T L A booklist 2010
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This document provides summaries for 29 books in 3 sentences or less per book. It includes fiction and non-fiction books for a variety of age groups, summarizing plots, biographical subjects, and themes. The books cover topics like aviation pioneers, time travel, magic, science fiction, poetry, friendship, and coming of age stories. Publication details are provided such as author, publisher, publication year, reading level, and price.
![BooksFLR# Title -- Author -- Publisher : Year Bnd Qty 1st Price Extended29640K0 Accomplice -- Corrigan, Eireann {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Scholastic Press, c2010.Lexile: 750 HRD 1 15.29 15.29Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on August 1, 2010.39500E4 Amelia Earhart : this broad ocean -- Taylor, Sarah Stewart. [ BL* BC* KR* PW NY ] {IL 5-8, 629.13} -- Disney/Hyperion Books, c2010., RL 3.2, 78pA biographical depiction, in graphic novel format, of the life of aviator Amelia Earhart, focusing on her crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in 1928.AR: 3.7 MG 1.0 135013EN HRD 1 15.29 15.2905016Q6 Before I fall -- Oliver, Lauren, 1982- [ KR BL LM* PW* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Harper, c2010., 470pAfter she dies in a car crash, teenage Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself. HRD 1 15.29 15.2903475U2 The body finder -- Derting, Kimberly. [ LM BL PW BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Harper, c2010., 329pHigh school junior Violet uses her uncanny ability to sense murderers and their victims to try to stop a serial killer who is terrorizing her town, and although her best friend and would-be boyfriend Jay promises to keep her safe, she becomes a target. HRD 1 14.44 14.4429291N2 Bone --tall tales / (Bone) -- Sniegoski, Tom [ BL ] {IL 3-6, 741.5} -- Graphix, c2010. FBG 1 14.96 14.96Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on August 1, 2010.29509J7 Borrowed names : poems about Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie Curie, and their daughters -- Atkins, Jeannine, 1953- [ BL* LM SL* ] {IL YA, 811} -- Henry Holt, 2010., 209pA collection of poems that retell the histories of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, cosmetics entrepreneur Madam C. J. Walker, and Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie and their daughters. HRD 1 15.29 15.2905014Z5 Calamity Jack -- Hale, Shannon. [ VO KR BL PW HB SL BC ] {IL 5-8, 741.5} -- Bloomsbury, 2010., RL 5.2, 144pIn this graphic novel interpretation of \"
Jack and the beanstalk,\"
Jack is a born schemer who climbs a magical beanstalk in the hope of exacting justice from a mean giant and gaining a fortune for his widowed mother, aided by some friends.AR: 3.2 MG 1.0 134833EN Lexile: 560 HRD 1 19.99 19.9929299M2 Carter's big break / (the sequel to \"
Carter Finally Gets It\"
) -- Crawford, Brent {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Disney/Hyperion, c2010. HRD 1 13.59 13.59Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on June 1, 2010.09035P1 Cosmic -- Cottrell Boyce, Frank. [ BL* BC* KR* LM SL* NY HB PW* ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Walden Pond Press, 2010, c2008., RL 5.5, 313pTwelve-year-old Liam, who looks like he is thirty and is tired of being treated like he is older than he actually is, decides he is going to pose as the adult chaperone on the first spaceship to take civilians into space, but when he ends up in outer space with a group of kids and no adult supervision, he must think fast to make things right.AR: 4.5 MG 9.0 135015EN HRD 1 14.44 14.4415062C8 The death-defying Pepper Roux -- McCaughrean, Geraldine. [ BL* VO KR* SL* HB PW* BC ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Harper, 2010, c2009., RL 5.5, 328pPepper Roux decides to test fate and embarks on a journey the day before he turns fourteen, which is also the day he is expected to die, meeting outrageous friends and dangerous enemies along the way.AR: 6.4 MG 10.0 135564EN HRD 1 14.44 14.4408754T3 The dreamer -- Ryan, Pam Munoz. [ BL* KR* LM SL* PW* HB* ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Scholastic Press, 2010., RL 5.3, 372pA fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.Lexile: 650 HRD 1 14.44 14.4403441X9 Eidi -- Bredsdorff, Bodil. [ MBA BL* KR HB SL BC ] {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009., RL 5.8, 138pEidi leaves her mother and stepfather in Crow Cove to live in a nearby village, where she meets the much younger Tink and rescues him from the abusive man he has been living with.AR: 5.2 MG 4.0 132409EN Lexile: 810 HRD 1 14.44 14.4403604VX A faraway island -- Thor, Annika. [ MBA KR BL PW NY SL LM* HB* ] {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Delacorte Press, c2009., RL 6.1, 