Books That Don’t Stink – Find them in the M.C.S. Library!

 

Fic                     Choldenko, Gennifer, 1957-.

Cho                      Al Capone does my shirts  Gennifer Choldenko. -- New York : G.P.

                          Putnam's Sons, c2004.

                             228 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

                             A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in

                             1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend

                             with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his

                             autistic sister.

                            

 

Fic                     Patterson, James, 1947-.

Pat                       The angel experiment : a Maximum Ride novel  James Patterson. --

                          1st ed. -- New York : Little, Brown, 2005.

                             422 p. ; 23 cm.

                             After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group,

                             the "bird kids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take

                             off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own

                             origins and purpose. 

                            

 

Fic                     Rennison, Louise.

Ren                      Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging : confessions of Georgia

                          Nicolson  Louise Rennison. -- 1st HarperTempest ed. -- New York :

                          Harpertempest, 2001, c1999.

                             247 p. ; 18 cm.

                            

SC                    

Be                        Be very afraid! : more tales of horror  selected by Edo Van Belkom.

                          -- Toronto, Ont. : Tundra Books ; c2002.

                             viii, 192 p. ; 20 cm.

                             Just one taste  Randy D. Ashburn -- Driving a bargain  Robert J.

                             Sawyer -- Darkness  Edmund Plante -- In your dreams  Mark A.

                             Garland -- O silent knight of cards  Ed Greenwood -- In the shadows 

                             Michael Kelly -- Virtually friends  Loren L. Barrett -- Wasting away 

                             Sheri White -- Playing the game  Tanya Huff -- The ghosts of

                             Petroska Station  David Nickle -- To the lonely sea and sky  Tom

                             Piccirilli -- The night is yours alone  Michael Rowe -- Monster on his

                             back  Michael Arruda -- Girls' night out  Edo van Belkom.

                             Fourteen tales of horror by fourteen different writers, drawn from real

                             life experiences.

                            

SC                     Vande Velde, Vivian.

Van                      Being dead : stories  by Vivian Vande Velde. -- 1st ed. -- San Diego :

                          Harcourt, c2001.

                             203 p. ; 22 cm.

                             Drop by drop -- Dancing with Marjorie's ghost -- Shadow brother --

                             The ghost -- For love of him -- October chill -- Being dead.

                             Seven supernatural stories, all having something to do with death.

 

 

 

 

                            

Fic                     Bunting, Eve, 1928-.

Bun                      Blackwater  Eve Bunting. -- 1st Harper Trophy ed. -- New York :

                          Joanna Cotler Books, 2000, c1999.

                             146 p. ; 20 cm.

                             When a boy and girl are drowned in the Blackwater River,

                             thirteen-year-old Brodie must decide whether to confess that he may

                             have caused the accident.

                            

Fic                     Klause, Annette Curtis.

Kla                       Blood and chocolate  by Annette Curtis Klause. -- New York :

                          Delacorte Press, 1997.

                             264 p. ; 22 cm.

                             Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must

                             battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide

                             where she belongs and with whom. 

                         

Fic                     Plum-Ucci, Carol, 1957-.

Plu                       The body of Christopher Creed  Carol Plum-Ucci. -- 1st Volo ed. --

                          New York : VoloHyperion, 2001, c2000.

                             331 p. ; 20 cm.

                             Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life,

                             struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious

                             disappearance of the class outcast.

                         

Fic                     Elish, Dan.

Eli                         Born too short : the confessions of an eighth-grade basket case  

                          Dan Elish. -- 1st ed. -- New York : Atheneum Books for Young

                          Readers, c2002.

                             152 p. ; 22 cm.

                            Thirteen-year-old Matt is so envious of his best friend Keith that he

                             wishes things would go badly for him, and when Keith's fortune

                             changes while at the same time Matt finds his first true girlfriend,

                             Matt is overcome with guilt.

                         

Fic                     Fleischman, Paul.

Fle                        Breakout  Paul Fleischman. -- Chicago, Ill. : Cricket Books, 2003.

                             160 p.

                             Faking her own death and heading to Arizona, Del unexpectedly

                             discovers a new talent she has when an accident brings traffic to a

                             standstill on the freeway.

