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21041W7 | Alexie, Sherman -- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian [ NB VO BC* BL SL* NY PW* HB* ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Little Brown, c2008.
AR: 4.0 UG 6.0 117771EN Lexile: 600 | FBG | 1 | | 12.36 | 12.36 |
| Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on September 10, 2008. | |
22681T5 | Anderson, Laurie Halse. -- Twisted [ KR* BL PW NY SL WS HB* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Viking, 2007., 250p
After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.
AR: 4.3 UG 8.0 113803EN Lexile: 680 | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
23304W9 | Anderson, M.T -- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to His Nation, Volume II The Kingdom on the Waves [ BL* ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Candlewick, c2008.
Octavian, a young African-American, is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years prior to and during the American Revolution. | HRD | 1 | | 19.54 | 19.54 |
| Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on October 14, 2008. | |
17833W2 | Aronson, Marc -- War Is? Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk About War [ KR ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Candlewick Press, c2008.
A collection of essays, memoirs, letters, and fiction that present opposing viewpoints on the nature of war by such contributors as Mark Twain, Bob Dylan, and Ernie Pyle. | HRD | 1 | | 15.29 | 15.29 |
| Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on September 9, 2008. | |
21942U7 | Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. -- The boy who dared [ BL* VO LM KR BK BK* SL PW* ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Scholastic Press, 2008., RL 3.8, 202p
In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hubener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.
AR: 4.9 MG 5.0 121004EN Lexile: 760 | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
18456U3 | Bauer, Joan, 1951- -- Peeled [ VO KR BL HB KL PW* SL BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Putnams, c2008., 248p
In an upstate New York farming community, high school reporter Hildy Biddle investigates a series of strange occurrences at a house rumored to be haunted.
AR: 4.2 MG 7.0 122349EN | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
21457W9 | Black, Holly. -- The Good Neighbors {IL 5-8, 741.5} -- Graphix, c2008.
Sixteen-year-old Rue Silver, whose mother disappeared weeks ago, believes she is going crazy until she learns that the strange things she has been seeing are real, and that she is one of the faerie creatures, or Good Neighbors, that mortals cannot see. | HRD | 1 | | 15.29 | 15.29 |
| Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on September 1, 2008. | |
16552V9 | Bodeen, S. A. (Stephanie A.) , 1965- -- The compound [ VO LM KR BL HB SL PW* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Feiwel and Friends, 2008., 248p
Fifteen-year-old Eli, locked inside a radiation-proof compound built by his father to keep them safe following a nuclear attack, begins to question his future, as well as his father's grip on sanity as the family's situation steadily disintegrates over the course of six years. | HRD | 1 | | 16.95 | 16.95 |
18868W2 | Booth, Coe -- Kendra {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Push, c2008.
High schooler Kendra longs to live with her mother who, unprepared for motherhood at age fourteen, left Kendra in the care of her grandmother. | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
| Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on October 1, 2008. | |
27751U2 | Bradley, Alex. -- Hot lunch [ KR HB KL SL HB* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Dutton Childrens Books, c2007., 276p
After getting in a food fight with her classmate, Cassie Birchmeyer, Molly Ollinger is forced to work with her in the cafeteria; and the two have to find a way to get along.
AR: 4.4 MG 9.0 116592EN Lexile: 690 | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
11001U1 | Bray, Libba. -- The sweet far thing [ VO BL SL PW* ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Delacorte Press, c2007., 819p
At Spence Academy, sixteen-year-old Gemma Doyle continues preparing for her London debut while struggling to determine how best to use magic to resolve a power struggle in the enchanted world of the realms, and to protect her own world and loved ones.
AR: 4.8 UG 30.0 119499EN Lexile: 640 | HRD | 1 | | 22.66 | 22.66 |
11332V2 | Burg, Shana. -- A thousand never evers [ KR BL KL SL LM* PW* ] {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Delacorte Press, c2008., RL 5.6, 301p
As the civil rights movement in the South gains momentum in 1963 and violence against African-Americans intensifies, residents of the small town of Kuckachoo, Mississippi, including seventh-grader Addie Ann Pickett, begin their own courageous struggle for racial justice. | HRD | 1 | | 13.59 | 13.59 |
14347W7 | Collins, Suzanne. -- The Hunger Games {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Scholastic Press, c2008.
