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FICTION:
I Love You, Beth Cooper
FIC DOYLE
Denis Cooverman wanted to say something really important in his high school graduation speech. So, in front of his 512 classmates and their 3,000 relatives, he announced: "I love you, Beth Cooper." It would have been such a sweet, romantic moment. Except that Beth, the head cheerleader, has only the vaguest idea who Denis is. And Denis, the captain of the debate team, is so far out of her league he is barely even the same species. And then there's Kevin, Beth's remarkably large boyfriend, who's in town on furlough from the United States Army. Complications ensue.
Hard Love
YA FIC WITTLIN
Since his parents' divorce, John's mother hasn't touched him, her new fiance wants them to move away, and his father would rather be anywhere than at Friday night dinner with his son. It's no wonder John writes articles like "Interview with the Stepfather" and "Memoirs from Hell." The only release he finds is in homemade zines like the amazing "Escape Velocity" by Marisol, a self-proclaimed "Puerto Rican Cuban Yankee Lesbian." Hanging around the Boston Tower Records for the new issue of "Escape Velocity," John meets Marisol and a hard love is born.
Sweethearts
YA FIC ZARR
As children, Jennifer Harris and Cameron Quick were both social outcasts. They were also one another's only friend. So when Cameron disappears without warning, Jennifer thinks she's lost the only person who will ever understand her. Now in high school, Jennifer has been transformed. Known as Jenna, she's popular, happy, and dating, everything "Jennifer" couldn't be---but she still can't shake the memory of her long-lost friend. When Cameron suddenly reappears, they are both confronted with memories of their shared past and the drastically different paths their lives have taken.
The Last Thing I Remember (Homelanders, Book 1)
YA FIC KLAVAN
High school student Charlie West awakens bloody and bruised in a concrete bunker, only to discover that he has lost a year of his life and remembers nothing about escaping from prison after being convicted of murdering his former best friend, or why he is being pursued by both the law and a group of terrorists trying to bring down the government of the United States.
If I Stay
YA FIC FORMAN
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weights whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
Gentlemen
YA FIC NORTHROP
Micheal, Tommy, Mixer, and Bones aren't just from the wrong side of the tracks--they're from the wrong side of everything. Except for Mr. Haberman, their remedial English teacher, no one at their high school takes them seriously. Haberman calls them "gentlemen," but everyone else ignores them--or, in Bones's case, is dead afraid of them. When one of their close-knit group goes missing, the clues all seem to point in one direction: to Mr. Haberman. The "gentlement" must navigate a maze of assorted clues, fraying friendships, violence, and Dostoevsky’s "Crime and Punishment" before learning the truth.
Love You Hate You Miss You
YA FIC SCOTT
After coming out of alcohol rehabilitation, sixteen-year-old Amy sorts out conflicting emotions about her best friend Julia’s death in a car accident for which she feels responsible.
Peace, Love and Baby Ducks
YA FIC MYRACLE
Fifteen-year-old Carly’s summer volunteer experience makes her feel more real than her life of privilege in Atlanta ever did, but her younger sister starts high school pretending to be what she is not, and both find their relationships suffering.
Fragile Eternity
YA FIC MARR
In Melissa Marr's third mesmerizing tale of Faerie (including the companion novel Ink Exchange), Seth and Aislinn struggle to stay true to themselves and each other in a milieu of shadowy rules and shifting allegiances, where old friends become new enemies and one wrong move could plunge the Earth into chaos.
Once Dead, Twice Shy
YA FIC HARRISO
Madison's prom was killer--literally. For some reason she's been targeted by a dark reaper--yeah, "that" kind of reaper--intent on getting rid of her, body and soul. But before the reaper could finish the job, Madison was able to snag his strange, glowing amulet and get away. Now she's stuck on Earth, dead but not gone.
Geek Charming
YA FIC PALMER
Rich, spoiled, and popular high school senior Dylan is coerced into doing a documentary film with Josh, one of the school’s geeks, who leads her to realize that the world does not revolve around her.
