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Summer Sisters by Judy Blume

2009-04-16T08:25:00.001-07:00

Victoria Leonard and Caitlin Somers, two girls from very different backgrounds, form a friendship that blooms over the summers spent in Caitlin's privileged world, until heartbreak and betrayal tear them apart.

Call number: F BLU (LA IMC)

Blume, Judy. Summer Sisters. New York: Delacorte Press, 1998.

Tangerine by Edward Bloor

2009-04-07T09:08:00.001-07:00

Paul lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik and fights for the right to play soccer, despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.

Call number: F BLO (LA IMC)

Bloor, Edward. Tangerine. San Diego, Calif.: Harcourt Brace, 1997.

Baseball in April by Gary Soto

2009-04-03T12:02:00.001-07:00

A collection of eleven short stories focusing on the everyday adventures of Hispanic young people growing up in Fresno, California.

Call number: S SOT (LA IMC)

Soto, Gary. Baseball in April. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990.

Joy in Mudville: the big book of baseball humor Schaap, Dick and Mort Gerberg

2009-04-02T12:48:00.000-07:00

A comic lineup of stories, essays, cartoons, and more, from Lardner and Runyon to Philip Roth, Charles Addams to Charles Schulz, plus dozens of other funny fans.

Call number: 817 JOY (LA IMC)

Schaap, Dick and Mort Gerberg. Joy in Mudville: the big book of baseball humor. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

Farm Team by Will Weaver

2009-04-01T09:13:00.000-07:00

With his father in jail and his mother working full-time, Billy Baggs finds himself in charge of running the family farm in northern Minnesota and having to give up the thing he loves most.

Call number: RC WEA (Media Office, Room 146)

Weaver, Will. Farm Team. New York: Harper Collins, 1995.

Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar

2009-03-23T06:15:00.000-07:00

While navigating his first year of high school and awaiting the birth of a baby brother, Scott loses old friends and gains some unlikely new ones as he hones his skills as a writer.

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Call number: AB F LUB (Media Office, Room 146)

Lubar, David. Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie. Chagrin Falls, Ohio: Findaway World, 2006.

Everything's Eventual by Stephen King

2009-03-11T09:52:00.000-07:00

Presents fourteen short horror stories by Stephen King, including several prize-winning selections as well as "Riding the Bullet," originally published as an e-book.

Call number: F KIN (LA IMC)

King, Stephen. Everything's Eventual. New York: Pocket Books, 2003.

Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

2009-03-09T08:16:00.000-07:00

MICHAEL PRINTZ BOOK AWARD WINNER

Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.

Call number: F MAR (LA IMC)

Marchetta, Melina. Jellicoe Road. New York: HarperTeen, 2008.

Marked by P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast

2009-03-06T08:38:00.001-08:00

After being accepted as a fledgling vampire at the House of Night prep school and receiving special powers by a goddess, sixteen-year-old Zoey Montgomery discovers one of her peers is misusing her powers and must decide what the right thing to do is.

Call number: F CAS (LA IMC)

Cast, P.C. and Kristin Cast. Marked. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2007.

Midnight Sun (Edward's version of Twilight) by Stephenie Meyer

2009-03-05T12:20:00.000-08:00

Read the partial draft of Midnight Sun (Edwards version of Twilight) by Stephenie Meyer!

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2009-03-04T10:16:00.000-08:00

Listen to the beginning of 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher!

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The Clique by Lisi Harrison

2009-03-03T07:08:00.001-08:00

Wealthy Massie is determined to exclude middle class Claire, the daughter of her father's old friend, from her seventh-grade clique at a very exclusive private school in Westchester, New York, but after Massie steals her only friend, Claire strikes back.

Call number: F HAR (LA IMC)

Harrison, Lisi. The Clique. New York: Little Brown, 2004.

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

2009-02-27T08:51:00.000-08:00

High school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing seven cassette tapes recorded by his crush, Hannah Baker, who committed suicide, and spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.

Call number: F ASH (LA IMC)

Asher, Jay. Thirteen Reasons Why. New York: Razorbill, 2007.