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. | HRD | 1 | | 15.29 | 15.29 |
16080U8 | Couloumbis, Audrey. -- Love me tender [ KR BL SL PW* BC ] {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Random House, c2008., RL 5.4, 209p
Thirteen-year-old Elvira worries about her future when, after a fight, her father heads to Las Vegas for an Elvis impersonator competition and her pregnant mother takes her and her younger sister to Memphis to visit a grandmother the girls have never met. | HRD | 1 | | 21.59 | 21.59 |
15550VX | Coville, Bruce. -- Oddest of all [ VO KR ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Harcourt, c2008., 235p
Contains nine fiction stories by Bruce Coville, telling of frog mutations, child disappearances, ghosts, and other frights and oddities. | HRD | 1 | | 13.60 | 13.60 |
17556V2 | Doctorow, Cory. -- Little brother [ BL* VO KR SL* PW* KL* HB* ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Tor, 2008., 382p
Interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus is released into what is now a police state, and decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.
AR: 5.9 UG 17.0 122449EN | HRD | 1 | | 17.95 | 17.95 |
02660U6 | Dowd, Siobhan. -- The London Eye mystery [ BL* KR* LM SL* BK* PW* HB* BC ] {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- David Fickling Books, 2008, c2007., RL 6.1, 322p
When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings must work together--Ted with his brain that is "wired differently" and impatient Kat--to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim.
AR: 4.1 MG 7.0 120571EN Lexile: 640 | HRD | 1 | | 20.50 | 20.50 |
23078W6 | Ellwand, David -- The Mystery of the Fool and the Vanisher [ KR ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Candlewick, c2008.
Photographer David Ellwand, who finds a flint stone that allows him to look into the realm of the fairies, travels to the past, where he finds a nineteenth-century journal and a world of magic and imagination. | HRD | 1 | | 16.14 | 16.14 |
| Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on September 9, 2008. | |
02173V5 | Frost, Helen, 1949- -- Diamond Willow [ BC* BL HB SL ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008., RL 4.9, 111p
In a remote area of Alaska, twelve-year-old Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school, wishing she were more popular, all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of dead ancestors and friends who care for her. | HRD | 1 | | 13.60 | 13.60 |
28046U9 | Gallagher, Liz. -- The opposite of invisible [ VO KR BL PW SL LM* KL* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Wendy Lamb Books, c2008., 153p
Artistic Seattle high school sophomore Alice decides to emerge from her cocoon and date a football player, which causes a rift between her and her best friend, a boy who wants to be more than just friends.
AR: 3.5 UG 4.0 120162EN Lexile: 530 | HRD | 1 | | 20.50 | 20.50 |
05986U2 | Gratz, Alan, 1972- -- Something rotten : a Horatio Wilkes mystery [ LM KR BK HB KL* ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Dial Books, c2007., 207p
In a contemporary story based on Shakespeare's play "Hamlet," Horatio Wilkes seeks to solve the murder of his friend Hamilton Prince's father in Denmark, Tennessee.
AR: 4.8 UG 8.0 117770EN Lexile: 790 | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
18101X3 | Gray, Claudia. -- Evernight [ VO KR BL KL SL BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- HarperTeen, c2008., 327p
Sixteen-year-old Bianca, a new girl at the sinister Evernight boarding school, finds herself drawn to another outsider, Jared, but dark forces threaten to tear them apart and destroy Bianca's entire world. | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
26132W6 | Green, John -- Paper Towns [ BL* VO ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Dutton, c2008.
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure, then mysteriously disappears. | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
| Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on October 16, 2008. | |
07803WX | Haddix, Margaret Peterson. -- Found [ LM KR BL SL PW* BC ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2008., RL 4.8, 314p
When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.
