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
mother, and learning also to
survive his parents' divorce.
Call #: Fic Pau
Author: Paulsen,
Gary.
Title: The
winter room / Gary Paulsen.
Publisher:
Description: 103 p. ; 20 cm.
Subject: Lumber and
lumbering - Fiction.
Norwegian Americans - Fiction.
Farm life -
Geog. Subj.:
Subject: Thin Book
Note: "A
Yearling book.".
Originally published:
Summary: A young boy
growing up on a northern
around him and recounts his old
Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost
mythological logging past.
Call #: J Fic Pec
Author: Peck,
Richard, 1934-.
Title: Voices
after
Publisher:
Description: 181 p.
Subject: Brothers and
sisters - Fiction.
Time travel - Fiction.
Geog. Subj.: New York (N.Y.)
- Fiction.
Subject: Thin book
Summary: Living with
their sister and parents in a rented house in New York City during
the summer,
of the house when the two
brothers slip back in time to 1888.
Call #: Fic Pec
Author: Peck,
Richard.
Title: The last
safe place on earth.
Publisher:
c1995.
Description: 161 p. ; 18 cm.
Subject: Family life -
Fiction.
Censorship - Fiction.
Fundamentalism - Fiction.
Subject: thin book
Summary: Fifteen-year-old
Todd sees his perfect suburban world start to unravel when
his little sister has her mind
poisoned by a member of a fundamentalist sect
and he begins to notice signs of
censorship in his community.
Call #: Fic Pec
Author: Peck,
Richard.
Title: A year
down yonder / Richard Peck.
Publisher: New York : -
Dial Books for Young Readers, - 2000.
Description: 130 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject: Family -
Fiction.
Depressions - 1929 - Fiction.
Country life - Illinois -
Fiction.
Geog. Subj.: Illinois -
Fiction.
Subject: Thin book
Note: Sequel
to: A long way from Chicago.
Summary: In 1937,
during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially
apprehensive about leaving
Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome,
larger-than-life grandmother in
rural Illinois, gradually begins to better
understand and admire her
grandmother's unusual qualities.
Call #: Fic Pec
Author: Peck, Robert
Newton.
Title: A day no
pigs would die / by Robert Newton Peck.
Publisher: New York : -
Knopf, - 1982, c1972.
Description: 150 p.
Subject: Fathers and
sons - Fiction.
Farm life - Vermont - Fiction.
Pigs - Fiction.
Subject: Thin Book
Call #: Fic Pee
Author: Peel, John.
Title: The zanti
misfits.
Publisher: New York : -
Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., - 1997.
Description: p. ; cm.
Series: The outer
limits ; - 1
Name Subj.: based on the
teleplay by Joseph Stefano.
Subject: thin book
Summary: Welcome to
reform school...alien stlye The Zanti
have landed. But who- or
what- are these creatures? The rulers of the planet Zanti have found a
solution to the problem of what
to do with the undesireable misfits and
dangerous malcontents who
threaten their perfectly ordered society- exile
them to earth! The leaders on Earth are powerless to
object. The Zanti are
far superior to us. All our scientific and military leaders can
do is monitor the
arrival of the Zanti misfits and
wait. And wonder...why Earth? Teenagers Ben
Garth and Lisa Lawrence are
about to find out. They're outcasts,
too. Now
they're on the run...and heades
towards a terrifying showdown with the Zanti
Misfits.
Call #: Fic Phi
Author: Philbrick,
Rodman.
Title: Max the
mighty.
Publisher: New York : -
Scholastic, - c1998.
Description: 166 p ; cm.
Subject: Thin book
Summary: Max defends a
young girl named "worm" because she loves to read and gets
blamed for a horrific
crime. They must flee across America
from the police
and a mysterious man known as
the Undertaker.
Call #: Fic Ryl
Author: Rylant,
Cynthia.
Title: God went
to beauty school / by Cynthia Rylant.
Publisher: New York : -
HarperTempest, - c2003.
Description: 56 p. ; 20 cm.
Subject: God -
Fiction.
Subject: Thin book
Summary: A novel in
poems that reveal God's discovery of the wonders and pains in the
world he has created.
Audience: Young Adult
- Follett Library Resources.
Call #: Fic Seg
Author: Segal,
Erich.
Title: Love
story.
Publisher: New York : -
Harper & Row, - [1970].
Description: 131 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject: Thin book
Call #: Fic Son
Author: Sones,
Sonya.
Title: Stop
pretending : what happened when my big sister went crazy / by Sonya
Sones.
Publisher: New York : -
HarperCollins Publishers, - 1999.
Description: 128 p.
Subject: Mental
illness - Fiction.
Sisters - Fiction.