                         

921                    Runyon, Brent.

Runyon                 The burn journals  Brent Runyon. -- 1st ed. -- New York : Alfred A.

                          Knopf, c2004.

                             374 p. ; 22 cm.

                             Brent Runyon was fourteen years old when he set himself on fire. In

                             this book he describes that suicide attempt and his recovery over

                             the following year.

                            

Fic                     Pike, Christopher, 1961-.

Pik                        Chain letter  Christopher Pike. -- New York : Avon Flare, c1986.

                             185 p. ; 18 cm.

                             Someone, somewhere knew about that awful night when Alison and

                             six other friends committed an unthinkable crime in the desolate

                             California desert.  Now that person is determined to make them pay

                             for it.

                            

921                    Pelzer, David J.

Pel                       A child called "It" : one child's courage to survive  David Pelzer. --

                          Deerfield Beach, Fla. : Health Communications, c1995.

                             xi, 184 p. ; 19 cm.

                             Originally published: Omaha, Neb. : Omaha Press Pub., 1993.

                             David Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in the

                             history of California, tells the story of how he survived his mother's

                             brutality and triumphed over his past.

                            

Fic                     Shan, Darren.

Sha                      Cirque du freak  by Darren Shan. -- 1st U.S. pbk. ed. -- Boston : Little,

                          Brown, c2000.

                             266 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

                             Sequel: The vampire's assistant.

                             Includes the first chapter of The vampire's assistant.

                             Two boys who are best friends visit an illegal freak show, where an

                             encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make

                             life-changing choices.

                            

Fic                     DuPrau, Jeanne.

Dup                      The city of Ember  Jeanne DuPrau. -- 1st ed. -- New York : Random

                          House, c2003.

                             270 p. ; 22 cm.

                             In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day

                             to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved

                             city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions. 

                         

Fic                     Giles, Gail.

Gil                        Dead girls don't write letters  Gail Giles. -- 1st ed. -- Brookfield,

                          Conn. : Roaring Brook Press, c2003.

                             136 p. ; 22 cm.

                             Fourteen-year-old Sunny is stunned when a total stranger shows up

                             at her house posing as her older sister Jazz, who supposedly died

                             in a fire months earlier.

                         

Fic                     Vance, Susanna.

Van                      Deep  Susanna Vance. -- New York : Delacorte Press, c2003.

                             261 p. ; 22 cm.

                             Somewhere in the Caribbean, seventeen-year-old Morgan and

                             thirteen-year-old Birdie, two girls whose lives are worlds apart, are

                             brought together by the maniacal Nicholas.

                         

904                    Fulghum, Hunter S. (Hunter Samuel)

Ful                        Don't try this at home : how to win a sumo match, catch a great white

                          shark, and start an independent nation and other extraordinary feats

                          (for ordinary people)  Hunter S. Fulghum. -- 1st ed. -- New York :

                          Broadway Books, 2002.

                             xvii, 264 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.

                             Presents step-by-step instructions for over thirty diverse

                             activities--many heroic and many questionable--including winning a

                             bullfight, breaking into Buckingham Palace, and defusing a human

                             bomb.

 

 

                         

Fic                     Mackler, Carolyn.

Mac                      The earth, my butt, and other big round things  Carolyn Mackler. --

                          1st U.S. ed. -- Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2003.

                             246 p. ; 22 cm.

                             Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family,

                             who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia

                             tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and

                             her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her.

                            

Fic                     Paolini, Christopher.

Pao                      Eragon  Christopher Paolini. -- New York : Alfred A. Knopf : c2003.

                             509 p. : map ; 24 cm.

                             Map on endpapers.

                             In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon

                             finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate

                             tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves,

                             and monsters.

                            

Fic                     Williams-Garcia, Rita.

Wil                       Every time a rainbow dies  by Rita Williams-Garcia. -- New York :

                          HarperCollins, 2000.

                             166 p. ; 19 cm.

                             After seeing a girl raped and becoming obsessed with her,

                             sixteen-year-old Thulani finds motivation to move beyond his

                             interest in his pigeons and his grief over his mother's death.

                         

Fic                     Going, Kelly.

