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TITLE: Things Not Seen
AUTHOR: Andrew Clements WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cle - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it. |
TITLE: 13 Little Blue Envelopes
AUTHOR: Maureen Johnson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Joh - ROMANCE SUMMARY: When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to crisscross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life. |
TITLE: Peak
AUTHOR: Roland Smith WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Smi - NOVELS SUMMARY: A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest. |
TITLE: Stargirl
AUTHOR: Jerry Spinelli WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Spi - NOVELS SUMMARY: In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever. |
TITLE: Uglies
AUTHOR: Scott Westerfeld WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wes - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Tally is faced with a difficult choice when her new friend Shay decides to risk life on the outside rather than submit to the forced operation that turns sixteen year old girls into gorgeous beauties, and realizes that there is a whole new side to the pretty world that she doesn't like. |
TITLE: The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
AUTHOR: Jennifer E. Smith WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Smi - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Hadley and Oliver fall in love on the flight from New York to London, but after a cinematic kiss they lose track of each other at the airport until fate brings them back together on a very momentous day. |
TITLE: Anne of Green Gables
AUTHOR: L. M. Montgomery WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mon - CLASSICS SUMMARY: An adventurous young orphan goes to live on a farm with an elderly brother and sister. |
TITLE: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
AUTHOR: Alexander McCall Smith WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F McC - MYSTERY SUMMARY: The cunning and engaging Precious Ramotswe sets up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, hoping to become a private detective, and she soon has more business than she expected, including a disturbing case involving a missing child. |
TITLE: Walk Two Moons
AUTHOR: Sharon Creech WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cre - NOVELS SUMMARY: After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left. |
TITLE: Flipped
AUTHOR: Wendelin Van Draanen WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Van - NOVELS SUMMARY: In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years. |
TITLE: Little Women
AUTHOR: Louisa May Alcott WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Alc - CLASSICS SUMMARY: Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England. |
TITLE: The Princess Diaries
AUTHOR: Meg Cabot WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cab - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne. |
TITLE: Airborn
AUTHOR: Kenneth Oppel WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Opp - FANTASY SUMMARY: Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface. |