Wednesday, October 28, 2009

New Titles...


Dreamquake

by Elizabeth Knox

"Frances Foster books." While investigating the government's involvement in the disappearance of her father, Tziga Hame, and the decline of the art of projecting dreams, dreamhunter Laura learns more about "The Place."





Dreamhunter

by Elizabeth Knox

In a world where select people can enter "The Place" and find dreams of every kind to share with others for a fee, a fifteen-year-old girl is training to be a dreamhunter when her father disappears, leaving her to carry on his mysterious mission.







Downsiders: a novel

by Neal Shusterman

When fourteen-year-old Lindsay meets Talon and discovers the Downsiders world which had evolved from the subway built in New York in 1867 by Alfred Ely Beach, she and her new friend experience the clash of their two cultures.






Do Hard Things: a teenage rebellion against low expectations

by Alex Harris

Do hard things, the gospel, and you. Nineteen-year-old twins Alex and Brett Harris challenge teenagers to reject the "low expectations" of contemporary culture and "do hard things" for God, discussing the Bible and five ways to transform oneself and work for social change.





A Crooked Kind of Perfect

by Linda Urban

Ten-year-old Zoe Elias, who longs to play the piano but must resign herself to learning the organ, instead, finds that her musicianship has a positive impact on her workaholic mother, her jittery father, and her school social life.


Friday, October 23, 2009

They're Here!

We have received our latest order of books! Come in and check them out. We'll keep highlighting books here on the blog of the newest titles. If you have requested a title and we don't have a copy then it's on a list to be ordered next when funds are available.

Be sure you check in the area "Find a Book" on the right hand sidebar. This link is what we have in our library currently. Many students think if a book is not on the shelf, then we don't have the book. That's untrue. Most popular books get checked out. If you were looking for the title I bet someone else has done the same thing as well. You can be put on a waiting list for a book. Just let Mrs. Moore know or any of the library staff and we will be willing to help you with putting in a request for a book already checked out to another student.

Update on our author, J. Scott Savage... He will be here on November 19, 2009 and will be in the Little Theater during first hour English. Keep up your grades and your English teacher will give you a pass to excuse you from your class to attend this special event.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

See What's Coming Soon!

Code Name Cassandra
by Meg Cabot

Jess Mastriani, hounded by the media and the government after a lightning strike leaves her with the psychic ability to find missing children, wants only to be left alone and tells everyone that she has lost her touch, but the chase begins once again when she gives in to a plea from the father of a missing girl to find his daughter.




The Chronicles of Vladimir Todd: Tenth Grade Bites
by Heather Brewer

Tenth grade does not bring any relief to Vlad who is finding it increasingly difficult to resist feeding on his classmates and to avoid the evil vampire D'Ablo who wants to drain his powers.




The Christopher Killer: A Forensic Mystery
by Alane Ferguson

On the payroll as an assistant to her coroner father, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to catch the killer of a friend while putting herself in terrible danger.




Catching Fire
by Suzanne Collins

By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.



The Cabinet of Wonders
by Marie Rutkoski

Twelve-year-old Petra, accompanied by her magical tin spider, goes to Prague hoping to retrieve the enchanted eyes the Prince of Bohemia took from her father, and is aided in her quest by a Roma boy and his sister.





The Bourne Identity by Ludlum, Robert

A man has been shot and now has no memory and as he searches for his origins he comes to fear he may have been an international assassin.




Beastly by Alex Flinn

A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.




Armageddon Summer by Jane Yolen

Fourteen-year-old Marina and sixteen-year-old Jed accompany their parents' religious cult, the Believers, to await the end of the world atop a remote mountain, where they try to decide what they themselves believe.





The Angel of Death : a forensic mystery by Alane Ferguson

Seventeen-year-old high school senior Cameryn Mahoney uses skills learned as assistant to her coroner father to try to unravel the mystery of a local teacher's gruesome death, while also awaiting a possible reunion with her long-missing mother.






The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie


Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Native American is the school mascot.