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Nonfiction Titles
- The Beauty of Color -- Iman.
- A Chinese Cinderella (autobiography) Mah, A.
After Adeline Yen Mah's mother dies giving birth to her, the little girl is considered bad luck and faces a life of ridicule and despair.
- The Evolution of Cooperation -- Axelrod, R.
- Making Faces -- Aucoin, K.
- Relativity Demystified -- McMahon, D.
- The Struggle for Black Equality -- Sitkoff, H.
- What College Really Costs
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- Novels for Students
- Short Stories for Students
- Poetry for Students
Each presents analyses, context and criticisms.
- Literature and Its Times
- Notable Latino Writers
- Writers for Young Adults
- Encyclopedia of World Biography
A Different Kind of Poetry
George Washington Carver's life
presented in a series of poems.
- A Family of Poems : My Favorite Poetry for Children
An anthology of poems celebrating poetry's ability to connect us. Ten poems appear twice, both in English and in their original language.
- Haiku : The Travelers of Eternity -- Ghigna, C.
- I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You : A Book of Her Poems and His Poems Presented in Pairs
Poems that offer insight into how men and women look at the world, both separately and together.
- Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats -- Eliot, T. S.
- Out of the Dust -- Hesse, K.
In a series of poems, 15-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl of the Depression.
- Poem-making : Ways to Begin Writing Poetry
Introduces different kinds of poetry and the mechanics of writing poetry.
His themes of death and despair reflect the author's own tormented life.
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- AudioBooks - A variety of titles available for use in the library.
- Al Capone Does My Shirts (disabilities) Choldenko, G.
A 12-year-old moves to Alcatraz Island when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
- The Bell Jar (autobiographical fiction) Plath, S.
An autobiographical novel about a brilliant young woman's search for identity and her eventual breakdown.
- Black Mirror (mystery fiction) Werlin, N.
After her brother Daniel's death, 16-year-old Frances uncovers surprising truths about their boarding school's charitable group, of which Daniel was a member.
- Copper Sun -- Sharon Draper
Two 15-year-old girls -- one a slave, the other an indentured servant -- escape their Carolina plantation.
- Coraline (supernatural) Gaiman, N.
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own.
- Girl in Hyacinth Blue (historical fiction) Vreeland, S.
A supposed Vermeer painting is traced back through the centuries to the moment of its inspiration.
- Hoot (Florida environmental fiction) Hiaasen, C.
Roy becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
- If you liked Hoot, you'll love Hiaasen's new YA novel, Flush!
- Inkheart (supernatural) Funke, C.
12-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books, can "read" the fictional characters to life!
- Then, read Inkspell
- Small Steps (continues Holes) Sachar, L.
3 years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track.
- The Kite Runner -- Hosseini, K
Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy Afghan, while Hassan, Amir’s best friend, is the son of his father’s servant and a Hazara -- a shunned ethnic minority.
- A Northern Light (historical fiction) -- Donnelly, J.
In 1906, 16-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against her father's wishes, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the deal of a guest. Based on a true story.
- Tom Clancy's Net Force series -Yes, we have them all!
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