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Transcendence

Omololu, Cynthia Jaynes.


School Library Journal, June 2012. Publisher's Weekly, April 2012. Booklist, August 2012. Kirkus Review, April 2012. After handsome Griffon Hall tells sixteen-year-old Cole Ryan that her strange visions are of past lives, he introduces her to the Akhet, a group of people with the same ability, one of whom seeks to love and protect her and another, vengeance.
Date Published:2012

The same backward as forward

Barnes, Jennifer Lynn,


Two stories issued back-to-back and inverted. Part of the Inheritance Games series, this novel features the same story told by two different protagonists in separate stories bound in the same book. Twenty-year-old Hannah Rooney has a plan to finish nursing school and take her younger sister Kaylie far away from their family's criminal web. However, when an act of arson kills Kaylie, Hannah is forced to save the person who started the fire, the wealthy and arrogant Tobias Hawthorne II. When Tobias wakes, he has no memory of what happened or who he is, and becomes fixated on the nurse caring for him. Hannah hates Tobias and wants to see him suffer as much as possible, but against her will, her feelings for him change, even as his memories slowly start to return.
Date Published:2025

Two stories issued back-to-back and inverted. Part of the Inheritance Games series, this novel features the same story told by two different protagonists in separate stories bound in the same book. Twenty-year-old Hannah Rooney has a plan to finish nursing school and take her younger sister Kaylie far away from their family's criminal web. However, when an act of arson kills Kaylie, Hannah is forced to save the person who started the fire, the wealthy and arrogant Tobias Hawthorne II. When Tobias wakes, he has no memory of what happened or who he is, and becomes fixated on the nurse caring for him. Hannah hates Tobias and wants to see him suffer as much as possible, but against her will, her feelings for him change, even as his memories slowly start to return.

Date Published:2025

Stinkbomb & Ketchup-Face and the badness of badgers

Dougherty, John,


"First published in Great Britain by Oxford University Press"--Title page verso. Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Publishers Weekly, School Library Connection, School Library Journal, When Stinkbomb's twenty-dollar bill goes missing, he and his sister blame the badgers. When the king sends them on a quest to rid the land of all badgers, the siblings stumble into a surprising adventure.
Date Published:2017

Project Hail Mary : a novel

Weir, Andy,


Library Journal Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, Ryland Grace, an astronaut and sole survivor of a desperate mission, wakes up out of cryogenic sleep only to find his two other crewmates dead on arrival at their destination, millions of miles from Earth. The clock is ticking as Ryland must work to remember why he is even on this mission and help save humanity from an extinction-level threat. He thinks he is all alone--but he is wrong, and may not have to complete his mission by himself after all.
Date Published:2021

Library Journal Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, Ryland Grace, an astronaut and sole survivor of a desperate mission, wakes up out of cryogenic sleep only to find his two other crewmates dead on arrival at their destination, millions of miles from Earth. The clock is ticking as Ryland must work to remember why he is even on this mission and help save humanity from an extinction-level threat. He thinks he is all alone--but he is wrong, and may not have to complete his mission by himself after all.

Date Published:2021

1984 : a novel

Orwell, George, 1903-1950,


Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.
Date Published:1977

Rocks and minerals


Includes index. Text and illustrations offer information on rocks and minerals, covering the Earth's crust, formation and transformation, classes, uses, and more. Includes glossary.
Date Published:2011

Catching fire

Collins, Suzanne,


Wilson's Senior High School, February 2011. School Library Journal starred, September 2009. Booklist starred, July 2009. Pub Weekly, June 2009. Kirkus Starred, July 2009. New York Times, October 2009. Horn Book, April 2010. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), December 2009. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2009. Teacher Librarian, April 2010. By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
Date Published:2009

Wilson's Senior High School, February 2011. School Library Journal starred, September 2009. Booklist starred, July 2009. Pub Weekly, June 2009. Kirkus Starred, July 2009. New York Times, October 2009. Horn Book, April 2010. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), December 2009. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2009. Teacher Librarian, April 2010. By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.

Date Published:2009

Bone. : Out from Boneville. [1], Out from Boneville /

Smith, Jeff, 1960 February 27-,


"The chapters in this book were originally published in the comic book Bone ... copyright 1991 and 1992"--T.p. verso. Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. School Library Journal, May 2005. Pub Weekly, February 2005. Horn Book, October 2005. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), June 2005. Kliatt Starred, March 2005. Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone are run out of their home, Boneville, and become separated in the wilds, but better fortune begins when the three cousins reunite at a farmstead in a deep forested valley, where Fone meets a young girl named Thorn.
Date Published:2005

"The chapters in this book were originally published in the comic book Bone ... copyright 1991 and 1992"--T.p. verso. Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. School Library Journal, May 2005. Pub Weekly, February 2005. Horn Book, October 2005. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), June 2005. Kliatt Starred, March 2005. Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone are run out of their home, Boneville, and become separated in the wilds, but better fortune begins when the three cousins reunite at a farmstead in a deep forested valley, where Fone meets a young girl named Thorn.

Date Published:2005

The HarperCollins study Bible : New Revised Standard Version, with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books

Bible. English. New Revised Standard. 1993.


