Summer Reading: High School at Howard County Library

33 revolutions per minute : a history of protest songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day /

Author: Lynskey, Dorian.
ISBN: 9780061670152
Year: 2011
Date added: 04/20/2011
Subjects: Protest songs - History and criticism. - Musicians - Political activity. - Popular music - Political aspects. - Social aspects.
Call number: 782.421T

47 things you can do for the environment /

Author: Petronis, Lexi.
ISBN: 9780982732212;098273221
Year: 2012
Date added: 01/16/2013
Subjects: Environmentalism. - Sustainable living . - Conservation of natural resources.
Call number: 363.7P

Alice in Zombieland /

Author: Showalter, Gena.
ISBN: 9780373210589
Year: 2012
Date added: 09/25/2012
Summary: Alice Bell must learn to fight the undead to avenge her family and learn to trust Cole Holland who has secrets of his own.
Subjects: Zombies - Fiction. - Revenge - Orphans
Call number: YA SHO

Alif the unseen /

Author: Wilson, G. Willow,
ISBN: 9780802120205;0802120202
Year: 2012
Date added: 08/08/2012
Summary: In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker shields his clients, dissidents, outlaws, Islamists, and other watched groups, from surveillance and tries to stay out of trouble. He goes by Alif, the first letter of the Arabic alph
Subjects: Computer hackers - Fiction. - Adventure fiction. - Fantasy fiction. - Middle East
Call number: F WIL

All the right stuff /

Author: Myers, Walter Dean,
ISBN: 9780061960871;9780061960895
Year: 2012
Date added: 04/27/2012
Summary: The summer after his absentee father is killed in a random shooting, Paul volunteers at a Harlem soup kitchen where he listens to lessons about "the social contract" from an elderly African American man, and mentors a seventeen-year-old unwed mother who w
Subjects: African Americans - Fiction. - Coming of age - Social contract - Harlem (New York, N.Y.) - Conduct of life
Call number: YA MYE

Americus /

Author: Reed, M. K.
ISBN: 9781596436015
Year: 2011
Date added: 01/19/2012
Summary: Oklahoma teen Neal Barton stands up for his favorite fantasy series, The Chronicles of Apathea Ravenchilde, when conservative Christians try to bully the town of Americus into banning it from the public library.
Subjects: Graphic novels. - Books and reading - Comic books, strips, etc. - Censorship - Libraries - Fundamentalism
Call number: 741.59R

Back when you were easier to love /

Author: Smith, Emily Wing,
ISBN: 9780525421993
Year: 2011
Date added: 09/28/2011
Summary: When her boyfriend Zan leaves high school in Utah a year early to attend Pitzer College, a broken-hearted Joy and Zan's best friend Noah take off on a road trip to California seeking "closure."
Subjects: Automobile travel - Fiction. - Interpersonal relations - Conduct of life - Universities and colleges - Mormons
Call number: YA SMI

The baseball : stunts, scandals, and secrets beneath the stitches /

Author: Hample, Zack,
ISBN: 9780307475459
Year: 2011
Date added: 03/28/2011
Subjects: Baseball - United States - History. - Social aspects - United States.
Call number: 796.357H

Becoming Dr. Q : my journey from migrant farm worker to brain surgeon /

Author: Quin~ones-Hinojosa, Alfredo.
ISBN: 9780520271180
Year: 2011
Date added: 10/05/2011
Subjects: Quin~ones-Hinojosa, Alfredo. - Neurosurgeons - Mexico - Biography. - Mexican Americans - Transients and Migrants - Autobiography.
Call number: B QUIN~ONES-HINOJOSA

Beyond : a ghost story /

Author: McNamee, Graham.
ISBN: 9780385737753
Year: 2012
Date added: 09/07/2012
Summary: Everyone thinks seventeen-year-old Jane has attempted suicide more than once, but Jane knows the truth: her shadow is trying to kill her.
Subjects: Near-death experiences - Fiction. - Ghosts
Call number: YA MCNA

Changing planet, changing health : how the climate crisis threatens our health and what we can do about it /

