Anderson, Laurie Halse. Chains. YA F AND CD BOOK
The story of a 13-year-old African-American girl who is sold to a cruel, loyalist family living in New York City at the start of the Revolutionary War. Asked to spy on her owners for the Patriot cause, she is reluctant, until she realizes her loyalty lies with the side that can provide her with freedom. Read by Madisun Leigh
Dessen, Sarah. Along for the Ride. YA F DES CD BOOK
When Auden goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having fun new experiences. Read by Rachel Botchan
Mortenson, Greg & David Oliver Relin. Three Cups of Tea. YA 371.422 MOR CD BOOK
Traces how Mortenson, having been rescued and resuscitated by Himalayan villagers after a failed attempt to climb K2, worked to build schools that would benefit the young girls who were forbidden an education by Taliban restrictions.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Non-Fiction
Taylor, Troy. Haunted Illinois: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Prairie State. YA/ 133.1/ TAY
The mysterious and often violent history of Illinois has made the state a haven for restless spirits. This volume explores the supernatural side of the Prairie State, with stories on the horrors of an old slave house, the numerous spirits of Alton's McPike Mansion, the cemetery where the dead walk, the Spring Valley Vampire, the ghosts of the Bartonville Asylum, Chicago's famous Resurrection Mary, and the spirit world of Abraham Lincoln.
Spilsbury, Louise. Be Smart, Stay Safe! YA/ 155.5/ SPI
How safety-savvy are you? Do you know how to balance risks? Learning how to look out for yourself is an important part of growing up, but it’s often hard to tell the difference between real risks and a bit of fun. This will show you how.
Grant, R.G. Slavery. YA/ 305.896
Featuring breathtaking photographs, illustrations, letters, and personal histories, a comprehensive discussion of slavery throughout history examines its lasting impact on societies and people around the world. Presents a comprehensive history of slavery, discussing its origins in ancient civilizations, introduction into the United States, elimination following the Civil War, and continuing impact on modern society.
Shapiro, Bill. Other People’s Love Letters: 150 letters you were never meant to see. YA/ 392.6/ OTH
A voyeuristic look at the ins and outs of modern romance brings together an assortment of actual love letters, written by a diverse cross section of people, that appear exactly as they were originally written, offering candid insights into how people think about love.
Spilsbury, Louise. Dig, Plant and Grow. YA/635/ SPI
Just imagine being able to pick and eat your own, home-grown fruit – or giving someone a bouquet of flowers that you’ve raised yourself! Dig, Plant, and Grow! offers step-by-step guidelines for the novice gardener to help you achieve a successful crop.
Vickers, Rebecca. Confident Cooking. YA/ 641.5/ VIC
Want to be a great cook, but don’t know the difference between a spoon and a ladle? Or perhaps you just want to know how to bake a cake without catastrophe? Confident Cooking takes you back to basics and unscrambles the mysteries of the kitchen. With A–Z instuctions.
Ask Cosmo girl! About beauty. YA/ 646.72/ ASK
Skin basics -- Hair removal -- Acne treatment -- Cover-up how-tos -- Healthy mouth -- Eye makeup how-tos -- Hair help -- Nail know-how.
Scalin, Noah. Skulls. YA/745.5/SCA
On June 4th, 2007, artist Noah Scalin came up with an ingenious idea: he cut a skull out of orange paper and posted it online with the note, “I’m making a skull image every day for a year.” His uniquely witty works became a wild success: five months later, nearly 250,000 people have visited the site, many sending in skull photos of their own and turning Scalin’s blog into one of the world’s top sites. Each of the 150 skulls shown is accompanied by a brief description and fun anecdotal stories. As a bonus, there are four skull projects to make. Irresistibly merging pop, Internet, and craft culture, this fantastic collection provides an inspiring example of how to find creative potential in every aspect of daily life.
