Black-Eyed Susan Nominees at Howard County Library

42 miles /

Author: Zimmer, Tracie Vaughn.
ISBN: 9780618618675
Year: 2008
Date added: 08/18/2009
Summary: As her thirteenth birthday approaches, JoEllen decides to bring together her two separate lives--one as Joey, who enjoys weekends with her father and other relatives on a farm, and another as Ellen, who lives with her mother in a Cincinnati apartment near
Subjects: Novels in verse. - Ohio - Fiction. - Divorce - Self-realization - Family life - Cincinnati (Ohio) - Schools
Call number: YA ZIM

After all, you're Callie Boone /

Author: Mack, Winnie.
ISBN: 9780312563318
Year: 2010
Date added: 06/18/2010
Summary: Runaway ferrets, former BFF drama-trauma, and one gigantic (and very, very public) belly flop. No doubt about it, Callie Boone's summer is crummy. The only things keeping her afloat are dive practice with her dad and a top-secret Olympic dream. Then a boy
Subjects: Swimming - Fiction. - Fathers and daughters - Mothers and daughters - Friendship - Fiction
Call number: JF MAC

All unquiet things /

Author: Jarzab, Anna.
ISBN: 9780375855283;9780385738354
Year: 2010
Date added: 03/29/2011
Summary: After the death of his ex-girlfriend Carly, Northern California high school student Neily joins forces with Carly's cousin Audrey to try to solve her murder.
Subjects: Social classes - Fiction. - California, Northern - Interpersonal relations - High schools - Mystery and detective stories. - Murder - Schools
Call number: YA JAR

Almost home /

Author: Bauer, Joan,
ISBN: 9780670012893
Year: 2012
Date added: 09/06/2012
Summary: Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose their beloved house and experience the harsh world of homelessness.
Subjects: Homeless persons - Fiction. - Mothers and daughters
Call number: YA BAU

Alphasaurs and other prehistoric types /

Author: Werner, Sharon,
ISBN: 9781609051938
Date added: 12/18/2012
Summary: "Using letters and an artful assortment of typefaces, Werner and Forss create a menagerie of dinosaurs and pack each page with captivating dino-facts"--
Subjects: Dinosaurs. - Alphabet.
Call number: E WER

Anna dressed in blood

Author: Blake, Kendare.
ISBN: 9781620641880;1620641887
Year: 2012
Date added: 03/08/2013
Summary: Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: he kills the dead. So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now armed with his father's mysterious and deadly atheme, Cas travels the country with his kitche
Subjects: Ghosts - Fiction. - Wiccans - Cats - Blessing and cursing - Horror stories. - Young adult talking books.
Call number: CD YA BLA

Anna dressed in blood

Author: Blake, Kendare.
ISBN: 9780792788225
Year: 2011
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he
Subjects: Ghosts - Fiction. - Wiccans - Cats - Blessing and cursing - Horror stories. - Electronic audio books.
Call number: DOWNLOADABLE AUDIO

Anna dressed in blood /

Author: Blake, Kendare.
ISBN: 9780765328656
Year: 2011
Date added: 10/14/2011
Summary: For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he
Subjects: Cats - Fiction. - Wiccans - Blessing and cursing - Horror stories. - Ghosts
Call number: YA BLA

The apothecary

Author: Meloy, Maile.
ISBN: 9781611760095;1611760097
Year: 2011
Date added: 05/31/2012
Summary: Follows a fourteen-year-old American girl whose life unexpectedly transforms when she moves to London in 1952 and gets swept up in a race to save the world from nuclear war.
Subjects: Cold War - Fiction. - Alchemy - London (England) - History - 20th century - Great Britain - Elizabeth II, 1952- - Young adult talking books. - Adventure and adventurers
Call number: CD YA MEL

The apothecary /

Author: Meloy, Maile.
ISBN: 9780399256271
Year: 2011
Date added: 12/12/2011
Summary: Follows a fourteen-year-old American girl whose life unexpectedly transforms when she moves to London in 1952 and gets swept up in a race to save the world from nuclear war.
Subjects: Cold War - Fiction. - Alchemy - London (England) - History - 20th century - Great Britain - Elizabeth II, 1952- - Adventure and adventurers
Call number: YA MEL

Argus /

Author: Knudsen, Michelle.
ISBN: 9780763637903
Year: 2011
Date added: 03/15/2011
Summary: Sallie's class is supposed to be raising chicks as a science project, but although Argus, the large, green, scaly creature that hatches from her egg, causes all sorts of trouble she worries about him when he disappears.
Subjects: Animals - Infancy - Fiction. - Science - Experiments - Chickens - Dragons - Schools
Call number: E KNU

Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe /

Au revoir, crazy European chick /

Author: Schreiber, Joe,
ISBN: 9780547577388
Year: 2011
Date added: 11/03/2011
Summary: Perry's parents insist that he take Gobi, their quiet, Lithuanian exchange student, to senior prom but after an incident at the dance he learns that Gobi is actually a trained assassin who needs him as a henchman, behind the wheel of his father's precious
Subjects: Assassins - Fiction. - Foreign study - Lithuanians - United States - Coming of age - New York (N.Y.) - Family life - New York (State) - New York - Adventure and adventurers
Call number: YA SCH

Balloons over Broadway : the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade /

Author: Sweet, Melissa,
ISBN: 9780547199450
Year: 2011
Date added: 11/03/2011
Subjects: Sarg, Tony, - Puppeteers. - Thanksgiving Day. - Parades.
Call number: JB SARG S

Between shades of gray

Author: Sepetys, Ruta.
ISBN: 9780142428979;0142428973
Year: 2011
Date added: 05/31/2012
Summary: In 1941, Lina and her family are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers.
Subjects: Lithuania - History - Soviet occupation, 1940-1941 - Fiction. - Labor camps - Soviet Union - 1925-1953 - Young adult talking books. - Survival - Siberia (Russia) - 20th century
Call number: CD YA SEP

Between shades of gray /

Author: Sepetys, Ruta.
ISBN: 9780399254123;9780142420591
Year: 2011
Date added: 03/18/2011
Summary: In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the t
Subjects: Lithuania - History - Soviet occupation, 1940-1941 - Fiction. - Labor camps - Soviet Union - 1925-1953 - Survival - Siberia (Russia) - 20th century
Call number: YA SEP

Blackout /

Author: Rocco, John.
ISBN: 9781423121909
Year: 2011
Date added: 06/09/2011
Summary: When a busy family's activities come to a halt because of a blackout, they find they enjoy spending time together and not being too busy for once.
Subjects: Family life - Fiction. - Electric power failures - Caldecott Medal.
Call number: E ROC

Blackout /

Author: Rocco, John.
ISBN: 9781423121909;9780545571470
Year: 2011
Date added: 06/09/2011
Summary: When a busy family's activities come to a halt because of a blackout, they find they enjoy spending time together and not being too busy for once.
Subjects: Electric power failures - Fiction. - Family life - Caldecott Medal.
Call number: JCDBK E ROC

Bluefish

Author: Schmatz, Pat.
ISBN: 9781455822188;1455822183
Year: 2011
Date added: 11/16/2011
Summary: Everything changes for thirteen-year-old Travis, a new student who is trying to hide his illiteracy, when he meets a sassy classmate with her own secrets and a remarkable teacher.
Subjects: Literacy - Fiction. - Young adult talking books. - Middle schools - Secrets - Schools - Teachers
Call number: CD YA SCH

Bluefish /

Author: Schmatz, Pat.
ISBN: 9780763653347
Year: 2011
Date added: 10/05/2011
Summary: Everything changes for thirteen-year-old Travis, a new student who is trying to hide his illiteracy, when he meets a sassy classmate with her own secrets and a remarkable teacher.
Subjects: Literacy - Fiction. - Middle schools - Secrets - Schools - Teachers
Call number: YA SCH

Bob and Otto /

Author: Bruel, Robert O.
ISBN: 1596432039;9781596432031
Year: 2007
Date added: 04/10/2008
Summary: Otto the worm is shocked to discover that his best friend Bob is actually a caterpillar who emerges one day as a butterfly.
Subjects: Worms - Fiction. - Caterpillars - Friendship - Fiction
Call number: E BRU

Born to fly /

Author: Ferrari, Michael
ISBN: 9780385737159;9780375846076
Year: 2009
Date added: 08/24/2009
Summary: In 1942, an eleven-year-old girl who longs to be a pilot and her family try to manage their lives in Rhode Island when the father goes to fight in World War II.
Subjects: Flight - Fiction. - Airplanes - Family life - Rhode Island - History - 20th century - Sex role - World War, 1939-1945 - Friendship - Fiction
Call number: JF FER

Bruiser

Bystander /

Author: Preller, James.
ISBN: 9780312379063;0312379064;9780312547967
Year: 2009
Date added: 10/02/2009
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Eric discovers there are consequences to not standing by and watching as the bully at his new school hurts people, but although school officials are aware of the problem, Eric may be the one with a solution.
Subjects: Bullies - Fiction. - Divorce - Long Island (N.Y.) - Moving, Household - Fiction - Family life - New York (State) - New York - Conduct of life - Middle schools - Schools
Call number: YA PRE

The camping trip that changed America : Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and our National Parks /

Author: Rosenstock, Barbara.
ISBN: 9780803737105
Year: 2012
Date added: 01/17/2012
Summary: Offers insight into the camping trip that President Theodore Roosevelt and naturalist John Muir took to the redwoods of Yosemite in 1903, during which the two men had experiences and conversations that eventually contributed to the establishment of nation
Subjects: Roosevelt, Theodore, - Muir, John, - Yosemite National Park (Calif.) - History. - National parks and reserves - Environmentalism
Call number: J979.4R

The case of the case of mistaken identity

Author: Barnett, Mac.
ISBN: 9780307710437;0307710432;9780307710413;0307710416
Year: 2010
Date added: 06/23/2010
Summary: When twelve-year-old Steve Brixton, a fan of Bailey Brothers detective novels, is mistaken for a real detective, he must elude librarians, police, and the mysterious Mr. E as he seeks a missing quilt containing coded information.
Subjects: Books and reading. - Fiction. - Librarians - Humorous stories - Quilts - Talking books for children. - Mistaken identity - Police
Call number: DOWNLOADABLE AUDIO

The case of the case of mistaken identity /

Author: Barnett, Mac.
ISBN: 9781416978152;9781416978169
Year: 2009
Date added: 10/16/2009
Summary: When twelve-year-old Steve Brixton, a fan of Bailey Brothers detective novels, is mistaken for a real detective, he must elude librarians, police, and the mysterious Mr. E as he seeks a missing quilt containing coded information.
Subjects: Books and reading. - Fiction. - Librarians - Humorous stories - Quilts - Mistaken identity - Police - Mystery and detective stories.
Call number: JF BAR

