s Not About the Champion cyclist Lance Armstrong
Lance Bike describes his triumph over cancer.
Is war noble? Or is it delusional?
Aronson, War Is...:Soldiers, Aronson and Campbell have
Marc, and Survivors, and commissioned and edited nearly
Patty Storytellers Talk twenty pieces of fiction and nonfiction
Cambpell About War as varied and complex as war itself.
Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown,
Minnesota, journeys to the Abarat, an
archipelago filled with strange
wonders, and has a curious revelation:
she has been here before, and it is her
responsibility to save the mysterious
place from the evil forces that threaten
Barker, Clive Abarat it.
Sixteen-year-old Kaye finds herself an
unwilling pawn in an ancient power
Tithe (or other struggle between two rival faerie
books in trilogy: kingdoms - a struggle that could very
Black, Holly Valiant, Ironside) well mean her death.
Chronicles one basketball season of a
Blais, In These Girls Hope girls' high school team in Amherst,
Madeleine Is a Muscle Massachusetts.
In 1947, with her stepfather Joe back
from the war and family life returning to
normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the
handsome young ex-GI who seems to
have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself
caught in a complicated web of lies
whose devastating outcome will
What I Saw and change her life and that of her family
Blundell, Judy How I Lied forever.
A young boy, Paolo, and the man who
murdered his parents, Angel, gradually
become like father and son as they live
Bondoux, and work together on the remote
Anne-Laure The Killer’s Tears Chilean farm where Paolo was born.
The author recalls his poverty-stricken
youth in Alabama in the 1960s and
70s, focusing on the extraordinary
efforts of his mother to protect her
sons from the violence of their father, a
man scarred by war, and telling of the
All Over But The sacrifices she made so her children
Bragg, Rick Shoutin’ could have a better life.
After the suspicious death of her
mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old
Gemma returns to England, after many
A Great and years in India, to attend a finishing
Terrible Beauty (or school where she becomes aware of
sequel: Rebel her powers and her ability to see into
Bray, Libba Angels) the spirit world.
The amazing history of an exhilarating
sport, from the early years of clay
wheels in the 1950s through the
Concrete Wave: modern technology of the 1990s.
Brooke, The History Of Features interviews with some of the
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A confused seventeen-year-old girl, a
single mother and her young son, two
elderly women, and a sad and lonely
man, with their own individual tragedies
to bear, come together in a small
Brooks, True Confessions Manitoba town and find a way to a
Martha Of a Heartless Girl better future.
Upon the death of her father,
seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles
to keep the family's woolen mill running
in the face of an overwhelming
mortgage and what the local villagers
believe is a curse, but when a man
capable of spinning straw into gold
Bunce, appears on the scene she must decide
Elizabeth C. Curse Dark as Gold if his help is worth the price.
Eighteen-year-old Indigo is looking
forward to becoming a full-time
waitress after high school graduation,
but her life is turned upside down by a
large check given to her by a customer
who appreciates that she cares
Fortunes of Indigo enough to scold him about smoking.
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In a world where some people are
born with extreme and often-feared
skills called Graces, Katsa struggles
for redemption from her own horrifying
Grace of killing and teams up with
Cashore, Graceling (or another young fighter to save their land
Kristen sequel: Fire) from a corrupt king.
The epic story of hip-hop, from its
Can't Stop, Won't intellectual roots in cultural and political
Stop: A Visual movements to the emergence of hip-
Exploration of Every hop activism. Based on interviews with
Known Atom in the pioneers of the movement, from DJ
Chang, Jeff Universe Kool Herc to Chuck D.
Like Buffy the Vampire Slayer but even
smarter. Maggie Quinn, girl reporter,
honors student, newspaper staffer,
yearbook photographer. Six weeks
from graduation and all she wants to
Clement- Prom Dates from do is get out of Avalon High in one
Moore, Hell (or sequel: Hell piece, but fate seems to have different
Rosemary Week) plans. Involving demons.
In the 1890s on an island off the Irish
coast, Conor Broekhart is falsely
imprisoned and passes the solitary
months by scratching designs of flying
machines into the walls, including one
for a glider with which he dreams of
escape.
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The author reflects on his days as a
basketball player at the Citadel.
Though the team went 8-17 his senior
year, Conroy writes that sometimes
you learn more by losing than by
Conroy, Pat My Losing Season winning.
