Winfield, Cynthia. Gender Identity. The Ultimate Teen Guide. YA/ 616.6/ WIN
The book examines what is meant by sex and gender from typical gender roles and stereotypes, through those who transcend the usual categories of male and female. In addition to historical and factual information, teen voices and popular media's depictions of gender issues are included. Gender Identity: The Ultimate Teen Guide is written for all teens with an interest in gender-what it is, how it is expressed-especially those teens questioning their own (or a friend or family member's) gender identity. Straight (heterosexual) and LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning) youth, and the adults who live and work with them will want to read it, as well as educators, counselors, school board members, and parents.
Withers, Jennie. Hey, Get a Job! A teen guide for getting and keeping a job. YA/ 650.14/WIT
A book that tells it like it is. Gives a lot of advice and answers all the most commonly asked questions.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
New Books on CD
Fisher, Catherine. Incarceron. YA F FISHER CD BOOK
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.
Green, John. Paper Towns. YA F GREEN CD BOOK
When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night, dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge, he follows her. Margo's always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she's always planned solo. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q; until day breaks and she vanishes.
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.
Green, John. Paper Towns. YA F GREEN CD BOOK
When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night, dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge, he follows her. Margo's always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she's always planned solo. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q; until day breaks and she vanishes.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
New Fiction
Davis, Tanita. Mare’s War. YA/ DAVIS
Teens Octavia and Tali learn about strength, independence, and courage when they are forced to take a car trip with their grandmother, who tells about growing up Black in 1940s Alabama and serving in Europe during World War II as a member of the Women's Army Corps.
Flanagan, John. Erak’s Ransom. Ranger’s Apprentice: Book 7. YA/ FLANAGAN
On a mission to pay the ransom of a new ally, apprentice Will and his friends find themselves in a desert wasteland awash with enemies.
Heath, Jack. Remote Control. YA/ HEATH
Teenage agent Six of Hearts is suspected of being a double agent, which has him on the run from his fellow agents at the Deck while also trying to track down his brother's kidnappers.
Huntley, Amy. The Everafter. YA/ HUNTLEY
After her death, seventeen-year-old Maddy finds a way to revisit moments in her life by using objects that she lost while she was alive, and by so doing she tries to figure out the complicated emotions, events, and meaning of her existence.
Jones, Carrie. Captivate. YA/ JONES
High school junior Zara and her friends continue to try to contain the pixies that threaten their small Maine town, but when a Valkyrie takes Zara's boyfriend, Nick, to Valhalla, the only way to save him is to trust a pixie king, Astley.
Shapard, Sara. Heartless. A Pretty Little Liars Novel. YA/ SHEPARD
After high school juniors Spencer, Emily, Hanna, and Aria think they have seen Ali, their missing and presumed dead friend, they pursue clues from a mysterious stalker, trying to find out if she is still alive.
Anhalt, Ariela. Freefall. YA/ ANHALT
Briar Academy senior Luke prefers avoiding conflict and letting others make his decisions, but he is compelled to choose whether or not to stand by the best friend whose reckless behavior has endangered Luke and may have caused another student's death.
LaCour, Nina. Hold Still. YA/ LaCOUR
Ingrid didn't leave a note. Three months after her best friend's suicide, Caitlin finds what she left instead: a journal, hidden under Caitlin's bed.
Lloyd, Saci. The Carbon Diaries 2017. YA/ LLOYD
In 2017, two years after England introduces carbon dioxide rationing to combat climatic change, eighteen-year-old Laura chronicles her first year at a London university as natural disasters and political upheaval disrupt her studies.
Johnson, Angela. Sweet, Hereafter. YA/ JOHNSON
Final book in the Heaven trilogy. Sweet leaves her family and goes to live in a cabin in the woods with the quiet but understanding Curtis, to whom she feels intensely connected, just as he is called back to serve again in Iraq.
Payne, C. D. Youth in Revolt. YA/ PAYNE
Cynical and sex-obsessed teen Nick Twisp documents in his journal his ongoing struggles to make sense out of high school, his divorced parents, and an enduring love for an intelligent girl before his frustrations escalate to an open revolt.
Rees, Celia. Sovay. YA/ REES
In 1794 England, the rich and beautiful Sovay, disguised as a highwayman, acquires papers that could lead to her father's arrest for treason, and soon her newly-awakened political consciousness leads her and a compatriot to France during the Revolution.