247pIn 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their parents to flee the Nazis in Austria, but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who is as cold and unforgiving as the island on which they live.AR: 4.4 MG 8.0 134016EN HRD 1 14.44 14.4408795T6 Fever Crumb -- Reeve, Philip. [ BL* KR* SL* HB LM* PW* ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Scholastic Press, 2010, c2009., 325pFoundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.Lexile: 1000 HRD 1 15.29 15.2929344A1 The firefly letters --a suffragette's journey to Cuba -- Engle, Margarita. [ KR* LM BL PW HB SL BC ] {IL YA, 813.54} -- Henry Holt and Co., c2010.AR: 6.2 MG 1.0 135907EN HRD 1 15.29 15.2929314K4 Guardian of the dead -- Healey, Karen. [ KR ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Little, Brown, 2010., 345pEighteen-year-old New Zealand boarding school student Ellie Spencer must use her rusty tae kwon do skills and new-found magic to try to stop a fairy-like race of creatures from Maori myth and legend that is plotting to kill millions of humans in order to regain their lost immortality. HRD 1 15.29 15.2929686E0 Hip hop dog -- Raschka, Christopher. [ KR* BL PW HB SL ] {IL K-3, -E-} -- Harper, c2010., RL 3.9, 27pA neglected dog finds his purpose through rapping and rhyming. HRD 1 14.44 14.4409065VX Incarceron -- Fisher, Catherine, 1957- [ BL* KR* LM SL* PW* HB* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Dial Books, 2010, c2007., 442pTo free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.AR: 4.6 MG 14.0 134835EN Lexile: 600, HL HRD 1 15.29 15.2929658E6 The life of glass -- Cantor, Jillian. [ KR BL PW ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- HarperTeen, c2010., 340pThrough her freshman year of high school, fourteen-year-old Melissa struggles to hold on to memories of her deceased father, cope with her mother's return to dating, get along with her sister, and sort out her feelings about her best friend. HRD 1 14.44 14.4439873E7 Mercury -- Larson, Hope. [ BL* KR* SL* HB ] {IL YA, 741.5} -- Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2010., 234pA necklace that reportedly has the power to find gold serves as a link between Tara Fraser, a teen who is facing the angst of living with relatives and being the new girl in school after her home burns down, and Josey, a distant relative who lived in Tara's house over one hundred years earlier and fell in love with Asa Curry, a mysterious man who claimed to be a gold dowser.AR: 2.6 MG 1.0 136066EN HRD 1 15.29 15.2900638SX A million shades of gray -- Kadohata, Cynthia. [ VO KR BL SL PW* BC ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2010., RL 5.7, 216pA boy takes refuge in the jungle with his elephant when the Viet Cong launch an attack on his village in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.AR: 4.9 MG 6.0 135202EN Lexile: 700 HRD 1 14.44 14.4409128V1 Mirror mirror : a book of reversible verse -- Singer, Marilyn. [ BL* KR* SL* PW* HB* BC ] {IL 3-6, 811} -- Dutton Children's Books, c2010., RL 4.1, 32pA collection of short poems which, when reversed, provide new perspectives on the fairy tale characters they feature. HRD 1 14.44 14.4409128V1 Mirror mirror : a book of reversible verse -- Singer, Marilyn. [ BL* KR* SL* PW* HB* BC ] {IL 3-6, 811} -- Dutton Children's Books, c2010., RL 4.1, 32pA collection of short poems which, when reversed, provide new perspectives on the fairy tale characters they feature. HRD 1 14.44 14.4405379W1 Mockingbird : (Mok'ing-burd) -- Erskine, Kathryn. [ KR* BL HB PW* ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Philomel Books, c2010., RL 4.1, 235pTen-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.AR: 3.6 MG 5.0 136100EN HRD 1 14.44 14.4425036V7 Moribito : Guardian of the Spirit -- Uehashi, Nahoko. [ VO EL KR WM BL HB SL BC ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Arthur A. Levine Books, 2008., RL 5.9, 248pThe wandering warrior Balsa is hired to protect Prince Chagum from both a mysterious monster and the prince's father, the Mikado.AR: 5.9 MG 9.0 122324EN Lexile: 840 HRD 1 15.29 15.2901509D4 Moribito II : Guardian of the Darkness -- Uehashi, Nahoko. [ MBA BL HB SL PW* ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Arthur A. Levine Books, 2009., RL 5.7, 245pThe wandering female bodyguard Balsa returns to her native country of Kanbal, where she uncovers a conspiracy to frame her mentor and herself.AR: 5.9 MG 9.0 132215EN Lexile: 830 HRD 1 15.29 15.2903988V6 Muchacho : a novel -- Johnson, LouAnne. [ LM KR BL ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Knopf, c2009., 197pLiving in a neighborhood of drug dealers and gangs in New Mexico, high school junior Eddie Corazon, a juvenile delinquent-in-training, falls in love with a girl who inspires him to rethink his life and his choices.AR: 5.9 