Jake, Reinvented
YA FIC KORMAN
Korman reinvents "The Great Gatsby" for teens in this story about the mysterious new student at Fitzgerald High. Rick becomes friends with the popular new boy, Jake Garrett, football player and host of superlative parties, and in the process discovers the true nature of his schoolmates and uncovers the mystery of Jake’s past.
Rucker Park Setup
YA FIC VOLPONI
While playing in a crucial basketball game on the very court where his best friend was murdered, Mackey tries to come to terms with his own part in that murder and decide whether to maintain his silence or tell J.R.’s father and the police what really happened.
Rooftop
YA FIC VOLPONI
Still reeling from seeing police shoot his unarmed cousin to death on the roof of a New York City housing project, seventeen-year-old Clay is dragged into the whirlwind of political manipulation that follows.
Tyrell
YA FIC BOOTH
Fifteen-year-old Tyrell, who is living in a Bronx homeless shelter with his spaced-out mother and his younger brother, tries to avoid temptation so he does not end up in jail like his father.
Look Both Ways (Midnight Twins, Book 2)
YA FIC MITCHAR
When psychic twin Mallory Brynn starts seeing imges of a white wildcat in her dreams, she tries to figure out the connection of her images to an injured cheerleader and her Native American friend Eden.
Thirteen Reasons Why
YA FIC ASHER
When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah’s voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
Graceling
YA FIC CASHORE
Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight--she's a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the king's thug. When she first meets Prince Po, Graced with combat skills, Katsa has no hint of how her life is about to change.
Breathless
YA FIC MCDANIEL
Travis Morrison is a champion diver and one of the most popular kids at school. On the first day of summer vacation, while boating on the lake with his friends, Travis attempts a silly stunt dive that goes wrong. He fears he has broken his leg. Instead, his trip to the hospital reveals he has a rare form of cancer, and to save him, the doctors tell his parents they must amputate. In an instant, Travis's life and the lives of everyone around him are forever changed. Travis is determined that he and only he should decide the course of his life. He has a plan, but he can't carry it out alone. Will he convince one of his friends to fulfill his most important request?
Carpe Corpus (The Morganville Vampires, Book 6)
YA FIC CAINE
In the small college town of Morganville, an underground resistance to evil vampire Bishop is brewing, and in order to contain it, Bishop must go to even greater lengths. He vows to obliterate the town and all its inhabitants--the living and the undead.
Along for the Ride
YA FIC DESSEN
When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents’ divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating. Then she meets Eli, and together they embark on parallel quests: for Auden, to experience the carefree life she's been denied, and for Eli, to come to terms with the guilt he feels for the death of a friend.
Burned
YA FIC HOPKINS
Raised in a religious yet abusive family, Pattyn Von Stratten starts asking questions--about God, a woman's role, sex, love. She experiences the first stirrings of passion, but when her father catches her in a compromising position, events spiral out of control. Pattyn is sent to live with an aunt in the wilds of Nevada to find salvation and redemption. What she finds instead is love and acceptance, until she realizes that her old demons will not let her go.
Crank
YA FIC HOPKINS
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina--she's fearless. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild, ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul, her life.
Lunatic (Lost Books, Book 5)
YA FIC DEKKER
Five years after leaving home, Johnis, Silvie, and Darsal return to find that the Horde has taken over Middle, Thomas and the rest of the Forest Guard have gone into hiding, and a strange new force has begun challenging everything they thought they knew.
Elyon (Lost Books, Book 6)
YA FIC DEKKER
The Chosen Ones need Elyon’s grace to face their greatest threat yet, but Darsal is torn between her new mission, trying to love the Horde as Elyon asked her to, and her original one, especially now that Johnis and Silvie no longer seem to be on her side.
Marcelo in the Real World
YA FIC STORK
Marcelo Sandoval hears music no one else can hear--part of the autism-like impairment no doctor has been able to identify--and he's always attended a special school where his differences have been protected. But the summer after his junior year, his father demands that Marcelo work in his law firm's mailroom in order to experience "the real world." There Marcelo meets Jasmine, his beautiful and surprising coworker, and Wendell, the son of another partner in the firm. He also learns about competition and jealousy, anger and desire. But it's a picture he finds in a file--a picture of a girl with half a face--that truly connects him with the real world, its suffering, its injustice, and what he can do to fight both.
