MCHS Library

                                                  

921 Guthrie                   
           Partridge, Elizabeth.  This land was made for you and me : the
                life & songs of Woody Guthrie.  New York : Viking, 2002.  An
                illustrated biography of Woody Guthrie, composer of "This
                Land Is Your Land," and over three thousand other folk songs
                and ballads, telling about his travels throughout the U.S.
                in the first half of the twentieth century, and discussing
                how his experiences influenced his music.
921 NIR                       
           Nir, Yehuda, 1930-.  The lost childhood : a World War II memoir. 
                1st Scholastic Press ed.  New York : Scholastic Press, 2002.
                Describes six years in the life of a daring and resourceful
                Polish Jewish boy and his family, who survived the Holocaust
                by using false papers and posing as Catholics.
921 RUNYON                    
           Runyon, Brent.  The burn journals.  1st ed.  New York : Alfred A.
                Knopf, c2004.  Brent Runyon was fourteen years old when he
                set himself on fire. In this book he describes that suicide
                attempt and his recovery over the following year.
FIC ANDERSON                  
           Anderson, M. T.  Feed.  1st ed.  Cambridge, MA : Candlewick,
                2002.  In a future where most people have computer implants
                in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an
                unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
FIC BANKS                     
           Banks, Lynne Reid, 1929-.  The dungeon.  1st ed.  New York :
                HarperCollins, c2002.  Driven by his grief over the loss of
                his family and by his longing for adventure, Bruce MacLennan
                sets out from Scotland for China, where he buys a young
                girl, who tries to ease his pain but instead is caught up in
                his desire for vengeance.
FIC BLACKWOOD                 
           Blackwood, Gary L.  The year of the hangman.  1st ed.  New York :
                Dutton Children's Books, c2002.  In 1777, having been
                kidnapped and taken forcibly from England to the American
                colonies, fifteen-year-old Creighton becomes part of
                developments in the political unrest there that may spell
                defeat for the patriots and change the course of history.
FIC BRA                       
           Brashares, Ann.  The second summer of the sisterhood.  New York :
                Delacorte, c2003.  A sequel to "The Sisterhood of the
                Traveling Pants" in which the four girls, now sixteen,
                embark on another summer of travels and life lessons charmed
                by a shared pair of seemingly magical thrift-store jeans.
FIC Brashares                 
           Brashares, Ann.  The sisterhood of the traveling pants.  New York
                : Delacorte, c2001.  Carmen decides to discard an old pair
                of jeans, but Tibby, Lena, and Bridget think they are great
                and decide that whoever the pants fit best will get them.
                When the jeans fit everyone perfectly, a sisterhood and a
                memorable summer begin.
FIC Brooks                    
           Brooks, Martha, 1944-.  True confessions of a heartless girl. 
                1st American ed.  New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2003.  A
                confused seventeen-year-old girl, a single mother and her
                young son, two elderly women, and a sad and lonely man, with
                their own individual tragedies to bear, come together in a                           
                small Manitoba town and find a way to a better future.
FIC Cappo                     
           Cappo, Nan Willard.  Cheating lessons : a novel.  1st ed.  New
                York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2002.  When her
                team is announced as finalists in the state Classics Bowl
                contest, Bernadette suspects that cheating may have been
                involved.
FIC Cob                       
           Coburn, Jake.  Prep.  New York : Dutton Children's Books, 2003. 
                One-time tag-artist, Nick tries to come to terms with the
                death of a friend, to protect the brother of his would-be
                girlfriend, to escape the violence of wealthy New York City
                prep school hoods, and to figure out who he really is.
FIC Connelly                  
           Connelly, Neil O.  St. Michael's scales.  1st ed.  New York : A.
                Levine, 2002.  Keegan Flannery, feeling responsible for his
                twin brother's death and his mother's mental illness,
                believes he must atone by commiting suicide before his
                sixteenth birthday, but he gains new insights when he joins
                his school's wrestling team.
FIC CORMIER                   
           Cormier, Robert.  The rag and bone shop : a novel.  New York :
                Delacorte Press, c2001.  Trent, an ace interrogator from
                Vermont, works to procure a confession from an introverted
                twelve-year-old accused of murdering his seven-year-old
                friend in Monument, Massachusetts.