Goi                       Fat kid rules the world  K. L. Going. -- New York : G.P. Putnam's

                          Sons, 2003.

                             187 p. ; 22 cm.

                             Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly

                             300 pounds, gets a new perspective on life when a homeless

                             teenager who is a genius on guitar wants Troy to be the drummer in

                             his rock band.

                         

Fic                     Bagdasarian, Adam.

Bag                      First French kiss and other traumas  Adam Bagdasarian. -- 1st ed. --

                          New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2002.

                             x, 134 p. ; 22 cm.

                             "Melanie Kroupa books.".

                             The author recounts humorous, sad, traumatic, romantic, and

                             confusing episodes from his childhood.

                             Young Adult 

                         

Fic                     Lynch, Chris.

Lyn                       Freewill  Chris Lynch. -- 1st ed. -- New York : HarperCollins, c2001.

                             148 p. ; 19 cm.

                             A teenager trying to recover from the tragic death of his father and

                             stepmother believes himself to be responsible for the rash of teen

                             suicides occurring in his town.

 

 

 

 

 

                            

Fic                     Shusterman, Neal.

Shu                      Full tilt : a novel  Neal Shusterman. -- New York : Simon & Schuster

                          Books for Young Readers, 2003.

                             201 p. ; 22 cm.

                             When sixteen-year-old Blake goes to a mysterious,

                             by-invitation-only carnival he somehow knows that it could save his

                             comatose brother, but soon learns that much more is at stake if he

                             fails to meet the challenge presented there by the beautiful

                             Cassandra.

                         

Fic                     Cooney, Caroline B.

Coo                      Goddess of yesterday  Caroline B. Cooney. -- New York : Delacorte

                          Press, c2002.

                             263 p. : maps ; 22 cm.

                             Map on endpapers.

                             Anaxandra, daughter of the king of a small Greek island, becomes

                             caught up in the events of the siege of Troy when, after spending

                             most of her life as a hostage, she is taken into the palace of King

                             Menalaus and ends up traveling to Troy as protector of Helen's

                             infant son.

                         

Fic                     Tashjian, Janet.

Tas                       The gospel according to Larry  by Janet Tashjian. -- New York :

                          Henry Holt, 2001.

                             x, 227 p. ; 22 cm.

                             Seventeen-year-old Josh, a loner-philosopher who wants to make a

                             difference in the world, tries to maintain his secret identity as the

                             author of a web site that is receiving national attention.

                         

J                        Paulsen, Gary.

921                       Guts : the true stories behind Hatchet and the Brian books  by Gary

Paulsen             Paulsen. -- New York : Delacorte Press, 2000.

                             148 p. ; 22 cm.

                             The author relates incidents in his life and how they inspired parts

                             of his books about the character, Brian Robeson.

                            

Fic                     Bechard, Margaret.

Bec                       Hanging on to Max  by Margaret Bechard. -- Brookfield, Conn. :

                          Roaring Brook Press, c2002.

                             142 p. ; 22 cm.

                             When his girlfriend decides to give their baby away,

                             seventeen-year-old Sam is determined to keep him and raise him

                             alone.

                            

Fic                     Rowling, J. K.

Row                      Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone  by J.K. Rowling ; illustrations

                          by Mary GrandPre. -- New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 1998.

                             vi, 309 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

                             Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young

                             boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts

                             School for Wizards and Witches.

 

 

 

Fic                     Klass, David.

Kla                       Home of the Braves  David Klass. -- New York : Frances Foster

                          BooksFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

                             320 p.

                             Eighteen-year-old Joe, captain of the soccer team, is dismayed

                             when a hotshot player shows up from Brazil and threatens to take

                             over both the team and the girl whom Joe hopes to date.

                         

Fic                     Farmer, Nancy.

Far                       The house of the scorpion  Nancy Farmer. -- New York : Atheneum

                          Books for Young Readers, c2002.

                             380 p. : geneal. table ; 24 cm.

                             "A Richard Jackson book.".

                             In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special

                             status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a

                             corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.

                         

Fic                     Woodson, Jacqueline.

Woo                     Hush  Jacqueline Woodson. -- New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons,

                          c2002.

