What's New?
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

Need help with research papers? New materials are arriving daily:

  • 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

  • Carver : A Life in Poems

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.

  • Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

His themes of death and despair reflect the author's own tormented life.

  • Poetry for Students

Fiction Titles

  • 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!
What's a Teen 2 Read?

Current Newspapers and Magazines Online

  • World Newspapers -- Grades 8 and up. World newspapers, magazines and news sites sorted by country.

Read Current Issues of Magazines on-line

Annotated Lists, Links and So Much More!


 

 

 

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