Easy to Read, Hard to Put Down
50 x 50 | |
| 50 Cent The phenomenon that is the making of rapper 50 Cent is told in a rich and succinct voice with powerful visuals that includes photos, tour passes, lyrics, flyers and an unreleased single track CD. | |
Golden | |
| Barnes, Jennifer Lynn Lissy James has The Sight and can tell a lot about someone by seeing their aura. When one teacher's aura shows her something truly evil, she has to rely on her new friends to help stop him. | |
Battles of the Bands | |
| Denman, K. L. School garage bands compete for the winning title in their Battle of the Bands. Meanwhile, the Lunar Ticks have to deal with appeasing the parent that allows them to practice in her garage, work out relationships with other band mates and their adoring fans, as well as finding their place in the world. | |
Chill | |
| Frizzell, Colin School bullies aren't always other teens, sometimes the teachers can be as bad as your fellow peers. How would you handle a teacher that insisted on telling you and your classmates that your dreams for the future were meaningless? | |
Slam | |
| Hornby, Nick Sam is obsessed with skateboarding. He has a beautiful girlfriend. Life is going well for him and his teacher recommends he attend college. However, life takes a sudden turn when he found out he will enter fatherhood soon. | |
Side Effects | |
| Koss, Amy Isabelle (a senior) has cancer---always called "Lymphoma." She relates how she copes with treatments, parents, friends and hospitals. She survives and captures the idiosyncracies of all of them. This is a great personal narrative. | |
Ninja Masters of Stealth and Secrecy | |
| Mattern, Joanne It's a brief introduction and history of the Japanese legendary warriors, ninjas. | |
Vampire Kisses | |
| Schreiber, Ellen Nothing ever exciting happens in the town of Dullsvile until the mysterious Sterlings move into the mansion on top of Benson Hill. The story centers on Raven, a sixteen-year-old girl, who doesn't exactly fit in with the crowd with her black lipstick, black nailpolish, overall goth look, and her fascination with all things vampires. Rumors start to circulate that the Sterlings are vampires, piquing Raven's interest. Could the young and handsome Alexander Sterling end up being Raven's soul mate, vampire or not? | |
Unwind | |
| Shusterman, Neal What if, after the Heartland War (it takes place in the U.S. in the not-too-distant future), you were one of the unruly "faceless kids" between 13 and 18 that nobody (including and especially your parents)wanted? Well then, you'd be the perfect candidate for unwinding. Connor Lassiter runs away, gets caught, runs away, gets caught... You get the idea. Connor "doesn't wanna." Be unwound. Be anybody's or any body's spare parts. | |
Story of a Girl | |
| Zarr, Sara Deanna slept with her older brother's best friend when she was only thirteen. Three years later Deanna is still struggling to take her life in a different direction despite her father's mistrust, her social alienation, and her own low sense of self esteem. Will Deanna ever overcome the stigma attached to this one careless mistake? | |
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