Includes index to color maps.
Date Published:1993

El Deafo

Bell, Cece,


School Library Journal starred, September 2014. Horn Book Starred, November 2014. Pub Weekly, July 2014. Booklist, August 2014. Kirkus Starred, September 2014. New York Times, August 2014. Horn Book, April 2015. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), October 2014. A graphic novel memoir of author/illustrator Cece Bell who grew up hearing impaired.
Date Published:2014

Code Talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two

Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-,


Wilson's Senior High School, October 2011. Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2006. School Library Journal, May 2005. Book Links (A.L.A.), January 2007. Booklist starred, February 2005. Library Media Connection starred, February 2006. Kirkus Starred, January 2005. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), February 2005. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), April 2005. After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
Date Published:2005

Wilson's Senior High School, October 2011. Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2006. School Library Journal, May 2005. Book Links (A.L.A.), January 2007. Booklist starred, February 2005. Library Media Connection starred, February 2006. Kirkus Starred, January 2005. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), February 2005. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), April 2005. After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.

Date Published:2005

The Hunger Games

Collins, Suzanne.


Title proper from title frame. Wilson's Senior High School, June 2010. Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. School Library Journal starred, September 2008. Booklist starred, September 2008. Horn Book Starred, September 2008. Library Media Connection starred, November 2001. Pub Weekly, November 2008. New York Times, November 2008. Horn Book, April 2009. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), November 2008. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.
Date Published:2008

Title proper from title frame. Wilson's Senior High School, June 2010. Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. School Library Journal starred, September 2008. Booklist starred, September 2008. Horn Book Starred, September 2008. Library Media Connection starred, November 2001. Pub Weekly, November 2008. New York Times, November 2008. Horn Book, April 2009. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), November 2008. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.

Date Published:2008

The 57 bus

Slater, Dashka,


Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal Starred, Voice of Youth Advocates, Explores the fateful 2013 interaction between Sasha and Richard, two teens from Oakland, California, who never would have met if not for the 57 bus which they both were taking home from school one day. Richard, an African American boy, had a lighter; Sasha, a white agender teen, wore a skirt. A dare to use the lighter changed the teens' lives forever.
Date Published:2018

Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal Starred, Voice of Youth Advocates, Explores the fateful 2013 interaction between Sasha and Richard, two teens from Oakland, California, who never would have met if not for the 57 bus which they both were taking home from school one day. Richard, an African American boy, had a lighter; Sasha, a white agender teen, wore a skirt. A dare to use the lighter changed the teens' lives forever.

Date Published:2018

The Hunger Games

Collins, Suzanne,


Booklist, Horn Book Magazine, Kliatt, Library Journal, Library Media Connection, Publishers Weekly Starred, Voice of Youth Advocates, 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.
Date Published:2008

Booklist, Horn Book Magazine, Kliatt, Library Journal, Library Media Connection, Publishers Weekly Starred, Voice of Youth Advocates, 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.

Date Published:2008

Diary of a wimpy kid : the last straw. #3 /

Kinney, Jeff,


Numbering on spine. School library journal, April 2009. Wilson Children's catalog. Best books for middle school and junior high readers. Best books for children : preschool through grade 6. Middle-schooler Greg Heffley nimbly sidesteps his father's attempts to change Greg's wimpy ways until his father threatens to send him to military school.
Date Published:2009

Maus : a survivor's tale

Spiegelman, Art,


My father bleeds history -- And here my troubles began. Booklist, Presents, in comic strip format, the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a holocaust survivor and his son, a cartoonist, coming to terms with his father's story.
Date Published:1997

Where the library hides : a novel

Ibañez, Isabel, (Novelist),


Kirkus Reviews Starred, School Library Journal, After learning the truth about her parents' deaths, Inez Olivera is determined to stay in Egypt and pursue justice against those responsible. However, her guardian and uncle Ricardo demands she return to Argentina for safety. Her only recourse to stay is to marry, but the one man who proposes to her, Ricardo's assistant Whitford Hayes, hides secrets and she isn't sure she can trust him. As new leads open up and the depth of intrigue and deception grows, Inez makes decisions that place her in danger and lead to shocking truths.
Date Published:2024

Kirkus Reviews Starred, School Library Journal, After learning the truth about her parents' deaths, Inez Olivera is determined to stay in Egypt and pursue justice against those responsible. However, her guardian and uncle Ricardo demands she return to Argentina for safety. Her only recourse to stay is to marry, but the one man who proposes to her, Ricardo's assistant Whitford Hayes, hides secrets and she isn't sure she can trust him. As new leads open up and the depth of intrigue and deception grows, Inez makes decisions that place her in danger and lead to shocking truths.

Date Published:2024

Maximum ride : the manga. 9 /

Lee, NaRae,


Cover title. Max knew that Dr. Martinez and her Coalition to Stop the Madness was probably a dangerous idea, but she never thought it would get her own mother kidnapped. Now Max and her flock must team up with the U.S. Navy to rescue her, and the world, too.
Date Published:2015

Treaties, trenches, mud, and blood

Hale, Nathan, 1976-,


Kirkus, May 01, 2014. Booklist, May 15, 2014. School library journal, June 2014. Horn book guide, World War I set the tone for the 20th century and introduced a new type of warfare: global, mechanical, and brutal. In graphic novel format.
Date Published:2014

Sunrise on the reaping

Collins, Suzanne,


As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes. Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves. When Haymitch's name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He's torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who's nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he's been set up to fail. But there's something in him that wants to fight... and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena. (Companion novel).
Date Published:2025

As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes. Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves. When Haymitch's name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He's torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who's nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he's been set up to fail. But there's something in him that wants to fight... and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena. (Companion novel).

Date Published:2025