A Great and Terrible Beauty - Rebel Angels - The Sweet Far Thing-By Libba BrayIt’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma’s reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she’s been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence’s most powerful girls—and their foray into the spiritual world—lead to? More...
Abel Jackson lives with his mother Dora by the sea at Longboat Bay where they live a hand to mouth but idyllic life, where they dive for abalone. For Abel, every day is special, as he explores the ever-changing sea, and the surrounding bush in which he lives. He feels lucky, and even luckier when he meets and befriends a large, old groper fish that he names Blueback. But Abel has to go away to school, and after Mad Macka, another friend of Blueback’s, dies, a mean and greedy fisherman named Costello, a reef stripper, takes over and begins taking everything he sees. Abel and Dora do what they can to put a stop to Costello, but time moves forward and things change.More...
This is a twisted tale of greed and its consequences.Though the basic plot is engaging enough,Hawthorne is exceedingly loquacious, and even pauses at times to apologize for his tangents. For example, after a pages long description of the activities of chickens in the seven gables garden, Hawthorne writes:
Welcome to the world of Steve Harmon. Hes sixteen years old and on trial for murder. Did he serve as a lookout in a drugstore robbery in which the owner was killed? Or was he just in the wrong place at the wrong time?More...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -by Mark Twain
The House of Seven Gables -by Nathanial Hawthorne
Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trial -by Marc AronsonWitch-Hunt, by Marc Aronson, is the true story of the Salem Witch Trials, which actually began in Boston with the possession of the Goodwin children in 1688 andtrulyended with a confession by Ann Putnam Jr. in 1706. More...
Touching Spirit Bear -byBen Mikaelsen
Blueback -by Tim Winton
First of all, get past the title. I would have called it Boy gets mauled by Alaskan bear and is left for dead, alone, clinging to life for days, only to discover his small place in this very large world, or something like that. More...
We first met the character of Huck Finn in Mark Twains novel, Tom Sawyer. Sawyer makes for an entertaining narrator. All humor, little substance. But good fun. Finn, on the other hand, is a narrator with Es Agricultural and Technical High SchoolLibrary and Media Centera bit more depth. (Okay a lot more depth.) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a true coming-of-age story. Huck Finn grows in heaps and bounds as a person, as a soul, in this American classic. More...
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Nancy Kington has been raised, for the most part, as a proper English lady. But when her dad dies, she is sent to his plantation in the West Indies. There she learns that she is to be married off to a cruel man who owns the neighboring plantation. She and her new-found friend and slave, Minerva, escape aboard a pirate ship. And that is where the adventure begins. More ...
Monster -by Walter Dean Myer (or anything by Myer)
This book takes place in the town of Toronto, Canada. A delinquent teen named Duncan is troubled teen that does crimes with his friends and has a job at the lost and found. During one of his days on his job at the lost and found he stumbles upon a mysterious diary lurking around while cleaning the lost and found area. This diary belongs to a serial killer who stalks some women that he sees and his targets may soon be hunted. More
Hunger Games Trilogy -by Suzanne Collins
With his first foray into teen literature, acclaimed author Sherman Alexie packs a punch in this absorbing novel about a Native American boy searching for a brighter future. At once humorous and stirring, Alexies novel follows Junior, a resident of the Spokane reservation who transfers out of the reservations school -- and into a nearby rich, all-white rm school -- in...more
Michael Racine keeps trying to convince everyone that his uncle didnt fire him from his summer job. Desperate to have something to do and to stop the humiliation, Michael takes a job as an inessex agricultural and technical high schooltern at The Earths Wife, an environmental magazine run by mily friends.More
Pirates - Witch Child - Sorceress -by Celia Rees (anything by Reese)
Es Agricultural and Technical High SchoolLibrary and Media Center,Acceleration -by Graham MacNamee (or anything by MacNamee)
In the dystopian nation of Panem, sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her sister’s place as a contender in the Hunger Games–an annual fight to the death between twenty four teenagers that is mandated by the cruel Capitol government and broadcast on live television. More...
Saving the Planet and Stuff -by Gail Gauthier
Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian -by Sherman Alexi (anything by Alexi)