Cat secrets /

Author: Czekaj, Jef.
ISBN: 9780061920882
Year: 2011
Date added: 01/05/2012
Summary: Important secrets about how best to live a cat's life will be revealed only to those who can prove that they are genuine cats.
Subjects: Cats - Fiction.
Call number: E CZE

The cazuela that the farm maiden stirred /

Author: Vamos, Samantha R.
ISBN: 9781580892421
Year: 2011
Date added: 03/25/2011
Summary: A cumulative tale of a farm maiden who, aided by a group of animals, prepares "Arroz con Leche," or rice pudding. Includes recipe and glossary of the Spanish words that are woven throughout the text.
Subjects: Spanish language - Vocabulary. - Cooking - Fiction - Domestic animals - Fiction.
Call number: E VAM

Chicken Big /

Author: Graves, Keith.
ISBN: 9780811872379
Year: 2010
Date added: 10/22/2010
Summary: A giant chicken hatches from an enormous egg, but the other chickens cannot accept that he is one of them.
Subjects: Humorous stories - Size - Fiction. - Chickens
Call number: E GRA

The chiru of high Tibet : a true story /

Author: Martin, Jacqueline Briggs.
ISBN: 9780618581306;0618581308
Year: 2010
Date added: 03/22/2012
Summary: The true story of how scientist George Schaller and four mountain men set out to save the chiru (antelope-like creatures that cannot survive captivity and live on the high plains of Tibet) from near extinction.
Subjects: Schaller, George B. - Chiru. - Chang Tang Plateau (China and India).
Call number: J599.64M

Chomp

Author: Hiaasen, Carl.
ISBN: 9780307916402;0307916405
Year: 2012
Date added: 03/27/2012
Summary: When the difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find
Subjects: Fiction. - Wildlife refuges - Reality television programs - Talking books for children. - Florida - Missing persons - Everglades (Fla.) - Television - Production and direction
Call number: JCD JF HIA

Chomp

Author: Hiaasen, Carl.
ISBN: 9780307916433
Year: 2012
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: When the difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find
Subjects: Reality television programs - Fiction. - Television - Production and direction - Missing persons - Wildlife refuges - Everglades (Fla.) - Florida - Electronic audio books.
Call number: DOWNLOADABLE AUDIO

Chomp

Author: Hiaasen, Carl.
ISBN: 9780375898952
Year: 2012
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: When the difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find
Subjects: Reality television programs - Fiction. - Television - Production and direction - Missing persons - Wildlife refuges - Everglades (Fla.) - Florida - Electronic books.
Call number: ELECTRONIC BOOK

Chomp /

Author: Hiaasen, Carl.
ISBN: 9780375868429
Year: 2012
Date added: 03/20/2012
Summary: When the difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find
Subjects: Wildlife refuges - Fiction. - Reality television programs - Florida - Missing persons - Everglades (Fla.) - Television - Production and direction
Call number: JF HIA

Clever Jack takes the cake /

Author: Fleming, Candace.
ISBN: 9780375849794
Year: 2010
Date added: 09/02/2010
Summary: A poor boy named Jack struggles to deliver a birthday present worthy of the princess.
Subjects: Fairy tales.
Call number: E FLE

Closed for the season : a mystery story /

Author: Hahn, Mary Downing.
ISBN: 9780547084510;9780547398532
Year: 2009
Date added: 06/18/2009
Summary: When thirteen-year-old Logan and his family move into a run-down old house in rural Virginia, he discovers that a woman was murdered there and becomes involved with his neighbor Arthur in a dangerous investigation to try to uncover the killer.
Subjects: Neighbors - Fiction. - Virginia - Mystery and detective stories. - Murder - Friendship - Fiction
Call number: JF HAH

Cold case /

Author: Leonard, Julia Platt.
ISBN: 9781442420106;9781442420090
Year: 2011
Date added: 02/07/2012
Summary: When thirteen-year-old Oz Keiller finds a dead body in his family's Santa Fe, New Mexico, restaurant, he is determined to solve the mystery in which his older brother is implicated, but which also involves their long-dead father, who was accused of being
Subjects: Family life - New Mexico - Fiction. - Santa Fe (N.M.) - Brothers - Fiction - Spies - Murder - Mystery and detective stories. - Restaurants
Call number: YA LEO

Cosmic

Author: Cottrell Boyce, Frank.
ISBN: 9780061967481;0061967483
Year: 2010
Date added: 06/09/2010
Summary: Super-sized, eleven-year-old Liam makes a giant leap for boy-kind by competing with a group of adults for the chance to go into space.
Subjects: Interplanetary voyages - Fiction. - Audiobooks. - Space flight - Impersonation
Call number: DOWNLOADABLE AUDIO

Cosmic

Author: Cottrell Boyce, Frank.
ISBN: 9780061998348;0061998346
Year: 2009
Date added: 01/31/2011
Summary: Super-sized, eleven-year-old Liam makes a giant leap for boy-kind by competing with a group of adults for the chance to go into space.
Subjects: Parallel universes - Fiction. - Friendship - Fiction - Interplanetary voyages - Electronic books. - Science fiction. - Space flight - Impersonation - Frustration
Call number: ELECTRONIC BOOK

Cosmic /

Author: Cottrell Boyce, Frank.
ISBN: 9780061836831;9780061836886
Year: 2010
Date added: 02/04/2010
Summary: 12-year old Liam looks like he's thirty. Sometimes it's not bad; for example on the first day of school the principal mistakes Liam for a teacher or when he convinces a car dealer to let him test drive a Porsche. So feeling like he's stuck between two wor
Subjects: Space travelers - Fiction. - Humorous stories - Space flight
Call number: JF COT

Cosmic /

Author: Cottrell Boyce, Frank.
ISBN: 9780061836886
Year: 2011
Date added: 06/29/2011
Summary: 12-year old Liam looks like he's thirty. Sometimes it's not bad; for example on the first day of school the principal mistakes Liam for a teacher or when he convinces a car dealer to let him test drive a Porsche. So feeling like he's stuck between two wor
Subjects: Humorous stories - Space travelers - Fiction. - Space flight
Call number: YA COT

Creepy carrots! /

Author: Reynolds, Aaron,
ISBN: 9781442402973
Year: 2012
Date added: 09/05/2012
Summary: The carrots that grow in Crackenhopper Field are the fattest and crispiest around and Jasper Rabbit cannot resist pulling some to eat each time he passes by, until he begins hearing and seeing creepy carrots wherever he goes.
Subjects: Carrots - Fiction. - Rabbits - Humorous stories. - Caldecott Medal.
Call number: E REY

Curveball : the year I lost my grip /

Author: Sonnenblick, Jordan.
ISBN: 9780545320696
Year: 2012
Date added: 02/23/2012
Summary: After an injury ends former star pitcher Peter Friedman's athletic dreams, he concentrates on photography which leads him to a girlfriend, new fame as a high school sports photographer, and a deeper relationship with the beloved grandfather who, when he r
Subjects: Grandfathers - Fiction. - Alzheimer's disease - High schools - Family life - Pennsylvania - Photography - Schools
Call number: YA SON

Dave the potter : artist, poet, slave /

Author: Hill, Laban Carrick.
ISBN: 9780316107310
Year: 2010
Date added: 10/12/2010
Subjects: Potters. - Poets. - Slaves. - African Americans. - Dave, - Caldecott Medal. - Coretta Scott King Award.
Call number: JB DAVE H

The defense of Thaddeus A. Ledbetter : a novel /

Author: Gosselink, John.
ISBN: 9780810989771
Year: 2010
Date added: 09/21/2010
Summary: Twelve-year-old Thaddeus A. Ledbetter, who considers it a duty to share his knowledge and talent with others, refutes each of the charges which have sent him to "In-School Suspension" for the remainder of seventh grade.
Subjects: Student suspension - Fiction. - Humorous stories - Conduct of life - Middle schools - Schools
Call number: YA GOS

Detective little boy Blue /

Author: Metzger, Steve.
ISBN: 9780545172868
Year: 2011
Date added: 03/21/2012
Summary: With the help of his nursery rhyme friends, Little Boy Blue, who now runs a detective agency, solves the mystery of the missing Miss Muffet.
Subjects: Nursery rhymes - Fiction. - Characters in literature - Detectives - Mystery and detective stories.
Call number: E MET

Divergent

Author: Roth, Veronica.
ISBN: 9780062077011;0062077015;9780062077011;0062077015
Year: 2011
Date added: 01/10/2012
Summary: In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one grou
Subjects: Family - Fiction. - Social classes - Identity - Courage - Science fiction. - Electronic books.
Call number: ELECTRONIC BOOK

Divergent /

Author: Roth, Veronica.
ISBN: 9780062024022;9780062024039
Year: 2011
Date added: 05/18/2011
Summary: In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one grou
Subjects: Identity - Fiction. - Social classes - Science fiction. - Courage - Fiction - Families
Call number: YA ROT

Don't turn around

Author: Gagnon, Michelle,
ISBN: 9780062227713;9780062227706
Year: 2012
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: After waking up on an operating table with no memory of how she got there, Noa must team up with computer hacker Peter to stop a corrupt corporation with a deadly secret.
Subjects: Computer hackers - Fiction. - Experiments - Foster home care - Abandoned children - Electronic audio books.
Call number: DOWNLOADABLE AUDIO

Don't turn around /

Author: Gagnon, Michelle,
ISBN: 9780062102904;9780062102911;0062102915
Year: 2012
Date added: 11/09/2012
Summary: After waking up on an operating table with no memory of how she got there, Noa must team up with computer hacker Peter to stop a corrupt corporation with a deadly secret.
Subjects: Computer hackers - Fiction. - Experiments - Foster home care - Abandoned children
Call number: YA GAG

Dream of Night /

Author: Henson, Heather.
ISBN: 9781416948995
Year: 2010
Date added: 06/09/2010
Summary: Told from their different points of view, twelve-year-old Shiloh, a troubled foster child, Dream of Night, an abused former racehorse, and Jess, a woman who cares for both, find healing by helping one another through their pain.
Subjects: Farm life - Kentucky - Fiction. - Emotional problems - Animal rescue - Fiction - Foster home care - Race horses - Horses
Call number: YA HEN

Each kindness /

Author: Woodson, Jacqueline.
ISBN: 9780399246524
Year: 2012
Date added: 09/27/2012
Summary: When Ms. Albert teaches a lesson on kindness, Chloe realizes that she and her friends have been wrong in making fun of new student Maya's shabby clothes and refusing to play with her.
Subjects: Coretta Scott King Award. - Kindness - Fiction. - Friendship - Schools
Call number: E WOO