Author: Epstein, Paul R.
ISBN: 9780520269095
Year: 2011
Date added: 03/29/2011
Summary: "Climate change is now doing far more harm than marooning polar bears on melting chunks of ice--it is damaging the health of people around the world. Brilliantly connecting stories of real people with cutting-edge scientific and medical information, Chang
Subjects: Medical climatology. - Global environmental change - Health aspects. - Special collections - Health.
Call number: 616.988E

Code name Verity /

Author: Wein, Elizabeth.
ISBN: 9781423152880;9781423152194
Year: 2012
Date added: 05/17/2012
Summary: In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
Subjects: France - History - German occupation, 1940-1945 - Fiction. - World War, 1939-1945 - Nazis - Spies - Air pilots - Insurgency - Great Britain - 1936-1945 - Friendship - Fiction - Michael L. Printz Award.
Call number: YA WEI

Cook your way through the S.A.T. : recipes worth a thousand words /

Author: Freiman-Mendel, Charis.
ISBN: 1461194490;9781461194491
Year: 2011
Date added: 02/08/2012
Summary: "Cook Your Way Through the SAT is a delectable way to master frequently-asked SAT vocabulary. Serve your ravenous appetite for learning with this innovative book. Each of the 99 easy, enjoyable recipes is matched with a fun-fact blurb containing 10 SAT wo
Subjects: Cooking, American. - SAT (Educational test) - Study guides. - Vocabulary - Examinations - Cookbooks.
Call number: 378.1662F

Craft activism : people, ideas and projects from the new community of handmade and how you can join in /

Author: Tapper, Joan.
ISBN: 9780307586629
Year: 2011
Date added: 10/13/2011
Subjects: Handicraft. - Social movements.
Call number: 745.5T

Cut /

Author: McCormick, Patricia,
ISBN: 1886910618;0439324599;9780439324595;9780545290791
Year: 2000
Date added: 05/31/2001
Summary: While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.
Subjects: Self-mutilation - Fiction. - Emotional problems - Family problems - Psychiatric hospitals
Call number: YA MCCO

Dancers among us : a celebration of joy in the everyday /

Author: Matter, Jordan.
ISBN: 9780761171706
Year: 2012
Date added: 11/07/2012
Subjects: Portrait photography. - Dance in art. - Dancers - Portraits. - Dance - Pictorial works.
Call number: 770M

Delirium /

Author: Oliver, Lauren,
ISBN: 9780061726828;9780061726835
Year: 2011
Date added: 03/21/2011
Summary: Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.
Subjects: Maine - Fiction. - Government, Resistance to - Science fiction. - Orphans - Love - Fiction - Family life
Call number: YA OLI

The Demon King : a Seven Realms novel /

Author: Chima, Cinda Williams.
ISBN: 9781423118237;9781423121367
Year: 2009
Date added: 02/18/2010
Summary: Relates the intertwining fates of former street gang leader Han Alister and headstrong Princess Raisa, as Han takes possession of an amulet that once belonged to an evil wizard and Raisa uncovers a conspiracy in the Grey Wolf Court.
Subjects: Fantasy. - Wizards - Fiction. - Princesses
Call number: YA CHI

Discovering Wes Moore /

Author: Moore, Wes,
ISBN: 9780385741675
Year: 2012
Date added: 11/15/2012
Subjects: Moore, Wes, - Childhood and youth. - African American men - Biography. - Youth - Conduct of life. - African Americans - Maryland - Baltimore - Social conditions - 20th century. - Bronx (New York, N.Y.) - Criminals - Soldiers - United States - Baltimore (M
Call number: 975.2M

Don't turn around /

Author: Gagnon, Michelle,
ISBN: 9780062102904;9780062102911;0062102915
Year: 2012
Date added: 11/09/2012
Summary: After waking up on an operating table with no memory of how she got there, Noa must team up with computer hacker Peter to stop a corrupt corporation with a deadly secret.
Subjects: Computer hackers - Fiction. - Experiments - Foster home care - Abandoned children
Call number: YA GAG

Earth : the operators' manual /

Author: Alley, Richard B.
ISBN: 9780393081091
Year: 2011
Date added: 04/11/2011
Subjects: Energy development - Environmental aspects - History. - Renewable energy sources. - Global warming.
Call number: 621.042A

Electrified sheep : glass-eating scientists, nuking the moon, and more bizarre experiments /

