Thin Books in the M.C.S. Library
(These
books are under 150 pages long or written in a format that makes them
quick reads)
Call #: Fic Avi
Author: Avi, 1937-.
Title: Nothing
but the truth : a documentary novel / by Avi.
Publisher:
Description: 212 p.
Subject: Schools -
Fiction.
High schools - Fiction.
Subject: M.C.S.
Favorite
Thin book
Note: "An
Summary: A
ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner"
during
homeroom becomes a national news
story.
Call #: Fic Avi
Author: Avi, 1937-.
Title: Something
upstairs : a tale of ghosts / by Avi.
Publisher:
Description: 120 p. ; 19 cm.
Subject: Ghosts -
Fiction.
Time travel - Fiction.
Slavery - Fiction.
Subject: Thin Book
Note: "A
Richard Jackson book"--Half title.
Summary: When he moves
from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny
discovers that his new house is
haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy
who asks Kenny to return with
him to the early nineteenth century and
prevent his murder by slave
traders.
Call #: Fic Bac
Author: Bach,
Richard.
Title: Jonathan
Livingston Seagull / photographs by
Russell Munson.
Publisher: [
Description: 93 p. : illus.
; 22 cm.
Subject: Gulls -
Fiction.
Subject: Thin book
Add. Author: Munson,
Russell.
Summary: Because he
spends so much time perfecting his flying form instead of
concentrating on getting food, a
seagull is ostracized by the rest of the flock.
Call #: Fic Blo
Author: Block,
Francesca Lia.
Title: Witch
baby / Francesca Lia Block.
Publisher:
Description: 103 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject: Identity -
Fiction.
Geog. Subj.: Los Angeles
(Calif.) - Fiction.
Subject: Thin Book
M.C.S. Favorite
Note: "Ages
12 up"--Jacket.
"A Charlotte Zolotow
book.".
Summary: Witch Baby
comes to live with Weetzie Bat and My-Secret-Agent-Lover-Man
and has wild adventures in
she belongs.
Call #: Fic Bru
Author: Bruchac,
Joseph.
Title: Skeleton
man / Joseph Bruchac.
Publisher:
Description: 114 p. ; 20 cm.
Subject: Mentally ill -
Fiction.
Kidnapping - Fiction.
Mohawk Indians - Fiction.
Native Americans -
Subject: Thin Book
M.C.S. Favorite
Summary: 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.
Call #: Fic Bun
Author: Bunting,
Eve, 1928-.
Title: Doll baby
/ by Eve Bunting ; illustrated by
Catherine Stock.
Publisher:
Description: 47 p. : col.
ill. ; 21 cm.
Subject: Teenage
parents - Fiction.
Unmarried mothers - Fiction.
Pregnancy - Fiction.
Infants - Fiction.
Subject: Thin book
Add. Author: Stock,
Catherine, ill.
Summary: A fifteen-year-old
girl who is pregnant decides she wants to keep her baby,
not realizing how much harder it
will be than caring for her beloved Daisy
Doll.
Call #: J Fic Bun
Author: Bunting,
Eve, 1928-.
Title: The
ghosts of Departure Point / by Eve
Bunting.
Publisher:
Description: 113 p. ; 21 cm.
Subject: Ghosts -
Fiction.
Traffic accidents - Fiction.
Subject: Thin Book
Summary: After a car
plunges over a dangerous cliff, killing its four teenage occupants,
one of the four returns as a
ghost, tormented by guilt and wishing somehow
to prevent another tragedy.
J Fic Bun
8807 Available
Call #: Fic Bur
Author: Burnford,
Shelia.
Title: The
incredible journey / by Sheila
Burnford. Illustrations by Carl Burger.
Publisher:
Description: 148 p. : ill. ;
20 cm.
Subject: Thin Book
Add. Author: Burger,
Carl V.
Call #: Fic Can
Author: Cannon, A.
E. (Ann Edwards)
Title: The
shadow brothers / A.E. Cannon.
Publisher:
Description: 179 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject: Navajo
Indians - Juvenile fiction.
Navajo Indians - Fiction.
Indians of
Brothers - Fiction.
Subject: Thin book
Note: "Ages
12 & up"--Jacket.
Summary: High school
junior Marcus feels his entire world changing around him as
Henry, the Navajo foster brother
who has lived with him since the age of
seven, starts to change his
personality and wonder if he should return to his
family's reservation in another
state.