Eight keys

Author: LaFleur, Suzanne M.
ISBN: 9780375899058;0375899057
Year: 2011
Date added: 01/10/2012
Summary: When twelve-year-old Elise, orphaned since age three, becomes disheartened by middle school, with its bullies, changing relationships, and higher expectations, keys to long-locked rooms and messages from her late father help her cope.
Subjects: Self-actualization (Psychology) - Fiction. - Orphans - Friendship - Electronic books. - Middle schools - Family life - Schools
Call number: ELECTRONIC BOOK

Eight keys

Author: LaFleur, Suzanne M.
ISBN: 9780307941664;0307941663
Year: 2011
Date added: 05/03/2012
Summary: When twelve-year-old Elise, orphaned since age nine, becomes disheartened by middle school, with its bullies, changing relationships, and higher expectations, keys to long-locked rooms and messages from her late father help her cope.
Subjects: Self-actualization (Psychology) - Fiction. - Friendship - Fiction - Family life - Orphans - Talking books for children. - Middle schools - Schools
Call number: JCD JF LAF

Eight keys /

Author: LaFleur, Suzanne M.
ISBN: 9780385740302;9780375872136
Year: 2011
Date added: 08/08/2011
Summary: When twelve-year-old Elise, orphaned since age three, becomes disheartened by middle school, with its bullies, changing relationships, and higher expectations, keys to long-locked rooms and messages from her late father help her cope.
Subjects: Self-actualization (Psychology) - Fiction. - Family life - Orphans - Middle schools - Schools - Friendship - Fiction
Call number: JF LAF

Eliza's freedom road : an Underground Railroad diary /

Author: Nolen, Jerdine.
ISBN: 9781416958147
Year: 2011
Date added: 02/17/2011
Summary: A twelve-year-old slave girl begins writing in a journal where she documents her journey via the Underground Railroad from Alexandria, Virginia, to freedom in St. Catharines, Canada.
Subjects: African Americans - Fiction. - Slavery - Fugitive slaves - Underground Railroad - Diaries - Fiction
Call number: JF NOL

Emily's fortune /

Author: Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.
ISBN: 9780385736169;9780375844928
Year: 2010
Date added: 06/07/2010
Summary: While traveling to her aunt's home in Redbud by train and stagecoach, quiet young Emily and her turtle, Rufus, team up with Jackson, fellow orphan and troublemaker extraordinaire, to outsmart mean Uncle Victor, who is after Emily's inheritance.
Subjects: Inheritance and succession - Fiction. - West (U.S.) - History - 19th century - Orphans - Uncles - Voyages and travels
Call number: JF NAY

Every day

Author: Levithan, David.
ISBN: 9780307975638
Year: 2012
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.
Subjects: Love - Fiction. - Interpersonal relations - Electronic books.
Call number: ELECTRONIC BOOK

Every day

Author: Levithan, David.
ISBN: 9781616376536;1616376538
Year: 2012
Date added: 11/29/2012
Summary: Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.
Subjects: Interpersonal relations - Fiction. - Love stories. - Young adult talking books.
Call number: DAB YA LEV

Every day

Author: Levithan, David.
ISBN: 9780449015209;0449015203
Year: 2012
Date added: 03/08/2013
Summary: Every morning, A wakes in a different person's body, a different person's life. There's never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. It's all fine until the morning that A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin's girlfriend, Rhiann
Subjects: Love stories. - Love - Fiction. - Interpersonal relations - Young adult talking books.
Call number: CD YA LEV

Every day /

Author: Levithan, David.
ISBN: 9780307931887
Year: 2012
Date added: 08/23/2012
Summary: Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.
Subjects: Love - Fiction - Interpersonal relations - Fiction.
Call number: YA LEV

Everything for a dog /

Author: Martin, Ann M.,
ISBN: 9780312386511;9780312674847
Year: 2009
Date added: 09/10/2009
Summary: In parallel stories, Bone, an orphaned dog, finds and loses a series of homes, Molly, a family pet, helps Charlie through the grief and other after-effects of his brother's death, and lonely Henry pleads for a dog of his own.
Subjects: Grief - Fiction - Dogs - Fiction. - Orphaned animals - Loneliness
Call number: JF MAR

The false princess

Author: O'Neal, Eilis.
ISBN: 9780307879561;0307879569;9780307879547;0307879542
Year: 2011
Date added: 04/18/2011
Summary: For sixteen years, Nalia has been raised as the princess of Thorvaldor, but one day she learns that her real name is Sinda and that she is part of a complicated plot that would change the future of her country forever.
Subjects: Audiobooks. - Identity - Fiction. - Conspiracies - Magic - Wizards - Princesses
Call number: DOWNLOADABLE AUDIO

The false princess /

Author: O'Neal, Eilis.
ISBN: 9781606840795
Year: 2011
Date added: 03/02/2011
Summary: For sixteen years, Nalia has been raised as the princess of Thorvaldor, but one day she learns that her real name is Sinda and that she is part of a complicated plot that would change the future of her country forever.
Subjects: Identity - Fiction. - Conspiracies - Magic - Wizards - Princesses
Call number: YA O'NE

The fault in our stars

Author: Green, John,
ISBN: 9781455869879
Year: 2011
Date added: 02/01/2012
Summary: Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Suppor
Subjects: Interpersonal relations - Fiction. - Cancer - Patients - Young adult talking books.
Call number: CD YA GRE

The fault in our stars /

Author: Green, John,
ISBN: 9780525478812
Year: 2012
Date added: 01/09/2012
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.
Subjects: Cancer - Fiction. - Terminally ill - Love
Call number: YA GRE

Fish /

Author: Mone, Gregory.
ISBN: 9780545116329
Year: 2010
Date added: 06/18/2010
Summary: Eleven-year-old Fish, seeking a way to help his family financially, becomes a reluctant cabin boy on a pirate ship, where he soon makes friends--and enemies--and is asked to help decipher clues that might lead to a legendary treasure.
Subjects: Ciphers - Fiction. - Buried treasure - Conduct of life - Pirates
Call number: JF MON

Five flavors of Dumb

Author: John, Antony.
ISBN: 9781101441305;1101441305;9781101445303;1101445300
Year: 2010
Date added: 01/28/2011
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Piper becomes the manager for her classmates' popular rock band, called Dumb, giving her the chance to prove her capabilities to her parents and others, if only she can get the band members to get along.
Subjects: Seattle (Wash.) - Fiction. - Deaf - Electronic books. - Bands (Music) - High schools - Family life - Washington (State) - People with disabilities - Rock groups - Schools
Call number: ELECTRONIC BOOK

Five flavors of Dumb /

Author: John, Antony,
ISBN: 9780803734333;9780142419434
Year: 2010
Date added: 12/30/2010
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Piper becomes the manager for her classmates' popular rock band, called Dumb, giving her the chance to prove her capabilities to her parents and others, if only she can get the band members to get along.
Subjects: Seattle (Wash.) - Fiction. - Deaf - Bands (Music) - High schools - Family life - Washington (State) - People with disabilities - Rock groups - Schools
Call number: YA JOH

Fly free! /

Author: Thong, Roseanne.
ISBN: 9781590785508
Year: 2010
Date added: 04/07/2010
Summary: When Mai feeds the caged birds at a Buddhist temple in Vietnam, her simple act of kindness starts a chain of thoughtful acts that ultimately comes back to her. Includes author's note explaining the Buddhist concepts of karma and samsara, or the wheel of l
Subjects: Vietnam - Fiction. - Conduct of life - Kindness
Call number: E THO

Fox tails : four fables from Aesop /

Author: Lowry, Amy.
ISBN: 9780823424009
Year: 2012
Date added: 04/17/2012
Summary: Four of Aesop's fables are combined in this tale about three animal friends who outsmart a tricky fox.
Subjects: Fables. - Folklore.
Call number: E LOW

Gabby & Gator /

Author: Burks, James.
ISBN: 9780759531451
Year: 2010
Date added: 02/23/2011
Summary: Gabby and Gator don't fit in with their own kind but when they meet each other they prove that best friends are those who accept you as you are.
Subjects: Environmental protection - Citizen participation. - Alligators as pets - Comic books, strips, etc. - Friendship - Graphic novels. - Friendship.
Call number: J741.59B

Giants beware! /

Author: Aguirre, Jorge.
ISBN: 9781596435827
Year: 2012
Date added: 04/17/2012
Summary: Claudette wants nothing more than to slay a giant but her little village is too safe and quiet.
Subjects: Graphic novels. - Fairy tales.
Call number: J741.59A

A girl named digit

Author: Monaghan, Annabel.
ISBN: 9780547668949
Year: 2012
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Farrah "Digit" Higgins may be going to MIT in the fall, but this L.A. high school genius has left her geek self behind in another school district so she can blend in with the popular crowd at Santa Monica High and actually enjoy her senior year. But when
Subjects: Terrorism - Fiction. - Kidnapping - High schools - Adventure and adventurers - Juvenile fiction. - Electronic books. - Adventure fiction. - Young adult fiction.
Call number: ELECTRONIC BOOK

A girl named Digit /

Author: Monaghan, Annabel.
ISBN: 9780547668529
Year: 2012
Date added: 05/29/2012
Summary: After identifying a terrorist plot, a brilliant seventeen-year-old girl from Santa Monica, California, gets involved with the young FBI agent who is trying to ensure her safety.
Subjects: Kidnapping - Fiction. - Interpersonal relations - Adventure and adventurers - Terrorism
Call number: YA MON

The girl who could fly /

Author: Forester, Victoria
ISBN: 9780312374624;0312374623;9780312602383
Year: 2008
Date added: 08/28/2008
Summary: When homeschooled farm girl Piper McCloud reveals her ability to fly, she is quickly taken to a secret government facility to be trained with other exceptional children, but she soon realizes that something is very wrong and begins working with brilliant
Subjects: Flight - Fiction. - Laboratories - Science fiction. - Ability - Contentment - Individuality - Self-acceptance - Schools
Call number: JF FOR

Girl, stolen /

Author: Henry, April.
ISBN: 9780805090055
Year: 2010
Date added: 03/15/2011
Summary: When an impulsive carjacking turns into a kidnapping, Griffin, a high school dropout, finds himself more in sympathy with his wealthy, blind victim, sixteen-year-old Cheyenne, than with his greedy father.
Subjects: Kidnapping - Fiction. - Carjacking - Blind - People with disabilities - Fathers and sons
Call number: YA HEN

