 | Breath, Eyes, Memory (Oprah's Book Club)
Release Date: May 18, 1998At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists, a writer who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti--and the enduring strength of Haiti's women--with a vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people's suffering and courage. At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame tha...
 |  | Oops! (TJ and the Time Stumblers)
Publication Date: August 31, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Gateways (Repairman Jack Novels)
Release Date: February 7, 2006| Series: Repairman Jack Novels (Book 7) Following last year's successful The Haunted Air, F. Paul Wilson returns with another riveting episode in the saga of Repairman Jack, the secretive, ingenious, and heroic champion of those whose problems no one else can solve. As Dean Koontz says, "Repairman Jack is one of the most original and intriguing characters to arise out of contemporary fiction in ages. His adventures are hugely entertaining."In Gateways, Jack learns that his father is in a coma after a car accident in Florida. They've been on the outs, but this i...
|  | Forbidden Acts
Publication Date: October 1995Twenty-four short stories follow themes of human boundaries pushed to the limits, bringing readers into the lives of men and women who dabble in satanic worship, sexual manipulation, and other dark vices....
|  | The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag: A Flavia de Luce Novel (Flavia de Luce Mysteries)
Release Date: February 8, 2011| Series: Flavia de Luce Mysteries Flavia de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey are over—until beloved puppeteer Rupert Porson has his own strings sizzled in an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. But who’d do such a thing, and why? Does the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Wood know more than she’s letting on? What about Porson’s charming but erratic assistant? All clues point ...
|  | Hello, I Must Be Going: A Novel
Publication Date: July 17, 2007"Hodgen's writing soars in this sad andfunnynovel."—Ann Hood,author of The KnittingCircleIt's the early 1980s, and tomboy FrankieHawthorne's world is overturned when herbeloved father—a Vietnam amputee who masksdepression by playing comedian—shoots himself.Frankie's neighborhood, in a down-at-the-heelsindustrial city near Boston, has had its ownhappier times. Left behind along with Frankieare her mother, Gerrie, a waitress atFriendly's, and a sweetly innocent youngerbrother, Teddy.Soon, Frankiedecides not to talk, resisting the overlyebul...
|  | Gain: A Novel
Release Date: September 29, 2009Gain braids together two stories on very different scales. In one, Laura Body, divorced mother of two and a real-estate agent in the small town of Lacewood, Illinois, plunges into a new existence when she learns that she has ovarian cancer. In the other, Clare & Company, a soap manufacturer begun by three brothers in nineteenth-century Boston, grows over the course of a century and a half into an international consumer products conglomerate based in Laura's hometown. Clare's stunning growth reflects the kaleidoscopic history of America; Laura Body's life is ch...
|  | Nobody Called Me Charlie: The Story of a Radical White Journalist Writing for a Black Newspaper in the Civil Rights Era
Release Date: January 1, 2010In the 1940s, at the height of segregation, Charles Preston became the unlikely newest worker at a black owned-and-operated newspaper. Preston, a white man and, unbeknownst to most of his colleagues, a member of the Communist Party, quickly came face to face with issues of race and injustice that would profoundly impact his life and change the way he understood United States society.This fictionalized account of his experience tells readers what it was like to be the only white worker, and a communist at that, at a black newspaper, while unflinchingly depicting t...
|  | Gay Slugger
Release Date: May 4, 2009“Mini” Martin was an incredible athlete. Not only was he a league-leading hitter, breaking all records in offensive production, he was also a weightlifter and triathlete who participated in six Olympics and won numerous gold medals. In the off-hours, he went to gay clubs in drag, as the most famous and controversial gay athlete in history. Just when he retired he was found dead in New York. Was he killed by a sports rival or because of his sexual orientation? Was he hated because of his success or because he was from Mexico? ...
|  | Blood of Eagles (Eagles 8)
Release Date: February 1, 2012| Series: Eagles 8 The Oklahoma Panhandle is one hundred miles of lawlessness and danger: a no man's land designed to separate Texas from pro-Union Kansas. Through this desolate strip rides legendary gunslinger Falcon MacCallister, a young Indian boy by his side. Behind him lies a scene of horror left by outlaws who'd ambushed a small wagon train. As he searches the Panhandle for the killers, Falcon enters a storm of greed, thievery, and betrayal that has its roots in two long, gleaming bands of steel. A new railway is penetrating this hostile land - making some...
|  | Beowulf CD
Release Date: September 25, 2007 It's never been easy to be a hero. When Beowulf arrives at Hrothgar's hall, he discovers that the hall is beset by Grendel, an evil creature that kills and pillages with impunity. Beowulf, in heroic fashion, bests Grendel in combat, then follows Grendel back to his lair to finish the job. But Beowulf couldn't have counted on meeting Grendel's mother. And then, later, there's this dragon. But why are you reading about it? This story was meant to be told, to be repeated aloud. Listen as J.B. Bessinger, Jr. reads Beowulf and many other Old English poems, i...
|  | Essentials of Young Adult Literature
Publication Date: November 18, 2006| ISBN-10: 0205290140 | ISBN-13: 978-0205290147Based on a genre approach to literature, Essentials of Adolescent Literature offers a comprehensive, clear, and succinct overview of adolescent literature, includes recommended books listed by genre and topic, and provides clearly stated positions on current issues affecting schools and literature. Written by well-known authors Carl Tomlinson and Carol Lynch-Brown, this resource for teachers, librarians, and parents places emphasis on having adolescents read a wide variety of young adult literature and addr...
|  | The Persian Cinderella
Release Date: August 7, 2001| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up In this jewel-like version of a classic story, popular folklorist Shirley Climo tells the tale of Settareh, the Persian Cinderella. Magic enables Settareh to outsmart two jealous stepsisters and win the heart of a prince. But where most Cinderella stories end, poor Sattareh's troubles are only beginning! The unexpected plot twists will enchant readers as they rediscover the familiar tale in the lush setting of long-ago Persia. Shirley Climo's authentic details bring the story to life, and Robert Florczak's stunning pai...
|  | The Story of the Houston Astros (Baseball: The Great American Game)
Publication Date: February 1, 2012 ...
|  | Arbuthnot Lectures, 1980-1989: Association for Library Service to Children
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|  | Fire Cat (Red Go Bananas)
Publication Date: November 1, 2005| Age Level: 7 and up...
|  | Wolf Camp
Publication Date: April 15, 2009| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Maddie's mother agrees to send her daughter to a new camp - Wolf Camp. But when Maddie returns, she seems, well, changed. She snaps at flies, howls at fire trucks, and chases squirrels - on all fours. She quits eating candy and starts eating meat - only meat. And the dog is now afraid of her when she lifts her lip and shows her teeth.What child hasn't fantasized about being an animal? And what parent hasn't exclaimed over the transformation in their child when picking him or her up from camp? This book intertwines ...
|  | The Halloween Joker (Wishbone Super Mysteries)
Publication Date: September 1998| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | My School Trip (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Scholastic Reader Bob Books - Level 1)
Publication Date: July 1, 2012 ...
|  | La ranita que cantaba a la luna/ The little Toad that sang to the moon (Garabato) (Spanish Edition)
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