Summer Reading: Middle School at Howard County Library

100 deadliest things on the planet /

Author: Claybourne, Anna.
ISBN: 9780545434379;0545434378
Year: 2012
Date added: 11/08/2012
Subjects: Dangerous animals. - Natural disasters. - Diseases. - Poisonous plants.
Call number: J591.65C

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

Akata witch /

Author: Okorafor, Nnedi
ISBN: 9780670011964
Year: 2011
Date added: 06/02/2011
Summary: Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has latent magical powers which she and three similarly gifted friends use to catch a serial killer.
Subjects: Albinos and albinism - Fiction. - Serial murderers - Nigeria - Magic - Supernatural
Call number: YA OKO

The alien hunter's handbook : how to look for extra-terrestrial life /

Author: Brake, Mark.
ISBN: 9780753468852
Year: 2012
Date added: 10/11/2012
Subjects: Extraterrestrial beings. - Life on other planets.
Call number: J576.839B

Baby mammoth mummy : frozen in time! : a prehistoric animal's journey into the 21st century /

Author: Sloan, Christopher.
ISBN: 9781426308659
Year: 2011
Date added: 10/06/2011
Subjects: Mammoths. - Paleontology - Pleistocene.
Call number: J569.67S

Bad taste in boys /

Author: Harris, Carrie.
ISBN: 9780385739689
Year: 2011
Date added: 07/27/2011
Summary: Future physician Kate Grable is horrified when her high school's football coach gives team members steroids, but the drugs turn players into zombies and Kate must find an antidote before the flesh-eating monsters get to her or her friends.
Subjects: Horror stories. - Football - Fiction. - Steroids - Zombies - High schools - Schools
Call number: YA HAR

Black and white /

Author: Volponi, Paul.
ISBN: 0670060062;9780142406922
Year: 2005
Date added: 02/08/2007
Summary: Two star high school basketball players, one black and one white, experience the justice system differently after committing a crime together and getting caught.
Subjects: Juvenile delinquency - Fiction. - African Americans - High schools - Race relations - Basketball - Fiction - Schools
Call number: YA VOL

Bomb : the race to build--and steal--the world's most dangerous weapon /

Author: Sheinkin, Steve.
ISBN: 9781596434875
Year: 2012
Date added: 09/06/2012
Subjects: Newbery Medal. - Atomic bomb - History. - World War, 1939-1945 - Secret service - Soviet Union. - Great Britain. - Commando operations - Norway - Vemork. - Operation Freshman, 1942. - Germany
Call number: 623.45119S

The book of potentially catastrophic science : [50 experiments for daring young scientists] /

Author: Connolly, Sean,
ISBN: 9780761156871
Year: 2010
Date added: 06/09/2010
Subjects: Science - Experiments. - Science.
Call number: 507.8C

Boys who rocked the world /

Author: McCann, Michelle Roehm,
ISBN: 9781582703626
Year: 2012
Date added: 10/25/2012
Subjects: Heroes. - Men - Biography.
Call number: J920.71M

Brains for lunch : a zombie novel in haiku?! /

Author: Holt, K. A.
ISBN: 9781596436299
Year: 2010
Date added: 10/05/2010
Summary: At a middle school where zombies, blood-sucking chupacabras, and humans never mingle, "lifer" Siobhan and Loeb, a zombie who likes to write haiku, share an attraction. Story written entirely in haiku.
Subjects: Novels in verse. - Zombies - Fiction. - Prejudices - Middle schools - Schools
Call number: YA HOL

Breaking Stalin's nose /

Author: Yelchin, Eugene.
ISBN: 9780805092165
Year: 2011
Date added: 05/02/2012
Summary: In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs.
Subjects: Soviet Union - History - 1925-1953 - Fiction. - Communism - Newbery Medal. - Fathers and sons
Call number: JF YEL

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

Cardboard /

Author: TenNapel, Doug.
ISBN: 9780545418737;0545418739;0545418720;9780545418720
Year: 2012
Date added: 07/25/2012
Summary: When cardboard creatures come magically to life, a boy must save his town from disaster.
Subjects: Heroes - Comic books, strips, etc. - Boys - Paperboard - Magic - Graphic novels. - Fantasy comic books, strips, etc.
Call number: 741.59T