Badillo, Steve. Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks. YA/ 796.22/ BAD
The great tricks of today are built upon the pioneering feats of skateboarding's legendary riders. Tony Alva, Lance Mountain, Christian Hosoi, Tony Hawk, Jason Lee and so many others paved the way for the worldwide skateboarding movement and lifestyle. Discover the stories behind their Legendary Tricks and learn how to do the tricks yourself.
D’Arcy, Sean. Freestyle Soccer Tricks. YA/ 796.334/ DAR
The professional soccer freestyler offers tips, exercises, and drills designed to improve coordination and ball control and provides instructions for performing various types of juggling tricks.
Willin, Dr. Melvyn. Ghosts Caught on Film. YA/ 133.1/ WIL
This book offers the exciting possibility of there being actual photograph evidence to prove the existence of ghosts and paranormal activity- you can’t help but be drawn into the mystery.
Bielagus, Peter G. Quick Cash for Teens. YA/ 658.11/ BIE
Provides smart strategies for earning big bucks, with step-by-step instructing for identifying opportunities, creating a business plan, and implementing it successfully.
The mysterious and often violent history of Illinois has made the state a haven for restless spirits. This volume explores the supernatural side of the Prairie State, with stories on the horrors of an old slave house, the numerous spirits of Alton's McPike Mansion, the cemetery where the dead walk, the Spring Valley Vampire, the ghosts of the Bartonville Asylum, Chicago's famous Resurrection Mary, and the spirit world of Abraham Lincoln.
Spilsbury, Louise. Be Smart, Stay Safe! YA/ 155.5/ SPI
How safety-savvy are you? Do you know how to balance risks? Learning how to look out for yourself is an important part of growing up, but it’s often hard to tell the difference between real risks and a bit of fun. This will show you how.
Grant, R.G. Slavery. YA/ 305.896
Featuring breathtaking photographs, illustrations, letters, and personal histories, a comprehensive discussion of slavery throughout history examines its lasting impact on societies and people around the world. Presents a comprehensive history of slavery, discussing its origins in ancient civilizations, introduction into the United States, elimination following the Civil War, and continuing impact on modern society.
Shapiro, Bill. Other People’s Love Letters: 150 letters you were never meant to see. YA/ 392.6/ OTH
A voyeuristic look at the ins and outs of modern romance brings together an assortment of actual love letters, written by a diverse cross section of people, that appear exactly as they were originally written, offering candid insights into how people think about love.
Spilsbury, Louise. Dig, Plant and Grow. YA/635/ SPI
Just imagine being able to pick and eat your own, home-grown fruit – or giving someone a bouquet of flowers that you’ve raised yourself! Dig, Plant, and Grow! offers step-by-step guidelines for the novice gardener to help you achieve a successful crop.
Vickers, Rebecca. Confident Cooking. YA/ 641.5/ VIC
Want to be a great cook, but don’t know the difference between a spoon and a ladle? Or perhaps you just want to know how to bake a cake without catastrophe? Confident Cooking takes you back to basics and unscrambles the mysteries of the kitchen. With A–Z instuctions.
Ask Cosmo girl! About beauty. YA/ 646.72/ ASK
Skin basics -- Hair removal -- Acne treatment -- Cover-up how-tos -- Healthy mouth -- Eye makeup how-tos -- Hair help -- Nail know-how.
Scalin, Noah. Skulls. YA/745.5/SCA
On June 4th, 2007, artist Noah Scalin came up with an ingenious idea: he cut a skull out of orange paper and posted it online with the note, “I’m making a skull image every day for a year.” His uniquely witty works became a wild success: five months later, nearly 250,000 people have visited the site, many sending in skull photos of their own and turning Scalin’s blog into one of the world’s top sites. Each of the 150 skulls shown is accompanied by a brief description and fun anecdotal stories. As a bonus, there are four skull projects to make. Irresistibly merging pop, Internet, and craft culture, this fantastic collection provides an inspiring example of how to find creative potential in every aspect of daily life.
