DECEMBER 2009 LMC NEWSLETTER
NONNEWAUG HIGH SCHOOL
NOW AVAILABLE IN THE LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER
NEW FICTION:
Jurassic Park
Crichton, Michael
An astonishing technique for recovering
and cloning dinosaur DNA has been
discovered. Creatures once extinct now
roam Jurassic Park, soon-to-be opened as
a theme park…until something goes wrong.
F CRI
Smiles to Go
Spinelli, Jerry
Will's life has always been ruled by
science and common sense, but in ninth
grade, shaken up by the discovery that
protons decay, he begins to see the world
differently.
F SPI
Timeline
Crichton, Michael
It is a world of advances in technology.
Information moves instantly between two
points, without wires or networks. Any
moment of the past can be actualized and
historians can enter, literally, life in
fourteenth century feudal France.
F CRI
Ink Exchange
Marr, Melissa
Seventeen-year-old Leslie wants a tattoo
as a way of reclaiming control of herself
and her body, but the eerie image she
selects pulls her into the dangerous Dark
Court of the faeries, where she draws on
How to Build a House
Reinhardt, Dana
Harper Evans hopes to escape the
effects of her father's divorce on her
family and friendships by volunteering
her summer to build a house in a small
Tennessee town devastated by a tornado.
F REI
The Missing Girl
Mazer, Norma Fox
In New York as five sisters, aged eleven
to seventeen, deal with assorted
problems, conflicts, and fears, a
mysterious man watches them deciding
which one he likes the best.
F MAZ
Kendra
Booth, Coe
High Schooler Kendra longs to live with
her mother who, unprepared for
motherhood at age fourteen, left Kendra
in the care of her grandmother.
F BOO
inner strength to make a horrible choice.
F MAR
NEW FICTION:
The Smile
Napoli, Donna Jo
In Renaissance Italy, Elisabetta longs for
romance, and when Leonardo da Vinci
introduces her to Guiliana de Medici,
whose family rules Florence but is about
to be deposed, she has no inkling of the
romance and sorrow that will ensue.
F NAP
Suckerpunch
Hernandez, David
Shy, seventeen-year-old Marcus and his
sixteen-year-old brother, Enrique,
accompanied by two friends, drive from
their home in southern California to
Monterey to confront the abusive father
who walked out a year earlier, and who
now wants to return home.
F HER
Chains
Anderson, Laurie Halse
At the start of the Revolutionary War,
Isabel is sold to a cruel loyalist family,
even though she has been promised
freedom by her former owner. Soon
faced with the choice of working for or
against the British, Isabel chooses to
work with anyone who can help her.
F AND
Besties
Hopkins, Cathy
Everyone seems to have a boyfriend
except Lucy. Then she meets a guy. Soon
Lucy starts to feel smothered and longs
for life as a singleton. Izzie wants to be
treated like an adult. Izzie's determined
to stay true to herself. She just never
thought she would upset everyone along
the way.
F HOP
The Silver Cup
Leeds, Constance
In 1096, Anna, a German Catholic girl, and
Leah, a German Jewish girl, strike up a
remarkable friendship and make
surprising discoveries about each other.
F LEE
Impossible
Werlin, Nancy
When seventeen-year-old Lucy discovers
her family is under an ancient curse by an
evil Elfin Knight, she realizes to break
the curse she must perform three
impossible tasks before her daughter is
born in order to save them both.
F WER
Peeled
Bauer, Joan
In an upstate New York farming
community, high school reporter Hildy
Biddle investigates a series of strange
occurrences at a house rumored to be
haunted.
F BAU
Nation
Pratchett, Terry
After a devastating tsunami destroys all
that they have ever known, Mau, an island
boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English
girl, together with a small band of
refugees, set about rebuilding their
community and all the things that are
important in their lives.
F PRA
NEW FICTION:
March toward the Thunder
Bruchac, Joseph
Louis Nollette, a fifteen-year-old
Abenaki Indian, joins the Irish Brigade in
1864 to fight for the Union in the Civil
War. Louis feels compelled to join up
because of the North's commitment to
end slavery as well as the promise of good
wages.