Chuck Close : face book /

Author: Close, Chuck,
ISBN: 9781419701634
Year: 2012
Date added: 07/13/2012
Summary: Presents an autobiography about the author's artistic life, describing the creative processes he uses in the studio and his struggles with his disabilities. Includes a self-portrait mix-and-match section that demonstrates his techniques and images.
Subjects: Close, Chuck, - Artists. - Autobiography.
Call number: JB CLOSE

Cinder /

Author: Meyer, Marissa.
ISBN: 9781250007209;9780312641894
Year: 2012
Date added: 01/13/2012
Summary: As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on
Subjects: Science fiction. - Cyborgs - Fiction. - Social classes - Extraterrestrial beings - Stepfamilies
Call number: YA MEY

Cool plastic projects : creative ways to upcycle your trash into treasure /

Author: Scheunemann, Pam,
ISBN: 9781617834370
Date added: 12/19/2012
Subjects: Plastics craft. - Refuse and refuse disposal. - Recycling (Waste, etc.)
Call number: J745.572S

Crogan's loyalty /

Author: Schweizer, Chris.
ISBN: 9781934964408
Year: 2009
Date added: 05/24/2012
Summary: Brothers William and Charles Crogan may share their parentage, but their perspectives couldn't be more different. Charles, off at school when unrest in the American colonies started to reach a tipping point, has kept his allegiance to the Crown. William,
Subjects: Graphic novels. - Brothers - Comic books, strips, etc. - United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783
Call number: 741.59S

Dear Blue Sky /

Author: Sullivan, Mary,
ISBN: 9780399256844
Year: 2012
Date added: 07/25/2012
Summary: "Shortly after Cass's big brother is deployed to fight in Iraq, Cass becomes pen pals with an Iraqi girl who opens up her eyes to the effects of war"--
Subjects: Brothers and sisters - Fiction. - Iraq War, 2003-2011 - War - Pen pals - Down syndrome - Family life
Call number: YA SUL

Don't sit on the baby : the ultimate guide to sane, skilled, and safe babysitting /

Author: Bondy, Halley,
ISBN: 9780982732236;0982732236
Year: 2012
Date added: 01/07/2013
Subjects: Babysitting - Vocational guidance - United States. - Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Call number: 649.1B

Drama /

Author: Telgemeier, Raina.
ISBN: 9780545326995;0545326990
Year: 2012
Date added: 08/30/2012
Summary: Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going.
Subjects: Theater - Comic books, strips, etc. - Interpersonal relations - Middle schools - Schools - Graphic novels.
Call number: 741.59T

The elephant scientist /

Author: O'Connell, Caitlin,
ISBN: 9780547053448
Year: 2011
Date added: 12/05/2011
Subjects: African elephant. - Elephants. - Namibia. - O'Connell, Caitlin,
Call number: J599.67O

Enchanted /

Author: Kontis, Alethea.
ISBN: 9780547645704
Year: 2012
Date added: 05/15/2012
Summary: When Sunday Woodcutter, the youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week, kisses an enchanted frog, he transforms back into Rumbold, the crown prince of Arilland--a man Sunday's family despises.
Subjects: Magic - Fiction. - Princes - Fairy tales.
Call number: YA KON

Ender's game /

Author: Card, Orson Scott.
ISBN: 0312932081;0312853238;0765342294;0812550706;9780765342294;9780765338143
Year: 1985
Date added: 12/31/1969
Subjects: Wiggin, Ender (Fictitious character) - Fiction. - Brothers and sisters - Genetic engineering - War games - Wiggin, Peter (Fictitious character) - Science fiction.
Call number: SF CAR

Explorer : the mystery boxes /

ISBN: 9781419700101
Year: 2012
Date added: 02/29/2012
Summary: An anthology of short graphic works by such artists as Kazu Kibuishi, Dave Roman, and Raina Telgemeier, all on the theme of a mysterious box and the marvels, or mayhem, inside.
Subjects: Boxes - Fiction. - Graphic novels. - Short stories.
Call number: J741.59E