UG 8.0 133600EN Lexile: 1250 HRD 1 13.59 13.5929702E6 The mysterious howling -- Wood, Maryrose. [ BL* KR* PW* BC ] {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Balzer & Bray, c2010., RL 6.6, 267pFifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, is hired as governess to three young children who have been raised by wolves and must teach them to behave in a civilized manner quickly, in preparation for a Christmas ball.AR: 6.8 MG 9.0 135540EN HRD 1 13.59 13.5939403F9 The night fairy -- Schlitz, Laura Amy. [ PW HB SL* BC ] {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Candlewick Press, 2010., RL 4.7, 117pWhen Flory the night fairy's wings are accidentally broken and she cannot fly, she has to learn to do everything differently.AR: 4.2 MG 2.0 135339EN HRD 1 14.44 14.4408805T4 Num8ers -- Ward, Rachel, 1978- [ KR BL SL* PW* ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Chicken House, 2010., RL 3.9, 325pFifteen-year-old Jem knows when she looks at someone the exact date they will die, so she avoids relationships and tries to keep out of the way, but when she meets a boy named Spider and they plan a day out together, they become more involved than either of them had planned.Lexile: 650 HRD 1 15.29 15.2908681P2 One crazy summer -- Williams-Garcia, Rita. [ BL* KR* SL* PW NY LM* HB* BC ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Amistad, c2010., RL 5.3, 218pIn the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.AR: 4.6 MG 7.0 135338EN HRD 1 13.59 13.5907167T4 Ostrich boys -- Gray, Keith [ KR SL* PW* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Random House, c2010.After their best friend Ross dies, English teenagers Blake, Kenny, and Sim plan a proper memorial by taking his ashes to Ross, Scotland, an adventure-filled journey that tests their loyalty to each other and forces them to question what friendship means. HRD 1 15.29 15.2929842D9 Possessing Jessie -- Springer, Nancy. {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Holiday House, c2010., 88pHigh school senior Jessie, blaming herself for her selfish, manipulative brother Jason's death, tries to comfort her bereft mother by dressing and talking like him, but soon his spirit is taking over her life, while Jessie's best friend Alisha desperately tries to save her. HRD 1 15.26 15.260413KB9 Reading Ladders Leading Students from Where They Are to Where We'd Like them to Be -- Lesesne, Teri S. {IL PF, 809.} -- Heinemann, c2010. PAP 1 20.25 20.2506370W0 Rikers High -- Volponi, Paul. [ LM KR BL PW SL BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Viking, 2010., 246pArrested on a minor offense, a New York City teenager attends high school in the jail facility on Rikers Island while waiting for his case to go to court.AR: 5.3 UG 7.0 134839EN Lexile: 790 HRD 1 14.44 14.440170DAX Ring of fire / (Century #1) -- Baccalario, Pierdomenico {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Yearling, c2010., RL 5.9, 293pFour seemingly unrelated children are brought together in a Rome hotel where they discover that they are destined to become involved in a deep and ancient mystery involving a briefcase full of artifacts that expose them to great danger.AR: 4.3 MG 9.0 132763EN Lexile: 660 PAP 1 6.79 6.79Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on April 27, 2010.07159T2 Saving Maddie -- Johnson, Varian. [ KR PW SL ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Delacorte Press, c2010., 231pJoshua Wynn, the preacher's son who chooses to lead a morally-rich life, is reunited with his childhood crush, Maddie Smith, after she returns to town and elicits scorn amongst the local churchgoers due to her provocative clothing, which inspires Joshua to help her reclaim her faith. HRD 1 14.44 14.4429321K9 Sisters Red -- Pearce, Jackson {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Little, Brown Books for Y, c2010.After a Fenris, or werewolf, killed their grandmother and almost killed them, sisters Scarlett and Rosie March devote themselves to hunting and killing the beasts that prey on teenaged girls, learning how to lure them with red cloaks and occasionally using the help of their old friend, Silas, the woodsman's son. HRD 1 14.44 14.44Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on June 7, 2010.09068V1 The sky is everywhere -- Nelson, Jandy. [ BC* BL HB SL PW* ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Dial Books, c2010., 275pIn the months after her sister dies, seventeen-year-old Lennie falls into a love triangle and discovers the strength to follow her dream of becoming a musician.AR: 5.2 UG 10.0 135909EN HRD 1 15.29 15.2925300Z3 Sweet, hereafter -- Johnson, Angela, 1961- [ VO KR* BL HB SL ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Simon & Schuster BFYR, c2010., 118pSweet leaves her family and goes to live in a cabin in the