NEW 2005 ARRIVALS! in the GIHS Media Center
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NEW BOOKS |
BRIEF BOOK DESCRIPTIONS |
| 30 Days of Night (Graphic Novel by Steve Niles) | 30 Days of Night collects all three issues of Steve Niles' blood curdling tales of vampires running amok in the arctic. Outstanding artwork. |
| American Summer (By Mary Beth Miller) |
At the start of the summer, Christy meets 23-year-old Kathryn Slade. Once a beautiful young woman, Kathryn is now a quadriplegic after a battle with polio that nearly cost her life when she was 17. However, despite Kathryn's physical limitations, she and Christy develop a strong and intimate relationship. |
| Andy Warhol, Prince of Pop (by Jan Greenberg) | |
| Answer is Never: A
Skateboarder's History of the World (by Jocko Weyland) |
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| Away Laughing on a Fast Camel: Even More Confessions of Georgia Nicolson (by Louise Rennison) | The saga of teenager Georgia Nicolson continues in diary entries about her life after her boyfriend goes off to Kiwi-agogoland, leaving her to make do without him. |
| Between a Rock and a Hard Place (by Aron Ralston) | |
| Blue Girl (by Clarles DeLint) | New at her high school, Imogene enlists the help of her introverted friend Maxine and ghost of a boy who haunts the school after receiving warnings through her dreams that soul-eaters are threatening her life. |
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Chandra's Secrets (by Allan Stratton) |
A girl's struggle amid the African AIDS pandemic, Chanda is a girl living in the small city of Bonang, a fictional city in Southern Africa. When her youngest sister dies, the first hint of HIV/AIDS emerges, Chanda must confront undercurrents of shame and stigma. Chanda's Secrets also captures the enduring strength of loyalty, friendship and family ties. |
| Clockwork Orange (by Anthony Burgess) | Novel by Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. Set in a dismal dystopia, it is the first-person account of a juvenile delinquent who undergoes state-sponsored psychological rehabilitation for his aberrant behavior. |
| Complete Maus (by Pulitzer award winning graphic artist, Art Spiegelman) | (GRAPHIC NOVEL) Volumes I & II of this 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrated narrativeof Holocaust survival. |
| Crack in the Line (by Michael Lawrence) | Sixteen-year-old Alaric discovers how to travel to an alternate reality, where his mother is alive and his place in the family is held by a girl named Naia. |
| Double Helix (by Nancy Werlin) | Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering. Eli has lucked into a job at Wyatt Transgenics-offered to him by Dr. Wyatt, the famed scientist. The salary is substantial, the work is interesting, and Dr. Wyatt seems to be paying special attention to Eli... |
| Drinking Coffee Elsewhere ( short story collection - edited by Z.Z. Packer) | A book consisting of eight storues- combining tenderness, humor, and apt, unexpected detail. |
Egg on Three Sticks
(by Jackie Fischer)
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In the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1970s, twelve-year-old Abby watches her mother fall apart and must take on the burden of holding her family together. Finally Abby is thirteen. A real teenager who only wants to pierce her ears, have a boyfriend, and run her own life. But when her mother suffers a nervous breakdown, Abby faces a life far different from what she hoped for.... |
| Electric Dreams: One Unlikely Team of Kids and the Race to Build the Car of the Future (NONFICTION by Caroline Kettlewell) | |
| Fleshmarket (by Nocola Morgan) | In nineteenth-century Scotland, following the death of his mother during surgery, Robbie decides to take revenge on the surgeon who performed the operation, Dr. Robert Knox, and in the process, makes a gruesome discovery about the lengths the medical profession will go to advance its knowledge of anatomy. |
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Fray (GRAPHIC NOVEL by Joss Whedon) |
(GRAPHIC NOVEL) Hundreds of years in the future, Manhatten has become a deadly slum, run by mutant crime-lords and disinterested copc. Stuck in the middle is a young girl who thought she had no future, but learns she has a great destiny. How can she survive? |
| The Garden (by Elsie Aidenoff) |
(FANTASY) Retells the tale of the Garden of Eden from Eve's point of view, as Serpent teaches her everything from her own name to why she should eat the forbidden fruit, and then leaves her with Adam and the knowledge that her choice has made mankind free. |
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Girl 15 : Charming But Insane (by Sue Limb) |
Fifteen-year-old Jess, living with her mum, separated from her father in Cornwall, and with a best friend who seems to do everything perfectly, finds her own assets through humor. |
| Girls in Pants : The Third Summer of the