The false prince /

Author: Nielsen, Jennifer A.
ISBN: 9780545284134;9780545284141;0545284147
Year: 2012
Date added: 04/27/2012
Summary: In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.
Subjects: Orphans - Fiction. - Courts and courtiers - Secrets - Princes - Impersonation
Call number: YA NIE

Fatty legs : a true story /

Author: Jordan-Fenton, Christy.
ISBN: 9781554512478
Year: 2010
Date added: 02/14/2011
Summary: This book chronicles the unbreakable spirit of an Inuit girl while attending an Arctic residential school.
Subjects: Pokiak-Fenton, Margaret - Childhood and youth. - Inuit - Biography. - Women - Boarding school students - Biography
Call number: JB POKIAK-FENTON J

Flesh and blood so cheap : the Triangle fire and its legacy /

Author: Marrin, Albert.
ISBN: 9780375868894
Year: 2011
Date added: 08/09/2011
Subjects: Triangle Shirtwaist Company - Fire, 1911. - Clothing factories - New York (State) - New York - Safety measures - History - 20th century. - Industrial safety - New York (N.Y.) - 1898-1951.
Call number: 974.71M

Friends with boys /

Author: Hicks, Faith Erin.
ISBN: 9781596435568
Year: 2012
Date added: 02/24/2012
Summary: After an idyllic childhood of homeschooling with her mother and three older brothers, Maggie enrolls in public high school, where interacting with her peers is complicated by the melancholy ghost that has followed her throughout her entire life.
Subjects: High schools - Fiction. - Graphic novels. - Interpersonal relations - Schools - Ghost stories. - Brothers and sisters
Call number: 741.59H

Gamer girl /

Author: Mancusi, Marianne.
ISBN: 9780525479956;9780142415092
Year: 2008
Date added: 08/20/2009
Summary: Struggling to fit in after her parents' divorce sends her from Boston to her grandmother's house in the country, sixteen-year-old Maddy forms a manga club at school and falls in love through an online fantasy game.
Subjects: Role playing - Fiction. - Cartoons and comics - Fiction - Divorce - Massachusetts - Fantasy games - Moving, Household - High schools - Schools
Call number: YA MAN

The giant and how he humbugged America /

Author: Murphy, Jim,
ISBN: 9780439691840
Year: 2012
Date added: 09/21/2012
Subjects: Cardiff giant. - Swindlers and swindling. - New York (State)
Call number: J001.95M

The girl who owned a city /

Author: Jolley, Dan.
ISBN: 9780761356349;0761356347
Year: 2012
Date added: 04/03/2012
Summary: When a plague sweeps over the earth killing everyone except children under twelve, ten-year-old Lisa organizes a group to rebuild a new way of life.
Subjects: Nelson, O.T. - Adaptations - Comic books, strips, etc. - Survival - Epidemics - Graphic novels. - Science fiction comic books, strips, etc
Call number: 741.59J

Girls who rocked the world : heroines from Sacagawea to Natalie Portman /

Author: McCann, Michelle Roehm,
ISBN: 9781582703619
Year: 2012
Date added: 10/25/2012
Subjects: Women - Biography. - Heroes.
Call number: J920.72M

Guy-write : what every guy writer needs to know /

Author: Fletcher, Ralph J.
ISBN: 9780805094046
Year: 2012
Date added: 07/16/2012
Subjects: Authorship. - Authors. - Illustrators.
Call number: J808.06F

Haunted histories : creepy castles, dark dungeons, and powerful palaces /

Author: Everett, J. H.
ISBN: 9780805089714
Year: 2012
Date added: 07/13/2012
Subjects: Haunted places. - Ghosts.
Call number: J133.1E

Heart of a samurai : based on the true story of Manjiro Nakahama /

Hereville : how Mirka met a meteorite /

Author: Deutsch, Barry.
ISBN: 9781419703980;1419703986
Year: 2012
Date added: 10/25/2012
Subjects: Jews - Fiction. - Dragons - Fantasy. - Cartoons and comics. - Graphic novels.
Call number: J741.59D

