Book List - Easy to Read, Hard to Put Down
| 50 x 50 50 Cent View it in Our Catalog The phenomenon that is the making of rapper 50 Cent is told in a rich and succinct voice with powerful visuals that includes photos, tour passes, lyrics, flyers and an unreleased single track CD. | |
| Golden Barnes, Jennifer Lynn View it in Our Catalog Lissy James has The Sight and can tell a lot about someone by seeing their aura. When one teacher's aura shows her something truly evil, she has to rely on her new friends to help stop him. | |
| Battles of the Bands Denman, K. L. View it in Our Catalog School garage bands compete for the winning title in their Battle of the Bands. Meanwhile, the Lunar Ticks have to deal with appeasing the parent that allows them to practice in her garage, work out relationships with other band mates and their adoring fans, as well as finding their place in the world. | |
| Chill Frizzell, Colin View it in Our Catalog School bullies aren't always other teens, sometimes the teachers can be as bad as your fellow peers. How would you handle a teacher that insisted on telling you and your classmates that your dreams for the future were meaningless? | |
| Slam Hornby, Nick View it in Our Catalog Sam is obsessed with skateboarding. He has a beautiful girlfriend. Life is going well for him and his teacher recommends he attend college. However, life takes a sudden turn when he found out he will enter fatherhood soon. | |
| Side Effects Koss, Amy View it in Our Catalog Isabelle (a senior) has cancer---always called "Lymphoma." She relates how she copes with treatments, parents, friends and hospitals. She survives and captures the idiosyncracies of all of them. This is a great personal narrative. | |
| Ninja Masters of Stealth and Secrecy Mattern, Joanne View it in Our Catalog It's a brief introduction and history of the Japanese legendary warriors, ninjas. | |
| Vampire Kisses Schreiber, Ellen View it in Our Catalog Nothing ever exciting happens in the town of Dullsvile until the mysterious Sterlings move into the mansion on top of Benson Hill. The story centers on Raven, a sixteen-year-old girl, who doesn't exactly fit in with the crowd with her black lipstick, black nailpolish, overall goth look, and her fascination with all things vampires. Rumors start to circulate that the Sterlings are vampires, piquing Raven's interest. Could the young and handsome Alexander Sterling end up being Raven's soul mate, vampire or not? | |
| Unwind Shusterman, Neal View it in Our Catalog What if, after the Heartland War (it takes place in the U.S. in the not-too-distant future), you were one of the unruly "faceless kids" between 13 and 18 that nobody (including and especially your parents)wanted? Well then, you'd be the perfect candidate for unwinding. Connor Lassiter runs away, gets caught, runs away, gets caught... You get the idea. Connor "doesn't wanna." Be unwound. Be anybody's or any body's spare parts. | |
| Story of a Girl Zarr, Sara View it in Our Catalog Deanna slept with her older brother's best friend when she was only thirteen. Three years later Deanna is still struggling to take her life in a different direction despite her father's mistrust, her social alienation, and her own low sense of self esteem. Will Deanna ever overcome the stigma attached to this one careless mistake? | |
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