                             181 p. ; 22 cm.

                             Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family

                             enters the witness protection program.

                         

Fic                     Woodson, Jacqueline.

Woo                     If you come softly  Jacqueline Woodson. -- New York : Putnam's,

                          1998.

                             181 p. ; 22 cm.

                             After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old

                             Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie,

                             who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in

                             love and then try to cope with people's reactions. 

                         

796.52                Krakauer, Jon.

Kra                       Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster  Jon

                          Krakauer. -- 1st Anchor Books trade pbk. ed. -- New York : Anchor

                          Books, 1999.

                             xxv, 333 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.

                             Originally published: New York : Villard, c1997.

                             The author relates his experience of climbing Mount Everest during

                             its deadliest season and examines what it is about the mountain

                             that makes people willingly subject themselves to such risk,

                             hardship, and expense.

                         

Fic                     Ibbotson, Eva.

Ibb                        Journey to the river sea  Eva Ibbotson ; illustrated by Kevin

                          Hawkes. -- 1st American ed. -- New York : Dutton Children's Books,

                          2001.

                             298 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

                             "Originally published in Great Britain 2001 by Macmillan Children's

                             Books, London"--T.p. verso.

                             Sent with her governess to live with the dreadful Carter family in

                             exotic Brazil in 1910, Maia endures many hardships before fulfilling

                             her dream of exploring the Amazon River.

 

                         

Fic                     Holt, Kimberly Willis.

Hol                       Keeper of the night  Kimberly Willis Holt. -- New York : Henry Holt,

                          2003.

                             viii, 308 p. ; 22 cm.

                             Isabel, a thirteen-year-old girl living on the island of Guam, and her

                             family try to cope with the death of Isabel's mother who committed

                             suicide.

                            

Fic                     Dessen, Sarah.

Des                       Keeping the moon  Sarah Dessen. -- New York : Viking, 1999.

                             228 p. ; 22 cm.

                             Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working

                             as a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight

                             and eccentric Aunt Mira, and trying to explore her sense of self.

                            

Fic                     Hosseini, Khaled.

Hos                       The kite runner  Khaled Hosseini. -- New York : Riverhead Books,

                          2003.

                             324 p. ; 24 cm.

                             Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a

                             servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's

                             monarchy through the atrocities of the present day. 

                            

Fic                     Nix, Garth.

Nix                       Lirael : daughter of the Clayr  Garth Nix. -- 1st ed. -- New York :

                          HarperCollins, c2001.

                             487 p. : map ; 24 cm.

                             Sequel to Sabriel.

                             When a dangerous necromancer threatens to unleash a long-buried

                             evil, Lirael and Prince Sameth are drawn into a battle to save the

                             Old Kingdom and reveal their true destinies.

                            

940.53                Nir, Yehuda.

Nir                        The lost childhood : a World War II memoir  by Yehuda Nir. -- New

                          York : Scholastic, 2002.

                             284 p. ; 22 cm.

                             This book describes six years in the life of a daring and resourceful

                             Polish Jewish boy and his family, who survived the Holocaust by

                             using false papers and posing as Catholics.

                         

Fic                     Sebold, Alice.

Seb                      The lovely bones : a novel  Alice Sebold. -- 1st ed. -- Boston : Little,

                          Brown, c2002.

                             328 p. ; 22 cm.

                             Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon, the victim of a sexual assault and

                             murder, looks on from the afterlife as her family deals with their

                             grief, and waits for her killer to be brought to some type of justice.

                         

Fic                     Coburn, Jake.

Cob                      LoveSick  Jake Coburn. -- 1st ed. -- New York : Dutton Books, c2005.

                             228 p. ; 22 cm.

                             After an accident seems to end his college and athletic dreams, Ted

                             is offered a second chance at school if he agrees to spy on a

                             classmate and help her father monitor her bulimia.

                         

Fic                     Smith, Sherri L.

Smi                      Lucy the giant  by Sherri L. Smith. -- New York : Delacorte Press,

                          2002.

                             217 p. ; 22 cm.

                             Fifteen-year-old Lucy, the largest girl in her school, leaves her small

                             Alaska town and her alcoholic father and discovers hardship - and

                             friendship - posing as an adult aboard a commercial fishing boat.

