New Books May 2009
All-star Superman. Volume 2
Morrison, Grant.
New York, N.Y. : DC Comics, c2007.
"Topsy-turvy madness on the backwards Bizarro planet. A bottled city that proves you can never go home again. A living sun hell-bent on destroying humanity. A world without the Man of Steel. Twelve impossible labors and mere moments to save the Earth. You've never seen this before. And you'll never see its like again. The multiple-award-winning All-Star Superman concludes only after taking the timeless icon to all-time heights of excitement and acclaim. An eternal story true to the greatest character from the golden age of comics and crafted by a team of comics creators reminding us that there still are living legends" -- dust jacket flap.
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All the broken pieces
Burg, Ann E.
New York : Scholastic Press, 2009.
Two years after being airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, Matt Pin is haunted by the terrible secret he left behind and, now, in a loving adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events forces him to confront his past.
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The awakening
Armstrong, Kelley.
New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2009.
Fifteen-year-old necromancer Chloe, having escaped from Lyle House with Derek, Simon, and Rae, finds herself imprisoned in a laboratory run by a sinister organization determined to control her and her supernatural friends.
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Blood Captain
Somper, Justin.
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2008.
While Connor faces trouble in the form of an obnoxious new crewmate, Grace, his twin sister, seeks out a vampirate guru who might be able to heal their dear friend Lorcan's blindness.
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The bluest eye
Morrison, Toni.
New York : Plume, [1994], c1970.
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The comet's curse
Testa, Dom.
New York : Tor Teen, 2009.
Desperate to save the human race after a comet's deadly particles devastate the adult population, scientists create a ship that will carry a crew of 251 teenagers to a home in a distant solar system.
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Creature of the night
Thompson, Kate, 1956-
New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2009.
Bobby lives a reckless life smoking, drinking, and stealing cars in Dublin. So his mother moves the family to the country. But Bobby suspects their cottage might not be as quaint as it seems. And spooky details of the history of their little cottage gradually turn Bobby into a detective of night creatures real and imagined.
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Crowned
Linker, Julie.
New York : Simon Pulse, 2008.
Presley loves the pageant world. She knows how to work the crowd and looks gorgeous in an evening gown. But really, she needs the pageant world -- for its scholarships and opportunities. The only thing standing in her way? Her archrival, Megan, who was practically born wearing a crown and sash. Megan may be the nastiest girl on the circuit, but she has one thing that Presley doesn't: connections. And she won't hesitate to use them. What happens when two girls will stop at nothing -- including scandalous Internet pictures, vicious message board rumors, or "accidentally" ruined hair -- to be crowned the winner? Strap on your stilettos and tuck in those shoulder pads...it's going to be a bumpy ride.
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Ender in exile
Card, Orson Scott.
New York : Tor, 2008.
Having made the difficult choice to leave his home world to travel to the colonies, twelve-year-old military genius Andrew Wiggin shares a series of daring adventures with his sister Valentine and the artificial intelligence Jane.
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Ender's game
Card, Orson Scott.
New York : Starscape, 2002.
Child-hero Ender Wiggin must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive.
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Far North
Hobbs, Will.
New York : HarperTrophy, 2004, c1996.
From the window of the small floatplane, fifteen-year-old Gabe Rogers is getting his first look at Canada's magnificent Northwest Territories with Raymond Providence, his roommate from boarding school. Below is the spectacular Nahanni River--wall-to-wall whitewater racing between sheer cliffs and plunging over Virginia Falls. The pilot sets the plane down on the lake-like surface of the upper river for a closer look at the thundering falls. Suddenly the engine quits. The only sound is a dull roar downstream, as the Cessna drifts helplessly toward the falls. With the brutal subarctic winter fast approaching, Gabe and Raymond soon find themselves stranded in Deadmen Valley. Trapped in a frozen world of moose, wolves, and bears, two boys from vastly different cultures come to depend on each other for their very survival. After an airplane accident, fifteen-year-old Gabe, his Dene Indian boarding-school roommate Raymond, and the elderly Indian Johnny Raven are left stranded in the Canadian wilderness. The wise old man calls on his deeply rooted knowledge of the land to keep the tiny group alive, leaving the boys to battle nature alone when he dies.
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Fragile Eternity
Marr, Melissa.
HarperCollins 2009.
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Frostbite : a Vampire Academy novel
Mead, Richelle.
New York : Razorbill, 2008.
While on a school skiing trip, guardian-in-training Rose faces everything from misunderstandings between friends to fights among factions of Moroi as reports of horrific Strigoi attacks raise tensions, ultimately leading Rose and some of those closest to her into a battle that teaches her much about life, death, and love.
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Ghosts of war : the true story of a 19-year-old GI
Smithson, Ryan.
New York, NY : Collins, c2009.
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The great escape : the longest tunnel
Meserole, Mike.
New York : Sterling Pub., c2008.