AR: 5.0 MG 9.0 121302EN Lexile: 750 | HRD | 1 | | 13.59 | 13.59 |
15809VX | Hague, Michael. -- In the small [ VO SL BC ] {IL YA, 741.5} -- Little, Brown and Co., 2008., 124p
Mouse, Beatrix and the rest of humankind are shrunk down to six inches after a blue light flashes across the earth, and they must survive in their new place in the food chain as dark, uncivilized forces develop to destroy them all. | HRD | 1 | | 16.99 | 16.99 |
17168V1 | Hantman, Clea. -- 30 days to getting over the dork you used to call your boyfriend : a heartbreak handbook [ VO KR ] {IL YA, 155.6} -- Delacorte Press, c2008., 161p
Contains thirty days of activities and advice aimed at helping one move on after a break up. | FBG | 1 | | 11.96 | 11.96 |
24653W4 | Hartnett, Sonya -- The Ghost's Child {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Candlewick, c2008.
Maddy, an elderly woman, returns home to find a strange boy waiting for her, and she tells him the story about when she fell in love with a man named Feather, who put aside his old existence to live with her in a cottage and conceived a child with her--who was never to be born--and left, which caused Maddy to follow him across the sea. | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
| Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on October 14, 2008. | |
06130X2 | Headley, Justina Chen -- North of Beautiful {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Little, Brown Books for Y, c2009. | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
| Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on February 1, 2009. | |
32332X0 | Hinds, Gareth, 1971- -- Beowulf [ WM BL PW NY HB SL WS BC ] {IL 5-8, 741.5} -- Candlewick Press, 2007., RL 6.5
Presents a graphic novel adaptation of the Old English epic poem, "Beowulf," in which a Norse hero saves Denmark's royal house from monsters, returns home to become his own people's greatest king, and then faces a murderous dragon to protect them. | FBG | 1 | | 15.26 | 15.26 |
06087V3 | Hinds, Gareth, 1971- -- The merchant of Venice : a play by William Shakespeare [ VO KR* PW HB KL SL BC ] {IL YA, 741.5} -- Candlewick Press, c2008., 68p
A graphic novel adaptation of Shakespeare's dark comedy about a creditor who demands a pound of flesh as payment for a defaulted debt, and a lover who must choose among three caskets in a riddle game to win the hand of a wealthy lady. | HRD | 1 | | 18.69 | 18.69 |
11865W9 | Hopkins, Ellen. -- Identical [ KR* SL PW* ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Margaret K. McElderry Books, c2008., 565p
Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart. | HRD | 1 | | 15.29 | 15.29 |
20670U0 | Horvath, Polly. -- The corps of the bare-boned plane [ VO KR BL PW HB SL HB* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Farrar Straus Giroux, 2007., 261p
When their parents are killed in a train accident, cousins Meline and Jocelyn, who have little in common, are sent to live with their wealthy, eccentric, and isolated Uncle Marten on his island off the coast of British Columbia, where they are soon joined by other oddly disconnected and troubled people.
AR: 5.8 MG 11.0 116011EN Lexile: 940 | HRD | 1 | | 14.45 | 14.45 |
23921V4 | Hurley, Tonya. -- Ghostgirl [ VO KR* SL* PW* ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Little, Brown, 2008., RL 5.8, 328p
Charlotte Usher has always struggled to fit in at her high school, and when Charlotte finds herself living in a parallel spiritual world after choking to death on a gummy bear, she tries to reconnect with the physical world while making new friends at her new school for the dead. | HRD | 1 | | 15.29 | 15.29 |
06641W5 | Jenkins, A. M. (Amanda McRaney) -- Night road [ VO PW HB KL SL BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- HarperTeen, c2008., 362p
Cole, a hemovore who feeds off of human blood, is asked to take another heme out for training, but, Gordon, his new charge, is having difficulty leaving his old life behind and his actions soon threaten them both. | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
19421V0 | Johnson, Maureen, 1973- -- Suite Scarlett [ BL* VO KR HB KL ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Point, 2008., 353p
Fifteen-year-old Scarlett Marvin is stuck in New York City for the summer working at her quirky family's historic hotel, but her brother's attractive new friend and a seasonal guest who offers her an intriguing and challenging writing project improve her outlook. | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
20588X4 | Keller, Laurie. -- The scrambled states of America : talent show [ KR BL PW* ] {IL K-3, -E-} -- Henry Holt, 2008., RL 4, 36p
The states decide to get together and put on a show featuring their particular talents. Also includes facts about the history and geography of the states.