Subject: Thin book
Summary: A younger
sister has a difficult time adjusting to life after her older sister has
a mental breakdown.
Audience: 9-12 -
Medialog, Inc.
Call #: J Fic Ste
Author: Steiber,
Ellen, 1955-.
Title: Empathy :
the X-files.
Publisher: New York : -
HarperTrophy, - c1997.
Description: p ; cm.
Series: The X-files
; - #5.
Subject: Thin book
Note: "Based
on the television series The X-Files created by Chris Carter ; based
on the teleplay written by
Charles Grant Craig.".
Call #: Fic Ste
Author: Steiber,
Ellen,
Title: Eve : The
X-files / novelization by Ellen Steiber.
Publisher: Columbus, OH
: - Atlas Editions, - 1997.
Description: unpaged :
Subject: Thin book
Note: created
by Chris Carter, based on the teleplay by Kenneth Biller and Chris
Brancato.
Summary: Two identical
murders, one on the East coast and one on the West. Two
identical little girls may or
may not be involved. Are the mirror murders
a
coincidence?.
Call #: 813 Ste
Author: Steinbeck,
John, 1902- 1968.
Title: Of mice
and men.
Publisher: New York : -
Penguin, - c1937.
Description: 105 p ; 21
cm.
Subject: Cowboys--. -
California-- - Salinas River Valley--. - Fiction.
Men-- - California-- - Salinas
River Valley-- - Fiction.
Salinas River Valley-- -
California-- - Fiction.
Friendship-- - Fiction.
Subject: Thin Book
Note: with an
introduction by susan shillinglaw.
Call #: Fic Sti
Author: Stine, R. L.
Title: Fear
games / R.L. Stine.
Publisher: New York : -
Avon, - 2001.
Description: 145 p. : ill. ;
20 cm.
Subject: Games -
Fiction.
Islands - Fiction.
Wilderness survival - Fiction.
Supernatural - Fiction.
Horror fiction.
Subject: Thin book
Add. Author: Nightmare
room (Television program)
Add. Series: Stine, R. L.
Nightmare room thrillogy ; 1.
Note: "Parachute
Press.".
Summary: Twelve
students play a deadly game of survival on an island against an evil
presence.
Call #: J Fic Tay
Author: Taylor,
Theodore, 1922-.
Title: The
cay.
Publisher: New York : -
Avon, - c1969.
Description: 144 p.
Subject: Shipwrecks -
Fiction.
Survival - Fiction.
Friendship - Fiction.
Subject: Respect
Perseverance
Thin Book
Summary: When the
freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German
submarine during World War II, a
twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a
blow on the head, and an old
Negro are stranded on a small desert island in
the Caribbean where the boy acquires
a new kind of vision, courage, and love
from his old companion.
Call #: Fic Wal
Author: Wallace,
Rich.
Title: Wrestling
Sturbridge / Rich Wallace.
Publisher: New York : -
Knopf : - Distributed by Random House, - 1997.
Description: 133 p. ; 18 cm.
Subject: Wrestling -
Fiction.
Friendship - Fiction.
Geog. Subj.: Pennsylvania -
Fiction. - sears.
Subject: Thin book
Summary: Stuck in a
small town where no one ever leaves and relegated by his
wrestling coach to sit on the
bench while his best friend becomes state
champion, Ben decides he can't
let his last high school wrestling season slip
by without challenging his
friend and the future.
Call #: Fic WIS
Author: Wisler, G.
Clifton.
Title: Mustang
Flats / G. Clifton Wisler.
Publisher: New York : -
Lodestar Books, - c1997.
Description: 116 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject: Fathers and
sons - Fiction.
Family life - Fiction.
Geog. Subj.: sears - United
States - History - 1861-1865, Civil War.
Subject: Thin book
Summary: When his
father returns from the war in 1865, fourteen-year-old Alby finds his
beloved Pa a changed man and can
only hope that they will be friends again.
Call #: Fic Zin
Author: Zindel,
Paul.
Title: The
pigman.
Publisher: New York : -
Bantam, - c1968.
Description: 158 p.
Subject: Adolescence -
Fiction.
Friendship - Fiction.
Subject: Thin book
Summary: A teenage boy
and girl, high school sophomores from unhappy homes, tell of
their bizarre relationship with
an old man.
Call #: SC Rea
Title: Read if
you dare : twelve twisted tales from the editors of Read magazine /
Publisher: Connecticut
: - The Millbrook Press Inc, - c1997.
Description: 158 p : 19 cm.
Subject: Fate and
fatalism - Juvenile fiction.
Children's stories - American.
Subject: Short stories
Thin book
Summary: Includes:
Battleground-- Deadline-- Night Burial--
Reverse insomnia-- The
right kind of house-- The ruum--
Skater-- Snow cancellations--.
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