Orfe
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| Author | Mel Glenn |
| ISBN | 0525675485 |
What starts out as an ordinary day for a group of high school seniors turns into anything but when their history teacher takes them hostage. The book takes us through each of their lives through a series of five poems, where we learn about the issues and goals that resonate underneath the facade of their...
| Author | Ray Bradbury |
| ISBN | 0060859628 |
The WISP series (Wonderfully Illustrated Short Pieces) represents an ingenious marriage of two creative forces: the artistry of today’s foremost illustrators and the literary legacy of beloved authors of popular short works for adults. The resulting offspring of this union are captivating,...
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0152012591 |
Harper Jessup is an avid reader, and when her parents become “migrants for God” she must keep her books secret. As Harper grows older and realizes how valuable reading is to her, she comes to understand that her parents’ radical efforts in favor of educational censorship are related to a quest...
| Author | Angela Johnson |
| ISBN | 0590481428 |
Angela Johnson's Coretta Scott King Award winning novel that traces three generations of African American women as they learn one another's truths.
Three generations of African American women, each holding on to a separate truth. Their story -- encompassing racism and murder as well as...
| Author | Margaret Bechard |
| ISBN | 0689862687 |
Sam's girlfriend is pregnant but Sam is keeping the baby. Sam should be planning for college and trying out for the football team with his best friend, Andy. Instead he's up to his ears in diapers and formula, caring for his baby son, Max. Will Sam now have to make a gut-wrenching decision about Max's...
| Author | Fran Leeper Buss |
| ISBN | 0142302090 |
Nailed into a crate in the back of a truck, fifteen-year-old Maria, her older sister, Julia, their little brother, Oscar, and a boy named Tomas endure a terrifying and torturous journey across the U.S. border and then north to Chicago. There they struggle to find work-cleaning, sewing, washing dishes-always...
| Author | Jerry Spinelli |
| ISBN | 0671746847 |
Just finished this excellent young adult story. Spinelli has done it again -- spun a story I could hardly put down and that pulled all the loose ends together without tying them too tight.
Maisie is an athletic type junior high girl. She was Athlete of the Year, playing on the basketball team,...
| Author | Mercer Mayer |
| ISBN | 0689711131 |
"Mayer's telling is an interweaving of plot elements from the original Scandinavian fairy tale with inventions of his own and details from The Frog Prince. The spellbound frog is whisked off to the trolls' castle and the ungrateful lass loses her chance to marry a handsome prince until she creates a...
| Author | Amy Kim Kibuishi |
| ISBN | 1598164104 |
Josh and Nicole make amends when Josh accidentally reads Nicole's diary--and is amazed by the incredible worlds that she's created inside her head! When he convinces her to submit the story to a fantasy magazine--and manages to get her to let him be her editor--sparks begin to fly between them. But Nicole...
| Author | Ann Kerns |
| ISBN | 0761360077 |
Nora Reilly is an old soul. Her idea of fun is reading a Jane Austen novel in her family's Victorian home. She didn't expect to find a kindred spirit in the house's oldest occupant, Tom Barnes. Tom is a sweet and handsome boy who died over a hundred years ago. His soul is trapped in the house, and he's not alone....
| Author | Sean McKeever |
| ISBN | 0785126104 |
This Deluxe Hardcover collects Marvel's most mischievous melodrama, as featured in Entertainment Weekly's Must List!
Whether she's going to school or hanging out with her friends at the Coffee Bean, Mary Jane Watson is always the center of attention. But what no one knows is that this gorgeous...
| Author | Patricia MacLachlan |
| ISBN | 0440408091 |
Journey is eleven the summer his mother leaves him and his sister, Cat, with their grandparents. He is sad and angry, and spends the summer looking for the clues that will explain why she left.
Journey searches photographs for answers. He hunts family resemblances in Grandma's albums....
| Author | Chynna Clugston Flores |
Holidays inspire a lot of different reactions in people. For instance, Clover hates the sappiness of Valentine's Day, while Bleu loves Halloween. Clover also hates St. Patrick's Day and how people have turned it into an orgy of green beer and leprechauns, but both girls like April Fool's Day and how...
| Author | Lois Lowry |
| ISBN | 0440205417 |
Natalie Armstrong has all a girl could want: beauty and intelligence, a loving family and a great boyfriend. But something is missing; the answer to a most important question: "Who is my mother?"
To find that answer seventeen-year-old Natalie begins a journey that she hopes will lead to the...
| Author | Barbara Snow Gilbert |
| ISBN | 1590785347 |
Seventeen-year-old Clara Lorenzo has it all: a great family, friends, Marshall—her love interest—waiting in the wings. And to top it all off, she is a brilliant pianist, on her way to a career doing what she loves best.
But does she? Sometimes Clara gets tired of constantly performing....
| Author | Wendelin Van Draanen |
| ISBN | 0060540737 |
How I Survived Being a Girl was my favorite book when I was younger, and I only read it once. So when I found it in my stacks and stacks of books, I had to pick it up again. I scarcely even remembered what it was about, and since I didn't really want to pick up anything too hefty before school started, I just figured...
| Author | Kathe Koja |
| ISBN | 0374372780 |
A powerful debut novel
A female collie mix, so beautiful, all gold and white and dirty; she’s in the last cage on the aisle, curled up quiet, watching everything – but when I get too close she goes completely crazy, biting at the bars, herself, anything in reach, until I back off and away. Her...
Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean
| Author | Sarah Stewart Taylor |
| ISBN | 1423113373 |
Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean, a graphic novel written by Sarah Stewart Taylor and illustrated by Ben Towle, tells the story of Amelia Earhart's historic crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in 1928.
Earhart developed a love of flying at a very young age...and she wasn't about to let any man get...
| Author | Cecil Castellucci |
| ISBN | 1596436867 |
Every summer the trucks roll in, bringing the carnival and its infinite possibilities to town. This year Tessa and her younger sister Lulu are un-chaperoned and want to be first in line to experience the rides, the food... and the boys. Except this summer, jealousy will invade their relationship for...
Do you sometimes wonder if your little efforts could possibly make any difference at all? Consider a simple example from nature.
Honey is “one of the foods that includes all the substances— enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and water—necessary to sustain life,” writes Elder M. Russell...
First Kiss (Then Tell): A Collection of True Lip-Locked Moments
| Author | Cylin Busby |
| ISBN | 1599902419 |
Was it magical, momentous, and completely earth-shattering? Or was it sloppy and self-conscious? Cecil Castellucci realizes that bad boys can be good kissers. Lisa Papademetriou relives being a Texas girl at a Vermont summer camp-and one momentous night in the woods. Amy Kim Ganter draws her first...
| Author | Sophia Amoruso |
| ISBN | 0399174885 |
From Sophia Amoruso, the New York Times–bestselling author of #GIRLBOSS, a lushly illustrated embodiment of the collective spirit of the Nasty Gal brand, Sophia’s own personal brand, and girlbosses everywhere, with a foreword by Courtney Love. Warning: this is not a style book. It’s...
There Goes My Social Life: From Clueless to Conservative
Stacey Dash didn't have the ideal American childhood. Growing up in the South Bronx, her friends were the hustlers, hookers, and gang members who struggled in the face of futility, who sold drugs instead of living on food stamps, who settled matters with fists, knives, and guns because it seemed their...