AR: 4.0 LG 0.5 122761EN | HRD | 1 | | 15.26 | 15.26 |
11166X6 | Korman, Gordon -- The juvie three [ KR ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Hyperion Books for, c2008.
Gecko, Arjay, and Terence, all in trouble with the law, must find a way to keep their halfway house open in order to stay out of juvenile detention. | HRD | 1 | | 13.59 | 13.59 |
| Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on September 2, 2008. | |
06003W1 | Lanagan, Margo -- Tender Morsels [ BL* ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Alfred A. Knopf, c2008.
A young woman who has endured unspeakable cruelties is magically granted a safe haven apart from the real world and allowed to raise her two daughters in this alternate reality, until the barrier between her world and the real one begins to break down. | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
| Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on October 14, 2008. | |
16640W1 | Landy, Derek. -- Skulduggery Pleasant : playing with fire [ VO KR* BL SL ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- HarperCollins, c2008., RL 6.2, 389p
When the evil Baron Vengeous escapes from prison, Detective Skulduggery Pleasant and his apprentice, Valkyrie Cain, have just two days to recapture him or the Baron's creature, the Grotesquery, may summon the Faceless Ones back to their world. | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
03469XX | Larson, Hope. -- Chiggers [ KR BL SL BC ] {IL 5-8, 741.5} -- Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2008., RL 5.1, 170p
When Abby returns to the same summer camp she always goes to, she is dismayed to find that her old friends have changed, and the only person who wants to be her friend is the strange new girl, Shasta.
AR: 2.2 MG 1.0 122751EN | HRD | 1 | | 15.29 | 15.29 |
18039W7 | Leedy, Loreen. -- Crazy like a fox : a simile story {IL K-3, -E-} -- Holiday House, c2008., RL 2.1, 32p
In a story told entirely in similes, Rufus the fox is behaving strangely, but for a very good reason. Includes a definition of simile and suggestions for writing a simile story. | HRD | 1 | | 16.10 | 16.10 |
11701X4 | Lester, Julius -- Guardian {IL YA, -Fic-} -- HarperTeen, c2008.
In a rural southern town in 1946, a white man and his son witness the lynching of an innocent black man. Includes historical note on lynching. | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
| Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on November 1, 2008. | |
05096X4 | Lewis, J. Patrick. -- Birds on a wire : a Renga 'round town [ BL* KR ] {IL K-3, 811} -- Wordsong, c2008., RL 4.3, 32p
Describes daily life in a small, American town through linked verses written by various authors. | HRD | 1 | | 15.26 | 15.26 |
06529V7 | Lockhart, E. -- The disreputable history of Frankie Landau-Banks : a novel [ BL* VO KR* SL* HB PW* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Hyperion, c2008., 345p
Frankie Landau-Banks attempts to take over a secret, all-male society at her exclusive prep school, and her antics with the group soon draw some unlikely attention and have unexpected consequences that could change her life forever.
AR: 5.5 MG 9.0 121946EN Lexile: 890 | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
06366X6 | Lyga, Barry -- Hero-Type [ BL ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Houghton Mifflin, c2008.
Feeling awkward and ugly is one of several reasons sixteen-year-old Kevin is uncomfortable with the publicity about his act of accidental heroism, but when a reporter photographs him apparently being unpatriotic, he speaks out and encourages people to think about what the symbols of freedom really mean. | HRD | 1 | | 13.60 | 13.60 |
| Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on September 1, 2008. | |
09814V4 | Mazer, Norma Fox, 1931- -- The missing girl [ BL* VO KR* SL* PW HB KL* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- HarperTeen, c2008., 284p
In Mallory, New York, as five sisters, aged eleven to seventeen, deal with assorted problems, conflicts, fears, and yearnings, a mysterious middle-aged man watches them, fascinated, deciding which one he likes the best.