Roby, Kimberla Lawson. A Deep Dark Secret. YA/ ROBY
In the outside, twelve-year-old Jillian Maxwell is the perfect child. She's helpful with chores around the house, gets straight As in school, has plans for college, and stays out of trouble. She seems to have everything a girl could want: a big, beautiful new home, an adoring little sister, a mother who cares about her, and an attentive stepfather. But inside, Jillian harbors a terrible secret.
Cole, Stephen. Thieves Like Us. YA/ COLE
A mysterious benefactor hand-picks a group of teen geniuses to follow a set of clues leading to the secrets of everlasting life, secrets which they must steal and for which they risk being killed.
Jones, Diana Wynne Jones. Unexpected Magic. Collected Stories. YA/ JONES
A collection of sixteen stories including "The Plague of Peacocks," "Aunt Bea's Day Out," "The Fat Wizard," "No One," and "Everard's Ride."
Reiss, Kathryn. Pale Phoenix. YA/ REISS
When her parents take in a strange orphan girl with a mysterious past, fifteen-year-old Miranda decides to find out why she seems to have come from nowhere and how she seems to be able to disappear at will.
Shetterly, Will. Elsewhere. YA/ SHERRTEL
Ron, a teenage runaway, comes of age among the punk elves and humans of Bordertown, a run-down city on the border between the real world and the magic world of Faerie.
Thompson, Julian. The Grounding of Group 6. YA/ THOMPSON
Arriving at what they believe is an exclusive school, five sixteen-year olds are unaware that they have been sent there to be exterminated and that their teacher is a murderer for hire.
Tolan, Stephanie. Welcome to the Ark. YA/ TOLAN
When four child prodigies transfer from a center for research and rehabilitation to an experimental group home, they face another way of connecting with their world.
Young, Karen Romano. Cobwebs. YA/ YOUNG
ixteen-year-old Nancy enjoys the colorful ethnic mix of her heritage in several different Brooklyn households, not suspecting how very strange that heritage is. A girl walks across the Brooklyn Bridge, a backpack full of knitting slung over her shoulder, a green fish kite in her hand. A boy balances on the bridge's crisscross webbing, waiting for the girl to pass. Are they angels? Spiders? In love? Or in danger? Once they connect, they'll start a chain of events that could stretch out smoothly like the river below them -- or become knotted like a tangled web of spider silk.
Teens Octavia and Tali learn about strength, independence, and courage when they are forced to take a car trip with their grandmother, who tells about growing up Black in 1940s Alabama and serving in Europe during World War II as a member of the Women's Army Corps.
Flanagan, John. Erak’s Ransom. Ranger’s Apprentice: Book 7. YA/ FLANAGAN
On a mission to pay the ransom of a new ally, apprentice Will and his friends find themselves in a desert wasteland awash with enemies.
Heath, Jack. Remote Control. YA/ HEATH
Teenage agent Six of Hearts is suspected of being a double agent, which has him on the run from his fellow agents at the Deck while also trying to track down his brother's kidnappers.
Huntley, Amy. The Everafter. YA/ HUNTLEY
After her death, seventeen-year-old Maddy finds a way to revisit moments in her life by using objects that she lost while she was alive, and by so doing she tries to figure out the complicated emotions, events, and meaning of her existence.
Jones, Carrie. Captivate. YA/ JONES
High school junior Zara and her friends continue to try to contain the pixies that threaten their small Maine town, but when a Valkyrie takes Zara's boyfriend, Nick, to Valhalla, the only way to save him is to trust a pixie king, Astley.
Shapard, Sara. Heartless. A Pretty Little Liars Novel. YA/ SHEPARD
After high school juniors Spencer, Emily, Hanna, and Aria think they have seen Ali, their missing and presumed dead friend, they pursue clues from a mysterious stalker, trying to find out if she is still alive.
Anhalt, Ariela. Freefall. YA/ ANHALT
Briar Academy senior Luke prefers avoiding conflict and letting others make his decisions, but he is compelled to choose whether or not to stand by the best friend whose reckless behavior has endangered Luke and may have caused another student's death.