And a Hard Rain Fell by John Ketwig

2009-02-26T11:40:00.000-08:00

A memoir of the author's time as a platoon sergeant during the Vietnam War after enlisting to avoid the draft, and covers his experiences upon returning to the U.S. and trying to acclimate to civilian life.

Call number: B KET (LA IMC)

Ketwig, John. And a Hard Rain Fell. Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2008.

Jimi Hendrix: "Kiss the Sky" by Edward Willett

2009-02-23T07:29:00.001-08:00

Examines the life and career of electric guitarist Jimi Hendrix, discussing his rise to fame, the mysteries surrounding his death, and his musical influence and legacy.

Call number: B HEN (LA IMC)

Willett, Edward. Jimi Hendrix: kiss the sky. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2006.

Fire in the Rock by Joe Martin

2009-02-20T06:27:00.000-08:00

Bo and Pollo, white and black, watch as their idyllic sixteenth summer turns dark and violent due to the Jim Crow laws and small-mindedness of the 1950s, and years later they are forced to confront their shared history in order to save their friendship.

Call number: F MAR (LA IMC)

Martin, Joe. Fire in the Rock. Charlotte, NC: Novello Festival Press, 2001.

The Fall of Rome by Martha Southgate.

2009-02-18T06:05:00.000-08:00

Latin instructor Jerome Washington, the only African-American teacher at an all-boys boarding school in Connecticut, finds his ideals about race challenged by a promising young African-American student who responds to Jerome in an unexpected way.

Call number: F SOU (LA IMC)

Southgate, Martha. Fall of Rome. New York: Scribner, 2002.

My Jim by Nancy Rawles

2009-02-16T12:20:00.001-08:00

Ex-slave Sadie Watson reveals to her granddaughter her experiences while in bondage and the love she had for her husband, Jim, who escaped down the Mississippi with Huck Finn when he learned he was to be sold.

Call number: F RAW (LA IMC)

Rawles, Nancy. My Jim. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2006.

Left Behind by Tim LaHaye

2009-02-11T17:48:00.000-08:00

Airline captain Rayford Steele, stunned when over one hundred passengers vanish from his plane in the blink of an eye, quickly realizes the Rapture his wife had been telling him about--an event in which Jesus would return to take his followers to Heaven before they die--has happened and he has been left behind.

Call number: F LAH (LA IMC)

LaHaye, Tim. Left Behind. Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale House, 1995.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

2009-02-10T10:55:00.001-08:00

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Eight-year-old "Scout" Finch tells of life in a small Alabama town where her father is a lawyer.

Call number: F LEE (LA IMC)

Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. New York: Warner, 1982.

Who Am I Without Him by Sharon Flake

2009-02-06T07:38:00.000-08:00

Presents ten short stories about teenage girls struggling with issues of self-worth.

Call number: S FLA (LA IMC)

Flake, Sharon. Who am I without Him. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2004.

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A Cry in the Night by Mary Higgins Clark

2009-02-05T07:37:00.000-08:00

Jenny's only hope for happiness lies in unraveling the truth about the past, a truth hidden in the great house that has become her prison.

Call number: F CLA (LA IMC)

Clark, Mary Higgins. A Cry in the Night. New York: Pocket Books, 1993.

Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs

2009-02-04T11:00:00.001-08:00

Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores journeys north in a desperate attempt to cross the Arizona border and find work in the United States to support his family in central Mexico.

Call number: F HOB (LA IMC)

Hobbs, Will. Crossing the Wire. New York: HarperTrophy, 2007.

Lessons from a Dead Girl by Jo Knowles

2009-02-03T09:22:00.000-08:00

Laine struggles to come to terms with her friendship with troubled Leah Greene, whose secrets were too much for Laine to bear and whose actions sent Laine on a painful journey of self-discovery.

Call number: F KNO (LA IMC)

Knowles, Jo. Lessons from a Dead Girl. Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, 2007.

The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke

2009-02-02T06:16:00.001-08:00

Orphaned brothers Prosper and Bo, having run away from their cruel aunt and uncle, decide to hide out in Venice where they fall in with the Thief Lord, a thirteen-year-old boy who leads a crime ring of street children.

Call number: F FUN (LA IMC)

Funke, Cornelia. The Thief Lord. New York: Scholastic, 2002.