AR: 4.6 MG 6.0 120993EN Lexile: 780 | HRD | 1 | | 17.89 | 17.89 |
12991W9 | McNeil, Carla Speed. -- Pendragon graphic novel. Book one,The merchant of death {IL 5-8, 741.5} -- Aladdin Paperbacks, 2008., RL 6.2, 170p
Fourteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon receives a visit from his Uncle, learns he is a Traveler of time and space, and ends up on Denduron, a medieval world where Bedoowan enslave the peaceful Milagos and Bobby's job is to set them free by teaming up with other Travelers and a girl named Loor. | PAP | 1 | | 8.49 | 8.49 |
17337V6 | Meldrum, Christina. -- Madapple [ BL* VO KR* SL* HB KL PW* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Alfred A. Knopf, c2008., 410p
A girl who has been brought up in near isolation is thrown into a twisted web of family secrets and religious fundamentalism when her mother dies and she goes to live with relatives she never knew she had.
AR: 4.8 UG 13.0 122346EN | HRD | 1 | | 21.59 | 21.59 |
28353V8 | Morpurgo, Michael. -- The Mozart question [ VO BL SL ] {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Candlewick Press, 2008, c2006., RL 6.3, 66p
A young journalist goes to Venice, Italy, to interview a famous violinist, who tells the story of his parents' incarceration by the Nazis, and explains why they can no longer listen to the music of Mozart.
AR: 5.0 MG 1.0 119447EN | HRD | 1 | | 13.59 | 13.59 |
17305V2 | Myers, Walter Dean, 1937- -- Sunrise over Fallujah [ KR* BL SL* NY LM* PW* HB* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Scholastic Press, 2008., 290p
Robin Perry, from Harlem, is sent to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the Civilian Affairs Battalion, and his time there profoundly changes him.
AR: 5.3 UG 11.0 121470EN Lexile: 780 | HRD | 1 | | 15.29 | 15.29 |
15209X3 | Myracle, Lauren -- Bliss [ KR* ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Amulet Books, c2008.
Having grown up in a California commune, Bliss sees her aloof grandmother's Atlanta world as a foreign country, but she is determined to be nice as a freshman at an elite high school, which makes her the perfect target for Sandy, a girl obsessed with the occult. | HRD | 1 | | 14.40 | 14.40 |
| Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on September 1, 2008. | |
21997XX | Nelson, Marilyn -- The freedom business --including a narrative of the life and adventures of Venture, a native of Africa./ {IL YA, 811} -- Wordsong, c2008.
A collection of poems by Marilyn Nelson, accompanied by prose by African slave Venture Smith and watercolor painting by Deborah Dancy. | HRD | 1 | | 16.10 | 16.10 |
| Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on October 1, 2008. | |
14537V3 | Nye, Naomi Shihab. -- Honeybee : poems & short prose [ VO BL SL* HB BC ] {IL 5-8, 811} -- Greenwillow Books, c2008., RL 5.8, 164p
A collection of poems and short prose pieces in which Naomi Shihab Nye reflects on the topics that are most important to people, including love, memories, war, and the planet. | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
01756V2 | Pausch, Randy. -- The last lecture {IL AD, 004.092} -- Hyperion, c2008., 206p
Computer science professor Randy Pausch, who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, discusses how to overcome obstacles in one's life and achieve one's dreams. | HRD | 1 | | 18.66 | 18.66 |
22823V9 | Pearson, Mary (Mary E.) -- The adoration of Jenna Fox [ VO KR* BL SL* HB KL PW* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Henry Holt, 2008., 266p
In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence. | HRD | 1 | | 15.26 | 15.26 |
28904X2 | Peck, Richard -- On the Wings of Heroes [ VO WC KR* WM BL HB PW* ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Puffin, c2008.