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The great wide sea
Herlong, Madaline.
New York : Viking Childrens Books, 2008.
Still mourning the death of their mother, three brothers go with their father on an extended sailing trip off the Florida Keys and have a harrowing adventure at sea.
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Hannah's winter
Meehan, Kierin.
La Jolla, Calif. : Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 2009, c2001.
Hannah would much rather be back in Australia, starting high school with her friends. But Japan turns out to be nothing like she'd imagined. When Hannah and her new friend Miki find an ancient message in the stationery shop, they are drawn into involving a mysterious riddle.
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Hoot
Hiaasen, Carl.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c2002.
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
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The house on Mango Street
Cisneros, Sandra.
New York : Vintage Books, 1991.
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Hunted : a house of night novel
Cast, P. C.
New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2009.
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Is it still cheating if I don't get caught?
Weinstein, Bruce D.
New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2009.
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Jessica's guide to dating on the dark side
Fantaskey, Beth.
Orlando : Harcourt, 2008.
Seventeen-year-old Jessica, adopted and raised in Pennsylvania, learns that she is descended from a royal line of Romanian vampires and that she is betrothed to a vampire prince, who poses as a foreign exchange student while courting her.
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Kim : empty inside : the diary of an anonymous teenager
Sparks, Beatrice.
New York : Avon Books, 2002.
Seventeen-year-old Kim, feeling the pressure of maintaining an A average to stay on her college gymnastics team, becomes obsessive about her weight and develops anorexia.
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Marcelo in the real world
Stork, Francisco X.
New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2009.
Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.
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Mutiny : a novel of the Bounty
Boyne, John, 1971-
New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2009.
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Need
Jones, Carrie.
New York : Bloomsbury, 2010.
Depressed after the death of her stepfather, high school junior Zara goes to live with her grandmother in a small Maine town, where new friends tell Zara the strange man she keeps seeing may be a pixie king, and that only "were" creatures can stop him from taking souls.
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Princess of the Midnight Ball
George, Jessica Day, 1976-
New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2009.
A retelling of the tale of twelve princesses who wear out their shoes dancing every night, and of Galen, a former soldier now working in the king's gardens, who follows them in hopes of breaking the curse.
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The reformed vampire support group
Jinks, Catherine.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Fifteen-year-old vampire Nina has been stuck for fifty-one years in a boring support group for vampires, and nothing exciting has ever happened to them--until one of them is murdered and the others must try to solve the crime.
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The scarlet letter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
New York : New American library, 1999.
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The secret life of Prince Charming
Caletti, Deb.
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2009.
Seventeen-year-old Quinn has heard all her life about how untrustworthy men are, so when she discovers that her charismatic but selfish father, with whom she has recently begun to have a tentative relationship, has stolen from the many women in his life, she decides she must avenge this wrong.
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The switch
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-
New York : Philomel Books, 2009.
When wealthy, spoiled, thirteen-year-old Tad Spencer wishes he were someone else, he awakens as Bob Snarby, the uncouth, impoverished son of carnival workers, and as he is drawn into a life of crime he begins to discover truths about himself and his family.
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Thirteen orphans
Lindskold, Jane M.
New York, NY : Tor, 2008.
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To kill a mockingbird
Lee, Harper.
New York : Harper Perennial, 2006.
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To kill a mockingbird
Lee, Harper.
New York,NY : HarperCollinsPublishers, 1999.
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Torn to pieces
McDonnell, Margot.
New York : Delacorte Press, 2008.
When her mother disappears during a business trip, seventeen-year-old Anne discovers that her family harbors many dark secrets.
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Troy : fall of kings
Gemmell, David.
New York : Del Rey Ballantine Books, 2007.
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Ttfn
Myracle, Lauren, 1969-
New York : Amulet Books, 2007.
Now high school juniors, Zoe, Maddie, and Angela continue to share "instant messages" with one another as one of them experiments with marijuana, another gets her first boyfriend, and the third moves three thousand miles away.
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Ttyl
Myracle, Lauren, 1969-
New York : Amulet Books, 2005, c2004.
Chronicles, in "instant message" format, the day-to-day experiences, feelings, and plans of three friends, Zoe, Maddie, and Angela, as they begin tenth grade.
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The well between the worlds
Llewellyn, Sam, 1948-
New York : Orchard Books, 2009.
Eleven-year-old Idris Limpet, living with his family in the once noble but now evil and corrupt island country of Lyonesse, finds his life taking a dramatic turn when, after a near-drowning incident, he is accused of being allied to the feared sea monsters and is rescued from a death sentence by a mysterious and fearsome stranger.
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Why I fight : a novel
Oaks, J. Adams (Jeffrey Adams).
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2009.
After his house burns down, twelve-year-old Wyatt Reaves takes off with his uncle, and the two of them drive from town to town for six years, earning money mostly by fighting, until Wyatt finally confronts his parents one last time.
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