Schooled by Gordon Korman

2009-01-29T06:47:00.000-08:00

Cap lives in isolation with his grandmother, a former hippie; but when she falls from a tree and breaks her hip, Cap is sent to a foster home where he has his first experience in a public school.

Call number: F KOR (LA IMC)

Korman, Gordon. Schooled. New York: Hyperion Paperbacks for Children, 2008.

Primary Colors

2009-01-20T06:29:00.001-08:00

Henry Burton signs on as a staff member working on the presidential campaign of Jack Stanton, the governor of a small southern state, and gets an education in the workings of American politics as played by the draft-dodging, womanizing, charm-oozing Stanton.

Call number: F PRI (LA IMC)

Primary Colors. New York: Random House, 1996.

Hanging on to Max by Margaret Bechard

2009-01-16T06:36:00.000-08:00

When his girlfriend decides to give their baby away, seventeen-year-old Sam is determined to keep him and raise him alone.

Call number: F BEC (LA IMC)

Bechard, Margaret. Hanging on to Max. Brookfield, Conn.: Roaring Brook Press, 2002.

Generation Dead by Daniel Waters

2009-01-14T12:36:00.000-08:00

When dead teenagers who have come back to life start showing up at her high school, Phoebe, a goth girl, becomes interested in the phenomenon, and when she starts dating a "living impaired" boy, they encounter prejudice, fear, and hatred.

Call number: F WAT (LA IMC)

Waters, Daniel. Generation Dead. New York: Hyperion, 2008.

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

2009-01-13T10:05:00.000-08:00

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers, in place of her younger sister, to become a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a horrifyingly grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.

Call number: F COL (LA IMC)

Collins, Suzanne. Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic Press, 2008.

Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead

2009-01-08T06:19:00.000-08:00

Shadow-kissed Rose is hunted by the immortal undead that are seeking vengeance on her for her Strigoi kills, which puts her in a terrible position that could result in the death one of the two people she values most, her best friend Lissa, or her tutor Dimitri Belikov, the man she loves.

Call number: F MEA (LA IMC)

Mead, Richelle. Shadow Kiss. New York: Razorbill, 2008.

The Dangerous Days of Daniel X by James Patterson

2009-01-07T06:14:00.000-08:00

Fifteen-year-old Daniel has followed in his parents' footsteps as the Alien Hunter, exterminating beings on The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma, but when he faces his first of the top ten outlaws, the very existence of Earth and another planet are at stake.

Call number: F PAT (LA IMC)

Patterson, James. The Dangerous Days of Daniel X. New York: Little Brown, 2008.

Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke

2009-01-06T08:09:00.000-08:00

As Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double--tries to keep the Book of Immortality from unraveling, Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, and demands that Bluejay either surrender or doom the children to slavery in the silver mines.

Call number: F FUN (LA IMC)

Funke, Cornelia. Inkdeath. New York: Scholastic Inc., 2008.

Drawing Dynamic Hands by Burne Hogarth

2009-01-05T09:29:00.000-08:00

Describes the step-by-step process of drawing the human hand.

Call number: 743 HOG (LA IMC)

Hogarth, Burne. Drawing Dynamic Hands. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1988.

Aesop's Fables translated by Joseph Jacobs

2008-12-17T12:19:00.000-08:00

A collection of 234 very short animal fables written by Aesopus of ancient Greece.

Call number: 398.24 AES (electronic book)

Aesop's Fables. McHenry, Ill.: Follett Digital Press, 2005.

505 Unbelievably Stupid Web Pages by Dan Crowley

2008-12-16T06:30:00.000-08:00

A hall of fame of the weirdest, funniest and overall dumbest websites.

Call number: 025.04 UNB (SS IMC)

Crowley, Dan. 505 Unbelievably Stupid Web Pages. Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks Hysteria, 2007.

City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

2008-12-15T09:56:00.001-08:00

In the city of Ember, Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.

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Call number: F DUP (LA IMC)

DuPrau, Jeanne. City of Ember. New York: Random House, 2004.

Mates, Dates, and Chocolate Cheats

2008-12-12T06:38:00.001-08:00

Izzie, always a bit curvy, picks up some pounds over the holidays and becomes so obsessed with losing weight that she forgets all the good things going on in her life.

