BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS!
Here are the latest books and other materials in our library.
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 High
School Best Sellers:
 "Rules of he Road" by Joan
Bauer
Joan Bauer has written many hilarious books for teenagers such as "Squashed"
and "Sticks". This book continues in that tradition. Jenna Boller feels like a
misfit at school - but she shines in her after school job selling shoes. She catches that
attention of the elderly store owner who hires Jenna to be her driver on a business trip.
During there comical visits to other stores across the country, Jenna learns to love her
somewhat gruff employer and the equally elderly friend Harry who becomes the father Jenna
always wished she had. This book is funny, sad, and altogether a delight to read.
 "Homebody" by Orson
Scott Card
A truly chilling and unforgettable ghost story by best-selling author Orson Scott Card.
This story of a man who must confront the demons within as well as the demons in
the old house he is renovating will keep you awake nights."
 "Prisoner of
time" by Caroline B. Cooney
This romantic time-travel companion to "Both Sides of
Time" and "Out of Time" completes
Cooney's "Time-Travel Trilogy". A young Victorian woman, doomed to marry a
stuffy English lord, is brought into modern times by her time-traveling brother.
 "Heroes" by Robert Cormier
In "Heroes", Robert Cormier explores the nature of heroism through a young
and tragic life. Francis Cassavant returns from World War II to seek revenge on his
childhood hero. He lost his face in France when he fell on a grenade, earning the Silver
Star for Bravery. His hero also holds the Silver Star for Bravery--but do either deserve
it? Examine the nature of heroism in the latest powerful novel from Robert Cormier.
 "Bloomability" by
Sharon Creech
When 13-year-old Dinnie Doone is plucked out of her troubled life and whisked away to an
international school in Switzerland, she learns to trust herself and discovers the
beautiful "bloomabilities" her new life has to offer.
 "Hammer of Eden" by Ken Follett
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Middle School Best Sellers:
"Off the Road" by Nina Bawden
In 2040, eleven-year-old Tom follows his grandfather through the Wall and into the
forbidden Wild, where they seek to find his grandfather's boyhood home.
 "Shakespeare Stealer"
by Gary Blackwood
High jinks and high adventure fill every page of this exciting, panoramic novel set in
Shakespeare's time. Widge, a young orphan indentured to a cold, unscrupulous master, has a
special talent--the ability to write a secret shorthand. The master is determined to
acquire a script of "Hamlet" at any cost, so it becomes Widge's duty to
transcribe it--or else!.
"Zoe Rising" by Pam Conrad
In the sequel to the award-winning Stonewords, Zoe uses her talent for journeying through
time to return to the era of her own mother's childhood, where it becomes up to Zoe to
prevent a tragedy that could shatter her own future.
 "Bandit's Moon" by Sid
Fleischman
Twelve-year-old Annyrose relates her adventures with Joaquín Murieta and his band of
outlaws in the California gold-mining region during the mid-1800s.
"Lily's Crossing" by Patricia Reilly
Giff
During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian
refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently.
 "Reaching Dustin" by
Vicki Grove
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