What Are You Afraid Of?: Stories about Phobias
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| Author | Marissa Walsh |
| ISBN | 0547014961 |
How often do you find yourself looking in the mirror? And smiling at what you see?
More likely, you're thinking what you see is: Fat, Ugly, Skinny, Round, Stacked or Flat, Bad or Good. From reality television to tabloid headlines, we're all surrounded by weight and discussion of weight. In this collection,...
| Author | K.L. Going |
| ISBN | 0152062580 |
Liam Geller is Mr. Popularity. Everybody loves him. He excels at sports; he knows exactly what clothes to wear; he always ends up with the most beautiful girls in school. But he's got an uncanny ability to screw up in the very ways that tick off his father the most.
When Liam finally kicked out of the...
| Author | David Hernandez |
| ISBN | 0061173304 |
Numerous reasons exist to prompt a reader into picking up this book for National Hispanic Heritage Month. The reader should pay attention to the development of masculinity. Hernandez cleverly unravels the danger of macho-bullshit. Enrique, the character who is most abused, embraces a tough guy...
Everyone believes in something. Almost everyone.
For Sanskrit Aaron Zuckerman, it isn't easy to believe. Especially when all the people you care about leave.
His Dad left after the divorce. The love of his life left in second grade. His best friend in Jewish school found God and practically...
| Author | Elise Paschen |
| ISBN | 1402210744 |
Poetry Speaks Who I Am is filled with more than 100 remarkable poems about you, who you are, and who you are becoming. Dive in-find the poem you love, the one that makes you angry, the one that makes you laugh, the one that knocks the wind out of you, and become a part of Poetry Speaks Who I Am by adding your own...
| Author | Gloria Skurzynski |
| ISBN | 0689867859 |
Imagine a life of virtual reality -- a childhood contained in a controlled environment, with no human contact or experiences outside of the world of computer-generated images.Corgan has been genetically engineered by the Federation for quick reflexes, high intelligence, and physical superiority....
| Author | Rich Wallace |
| ISBN | 0679885552 |
Another interesting sports and character book; small town wrestling team out East is the obsession of the whole town (like football in Odessa/Midland). The place is the kind of town most kids can't wait to leave, and the teenage behavior is pretty accurate - lots of drinking by athletes and cheerleaders,...
| Author | Robin Bowman |
| ISBN | 1884167691 |
Robin Bowman’s five-year journey into the heart of teenage America created a series of 414 “collaborative portraits,” wherein she shares her discoveries of a generation now coming of age. In searing and intimate photographs, presented alongside the young people’s voices of passion, pride,...
| Author | Betsy Franco |
| ISBN | 0763648396 |
“The quality here is head and shoulders above most young writers’ collections, and in fact it’s well above many adult anthologies as well.”
— Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review)
The poets are straight, gay, lesbian, bi, or transgender. They live...
| Author | Gary Paulsen |
| ISBN | 0689841809 |
Newbery Honor author Gary Paulsen has long been an ardent supporter of books, reading, and literacy programs. To further the cause of ProLiteracy Worldwide, he asked prominent authors to write an original story; the only restriction was that each story was to include mention of a book. The result is...
| Author | Cynthia Rylant |
| ISBN | 0152053123 |
John Dante is seventeen when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, and he wants to fight for his country. But then he falls head over heels for Ginny Burton, who is against all war, and his beliefs are suddenly questioned. Rather than be judged a traitor or a coward, though, John enlists--a decision that changes...
| Author | Scott W. Hunt |
| ISBN | 0525468188 |
I can't believe it took me this long to read this book!! I loved it! Artist Scott Hunt provides 9 evocative charcoal drawings meant to inspire narration, and 18 authors for teens write short stories about them. There are two stories for each picture, proving that there is no "right" way to interpret a picture....
| Author | Martin H. Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0756403847 |
All in all, a good book. Like any compilation of short stories by different authors, some were better than others. Usually, I found I had a preference for the more humorous stories ("Gordie Culligan vs Dr. Longbeach and the HVAC of Doom" for example), but I really feel my favorite stories were the ones...