A boy in Illinois remembers the homefront years of World War II, especially his two heroes--his brother in the Air Force and his father, who fought in the previous war.
AR: 4.6 MG 4.0 114707EN Lexile: 730 | FBG | 1 | | 11.56 | 11.56 |
| Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on October 16, 2008. | |
05409W2 | Pemberton, Julius Smythe. -- Vampires and other monstrous creatures {IL 5-8, 398.21} -- HarperCollins, 2008, c2007., RL 8.8, 80p
A vampire hunting guide that offers advice from vampire hunters throughout history on the best ways to hunt down and kill the undead. | HRD | 1 | | 10.96 | 10.96 |
12981X0 | Perez, Marlene. -- Dead is the new black {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Harcourt, c2008., 190p
Seventeen-year-old Daisy Giordano, daughter and sister of psychics, attempts to help her mother discover who is behind a series of bizarre attacks on teenage girls in their little town of Nightshade, California. | PAP | 1 | | 6.76 | 6.76 |
21073V2 | Pfeffer, Susan Beth, 1948- -- The dead and the gone [ BL* VO KR SL PW* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Harcourt, 2008., 321p
After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City.
AR: 4.3 MG 12.0 122569EN | HRD | 1 | | 14.45 | 14.45 |
27419X3 | Phillips, Suzanne -- Burn {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Little, Brown Books for Y, c2009.
Bullied constantly during his freshman year in high school, Cameron's anger and isolation grows, leading to deadly consequences. | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
| Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on November 1, 2008. | |
13530W6 | Poe, Marshall. -- Turning points : Little Rock Nine {IL 3-6, 741.5} -- Aladdin Paperbacks, 2008., RL 5.1, 120p
A graphic novel adaptation of the story of nine African American students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957, and focuses on the friendship of William McNally and Thomas Johnson, the son of William's family's maid. | FBG | 1 | | 11.96 | 11.96 |
28833W0 | Polacco, Patricia. -- For the love of Autumn [ LM KR SL ] {IL K-3, -E-} -- Philomel Books, c2008., RL 3.6, 36p
Miss Parks, a new teacher, is devastated when her cat, Autumn, disappears during a storm, but with the help of her students, she finds not only Autumn but also the man of her dreams. | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
25217X9 | Rappaport, Doreen. -- Abe's honest words --the life of Abraham Lincoln / illustrated by Kadir Nelson [ BL* ] {IL K-3, 973.092} -- Hyperion Books for -, c2009. | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
| Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on October 7, 2008. | |
02216V4 | Reinhardt, Dana. -- How to build a house : a novel [ VO SL* HB PW* KL* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Wendy Lamb Books, c2008., 227p
Seventeen-year-old Harper Evans hopes to escape the effects of her father's divorce on her family and friendships by volunteering her summer to build a house in a small Tennessee town devastated by a tornado. | HRD | 1 | | 13.59 | 13.59 |
20003XX | Rex, Adam. -- Frankenstein takes the cake [ KR PW* ] {IL K-3, 811} -- Harcourt, c2008., RL 3.2, 39p
Contains poems about the bad habits, anxieties, and other fears and foibles of monsters, including selections about Frankenstein's wedding.
AR: 3.7 LG 0.5 122900EN | HRD | 1 | | 13.60 | 13.60 |
22018W3 | Rex, Michael. -- Goodnight goon : a petrifying parody [ KR ] {IL K-3, -E-} -- G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2008., RL 2.9, 32p
A parody of Margaret Brown's "Goodnight Moon" in which a little werewolf must banish all the frightening things in his bedroom before he can get to sleep. | HRD | 1 | | 12.74 | 12.74 |
05301V0 | Saenz, Benjamin Alire. -- He forgot to say good-bye [ VO BL HB PW* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2008., 321p
Two teenaged boys with very different lives find that they share a common bond--fathers they have never met who left when they were small boys--and in spite of their differences, they become close when they each need someone who understands. | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
06794W4 | Scieszka, Jon -- Knucklehead --Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing Up Scieszka {IL 3-6, 800} -- Viking, c2008.