FIC DON                       
           Donnelly, Jennifer.  A northern light.  1st ed.  Orlando :
                Harcourt, c2003.  Sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to
                attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her
                father and boyfriend, takes a job at a hotel in 1906 where
                the death of a guest renews her determination to live her
                own life.
FIC Dun                       
           Dunkle, Clare B.  The hollow kingdom.  New York : Henry Holt,
                2003.  In nineteenth-century England, a powerful sorcerer
                and King of the Goblins chooses Kate, the elder of two
                orphan girls recently arrived at their ancestral home,
                Hallow Hill, to be his bride and queen.
FIC Ferris                    
           Ferris, Jean, 1939-.  Of sound mind.  1st ed.  New York : Farrar
                Straus Giroux, 2001.  Tired of interpreting for his deaf
                family and resentful of their reliance on him, high school
                senior Theo finds support and understanding from Ivy, a new
                student who also has a deaf parent.
FIC Fle                       
           Fleischman, Paul.  Breakout.  Chicago, Ill. : Cricket Books,
                2003.  Faking her own death and heading to Arizona, Del
                unexpectedly discovers a new talent she has when an accident
                brings traffic to a standstill on the freeway.
FIC FLEISCHMAN                
           Fleischman, Paul.  Seek.  1st ed.  Chicago : Cricket Books, 2001.
                Rob becomes obsessed with searching the airwaves for his
                long-gone father, a radio announcer.
FIC FRANK                     
           Frank, E. R.  America : a novel.  1st ed.  New York : Atheneum
                Books for Young Readers, c2002.  Teenage America, a
                not-black, not-white, not-anything boy who has spent many
                years in institutions for disturbed, antisocial behavior,
                tries to piece his life together.
FIC FREDERICKS                
           Fredericks, Mariah.  The true meaning of cleavage.  1st ed.  New
                York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2003.  When Jess
                and Sari, best friends since seventh grade, begin their
                freshman year of high school and Sari becomes obsessed with
                a senior boy, Jess wonders if their friendship will survive.
FIC GOI                       
           Going, Kelly.  Fat kid rules the world.  New York : G.P. Putnam's
                Sons, c2003.  Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal,
                and weighing nearly three hundred pounds, gets a new
                perspective on life when Curt, a semi-homeless teen who is a
                genius on guitar, asks Troy to be the drummer in a rock
                band.
FIC Goo                       
           Goodman, Alison.  Singing the Dogstar blues.  New York : Viking,
                2002, c1998.  In a future Australia, the saucy
                eighteen-year-old daughter of a famous newscaster and a
                sperm donor teams up with a hermaphrodite from the planet
                Choria in a time travel adventure that may significantly
                change both of their lives.
FIC GRIMES                    
           Grimes, Nikki.  Bronx masquerade.  New York : Dial Books, c2002. 
                While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx
                high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing
                their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly
                clueless classmates.
FIC Hesse                     
           Hesse, Karen.  Witness.  New York : Scholastic Press, 2001.  A
                series of poems express the views of various people in a
                small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young
                Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is
                trying to infiltrate the town.
FIC Hug                       
           Hughes, Pat (Patrice Raccio).  Guerrilla season.  New York :
                Farrar Straus Giroux, 2003.  Two fifteen-year-old boys find
                friendship and family loyalty tested in 1863 Missouri, where
                civilians are caught in the savage conflict between Rebel
                guerrillas and Union forces.
FIC Jenkins                   
           Jenkins, A. M. (Amanda McRaney).  Damage.  1st ed.  New York :
                HarperCollins, c2001.  Seventeen-year-old football hero
                Austin, trying to understand the inexplicable depression
                that has drained his interest in life, thinks that he has                           
                found relief in a girl who seems very special.
FIC JORDAN                    
           Jordan, Sherryl.  The hunting of the last dragon.  1st ed.  New
                York : HarperCollins, c2002.  In England in 1356, as a monk
                records his every word, a young peasant tells of his journey
                with a young Chinese noblewoman to St. Alfric's Cove and the
                lair of a dragon.
FIC KLASS                     
           Klass, David.  Home of the Braves.  1st ed.  New York : Farrar,
                Straus and Giroux, 2002.  Eighteen-year-old Joe, captain of
                the soccer team, is dismayed when a hotshot player shows up
                from Brazil and threatens to take over both the team and the
                girl whom Joe hopes to date.