Call number: F HOP (LA IMC)

Hopkins, Cathy. Mates, Dates, and Chocolate Cheats. New York: Simon Pulse, 2006.

My Brother's Keeper by Patricia McCormick

2008-12-11T08:43:00.001-08:00

Thirteen-year-old Toby Malone struggles to keep his family together after his father leaves; however, hiding his older brother Jake's drug habit from their mother is getting harder and harder.

Call number: F MCC (LA IMC)

McCormick, Patricia. My Brother's Keeper. New York: Hyperion Paperbacks, 2006.

Kendra by Coe Booth

2008-12-10T09:39:00.001-08:00

The author of Tyrell has a new book. It is about a high schooler, Kendra who longs to live with her mother who. She is unprepared for motherhood at age fourteen and Kendra is left in the care of her grandmother.

Call number: F BOO (LA IMC)

Booth, Coe. Kendra. New York: Push, 2008.

Digital Art by Ron Miller

2008-12-09T06:14:00.000-08:00

An introduction to digital art that discusses how the art form was developed, how it influences everyday life, why it has become so popular, what the latest techniques are, and other related topics.

Call number: 776 MIL (LA IMC)

Miller, Ron. Digital Art. Minneapolis: Twenty-First Century Books, 2008.

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

2008-12-08T12:58:00.000-08:00

Contains the title work about Holly Golightly, a Manhattan playgirl whose antics mask a pain-filled past; and includes three additional stories, "House of Flowers," "A Diamond Guitar," and "A Christmas Memory."

Call number: F CAP (LA IMC)

Capote, Truman, Breakfast at Tiffany's. New York: Modern Library, 1994.

Far North by Will Hobbs

2008-12-05T07:15:00.001-08:00

After the destruction of their float plane, sixteen-year-old Gabe and his Dene friend, Raymond, struggleto survive a winter in the wilderness of the Northwest Territories of Canada.

Call number: F HOB (LA IMC)

Hobbs, Will. Far North. New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1996.

Skipping Christmas by John Grisham

2008-12-03T06:41:00.001-08:00

Luther and Nora Krank decide to opt out of Christmas, choosing instead to set sail on a Caribbean cruise on December 25, but they learn there are consequences to pay for trying to ignore the holiday frenzy.

Call number: F GRI (LA IMC)

Grisham, John. Skipping Christmas. New York: Doubleday, 2001.

Comfort and Joy by Kristin Hannah

2008-12-02T18:10:00.000-08:00

Recently divorced high school librarian Joy Faith Candellaro, facing Christmas alone after being betrayed by her husband and sister, decides to flee California in search of a holiday adventure, but a plane crash and fate place her in the path of widower Daniel O'Shea and his young son, and set the stage for a bit of Christmas magic.

Call number: F HAN (LA IMC)

Hannah, Kristin. Comfort and Joy. New York: Ballantine Books, 2005.

Counterfeit Son by Elaine Marie Alphin

2008-11-26T06:46:00.000-08:00

When serial killer Hank Miller is killed in a shoot-out with police, his abused son Cameron adopts the identity of one of his father's victims in order to find a better life.

Call number: F ALP (LA IMC)

Alphin, Elaine Marie. Counterfeit Son. San Diego: Harcourt, 2000.

Crackback by John Coy

2008-11-20T09:40:00.000-08:00

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 to take performance-enhancing drugs.

Call number: F COY (LA IMC)

Coy, John. Crackback. New York : Scholastic Press, 2005.

Sleeper Code by Tom Sniegoski

2008-11-19T07:19:00.000-08:00

Just when he has met a beautiful girl and his outlook is improving, sixteen-year-old narcoleptic Tom Lovett begins to suspect that his dreams and hallucinations of killing people may be something more real and terrifying.

Call number: F SNI (LA IMC)

Sniegoski, Tom. Sleeper Code. New York: Razorbill, 2006.

What's Science Ever Done for Us?: what the Simpsons can teach us about physics, robots, life and the universe by Paul Halpern

2008-11-18T08:11:00.000-08:00

A collection of scientific ideas, facts, and fantasy from twenty-six classic episodes of "The Simpsons."