The impossible rescue : the true story of an amazing Arctic adventure /

Author: Sandler, Martin W.
ISBN: 9780763650803
Year: 2012
Date added: 01/10/2013
Subjects: Overland Relief Expedition - Whaling ships - Accidents - Alaska - Barrow, Point - History - 19th century. - Whaling - Reindeer - Rescues - Barrow, Point (Alaska) - Bear (Ship)
Call number: 979.8S

In a glass Grimmly /

Author: Gidwitz, Adam.
ISBN: 9780525425816
Year: 2012
Date added: 09/21/2012
Summary: A companion to: A tale dark & Grimm.
Subjects: Fairy tales. - Characters in literature - Fiction. - Frogs - Cousins - Adventure and adventurers - Humorous stories.
Call number: YA GID

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

Jepp, who defied the stars /

Author: Marsh, Katherine.
ISBN: 1423135008;9781423135005
Year: 2012
Date added: 11/06/2012
Summary: "Jepp, a teenage dwarf living in 16th century Europe, leaves home to seek his destiny"--
Subjects: Dwarfs - Fiction. - Courts and courtiers - Voyages and travels - Renaissance - Europe - History - 16th century
Call number: YA MAR

Legend /

Author: Lu, Marie,
ISBN: 9780399256752;9780142422076
Year: 2011
Date added: 11/29/2011
Summary: In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
Subjects: Fugitives from justice - Fiction. - War - Brothers and sisters - Government, Resistance to - Plague - Science fiction. - Soldiers - Criminals
Call number: YA LU

Liar & spy /

Author: Stead, Rebecca.
ISBN: 9780385737432
Year: 2012
Date added: 08/01/2012
Summary: Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their b
Subjects: Spies - Fiction. - Apartment houses - Family life - New York (State) - New York - Middle schools - Schools - Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Call number: JF STE

Little dog, lost /

Author: Bauer, Marion Dane.
ISBN: 9781442434233
Year: 2012
Date added: 04/27/2012
Summary: A boy, a dog, and an old man are lonely before the boy plans a rally, the dog looks for a boy, and all the townspeople run to the old man's aid when lightning strikes his home and something miraculous happens.
Subjects: Novels in verse. - Dogs - Fiction. - City and town life - Loneliness - Parks
Call number: JF BAU

Love, Aubrey /

Author: LaFleur, Suzanne M.
ISBN: 9780385737746
Year: 2009
Date added: 06/05/2009
Summary: While living with her Gram in Vermont, eleven-year-old Aubrey writes letters as a way of dealing with losing her father and sister in a car accident, and then being abandoned by her grief-stricken mother.
Subjects: Abandoned children - Fiction. - Grief - Fiction - Letters - Vermont - Depression, Mental - Schools - Grandmothers - Friendship
Call number: YA LAF

The mighty Mars rovers : the incredible adventures of spirit and opportunity /

Author: Rusch, Elizabeth.
ISBN: 9780547478814
Year: 2012
Date added: 06/14/2012
Subjects: Mars (Planet) - Exploration. - Roving vehicles (Astronautics) - Mars probes.
Call number: J523.43R

Moonbird : a year on the wind with the great survivor B95 /

Author: Hoose, Phillip M.,
ISBN: 9780374304683
Year: 2012
Date added: 08/14/2012
Subjects: Red knot - Migration. - Red knot. - Bird watching.
Call number: 598.07234H

No crystal stair : a documentary novel of the life and work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem bookseller /

Author: Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux.
ISBN: 9780761361695
Year: 2012
Date added: 01/24/2012
Subjects: Bookstores - New York (State) - New York - Fiction. - African Americans - Books and reading - Harlem (New York, N.Y.) - Coretta Scott King Award. - Michaux, Lewis H.,
Call number: YA NEL

Once /

Author: Gleitzman, Morris.
ISBN: 9780805090260
Year: 2010
Date added: 03/29/2010
Summary: After living in an Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents.
Subjects: Separation (Psychology) - Fiction. - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Poland - Orphans - History - Occupation, 1939-1945 - Survival - Jews - World War, 1939-1945
Call number: YA GLE