                         

Fic                     Brooks, Kevin.

Bro                       Martyn Pig : a novel  by Kevin Brooks. -- 1st American ed. -- New

                          York : Scholastic, 2002.

                             230 p. ; 22 cm.

                             "The Chicken House.".

                             "First published in the United Kingdom in 2002 by The Chicken

                             House ... Frome, Somerset"--T.p. verso.

                             Martyn Pig's life goes from bad to worse when he accidentally kills

                             his father, and he must choose whether to tell the police the truth

                             about what happened and be suspected of murder, or he can get rid

                             of the body and pretend nothing ever happened.

                            

791.45                Gimple, Scott M.

Gim                      Matt Groening's the Simpsons guide to Springfield  [writer, Scott M.

                          Gimple]. -- 1st ed. -- New York, NY : HarperPerennial, c1998.

                             127 p. : col. ill. ; 18 x 23 cm.

                             "Another Are we there yet? book"--Cover.

                             Includes index.

                             The Simpsons and their friends profile their favorite attractions,

                             restaurants, and events in the fictitious town of Springfield.

                         

 

Fic                     Myers, Walter Dean.

Mye                      Monster  by Walter Dean Myers ; illustrated by Christopher Myers.

                          -- New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 1999.

                             240 p. : ill.

                             While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve

                             Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in

                             the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course

                             his life has taken.

                         

Fic                     Reeve, Philip.

Ree                      Mortal engines : a novel  by Philip Reeve. -- 1st American ed. -- New

                          York : EOS, 2003, c2001.

                             310 p. ; 24 cm.

                             Tom, a third class apprentice in a distant future in which technology

                             has been lost and tiered cities move about the Earth on caterpillar

                             tracks, often absorbing smaller locales, has many dangerous

                             adventures after being pushed off London by Thaddeus Valentine, a

                             historian who is trying to resurrect an ancient atomic weapon.

                         

Fic                     Weyr, Garret.

Wey                      My heartbeat  Garret Freymann-Weyr. -- Boston, Mass. : Houghton

                          Mifflin, 2002.

                             154 p. ; 22 cm.

                             As she tries to understand the closeness between her older brother

                             and his best friend, fourteen-year-old Ellen finds her relationship

                             with each of them changing.

                         

Fic                     Picoult, Jodi, 1966-.

Pic                        My sister's keeper : a novel  Jodi Picoult. -- New York : Atria Books,

                          c2004.

                             viii, 423 p. ; 24 cm.

                             Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and

                             bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form

                             of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control

                             of her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate.

                         

SC                    

Nec                       Necessary noise : stories about our families as they really are  

                          edited by Michael Cart ; illustrations by Charlotte Noruzi. -- New York :

                          Joanna Cotler BooksHarperCollins, 2003.

                             xiii, 239 p. ; 24 cm.

                             Hardware  Joan Bauer - Siskiyou Sloan and the eye of the giraffe 

                             Norma Howe - Necessary noise  Emma Donoghue - The throwaway :

                             a suite  Nikki Grimes - Visit  Walter Dean Myers - A family illness : a

                             mom-son conversation  Joyce Carol Thomas - Sailing away  Michael

                             Cart.

                             A collection of ten stories about families and what they mean,

                             describing both traditional and non-traditional families.

                         

 

Fic                     Avi, 1937-.

Avi                        Nothing but the truth : a documentary novel  by Avi. -- New York :

                          Avon Books, 1993, c1991.

                             212 p.

                             "An Avon flare book.".

                             A ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner"

                             during homeroom becomes a national news story. 

                         

Fic                     Ferris, Jean.

Fer                       Of sound mind  by Jean Ferris. -- New York : Farrar Straus Giroux,

                          2001.

                             224 p.

                             Tired of interpreting for his deaf family and resentful of their reliance

                             on him, high school senior Theo finds support and understanding

                             from Ivy, a new student who also has a deaf parent.

                           

 

Fic                     Kindl, Patrice.

Kin                       Owl in love  Patrice Kindl. -- New York : Puffin Books, 1994, c1993.