Call number: 500 HAL (LA IMC)

Halpren, Paul. What's Science Ever Done for Us?: what the Simpsons can teach us about physics, robots, life and the universe. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2007.

Jayd's Legacy by L. Divine

2008-11-17T07:03:00.001-08:00

African-American high school junior Jayd Jackson sees trouble brewing when her white classmates grow hostile over her friend Nellie running for homecoming princess.

Divine, L. Jayd's Legacy. New York: Dafina Books for Young Readers, 2007.

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

2008-11-13T09:25:00.000-08:00

Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn, freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to force Mo to release an immortal monster from the story.

Call number: F FUN (LA IMC)

Funke, Cornelia. Inkheart. New York: Scholastic, 2005.

Companions of the Night by Vivian Vande Velde

2008-11-10T06:08:00.001-08:00

When sixteen-year-old Kerry Nowicki helps a young man escape from a group of men who claim he is a vampire, she finds herself faced with some bizarre and dangerous choices.

Call number: F VAN (LA IMC)

Vande Velde, Vivian. Companions of the Night. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1995.

We All Fall Down byRobert Cormier

2008-11-07T07:55:00.000-08:00

As the Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed a house in his neighborhood, Buddy, one of the trashers, increases his drinking in order to cope with his parents' separation.

Call number: F COR (LA IMC)

Cormier, Robert. We All Fall Down. New York: Delacorte, 1991.

The Krystal Kracker by Lewis, Janet M. and Yolanda A. N. Pedrosa

2008-11-06T13:07:00.000-08:00

While experiencing a temper tantrum, Korii cracks open a giant geode, finds a way to another dimension, and tries to save her mother--who was sucked into the crystal rock--while encountering strange creatures and attempting to overthrow the evil Krystal King.

Call number: F LEW (LA IMC)

Lewis, Janet M. and Yolanda A. N. Pedrosa. Krystal Kracker. Baltimore, MD: Publish America, 2004.

The Accusation by Anne Schraff

2008-11-03T07:16:00.000-08:00

When Oscar's English teacher, Mr. Meeker, is attacked in the school parking lot, everyone believes Oscar is responsible, forcing Oscar to track down the real assaulter and clear his name.

Call number: F SCH (LA IMC)

Schraff, Anne. The Accusation. Logan, Iowa: Perfection Learning, 2006.

Demon in My View by Amelia Atwater-Rhoades

2008-10-31T09:54:00.000-07:00

Seventeen-year-old Jessica Allodola discovers that the vampire world of her fiction is real when she develops relationships with an alluring vampire named Aubrey and the teenage witch who is trying to save Jessica from his clutches.

Call number: F ATW (LA IMC)

Atwater-Rhoades, Amelia. Demon in My View. New York: Delacorte Press, 2000.

Hip Hop High School by Alan Lawrence Sitomer

2008-10-30T10:03:00.000-07:00

Theresa Anderson and Devon Hampton set out to beat the SAT in order to get into a top college; however, they must also deal with the reality of street violence that could keep them both from realizing their dream.

Call number: F SIT (LA IMC)

Sitomer, Alan Lawrence. Hip Hop High School. New York : Jump at the Sun, 2006.

My Space/Our Planet: change is possible by MySpace community with Jeca Taudte

2008-10-27T10:40:00.000-07:00

Provides suggestions for simple things people can do to help the environment; and includes facts about climate change and real-life stories and comments from MySpace users.

Call number: 640 MYS (SS IMC)

Taudte, Jeca. My Space/Our Planet: change is possible. New York : HarperTeen, 2008.

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

2008-10-23T07:37:00.000-07:00

Two boys, best friends in a small midwestern town, begin to encounter evil secrets when a lightning rod salesman from Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show gives them one of his contraptions covered with mystical symbols.

Call number: F BRA (LA IMC)

Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes. New York: Avon Books, 1962.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

2008-10-21T13:34:00.001-07:00

A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.

Call number: F SHE (LA IMC)

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. New York: Barnes and Noble Clasics, 2003.

Turf War by Alex Kropp

2008-10-21T08:08:00.000-07:00

Turf War tells the story of five teens who are not really a gang, but who consider their friendship and loyalty the most important ingredients in their lives. When another group wants to take over their territory, Xana, a newcomer, tries to convince them that all differences can be resolved without violence, but their pride overrides her common sense and advice. It takes a tragedy for the kids to understand that violence is never the answer.