woods with the quiet but understanding Curtis, to whom she feels intensely connected, just as he is called back to serve again in Iraq.AR: 4.6 UG 2.0 135189EN Lexile: 750 HRD 1 14.44 14.4406973T0 They never came back -- Cooney, Caroline B. [ LM KR BL PW SL BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Delacorte Press, c2010., 200pWhen fifteen-year-old Cathy decides to carpool from Norwalk to tiny Greenwich, Connecticut, to study Latin in summer school, she does not expect the shocking events that occurred five years earlier to suddenly come flooding back into her relatively settled life.AR: 4.7 MG 7.0 135018EN HRD 1 14.44 14.4439830M5 This totally bites / (Poison Apple) -- Ames, Ruth {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Scholastic, c2010.Twelve-year-old Emma-Rose Paley feels very different from her bubbly parents and thinks only her best friend understands her, but a visit from Emma-Rose's great aunt in Romania leads her to believe she could be a vampire.Lexile: 740 FBG 1 10.86 10.86Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on May 1, 2010.0048KB9 Three Quarters Dead -- Peck, Richard {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Dial, c2010., 272p HRD 1 14.44 14.44Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on October 28, 2010.27971X0 Tiger moon -- Michaelis, Antonia. [ MBA BL* KR* WM SL* PW HB KL ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Amulet Books, c2008., 453pSold to be the eighth wife of a rich and cruel merchant, Safia, also called Raka, tries to escape her fate by telling stories of Farhad the thief, his companion Nitish the white tiger, and their travels across India to retrieve a famous jewel that will save a kidnapped princess from becoming the bride of a demon king.AR: 6.0 UG 15.0 127227EN Lexile: 820 HRD 1 16.11 16.110105NA6 Twilight : the graphic novel.Volume 1 -- Kim, Yong-bin, 1976- {IL YA, 741.5} -- Yen Press, 2010.A graphic novel adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's \"
Twilight\"
in which seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, where she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not completely human. HRD 1 16.99 16.9909131V7 Will Grayson, Will Grayson -- Green, John, 1977- [ BL* VO KR* SL* PW ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Dutton, c2010., 310pWhen two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both. HRD 1 15.29 15.2909131V7 Will Grayson, Will Grayson -- Green, John, 1977- [ BL* VO KR* SL* PW ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Dutton, c2010., 310pWhen two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both. HRD 1 15.29 15.2900134UX Winter's end -- Mourlevat, Jean-Claude. [ BL* KR* SL LM* PW* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Candlewick Press, 2009, c2008., 415pFleeing across icy mountains from a pack of terrifying dog-men sent to hunt them down, four teenagers escape from their prison-like boarding schools to take up the fight against the tyrannical government that murdered their parents fifteen years earlier.AR: 5.2 UG 15.0 133425EN Lexile: 730, HL HRD 1 15.29 15.2907068T6 Woods runner -- Paulsen, Gary. [ KR* BL NY HB SL PW* BC ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Wendy Lamb Books, c2010., RL 5.1, 164pFrom his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Native Americans who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes.AR: 5.5 MG 5.0 134843EN Lexile: 870 HRD 1 13.59 13.590249RC3 You -- Benoit, Charles {IL YA, -Fic-} -- HarperTeen, c2010. HRD 1 14.44 14.44Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on August 24, 2010.07808P9 You don't even know me : stories and poems about boys -- Flake, Sharon [ VO BL BC ] {IL YA, 818} -- Jump at the Sun, c2010., 195pA collection of nine short stories and thirteen poems by Sharon Flake that offer insight into the emotions, experiences, and values of African-American males.AR: 3.6 UG 5.0 135543EN HRD 1 14.44 14.4424472X7 Young adult literature in action : a librarian's guide -- Chance, Rosemary. [ VO CL ] {IL PF, 028.1} -- Libraries Unlimited, 2008., 188pOffers an activity-oriented survey of young adult literature that highlights paramount selections for every library's collection, and includes suggestions for book-based activities and programs that will encourage teenagers to read. HRD 1 70.20 70.20 52 titles (qty 52) Total Guaranteed Title Price 822.53AudiovisualFLR# Title -- Author -- Publisher : Year Fmt Qty 1st Price Extended4EDA2N6 The Dead-Tossed Waves -- Ryan, Carrie {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Listening Library, c2010. CD 1 47.96 47.9642E0BT8 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon -- Lin, Grace {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Random House Audio, c2010. CD 1 27.96 27.96Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on April 27, 2010. 2 titles (qty 2) Total Guaranteed A/V Media Price 75.92<br /> Total Books (Qty.)52 (52)$ 822.53Total A/V titles (Qty.)2 (2)$ 75.92 Grand total$ 898.45 <br />](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/tlabooklist2010-100413152810-phpapp02/85/T-L-A-booklist-2010-1-320.jpg)