FIC KORMAN                    
           Korman, Gordon.  Son of the mob.  1st ed.  New York : Hyperion,
                c2002.  When teenage Vince Luca--whose family connections
                make dating difficult--finally finds a girl worth pursuing,
                her father turns out to be the FBI agent whose life's goal
                is to take out Vince's mob boss dad.
FIC LAWRENCE                  
           Lawrence, Iain, 1955-.  B for Buster.  New York : Delacorte
                Press, c2004.  In the spring of 1943, sixteen-year-old Kak,
                desperate to escape his abusive parents, lies about his age
                to enlist in the Canadian Air Force and soon finds himself
                based in England as part of a crew flying bombing raids over
                Germany.
FIC Lundgren                  
           Lundgren, Mary Beth.  Love, Sara.  1st ed.  New York : Henry
                Holt, 2001.  In a series of emails and journal entries Sara,
                a high school junior with a history of sexual abuse and
                foster home care, reveals her feelings about herself and two
                friends who are headed for destruction.
FIC MARTIN                    
           Martin, Nora.  A perfect snow.  1st U.S. ed.  New York :
                Bloomsbury Children's Books : Distributed to the trade by
                St. Martin's Press, 2002.  Seventeen-year-old Ben, living in
                a trailer park with his unemployed father and younger
                brother David, becomes involved in a violent white supremacy
                hate group operating in their small Montana town, but with
                the help of new girlfriend Eden, and a growing friendship
                with a local "rich kid," Ben begins to see the error in his
                thinking and tries to save his brother before it is too
                late.
FIC MCWILLIAMS                
           McWilliams, Kelly.  Doormat : a novel.  New York : Delacorte
                Press, c2004.  Fourteen-year-old Jaime has always been a
                doormat, but her diary reveals how getting the lead in a
                school play, finding her first boyfriend, discovering her
                dream, and helping her best friend cope with being pregnant
                transform her life.
FIC McN                       
           McNamee, Graham.  Acceleration.  New York : Wendy Lamb Books,
                2003.  Stuck working in the Lost and Found of the Toronto
                Transit Authority for the summer, seventeen-year-old Duncan
                finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him.
FIC MEYER                     
           Meyer, Carolyn, 1935-.  Doomed Queen Anne.  1st ed.  San Diego :
                Harcourt, c2002.  In 1520, thirteen-year-old Anne Boleyn,
                jealous of her older sister's beauty and position at court,                           
                declares that she will one day be queen of England, and that
                her sister will kneel at her feet.
FIC MEYER                     
           Meyer, L. A. (Louis A.), 1942-.  Bloody Jack : being an account
                of the curious adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, ship's boy.
                1st ed.  San Diego : Harcourt, c2002.  Reduced to begging
                and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old
                orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto
                a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of
                pirates.
FIC MEYER                     
           Meyer, Carolyn, 1935-.  Patience, Princess Catherine.  1st ed. 
                Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2004.  In 1501 fifteen-year-old
                Catharine of Aragon arrives in England to marry Arthur, the
                eldest son of King Henry VII, but soon finds her
                expectations of a happy settled life radically changed when
                Arthur unexpectedly dies and her future becomes the subject
                of a bitter dispute between the kingdoms of England and
                Spain.
FIC MIKAELSEN                 
           Mikaelsen, Ben, 1952-.  Tree Girl.  1st ed.  New York : Rayo :
                HarperTempest, c2004.  When, protected by the branches of
                one of the trees she loves to climb, Gabriela witnesses the
                destruction of her Mayan village and the murder of nearly
                all its inhabitants, she vows never to climb again until,
                after she and her traumatized sister find safety in a
                Mexican refugee camp, she realizes that only by climbing and
                facing their fears can she and her sister hope to have a
                future.
FIC MOR                       
           Moriarty, Jaclyn.  The year of secret assignments.  1st ed.  New
                York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2004.  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.
FIC MOR                       
           Morpurgo, Michael.  Private Peaceful.  1st American ed.  New York
                : Scholastic Press, 2004.  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.
FIC MORRIS                    
           Morris, Gerald, 1963-.  The ballad of Sir Dinadan.  Boston :
                Houghton Mifflin, 2003.  Though he would rather pursue his
                talent as a musician, eighteen-year-old Dinadan is forced to
                follow his older brother Tristram's path and become a
                knight. Set at the time of King Arthur.