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 1595825460 |
A hit man who kills with coincidence... A detective caught in a war between two worlds... A man whose terrible appetites hide an even darker secret . . .
Dark Horse once again teams up with Hugo and Bram Stoker award-winning editor Ellen Datlow (Lovecraft Unbound) to bring you this masterful...
| Author | Deborah Noyes |
| ISBN | 0763629065 |
Ten extraordinary authors spin hair-raising original tales collected by the anthologist of GOTHIC!
With scary stories by: M. T. Anderson, Holly Black, Libba Bray, Herbie Brennan, Nancy Etchemendy, Annette Curtis Klause, Kelly Link, Deborah Noyes, Marcus Sedgwick, and Chris Wooding
Enter...
Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction: Build Implements of Spitball Warfare
| Author | John Austin |
| ISBN | 1556529538 |
PopularMechanics.com selection for one of The Best DIY and Home Improvement Books of 2009
We’ve come a long way from the Peashooter Era: with the advent of modern household products and office supplies—binder clips, clothespins, rubber bands, ballpoint pens, toothpicks,...
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Extreme Edition: Extreme Edition
| Author | Joshua Piven |
| ISBN | 0811845389 |
How could it get any worse? For the latest book in the phenomenally successful Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series, the authors have pulled out all the stops, harkening back to the core appeal that made the first book a runaway bestseller. Here are all new scenarios for living life on the very...
Friends: Stories About New Friends, Old Friends, And Unexpectedly True Friends
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0439729912 |
Stories of friendship from some of the most acclaimed and dynamic writers in children's books today, edited by Ann M. Martin and David Levithan, with all proceeds going to The Lisa Libraries.
The friend can be the girl next door . . . or a faithful dog . . . or a teacher . . . or just plain invisible....
Half a Creature from the Sea: A Life in Stories
| Author | David Almond |
| ISBN | 0763678775 |
In fiction, real worlds merge with dreamed worlds. Real people walk with ghosts and figments. Earthly truth goes hand in hand with watery lies…
May Malone is said to have a monster in her house, but what Norman finds there may just be the angel he needs. Joe Quinn’s house is noisy with poltergeists,...
Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian Flu
| Author | Philip Alcabes |
| ISBN | 1586486187 |
The average individual is far more likely to die in a car accident than from a communicable disease…yet we are still much more fearful of the epidemic. Even at our most level-headed, the thought of an epidemic can inspire terror. As Philip Alcabes persuasively argues in Dread, our anxieties about...
| Author | Mary Jane Ward |
| ISBN | 0451055276 |
A dramatic best-seller, The Snake Pit vividly depicts one woman's plunge into the nightmare world of the mentally ill and her agonizing climb back to health and freedom. When it was first published, the book claimed attention as a moving study of mental illness based on personal knowledge. This fictionalized,...
| Author | David Klass |
| ISBN | 0374323070 |
His mother is not his mother. His father is not his father. But if Jack hadn't broken the high school rushing record that night, he never would have known and nothing would have changed. He'd just be going out for pizza, playing football, trying yet again to score with his girlfriend, P.J. But he did break...
Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy
In his 2003 National Book Award–winning memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana, Carlos Eire narrated his coming of age in Cuba just before and during the Castro revolution. That book literally ends in midair as eleven-year-old Carlos and his older brother leave Havana on an airplane—along with thousands...
The Insanity File: The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln
| Author | Mark E. Neely Jr. |
| ISBN | 0809318954 |
In 1875 Robert Todd Lincoln caused his mother, Mary Todd Lincoln, to be committed to an insane asylum. Based on newly discovered manuscript materials, this book seeks to explain how and why.
In these documents—marked by Robert Todd Lincoln as the "MTL Insanity File"—exists the only definitive...