                             204 p. ; 19 cm.

                             A fourteen-year-old girl, who can transform herself into an owl at will,

                             discovers interesting new relationships with both humans and owls

                             when she develops a crush on her science teacher.

                            

Fic                     Chbosky, Stephen.

Chb                      The perks of being a wallflower  Stephen Chbosky. -- New York :

                          MTV BooksPocket Books, c1999.

                             213 p. ; 19 cm.

                             Charlie, a freshman in high school, explores the dilemmas of

                             growing up through a collection of letters he sends to an unknown

                             receiver.

 

                            

378.1                  Robbins, Alexandra, 1976-.

Rob                      Pledged : the secret life of sororities  Alexandra Robbins. -- New

                          York : Hyperion, 2005, c2004.

                             x, 370 p. ; 21 cm.

                             An provocative look inside the world of sorority life offers an

                             eye-opening view of the drugs, psychological abuse, promiscuity,

                             racism, violence, and other problems that are rampant among young

                             women in a typical sorority and analyzes why intelligent young

                             women put up with these abuses in order to become part of a

                             sorority sisterhood. 

                         

Fic                     Simmons, Michael.

Sim                      Pool boy  Michael Simmons. -- 1st ed. -- Brookfield, Conn. : Roaring

                          Brook Press, c2003.

                             164 p. ; 23 cm.

                             "A Neal Porter Book.".

                             When his father is arrested for insider trading and his family loses

                             all their money, Brett Gerson takes a job as an assistant to a

                             70-something pool cleaner in his former wealthy California

                             neighborhood and learns some valuable life lessons.

                            

Fic                     Coburn, Jake.

Cob                      Prep  Jake Coburn. -- New York : Dutton Children's Books, 2003.

                             176 p.

                             One-time tag-artist, Nick tries to come to terms with the death of a

                             friend, to protect the brother of his would-be girlfriend, to escape the

                             violence of wealthy New York City prep school hoods, and to figure

                             out who he really is.

 

 

Fic                     Cabot, Meg.

Cab                      Princess in love  Meg Cabot. -- 1st Harper Trophy ed. -- New York :

                          HarperTrophy, 2002.

                             260, 5, 6 p. ; 18 cm.

                             In a series of humorous diary entries, a New York City ninth grader

                             agonizes over her love life, final exams, and future role as the

                             princess of Genovia.

 

 

Fic                     Haddix, Margaret Peterson.

Had                      Running out of time  by Margaret Peterson Haddix. -- New York :

                          Aladdin Paperback, c1995.

                             184 p. ; 18 cm.

                             Jessie lives in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana, in 1840 - or so

                             she believes. When diptheria strikes and the children start dying,

                             Jessies mother reveals a shocking secret. 

                            

Fic                     Jordan, Sherryl.

Jor                        Secret sacrament  by Sherryl Jordan. -- New York : HarperCollins,

                          2001.

                             338 p. ; 24 cm.

                             A disturbing incident when he is only seven years old foreshadows

                             the role Gabriel will play in the relations between his Navorran

                             people and the Shinali, a role which is solidified when he becomes

                             an Elected One and trains to be a healer.

                         

Fic                     Nix, Garth.

Nix                       Shade's children  Garth Nix. -- 1st Harper Trophy ed. -- New York :

                          HarperTrophy, 1998, c1997.

                             345 p. ; 18 cm.

                             In a savage future world, four young fugitives attempt to overthrow

                             the bloodthirsty rule of the Overlords with the help of Shade, their

                             mysterious mentor.

                         

Fic                     Vance, Susanna.

Van                      Sights  Susanna Vance. -- New York : Delacorte Press, 2001.

                             215 p. ; 22 cm.

                             Despite years of abuse at the hands of her drunken father, Baby Girl

                             has always believed that she was special, partly because of her

                             "gift" of seeing the future, until she and her mother set out to begin a

                             new life on their own.

                         

741.5                  Groening, Matt.

Gro                       Simpsons comics big bonanza  [created by Matt Groening]. -- 1st ed.

                          -- New York, NY : HarperPerennial, c1998.

                             117 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 26 cm.

                             Simpsons #28. Krustonia. Flanders' big score -- Simpsons #29.