Badillo, Steve. Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks. YA/ 796.22/ BAD
The great tricks of today are built upon the pioneering feats of skateboarding's legendary riders. Tony Alva, Lance Mountain, Christian Hosoi, Tony Hawk, Jason Lee and so many others paved the way for the worldwide skateboarding movement and lifestyle. Discover the stories behind their Legendary Tricks and learn how to do the tricks yourself.
D’Arcy, Sean. Freestyle Soccer Tricks. YA/ 796.334/ DAR
The professional soccer freestyler offers tips, exercises, and drills designed to improve coordination and ball control and provides instructions for performing various types of juggling tricks.
Willin, Dr. Melvyn. Ghosts Caught on Film. YA/ 133.1/ WIL
This book offers the exciting possibility of there being actual photograph evidence to prove the existence of ghosts and paranormal activity- you can’t help but be drawn into the mystery.
Bielagus, Peter G. Quick Cash for Teens. YA/ 658.11/ BIE
Provides smart strategies for earning big bucks, with step-by-step instructing for identifying opportunities, creating a business plan, and implementing it successfully.
Music
Black Eyed Peas. The E.N.D.. YA CD MUSIC BLA
Boom boom pow -- Rock that body -- Meet me halfway -- Imma be -- I gotta feeling -- Alive -- Missing you -- Ring-a-ling -- Party all the time -- Out of my head -- Electric city -- Showdown -- Now generation -- One tribe -- Rockin to the beat.
Boom boom pow -- Rock that body -- Meet me halfway -- Imma be -- I gotta feeling -- Alive -- Missing you -- Ring-a-ling -- Party all the time -- Out of my head -- Electric city -- Showdown -- Now generation -- One tribe -- Rockin to the beat.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Biography
Reef, Catherine. Ernest Hemingway. A Writer’s Life. YA/ B/ HEM
His life reads like a suspense story—it's full of action, romance, heartbreak, machismo, mishaps, celebrity, and tragedy. He had first-hand experience of several historic events of the last century, and he rubbed elbows with many other notable writers and intellectual greats of our time. Though his reputation has weathered ups and downs, his status as an American icon remains untouchable. Here, in the only biography available to young people, Catherine Reef introduces readers to Hemingway's work, with a focus on his themes and writing styles and his place in the history of American fiction, and examines writers who influenced him and those he later influenced
Corrigan, Jim. Alan Turing. Profiles in Mathematics Series YA/ B/ TUR
Profiles the life and accomplishments of the British mathematician who played a major role in unraveling German codes during World War II and helped to establish the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence. He was also a philosopher and biologist.
His life reads like a suspense story—it's full of action, romance, heartbreak, machismo, mishaps, celebrity, and tragedy. He had first-hand experience of several historic events of the last century, and he rubbed elbows with many other notable writers and intellectual greats of our time. Though his reputation has weathered ups and downs, his status as an American icon remains untouchable. Here, in the only biography available to young people, Catherine Reef introduces readers to Hemingway's work, with a focus on his themes and writing styles and his place in the history of American fiction, and examines writers who influenced him and those he later influenced
Corrigan, Jim. Alan Turing. Profiles in Mathematics Series YA/ B/ TUR
Profiles the life and accomplishments of the British mathematician who played a major role in unraveling German codes during World War II and helped to establish the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence. He was also a philosopher and biologist.
Fiction for August
Hubbard, Mandy. Prada & Prejudice. YA/ HUB
During a school trip to England, fifteen-year-old Callie buys a pair of Prada shoes in an effort to impress the popular girls, a scheme that backfires and sends Callie back to 1815.
Peterson, Will. Triskellion. YA/ PET
Following their parents' bitter divorce, Rachel and Adam are sent from their New York home to stay with their grandmother. But the quiet English village where their mother was born is a sinister and unsettling place. Against a brooding background of very real danger, the two young outsides follow an incredible trail on an archaeological adventure with a startling paranormal twist. In a community where many terrible secrets lie hidden, the villagers of Triskellion have a great deal to protect. First in planned trilogy.