Author: Boese, Alex.
ISBN: 9781250007537;1250007534
Year: 2012
Date added: 06/20/2012
Subjects: Science - Experiments. - Science.
Call number: 500B

Elvis Presley : "I want to entertain people" /

Author: Micklos, John.
ISBN: 9780766033825;0766033821
Year: 2011
Date added: 02/14/2013
Summary: "A biography of rock and roll legend Elvis Presley, discussing his early struggles with poverty, rise to fame as a controversial performer, personal hardships, and legacy"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Presley, Elvis, - Rock musicians - United States - Biography.
Call number: B PRESLEY M

Everybody sees the ants : a novel /

Author: King, A. S.
ISBN: 9780316129282;9780316129275;0316129275
Year: 2011
Date added: 10/19/2011
Summary: Overburdened by his parents' bickering and a bully's attacks, fifteen-year-old Lucky Linderman begins dreaming of being with his grandfather, who went missing during the Vietnam War, but during a visit to Arizona, his aunt and uncle and their beautiful ne
Subjects: Grandfathers - Fiction. - Self-confidence - Family problems - Bullies - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Arizona - Missing persons - Dreams
Call number: YA KIN

Fat no more : a teenager's victory over obesity /

Author: Hidalgo-Robert, Alberto.
ISBN: 9781558857452
Year: 2012
Date added: 01/16/2013
Subjects: Hidalgo-Robert, Alberto - Health. - Weight loss. - Eating disorders in adolescence. - Teenagers - Nutrition.
Call number: 616.8526H

Feathers : the evolution of a natural miracle /

Author: Hanson, Thor.
ISBN: 9780465020133;0465020135;9780465028788
Year: 2011
Date added: 08/18/2011
Summary: A biologist presents the natural history of feathers, applying the findings of paleontologists, ornithologists, biologists, engineers, and art historians to answer questions about the origin of feathers, their evolution, and their uses throughout the ages
Subjects: Feathers. - Birds.
Call number: 598.147H

Four thousand hooks : a true story of fishing and coming of age on the high seas of Alaska /

Author: Adams, Dean J.
ISBN: 9780295991979
Year: 2012
Date added: 01/16/2013
Subjects: Adams, Dean J. - Fishers - United States - Biography. - Fisheries - Alaska. - Alaska - Description and travel.
Call number: 639.2092A

Friend me! : 600 years of social networking in America /

Author: DiPiazza, Francesca,
ISBN: 9780761358695
Year: 2012
Date added: 01/17/2013
Subjects: Social networks - United States - History. - Social groups - Communities
Call number: 302.3D

Fuzzy nation /

Author: Scalzi, John,
ISBN: 9780765328540
Year: 2011
Date added: 05/24/2011
Subjects: Space colonies - Fiction - Corporations - Corrupt practices - Fiction. - Life on other planets - Science fiction
Call number: SF SCA

Geek wisdom : the sacred teachings of nerd culture /

ISBN: 9781594745270;1594745277
Year: 2011
Date added: 01/16/2013
Subjects: Conduct of life - Quotations, maxims, etc. - Popular culture.
Call number: 158.1G

Hate list /

Author: Brown, Jennifer,
ISBN: 9780316041447;9780316041454
Year: 2009
Date added: 09/08/2009
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.
Subjects: Family problems - Fiction. - School shootings - Emotional problems - Forgiveness - High schools - Schools
Call number: YA BRO

I beat the odds : from homelessness, to the blind side, and beyond /

Author: Oher, Michael.
ISBN: 9781592406128
Year: 2011
Date added: 02/01/2011
Subjects: Oher, Michael. - Football players - United States - Biography. - University of Mississippi - Football. - Baltimore Ravens (Football team) - Autobiography.
Call number: B OHER

I spy DIY style : find fashion you love and do it yourself /

Author: Radosevich, Jenni.
ISBN: 9780307587145
Year: 2012
Date added: 04/16/2012
Subjects: Dress accessories. - Handicraft.
Call number: 646.3R

If I grow up /

Author: Strasser, Todd.
ISBN: 9781416925231;1416925236;9781416994435;1416994432
Year: 2009
Date added: 02/24/2009
Summary: Growing up in the inner-city projects, DeShawn is reluctantly forced into the gang world by circumstances beyond his control.
Subjects: Gangs - Fiction. - Inner cities - African Americans - Poverty - Violence
Call number: YA STR