Call #: Fic Chi
Author: Childress,
Alice.
Title: A hero
ain't nothin' but a sandwich.
Publisher:
Description: p. ; 18 cm.
Subject: Afro-Americans
- Social conditions - Fiction.
Narcotic habit - Fiction.
Subject: Thin book
Call #: Fic Coo
Author: Cooney,
Caroline B.
Title: The face
on the milk carton.
Publisher:
c1990.
Description: p. ; 18 cm.
Subject: Identity -
Fiction.
Kidnapping, Parental - Fiction.
Parent and child - Fiction.
Subject: Thin Book
Summary: A photograph
of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for
her real identity.
Call #: Fic Coo
Author: Cooney,
Caroline B.
Title: The
terrorist / by Caroline B. Cooney.
Publisher:
Description: 198 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject: Terrorism -
Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Geog. Subj.: London
(England) - Fiction.
Subject: Thin book
M.C.S. Favorite
Summary: Sixteen-year-old
Laura, an American living in London, tries to find the person
responsible for the death of her
younger brother Billy, who has been killed by
a terrorist bomb.
Call #: Fic Cor
Author: Cormier,
Robert.
Title: Heroes :
a novel / by Robert Cormier.
Publisher:
Description: 135 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject: Revenge -
Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 - Veterans
- Fiction.
Orphans - Fiction.
Subject: Veterans --
Fiction.
Veterans -- Fiction.
World War II - Thin book
Thin book
Summary: After joining
the army at fifteen and having his face blown away by a grenade
in a battle in
kill--the former childhood hero
he feels betrayed him.
Call #: Fic Cru
Author: Crutcher,
Chris.
Title: Running
loose / by Chris Crutcher.
Publisher:
Description: 190 p.
Subject: Football -
Fiction.
High Schhols--Fiction - Thin
book
Call #: Fic Dun
Author: Duncan,
Lois.
Title: I know
what you did last summer.
Publisher:
Description: 198 p. ; 19 cm.
Subject: Detective and
mystery stories.
Subject: Responsibility
- Thin Book
Summary: Four
teen-agers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for
a hit-and-run accident are
pursued by a mystery figure seeking revenge.
Call #: Fic Fer
Author: Ferris,
Jean, 1939-.
Title: Invincible
summer / Jean Ferris.
Publisher: [
Description: 167 p. ; 18 cm.
Series: Aerial
fiction
Subject: Leukemia -
Fiction.
Death - Fiction.
Subject: Thin Book
Summary: Seventeen-year-old
Robin, in treatment for leukemia, falls in love with a boy
who also has the disease, and
together they attempt to survive their ordeal.
Audience: Young Adult
- Follett Library Resources.
Call #: 904 Ful
Author: Fulghum,
Hunter S. (Hunter Samuel)
Title: 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.
Publisher:
Description: xvii, 264 p. :
ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Subject: Adventure and
adventurers.
Daredevils.
Escapes.
Rescue work.
Survival skills.
Subject: M.C.S.
Favorite
Thin book
Summary: Presents
step-by-step instructions for over thirty diverse activities--many
heroic and many
questionable--including winning a bullfight, breaking into
Audience: Adult -
Follett Library Resources.
Call #: 081 Gre
Author: Gregory,
Leland.
Title: Hey idiot!
: chronicles of human stupidity / Leland Gregory.
Publisher:
Description: 249 p. ; 18 cm.
Subject: Stupidity -
Anecdotes.
Intellect - Anecdotes.
Subject: Thin book
Summary: A collection
of more than two hundred true stories about incredible acts of
human stupidity.
Audience: Young Adult
- Follett Library Resources.
Call #: Fic Hin
Author: Hinton, S.
E.
Title: The
outsiders.
Publisher:
Description: p. ; 18 cm.
Subject: Family life -
Fiction.
Subject: Thin book
Summary: The struggle
of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and
their quest for identity among
the conflicting values of their adolescent
society.
Call #: Fic Hol
Author: Holman,
Felice.
Title: Slake's
limbo / Felice Holman.
Publisher:
Description: 117 p. ; 19 cm.
Subject: Subways -
Fiction.
Subject: Thin Book
Summary: Thirteen-year-old
Aremis Slake, hounded by his fears and misfortunes, flees
them into
emerge.