T L A booklist 2010
- 1. BooksFLR# Title -- Author -- Publisher : Year Bnd Qty 1st Price Extended29640K0 Accomplice -- Corrigan, Eireann {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Scholastic Press, c2010.Lexile: 750 HRD 1 15.29 15.29Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on August 1, 2010.39500E4 Amelia Earhart : this broad ocean -- Taylor, Sarah Stewart. [ BL* BC* KR* PW NY ] {IL 5-8, 629.13} -- Disney/Hyperion Books, c2010., RL 3.2, 78pA biographical depiction, in graphic novel format, of the life of aviator Amelia Earhart, focusing on her crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in 1928.AR: 3.7 MG 1.0 135013EN HRD 1 15.29 15.2905016Q6 Before I fall -- Oliver, Lauren, 1982- [ KR BL LM* PW* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Harper, c2010., 470pAfter she dies in a car crash, teenage Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself. HRD 1 15.29 15.2903475U2 The body finder -- Derting, Kimberly. [ LM BL PW BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Harper, c2010., 329pHigh school junior Violet uses her uncanny ability to sense murderers and their victims to try to stop a serial killer who is terrorizing her town, and although her best friend and would-be boyfriend Jay promises to keep her safe, she becomes a target. HRD 1 14.44 14.4429291N2 Bone --tall tales / (Bone) -- Sniegoski, Tom [ BL ] {IL 3-6, 741.5} -- Graphix, c2010. FBG 1 14.96 14.96Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on August 1, 2010.29509J7 Borrowed names : poems about Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie Curie, and their daughters -- Atkins, Jeannine, 1953- [ BL* LM SL* ] {IL YA, 811} -- Henry Holt, 2010., 209pA collection of poems that retell the histories of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, cosmetics entrepreneur Madam C. J. Walker, and Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie and their daughters. HRD 1 15.29 15.2905014Z5 Calamity Jack -- Hale, Shannon. [ VO KR BL PW HB SL BC ] {IL 5-8, 741.5} -- Bloomsbury, 2010., RL 5.2, 144pIn this graphic novel interpretation of \" Jack and the beanstalk,\" Jack is a born schemer who climbs a magical beanstalk in the hope of exacting justice from a mean giant and gaining a fortune for his widowed mother, aided by some friends.AR: 3.2 MG 1.0 134833EN Lexile: 560 HRD 1 19.99 19.9929299M2 Carter's big break / (the sequel to \" Carter Finally Gets It\" ) -- Crawford, Brent {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Disney/Hyperion, c2010. HRD 1 13.59 13.59Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on June 1, 2010.09035P1 Cosmic -- Cottrell Boyce, Frank. [ BL* BC* KR* LM SL* NY HB PW* ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Walden Pond Press, 2010, c2008., RL 5.5, 313pTwelve-year-old Liam, who looks like he is thirty and is tired of being treated like he is older than he actually is, decides he is going to pose as the adult chaperone on the first spaceship to take civilians into space, but when he ends up in outer space with a group of kids and no adult supervision, he must think fast to make things right.AR: 4.5 MG 9.0 135015EN HRD 1 14.44 14.4415062C8 The death-defying Pepper Roux -- McCaughrean, Geraldine. [ BL* VO KR* SL* HB PW* BC ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Harper, 2010, c2009., RL 5.5, 328pPepper Roux decides to test fate and embarks on a journey the day before he turns fourteen, which is also the day he is expected to die, meeting outrageous friends and dangerous enemies along the way.AR: 6.4 MG 10.0 135564EN HRD 1 14.44 14.4408754T3 The dreamer -- Ryan, Pam Munoz. [ BL* KR* LM SL* PW* HB* ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Scholastic Press, 2010., RL 5.3, 372pA fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.Lexile: 650 HRD 1 14.44 14.4403441X9 Eidi -- Bredsdorff, Bodil. [ MBA BL* KR HB SL BC ] {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009., RL 5.8, 138pEidi leaves her mother and stepfather in Crow Cove to live in a nearby village, where she meets the much younger Tink and rescues him from the abusive man he has been living with.AR: 5.2 MG 4.0 132409EN Lexile: 810 HRD 1 14.44 14.4403604VX A faraway island -- Thor, Annika. [ MBA KR BL PW NY SL LM* HB* ] {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Delacorte Press, c2009., RL 6.1, 247pIn 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their parents to flee the Nazis in Austria, but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who is as cold and