F BRU
Dark Visions
Smith, L.J.
Kaitlyn Fairchild has always felt like an
outsider in her small hometown. Her
haunting eyes and prophetic drawings
have earned her a reputation as a witch.
Tired of being shunned, Kait accepts an
invitation to attend the Zetes Institute,
where she can have a fresh start and
study with other psychic teens.
F SMI
Black Ships before Troy:
The Story of the Iliad
Sutcliff, Rosemary
Retells the story of the Trojan War,
from the quarrel for the golden apple,
and the flight of Helen with Paris, to the
destruction of Troy.
F SUT
Milkweed
Spinelli, Jerry
He's a boy who wants to be a Nazi some
day, with tall shiny jackboots and a
gleaming Eagle hat of his own. Until the
day that suddenly makes him change his
mind. And when the trains come to empty
the Jews from the ghetto of the damned,
he's a boy who realizes it's safest of all
to be nobody.
F SPI
Dragon's Keep
Carey, Janet Lee
Princess Rosalind is meant to fulfill a
600-year-old prophecy from Merlin that
she will restore her family's good name
and end a war. Rosalind was born with one
dragon talon, which is a fearful secret
known only to the teen and her mother. It
is kept hidden by the golden gloves that
Rosalind is never without.
F CAR
Dreamhunter
Knox, Elizabeth
In a world where select people can enter
"The Place" and find dreams of every kind
to share with others for a fee, a fifteenyear-old girl is training to be a dreamhunter when her father disappears,
leaving her to carry on his mysterious
mission.
F KNO
The London Eye Mystery
Dowd, Siobhan
When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim
disappears from the London Eye Ferris
wheel, the two siblings must work
together - Ted with his brain that is
wired differently and impatient Kat - to
try to solve the mystery of what
happened to Salim.
F DOW
NEW NON-FICTION:
Blizzard! : The Storm
that Changed America
Murphy, Jim
Presents a history, based on personal
accounts and newspaper articles, of the
massive snow storm that hit the
Northeast in 1888, focusing on the
events in New York City.
974.7 MUR
Children of the Dust Bowl
Stanley, Jerry
Describes the plight of the migrant
workers who traveled from the Dust Bowl
to California during the Depression and
were forced to live in a federal labor
camp and discusses the school that was
built for their children.
371.96 STA
Manga for the Beginner
Hart, Christopher
A comprehensive beginner's guide that
not only covers the basics of drawing the
manga face and body, but goes on to
explore costume and character design,
basic drawing and perspective techniques,
and panel sequencing.
741.5 HAR
The Amityville Horror
Anson, Jay
In December 1975, the Lutz family
moved into their new home on suburban
Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz
knew that one year earlier Ronald DeFeo
had murdered his parents, brothers, and
sisters in the house, but the property and
the price had been too good to pass up.
Twenty-eight days later the entire Lutz
family fled in terror.
133.4 ANS
Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-byNumbers is the New Way to be Smart
Ayres, Ian
Gone are the days of solely relying on
intuition to make decisions. Today,
number crunching affects your life in
ways you might never imagine. Economist
Ian Ayres shows how today's
organizations are analyzing massive
databases at lightning speed to provide
greater insights into human behavior.
519.5 AYR
The impossible takes Longer: The
1,000 Wisest Things ever said by
Nobel Prize Laureates
Witty, incisive observations on such
universally meaningful topics as courage
and compassion by many of the greatest
minds. Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has
been the hallmark of genius, but Nobel
laureates tend to be more than merely
brilliant - their idealism, courage, and
concern for humanity have also made
them sources of inspiration and wisdom.
082 IMP
The Dog who Rescues Cats
Gonzalez, Philip
A warm, fuzzy, feel-good read, here is
the bestselling story of Ginny, an adopted
mixed-breed dog whose extraordinary
ability to rescue stray cats has propelled
her to national stardom.
636.7 GON
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