Cooney, Caroline B. If the Witness Lied. YA/ COO
Torn apart by tragedies and the publicity they brought, siblings Smithy, Jack, and Madison, aged fourteen to sixteen, tap into their parent's courage to pull together and protect their brother Tris, nearly three, from further media exploitation and a much more sinister threat.
Cross, Sarah. Dull Boy. YA/ CRO
Avery, a teenaged boy with frightening super powers that he is trying to hide, discovers other teenagers who also have strange powers and who are being sought by the icy and seductive Cherchette, but they do not know what she wants with them.
Draper, Sharon M. Just Another Hero. YA/ DRA
As Kofi, Arielle, Dana, November, and Jericho face personal challenges during their last year of high school, a misunderstood student brings a gun to class and demands to be taken seriously. Sequel to November Blues.
Gonzalez, Ann. Running For My Life. YA/ GON
RUNNING FOR MY LIFE is the powerful story of Andrea McKane, a fourteen-year-old who struggles to cope with her mother's schizophrenia. She must face the heartbreaking fact that her mother, with whom she once laughed and played, has vanished into her disease, possibly forever. The book accurately portrays the difficulties a teen faces when dealing with the illness, the abuse and absence of a parent with mental illness. RUNNING FOR MY LIFE shows the effects of mental illness on a family, and a teenager's attempts to manage the changes that have shaken her life. With courage, strength, and the loving support of her friends, her father, and her therapist, Andrea finds salvation through running. RUNNING FOR MY LIFE represents a heartwarming, encouraging breakthrough effort in portraying the challenges teens confront when they have to protect themselves from a guardian.
Hurley, Tonya. Ghostgirl: Homecoming. YA/HUR
When Petula becomes deathly ill, her sister Scarlet seeks help from former classmate Charlotte, for whom the afterlife has become burdensome, leaving her just as insecure and isolated as she was while she was alive.
Lockhart, E. The Treasure Map of Boys. YA/LOC
A Seattle sixteen-year-old juggles therapy, running a school bake sale, coping with her performance artist mother, growing distant from an old friend, and conflicting feelings about her ex-boyfriend and potential new boyfriends.
Pierce, Tamora. Bloodhound. Beka Cooper Book Two. A Tortall Legend. YA/ PIE
Having been promoted from "Puppy" to "Dog," Beka, now a full-fledged member of the Provost's Guard, and her former partner head to a neighboring port city to investigate a case of counterfeit coins.
Scott, Elizabeth. Love You Hate You Miss You. YA/ SCO
After coming out of alcohol rehabilitation, sixteen-year-old Amy sorts out conflicting emotions about her best friend Julia's death in a car accident for which she feels responsible.
Weaver, Will. Saturday Night Dirt. YA/ WEA
In a small town in northern Minnesota, the much-anticipated Saturday night dirt-track race at the old-fashioned, barely viable, Headwaters Speedway becomes, in many ways, an important life-changing event for all the participants on and off the track.
Wizner, Jake. Castration Celebration. YA/ WIZ
Three high school students in a summer arts program at Yale University collaborate on an "anti-guy musical" with the working title, Castration Celebration.
Wynne-Jones, Tim. The Uninvited. YA/ WYN
After a disturbing freshman year at New York University, Mimi is happy to get away to her father's remote Canadian cottage only to discover a stranger living there who has never heard of her or her father and who is convinced that Mimi is responsible for leaving sinister tokens around the property.
Zink, Michelle. Prophecy of the Sisters. YA/ ZIN
In late nineteenth-century New York state, wealthy sixteen-year-old twin sisters Lia and Alice Milthorpe find that they are on opposite sides of an ancient prophecy that has destroyed their parents and seeks to do even more harm.
During a school trip to England, fifteen-year-old Callie buys a pair of Prada shoes in an effort to impress the popular girls, a scheme that backfires and sends Callie back to 1815.