LaCour, Nina. Hold Still. YA/ LaCOUR
Ingrid didn't leave a note. Three months after her best friend's suicide, Caitlin finds what she left instead: a journal, hidden under Caitlin's bed.
Lloyd, Saci. The Carbon Diaries 2017. YA/ LLOYD
In 2017, two years after England introduces carbon dioxide rationing to combat climatic change, eighteen-year-old Laura chronicles her first year at a London university as natural disasters and political upheaval disrupt her studies.
Johnson, Angela. Sweet, Hereafter. YA/ JOHNSON
Final book in the Heaven trilogy. Sweet leaves her family and goes to live in a cabin in the woods with the quiet but understanding Curtis, to whom she feels intensely connected, just as he is called back to serve again in Iraq.
Payne, C. D. Youth in Revolt. YA/ PAYNE
Cynical and sex-obsessed teen Nick Twisp documents in his journal his ongoing struggles to make sense out of high school, his divorced parents, and an enduring love for an intelligent girl before his frustrations escalate to an open revolt.
Rees, Celia. Sovay. YA/ REES
In 1794 England, the rich and beautiful Sovay, disguised as a highwayman, acquires papers that could lead to her father's arrest for treason, and soon her newly-awakened political consciousness leads her and a compatriot to France during the Revolution.
Roby, Kimberla Lawson. A Deep Dark Secret. YA/ ROBY
In the outside, twelve-year-old Jillian Maxwell is the perfect child. She's helpful with chores around the house, gets straight As in school, has plans for college, and stays out of trouble. She seems to have everything a girl could want: a big, beautiful new home, an adoring little sister, a mother who cares about her, and an attentive stepfather. But inside, Jillian harbors a terrible secret.
Cole, Stephen. Thieves Like Us. YA/ COLE
A mysterious benefactor hand-picks a group of teen geniuses to follow a set of clues leading to the secrets of everlasting life, secrets which they must steal and for which they risk being killed.
Jones, Diana Wynne Jones. Unexpected Magic. Collected Stories. YA/ JONES
A collection of sixteen stories including "The Plague of Peacocks," "Aunt Bea's Day Out," "The Fat Wizard," "No One," and "Everard's Ride."
Reiss, Kathryn. Pale Phoenix. YA/ REISS
When her parents take in a strange orphan girl with a mysterious past, fifteen-year-old Miranda decides to find out why she seems to have come from nowhere and how she seems to be able to disappear at will.
Shetterly, Will. Elsewhere. YA/ SHERRTEL
Ron, a teenage runaway, comes of age among the punk elves and humans of Bordertown, a run-down city on the border between the real world and the magic world of Faerie.
Thompson, Julian. The Grounding of Group 6. YA/ THOMPSON
Arriving at what they believe is an exclusive school, five sixteen-year olds are unaware that they have been sent there to be exterminated and that their teacher is a murderer for hire.
Tolan, Stephanie. Welcome to the Ark. YA/ TOLAN
When four child prodigies transfer from a center for research and rehabilitation to an experimental group home, they face another way of connecting with their world.
Young, Karen Romano. Cobwebs. YA/ YOUNG
ixteen-year-old Nancy enjoys the colorful ethnic mix of her heritage in several different Brooklyn households, not suspecting how very strange that heritage is. A girl walks across the Brooklyn Bridge, a backpack full of knitting slung over her shoulder, a green fish kite in her hand. A boy balances on the bridge's crisscross webbing, waiting for the girl to pass. Are they angels? Spiders? In love? Or in danger? Once they connect, they'll start a chain of events that could stretch out smoothly like the river below them -- or become knotted like a tangled web of spider silk.
Complete Cliffs Notes as of February 2010
We just added more Cliffs Notes titles...