Call number: F KRO (LA IMC)

Kropp, Alex. Turf War. Toronto, Ontario: High Interest Pub., 2008.

Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall & Denvor Moore

2008-10-17T08:02:00.001-07:00

Hollywood art dealer Ron Hall and former Louisiana indentured servant Denver Moore reflect on their lives and the friendship that was established between them thanks to Ron's late wife Deborah's volunteer work at Union Gospel Mission in Fort Worth, Texas.

Call number: 976.4 HAL (SS IMC)

Hall, Ron and Denvor Moore. Same Kind of Different as Me. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2006.

King Dork by Frank Portman

2008-10-16T06:36:00.000-07:00

This story is told from the perspective of Tom, a "brainy, freaky, oddball kid who reads too much." He has a cynical view of high-school life but a passion for rock music. Much of the story focuses on the seemingly endless string of humiliations and tortures dished out by Tom's teachers and classmates. A more compelling and subtle subplot details mysteries that Tom is trying to solve: Was his father's death a few years earlier really an accident? What is the meaning of the coded messages found in his father's copy of The Catcher in the Rye? When he's not playing Sherlock Holmes or dodging bullies, Tom daydreams about the band he plans to form with his only friend Sam.

Call number: F POR (LA IMC)

Portman, Frank. King Dork. New York: Delacorte Press, 2006.

Headlock by Joyce Sweeney

2008-10-15T13:29:00.000-07:00

High school senior Kyle is determined to become a professional wrestler but his dream is threatened by a loved one's illness and the dramatic reappearance of a long-absent relative.

Call number: F SWE (LA IMC)

Sweeney, Joyce. Headlock. New York: Holt, 2006.

Oh My Goth by Gena Showalter

2008-10-13T11:44:00.001-07:00

Jade Leigh has always been known as her high school's nonconformist Goth girl, but when Jade winds up in trouble once again, the principal decides to teach her a lesson and sends her to an alternate universe where the whole world is Goth and Jade is actually popular.

Call number: F SHO (LA IMC)

Showalter, Gena. Oh My Goth. New York: MTV Books/Pocket Books, 2006.

The Alchemyst by Michael Scott

2008-10-09T06:14:00.000-07:00

Fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, find themselves caught up in the deadly struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient book that holds the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.

Call number: F SCO (LA IMC)

Scott, Michael. The Alchemyst. New York: Delacorte Press, 2007.

Pretty One by Cheryl Klam

2008-10-09T06:13:00.001-07:00

Transformed by cosmetic surgery into a beauty following a car accident, formerly unattractive Megan feels a bit overwhelmed as she returns to her performing arts high school in Baltimore and competes with her popular and naturally gorgeous sister for the lead role in a student production written by Megan's secret love.

Call number: F KLA (LA IMC)

Klam, Cheryl. Pretty One. New York: Delacorte Press, 2008.

Airhead by Meg Cabot

2008-10-07T08:33:00.001-07:00

Sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts, an advanced placement student with a disdain for fashion, is the recipient of a "whole body transplant" and finds herself transformed into one of the world's most famous teen supermodels.

Call number: F CAB (LA (IMC)

Cabot, Meg. Airhead. New York, Point, 2008.

Twelve Mighty Orphans by Jim Dent

2008-10-06T09:07:00.001-07:00

Presents the true story of coach Rusty Russell and how he molded a group of orphans from the Masonic Home in Fort Worth, Texas, into one of the toughest high school football teams in the state.

Call number: 796.332 DEN (LA IMC)

Dent, Jim. Twelve Mighty Orphans. New York:Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2007.

Skateboarding: legendary tricks by Steve Badillo

2008-10-03T07:32:00.000-07:00

The great tricks of today are built upon the pioneering feats of skateboarding's legendary riders like Tony Alva, Lance Mountain, Christian Hosoi, Tony Hawk, Jason Lee and many others. Discover the stories behind their legendary tricks and learn how to bust them out yourself. Contains photographic sequences with narrative text that describe thirty skateboarding tricks.