Sisterhood (by Ann Brashares) |
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants graduates from high school and spends their last summer before college learning about life and themselves. The Pants first came to us at the perfect moment. That is, when we were splitting up for the first time. It was two summers ago when they first worked their magic, and last summer when they shook up our lives once again.... |
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Godless (National Book Award by Pete Hautman) |
When sixteen-year-old Jason Bock and his friends create their own religion to worship the town's water tower, what started out as a joke begins to take on a power of its own. |
| Gothic: Ten Original Dark Tales ( ed. by John Aiken) | |
| Harlem Stomp: A Cultural
History of the Harlem Renaissance (by Laban Carrick Hill) |
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Haunting of Alaizabel Gray ( by Chris Wooding) |
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| How I Live Now (by Meg Rosoff - a Printz award book) | To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land. |
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How to Deal (by Sarah Dessen) |
(REALITY-FICTION) or Halley Martin, nothing is going according to her plan. Her sister just got engaged to the wrong guy, her crazy grandmother has moved in, her parents split up, and then she meets a guy. To top off Halley's senior year in high school, her best friend finds out she is pregnant. Now Halley is going to have to learn a hard lession - how to deal. |
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In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction (ed.by Lee Gutkind) |
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| In the Shadow of No Towers
(GRAPHIC NOVEL by Art Spiegelman)
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NOVEL) This Pulitzer prize winning author shows that comics are up to the challenge of addressing the horror of 9/11. Spiegelman lives and works in Manhatten, and he witnessed the destruction of the World Trade Center. He uses an array of drawing styles and narrative devices to convey his outrage and helplessness. |
| In Your Face: The Culture of Beauty and You (by Shari Graydon) | |
| The Insider's Guide to the UN (by Linda Fasulo) | |
| Jude (by Kate Morganroth) | |
| Keeping the Moon (by Sarah Dessen) | Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working as a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and eccentric Aunt Mira, and trying to explore her sense of self. |
| The Lady and the Unicorn (by Tracy Chevalier) | |
| Land of the Blindfolded, Vols. 1 & 2 (MANGA - by Tsukuba Sakura) | (MANGA) In sakura's symbolic tale, one character can only see the past, and another can only see the future. When Kanade glimpses an unfortunate incident coming, can she change it? |
| Looking for Alaska (by John Green) | Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash. |
| Margaux With an X (by Ron Koertge) | Margaux, known as a "tough chick" at her Los Angeles high school, makes a connection with Danny, who, like her, struggles with the emotional impact of family violence and abuse. |
| The Named (by Marianne Curley) | Ethan, one of the Named, fights the Order of Chaos and its destruction in the present by traveling through time. |
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| Nothing to Lose (by Alex Flinn) | Ethan, one of the Named, fights the Order of Chaos and its destruction in the present by traveling through time. |
| One of Those Hideous
Books Where the Mother Dies (by Sonia Sones)
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Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born. |
| Order of Amelie, Hold the Fries (by Nona Schindler) | |
| Perfect World (by Brian James) | Lacie doesn't fit in. Not with her best friend Jenna, who wants to go fast when Lacie wants to go slow. Not with her family, whose quiet makes Lacie want to scream. And not with Benji, the boy she's been set up with, at least, not yet. Growing up should mean you have more places to go and more things to do. But what if it only means that there are more places you don't belong?... |
| Perks of Being a Wallflower (by Stephen Chbosky) | A coming of age novel about Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent. He deals with the usual teen problems, but also with the suicide of his best friend. |
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Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (by Marjane Satrapi) |
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| Persuasion (by Jane Austin) | |
| Portrait of a Lady (by Henry James) | |
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Private Peaceful (by Michael Morpurgo) |
When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself. |
| Project X (by Jim Shepard) | |
| The Radioactive Boyscout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor (by Ken Silverstein) NONFICTION | |
| Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants (by Robert Sullivan) | |
| Reading Lolita in Tehran ( by Nasir Nafisi) | This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. They were unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they began to open up and to speak more freely, not only about the novels they were reading but also about themselves, their dreams and disappointments.... |
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Rock Star Superstar (by Blake Nelson) |
When Pete, a talented bass player, moves from playing in the high school jazz band to playing in a popular rock group, he finds the experience exhilarating even as his new fame jeopardizes his relationship with girlfriend Margaret. Music is Pete's life. He's happiest when he's playing his Fender Precision bass, whether he's jamming with his dad at 2 a.m.... |
| Ruling Class (by Francine Pascal) |
Sick of being bullied and
harrassed, a new girl at a wealthy suburban Dallas high school plots
revenge on the girls in the ruling clique. (REALITY-FICTION) |
| Sandman Vol 1: Preludes and Nocturnes (GRAPHIC NOVEL by Neil Gaiman) | (GRAPHIC NOVEL) Neil Gamen weaves the story of a man interested in capturing the physical manifestation of death. The chapter, "24 Hour," is worth the price of the book alone.; it stands as one of the most chilling examples of horror in comics. |
| Saving Francesca (BCCB Blue Ribbon winner - by Melina Marchetta) |
Sixteen-year-old
Francesca could use her outspoken mother's help with the problems of being
one of a handful of girls at a parochial school that has just turned
co-ed, but her mother has suddenly become severely depressed (REALITY-FICTION) |
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Secret Under My Skin ( by Janet McNaught |
In the year 2368, humans exist under dire environmental
conditions and one young woman, rescued from a workcamp and chosen for a
special duty, uses her love of learning to discover the truth about the
planet's future and her own dark past. |
| Shattering Glass (by Gail Giles)
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Rob, the charismatic leader of the senior class, turns the school nerd
into Prince Charming, his actions lead to unexpected violence. |
| Shooter (by Walter Dean Myers) |
Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal
entries, the story of three troubled teenagers ends in a tragic school
shooting. Cameron: "Deep inside, you know that whoever gets up in your
face gets there because he knows you're nothing, and he knows that you
know it too." Carla: "What I'm trying to do is to get by -- not even get
over, just get by.... |
| Sunshine (by Robin McKinley) |
They took her clothes and sneakers. They dressed her in
a long red gown. And they shackled her to the wall of an abandoned
mansion-within easy reach of a figure in the moonlight. She knows she is a
vampire.
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| Tales of the Vampires (GRAPHIC NOVEL by Edmund,et.al.) | |
| This Lullaby (by Sarah Dessen) |
Raised by a mother who's had five husbands,
eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships
until she meets Dexter, a rock band musician. |
| Tomorrow When the War Began (by John Marsden) |
Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip in
the bush to discover that their country has been invaded and they must
hide to stay alive. |
| Truth About Forever (by Sarah Dessen) |
The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to
work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp,
but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new
friends and finally faces her grief.
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| Under the Wolf, Under the Dog (by Adam Rapp) |
Sixteen-year-old Steve struggles to make sense of his
mother's terminal breast cancer and his brother's suicide. Steve Nugent is
in a facility called Burnstone Grove. It's a place for kids who are
addicts, like Shannon Lynch, who can stick $1.87 in change up his nose, or
for kids who have tried to commit suicide, like Silent Starla, whom Steve
is getting a crush on.... |
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Washinton's Crossing (by David Fischer) |
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Working Fire: The Making of a Fireman (by Zac Unger) |
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| Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running
the Iditerod (NONFICTION - by Gary Paulson) |
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| The Year of Secret Assignments ( by Jaclyn Moriaty) |
Three female students from Ashbury High write to three
male students from rival Brookfield High as part of a pen pal program,
leading to romance, humiliation, revenge plots, and war between the
schools.
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Hear Me: Poems and Writings by Teenage Boys |
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