FIC MYERS                     
           Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-.  Shooter.  1st ed.  New York :
                Amistad/HarperTempest, c2004.  Written in the form of
                interviews, reports, and journal entries, the story of three                           
                troubled teenagers ends in a tragic school shooting.
FIC Myr                       
           Myracle, Lauren, 1969-.  Kissing Kate.  1st ed.  New York :
                Dutton Books, c2003.  Sixteen-year-old Lissa's relationship
                with her best friend changes after they kiss at a party and
                Lissa does not know what to do, until she gets help from an
                unexpected new friend.
FIC NEWBERY                   
           Newbery, Linda.  Sisterland.  1st American ed.  Oxford ; New York
                : David Fickling Books, 2004, c2003.  When Hilly's
                grandmother becomes ill with Alzheimer's disease, her family
                is turned upside down by revelations from her life during
                World War II.
FIC Nil                       
           Nilsson, Per.  Heart's delight.  Asheville, N.C. : Front Street,
                2003.  As a sixteen-year-old looks at and systematically
                destroys each of his mementos of Ann-Kathrin, he replays
                scenes from their relationship and realizes that it was not
                the great romance he believed it to be.
FIC Nix                       
           Nixon, Joan Lowery.  Nightmare.  New York : Delacorte Press,
                2003.  Emily is sent to a camp for underachievers where she
                discovers a murderer on the staff who might provide an
                explanation for her recurring nightmares.
FIC Nolan                     
           Nolan, Han.  Born blue.  1st ed.  San Diego : Harcourt, c2001. 
                Janie was four years old when she nearly drowned due to her
                mother's neglect. Through an unhappy foster home experience,
                and years of feeling that she is unwanted, she keeps alive
                her dream of someday being a famous singer.
FIC OATES                     
           Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-.  Big Mouth & Ugly Girl.  1st
                HarperTempest ed.  New York : HarperTempest, 2002.  When
                sixteen-year-old Matt is falsely accused of threatening to
                blow up his high school and his friends turn against him, an
                unlikely classmate comes to his aid.
FIC POWELL                    
           Powell, Randy.  Three clams and an oyster.  1st ed.  New York :                           
                Farrar Straus Giroux, 2002.  During their humorous search to
                find a fourth player for their flag football team, three
                high school juniors are forced to examine their long
                friendship, their individual flaws, and their inability to
                try new experiences.
FIC QUALEY                    
           Qualey, Marsha.  Too big a storm.  New York : Dial Books, c2004. 
                When serious worrier Brady Callahan meets vivacious Sally
                Cooper, daughter of a wealthy Minnesota family, they develop
                a close friendship that helps they both grow and survive
                during the turbulent Vietnam War era.
FIC ROS                       
           Rosoff, Meg.  How I live now.  New York : Wendy Lamb Books,
                c2004.  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.
FIC Sha                       
           Shaw, Tucker.  Flavor of the week.  New York : Hyperion, 2003. 
                Cyril, an overweight boy who is good friends with Rose but
                wishes he could be more, helps his best friend Nick woo her
                with culinary masterpieces which Cyril himself secretly
                creates.
FIC Shu                       
           Shusterman, Neal.  Full tilt : a novel.  1st ed.  New York :
                Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2003.  When
                sixteen-year-old Blake goes to a mysterious,
                by-invitation-only carnival he somehow knows that it could
                save his comatose brother, but soon learns that much more is
                at stake if he fails to meet the challenge presented there
                by the beautiful Cassandra.
FIC SMITH                     
           Smith, Sherri L.  Lucy the giant.  New York : Delacorte Press,
                c2002.  Fifteen-year-old Lucy, the largest girl in her
                school, leaves her small Alaska town and her alcoholic
                father and discovers hardship--and friendship--posing as an
                adult aboard a commercial fishing boat.
FIC Sones                     
           Sones, Sonya.  What my mother doesn't know.  1st ed.  New York :
                Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2001.  Sophie
                describes her relationships with a series of boys as she
                searches for Mr. Right.
FIC Sot                       
           Soto, Gary.  The afterlife.  San Diego, Calif. : Harcourt, 2003. 
                A senior at East Fresno High School lives on as a ghost
                after his brutal murder in the restroom of a club where he
                had gone to dance.