Call number: 796.22 BAD (LA IMC)

Badillo, Steve. Skateboarding: legendary tricks. San Diego: Tracks Publishing, 2008.

Gym Candy by Carl Deuker

2008-10-03T07:08:00.000-07:00

Mick Johnson has been groomed by his father to be a star football player and it is the only things that has ever really matttered to Mick. He works hard for a placement on the varsity team during his freshman year. In order to hold his position on the team, he decides to use steroids, despite the consequences to his health and social life.

Call number: F DEU (LA IMC)

Deuker, Carl. Gym Candy. Boston: Graphia/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007.

Book of Shadows by Cate Tiernan

2008-09-29T11:05:00.000-07:00

A seemingly average teenage girl named Morgan begins to experience strange powers and feelings, making her crush, Cal, a Wiccan himself, wonder if she could be a blood witch, a member of one of the Seven Great Clans.

Call number: F TIE (LA IMC)

Tiernan, Cate. Book of Shadows. New York: Speak, 2002.

Eminem by Joanne Mattern

2008-09-26T13:29:00.000-07:00

Presents a brief profile of Hip Hop artist Eminem; and chronicles his childhood, accomplishments and awards, and success in the entertainment industry.

Call number: B EMI (LA IMC)

Mattern, Joanne. Eminem. Broomall, PA: Mason Crest, 2007.

Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume

2008-09-25T09:15:00.001-07:00

Resettled in New Mexico with her mother and brother, Davey Wexler recovers from the shock of her father's death during a holdup of his 7-Eleven store in Atlantic City.

Call number: F BLU (LA IMC)

Blume, Judy. Tiger Eyes. New York: Bantam Doublday Dell Books for Young Readers, 1991.

Vampire Kisses by Ellen Schreiber

2008-09-24T08:11:00.000-07:00

Sixteen-year-old Raven, an outcast who always wears black and hopes to become a vampire some day, falls in love with the mysterious new boy in town, eager to find out if he can make her dreams come true.

Call number: F SCH (LA IMC)

Schreiber, Ellen. Vampire Kisses. New York: Harper Collins, 2003.

After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson

2008-09-23T06:43:00.000-07:00

In the Queens borough of New York City during the summer of 1996, three girls, one from foster care, become fast friends because of their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music. Together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.

Call number: F WOO (LA IMC)

Vlad the Impaler: the real Count Dracula

2008-09-22T09:10:00.000-07:00

This biography chronicles the life and vicious exploits of Vlad the Impaler who, during the fifteenth century, extended his reign of terror across most of the known Roman world.

Call number: B VLA (LA IMC)

2008-09-20T19:11:00.000-07:00

"Patricia Traymore, you must not come to Washington. You must not produce a program glorifying Senator Jennings. And you must not live in that house." Will TV-journalist Pat Traymore let this scary, anonymous telephone call stop her from joining the Potomac Cable Network in D.C.? Of course not. She'll plunge right ahead and starting work on a profile of Sen. Jennings. Furthermore, Pat will move into "that house"--the Georgetown house where Rep. Dean Adams and his wife died in a 1950s murder/suicide, their three-year-old daughter dying from mysterious injuries too. But did the Adams child really die?

Call number: F CLA (LA IMC)

Nugrl90 (Sadie) by Cheryl Dellasega

2008-09-18T08:20:00.002-07:00

Fifteen-year-old Sadie writes on her blog about everything: having to move to a new high school at the beginning of sophomore year due to her parents' divorce, sharing a bedroom with her goth sister, finding and losing true love and a best friend, while being in therapy, taking antidepressants.

Call number: F DEL (LA IMC)

Hawk Moon by Rob MacGregor

2008-09-18T08:20:00.001-07:00

Will faces a mystery involving drugs at his high school, while being framed for the disappearance and possible murder of his girlfriend.

Call number: F MAC (LA IMC)

Sea Wolf by Jack London

2008-09-15T11:47:00.000-07:00

Humphrey Van Weyden is an amateur literary critic who has happened to land himself on a sealing vessel known as The Ghoast. The ship is sailing to Japan. On this voyage, he faces weeks of brutality at the hands of Captain Wolf Larsen until Humphrey decides to take desperate measures to save himself and the rest of the crew.

