The Trap

Author	Cornelia Cornelissen
ISBN	0440412420

It all begins when Soft Rain's teacher reads a letter stating that as of May 23, 1838, all Cherokee people are to leave their land and move to what many Cherokees called "the land of darkness". . .the west. Soft Rain is confident that her family will not have to move, because they have just planted corn for...

Author	William Sleator
ISBN	0141311010

When Peter is hit by a car, he is given the ultimate do-over: go back to any point in time before that fateful moment, and alter the events leading up to his death. If he fails, he will die again--this time, for good. Now Peter's racing against time to save his own life, but what should he change? His adoptive...

Author	Meghan Nuttall Sayres
ISBN	0810954818

This book made me taste the flavors, see the colors, smell the spices, hear the sounds, and feel the fabrics. It employed each of my 5 senses. I felt like I was really in 19th century Iran, and it made me kind of want to be a Nomad. I was totally on Anahita's side when it came to absolutely NOT marrying the Khan,...

Author	Virginia Euwer Wolff
ISBN	0590898000

Please see my for stars as four and a half. Or perhaps you're seeing five stars. This is one of those I'm not sure of: did I like it enough to give it five stars?

It’s 1949 and two small communities in Oregon have been getting together for fifty years for sixth grade girls from each community to play...

Author	Christopher Paul Curtis
ISBN	0440413311

Luther T. Farrell has got to get out of Flint, Michigan.

As his best friend Sparky says, “Flint’s nothing but the Titanic.”

And his mother, a.k.a. the Sarge, says, “Take my advice and stay off the sucker path.”

The Sarge milked the system to build an empire of slum...

Author	John H. Ritter
ISBN	0698119312

Tyler's temper is out of control. If he isn't careful, he'll blow his chances of making the All-Star team and being noticed by a scout. But Tyler's coach, a Vietnam War veteran, has seen anger destroy enough people. He knows that if Tyler is ever going to fulfill his dreams, he'll have to learn to fight his...

Author	Brendan Halpin
ISBN	1400062772

Rosalind had two mommies. Now, thanks to a tragic accident involving foodstuffs, she has none. And Sean, the sperm donor responsible for half her DNA (and nothing else), is taking custody. Rosalind finds herself adjusting to a new life that seems both hateful and surreal–she’s an orphan with a...

Author	Jane Irwin
ISBN	0974311006

When Jakob, Vögelein's Guardian of fifty years, dies quietly in his sleep one night, her life is thrown into utter turmoil. Left without someone to wind her, the tiny clockwork faerie has less than five hours to live--unless she can find someone to trust. Unable to reach the keyhole in her back, she continues...

Author

Chris Lynch

If you do it right, it can be a life. The hothouse, the guys, the glory. But just like that, it can all go up in smoke. In the beginning it was strange, ya know, because of all that we had lost. But there was something about it that felt so good and so right, too: "I'm so proud of you, Russ." "We'll always be here...

Author	Geert Spillebeen
ISBN	0618800352

As a young man, Rudyard Kipling was devastated when his military application was rejected because of poor eyesight. Although Rudyard would go on to win England’s highest accolades, he never got over this lost opportunity to serve his country.

When World War I broke out, John, like his father...

Author	Michael Simmons
ISBN	1595140751

Not too shabby. It definitely was a welcome diversion from all of the supernatural/romance/football books that currently glut the young adult genre. Evan MacAlister is rich, but not spoiled--at least from his point of view--and this is his main complaint. As a way of retaliating against his father's...

Author	Peter Gould
ISBN	0374384835

Sixteen-year-old Victor, a thoughtful loner who tries to live his life “under the radar,” wants to test out the saying “You have to be naked to write.” When he sneaks off with an old Royal typewriter to his uncle’s cabin deep in the Vermont woods and strips off his clothes, he expects Thoreau-like...

Author	Ben Mikaelson
ISBN	1562825232

Ever since Josh's older brother died, his father has been drinking too much and taking his anger out on Josh. But when he orphans a bear cub, it's more than Josh can stand. Josh insists on rescuing the bear cub--only to find that he must surrender it to game officials.