FIC SPINNER                   
           Spinner, Stephanie.  Quiver.  1st ed.  New York : Knopf :
                Distributed by Random House, c2002.  When her father
                commands that she produce an heir, the huntress Atalanta                           
                gives her suitors a seemingly impossible task in order to
                uphold her pledge of chastity, as the gods of ancient Greece
                look on.
FIC STONE                     
           Stone, Miriam R.  At the end of words : a daughter's memoirs. 
                1st ed.  Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2003.  The author
                records her feelings and experiences as she realizes that
                her mother is dying of cancer.
FIC STRRASSER                 
           Strasser, Todd.  Can't get there from here.  1st ed.  New York :
                Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2004.  Tired of
                being hungry, cold, and dirty from living on the streets of
                New York City with a tribe of other homeless teenagers who
                are dying, one by one, a girl named Maybe ponders her future
                and longs for someone to care about her.
FIC Tas                       
           Tashjian, Janet.  Fault line.  New York : Henry Holt, 2003.  When
                seventeen-year-old Becky Martin, an aspiring comic, meets
                Kip Costello, she is caught in a mentally and physically
                abusive relationship.
FIC TASHJIAN                  
           Tashjian, Janet.  The gospel according to Larry.  1st ed.  New
                York : Henry Holt, 2001.  Seventeen-year-old Josh, a
                loner-philosopher who wants to make a difference in the
                world, tries to maintain his secret identity as the author
                of a web site that is receiving national attention.
FIC TASHJIAN                  
           Tashjian, Janet.  Vote for Larry.  1st ed.  New York : Henry
                Holt, 2004.  Not yet eighteen years old, Josh, a.k.a. Larry,
                comes out of hiding and returns to public life, this time to
                run for President as an advocate for issues of concern to
                youth and to encourage voter turnout.
FIC TOLAN                     
           Tolan, Stephanie S.  Flight of the raven.  1st ed.  New York :
                HarperCollins, c2001.  Elijah, a nine-year-old
                African-American with unusual mental powers and a special
                ability to reach into the natural world, becomes a hostage
                of a terrorist militia group and finds himself in a world of
                violence.
FIC TORREY                    
           Torrey, Michele.  To the edge of the world.  1st ed.  New York :
                Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c2003.  In 1519, after
                the death of his parents, fourteen-year-old Mateo Macias
                becomes cabin boy to Ferdinand Magellan on a dangerous
                journey in search of a route to the fabled Spice Islands.
FIC Wal                       
           Wallace, Rich.  Losing is not an option : stories.  New York :
                Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.  This book presents episodes in the
                life of a young man, from sneaking into football games with
                his best friends in sixth grade to running his last high
                school race, the Pennsylvania state championships.                           
FIC WEAVER                    
           Weaver, Will.  Claws : a novel.  1st ed.  New York :
                HarperTempest, c2003.  Jed and Laura, two popular Minnesota
                high school students, find their seemingly perfect lives
                suddenly in chaos when they discover that each has a parent
                who is having an affair with the other.
FIC WER                       
           Werlin, Nancy.  Double helix.  New York : Dial Books, c2004. 
                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.
FIC WES                       
           Westerfeld, Scott.  So yesterday : a novel.  New York :
                Razorbill, c2004.  Hunter Braque, a New York City teenager
                who is paid by corporations to spot what is "cool," combines
                his analytical skills with girlfriend Jen's creative talents
                to find a missing person and thwart a conspiracy directed at
                the heart of consumer culture.
FIC WIL                       
           Williams-Garcia, Rita.  No laughter here.  1st ed.  New York :
                HarperCollins : Amistad, c2004.  In Queens, New York,
                ten-year-old Akilah is determined to find out why her
                closest friend, Victoria, is silent and withdrawn after
                returning from a trip to her homeland, Nigeria.
FIC Wittlinger                
           Wittlinger, Ellen.  Razzle.  1st ed.  New York : Simon & Schuster
                Books for Young Readers, c2001.  When his retired parents
                buy a group of tourist cabins on Cape Cod, fifteen-year-old
                Kenyon Baker's days are filled with repair work until he
                becomes friends with an eccentric girl and makes her the
                subject of a series of photographs.
FIC WITTLINGER                
           Wittlinger, Ellen.  Heart on my sleeve.  1st ed.  New York :
                Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2004.  From the
                end of high school to the beginning of college, Chloe and
                Julian deal with major changes in their families and
                friendships and explore their feelings for each other
                through emails, letters, and a visit.
