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TITLE: Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure
AUTHOR: Ryan North WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Nor - NOVELS SUMMARY: A choose-your-own adventure novel allows readers to play as Romeo or Juliet and select a story arc that closely follows Shakespeare's original work or that explores alternative plots. |
TITLE: The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins
AUTHOR: Adaptation by Clint McElroy and Carey Pietsch WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F McE - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Join Taako, the elf wizard, Merle the dwarf cleric, and Magnus the human fighter for an adventure they are poorly equipped to handle at best, guided by their ever-patient dungeon master. |
TITLE: It's Kind of a Funny Story
AUTHOR: Ned Vizzini WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Viz - NOVELS SUMMARY: A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital. |
TITLE: Comics for a Strange World
AUTHOR: Reza Farazmand WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Far - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: In a follow-up to the New York Times best-selling Poorly Drawn Lines, a popular webcomic artist presents a new collection of sardonic, absurdist comics about friendship, enemies, unexplained mysteries and living in the age of technology. |
TITLE: Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too
AUTHOR: Reza Farazmand WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sun - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Sent to observe Earth, a lonely alien encounters a series of creatures who help him find friendship, acceptance, and love. |
TITLE: Ungifted
AUTHOR: Gordon Korman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Kor - NOVELS SUMMARY: Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school. |
TITLE: Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl
AUTHOR: Jesse Andrews WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F And - NOVELS SUMMARY: Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia. |
TITLE: Pop Sonnets: Shakespearean Spins on Your Favorite Songs
AUTHOR: Erik Didriksen WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 Did SUMMARY: A collection of one hundred pop songs reimagined as Shakespearean sonnets. |
TITLE: Diary of a Wimpy Kid
AUTHOR: Jeff Kinney WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Kin - NOVELS SUMMARY: Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship. |
TITLE: Big Nate: Great Minds Think Alike
AUTHOR: Lincoln Peirce WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Pei - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship. |
TITLE: The Radleys
AUTHOR: Matt Haig WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Hai - FANTASY SUMMARY: The Radleys, an eccentric family of vampires living in the suburbs, struggle but try to deny their natural instincts to avoid eating the neighbors and fit in with their peers. |
TITLE: The Reformed Vampire Support Group
AUTHOR: Catherine Jinks WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Jin - FANTASY SUMMARY: Fifteen-year-old vampire Nina has been stuck for fifty-one years in a boring support group for vampires, and nothing exciting has ever happened to them--until one of them is murdered and the others must try to solve the crime. |
TITLE: When You Are Engulfed in Flames
AUTHOR: David Sedaris WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 814 Sed SUMMARY: A collection of essays in which David Sedaris reflects on some of the more humorous and memorable events of his life. |
TITLE: Where the Sidewalk Ends
AUTHOR: Shel Silverstein WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 Sil SUMMARY: A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author's own drawings. |
TITLE: Adulthood Is a Myth
AUTHOR: Sarah Andersen WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F And - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Adulthood is a myth confronts head-on the horrors, anxiety, and awkwardness of modern adult life. From the agony of holding hands with a gorgeous guy to the yawning pit of hell that is the wifi gone down to the eye-watering pain of eating too-hot pizza because one cannot stand to wait for it to cool down, Sarah fearlessly documents it all. Like the work of fellow Millennial authors Allie Brosh, Grace Helbig, and Gemma Correll, Sarah's total frankness on extremely personal issues such as body image, self-consciousness, introversion, relationships, and bra-washing makes her comics highly relatable and consistently hilarious. |
TITLE: Couch
AUTHOR: Benjamin Parzybok WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Par - NOVELS SUMMARY: Three roommates, having lost everything in a flood in their apartment, experience self-discovery and unexpected revelations as they move a handmade, orange couch through the streets of Portland. |
TITLE: MacGregor Tells the World
AUTHOR: Elizabeth McKenzie WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F McK - NOVELS SUMMARY: While searching for the truth about his mother's untimely death, MacGregor West is pulled into the world of the eccentric Ware family and a love affair with the beautiful Carolyn, whose own secrets have a surprising link to MacGregor's past. |
TITLE: The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
AUTHOR: A. J. Jacobs WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 220 Jac SUMMARY: The author describes his experiences after an increasing interest in the relevance of faith in the modern world led him to spend a year following the Bible as closely as possible, honoring not only the Ten Commandments, but also little-known rules such as playing a ten-stringed harp and growing a beard. |
TITLE: The Zen of Zombie: Better Living Through the Undead
AUTHOR: Scott Kenemore WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 817 Ken SUMMARY: A guide to living life to the fullest from the undead that offers a humorous look at how to lead a better life by following the lessons of zombies, including how to be adaptable, count blessings, slow down, know when to keep quiet, and learn how to not negotiate. |
TITLE: Bossypants
AUTHOR: Tina Fey WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Fey SUMMARY: Actress Tina Fey recounts her life, sharing how she managed to fulfill her dream of one day becoming a comedian on television and discussing her childhood, marriage, career, and views on beauty, politics, motherhood, and relationships. |