Presents a memoir of what it was like to grow up in the 1950s and other almost true stories by American children's author Jon Scieszka. | HRD | 1 | | 13.59 | 13.59 |
| Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on October 2, 2008. | |
01472VX | Shields, Charles J., 1951- -- I am Scout : the biography of Harper Lee [ VO KR BL HB SL BC ] {IL YA, 813} -- Henry Holt, 2008., 246p
An exploration of the life and achievements of Harper Lee that discusses her Southern upbringing, education, family, writing of "To Kill a Mockingbird," association with Truman Capote, and personality.
AR: 8.3 MG 10.0 121469EN Lexile: 1120 | HRD | 1 | | 17.06 | 17.06 |
26321V5 | Smith, Hope Anita. -- Keeping the night watch [ BL* VO BC* BK SL* HB LM* ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Henry Holt, 2008., RL 3.1, 73p
A thirteen-year-old African American boy chronicles what happens to his family when his father, who temporarily left, returns home and they all must deal with their feelings of anger, hope, abandonment, and fear.
AR: 3.6 MG 1.0 122208EN | HRD | 1 | | 17.06 | 17.06 |
15182V1 | Spinelli, Jerry. -- Smiles to go [ VO KR BL PW HB KL SL BC ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Joanna Cotler Books, c2008., RL 6.9, 248p
Will Tuppence's life has always been ruled by science and common sense but in ninth grade, shaken up by the discovery that protons decay, he begins to see the entire world differently and gains new perspective on his relationships with his little sister and two closest friends.
AR: 3.3 MG 5.0 121944EN Lexile: 490 | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
14187U5 | Sturm, James, 1965- -- Satchel Paige : striking out Jim Crow [ BL* BC* KR* NY HB SL LM* PW* ] {IL 5-8, 741.5} -- Hyperion/Jump at the Sun, c2007., RL 5.6, 89p
A graphic novel account of the career of Negro League pitcher Satchel Paige, discussing the show he put on as a popular player, as well as the respect he demanded as an African-American.
AR: 4.3 MG 1.0 119754EN | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
21752T4 | Tan, Shaun. -- The arrival [ NB BL* KR* BK SL* NY LM* HB* ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- A. A. Levine, 2007, c2006.
In this wordless graphic novel, a man leaves his homeland and sets off for a new country, where he must build a new life for himself and his family. | HRD | 1 | | 16.99 | 16.99 |
19693X7 | Taylor, G. P -- The first escape --the Dopple Ganger Chronicles, #1./ {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Tyndale House Publishers, c2008., RL 4.6 | HRD | 1 | | 18.65 | 18.65 |
15525V7 | Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. -- Thoreau at Walden [ KR* BL SL ] {IL 5-8, 741.5} -- Hyperion, 2008., RL 6.6, 99p
A graphic novel interpretation of Henry David Thoreau's "Walden," featuring the actual words from the text in which Thoreau describes his experiment in simple living.
AR: 5.8 MG 1.0 121947EN | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
03043T9 | Tillman, Mary. -- Boots on the ground by dusk : my tribute to Pat Tillman [ KR BL NY ] {IL AD, 796.332} -- Modern Times, c2008., 344p
Presents a biographical tribute to Pat Tillman, a U.S. soldier who was killed in Afghanistan, describing his childhood and upbringing, the lies told by the U.S. Army about the nature of his sacrifice, and the inquiries, investigations, and congressional hearings undertaken by his family to discover the truth about the cover-up. | HRD | 1 | | 25.95 | 25.95 |
03783W7 | Truss, Lynne. -- Twenty-odd ducks : why, every punctuation mark counts! {IL K-3, 428.2} -- G.P. Putman's Sons, c2008., RL 1.7, 32p
Explains the importance of punctuation for conveying specific meaning in a written sentence, and describes, with illustrations, how changing punctuation can drastically change the meaning of what is being communicated. | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
12829U0 | Walker, Alice, 1944- -- Why war is never a good idea [ KR* BL SL* HB HB* ] {IL K-3, -E-} -- HarperCollins, c2007., RL 3.9, 32p
Colorful illustrations and simple rhyming text describes the destructiveness and hopelessness of war and how it destroys people and beauty.