Glory be /

Author: Scattergood, Augusta.
ISBN: 9780545331807
Year: 2012
Date added: 02/14/2012
Summary: In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory's town of Hanging Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved public pool rather than desegregating it.
Subjects: Sisters - Fiction. - Race relations - Segregation - City and town life - Mississippi - History - 20th century
Call number: JF SCA

The gold rush kid /

Author: Waldorf, Mary.
ISBN: 9780618977307
Year: 2008
Date added: 09/03/2009
Summary: When their mother dies in 1897, twelve-year-old Billy McGee and his angry, older sister leave Skagway, Alaska, to find their father who is trekking north to the Klondike to prospect for gold.
Subjects: Klondike River Valley (Yukon) - Gold discoveries - Fiction. - Brothers and sisters - Fiction
Call number: JF WAL

Goldilocks and just one bear /

Author: Hodgkinson, Leigh.
ISBN: 9780763661724
Year: 2012
Date added: 08/08/2012
Summary: Little Bear, all grown up, finds himself lost in a noisy, busy city where he happens to bump into someone with golden hair who remembers exactly how he likes his porridge.
Subjects: Humorous stories. - Bears - Fiction. - Characters in literature
Call number: E HOD

Gracias /

Author: Mora, Pat.
ISBN: 9781600602580
Year: 2009
Date added: 01/04/2010
Summary: A young multiracial boy celebrates family, friendship, and fun by telling about some of the everyday things for which he is thankful.
Subjects: Gratitude - Fiction. - Spanish language materials - Bilingual. - Hispanic Americans - Fiction - Racially mixed people
Call number: E MOR

The grave robber's apprentice /

Author: Stratton, Allan.
ISBN: 9780061976087
Year: 2012
Date added: 03/14/2012
Summary: Hans, a foundling raised by a grave robber, helps Countess Angela Gabriela, nearly thirteen, when she is torn away from her dream of being a professional puppeteer by an evil archduke out to destroy her and her parents.
Subjects: Aristocracy (Social class) - Fiction. - Identity - Grave robbing - Fantasy. - Puppet theater - Adventure and adventurers
Call number: JF STR

The great wall of Lucy Wu /

Author: Shang, Wendy Wan Long.
ISBN: 9780545162159
Year: 2011
Date added: 02/04/2011
Summary: Eleven-year-old aspiring basketball star and interior designer Lucy Wu is excited about finally having her own bedroom, until she learns that her great-aunt is coming to visit and Lucy will have to share a room with her for several months, shattering her
Subjects: Family life - Fiction. - Chinese Americans - Great-aunts - Individuality - Schools
Call number: JF SHA

The Grimm legacy

Author: Shulman, Polly.
ISBN: 9781101183953;1101183950;9781101188767;1101188766
Year: 2010
Date added: 01/10/2012
Summary: New York high school student Elizabeth gets an after-school job as a page at the "New-York Circulating Material Repository," and when she gains coveted access to its Grimm Collection of magical objects, she and the other pages are drawn into a series of f
Subjects: Magic - Fiction. - Teenage girls - Electronic books. - Libraries - Folklore - Fairy tales - Adventure and adventurers - High school students - New York (N.Y.)
Call number: ELECTRONIC BOOK

The Grimm Legacy /

Author: Shulman, Polly.
ISBN: 9780399250965
Year: 2010
Date added: 08/04/2010
Summary: New York high school student Elizabeth gets an after-school job as a page at the "New-York Circulating Material Repository," and when she gains coveted access to its Grimm Collection of magical objects, she and the other pages are drawn into a series of f
Subjects: Folklore - Fiction. - New York (N.Y.) - Magic - Fairy tales - Libraries - Adventure and adventurers
Call number: JF SHU

Guyku : a year of haiku for boys /

Author: Raczka, Bob.
ISBN: 9780547240039
Year: 2010
Date added: 11/04/2010
Subjects: Haiku. - American poetry - Seasons - Poetry. - Boys
Call number: J811.6R

Half brother /

Author: Oppel, Kenneth,
ISBN: 9780545229258
Year: 2010
Date added: 09/23/2010
Summary: In 1973, when a renowned Canadian behavioral psychologist pursues his latest research project--an experiment to determine whether chimpanzees can acquire advanced language skills--he brings home a baby chimp named Zan and asks his thirteen-year-old son to
Subjects: Chimpanzees - Habits and behavior - Fiction. - Experiments - Victoria (B.C.) - History - 20th century - Canada - Human-animal communication
Call number: YA OPP

Hampire! /

Author: Bardhan-Quallen, Sudipta.
ISBN: 9780061142390
Year: 2011
Date added: 09/08/2011
Summary: Duck cannot sleep because he is hungry, but while he is preparing a snack the Hampire, who roams the barnyard at night sinking his fangs into food, is creeping near.
Subjects: Food habits - Fiction. - Humorous stories - Vampires - Domestic animals - Stories in rhyme
Call number: E BAR

Hate list

Author: Brown, Jennifer,
ISBN: 9780316071208;031607120
Year: 2009
Date added: 12/30/2010
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.
Subjects: Electronic books. - School shootings - Fiction. - Emotional problems - Family problems - Forgiveness - High schools - Dysfunctional families - Schools
Call number: ELECTRONIC BOOK

Hate list /

Author: Brown, Jennifer,
ISBN: 9780316041447;9780316041454
Year: 2009
Date added: 09/08/2009
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.
Subjects: Family problems - Fiction. - School shootings - Emotional problems - Forgiveness - High schools - Schools
Call number: YA BRO

Henry's heart : a boy, his heart, and a new best friend /

Author: Harper, Charise Mericle.
ISBN: 9780805089899
Year: 2011
Date added: 11/23/2011
Summary: When Henry falls in love with a puppy but his father will not buy it for him, his heart reacts strangely. Includes facts about the heart's role within the body.
Subjects: Family life - Fiction. - Heart
Call number: E HAR

Here lies Linc /

Author: Ray, Delia.
ISBN: 9780375867576
Year: 2011
Date added: 04/05/2012
Summary: While researching a rumored-to-be-haunted grave for a local history project, twelve-year-old Lincoln Crenshaw unearths some startling truths about his own family.
Subjects: Cemeteries - Fiction. - Junior high schools - Iowa - Families - Schools - Death
Call number: JF RAY

Hidden /

Author: Frost, Helen,
ISBN: 9780374382216
Year: 2011
Date added: 05/11/2011
Summary: When fourteen-year-olds Wren and Darra meet at a Michigan summer camp, both are overwhelmed by memories from six years earlier when Darra's father stole a car, unaware that Wren was hiding in the back.
Subjects: Novels in verse. - Blame - Fiction. - Memory - Michigan - Interpersonal relations - Camps
Call number: YA FRO

Hilda and the Midnight Giant /

Author: Pearson, Luke.
ISBN: 9781907704253;1907704256
Year: 2011
Date added: 11/08/2012
Summary: Hilda finds her world turned upside down as she faces the prospect of leaving her snow-capped birthplace for the hum of the megalopolis. Her mother, an architect, has been offered a prestigious position in the bustling metropolis that she would find hard
Subjects: Giants - Fiction. - Graphic novels.
Call number: J741.59P

How to save a life

Author: Zarr, Sara.
ISBN: 9780307968739
Year: 2011
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Told from their own viewpoints, seventeen-year-old Jill, in grief over the loss of her father, and Mandy, nearly nineteen, are thrown together when Jill's mother agrees to adopt Mandy's unborn child but nothing turns out as they had anticipated.
Subjects: Interpersonal relations - Fiction. - Adoption - Mothers and daughters - Pregnancy - Grief - Family life - Colorado - Denver (Colo.) - Electronic audio books.
Call number: DOWNLOADABLE AUDIO

How to save a life /

Author: Zarr, Sara.
ISBN: 9780316036061
Year: 2011
Date added: 11/02/2011
Summary: Told from their own viewpoints, seventeen-year-old Jill, in grief over the loss of her father, and Mandy, nearly nineteen, are thrown together when Jill's mother agrees to adopt Mandy's unborn child but nothing turns out as they had anticipated.
Subjects: Grief - Fiction - Adoption - Fiction. - Family life - Colorado - Denver (Colo.) - Interpersonal relations - Pregnancy - Mothers and daughters
Call number: YA ZAR

How to say goodbye in Robot /

Author: Standiford, Natalie
ISBN: 9780545107082;9780545107099
Year: 2009
Date added: 10/13/2009
Summary: After moving to Baltimore and enrolling in a private school, high school senior Beatrice befriends a quiet loner with a troubled family history.
Subjects: Family problems - Fiction - Baltimore (Md.) - Fiction. - Death - Friendship
Call number: YA STA

I didn't do it /

Author: MacLachlan, Patricia.
ISBN: 9780061358333
Year: 2010
Date added: 11/12/2010
Summary: Excited puppies relate such new discoveries as the mailman comes every day and food tastes better eaten off a human's plate.
Subjects: Animals - Infancy - Fiction. - Dogs
Call number: E MACLA

The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

Author: Skloot, Rebecca,
ISBN: 9780307712509;0307712508
Year: 2010
Date added: 04/14/2010
Summary: Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization, and gene m
Subjects: Lacks, Henrietta, - Health. - Cancer - Patients - Virginia - Biography. - African American women - History. - Human experimentation in medicine - United States - HeLa cells. - Research. - Cell culture. - Medical ethics. - Talking books
Call number: CD 616.02774S

The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

Author: Skloot, Rebecca,
ISBN: 9780307712516;0307712516;9780307712530;0307712532
Year: 2010
Date added: 06/23/2010
Summary: Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The firs
Subjects: Lacks, Henrietta, - Health. - Cancer - Patients - Virginia - Biography. - HeLa cells. - Research. - Cell culture. - Medical ethics. - Audiobooks.
Call number: DOWNLOADABLE AUDIO

The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

Author: Skloot, Rebecca,
ISBN: 9780307589385;0307589382
Year: 2010
Date added: 12/29/2010
Summary: Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they
Subjects: Lacks, Henrietta, - Tissue Donors - United States - Biography. - Tissue and Organ Procurement - ethics - United States. - African Americans - Confidentiality - Hela Cells - History, 20th Century - Human Experimentation - Prejudice - Electronic books. - He
Call number: ELECTRONIC BOOK

The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks /

Author: Skloot, Rebecca,
ISBN: 9781400052172;9781400052189
Year: 2010
Date added: 01/29/2010
Subjects: Lacks, Henrietta, - Health. - Cancer - Patients - Virginia - Biography. - African American women - History. - Human experimentation in medicine - United States - HeLa cells. - Research. - Cell culture. - Medical ethics. - Special collections - Health
Call number: 616.02774S