unforgiving as the island on which they live.AR: 4.4 MG 8.0 134016EN HRD 1 14.44 14.4408795T6 Fever Crumb -- Reeve, Philip. [ BL* KR* SL* HB LM* PW* ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Scholastic Press, 2010, c2009., 325pFoundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.Lexile: 1000 HRD 1 15.29 15.2929344A1 The firefly letters --a suffragette's journey to Cuba -- Engle, Margarita. [ KR* LM BL PW HB SL BC ] {IL YA, 813.54} -- Henry Holt and Co., c2010.AR: 6.2 MG 1.0 135907EN HRD 1 15.29 15.2929314K4 Guardian of the dead -- Healey, Karen. [ KR ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Little, Brown, 2010., 345pEighteen-year-old New Zealand boarding school student Ellie Spencer must use her rusty tae kwon do skills and new-found magic to try to stop a fairy-like race of creatures from Maori myth and legend that is plotting to kill millions of humans in order to regain their lost immortality. HRD 1 15.29 15.2929686E0 Hip hop dog -- Raschka, Christopher. [ KR* BL PW HB SL ] {IL K-3, -E-} -- Harper, c2010., RL 3.9, 27pA neglected dog finds his purpose through rapping and rhyming. HRD 1 14.44 14.4409065VX Incarceron -- Fisher, Catherine, 1957- [ BL* KR* LM SL* PW* HB* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Dial Books, 2010, c2007., 442pTo free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.AR: 4.6 MG 14.0 134835EN Lexile: 600, HL HRD 1 15.29 15.2929658E6 The life of glass -- Cantor, Jillian. [ KR BL PW ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- HarperTeen, c2010., 340pThrough her freshman year of high school, fourteen-year-old Melissa struggles to hold on to memories of her deceased father, cope with her mother's return to dating, get along with her sister, and sort out her feelings about her best friend. HRD 1 14.44 14.4439873E7 Mercury -- Larson, Hope. [ BL* KR* SL* HB ] {IL YA, 741.5} -- Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2010., 234pA necklace that reportedly has the power to find gold serves as a link between Tara Fraser, a teen who is facing the angst of living with relatives and being the new girl in school after her home burns down, and Josey, a distant relative who lived in Tara's house over one hundred years earlier and fell in love with Asa Curry, a mysterious man who claimed to be a gold dowser.AR: 2.6 MG 1.0 136066EN HRD 1 15.29 15.2900638SX A million shades of gray -- Kadohata, Cynthia. [ VO KR BL SL PW* BC ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2010., RL 5.7, 216pA boy takes refuge in the jungle with his elephant when the Viet Cong launch an attack on his village in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.AR: 4.9 MG 6.0 135202EN Lexile: 700 HRD 1 14.44 14.4409128V1 Mirror mirror : a book of reversible verse -- Singer, Marilyn. [ BL* KR* SL* PW* HB* BC ] {IL 3-6, 811} -- Dutton Children's Books, c2010., RL 4.1, 32pA collection of short poems which, when reversed, provide new perspectives on the fairy tale characters they feature. HRD 1 14.44 14.4409128V1 Mirror mirror : a book of reversible verse -- Singer, Marilyn. [ BL* KR* SL* PW* HB* BC ] {IL 3-6, 811} -- Dutton Children's Books, c2010., RL 4.1, 32pA collection of short poems which, when reversed, provide new perspectives on the fairy tale characters they feature. HRD 1 14.44 14.4405379W1 Mockingbird : (Mok'ing-burd) -- Erskine, Kathryn. [ KR* BL HB PW* ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Philomel Books, c2010., RL 4.1, 235pTen-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.AR: 3.6 MG 5.0 136100EN HRD 1 14.44 14.4425036V7 Moribito : Guardian of the Spirit -- Uehashi, Nahoko. [ VO EL KR WM BL HB SL BC ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Arthur A. Levine Books, 2008., RL 5.9, 248pThe wandering warrior Balsa is hired to protect Prince Chagum from both a mysterious monster and the prince's father, the Mikado.AR: 5.9 MG 9.0 122324EN Lexile: 840 HRD 1 15.29 15.2901509D4 Moribito II : Guardian of the Darkness -- Uehashi, Nahoko. [ MBA BL HB SL PW* ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Arthur A. Levine Books, 2009., RL 5.7, 245pThe wandering female bodyguard Balsa returns to her native country of Kanbal, where she uncovers a conspiracy to frame her mentor and herself.AR: 5.9 MG 9.0 132215EN Lexile: 830 HRD 1 15.29 15.2903988V6 Muchacho : a novel -- Johnson, LouAnne. [ LM KR BL ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Knopf, c2009., 197pLiving in a neighborhood of drug dealers and gangs in New Mexico, high school junior Eddie Corazon, a juvenile delinquent-in-training, falls in love with a girl who inspires him to rethink his life and his choices.AR: 5.9 UG 8.0 133600EN Lexile: 1250 HRD 1 13.59 13.5929702E6 The mysterious howling -- Wood, Maryrose. [ BL* KR* PW* BC ] {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Balzer & Bray, c2010., RL 6.6, 267pFifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, is hired as governess to three young children who have been raised by wolves and must teach them to behave in a civilized manner quickly, in preparation for a Christmas ball.AR: 6.8 MG 9.0 135540EN HRD 1 13.59 13.5939403F9 The night fairy -- Schlitz, Laura Amy. [ PW HB SL* BC ] {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Candlewick Press, 2010., RL 4.7, 117pWhen Flory the night fairy's wings are accidentally broken and she cannot fly, she has to learn to do everything differently.AR: 4.2 MG 2.0 135339EN HRD 1 14.44 14.4408805T4 Num8ers -- Ward, Rachel, 1978- [ KR BL SL* PW* ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Chicken House, 2010., RL 3.9, 325pFifteen-year-old Jem knows when she looks at someone the exact date they will die, so she avoids relationships and tries to keep out of the way, but when she meets a boy named Spider and they plan a day out together, they become more involved than either of them had planned.Lexile: 650 HRD 1 15.29 15.2908681P2 One crazy summer -- Williams-Garcia, Rita. [ BL* KR* SL* PW NY LM* HB* BC ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Amistad, c2010., RL 5.3, 218pIn the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.AR: 4.6 MG 7.0 135338EN HRD 1 13.59 13.5907167T4 Ostrich boys -- Gray, Keith [ KR SL* PW* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Random House, c2010.After their best friend Ross dies, English teenagers Blake, Kenny, and Sim plan a proper memorial by taking his ashes to Ross, Scotland, an adventure-filled journey that tests their loyalty to each other and forces them to question what friendship means. HRD 1 15.29 15.2929842D9 Possessing Jessie -- Springer, Nancy. {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Holiday House, c2010., 88pHigh school senior Jessie, blaming herself for her selfish, manipulative brother Jason's death, tries to comfort her bereft mother by dressing and talking like him, but soon his spirit is taking over her life, while Jessie's best friend Alisha desperately tries to save her. HRD 1 15.26 15.260413KB9 Reading Ladders Leading Students from Where They Are to Where We'd Like them to Be -- Lesesne, Teri S. {IL PF, 809.} -- Heinemann, c2010. PAP 1 20.25 20.2506370W0 Rikers High -- Volponi, Paul. [ LM KR BL PW SL BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Viking, 2010., 246pArrested on a minor offense, a New York City teenager attends high school in the jail facility on Rikers Island while waiting for his case to go to court.AR: 5.3 UG 7.0 134839EN Lexile: 790 HRD 1 14.44 14.440170DAX Ring of fire / (Century #1) -- Baccalario, Pierdomenico {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Yearling, c2010., RL 5.9, 293pFour seemingly unrelated children are brought together in a Rome hotel where they discover that they are destined to become involved in a deep and ancient mystery involving a briefcase full of artifacts that expose them to great danger.AR: 4.3 MG 9.0 132763EN Lexile: 660 PAP 1 6.79 6.79Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on April 27, 2010.07159T2 Saving Maddie -- Johnson, Varian. [ KR PW SL ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Delacorte Press, c2010., 231pJoshua Wynn, the preacher's son who chooses to lead a morally-rich life, is reunited with his childhood crush, Maddie Smith, after she returns to town and elicits scorn amongst the local churchgoers due to her provocative clothing, which inspires Joshua to help her reclaim her faith. HRD 1 14.44 14.4429321K9 Sisters Red -- Pearce, Jackson {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Little, Brown Books for Y, c2010.After a Fenris, or werewolf, killed their grandmother and almost killed them, sisters Scarlett and Rosie March devote themselves to hunting and killing the beasts that prey on teenaged girls, learning how to lure them with red cloaks and occasionally using the help of their old friend, Silas, the woodsman's son. HRD 1 14.44 14.44Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on June 7, 2010.09068V1 The sky is everywhere -- Nelson, Jandy. [ BC* BL HB SL PW* ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Dial Books, c2010., 275pIn the months after her sister dies, seventeen-year-old Lennie falls into a love triangle and discovers the strength to follow her dream of becoming a musician.AR: 5.2 UG 10.0 135909EN HRD 1 15.29 15.2925300Z3 Sweet, hereafter -- Johnson, Angela, 1961- [ VO KR* BL HB SL ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Simon & Schuster BFYR, c2010., 118pSweet leaves her family and goes to live in a cabin in the woods with the quiet but understanding Curtis, to whom she feels intensely connected, just as he is called back to serve again in Iraq.AR: 4.6 UG 2.0 135189EN Lexile: 750 HRD 1 14.44 