The impossible rescue : the true story of an amazing Arctic adventure /

Author: Sandler, Martin W.
ISBN: 9780763650803
Year: 2012
Date added: 01/10/2013
Subjects: Overland Relief Expedition - Whaling ships - Accidents - Alaska - Barrow, Point - History - 19th century. - Whaling - Reindeer - Rescues - Barrow, Point (Alaska) - Bear (Ship)
Call number: 979.8S

In the water they can't see you cry : a memoir /

Author: Beard, Amanda.
ISBN: 9781451644371;9781451644388
Year: 2012
Date added: 04/17/2012
Subjects: Beard, Amanda. - Swimmers - United States - Biography. - Women swimmers - Autobiography.
Call number: B BEARD

Is the end of the world near? : from crackpot predictions to scientific scenarios /

Author: Miller, Ron,
ISBN: 9780761373964
Year: 2012
Date added: 01/17/2013
Subjects: End of the world (Astronomy) - Science.
Call number: 001.9M

Johnny Hiro : {half Asian, all hero} /

Author: Chao, Fred.
ISBN: 9780765329370;0765329379
Year: 2012
Date added: 10/19/2012
Summary: Johnny Hiro, a hardworking busboy, lives in Brooklyn with his flighty but lovable girlfriend Mayumi. Every day, he struggles to make ends meet while fighting giant monsters, running over rooftops from crazed waiters, fending off businessmen-turned-samurai
Subjects: Busboys - Comic books, strips, etc. - Chinese restaurants - New York (N.Y.) - Graphic novels. - Science fiction comic books, strips, etc.
Call number: 741.59C

Keeping the castle : a tale of romance, riches, and real estate /

Author: Kindl, Patrice.
ISBN: 9780670014385;9780142426555
Year: 2012
Date added: 07/12/2012
Summary: In order to support her family and maintain their ancient castle in Lesser Hoo, seventeen-year-old Althea bears the burden of finding a wealthy suitor who can remedy their financial problems.
Subjects: Social classes - Fiction. - Courtship - Castles - Great Britain - History - 1789-1820 - England - Social life and customs - 19th century
Call number: YA KIN

The last rhinos : my battle to save one of the world's greatest creatures /

Author: Anthony, Lawrence.
ISBN: 9781250004512;1250004519
Year: 2012
Date added: 01/16/2013
Subjects: White rhinoceros - Conservation - Congo (Democratic Republic) - Wildlife conservation - Rare mammals - Endangered species - Rhinoceroses - South Africa - Thula Thula Game Reserve. - Thula Thula Game Reserve (South Africa) - Anthony, Lawrence.
Call number: 599.668A

Marathon /

Author: Yakin, Boaz.
ISBN: 9781596436800
Year: 2012
Date added: 06/13/2012
Summary: In graphic novel form, tells the story of Eucles, the Athenian messenger who, in 490 B.C., ran twenty-seven miles from Sparta to Athens, preventing the fall of Greece to the Persian Empire.
Subjects: Graphic novels. - Greece - History - Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C. - Comic books, strips, etc.
Call number: 741.59Y

Master of deceit : J. Edgar Hoover and America in the age of lies /

Author: Aronson, Marc.
ISBN: 9780763650254
Year: 2012
Date added: 04/11/2012
Subjects: Hoover, J. Edgar - United States. - Officials and employees - Biography. - Government executives - United States - Police - History - 20th century. - Communism
Call number: 363.25092A

Mister Death's blue-eyed girls /

Author: Hahn, Mary Downing.
ISBN: 9780547760629
Year: 2012
Date added: 04/13/2012
Summary: Narrated from several different perspectives, tells the story of the 1956 murder of two teenaged girls in suburban Baltimore, Maryland.
Subjects: Grief - Fiction - Coming of age - Fiction. - Baltimore (Md.) - History - 20th century - Murder
Call number: YA HAH

Moneyball : the art of winning an unfair game /

Author: Lewis, Michael
ISBN: 0393057658;9780393338393
Year: 2003
Date added: 05/19/2003
Subjects: Baseball - Economic aspects. - Scouting. - Baseball players - Salaries, etc.
Call number: 796.357L