The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks /

Author: Skloot, Rebecca,
ISBN: 9781410427922;1410427927
Year: 2010
Date added: 10/18/2010
Summary: Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization, and gene m
Subjects: Lacks, Henrietta, - Health. - Cancer - Patients - Virginia - Biography. - African American women - History. - Human experimentation in medicine - United States - HeLa cells. - Research. - Cell culture. - Medical ethics. - Large type books.
Call number: LP616.02774S

Inside out & back again /

Author: Lai, Thanhha.
ISBN: 9780061962783
Year: 2011
Date added: 03/23/2011
Summary: Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
Subjects: Immigrants - Fiction. - Novels in verse. - Vietnamese Americans - Alabama - History - 1951- - Newbery Medal. - Vietnam - 1971-1980 - Emigration and immigration
Call number: JF LAI

Jake /

Author: Couloumbis, Audrey.
ISBN: 9780375856303;9780375856310
Year: 2010
Date added: 10/08/2010
Summary: When ten-year-old Jake's widowed mother breaks her leg just before Christmas while her sister and best friend are both away, a grandfather Jake barely remembers must come to Baltimore, Maryland, to help a neighbor take care of him.
Subjects: Grandfathers - Fiction. - Neighbors - Hospitals - Accidents - Baltimore (Md.) - Single-parent families - Christmas
Call number: JF COU

Jefferson's sons : a founding father's secret children /

Author: Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker.
ISBN: 9780803734999
Year: 2011
Date added: 10/19/2011
Summary: A fictionalized look at the last twenty years of Thomas Jefferson's life at Monticello through the eyes of three of his slaves, two of whom were his sons by his slave, Sally Hemings.
Subjects: African Americans - Fiction. - Slavery - Jefferson, Thomas, - Hemings, Sally - Monticello (Va.) - Virginia - History - 1775-1865
Call number: YA BRA

Jefferson's sons [a founding father's secret children] /

Author: Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker.
ISBN: 9780307942319;0307942317
Year: 2011
Date added: 05/03/2012
Summary: A fictionalized look at the last twenty years of Thomas Jefferson's life at Monticello through the eyes of three of his slaves, two of whom were his sons by his slave, Sally Hemings.
Subjects: African Americans - Fiction. - Slavery - Jefferson, Thomas, - Hemings, Sally - Monticello (Va.) - Virginia - History - 1775-1865 - Young adult talking books.
Call number: CD YA BRA

Joha Makes a Wish: A Middle Eastern Tale

Author: Rayyan, Omar
ISBN: 9780761455998;076145599
Year: 20100301
Date added: 12/31/1969

Jump /

Author: Carbone, Elisa Lynn.
ISBN: 9780670011858
Year: 2010
Date added: 05/13/2010
Summary: Two teenaged runaways meet at a climbing gym and together embark on a dangerous and revealing journey.
Subjects: Interpersonal relations - Fiction. - Rock climbing - Runaways
Call number: YA CAR

A kiss in time /

Author: Flinn, Alex.
ISBN: 9780060874193;9780060874216
Year: 2009
Date added: 08/18/2009
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Princess Talia persuades seventeen-year-old Jack, the modern-day American who kissed her awake after a 300-year sleep, to take her to his Miami home, where she hopes to win his love before the witch who cursed her can spirit her away.
Subjects: Blessing and cursing - Fiction. - Family life - Florida - Miami (Fla.) - Fate and fatalism - Witches - Princesses
Call number: YA FLI

The last summer of the Death Warriors

Author: Stork, Francisco X.
ISBN: 9780307707062;0307707067
Year: 2010
Date added: 12/31/2010
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Pancho is bent on avenging the senseless death of his sister, but after he meets D.Q, who is dying of cancer, and Marisol, one of D.Q.'s caregivers, both boys find their lives changed by their interactions.
Subjects: Friendship - Fiction - Audiobooks. - Cancer - Fiction. - Orphans - New Mexico - Mexican Americans - Revenge
Call number: DOWNLOADABLE AUDIO

The last summer of the death warriors

Author: Stork, Francisco X.
ISBN: 9780307706997;0307706990
Year: 2010
Date added: 05/03/2012
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Pancho is bent on avenging the senseless death of his sister, but after he meets D.Q, who is dying of cancer, and Marisol, one of D.Q.'s caregivers, both boys find their lives changed by their interactions.
Subjects: Friendship - Fiction - Orphans - Fiction. - New Mexico - Mexican Americans - Cancer - Young adult talking books. - Revenge
Call number: CD YA STO

The last summer of the Death Warriors /

Author: Stork, Francisco X.
ISBN: 9780545151337;9780545151344
Year: 2010
Date added: 03/15/2010
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Pancho is bent on avenging the senseless death of his sister, but after he meets D.Q, who is dying of cancer, and Marisol, one of D.Q.'s caregivers, both boys find their lives changed by their interactions.
Subjects: Cancer - Fiction. - Orphans - New Mexico - Mexican Americans - Revenge - Friendship - Fiction
Call number: YA STO

The limit /

Author: Landon, Kristen,
ISBN: 9781442402713;9781442402720
Year: 2010
Date added: 03/28/2011
Summary: When his family exceeds its legal debt limit, thirteen-year-old Matt is sent to the Federal Debt Rehabilitation Agency workhouse, where he discovers illicit activities are being carried out using the children who have been placed there.
Subjects: Conspiracies - Fiction. - Science fiction.
Call number: YA LAN

The lion's share /

Author: McElligott, Matthew.
ISBN: 0802797695;9780802797681;0802797687;9780802797698
Year: 2009
Date added: 02/10/2009
Summary: Ant is honored to receive an invitation to lion's annual dinner party, but is shocked when the other guests behave rudely and then accuse her of thinking only of herself.
Subjects: Behavior - Fiction. - Etiquette - Ants - Fiction - Dinners and dining - Lion - Jungle animals
Call number: E MCEL

The lions of Little Rock /

Author: Levine, Kristin
ISBN: 9780399256448
Year: 2012
Date added: 01/04/2012
Summary: In 1958 Little Rock, Arkansas, painfully shy twelve-year-old Marlee sees her city and family divided over school integration, but her friendship with Liz, a new student, helps her find her voice and fight against racism.
Subjects: African Americans - Fiction. - Bashfulness - Race relations - School integration - Family life - Arkansas - Little Rock (Ark.) - History - 20th century - Middle schools - Schools - Friendship - Fiction
Call number: YA LEV

Little White Duck : a childhood in China /

Author: Liu, Na,
ISBN: 9780761381150;0761381155;9780761365877
Year: 2012
Date added: 08/09/2012
Summary: A young girl describes her experiences growing up in China, beginning with the death of Chairman Mao in 1976.
Subjects: Graphic novels. - China - History - 1976-2002 - Fiction.
Call number: J741.59L

A long walk to water : a novel /

Author: Park, Linda Sue.
ISBN: 9780547251271;9780547577319
Year: 2009
Date added: 11/30/2010
Summary: When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva D
Subjects: Dut, Salva, - Fiction. - Water - Blacks - Sudan - History - Civil War, 1983-2005 - Refugees - Survival
Call number: YA PAR

Looking for me /

Author: Rosenthal, Betsy R.
ISBN: 9780547610849
Year: 2012
Date added: 05/22/2013
Summary: In 1936 Baltimore, an eleven-year-old Jewish girl, one of twelve siblings, tries to find her place in her overcrowded family.
Subjects: Novels in verse. - Identity - Fiction. - Family life - Maryland - Jews - United States - Baltimore (Md.) - History - 20th century
Call number: JF ROS

Luz makes a splash /

Mama Miti : Wangari Maathai and the trees of Kenya /

Author: Napoli, Donna Jo,
ISBN: 9781416935056
Year: 2010
Date added: 01/22/2010
Subjects: Maathai, Wangari. - Conservationists. - Kenya - Biography. - Women
Call number: JB MAATHAI N

Marcelo in the real world

Author: Stork, Francisco X.
ISBN: 9780739379912;0739379917
Year: 2009
Date added: 04/03/2009
Summary: Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.
Subjects: Young adult talking books. - Autism - Fiction. - Asperger's syndrome - Interpersonal relations
Call number: CD YA Sto

Marcelo in the real world /

Author: Stork, Francisco X.
ISBN: 9780545054744;9780545056908
Year: 2009
Date added: 02/17/2009
Summary: Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.
Subjects: Autism - Fiction. - Asperger's syndrome - Interpersonal relations
Call number: YA STO

Marcelo in the real world /

Author: Stork, Francisco X.
ISBN: 9781410427519
Year: 2010
Date added: 08/09/2010
Summary: Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.
Subjects: Autism - Fiction. - Asperger's syndrome - Large type books for children. - Interpersonal relations
Call number: YALP STO

Marisol McDonald doesn't match = Marisol McDonald no combina /

Author: Brown, Monica,
ISBN: 9780892392353
Year: 2011
Date added: 10/28/2011
Summary: Marisol McDonald, a biracial, nonconformist, soccer-playing pirate-princess with brown skin and red hair, celebrates her uniqueness.
Subjects: Spanish language materials - Bilingual. - Hispanic Americans - Fiction - Individuality - Fiction. - Racially mixed people
Call number: E BRO

Max's castle /

Author: Banks, Kate,
ISBN: 9780374399191
Year: 2011
Date added: 10/28/2011
Summary: When Max finds a box of long-forgotten toys, he builds a kingdom filled with adventures for himself and his two brothers.
Subjects: Toys - Fiction. - Brothers - Fiction - Play - Imagination - Knights and knighthood
Call number: E BAN

May B. : a novel /

Author: Rose, Caroline Starr.
ISBN: 9781582463933
Year: 2012
Date added: 02/07/2012
Summary: When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, Pa pulls twelve-year-old May from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.
Subjects: Novels in verse. - Kansas - History - 19th century - Fiction. - Frontier and pioneer life
Call number: YA ROS

Me-- Jane /

Author: McDonnell, Patrick,
ISBN: 9780316045469
Year: 2011
Date added: 05/16/2011
Summary: Holding her stuffed toy chimpanzee, young Jane Goodall observes nature, reads Tarzan books, and dreams of living in Africa and helping animals. Includes biographical information on the prominent zoologist.
Subjects: Goodall, Jane, - Childhood and youth - Fiction. - Nature study - Toys - Caldecott Medal.
Call number: E MCDO

The mighty Miss Malone

Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul.
ISBN: 9780307968227;0307968227
Year: 2012
Date added: 02/21/2012
Summary: With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression.
Subjects: African Americans - Fiction. - Gary (Ind.) - History - 20th century - Talking books for children. - Flint (Mich.) - Families - Poverty - Depressions - 1929
Call number: JCD JF CUR