Peterson, Will. Triskellion. YA/ PET
Following their parents' bitter divorce, Rachel and Adam are sent from their New York home to stay with their grandmother. But the quiet English village where their mother was born is a sinister and unsettling place. Against a brooding background of very real danger, the two young outsides follow an incredible trail on an archaeological adventure with a startling paranormal twist. In a community where many terrible secrets lie hidden, the villagers of Triskellion have a great deal to protect. First in planned trilogy.
Cooney, Caroline B. If the Witness Lied. YA/ COO
Torn apart by tragedies and the publicity they brought, siblings Smithy, Jack, and Madison, aged fourteen to sixteen, tap into their parent's courage to pull together and protect their brother Tris, nearly three, from further media exploitation and a much more sinister threat.
Cross, Sarah. Dull Boy. YA/ CRO
Avery, a teenaged boy with frightening super powers that he is trying to hide, discovers other teenagers who also have strange powers and who are being sought by the icy and seductive Cherchette, but they do not know what she wants with them.
Draper, Sharon M. Just Another Hero. YA/ DRA
As Kofi, Arielle, Dana, November, and Jericho face personal challenges during their last year of high school, a misunderstood student brings a gun to class and demands to be taken seriously. Sequel to November Blues.
Gonzalez, Ann. Running For My Life. YA/ GON
RUNNING FOR MY LIFE is the powerful story of Andrea McKane, a fourteen-year-old who struggles to cope with her mother's schizophrenia. She must face the heartbreaking fact that her mother, with whom she once laughed and played, has vanished into her disease, possibly forever. The book accurately portrays the difficulties a teen faces when dealing with the illness, the abuse and absence of a parent with mental illness. RUNNING FOR MY LIFE shows the effects of mental illness on a family, and a teenager's attempts to manage the changes that have shaken her life. With courage, strength, and the loving support of her friends, her father, and her therapist, Andrea finds salvation through running. RUNNING FOR MY LIFE represents a heartwarming, encouraging breakthrough effort in portraying the challenges teens confront when they have to protect themselves from a guardian.
Hurley, Tonya. Ghostgirl: Homecoming. YA/HUR
When Petula becomes deathly ill, her sister Scarlet seeks help from former classmate Charlotte, for whom the afterlife has become burdensome, leaving her just as insecure and isolated as she was while she was alive.
Lockhart, E. The Treasure Map of Boys. YA/LOC
A Seattle sixteen-year-old juggles therapy, running a school bake sale, coping with her performance artist mother, growing distant from an old friend, and conflicting feelings about her ex-boyfriend and potential new boyfriends.
Pierce, Tamora. Bloodhound. Beka Cooper Book Two. A Tortall Legend. YA/ PIE
Having been promoted from "Puppy" to "Dog," Beka, now a full-fledged member of the Provost's Guard, and her former partner head to a neighboring port city to investigate a case of counterfeit coins.
Scott, Elizabeth. Love You Hate You Miss You. YA/ SCO
After coming out of alcohol rehabilitation, sixteen-year-old Amy sorts out conflicting emotions about her best friend Julia's death in a car accident for which she feels responsible.
Weaver, Will. Saturday Night Dirt. YA/ WEA
In a small town in northern Minnesota, the much-anticipated Saturday night dirt-track race at the old-fashioned, barely viable, Headwaters Speedway becomes, in many ways, an important life-changing event for all the participants on and off the track.
Wizner, Jake. Castration Celebration. YA/ WIZ
Three high school students in a summer arts program at Yale University collaborate on an "anti-guy musical" with the working title, Castration Celebration.
Wynne-Jones, Tim. The Uninvited. YA/ WYN
After a disturbing freshman year at New York University, Mimi is happy to get away to her father's remote Canadian cottage only to discover a stranger living there who has never heard of her or her father and who is convinced that Mimi is responsible for leaving sinister tokens around the property.
Zink, Michelle. Prophecy of the Sisters. YA/ ZIN
In late nineteenth-century New York state, wealthy sixteen-year-old twin sisters Lia and Alice Milthorpe find that they are on opposite sides of an ancient prophecy that has destroyed their parents and seeks to do even more harm.
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