Sixteen-year-old Denny lives in the
shadow of a deadly accident with which
his father was connected when he was
Denny's age, a disaster for which
Cormier, In the Middle of the some of the survivors still blame his
Robert Night father.
Distance swimmer Lynne Cox
describes her emotional and spiritual
Swimming To need to swim and about the mythical
Cox, Lynne Antarctica act of swimming itself.
Miles barely recalls when football was
fun after being sidelined by a new
coach, constantly criticized by his
father, and pressured by his best friend
Coy, John Crackback to take performance-enhancing drugs.
While training for a triathlon, seventeen
year-old Bo attends an anger
management group at school which
Crutcher, leads him to examine his relationship
Chris Ironman with his father.
T.J., is good-looking, talented,
multiracial, and adopted. He hates
everything about organized sports at
his high school, but agrees to form a
swim team -- only to recruit some of
Crutcher, the school's least popular and least
Chris Whale Talk athletic students.
Given the diagnosis of one year to live,
high school senior Ben Wolf decides to
Crutcher, fulfill his greatest fantasies and figure
Chris Deadline out his life's legacy.
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 African American in 1940s
Alabama and serving in Europe during
World War II as a member of the
Davis, Tanita Women's Army Corps.
S. Mare's War
Schuyler Van Alen, a loner at a
prestigious New York City private
school, sets out to learn the secrets of
De la Cruz, the Blue Bloods, an ancient group of
Melissa Blue Bloods vampires.
Ruby is used to taking care of herself.
But now she's living in a fancy new
house with her sister Cora, who she
hasn't seen in ten years, and her
husband Jamie. She's attending
private school, wearing new clothes,
and for the first time, feels the promise
of a future that includes college and
Dessen, Sarah Lock and Key family. So why is she so wary?
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
Dessen, Sarah Along for the Ride ride a bike and dating.
Halley's junior year of high school
includes the death of her best friend
Scarlett's boyfriend, the discovery that
Scarlett is pregnant, and Halley's own
Dessen, Sarah Someone Like You first serious relationship
Marcus and his friends find themselves
caught in the aftermath of a major
terrorist attack on San Francisco. In
the wrong place at the wrong time,
Doctorow, Marcus and his crew are arrested and
Cory Little Brother use their tech skills to fight back.
A wealthy sorcerer's invitation to sing
with his automaton leads seventeen-
year-old Nimira, whose family's
disgrace brought her from a palace to
poverty, into political intrigue,
enchantments, and a friendship with a
Dolamore, fairy prince who needs her help.
Jaclyn Magic Under Glass
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,
Dowd, SiobhanSolace of the Road whom she is now trying to reach.
In 1981, the height of Ireland's
"Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is
distracted from his upcoming exams
by his imprisoned brother's hunger
strike, the stress of being a courier for
Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered
girl whose body he discovered in a
Dowd, SiobhanBog Child bog.
Two fifteen-year-old girls -- one a slave
and the other an indentured servant --
escape their Carolina plantation and try
to make their way to Fort Mose,
Draper, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives
Sharon Copper Sun sanctuary to slaves.
Tells of the men and women who
saved themselves and others in the
final minutes before the World Trade
102 Minutes: The Towers collapsed on September 11,
Untold Story Of The 2001, with testimonies from workers in
Fight To Survive the buildings, police and fire personnel,
Inside The Twin a construction manager, and a window
Dwyer, Jim Towers washer.
Dr. David Henry, forced to deliver his
own twins during a snowstorm in 1964
with only a nurse to help him, makes a
decision that has far-reaching effects:
his infant daughter is born with Down
The Memory Syndrome and he orders the nurse to
Edwards, Kim Keeper’s Daughter take the baby to an institution.
In the 19th century, Cuba fought a
series of three wars for independence.
In this novel in verse, acclaimed poet
The Surrender Margarita Engle creates a lyrical,
Tree: Poems of powerful portrait of these struggles,
Engle, Cuba's Struggle for seen through the eyes of Rosa, a
Margarita Freedom nurse and healer.
On the payroll as an assistant to her
coroner father, seventeen-year-old
Cameryn Mahoney uses her
knowledge of forensic medicine to
Ferguson, The Christopher catch the killer of a friend while putting
Alane Killer herself in terrible danger.
Tired of interpreting for his deaf family
and resentful of their reliance on him,
high school senior Theo finds support
and understanding from Ivy, a new
Ferris, Jean Of Sound Mind student who also has a deaf parent.