The mighty Miss Malone

Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul.
ISBN: 9780375897368
Year: 2012
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression.
Subjects: Poverty - Fiction. - Family life - Depressions - 1929 - African Americans - Gary (Ind.) - History - 20th century - Flint (Mich.) - Electronic books.
Call number: ELECTRONIC BOOK

The mighty Miss Malone

Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul.
ISBN: 9780375897368
Year: 2012
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression.
Subjects: Family life - Fiction. - Depressions - 1929 - Poverty - African Americans - Gary (Ind.) - History - 20th century - Flint (Mich.) - Electronic books.
Call number: ELECTRONIC BOOK

The mighty Miss Malone /

Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul.
ISBN: 9780385734912
Year: 2012
Date added: 01/10/2012
Summary: With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression.
Subjects: Depressions - 1929 - Fiction. - African Americans - Family life - Flint (Mich.) - History - 20th century - Poverty - Gary (Ind.)
Call number: JF CUR

Mirror mirror : a book of reversible verse /

Author: Singer, Marilyn.
ISBN: 9780525479017
Year: 2010
Date added: 03/12/2010
Summary: A collection of short poems which, when reversed, provide new perspectives on the fairy tale characters they feature.
Subjects: American poetry. - Characters in literature - Poetry.
Call number: J811.54S

Mousetronaut : based on a (partially) true story /

Author: Kelly, Mark E.
ISBN: 9781442458246
Year: 2012
Date added: 10/03/2012
Summary: A small, but plucky, mouse named Mike is sure that he can help the Space Shuttle astronauts, and ends up saving the whole mission.
Subjects: Mice - Fiction. - Space shuttles - Astronauts
Call number: E KEL

Mrs. Harkness and the panda /

Author: Potter, Alicia.
ISBN: 9780375844485
Year: 2012
Date added: 03/08/2012
Subjects: Giant panda. - Harkness, Ruth.
Call number: J599.789P

Never fall down : a novel /

Author: McCormick, Patricia,
ISBN: 9780061730931
Year: 2012
Date added: 05/11/2012
Summary: "Cambodian child soldier Arn Chorn-Pond defied the odds and used all of his courage and wits to survive the murderous regime of the Khmer Rouge"--
Subjects: Cambodia - History - 1975-1979 - Fiction. - Party of Democratic Kampuchea - Genocide - Soldiers
Call number: YA MCCO

Never fall down a novel /

Author: McCormick, Patricia,
ISBN: 9780062114426
Year: 2012
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: "Cambodian child soldier Arn Chorn-Pond defied the odds and used all of his courage and wits to survive the murderous regime of the Khmer Rouge"--
Subjects: Cambodia - History - 1975-1979 - Juvenile fiction. - Fiction. - Party of Democratic Kampuchea - Soldiers - Genocide - JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Asia. - JUVENILE FICTION / Biographical / Other. - JUVENILE FICTION / Family / General (see also headings
Call number: ELECTRONIC BOOK

Ninth Ward

Author: Rhodes, Jewell Parker.
ISBN: 9781449807351;1449807356
Year: 2010
Date added: 02/15/2011
Summary: In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them.
Subjects: African Americans - Fiction. - Hurricane Katrina, 2005 - Spirits - Coming of age - New Orleans (La.) - Talking books for children. - Survival
Call number: JCD JF RHO

Ninth Ward /

Author: Rhodes, Jewell Parker.
ISBN: 9780316043076
Year: 2010
Date added: 10/13/2010
Summary: In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them.
Subjects: African Americans - Fiction. - Hurricane Katrina, 2005 - Spirits - Coming of age - New Orleans (La.) - Coretta Scott King Award. - Survival
Call number: YA RHO

Ninth Ward /

Author: Rhodes, Jewell Parker.
ISBN: 9780316043076;9780316043083
Year: 2010
Date added: 03/03/2011
Summary: In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them.
Subjects: African Americans - Fiction. - Hurricane Katrina, 2005 - Spirits - Coming of age - Coretta Scott King Award. - New Orleans (La.) - Survival
Call number: JF RHO

No passengers beyond this point

Author: Choldenko, Gennifer,
ISBN: 9781617070006;1617070009
Year: 2011
Date added: 12/08/2011
Summary: With their house in foreclosure, sisters India and Mouse and brother Finn are sent to stay with an uncle in Colorado until their mother can join them, but when the plane lands, the children are welcomed by cheering crowds to a strange place where each of
Subjects: Fantasy. - Brothers and sisters - Fiction. - Talking books for children.
Call number: DAB JF CHO

No passengers beyond this point /

Author: Choldenko, Gennifer,
ISBN: 9780803735347;9780142420522
Year: 2011
Date added: 02/08/2011
Summary: With their house in foreclosure, sisters India and Mouse and brother Finn are sent to stay with an uncle in Colorado until their mother can join them, but when the plane lands, the children are welcomed by cheering crowds to a strange place where each of
Subjects: Fantasy. - Brothers and sisters - Fiction.
Call number: YA CHO

Okay for now

Author: Schmidt, Gary D.
ISBN: 9780307915955;0307915956
Year: 2011
Date added: 05/09/2011
Subjects: Friendship - Fiction - Audubon, John James, - Fiction. - Family problems - Junior high schools - Theater - New York (State) - New York - Coming of age - Broadway (New York, N.Y.) - Humorous stories - Family life - Families - Schools - Audiobooks.
Call number: DOWNLOADABLE AUDIO

Okay for now

Author: Schmidt, Gary D.
ISBN: 9780307915948;0307915891
Year: 2011
Date added: 06/16/2011
Summary: When his family moves to Marysville, New York, Doug couldn't be less impressed. The library is the only place to go in town, and it's only open on Saturdays. There, however, he meets his first friend and takes an interest in fine art. Unfortunately, schoo
Subjects: Friendship - Fiction - Audubon, John James, - Fiction. - Young adult talking books. - Family problems - Junior high schools - Theater - New York (State) - New York - Broadway (New York, N.Y.) - Family life - Schools
Call number: CD YA SCH

Okay for now /

Author: Schmidt, Gary D.
ISBN: 9780547152608
Year: 2011
Date added: 04/27/2011
Summary: As a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends, an abusive father, and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him until he finds an ally in Lil Spicer--a fiery young lady. Together, they find a
Subjects: Audubon, John James, - Fiction. - Family problems - Junior high schools - Theater - New York (State) - New York - Coming of age - Broadway (New York, N.Y.) - Humorous stories - Family life - Schools - Friendship - Fiction
Call number: YA SCH

On the Blue Comet

Author: Wells, Rosemary.
ISBN: 9780763654191;0763654191
Year: 2010
Date added: 03/02/2011
Summary: When the Depression hits in Cairo, Illinois, and Oscar Ogilvie's father must sell their home and vast model train set-up to look for work in California, eleven-year-old Oscar is left with his dour aunt, where he befriends a mysterious drifter, witnesses a
Subjects: Single-parent families - Fiction. - California - History - 1850-1950 - Illinois - 20th century - Space and time - Railroad trains - Adventure and adventurers - Fantasy. - Electronic books.
Call number: ELECTRONIC BOOK

On the Blue Comet /

Author: Wells, Rosemary.
ISBN: 9780763637224;9780763658151
Year: 2010
Date added: 10/07/2010
Summary: When the Depression hits in Cairo, Illinois, and Oscar Ogilvie's father must sell their home and vast model train set-up to look for work in California, eleven-year-old Oscar is left with his dour aunt, where he befriends a mysterious drifter, witnesses a
Subjects: Depressions - 1929 - Fiction. - California - History - 1850-1950 - Illinois - 20th century - Single-parent families - Space and time - Railroad trains - Adventure and adventurers
Call number: JF WEL

The one and only Ivan /

Author: Applegate, Katherine.
ISBN: 9780061992254
Year: 2012
Date added: 01/23/2012
Summary: When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.
Subjects: Animals - Treatment - Fiction. - Newbery Medal. - Gorilla - Elephants
Call number: JF APP

One crazy summer

Author: Williams-Garcia, Rita.
ISBN: 9781449821968;1449821960
Year: 2010
Date added: 08/23/2010
Summary: In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated
Subjects: Black Panther Party - Fiction. - Oakland (Calif.) - History - 20th century - African Americans - Civil rights movements - Poets - Sisters - Mothers
Call number: JCD JF WIL

One crazy summer

Author: Williams-Garcia, Rita.
ISBN: 9780061966675;0061966673
Year: 2010
Date added: 01/28/2011
Summary: In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated
Subjects: African Americans - Fiction. - Civil rights movements - Electronic books. - Black Panther Party - Oakland (Calif.) - History - 20th century - Poets - Sisters - Mothers
Call number: ELECTRONIC BOOK

One crazy summer

Author: Williams-Garcia, Rita.
ISBN: 9781449822026;1449822029
Year: 2010
Date added: 02/07/2011
Summary: In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated p
Subjects: African Americans - Fiction. - Civil rights movements - Black Panther Party - Oakland (Calif.) - History - 20th century - Talking books for children - Poets - Sisters - Mothers
Call number: DAB JF WIL

One crazy summer /

Author: Williams-Garcia, Rita.
ISBN: 9780060760885
Year: 2010
Date added: 03/15/2010
Summary: In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated
Subjects: Black Panther Party - Fiction. - Oakland (Calif.) - History - 20th century - African Americans - Civil rights movements - Newbery Medal. - Coretta Scott King Award. - Poets - Sisters - Mothers
Call number: JF WIL

One dead spy : the life, times, and last words of Nathan Hale, America's most famous spy /

Author: Hale, Nathan,
ISBN: 9781419703966;141970396
Year: 2012
Date added: 04/04/2013
Summary: Nathan Hale, the author's historical namesake, was America's first spy, a Revolutionary War hero who famously said 'I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" before being hanged by the British. In the Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales ser
Subjects: Hale, Nathan, - Soldiers. - Spies. - United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783. - Graphic novels.
Call number: J741.59H

Out of my mind /

Author: Draper, Sharon M.
ISBN: 9781416971702
Year: 2010
Date added: 03/12/2010
Summary: Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
Subjects: Genius - Fiction. - Interpersonal relations - Communication - People with disabilities - Cerebral palsy
Call number: YA DRA

Payback time

Author: Deuker, Carl.
ISBN: 9780547505022;0547505027
Year: 2010
Date added: 09/22/2011
Summary: Overweight, somewhat timid Mitch reluctantly agrees to be the sports reporter for the Lincoln High newspaper because he is determined to be a writer, but he senses a real story in Angel, a talented football player who refuses to stand out on the field--or
Subjects: Courage - Fiction - Reporters and reporting - Fiction. - Overweight persons - Secrets - High schools - Schools - Football - Electronic books.
Call number: ELECTRONIC BOOK