Knowing the cub will be sent...

Author	Paul Feig
ISBN	0316166634

After being teased one too many times at school, Ignatius MacFarland decides to build a rocket. Maybe extraterrestrials are nicer than his classmates! But when his rocket takes an explosive wrong turn, Ignatius ends up in another frequency run by former English-teacher-turned-dictator, Chester...

Author	Mollie Hunter
ISBN	0060271868

Robert the Bruce, King of Scots, led Scotland's rebel army in a thirty-year war against England. Now award-winning author Mollie Hunter tells the story of this legendary king, and of the young man who would become his swift rider and master of espionage. As Scotland's guerrilla campaign gathers bloody...

Author	Gloria Whelan
ISBN	1585364193

Ella May lives on a plantation but she doesn’t live in the great house. She is a slave. It’s dark in the morning when Ella May heads to the fields to pick cotton. And it’s sunset when she comes home. But her day isn’t done, not yet. Ella May still has important work to do. She’s got to listen.Each...

Author	Matt Dickinson
ISBN	0312989326

Adventurer Carl Norland and celebrity explorer Julian Fitzgerald have teamed up in an attempt to walk across Antarctica at its widest point, a crossing of some 2,000 frozen miles. Success would place their names alongside those of such polar legends as Scott, Shackleton, and Admundsen, but when their...

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Bear Grylls

In Man vs. Wild, Bear Grylls demonstrates all manner of survival techniques when faced with nature's extremes--from crossing piranha-infested rivers to fighting off grizzly bears. He shows us how, armed with the correct know-how and a determination to stay alive, all of us have the potential to beat...

Author	Debbie Levy
ISBN	1423129016

This book tells the true story of what happened to a 12-year-old girl named Jutta (Debbie Levy’s mother) in 1938. Actual entries in a posiealbum (autograph book) serve as stepping stones in a crucial year in history, when people of Jewish ancestry in Germany and Austria were systematically stripped...

Author	Kirkpatrick Hill
ISBN	1584855207

Twelve-year-old Minuk is intrigued by the Hoffs, the American missionary family that has moved into her village. Although she has seen white men before, Minuk has never seen a white woman--or a white child. It soon becomes clear that although the Hoffs can speak the Yup'ik language, they don't understand...

Author	Sue Henry
ISBN	0380724073

When the ice breaks up on a nameless Alaskan lake, one mystery is solved and another arises. Six months after Norm Lewis disappeared while flying out of Anchorage, his fractured Cessna is discovered half submerged in the frigid waters of this isolated lake hundreds of miles from his intended destination....

Author	Carolyn Keene
ISBN	0671674994

Nancy and Ned are off to Southern California to visit Josh Kline and his younger sister, Rachel. But when Rachel disappears from her high school commencement, Nancy learns that the girl has graduated into a world of trouble. She's fallen into an ultra-rich, ultra-chic, ultra-dangerous LA scene.

One...

Author

Mary Robinette Kowal

This is a delightful novella from MRK, something that totally deviates from the style of the other stuff of hers that I've read (Glamourist and Lady Astronaut,) so it was really refreshing to see her do a science fiction buddy cop mystery.

One of the best things about novellas is you get just enough...

Author	Bob Krech
ISBN	0761453199

Bob Krech’s Rebound takes you through a story form main character Ray’s perspective. Ray is white living in a predominantly black town in New Jersey. He loves the game of basketball, but in that town it is rare and sort of unheard of for white kids to be playing basketball. Although he gets cut from...

Author	Chris Mould
ISBN	0340945060

Stanley et Daisy se retrouvent bien embêtés quand l’Ibis, caché dans l’estomac de l’espadon qui ornait un mur du manoir, se met à réveiller les morts et à attirer les pirates sur l’île. Heureusement Stanley n’est pas sans ressources : entre le soutien de son amie, son sens de la stratégie...