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 white dolphin /

Author: Lewis, Gill.
ISBN: 9781442414471
Year: 2012
Date added: 06/25/2012
Summary: When a baby albino dolphin caught in old fishing netting washes ashore, Paralympics sailing hopeful Felix and English school girl Kara work with veterinarians and specialists to save and reunite the dolphin with her mother, setting off a chain of events t
Subjects: Dolphins - Fiction. - Seashore - Marine ecology - Ecology - Environmental protection - Wildlife rescue - England
Call number: YA LEW

The outcasts /

Author: Flanagan, John
ISBN: 9780399256196;9780142421949
Year: 2011
Date added: 11/02/2011
Summary: Skandian outcasts Hal, Stig, and others do battle at sea against the Wolves and the Sharks, in the ultimate race across icy waters where not everyone thinks of the competition as play.
Subjects: Outcasts - Fiction. - Fantasy. - Racing - Heroes - Friendship - Fiction
Call number: YA FLA

Powerless /

Author: Cody, Matthew.
ISBN: 9780375855955
Year: 2009
Date added: 04/13/2010
Summary: Soon after moving to Noble's Green, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Daniel learns that his new friends have super powers that they will lose when they turn thirteen, unless he can use his brain power to protect them.
Subjects: Bullies - Fiction. - Supernatural - Family life - Pennsylvania - Mystery and detective stories. - Moving, Household - Fiction - Schools
Call number: YA COD

Racing in the rain : my life as a dog /

Author: Stein, Garth.
ISBN: 9780062015747
Year: 2011
Date added: 05/17/2011
Summary: A dog decides that when he dies and returns to earth as a man, he will model his behavior after his beloved owner, a race car driver.
Subjects: Dogs - Fiction. - Automobile racing drivers - Human-animal relationships - Friendship - Fiction
Call number: JF STE

Ripper /

Author: Petrucha, Stefan.
ISBN: 9780399255243;9780142424186
Year: 2012
Date added: 04/27/2012
Summary: Adopted by famous Pinkerton Agency Detective Hawking in 1895 New York, fourteen-year-old Carver Young hopes to find his birth father, but when he becomes involved in the pursuit of notorious killer Jack the Ripper, Carver discovers that finding the truth
Subjects: Jack, - Fiction. - Pinkerton's National Detective Agency - Orphans - New York (N.Y.) - History - 1865-1898 - Mystery and detective stories. - Fathers and sons
Call number: YA PET

Safekeeping /

Author: Hesse, Karen.
ISBN: 9781250011343
Year: 2012
Date added: 09/17/2012
Summary: When Radley returns to the United States after volunteering abroad, she comes back to a country under military rule with strict travel restrictions, and she must find her way back to her Vermont home through the New England woods.
Subjects: Survival - Fiction. - New England - Adventure and adventurers
Call number: YA HES

The secret of the yellow death : a true story of medical sleuthing /

Author: Jurmain, Suzanne.
ISBN: 9780618965816;0618965815
Year: 2009
Date added: 08/28/2012
Summary: Tells the story of the doctors and researchers who worked to track down the cause of yellow fever and find a way to eliminate the disease.
Subjects: Yellow fever - Diagnosis - Cuba. - Yellow fever. - Special collections - Health.
Call number: 614.541J

Seraphina /

Author: Hartman, Rachel.
ISBN: 9780375866562
Year: 2012
Date added: 07/25/2012
Summary: In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to accept and d
Subjects: Identity - Fiction. - Self-actualization (Psychology) - Dragons - Secrets - Music - Courts and courtiers - Fantasy.
Call number: YA HAR

Shadow /

Author: Morpurgo, Michael.
ISBN: 9780312606596
Year: 2012
Date added: 09/04/2012
Summary: Teenager Aman and his mother lose their loyal spaniel Shadow while escaping Afghanistan to flee to England. Now they must depend on a friend and his grandfather to enable Shadow's return.
Subjects: Dogs - War use - Fiction.
Call number: YA MOR

Shadow on the mountain : [a novel inspired by the true adventures of a wartime spy] /