Payback time /

Author: Deuker, Carl.
ISBN: 9780547279817;9780547577333
Year: 2010
Date added: 11/01/2010
Summary: Overweight, somewhat timid Mitch reluctantly agrees to be the sports reporter for the Lincoln High newspaper because he is determined to be a writer, but he senses a real story in Angel, a talented football player who refuses to stand out on the field--or
Subjects: Reporters and reporting - Fiction. - Football - Courage - Fiction - Overweight persons - High schools - Secrets - Schools
Call number: YA DEU

Perfect square /

Author: Hall, Michael,
ISBN: 9780061915130
Year: 2011
Date added: 04/25/2011
Summary: A perfect square that is perfectly happy is torn into pieces, punched with holes, crumpled, and otherwise changed but finds in each transformation that it can be something new, and just as happy.
Subjects: Square - Fiction. - Happiness - Fiction - Contentment - Change
Call number: E HAL

Persephone /

Author: Clayton, Sally Pomme.
ISBN: 9780802853493
Year: 2009
Date added: 08/24/2009
Subjects: Persephone (Greek deity)
Call number: J292C

A pig parade is a terrible idea /

Author: Black, Michael Ian.
ISBN: 9781416979227
Year: 2010
Date added: 09/29/2010
Summary: Explains precisely why, although it may sound like a good idea, gathering hundreds of pigs to march in a parade through one's hometown is inadvisable.
Subjects: Pigs - Fiction. - Humorous stories - Parades
Call number: E BLA

Pop! : the invention of bubble gum /

Author: McCarthy, Meghan.
ISBN: 9781416979708
Year: 2010
Date added: 06/23/2010
Subjects: Bubble gum.
Call number: J664.6M

The princess and the pig /

Author: Emmett, Jonathan.
ISBN: 9780802723345
Year: 2011
Date added: 10/20/2011
Summary: When a new baby princess accidentally changes places with a piglet, both of their lives are forever changed.
Subjects: Fiction. - Humorous stories - Pigs - Princesses
Call number: E EMM

The PS Brothers /

Author: Boelts, Maribeth,
ISBN: 9780547577173
Year: 2011
Date added: 01/07/2013
Summary: Russell dreams of owning a dog, and he has read every book about pooches in his local public library. Unfortunately, the circumstances of Russell's life (deceased mother, incarcerated father, and an indifferent young uncle, who is currently his guardian)
Subjects: Dogs - Fiction. - Moneymaking projects - Bullies - Dogfighting - Conduct of life - Uncles
Call number: JF BOE

The rock and the river

Author: Magoon, Kekla.
ISBN: 9781441858641;1441858644
Year: 2010
Date added: 12/22/2010
Summary: In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.
Subjects: Civil rights movements - Fiction. - Black Panther Party - Racism - Brothers - African Americans - United States - History - 20th century
Call number: CD YA MAG

The rock and the river /

Author: Magoon, Kekla.
ISBN: 9781416975823;9781416978039
Year: 2009
Date added: 05/28/2009
Summary: In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.
Subjects: Black Panther Party - Fiction. - African Americans - Civil rights movements - Brothers - Fiction - Racism - United States - History - 20th century
Call number: YA MAG

The running dream

Author: Van Draanen, Wendelin.
ISBN: 9780375896798;0375896791
Year: 2011
Date added: 09/22/2011
Summary: When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again.
Subjects: Running - Fiction. - Amputees - Prosthesis - High schools - People with disabilities - Schools - Electronic books.
Call number: ELECTRONIC BOOK

The running dream

Author: Van Draanen, Wendelin.
ISBN: 9780307879516;0307879518
Year: 2011
Date added: 02/29/2012
Summary: Jessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. She's not comforted by the news that she'll be able to walk with the help of a prosthetic leg. Who cares about walking when you live to run? As she struggles to cope with crutches and
Subjects: Amputees - Fiction. - Audiobooks. - Running - Prosthesis - High schools - People with disabilities - Schools
Call number: DOWNLOADABLE AUDIO

The running dream /

Author: Van Draanen, Wendelin.
ISBN: 9780375866678
Year: 2011
Date added: 02/07/2011
Summary: When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again.
Subjects: Amputees - Fiction. - Prosthesis - High schools - People with disabilities - Running - Schools
Call number: YA VAN

Saint Louis Armstrong Beach /

Author: Woods, Brenda
ISBN: 9780399255076
Year: 2011
Date added: 10/18/2011
Summary: Saint Louis Armstrong Beach is enjoying life in New Orleans, playing clarinet for the tourists in his spare time, accompanied by Shadow, a local stray dog. When Hurricane Katrina approaches, Saint faces unexpected challenges in trying to rescue Shadow.
Subjects: Hurricane Katrina, 2005 - Fiction. - New Orleans (La.) - Dogs
Call number: JF WOO

The Scorpio Races

Author: Stiefvater, Maggie,
ISBN: 9780545357029;0545357020
Year: 2011
Date added: 02/21/2012
Summary: Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.
Subjects: Orphans - Fiction. - Young adult talking books. - Fantasy. - Love - Fiction - Racing - Horses
Call number: CD YA STI

The Scorpio Races /

Author: Stiefvater, Maggie,
ISBN: 9780545224901
Year: 2011
Date added: 11/02/2011
Summary: Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.
Subjects: Orphans - Fiction. - Love - Fiction - Fantasy. - Michael L. Printz Award. - Racing - Horses
Call number: YA STI

See you at Harry's

Author: Knowles, Johanna,
ISBN: 9780763659943
Year: 2012
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible in her family, where grumpy eighteen-year-old Sarah is working at the family restaurant, fourteen-year-old Holden is struggling with school bullies and his emerging homosexuality, and adorable, three-year-old Charlie i
Subjects: Grief - Fiction - Family problems - Fiction. - Brothers and sisters - Homosexuality - Electronic books. - Restaurants
Call number: ELECTRONIC BOOK

See you at Harry's /

Author: Knowles, Johanna,
ISBN: 9780763654078
Year: 2012
Date added: 05/17/2012
Summary: Twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible in her family, where grumpy eighteen-year-old Sarah is working at the family restaurant, fourteen-year-old Holden is struggling with school bullies and his emerging homosexuality, and adorable, three-year-old Charlie i
Subjects: Grief - Fiction - Family problems - Fiction. - Brothers and sisters - Homosexuality - Restaurants
Call number: YA KNO

Shine /

Author: Myracle, Lauren,
ISBN: 9780810984172
Year: 2011
Date added: 04/27/2011
Summary: When her best friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime, sixteen-year-old Cat sets out to discover the culprits in her small North Carolina town.
Subjects: Gays - Fiction. - Hate crimes - North Carolina - Best friends
Call number: YA MYR

Ship breaker : a novel /

Author: Bacigalupi, Paolo.
ISBN: 9780316056212
Year: 2010
Date added: 05/10/2010
Summary: In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
Subjects: Science fiction. - Recycling (Waste) - Fiction. - Conduct of life
Call number: YA BAC

Ship breaker a novel /

Author: Bacigalupi, Paolo.
ISBN: 1441883479;9781441883476;9781441883476
Year: 2010
Date added: 01/13/2011
Summary: In America's Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts, Nailer works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or chance, he discovers an ex
Subjects: Science fiction. - Young adult talking books. - Recycling (Waste) - Fiction. - Conduct of life
Call number: CD YA BAC

Sidekicks /

Author: Santat, Dan.
ISBN: 9780439298117;9780439298193
Year: 2011
Date added: 07/11/2011
Summary: When Captain Amazing feels he is getting too old to be a reliable superhero, he tries to hire a new sidekick, but his pets have different ideas.
Subjects: Graphic novels. - Superheroes - Fiction. - Pets
Call number: J741.59S

Sit-in : how four friends stood up by sitting down /

Author: Pinkney, Andrea Davis.
ISBN: 9780316070164
Year: 2010
Date added: 02/26/2010
Subjects: Civil rights movements. - African Americans - Civil rights. - Southern States - Race relations.
Call number: J323.1196P

The smoky corridor /

Author: Grabenstein, Chris.
ISBN: 9780375865114
Year: 2010
Date added: 08/27/2010
Summary: With the help of his stepmother, his dog Zipper, and new friend Malik, Zack Jennings faces ghosts and zombies at his new middle school, which is said to house a lost Confederate treasure.
Subjects: Buried treasure - Fiction. - Haunted places - Family life - Connecticut - Zombies - Stepmothers - Schools - Ghosts
Call number: YA GRA

Somebody everybody listens to /

Author: Supplee, Suzanne.
ISBN: 9780525422426;9780142418864
Year: 2010
Date added: 05/13/2010
Summary: Upon graduating from high school in the tiny town of Starling, Tennessee, aspiring country singer Retta Lee Jones manages to get herself to Nashville, where, in spite of some bad luck and hard times, she tries to persevere in pursuing her dreams.
Subjects: Self-confidence - Fiction. - Country music - Nashville (Tenn.) - Singers - Country life - Tennessee
Call number: YA SUP

Sophie's fish /

Author: Cannon, A. E.
ISBN: 9780670012916
Year: 2012
Date added: 03/12/2012
Summary: Jake starts to worry about everything that could go wrong when he agrees to take care of his friend Sophie's fish for the weekend.
Subjects: Humorous stories. - Worry - Fiction. - Fishes
Call number: E CAN

Split /

Author: Avasthi, Swati.
ISBN: 9780375863400
Year: 2010
Date added: 03/17/2010
Summary: A teenaged boy thrown out of his house by his abusive father goes to live with his older brother, who ran away from home years ago to escape the abuse.
Subjects: Family violence - Fiction. - Child abuse - Brothers - Fiction
Call number: YA AVA

Stand straight, Ella Kate : the true story of a real giant /

Author: Klise, Kate.
ISBN: 9780803734043
Year: 2010
Date added: 06/23/2010
Summary: A fictionalized biography of Ella Kate Ewing, born in 1872, who was eight feet tall by the age of seventeen and who became financially independent by traveling the country for nearly twenty years appearing at museums, exhibitions, and in circus shows.
Subjects: Ewing, Ella Kate, - Fiction. - Giants - People with disabilities
Call number: E KLI

The storm before Atlanta /

Author: Schwabach, Karen.
ISBN: 9780375858673
Year: 2011
Date added: 03/21/2012
Summary: In 1863 northwestern Georgia, an unlikely alliance forms between ten-year-old New York drummer boy Jeremy, fourteen-year-old Confederate Charlie, and runaway slave Dulcie as they learn truths about the Civil War, slavery, and freedom.
Subjects: Slavery - Fiction. - Drummers (Musicians) - Georgia - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Freedom - United States - Soldiers - Runaways
Call number: JF SCH