Muck City : winning and losing in football's forgotten town /

Author: Mealer, Bryan.
ISBN: 9780307888624;0307888622
Year: 2012
Date added: 10/16/2012
Subjects: Football - Florida - Belle Glade - History. - High school football players - Belle Glade (Fla.) - Social conditions. - Economic conditions.
Call number: 796.332M

Never fall down : a novel /

Author: McCormick, Patricia,
ISBN: 9780061730931
Year: 2012
Date added: 05/11/2012
Summary: "Cambodian child soldier Arn Chorn-Pond defied the odds and used all of his courage and wits to survive the murderous regime of the Khmer Rouge"--
Subjects: Cambodia - History - 1975-1979 - Fiction. - Party of Democratic Kampuchea - Genocide - Soldiers
Call number: YA MCCO

The new cool : a visionary teacher, his FIRST robotics team, and the ultimate battle of smarts /

Author: Bascomb, Neal.
ISBN: 9780307588890
Year: 2010
Date added: 03/01/2011
Subjects: Robotics - Study and teaching (Secondary) - Competitions - Georgia - Atlanta. - FIRST (Organization)
Call number: 629.892B

Origin /

Author: Khoury, Jessica,
ISBN: 9781595145956
Year: 2012
Date added: 09/04/2012
Summary: "Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest. She was raised by a team of scientists who have created her to be the start of a new immortal race. But on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the e
Subjects: Immortality - Fiction. - Science - Experiments - Indigenous peoples - Rain forests - Amazon River Region
Call number: YA KHO

Outcasts united : a refugee soccer team, an American town /

Author: St. John, Warren.
ISBN: 9780385522038;9780385522045
Year: 2009
Date added: 05/20/2009
Subjects: Mufleh, Luma. - Soccer coaches - Georgia - Clarkston - Biography. - Refugee children - Clarkston. - Refugees - Africa.
Call number: 796.334S

Pinned /

Author: Flake, Sharon.
ISBN: 9780545057189
Year: 2012
Date added: 09/21/2012
Summary: Adonis is smart, intellectually gifted and born without legs; Autumn is strong, a great wrestler, and barely able to read in ninth grade--but Autumn is attracted to Adonis and determined to make him a part of her life whatever he or her best friend thinks
Subjects: People with disabilities - Fiction. - Learning disabilities - African Americans - High schools - Schools - Best friends - Friendship
Call number: YA FLA

Pirate cinema /

Author: Doctorow, Cory.
ISBN: 9780765329080
Year: 2012
Date added: 09/27/2012
Summary: In a dystopian, near-future Britain, sixteen-year-old Trent, obsessed with making movies on his computer, joins a group of artists and activists who are trying to fight a new bill that will criminalize even more harmless internet creativity.
Subjects: Internet - Fiction. - Motion pictures - Production and direction - Protest movements - England - Science fiction.
Call number: YA DOC

Plastic : a toxic love story /

Author: Freinkel, Susan,
ISBN: 9780547152400
Year: 2011
Date added: 04/26/2011
Subjects: Plastics.
Call number: 620.1F

The raft /

Author: Bodeen, S. A.
ISBN: 9780312650100;9781250027399;125002739;9780312650100
Year: 2012
Date added: 08/15/2012
Summary: Robbie's last-minute flight to the Midway Atoll proves to be a nightmare when the plane goes down in shark-infested waters. Fighting for her life, the co-pilot Max pulls her onto the raft, and that's when the real terror begins.
Subjects: Survival at sea - Fiction. - Pacific Ocean
Call number: YA BOD

The Raven Boys /

Author: Stiefvater, Maggie,
ISBN: 9780545424929
Year: 2012
Date added: 09/17/2012
Summary: Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue Sargent's only gift seems to be that she makes other people's talents stronger, and when she meets Gansey, one of the Raven Boys from the expensive Aglionby Academy, she discovers that he has talents of hi
Subjects: Clairvoyance - Fiction. - Occultism - Magic
Call number: YA STI