Author: Preus, Margi.
ISBN: 9781419704246
Year: 2012
Date added: 09/25/2012
Summary: In Nazi-occupied Norway, fourteen-year-old Espen joins the resistance movement, graduating from deliverer of illegal newspapers to courier and spy.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Underground movements - Norway - Fiction. - History - German occupation, 1940-1945 - Spies
Call number: YA PRE

Sidekicks /

Author: Ferraiolo, Jack D.
ISBN: 9780810998032;0810998033
Year: 2011
Date added: 05/02/2011
Summary: "Batman has Robin, Wonder Woman has Wonder Girl, and Phantom Justice has Bright Boy, a.k.a. Scott Hutchinson, an ordinary dude by day and a superfast, superstrong sidekick by night, fighting loyally next to his hero...despite his doubts about the social b
Subjects: Superheroes - Fiction. - High school students - Good and evil
Call number: YA FER

The silence of our friends /

Author: Long, Mark,
ISBN: 9781596436183
Year: 2012
Date added: 01/13/2012
Subjects: African American college students - Comic books, strips, etc. - Civil rights movements - Texas - Houston - History - 20th century - Social conditions - Race relations - Graphic novels.
Call number: 741.59L

A small free kiss in the dark /

Author: Millard, Glenda.
ISBN: 9780823422647
Year: 2010
Date added: 04/13/2010
Summary: Skip, an eleven-year-old runaway, becomes friends with Billy, a homeless man, and together they flee a war-torn Australian city with six-year-old Max and camp out at a seaside amusement park, where they are joined by Tia, a fifteen-year-old ballerina, and
Subjects: Babies - Fiction. - Homeless persons - War - Refugees - Survival - Australia
Call number: YA MIL

Son /

Author: Lowry, Lois.
ISBN: 9780547887203
Year: 2012
Date added: 09/28/2012
Summary: Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
Subjects: Science fiction. - Mother and child - Fiction. - Separation (Psychology)
Call number: YA LOW

Splendors and glooms /

Author: Schlitz, Laura Amy.
ISBN: 9780763653804
Year: 2012
Date added: 08/23/2012
Summary: When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witch
Subjects: Puppets - Fiction. - Orphans - Kidnapping - Witches - Blessing and cursing - Great Britain - History - Victoria, 1837-1901 - Newbery Medal. - London (England) - 19th century
Call number: JF SCH

Spy school /

Author: Gibbs, Stuart,
ISBN: 9781442421820
Year: 2012
Date added: 03/22/2012
Summary: Twelve-year-old Ben Ripley leaves his public middle school to attend the CIA's highly secretive Espionage Academy, which everyone is told is an elite science school.
Subjects: Spies - Fiction. - Schools
Call number: YA GIB

Star Wars origami : 36 amazing paper-folding projects from a galaxy far, far away-- /

Author: Alexander, Chris,
ISBN: 9780761169437
Year: 2012
Date added: 10/16/2012
Subjects: Origami. - Star wars (Motion picture)
Call number: 736.982A

Tales from the top of the world : climbing Mount Everest with Pete Athans /

Author: Athans, Sandra K.,
ISBN: 9780761365068
Year: 2013
Date added: 08/15/2012
Subjects: Mountaineering - Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) - Athans, Pete, - Mountaineers - Biography.
Call number: 796.522A

Teen cuisine new vegetarian /

Author: Locricchio, Matthew.
ISBN: 9780761462583
Year: 2012
Date added: 12/31/2012
Subjects: Vegetarian cooking. - Teenagers - Nutrition. - Cookbooks.
Call number: 641.5636L

Temple Grandin : how the girl who loved cows embraced autism and changed the world /

Author: Montgomery, Sy.
ISBN: 9780547443157
Year: 2012
Date added: 04/12/2012
Subjects: Grandin, Temple. - Animal scientists - United States - Biography. - Animal specialists - Women animal specialists - Autistic people - Animal welfare - United States. - Livestock - Handling - Housing
Call number: B GRANDIN M