Call number: F LON (LA IMC)

1984 by George Orwell

2008-09-12T05:48:00.000-07:00

Published in 1949, this novel takes place in 1984 and presents an imaginary future where a totalitarian state controls every aspect of life, even people's thoughts. The state is called Oceania and is ruled by a group known as the Party and it's dictatorial leader is known as Big Brother.

The main character, Winston Smith is a thirty-nine year old man living in London. He secretly hates the Party and decides to rebel by starting a diary in which he reveals his rebellious thoughts. By keeping a diary, Winston is committing a thoughtcrime and knows that one day he will be discovered by the Thought Police.

Call number: F ORW (LA IMC)

Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford

2008-09-11T11:14:00.000-07:00

Josh is seventeen when his father goes off to fight in World War II. Josh is left with his self-pitying and very Southern mother, to sit it out in the small village of Sagrado in the mountains of New Mexico. It's quite a little community with fiestas that get snowed out, fights and...as one wise adolescent exclaims "With a bunch of sex-crazy teenagers around what can you expect?"

Call number: F BRA (LA IMC)

Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

2008-09-10T07:51:00.000-07:00

Listen to the audio file for a booktalk of this title!

Call number: F PFE (LA IMC)

You may also view a summary of the book through our online card catalog.

1. http://library.usd437.net/
Washburn Rural High School
Catalog tab

2. Search: Life as We Knew It, as a TITLE search

3. click on the title to view specific information about the book

Letters from a Nut by Ted L. Nancy

2008-09-10T06:09:00.000-07:00

Presentation of Ted L. Nancy's absurdly humourous letters to celebrities, company heads, hotels, and politicians, as well as their formal, business like responses to his ridiculous inquiries!

Call number: 816 NAN (LA IMC)

Boot Camp by Todd Strasser

2008-09-09T08:29:00.000-07:00

After ignoring several warnings to stop dating his teacher, Garrett is sent to Lake Harmony, a boot camp that uses unorthodox and brutal methods to train students to obey their parents.

Call number:

F STR (LA IMC)

Ironman by Chris Crutcher

2008-09-06T16:51:00.000-07:00

While training for a triathlon, seventeen-year-old Bo attends an anger management group at school which leads him to examine his relationship with his father.

Call number: F CRU (LA IMC)

Chew on this: everything you don't want to know about fast food by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson

2008-09-04T08:24:00.000-07:00

A look at fast food, what's in it, how it's made, and what it does to our bodies.

Call number: 394.1 SCH (SS IMC)

Fly on the Wall by E. Lockhart

2008-09-02T08:57:00.000-07:00

When Gretchen Yee, a student at the Manhattan School for Art and Music, wishes she were a fly on the wall of the boys' locker room, she never expects her wish to come true in such a dramatic way.

Call number: F LOC (LA IMC)

Jade Green by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

2008-08-28T08:40:00.000-07:00

While living with her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman, recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression causes mysterious happenings.
Call number: F NAY (LA IMC)

The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

2008-08-25T15:08:00.000-07:00

During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.

Call number: F SCH (LA IMC)

Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

2008-08-24T18:07:00.001-07:00

When Sir Charles Baskerville is found mysteriously dead in the grounds of Baskerville Hall, everyone remembers the legend of the monstrous creature that haunts the moor, but Sherlock Holmes knows there must be a more rational explanation.

Call number: F DOY (LA IMC)

Abundance of Katherines by John Green

2008-08-20T13:39:00.001-07:00

Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate, and former child prodigy, Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.

Call number: F GRE (LA IMC)

Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz

2008-08-20T05:43:00.001-07:00

After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, as spy MI6.

Call Number: F HOR (LA IMC)

Peak by Roland Smith

2008-08-18T13:28:00.000-07:00

A fourteen-year-old attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.

Listen to the author give more detals about his book!
http://www.scholastic.com/bookfairs/books/Peak.swf

Call Number: F SMI (LA IMC)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Lewis Stevenson

2008-08-15T08:43:00.000-07:00

A respected London doctor invents a formula which turns him into an evil and ugly person who stalks the streets at night killing people, and by the time his friends discover his secret, it is too late.

Call Number: F STE (LA IMC)