Sweet 16

Grade 8 Up–Teagan Phillips is throwing hundreds of thousands of dollars into a Sweet 16 party that she has been planning for a year. When she falls down the cellar stairs in search of some wine after she learns that her father canceled the open bar, she appears to have died. She is witness to her present, past, and future, but instead of three ghosts à la A Christmas Carol, Teagan has just o…

The Dragon Princess

Meet Millie, the charming but somewhat cursed daughter of Princess Emma and Prince Eadric. Why cursed? Every time Millie gets mad (and she gets mad a little too often) she turns into a dragon. And not a cute pink dragon either. She becomes a full-on, green scaled, huge-winged, fire-breathing dragon - big enough to scare suitors who come to see about her hand in marriage. Its embarrassing even …

The Summer Of The Swans

"The longest day in the life of a 14-year-old girl--the summer day her loved, mentally retarded brother is lost, the day she discovers compassion is a friend. A compelling story."--Publishers Weekly Newbery Award Book

Flatland

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9780486272634

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83p; ill; bw; pbk

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823 ABB F

The Book of Tomorrow

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ISBN/ISSN

9780061706318

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310p; bw; pbk

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823 AHE T

Loki's Wolves

In Viking times, Norse myths predicted the end of the world, an event called Ragnarok, that only the gods can stop. When this apocalypse happens, the gods must battle the monsters--wolves the size of the sun, serpents that span the seabeds, all bent on destroying the world. The gods died a long time ago. Matt Thorsen knows every Norse myth, saga, and god as if it was family history--becau…

Speak

I am Outcast. The kids behind me laugh so loud I know they're laughing about me. I can't help myself. I turn around. It's Rachel, surrounded by a bunch of kids wearing clothes from the Eastside Mall. Rachel Bruin, my ex-best friend. She stares at something above my left ear. Words climb up my throat. This was the girl who suffered through Brownies with me, who taught me how to swim, who unders…

Mansfield Park

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ISBN/ISSN

9780755331475

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443p; bw; pbk

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823 AUS M

The Brain is Wider Than The Sky : Why Simple Solutions Don't Work in a Comple…

"A carrot is a carrot, and nothing more is known." These words, from a dying Chekhov, are quoted by Bryan Appleyard in this pop-science book which aims to uncover the hidden link between robots, the 2008 financial crash, Cheryl Cole and almost everything else. The Russian writer was talking about the futility of pondering the meaning of life, and Appleyard uses the quote to say that breaking so…

20.000 Leagues Under The Sea

Jules Verne’s classic science fiction fantasy carries its hero—Professor Aronnax of the Museum of Paris—on a thrilling and dangerous journey far below the waves to see what creatures live in the ocean’s depths. In the process, Verne imagined a vessel that had not yet been invented: the submarine.