                             Let's get ready to bumble! Bringing down baby. Otto's top 40 --

                             Simpsons #30. Smitherses! Bore us-the movie-gruel. Lisa's dream

                             house -- Simpsons #31. Radioactive Homer. Comic convention

                             survival guide.

                             Contains four color cartoon stories about the Simpsons and their

                             friends and neighbors.

                            

Fic                     Park, Linda Sue.

Par                       A single shard  Linda Sue Park. -- New York : Clarion Books, c2001.

                             152 p. ; 22 cm.

                             Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under

                             a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the

                             delicate celadon ceramics himself.

                         

Fic                     Brashares, Ann.

Bra                       The sisterhood of the traveling pants  by Ann Brashares. -- New

                          York : Delacorte Press, 2001.

                             304 p.

                             After trying on a pair of old jeans that seemed to fit all the girls,

                             Carmen and her friends form a sisterhood and begin the most

                             memorable summer of their lives.

                         

Fic                     Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-.

Hor                       Skeleton Key  Anthony Horowitz. -- New York : Speak, 2004, c2002.

                             327, 16 p. ; 19 cm.

                             "An Alex Rider adventure.".

                             Reluctant teenage-spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the

                             Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese

                             gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his

                             Russian host, General Sarov.

                         

 

Fic                     Bruchac, Joseph.

Bru                       Skeleton man  Joseph Bruchac. -- New York : HarperCollins

                          Publishers, Scholastic, 2001.

                             114 p. ; 20 cm.

                             After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a

                             strange "great-uncle," Molly must rely on her dreams about an old

                             Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even  for her life. 

                           

Fic                     Korman, Gordon.

Kor                       Son of the mob  Gordon Korman. -- New York : Hyperion, 2002.

                             262 p. ; 21 cm.

                             Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact

                             that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that

                             threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent.

                            

Fic                     Anderson, Laurie Halse.

And                      Speak  Laurie Halse Anderson. -- 1st ed. -- New York : Farrar Straus

                          Giroux, 1999.

                             197 p. ; 22 cm.

                             A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating

                             effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.

                           

Fic                     Connelly, Neil O.

Con                      St. Michael's scales  by Neil Connelly. -- New York : Scholastic,

                          2001.

                             320 p.

                             Keegan Flannery, feeling responsible for his twin brother's death

                             and his mother's mental illness, believes he must atone by

                             committing suicide before his sixteenth birthday, but he gains new

                             insight when he joins his school's wrestling team.

                            

Fic                     Spinelli, Jerry.

Spi                       Stargirl  by Jerry Spinelli. -- New York : Knopf, 2000.

                             186 p. ; 22 cm.

                             In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of

                             nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student

                             named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.

                            

Fic                     Hautman, Pete, 1952-.

Hau                      Sweetblood  Pete Hautman. -- 1st ed. -- New York : Simon & Schuster

                          Books for Young Readers, c2003.

                             180 p. ; 22 cm.

                             "A vampire novel"--Dust jacket.

                             "Ages 12 up"--Dust jacket p. [2].

                             After a lifetime of being a model student, sixteen-year-old Lucy

                             Szabo is suddenly in trouble at school, at home, with the so-called

                             vampires she has met online and in person, and most of all with her

                             uncontrolled diabetes.

                           

 

Fic                     Cormier, Robert.

COR                      Tenderness : a novel  by Robert Cormier. -- New York : Delacorte

                          Press, c1997.

                             229 p. ; 21 cm.

                             A psychological thriller told from the points of view of a teenage

                             serial killer and the runaway girl who falls in love with him.

                            

Fic                     Clements, Andrew, 1949-.

Cle                       Things not seen  Andrew Clements. -- New York : Philomel Books,

                          c2002.

                             251 p. ; 22 cm.

                             When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible,

                             he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what

                             caused his condition and how to reverse it.

                         

Fic                     Dessen, Sarah.

Des                       This lullaby : a novel  by Sarah Dessen. -- New York : Viking, 2002.

                             345 p. ; 22 cm.