The Sorceress (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, Book 3)
JUV FIC SCOTT
Sophie and Josh Newman show every sign of being the twins of prophecy, and Flamel vows to protect them from the Dark Elders. But he must find an Elder who can teach the siblings the third elemental magic: Water Magic. The only Elder who can do that is Gilgamesh--and he is quite, quite insane.
Runaway Retriever (Pet Trouble, Book 1)
JUV FIC SUTHERL
Parker hadn't considered getting a dog, but when playful Merlin, the golden retriever, comes into his life, Parker is thrilled. The two are inseparable from day one--because whenever Parker tries to leave, Merlin escapes his fence or cage and follows him! Can anything make this loveable dog sit and STAY?
Loudest Beagle on the Block (Pet Trouble, Book 2)
JUV FIC SUTHERL
Ten-year-old Ella lives for music, and with the school talent show coming up, she doesn't have time for anything else. So when her aunt's beagle comes to live at her house, Ella doesn't think she has time for a dog--especially when it turns out that every time the beagle hears music, she wants to sing along! And her voice is definitely NOT angelic. How is Ella supposed to win the talent show when all she can hear every time she rehearses is AAOOOWWAAAOOOOOO?
Click Here (To Find Out How I Survived Seventh Grade)
JUV FIC VEGA
Seventh-grader Erin Swift writes about her friends and classmates in her private blog, but when it accidentally gets posted on the school Intranet site, she learns some important lessons about friendship.
NON-FICTION:
No Girls Allowed : Tales of Daring Women Dressed As Men for Love, Freedom and Adventure
306.77 HUGHES
A female pharaoh? A woman general in the Kahn's army? A female Viking raider? No way, you say? Look again; appearances can be deceiving. Based on legends, poems, letters and first-hand accounts, these seven biographical tales tell of women who disguised themselves as men for the sake of freedom, ambition, love or adventure.
Three Cups of Tea : One Man’s Mission To Fight Terrorism and Build Nations--One School at a Time (Young reader's edition)
371.82 MORTENS
This young reader's edition of the worldwide bestseller "Three Cups of Tea" has been specially adapted for younger readers and updated by Greg Mortenson to bring his remarkable story of humanitarianism up to date for the present. Includes new photos and illustrations, as well as a special interview by Mortenson's twelve-year-old daughter, Amira, who has traveled with her father as an advocate for the Pennies for Peace program for children.
DVD:
Stranger Than Fiction
DVD F STRANGER
A man starts to hear a voice narrating the events of his life and finds that the voice is that of a woman writing a novel in which he is the main character. He must meet the author and try to save his own life when he learns her plans to kill him off.
Inkheart
DVD INKHEART
When Mo Folchart reads a story, the characters leap off the page. Literally. And that's a problem. Mo must somehow use his special powers to send the interlopers back to their world...and save ours. Mo and his daughter Meggie plunge into a thrilling quest that pits them against diabolical villains, fantastic beasts, and dangers at every turn.
Coraline
DVD CORALINE
A young girl walks through a secret door in her new home and discovers an alternate version of her life. This parallel reality is eerily similar to her own life, only much better. When the adventure turns dangerous, Coraline must count on her resourcefulness, determination, and bravery to get back home and save her family. See it with the included 3-D glasses!
The Diary of Anne Frank
DVD DIARY
Based on Anne Frank's diary, and the stage play that was adapted from it: In Nazi-occupied Holland, Otto Frank and his family have decided to go into hiding, because of the increasing persecutions against Jews. The businessman Kraler and his assistant Miep prepare a hiding place in the rooms above their place of business, and arrange for the Franks and another family, the Van Daans, to stay there. Later on, they are joined by the dentist Dussel. Together, they try to avoid detection while hoping for Holland to be liberated by the Allies, but even meeting basic needs can become a challenge, and even minor incidents could present a grave risk.