A storm called Katrina /

Author: Uhlberg, Myron.
ISBN: 1561455911;9781561455911
Year: 2011
Date added: 08/29/2011
Summary: When flood waters submerge their New Orleans neighborhood in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a young cornet player and his parents evacuate their home and struggle to survive and stay together.
Subjects: African Americans - Fiction. - Floods - Hurricane Katrina, 2005 - New Orleans (La.) - Survival
Call number: E UHL

Summer at Forsaken Lake

Author: Beil, Michael D.
ISBN: 9780449010242
Year: 2012
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Twelve-year-old Nicholas and his ten-year-old, twin sisters, Hetty and Haley, spend the summer with their Great-Uncle Nick at Forsaken Lake, where he and their new friend Charlie investigate the truth about an accident involving their families many years
Subjects: Ohio - Fiction. - Families - Lakes - Great-uncles - Mystery and detective stories. - Electronic audio books. - Summer
Call number: DOWNLOADABLE AUDIO

Summer at Forsaken Lake /

Author: Beil, Michael D.
ISBN: 9780375867422;9780375864964;0375864962
Year: 2012
Date added: 06/08/2012
Summary: Twelve-year-old Nicholas and his ten-year-old, twin sisters, Hetty and Haley, spend the summer with their Great-Uncle Nick at Forsaken Lake, where he and their new friend Charlie investigate the truth about an accident involving their families many years
Subjects: Ohio - Fiction. - Families - Summer - Mystery and detective stories. - Great-uncles - Lakes
Call number: JF BEI

A tale dark & Grimm

Author: Gidwitz, Adam.
ISBN: 9781449841249;1449841244
Year: 2011
Date added: 03/01/2011
Summary: Follows Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more tales, encountering such wicked creatures as witches, along with kindly strangers and other helpful folk. Based in part on the Grimms' fairy tales Faithful Johannes, Hansel
Subjects: Characters in literature - Fiction. - Fairy tales. - Young adult talking books. - Brothers and sisters - Fiction
Call number: CD YA GID

A tale dark & Grimm /

Author: Gidwitz, Adam.
ISBN: 9780525423348;9780142419670
Year: 2010
Date added: 11/30/2010
Summary: Follows Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more tales, encountering such wicked creatures as witches, along with kindly strangers and other helpful folk. Based in part on the Grimms' fairy tales Faithful Johannes, Hansel
Subjects: Fairy tales. - Characters in literature - Fiction. - Brothers and sisters - Fiction
Call number: YA GID

Ten rules you absolutely must not break if you want to survive the school bus /

Author: Grandits, John.
ISBN: 9780618788224
Year: 2011
Date added: 09/13/2011
Summary: Before Kyle rides a school bus for the first time, his older brother gives him a list of rules he must follow but after breaking every single one the first day, Kyle discovers the rule his brother left out.
Subjects: First day of school - Fiction. - Brothers - Humorous stories. - School buses - Rules (Philosophy)
Call number: E GRA

That Book Woman /

Author: Henson, Heather.
ISBN: 9781416908128;1416908129
Year: 2008
Date added: 02/12/2009
Summary: A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s gets books to read during the regular visits of the "Book Woman"--a librarian who rides a pack horse through the mountains, lending books to the isolated residents.
Subjects: Packhorse librarians - Fiction. - Books and reading. - Librarians - Appalachian Region - History - 20th century
Call number: E HEN

The things a brother knows

Author: Reinhardt, Dana.
ISBN: 9780375897627;0375897623
Year: 2010
Date added: 01/31/2011
Summary: Although they have never gotten along well, seventeen-year-old Levi follows his older brother Boaz, an ex-Marine, on a walking trip from Boston to Washington, D.C. in hopes of learning why Boaz is completely withdrawn.
Subjects: Family life - Massachusetts - Boston - Fiction. - Boston (Mass.) - Walking - Electronic books. - Post-traumatic stress disorder - Jews - United States - Soldiers - Brothers
Call number: ELECTRONIC BOOK

The things a brother knows /

Author: Reinhardt, Dana.
ISBN: 9780375844553;9780375844560
Year: 2010
Date added: 09/23/2010
Summary: Although they have never gotten along well, seventeen-year-old Levi follows his older brother Boaz, an ex-Marine, on a walking trip from Boston to Washington, D.C. in hopes of learning why Boaz is completely withdrawn.
Subjects: Family life - Massachusetts - Boston - Fiction. - Boston (Mass.) - Walking - Post-traumatic stress disorder - Brothers - Fiction - Jews - United States - Soldiers
Call number: YA REI

Tornado Slim and the magic cowboy hat /

Author: Langdo, Bryan.
ISBN: 9780761459620
Year: 2011
Date added: 03/21/2012
Summary: Tornado Slim has a series of transformative adventures on his way to deliver a letter to the sheriff of Fire Gulch City.
Subjects: Magic - Fiction. - Hats - Fiction - West (U.S.)
Call number: E LAN

Trash /

Author: Mulligan, Andy.
ISBN: 9780385752145;9780385752169
Year: 2010
Date added: 12/06/2010
Summary: Fourteen-year-olds Raphael and Gardo team up with a younger boy, Rat, to figure out the mysteries surrounding a bag Raphael finds during their daily life of sorting through trash in a third-world country's dump.
Subjects: Developing countries - Fiction. - Political corruption - Poverty - Refuse and refuse disposal - Mystery and detective stories.
Call number: YA MUL

The trouble with May Amelia /

Author: Holm, Jennifer L.
ISBN: 9781416913733;9781416913740
Year: 2011
Date added: 04/01/2011
Summary: Living with seven brothers and her father, who thinks girls are useless, a thirteen-year-old Finnish American farm girl is determined to prove her worth when a enterprising gentleman tries to purchase their cash-strapped family settlement in Washington St
Subjects: Sex role - Fiction. - Washington (State) - History - 19th century - Finnish Americans - Brothers and sisters - Frontier and pioneer life
Call number: JF HOL

Tsunami! /

Author: Kajikawa, Kimiko.
ISBN: 9780399250064
Year: 2009
Date added: 02/12/2009
Summary: A wealthy man in a Japanese village, who everyone calls Ojiisan, which means grandfather, sets fire to his rice fields to warn the innocent people of an approaching tsunami.
Subjects: Folklore - Japan. - Tsunamis - Folklore.
Call number: E KAJ

Turtle in paradise

Author: Holm, Jennifer L.
ISBN: 9780307738301;0307738302
Year: 2010
Date added: 05/20/2010
Summary: In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
Subjects: Family life - Florida - Fiction. - Key West (Fla.) - History - 20th century - Talking books for children. - Cousins - Adventure and adventurers - Depressions - 1929
Call number: JCD JF HOL

Turtle in paradise /

Author: Holm, Jennifer L.
ISBN: 9780375836886
Year: 2010
Date added: 06/01/2010
Summary: In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
Subjects: Family life - Florida - Fiction. - Depressions - 1929 - Newbery Medal. - Key West (Fla.) - History - 20th century - Cousins - Adventure and adventurers
Call number: JF HOL

Ungifted /

Author: Korman, Gordon.
ISBN: 9780061742668
Year: 2012
Date added: 08/24/2012
Summary: Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.
Subjects: Behavior - Fiction. - Middle schools - Schools - Gifted children - Robots - Robotics - Humorous stories.
Call number: JF KOR

The unsinkable Walker Bean /

Author: Renier, Aaron.
ISBN: 9781596434530
Year: 2010
Date added: 09/10/2010
Summary: Walter Bean is happiest when he gets to spend time tinkering on his inventions in his grandfather's workshop, but when his grandfather acquires a curse, Walter must embark on dangerous quest to return a pearl skull to the witches who made it.
Subjects: Sea monsters - Fiction. - Graphic novels. - Cartoons and comics. - Adventure and adventurers - Pirates
Call number: J741.59R

Wild wings /

Author: Lewis, Gill.
ISBN: 9781442414457;9781442414464
Year: 2011
Date added: 05/24/2011
Summary: Callum becomes friends with Iona, a practically feral classmate who has discovered an osprey, thought to be gone from Scotland, on Callum's family farm, and they eventually share the secret with others, including Jeneba who encounters the same bird at her
Subjects: Osprey - Fiction. - Birds - Farm life - Scotland - Gambia - Rare birds - Friendship - Fiction
Call number: JF LEW

Wonder

Author: Palacio, R. J.
ISBN: 1455844195;9781455844197;9781455844203;1455844209
Year: 2011
Date added: 08/09/2012
Summary: Auggie Pullman was born with a facial deformity that prevented him from going to a mainstream school, until now. He's about to start 5th grade at Beecher Prep, and is nervous about being the new kid at school. The thing is Auggie's just an ordinary kid, w
Subjects: Abnormalities, Human - Fiction. - Self-acceptance - Middle schools - Schools - Young adult talking books.
Call number: CD YA PAL

Wonder

Author: Palacio, R. J.
ISBN: 9780375899881
Year: 2012
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his
Subjects: Abnormalities, Human - Fiction. - Self-acceptance - Middle schools - Schools - Electronic books.
Call number: ELECTRONIC BOOK

Wonder /

Author: Palacio, R. J.
ISBN: 9780375869020
Year: 2012
Date added: 02/16/2012
Summary: Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his
Subjects: Abnormalities, Human - Fiction. - Middle schools - Self-acceptance - Schools
Call number: YA PAL

Wonder /

Author: Palacio, R. J.
ISBN: 9780375869020
Year: 2012
Date added: 09/12/2012
Summary: Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his
Subjects: Abnormalities, Human - Fiction. - Self-acceptance - Middle schools - Schools
Call number: JF PAL

A wrinkle in time : the graphic novel /

Author: Larson, Hope.
ISBN: 9780374386153
Year: 2012
Date added: 09/27/2012
Summary: A graphic novel adaptation of the classic tale in which Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
Subjects: Graphic novels. - Science fiction. - L'Engle, Madeleine. - Adaptations.
Call number: J741.59L

Zita the spacegirl. Far from home / Book 1,

Author: Hatke, Ben.
ISBN: 9781596436954;9781596434462
Year: 2010
Date added: 03/08/2011
Summary: When young Zita discovers a device that opens a portal to another place, and her best friend is abducted, she is compelled to set out on a strange journey from star to star in order to get back home.
Subjects: Extraterrestrial beings - Fiction. - Cartoons and comics. - Science fiction. - Graphic novels. - Human-alien encounters - Fiction
Call number: J741.59H