That was then, this is now /

Author: Hinton, S. E.
ISBN: 0670697982;0140389660;9780140389661
Year: 1971
Date added: 12/31/1969
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Mark and Bryon have been like brothers since childhood, but now, as their involvement with girls, gangs, and drugs increases, their relationship seems to gradually disintegrate.
Subjects: Friendship - Fiction. - Social problems
Call number: YA HIN

Their skeletons speak : Kennewick man and the Paleoamerican world /

Author: Walker, Sally M.
ISBN: 9780761374572
Year: 2012
Date added: 09/10/2012
Subjects: Kennewick Man. - Human remains (Archaeology) - Indians of North America. - Washington (State)
Call number: J979.7W

Tunnels /

Author: Gordon, Roderick.
ISBN: 9780439871778;0439871778;9780545078818
Year: 2008
Date added: 07/11/2008
Summary: When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers"
Subjects: Underground areas - Fiction. - London (England) - England - Adventure and adventurers - Archaeology
Call number: YA GOR

Unstoppable /

Author: Green, Tim,
ISBN: 9780062089564
Year: 2012
Date added: 09/21/2012
Summary: "If anyone understands the phrase 'tough luck,' it's Harrison. As a foster kid in a cruel home, he knows his dream of one day playing for the NFL is a long shot. Then Harrison's luck seems to change. He is brought into a new home with kind, loving parents
Subjects: Foster children - Fiction. - Football
Call number: JF GRE

Vlad the impaler : the real Count Dracula /

Author: Goldberg, Enid A.
ISBN: 9780531138984;0531138984
Year: 2008
Date added: 11/18/2010
Summary: Traces the life of Vlad Dracula, a prince who ruled with a thirst for blood so terrible that the most famous vampire in literature was named after him.
Subjects: Vlad - Wallachia - History. - Dracula, Count (Fictitious character)
Call number: YA SERIES

The warrior's heart : becoming a man of compassion and courage /

Author: Greitens, Eric,
ISBN: 9780547868523;0547868529
Year: 2012
Date added: 11/06/2012
Summary: As a humanitarian, he helped aid workers heal orphaned children in Rwanda and lived in camps alongside Bosnian refugees. As a warrior, he excelled at the hardest military training in the world and teamed up with fellow SEALs to hunt al Qaeda terrorists in
Subjects: United States. - Officers - Biography. - Greitens, Eric, - Training of. - Humanitarian assistance, American. - United States - Armed Forces - Civic action. - Autobiography.
Call number: B GREITENS

We could be brothers /

Author: Barnes, Derrick D.
ISBN: 9780545135733
Year: 2010
Date added: 11/02/2012
Summary: Two eighth-graders from very different backgrounds, Robeson "Crease" Battlefield and Pacino Clapton, discover in afterschool detention that they have a great deal in common.
Subjects: Conduct of life - Fiction. - Middle schools - Schools - African Americans - Families - Kansas - Friendship
Call number: YA BAR

Wild horse scientists /

Author: Frydenborg, Kay.
ISBN: 9780547518312
Year: 2012
Date added: 11/02/2012
Subjects: Wild horses. - Wildlife conservationists. - Assateague Island National Seashore (Md. and Va.)
Call number: J599.665F

Witches! : the absolutely true tale of disaster in Salem /

Author: Schanzer, Rosalyn.
ISBN: 9781426308697
Year: 2011
Date added: 03/01/2012
Subjects: Witchcraft - Massachusetts - Salem - History. - Salem (Mass.) - Church history. - Puritans
Call number: 133.43S

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

You wish /

Author: Hubbard, Amanda.
ISBN: 9781595142924
Year: 2010
Date added: 07/18/2011
Summary: Kayla McHenry's life is transformed when a wish on her sixteenth birthday comes true--along with all of her previous birthday wishes, beginning with the appearance of a pink pony.
Subjects: Washington (State) - Fiction. - Best friends - Wishes - Magic - Schools - High schools - Family life - Friendship - Fiction
Call number: YA HUB

Zombie makers : true stories of nature's undead /

Author: Johnson, Rebecca L.
ISBN: 9780761386339
Year: 2013
Date added: 09/24/2012
Subjects: Parasites.
Call number: J578.6J