                             Remy, a master at getting rid of boyfriends before any emotional

                             attachments form, finds herself strangely unwilling to free herself

                             from Dexter, a messy, disorganized, impulsive musician who she

                             suspects she has come to love.

                            

 

133.4                  RavenWolf, Silver.

Rav                       To ride a silver broomstick : new generation witchcraft  Silver

                          RavenWolf. -- 1st ed. -- St. Paul, Minn., U.S.A. : Llewellyn, 1993.

                             xvi, 300 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. 

                         

Fic                     Fredericks, Mariah.

Fre                       The true meaning of cleavage  Mariah Fredericks. -- New York :

                          Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2003.

                             211 p. ; 22 cm.

                             When Jess and Sari, best friends since seventh grade, begin their

                             freshman year of high school and Sari becomes obsessed with a

                             senior boy, Jess wonders if their friendship will survive.

                         

Fic                     Myracle, Lauren.

Myr                       Ttyl  Lauren Myracle. -- New York : Amulet Books, 2004.

                             p. cm.

                             Chronicles, in "instant message" format, the day-to-day

                             experiences, feelings, and plans of three friends, Zoe, Maddie, and

                             Angela, as they begin tenth grade. 

                         

Fic                     Haddix, Margaret Peterson.

Had                      Turnabout  Margaret Peterson Haddix. -- 1st ed. -- New York : Simon

                          & Schuster Books For Young Readers, c2000.

                             223 p. ; 22 cm.

                             After secretly receiving injections at the age of 100 that are meant to

                             reverse the aging process, Melly and Anny Beth grow younger until,

                             as teenagers, they try to find a guardian to take care of them as they

                             return to infancy. 

                         

Fic                     Meyer, Stephenie, 1973-.

Mey                      Twilight  Stephenie Meyer. -- 1st ed. -- New York : Little, Brown,

                          2005.

                             498 p. ; 22 cm.

                             "Megan Tingley books.".

                             When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her

                             father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome

                             boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and

                             who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

                            

Fic                     Rees, Douglas.

Ree                      Vampire High  Douglas Rees. -- New York : Delacorte Press, c2003.

                             226 p. ; 22 cm.

                             When his family moves from California to New Sodom,

                             Massachusetts and Cody enters Vlad Dracul Magnet School, many

                             things seem strange, from the dark-haired, pale-skinned,

                             supernaturally strong students to Charon, the wolf who guides him

                             around campus on the first day.

                            

Fic                     Crutcher, Chris.

Cru                       Whale talk  Chris Crutcher. -- 1st ed. -- New York : Greenwillow

                          Books, c2001.

                             220 p. ; 24 cm.

                             Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted

                             teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his

                             high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits

                             some of the school's less popular students.

                            

Fic                     Sones, Sonya.

Son                      What my mother doesn't know  by Sonya Sones. -- New York :

                          Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2001.

                             259 p. ; 22 cm.

                             Sophie describes her relationships with a series of boys as she

                             searches for Mr. Right.

                            

133.4                  Manoy, Lauren.

Man                      Where to park your broomstick : a teen's guide to witchcraft  Lauren

                          Manoy ; with illustrations by Yan Apostolides. -- New York : Fireside

                          Book, c2002.

                             viii, 311 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

                             A guide to witchcraft and the working of Magick, explaining how to

                             get in touch with your own sacredness and create and cast various

                             spells.

                            

Fic                     Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-.

Bru                       The winter people  Joseph Bruchac. -- New York : Dial Books, c2002.

                             168 p. : map ; 22 cm.

                             Fourteen-year-old Saxso, a member of the Abenaki tribe in Canada,

                             embarks on a dangerous rescue mission when his mother and two

                             younger sisters are taken hostage during an attack by the British on

                             their unprotected village in 1759.

                         

Fic                     Lipsyte, Robert.

Lip                        Yellow flag  Robert Lipsyte. -- 1st ed. -- New York, NY : HarperTeen,

                          2007.

                             234 p. ; 19 cm.

                             When seventeen-year-old Kyle reluctantly succumbs to family

                             pressure and replaces his injured brother in the family racecar, he

                             struggles to keep up with his trumpet playing while deciding how--or

                             if--he can continue making music with a brass quintet and headlines

                             as a Nascar racer.