Ready player one /

Author: Cline, Ernest.
ISBN: 9780307887436
Year: 2011
Date added: 10/03/2011
Subjects: Regression (Civilization) - Fiction. - Virtual reality - Utopias - Puzzles - Science fiction
Call number: SF CLI

The replacement /

Author: Yovanoff, Brenna.
ISBN: 9781595143372;9781595143815;1595143815
Year: 2010
Date added: 09/22/2010
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Mackie Doyle knows that he replaced a human child when he was just an infant, and when a friend's sister disappears he goes against his family's and town's deliberate denial of the problem to confront the beings that dwell under the town,
Subjects: Changelings - Fiction. - Conformity - Fiction - Family life - Supernatural - Monsters - Missing children - Death
Call number: YA YOV

Robopocalypse : a novel /

Author: Wilson, Daniel H.
ISBN: 9780385533850
Year: 2011
Date added: 06/09/2011
Summary: Two decades into the future humans are battling for their very survival when a powerful AI computer goes rogue, and all the machines on earth rebel against their human controllers.
Subjects: Robots - Fiction. - Artificial intelligence - Suspense fiction - Science fiction
Call number: SF WIL

Rotters /

Author: Kraus, Daniel,
ISBN: 9780385738576;9780385738583
Year: 2011
Date added: 02/14/2012
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Joey's life takes a very strange turn when his mother's tragic death forces him to move from Chicago to rural Iowa with the father he has never known, and who is the town pariah.
Subjects: High schools - Fiction. - Bullying - Recluses - Grave robbing - Iowa - Moving, Household - Fathers and sons - Schools
Call number: YA KRA

Rush for the gold : mystery at the Olympic games /

Author: Feinstein, John.
ISBN: 9780375869631
Year: 2012
Date added: 05/18/2012
Summary: Two teenaged aspiring journalists who are dating solve a mystery at the 2012 Olympic Games, while one simultaneously competes for a gold medal in swimming.
Subjects: Swimming - Fiction. - Dating (Social customs) - Journalists - Olympic Games - Mystery and detective stories.
Call number: YA FEI

Second chance summer /

Author: Matson, Morgan.
ISBN: 9781416990680;9781416990673
Year: 2012
Date added: 09/06/2012
Summary: "Taylor Edwards' family might not be the closest-knit--everyone is a little too busy and overscheduled--but for the most part, they get along just fine. Then Taylor's dad gets devastating news, and her parents decide that the family will spend one last su
Subjects: Love - Fiction - Interpersonal relations - Fiction. - Family life - Pennsylvania - Terminally ill - Pocono Mountains (Pa.)
Call number: YA MAT

The selection /

Author: Cass, Kiera.
ISBN: 9780062059932;9780062059949
Year: 2012
Date added: 05/11/2012
Summary: "Sixteen-year-old America Singer is living in the caste-divided nation of Illea, which formed after the war that destroyed the United States. America is chosen to compete in the Selection--a contest to see which girl can win the heart of Illea's prince--b
Subjects: Love - Fiction - Marriage - Fiction. - Social classes - Revolutionaries - Princes - Contests
Call number: YA CAS

Shadow and bone /

Shatter me /

Author: Mafi, Tahereh.
ISBN: 9780062085481;9780062085504
Year: 2011
Date added: 12/12/2011
Summary: Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, seventeen-year-old Juliette is freed on the condition that she use her horrific abilities in support of The Reestablishment, a post-apocalyptic dictatorship, but Adam, the only person ever to show her affection,
Subjects: Love - Fiction - Ability - Fiction. - Science fiction. - Dictatorship - Soldiers
Call number: YA MAF

Sometimes it happens /

Author: Barnholdt, Lauren.
ISBN: 9781442413146
Year: 2011
Date added: 11/02/2011
Summary: With help from her best friend Ava and Ava's boyfriend Noah, Hannah is recovering from being dumped by her boyfriend Sebastian, but on the first day of their senior year in high school, Ava learns that Hannah and Noah betrayed her while she was away.
Subjects: Betrayal - Fiction. - Interpersonal relations - High schools - Secrets - Schools
Call number: YA BAR