1984
The Aeneid
All the King’s Men
Anna Karenina
As I Lay Dying
Beloved
Beowulf
Billy Budd & Typee
Bleak House
Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited
The Catcher in the Rye
Crime and Punishment
Cry, the Beloved Country
Cyrano de Bergerac
Divine Comedy & Inferno
A Doll’s House & Hedda Gabler
Doctor Faustus
Don Quixote
Fahrenheit 451
A Farewell to Arms
Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, & The Wild Duck
Grapes of Wrath
Great Expectations
The Great Gatsby
Heart of Darkness & The Secret Sharer
Huckleberry Finn
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Iliad
Invisible Man
Julius Caesar
King Henry IV Part 1
King Lear
Lord of the Flies
MacBeth
Merchant of Venice
Moby-Dick
Much Ado About Nothing
The Odyssey
Of Human Bondage
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Paradise Lost
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pride and Prejudice
The Prince
The Red Badge of Courage
Return of the Native
Romeo and Juliet
A Separate Peace
Sister Carrie
A Tale of Two Cities
The Taming of the Shrew
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Things Fall Apart
To Kill a Mockingbird
Wuthering Heights
1984
The Aeneid
All the King’s Men
Anna Karenina
As I Lay Dying
Beloved
Beowulf
Billy Budd & Typee
Bleak House
Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited
The Catcher in the Rye
Crime and Punishment
Cry, the Beloved Country
Cyrano de Bergerac
Divine Comedy & Inferno
A Doll’s House & Hedda Gabler
Doctor Faustus
Don Quixote
Fahrenheit 451
A Farewell to Arms
Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, & The Wild Duck
Grapes of Wrath
Great Expectations
The Great Gatsby
Heart of Darkness & The Secret Sharer
Huckleberry Finn
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Iliad
Invisible Man
Julius Caesar
King Henry IV Part 1
King Lear
Lord of the Flies
MacBeth
Merchant of Venice
Moby-Dick
Much Ado About Nothing
The Odyssey
Of Human Bondage
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Paradise Lost
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pride and Prejudice
The Prince
The Red Badge of Courage
Return of the Native
Romeo and Juliet
A Separate Peace
Sister Carrie
A Tale of Two Cities
The Taming of the Shrew
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Things Fall Apart
To Kill a Mockingbird
Wuthering Heights
Monday, February 1, 2010
New Music
Foo Fighters. Greatest Hits. YA CD MUSIC FOO
Them Crooked Vultures. YA CD MUSIC THEM
The Bravery. Stir the Blood. YA CD MUSIC BRAVERY
Cascada. Evacuate the Dance Floor. YA CD MUSIC CASCADA
Cobra Starship. Hot Mess. YA CD MUSIC COBRA
Glee: the Music. Season 1, Vol 2. YA CD MUSIC GLEE
Now that's what I call music! 32. YA CD MUSIC NOW
Shakira. She Wolf. YA CD MUSIC SHAKIRA
Slayer. World Painted Blood. YA CD MUSIC SLAYER
Now that's what I call club hits. YA CD MUSIC NOW
Mika. The boy who knew too much. YA CD MUSIC MIKA
Glee. Season 1, Vol 1 YA CD MUSIC GLEE
Camera. My maudlin career. YA CD MUSIC CAMERA
Animal. Merriweather post pavilion. YA CD MUSIC ANIMAL
Swell. Strict joy YA CD MUSIC SWELL
I love you, man YA CD MUSIC I
Death. The open door EP. YA CD MUSIC DEATH
Pitbull. Rebelution. YA CD MUSIC PITBULL
All-American Rejects. When the world comes down. YA CD MUSIC ALL
Them Crooked Vultures. YA CD MUSIC THEM
The Bravery. Stir the Blood. YA CD MUSIC BRAVERY
Cascada. Evacuate the Dance Floor. YA CD MUSIC CASCADA
Cobra Starship. Hot Mess. YA CD MUSIC COBRA
Glee: the Music. Season 1, Vol 2. YA CD MUSIC GLEE
Now that's what I call music! 32. YA CD MUSIC NOW
Shakira. She Wolf. YA CD MUSIC SHAKIRA
Slayer. World Painted Blood. YA CD MUSIC SLAYER
Now that's what I call club hits. YA CD MUSIC NOW
Mika. The boy who knew too much. YA CD MUSIC MIKA
Glee. Season 1, Vol 1 YA CD MUSIC GLEE
Camera. My maudlin career. YA CD MUSIC CAMERA
Animal. Merriweather post pavilion. YA CD MUSIC ANIMAL
Swell. Strict joy YA CD MUSIC SWELL
I love you, man YA CD MUSIC I
Death. The open door EP. YA CD MUSIC DEATH
Pitbull. Rebelution. YA CD MUSIC PITBULL
All-American Rejects. When the world comes down. YA CD MUSIC ALL
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