14.4406973T0 They never came back -- Cooney, Caroline B. [ LM KR BL PW SL BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Delacorte Press, c2010., 200pWhen fifteen-year-old Cathy decides to carpool from Norwalk to tiny Greenwich, Connecticut, to study Latin in summer school, she does not expect the shocking events that occurred five years earlier to suddenly come flooding back into her relatively settled life.AR: 4.7 MG 7.0 135018EN HRD 1 14.44 14.4439830M5 This totally bites / (Poison Apple) -- Ames, Ruth {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Scholastic, c2010.Twelve-year-old Emma-Rose Paley feels very different from her bubbly parents and thinks only her best friend understands her, but a visit from Emma-Rose's great aunt in Romania leads her to believe she could be a vampire.Lexile: 740 FBG 1 10.86 10.86Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on May 1, 2010.0048KB9 Three Quarters Dead -- Peck, Richard {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Dial, c2010., 272p HRD 1 14.44 14.44Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on October 28, 2010.27971X0 Tiger moon -- Michaelis, Antonia. [ MBA BL* KR* WM SL* PW HB KL ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Amulet Books, c2008., 453pSold to be the eighth wife of a rich and cruel merchant, Safia, also called Raka, tries to escape her fate by telling stories of Farhad the thief, his companion Nitish the white tiger, and their travels across India to retrieve a famous jewel that will save a kidnapped princess from becoming the bride of a demon king.AR: 6.0 UG 15.0 127227EN Lexile: 820 HRD 1 16.11 16.110105NA6 Twilight : the graphic novel.Volume 1 -- Kim, Yong-bin, 1976- {IL YA, 741.5} -- Yen Press, 2010.A graphic novel adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's \" Twilight\" in which seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, where she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not completely human. HRD 1 16.99 16.9909131V7 Will Grayson, Will Grayson -- Green, John, 1977- [ BL* VO KR* SL* PW ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Dutton, c2010., 310pWhen two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both. HRD 1 15.29 15.2909131V7 Will Grayson, Will Grayson -- Green, John, 1977- [ BL* VO KR* SL* PW ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Dutton, c2010., 310pWhen two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both. HRD 1 15.29 15.2900134UX Winter's end -- Mourlevat, Jean-Claude. [ BL* KR* SL LM* PW* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Candlewick Press, 2009, c2008., 415pFleeing across icy mountains from a pack of terrifying dog-men sent to hunt them down, four teenagers escape from their prison-like boarding schools to take up the fight against the tyrannical government that murdered their parents fifteen years earlier.AR: 5.2 UG 15.0 133425EN Lexile: 730, HL HRD 1 15.29 15.2907068T6 Woods runner -- Paulsen, Gary. [ KR* BL NY HB SL PW* BC ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Wendy Lamb Books, c2010., RL 5.1, 164pFrom his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Native Americans who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes.AR: 5.5 MG 5.0 134843EN Lexile: 870 HRD 1 13.59 13.590249RC3 You -- Benoit, Charles {IL YA, -Fic-} -- HarperTeen, c2010. HRD 1 14.44 14.44Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on August 24, 2010.07808P9 You don't even know me : stories and poems about boys -- Flake, Sharon [ VO BL BC ] {IL YA, 818} -- Jump at the Sun, c2010., 195pA collection of nine short stories and thirteen poems by Sharon Flake that offer insight into the emotions, experiences, and values of African-American males.AR: 3.6 UG 5.0 135543EN HRD 1 14.44 14.4424472X7 Young adult literature in action : a librarian's guide -- Chance, Rosemary. [ VO CL ] {IL PF, 028.1} -- Libraries Unlimited, 2008., 188pOffers an activity-oriented survey of young adult literature that highlights paramount selections for every library's collection, and includes suggestions for book-based activities and programs that will encourage teenagers to read. HRD 1 70.20 70.20 52 titles (qty 52) Total Guaranteed Title Price 822.53AudiovisualFLR# Title -- Author -- Publisher : Year Fmt Qty 1st Price Extended4EDA2N6 The Dead-Tossed Waves -- Ryan, Carrie {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Listening Library, c2010. CD 1 47.96 47.9642E0BT8 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon -- Lin, Grace {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Random House Audio, c2010. CD 1 27.96 27.96Not yet published: This item is scheduled to be available on April 27, 2010. 2 titles (qty 2) Total Guaranteed A/V Media Price 75.92<br /> Total Books (Qty.)52 (52)$ 822.53Total A/V titles (Qty.)2 (2)$ 75.92 Grand total$ 898.45 <br />