Call #: Fic Joh
Author: Johnson,
Angela, 1961-.
Title: The first
part last / Angela Johnson.
Publisher:
Description: 131 p. ; 20 cm.
Subject: Teenage
fathers - Fiction.
Teenage parents - Fiction.
Father-child relationship -
Fiction.
Infants - Fiction.
African Americans - Fiction.
Subject: Thin book
Summary: Bobby's carefree
teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and
must care for his adored baby
daughter.
Audience: Young Adult
- Follett Library Resources.
Call #: Fic Kla
Author: Klause,
Annette Curtis.
Title: The
silver kiss.
Publisher:
Description: p.
Subject: Death -
Fiction.
Vampires - Fiction.
Subject: Thin book
Call #: Fic Lip
Author: Lipsyte,
Robert.
Title: The
contender.
Publisher:
Description: 167 p ; 18 cm.
Subject: Boxing -
Fiction.
Afro-Americans - Fiction.
Subject: Thin Book
Summary: A Harlem high
school dropout escapes from a gang of punks into a boxing
gym, where he learns that being
a contender is hard and often discouraging
work, but that you don't know
anything until you try.
Call #: Fic Mat
Author: Matcheck,
Diane.
Title: The
sacrifice / by Diane Matcheck.
Publisher:
Description: 197 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject: Crow Indians
- Fiction.
Indians of
Orphans - Fiction.
Self-perception - Fiction.
Subject: Thin book
Summary: When her
father's death leaves her orphaned and an outcast among her
Apsaalooka (Crow) people, a
fifteen-year-old sets out to avenge his death and
prove that she, not her dead
twin brother, is destined to be the Great One.
Call #: Arc Maz
Author: Mazer,
Harry.
Title: Snow
bound. : signed edition.
Publisher:
Description: 146 p. ; 21 cm.
Subject: Survival -
Fiction.
Subject: Thin Book
Summary: Two teenagers
caught in a snowstorm face a fight for survival in a desolate
area.
Call #: Fic Maz
Author: Mazer, Norma
Fox.
Title: Taking
Terri Mueller / Norma Fox Mazer.
Publisher: Avon, -
1981.
Description: 189 p. ; 18 cm.
Subject: Kidnapping -
Fiction.
Divorce - Fiction.
Subject: Thin book
Call #: Fic Mye
Author: Myers,
Walter Dean.
Title: Motown
and Didi.
Publisher:
Description: p. ; 22 cm.
Subject: Drug abuse -
Fiction.
Afro-Americans - Fiction.
Geog. Subj.: Harlem (New
York, N. Y.) - Fiction.
Subject: Thin Book
Summary: Motown and
Didi, two teenage loners in Harlem, become allies in a fight
against Touchy, the drug dealer
whose dope is destroying Didi's brother, and
find themselves falling in love
with each other.
Call #: J Fic ODe
Author: O'Dell,
Scott, 1898-1989.
Title: The black
pearl / Scott O'Dell.
Publisher:
c1967.
Description: 96 p. ; 18 cm.
Subject: Pearl diving
- Fiction.
Pearl diving - Fiction.
Geog. Subj.: Baja California
(Mexico) - Fiction.
Baja California (Mexico) -
Fiction. - sears.
Subject: Thin book
Note: "Laurel-leaf
books.".
Summary: In claiming
as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a
sixteen-year-old youth enrages
the sea devil whom legend says is its' owner.
Call #: Fic O'D
Author: O'Dell,
Scott.
Title: Sing down
the moon / Scott O'Dell.
Publisher:
Description: 137 p. ; 20 cm.
Subject: Navaho
Indians - Fiction.
Subject: Perseverance
- Thin Book
Summary: A young
Navaho girl recounts the events of 1864 when her tribe was forced to
march to
Call #: Fic Par
Author: Park, Ruth.
Title: Playing
Beatie Bow.
Publisher: Harmondsworth
; -
Description: 196 p.
Subject: Family life -
Fiction.
Family life - Fiction. - Thin
book
Call #: Fic Pau
Author: Paulsen,
Gary.
Title: Hatchet.
Publisher:
Description: p. ; 20 cm.
Subject: Divorce -
Fiction.
Survival - Fiction.
Subject: Responsibility
- Thin Book
Note: "Puffin
books.".
Summary: After a plane
crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the
wilderness, learning to survive
with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his