AR: 3.6 LG 0.5 119706EN | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
07537W1 | Waters, Dan, 1969- -- Generation dead [ VO KR* PW NY SL BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Hyperion, c2008., 392p
When dead teenagers who have come back to life start showing up at her high school, Phoebe, a goth girl, becomes interested in the phenomenon, and when she starts dating a "living impaired" boy, they encounter prejudice, fear, and hatred.
AR: 5.4 UG 14.0 121939EN Lexile: 820 | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
28252W3 | Werlin, Nancy -- Impossible [ BL* VO KR* PW ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Dial, c2008.
When seventeen-year-old Lucy discovers her family is under an ancient curse by an evil Elfin Knight, she realizes that she must perform three impossible tasks before her daughter is born to break the curse and to save them both. | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
| Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on September 18, 2008. | |
14953W7 | Wittlinger, Ellen. -- Love & lies : Marisol's story [ VO KR BL KL SL BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2008., 245p
When Marisol, a self-confident eighteen-year-old lesbian, moves to Cambridge, Massachusetts to work and try to write a novel, she falls under the spell of her beautiful but deceitful writing teacher, while also befriending a shy, vulnerable girl from Indiana. | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
25125W7 | Wood, Brian, 1972- -- The New York Four [ KR BL ] {IL YA, 741.5} -- DC Comics, c2008.
Riley, a shy straight-A student, comes out of her shell when she becomes best friends with three other freshmen who join her in her explorations of Manhattan, but her new life is threatened by a developing online romance. | PAP | 1 | | 8.49 | 8.49 |
28483W0 | Wood, Don, 1945- -- Into the volcano [ VO ] {IL 3-6, 741.5} -- The Blue Sky Press, c2008.
While their parents are away doing research, brothers Duffy and Sumo Pugg go with their cousin, Mister Come-and-Go, to Kokalaha Island, where they meet Aunt Lulu and become trapped in an erupting volcano. | HRD | 1 | | 16.14 | 16.14 |
| Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on October 1, 2008. | |
10395W6 | Zimmer, Tracie Vaughn. -- 42 miles [ KR BL SL BC ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Clarion Books, c2008., RL 5.4, 73p
Linked free-verse poems and illustrations depict the challenges a young girl faces as she grows up and tries to determine who she really wants to be and how she can remain true to herself.
AR: 5.8 MG 1.0 121986EN | HRD | 1 | | 13.60 | 13.60 |
15944W2 | van de Ruit, John -- Spud --The Madness Continues {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Razorbill, c2008.
Spud, a scholarship student at an elite boys' boarding school in South Africa, returns for a second year in 1991 to find things even more chaotic, with new students, a house cat, girl troubles, and a questionable part in the school play. | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
| Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on October 16, 2008. | |
20046X7 | -- Acting out : six one-act plays! : six Newbery stars! [ KR BL SL ] {IL 3-6, 812} -- Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2008., RL 4.8, 175p
Contains six original one-act plays by Newbery Award-winning children's authors, including Sharon Creech, Susan Cooper, Avi, Patricia MacLachlan, Katherine Paterson, and Richard Peck. | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
28668W5 | -- Declare yourself : speak. connect. act. vote. : more than 50 celebrated Americans tell you why [ VO BL PW ] {IL YA, 323} -- Greenwillow Books, c2008., 325p
Fifty celebrities, including Maya Angelou, Tyra Banks, Stuart Scott, and Gabrielle Union, discuss why they think it is important for Americans to vote. | HRD | 1 | | 14.44 | 14.44 |
20548V2 | -- Owning it : stories about teens with disabilities [ VO LM* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Candlewick Press, 2008., 215p
Presents ten stories of teenagers facing all of the usual challenges of school, parents, boyfriends and girlfriends, plus the additional complications that come with having a physical or psychological disability.
AR: 4.3 MG 7.0 122579EN | | | | | |