The song of Achilles /

Author: Miller, Madeline.
ISBN: 9780062060617;9780062060624
Year: 2012
Date added: 03/12/2012
Summary: Patroclus, an awkward young prince, follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. And that, before he is ready, he will be forced to surrender his friend to the hand
Subjects: Trojan War - Fiction. - Achilles (Greek mythology) - Greeks - Turkey - Troy (Extinct city) - Greece - History - To 146 B.C. - War stories. - Historical fiction.
Call number: F MIL

Soul surfer : a true story of faith, family, and fighting to get back on the board /

Author: Hamilton, Bethany.
ISBN: 0743499220;9781416503460;9781439165799
Year: 2004
Date added: 10/15/2004
Summary: Bethany Hamilton, a teenage surfer lost her arm in a shark attack off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii. Not even the loss of her arm keeps her from returning to surfing, the sport she loves.
Subjects: Hamilton, Bethany. - Surfing - Hawaii - Kauai - Accidents and injuries - Personal narratives. - Shark attacks - Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. - Autobiography. - Amputees - Rehabilitation
Call number: B HAMILTON

Spin : the story of Michael Jackson /

Author: O'Keefe, Sherry.
ISBN: 9781599351346
Year: 2011
Date added: 01/22/2013
Subjects: Jackson, Michael, - Rock musicians - United States - Biography.
Call number: B JACKSON O

Stand up that mountain : the battle to save one small community in the wilderness along the Appalachian Trail /

Author: Leutze, Jay E.
ISBN: 9781451679007;1451679009
Year: 2012
Date added: 06/01/2012
Summary: This is the true story of an outdoorsman living alone in Western North Carolina who teams up with his neighbors and environmental lawyers to save a treasured mountain peak from the mining company. One day the author got a call from a young woman, Ashley,
Subjects: Mountaintop removal mining - Environmental aspects - North Carolina. - Appalachian Region. - Sand and gravel mines and mining - Environmental degradation - Environmentalism - North Carolina - Environmental conditions. - Appalachian Region
Call number: 338.2724L

The statistical probability of love at first sight /

Author: Smith, Jennifer E.
ISBN: 9780316122382;9780316122399
Year: 2012
Date added: 01/04/2012
Summary: Hadley and Oliver fall in love on the flight from New York to London, but after a cinematic kiss they lose track of each other at the airport until fate brings them back together on a very momentous day.
Subjects: London (England) - Fiction. - Funeral rites and ceremonies - Remarriage - Fate and fatalism - Air travel - Weddings - England - Love
Call number: YA SMI

Steve Jobs : the man who thought different : a biography /

Author: Blumenthal, Karen.
ISBN: 9781250015570;125001557
Year: 2012
Date added: 03/20/2012
Summary: Traces the inspiring life and career of the late founder of Apple, covering topics ranging from his struggles as an adopted child and a college dropout to his Buddhist faith and friendship with Steve Wozniak, in a portrait framed around his inspirational
Subjects: Jobs, Steve, - Computer engineers - United States - Biography. - Businesspeople - Apple Computer, Inc. - History. - Computer industry - Inventors
Call number: B JOBS B

Superman versus the Ku Klux Klan : the true story of how the iconic superhero battled the men of hate /

Author: Bowers, Rick,
ISBN: 9781426309151;1426309155
Year: 2012
Date added: 04/12/2012
Summary: This book tells a group of intertwining stories that culminate in the historic 1947 collision of the Superman Radio Show and the Ku Klux Klan.
Subjects: Superman (Comic strip) - Superman (Fictitious character) - Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) - Comic books, strips, etc. - Social aspects.
Call number: 741.59B

Throne of glass /

Author: Maas, Sarah J.
ISBN: 9781619630345;1619630346;9781599906959
Year: 2012
Date added: 08/01/2012
Summary: After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal
Subjects: Fantasy. - Assassins - Fiction. - Princes - Courts and courtiers - Prisoners
Call number: YA MAA

Tiger Lily /

Author: Anderson, Jodi Lynn.
ISBN: 9780062003256;9780062003263
Year: 2012
Date added: 07/25/2012
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Tiger Lily receives special protections from the spiritual forces of Neverland, but then she meets her tribe's most dangerous enemy--Peter Pan--and falls in love with him.
Subjects: Love - Fiction - Fairies - Fiction. - Magic
Call number: YA AND

