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BOOK COLLECTIONS EDUCATIONAL MEDIA LIBRARY September 2019 Acceleration BC 140, 30 COPIES Grades 7-12. t's a hot summer and in the depths of the Toronto Transit Authority's lost and found, 17-year-old Duncan is cataloging misplaced belongings. And between Jacob, the cranky old man who runs the place, and the endless dusty boxes overflowing with stuff no one will ever claim, Duncan has just about had enough. Then he finds a little leather book filled with the dark and dirty se- crets of a twisted mind, a serial killer stalking his prey in the subway. And Duncan can't stop reading. What would you do with a book like that? How far would you go to catch a madman? Graham McNamee. A Farewell To Manzanar BC 258, 25 copies Reading Level 4.9. Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp-with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. This is the true story of one spirited Japanese-American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention...and of a native-born American child who discovered what it was like to grow up behind barbed wire in the United States. Author: James D. Houston, Jeanne Wakatusuki. After BC 144, 25 copies Grades 7-12. In the aftermath of a nearby school shooting, a grief and crisis counselor takes over Central High School and enacts increasingly harsh measures to control students, while those who do not comply disappear. Author: Francine Prose Al Capone Does My Shirts BC 83, 40 copies and AU 284 CD-Rom Grades 5-9. When Moose's family moves to Alcatraz so his father can work as a guard and his sister can attend a special school in San Francisco, Moose has to leave his friends and his winning baseball team behind. But it's worth it, right? If his sister, Natalie, can finally get help, maybe his family will finally be normal. But as it turns out, life on Alcatraz is much more complicated than even Moose would have predicted. Author: Gennifer Choldenko Almost Starring Skinny bones BC 84, 20 copies Grades 4-7. Alex “Skinnybones” Frankovitch is about to become a huge star—in his very own TV commercial! But Alex’s big plans for stardom go terribly wrong. Are Alex’s days as a Big Celebrity over? Author: Barbara Park Among the Hidden BC 85, 25 copies and AU 302 Playaway Grades 4-7. Luke has never been to school. He's never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend's house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend. Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He's lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the woods next to his family's farm, he is no longer even allowed to go outside. Then, one day Luke sees a girl's face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. Finally, he's met a shadow child like himself. Jen is willing to risk everything to come out of the shadows. Does Luke dare to become involved in her dangerous plan? Can he afford not to? Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix And Then There Were None BC 150, 19 copies, Author: Agatha Christie Grades 8-12. Ten strangers, each with a dark secret, are lured to a mansion on an uninhabited island and killed off one by one. Animal Farm BC 157, 25 copies and AU 304 Playaway and DV 1786 Grades 8-12. Manor Farm is like any other English farm, expect for a drunken owner, Mr Jones, incompetent workers and op- pressed animals. Fed up with the ignorance of their human masters, the animals rise up in rebellion and take over the farm. Led by intellectually superior pigs like Snowball and Napoleon, the animals how to take charge of their destiny and remove the inequities of their lives. But as time passes, the realize that things aren't happening quite as expected. Author: George Orwell. April Morning BC 36, 20 copies and AU 140 Cassettes Grades 4-12. Covers twenty-four hours in life of Adam Cooper, starting the afternoon of April 18, 1775 and continuing through the Battle of Lexington, where the first shots of the American Revolution are fired. Howard Fast. Also available AU140 (Audio). A Separate Peace BC 41, 20 copies Grades 7-12. Set at a boys’ boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world. As Simple As Snow BC 142, 25 copies Grades 9-12. Anna—who prefers to be called Anastasia—is a spooky and complicated high school girl with a penchant for riddles, Houdini tricks, and ghost stories. She is unlike anyone the narrator has ever known, and they make an unlikely, though happy, pair. Then Anna disappears, leaving behind only a dress near a hole in the frozen river, and a string of unanswered questions. Desperate to find out what happened the narrator be- gins to reconstruct the past five months. And soon the fragments of curious events, intimate conversations, secrets, letters—and the anonymous messages that continue to arrive—coalesce into haunting and surprising revelations that may implicate friends, relatives, and even Anna herself. Gregory Galloway. A Thousand Splendid Suns BC 267, 20 copies, Author: Khaled Hosseini Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ulti- mately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival. A stunning accomplishment, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love. Because of Winn-Dixie BC 88, 25 copies, AU 251 CD-Rom, and DV 1839. Grades 4-7. Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni's mother walked out on her seven years ago, and she's been asking about her ever since — so that she won't forget her mom. But when she moves to Naomi, Florida, and befriends a lively stray dog, the canine helps her meet some unusual characters who teach her about love, life, and forgiveness. Kate DeCamillo. Brian’s Hunt BC 88, 25 copies, and ER 1 Nook Grades 7-12. This story takes place two years after Brian had been stranded in the Canadian wilderness. When Brian finds a dog one night, a dog that is wounded and whimpering, he senses danger. The dog is badly hurt, and as Brian cares for it, he worries about his Cree friends who live north of his camp. His instincts tell him to head north, quickly. With his new companion at his side, and with a terrible, growing sense of unease, he sets out to learn what happened. He sets out on the hunt. The tale of adventure proceeds as Brian and his dog find what happened when a murdering bear has gone wild. Gary Paulsen. Bridge to Terabithia BC 89, 25 copies, ER 1 Nook, AU 188 Cassettes, and DV’S 1007 and DV 1771 Grades 3-5. In this classic novel, fifth grader Jesse Aaron's dreams of becoming the fastest runner in his class are dashed when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns everybody, even him. But Jess and Leslie begin a friendship, and soon they discover a magical kingdom in the forest, where they reign as king and queen. The friendship be- tween young Jess and Leslie grows as they meet in Terabithia, their secret hiding place, and only ends with the tragic death of one of them. Katherine Paterson. Bud, Not Buddy BC 251, 25 copies, and AU 283 CD-Rom. Christopher Paul Curtis Grades 5-8. R.L. 5.0 Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. A Raisin In The Sun BC 292, 25 copies Grades 7-12. A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a middle-class African American family living on Chicago's Southside in the 1950s. Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America. Brown Girl Dreaming BC 272, 20 copies Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Another Brooklyn, tells the moving story of her childhood in mes- merizing verse. Grades 4-8. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place.