FIC WOO                       
           Woodson, Jacqueline.  Hush.  New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons,
                c2002.  Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when
                her family enters the witness protection program.
FIC YUMOTO                    
           Yumoto, Kazumi.  The letters.  1st American ed.  New York :
                Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2002, c1997.  In Japan, the death of
                her former landlady triggers a young woman's memories about
                her father's death when she was six years old, and the
                special way the old lady helped her to cope with the loss.
SC CLARKE                     
           Clarke, Judith, 1943-.  Wolf on the fold.  1st U.S. ed. 
                Asheville, N.C. : Front Street, 2002, c2000.  Wolf on the                           
                fold -- The city of love -- Reading problems -- Dhilkusha --
                Jerusalem the golden -- Chocolate icing.  A collection of
                six short stories by Judith Clarke which span seventy years
                and involve defining moments in each character's life.
SC FIRST                      
           First crossing : stories about teen immigrants.  1st ed. 
                Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2004.  First crossing /
                Pam Muņoz Ryan -- Second culture kids / Dian Curtis Regan --
                My favorite chaperone / Jean Davies Okimoto -- They don't
                mean it! / Lensey Namioka -- Pulling up stakes / David Lubar
                -- Lines of scrimmage / Elsa Marston -- The Swede / Alden R.
                Carter -- The rose of sharon / Marie G. Lee -- Make Maddie
                mad / Rita Williams-Garcia -- The green armchair / Minfong
                Ho.  Stories of recent Mexican, Venezuelan, Kazakh, Chinese,
                Romanian, Palestinian, Swedish, Korean, Haitian, and
                Cambodian immigrants reveal what it is like to face
                prejudice, language barriers, and homesickness along with
                common teenage feelings and needs.
SC GAL                        
           Destination unexpected : short stories.  1st ed.  Cambridge, MA :
                Candlewick Press, 2003.  Something old, something new /
                Joyce Sweeney -- Brutal interlude / Ron Koertge -- Bread on
                the water / David Lubar -- My people / Margaret Peterson
                Haddix -- Bad blood / Will Weaver -- Keep smiling / Alex
                Flinn -- August lights / Kimberly Willis Holt -- The kiss in
                the carryon bag / Richard Peck -- Mosquito / Graham
                Salisbury -- Tourist trapped / Ellen Wittlinger.  Presents
                ten short stories for teens about lessons learned and
                discoveries made on journeys near and far. Includes such
                authors as Alex Flinn, Joyce Sweeney, and Richard Peck.
SC Nec                       
           Necessary noise : stories about our families as they really are. 
                1st ed.  New York : Joanna Cotler Books, c2003.  Hardware /
                Joan Bauer -- Siskiyou Sloan and the eye of the giraffe /
                Norma Howe -- Necessary noise / Emma Donoghue -- The
                throwaway: a suite / Nikki Grimes -- Visit / Walter Dean
                Myers -- A family illness: a mom-son conversation / Joyce
                Carol Thomas -- A woman's touch / Rita Williams-Garcia --
                Sailing away / Michael Cart -- Dr. Jeckyll and Sister Hyde /
                Sonya Sones -- Snowbound / Lois Lowry.  Contains ten short
                fiction stories for young adults that look at different
                types of families, both traditional and non-traditional,
                including selections by Nikki Grimes, Lois Lowry, Walter
                Dean Myers, and others.
SC SOU                        
           Soul searching : thirteen stories about faith and belief.  1st
                ed.  New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers,
                c2002.  The shunning of Sadie B. Zook / by Linda Oatman High
                -- The funeral / by Bill Sleator -- The olive grove / by
                Elsa Marston -- A daughter of Abraham / by Dianne Hess --
                Words of faith / by David Lubar -- The evil eye / by Dian
                Curtis Regan -- The see-far glasses / by Minfong Ho -- Going
                to Kashi / by Uma Krishnaswami -- Dust to dust / by Nancy
                Flynn -- Moth of God / by Jennifer Armstrong -- Star vision
                / by Shonto Begay -- Elvis lives / by John Slayton -- The
                tin man / by Lisa Rowe Fraustino.  Thirteen authors present
                short stories in which adolescent protagonists are forced to
                examine their faiths. Covers Judaism, Christianity, Islam,
                Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and other
                religions.

  
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