Trash /

Author: Mulligan, Andy.
ISBN: 9780385752145;9780385752169
Year: 2010
Date added: 12/06/2010
Summary: Fourteen-year-olds Raphael and Gardo team up with a younger boy, Rat, to figure out the mysteries surrounding a bag Raphael finds during their daily life of sorting through trash in a third-world country's dump.
Subjects: Developing countries - Fiction. - Political corruption - Poverty - Refuse and refuse disposal - Mystery and detective stories.
Call number: YA MUL

True legend /

Author: Lupica, Mike.
ISBN: 9780399252273
Year: 2012
Date added: 09/04/2012
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Drew "True" Robinson loves being the best point-guard prospect in high school basketball, but learns the consequences of fame through a former player, as well as through the man who expects to be his manager when True reaches the NBA.
Subjects: Basketball - Fiction. - Teamwork (Sports) - Conduct of life - High schools - Schools - African Americans
Call number: YA LUP

The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls /

Author: Schumacher, Julie,
ISBN: 9780385737739
Year: 2012
Date added: 05/09/2012
Summary: When four very different small-town Delaware high school girls are forced to join a mother-daughter book club over summer vacation, they end up learning about more than just the books they read.
Subjects: Interpersonal relations - Fiction. - Books and reading - Book clubs (Discussion groups) - Delaware - Mothers and daughters
Call number: YA SCH

Unraveling /

Author: Norris, Elizabeth.
ISBN: 9780062103734
Year: 2012
Date added: 05/11/2012
Summary: "If Janelle Tenner wants to avenge her father's death and stop the end of the world, she's going to need to uncover Ben's secrets--and keep from falling in love with him in the process"--
Subjects: Bioterrorism - Fiction. - Family life - California - Interpersonal relations - High schools - Fiction - Mystery and detective stories. - Schools - Terrorism
Call number: YA NOR

Weird Maryland : your travel guide to Maryland's local legends and best kept secrets /

Author: Lake, Matt.
ISBN: 9781402739064;1402739060
Year: 2006
Date added: 09/29/2006
Subjects: Curiosities and wonders - Maryland. - Haunted places - Maryland - Folklore. - Ghosts - Folklore - History. - History - Anecdotes.
Call number: 975.24L

What's left of me /

Author: Zhang, Kat,
ISBN: 9780062114877;0062114875
Year: 2012
Date added: 09/25/2012
Summary: "Eva and Addie started out the same way as everyone else-- two souls woven together in one body, taking turns controlling their movements as they learned how to walk, how to sing, how to dance. But as they grew, so did the worried whispers. Why aren't the
Subjects: Sisters - Fiction. - Identity (Psychology)
Call number: YA ZHA

Wildlife heroes : 40 leading conservationists and the animals they are committed to saving /

Author: Scardina, Julie,
ISBN: 9780762443192;0762443197
Year: 2012
Date added: 06/08/2012
Summary: Profiles the work of forty of the leading conservationists and the animals and causes they are committed to saving, including Belinda Low, Doublas Hamilton, Karen Eckert, and S.T. Wong.
Subjects: Conservationists. - Endangered species. - Wildlife conservation.
Call number: 333.954S

With their eyes : September 11th : the view from a high school at ground zero /

ISBN: 9780060517182;0060517182
Year: 2011
Date added: 10/25/2002
Subjects: High school students' writings, American - New York (State) - New York. - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 - Drama. - High school students - New York - Stuyvesant High School (New York, N.Y.) - Victims of terrorism
Call number: 812.045W

Zahra's paradise /

Author: Amir.
ISBN: 9781596436428
Year: 2011
Date added: 02/01/2012
Subjects: Iran - Comic books, strips, etc. - Bloggers - Missing persons - Graphic novels.
Call number: 741.59A

ZOM-B /

Author: Shan, Darren.
ISBN: 9780316214407
Year: 2012
Date added: 10/03/2012
Summary: "When the news starts reporting a zombie outbreak in Ireland, B's father thinks it's a hoax-but even if it isn't, the two of them joke, it's only the Irish, right? That is, until zombies actually attack the school. B is forced on a mad dash through the se
Subjects: Zombies - Fiction. - Dystopias - Horror stories. - Survival - High school students - High schools
Call number: YA SHA