JUNIOR LIST
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Three Times Lucky (Realistic Fiction)
Sheila Turnage
Rising sixth grader Miss Moses LoBeau lives in the small town of Tupelo Landing, NC, where everyone's business is fair game and no
secret is sacred. She washed ashore in a hurricane eleven years ago, and she's been making waves ever since. Although Mo hopes
someday to find her "upstream mother," she's found a home with the Colonel—a café owner with a forgotten past of his own—and Miss
Lana, the fabulous café hostess. She will protect those she loves with every bit of her strong will and tough attitude. So when a lawman
comes to town asking about a murder, Mo and her best friend, Dale Earnhardt Johnson III, set out to uncover the truth in hopes of
saving the only family Mo has ever known.
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The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian (Realistic Fiction)
Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his
future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other
Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is
based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary
adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he thought he was destined to live.
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Endangered (Fiction)
Eliot Schrefer
Congo is a dangerous place, even for people who are trying to do good. When Sophie has to visit her mother at her sanctuary for
bonobos, she’s not thrilled to be there. Then Otto, an infant bonobo, comes into her life, and for the first time she feels responsible for
another creature. But peace does not last long for Sophie and Otto. When an armed revolution breaks out in the country, the sanctuary
is attacked, and the two of them must escape unprepared into the jungle. Caught in the crosshairs of a lethal conflict, they must struggle
to keep safe, to eat, and to live.
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The Chocolate War (Fiction, Classic)
Robert Cormier
A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing
the wrath of the school bullies. This chilling portrait of an all-boys prep school casts an unflinching eye on the pitfalls of conformity and
corruption in our most elite cultural institutions.
*NOTE: Controversial title
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The Secret Garden (Fiction, Classic)
Frances Hodgson Brunett
'I've stolen a garden,' she said very fast. 'It isn't mine. It isn't anybody's. Nobody wants it, nobody cares for it, nobody ever goes into it.
Perhaps everything is dead in it already; I don't know.' After losing her parents, young Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her
uncle's gloomy mansion on the wild English moors. She is lonely and has no one to play with, but one day she learns of a secret garden
somewhere in the grounds that no one is allowed to enter. Then Mary uncovers an old key in a flowerbed - and a gust of magic leads her
to the hidden door. Slowly she turns the key and enters a world she could never have imagined.
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The False Prince (Fantasy Fiction)
Jennifer A. Nielsen
Choose to lie...or choose to die. In a discontent kingdom, civil war is brewing. To unify the divided people, Conner, a nobleman of the
court, devises a cunning plan to find an impersonator of the king's long-lost son and install him as a puppet prince. Four orphans are
recruited to compete for the role, including a defiant boy named Sage. Sage knows that Conner's motives are more than questionable,
yet his life balances on a sword's point -- he must be chosen to play the prince or he will certainly be killed. But Sage's rivals have their
own agendas as well. An extraordinary adventure filled with danger and action, lies and deadly truths that will have readers clinging to
the edge of their seats.
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Seraphina (Fantasy Fiction)
Rachel Hartman
In the kingdom of Goredd, dragons and humans live and work side by side – while below the surface, tensions and hostility simmer. The
newest member of the royal court, a uniquely gifted musician named Seraphina, holds a deep secret of her own. One that she guards
with all of her being.
When a member of the royal family is brutally murdered, Seraphina is drawn into the investigation alongside the dangerously
perceptive—and dashing—Prince Lucien. But as the two uncover a sinister plot to destroy the wavering peace of the kingdom,
Seraphina’s struggle to protect her secret becomes increasingly difficult… while its discovery could mean her very life.
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Leonardo’s Shadow: Or, My Astonishing Life as Leonardo da Vinci’s Servant (Historical Fiction)
Christopher Grey
Milan, 1497. The height of the Renaissance. And for Giacomo, servant of the famous painter Leonardo da Vinci, it's the most difficult
time of all. His Master has been working on the Last Supper, his greatest painting ever, for nearly two years. But has he finished it? He's
barely started! The all-powerful Duke of Milan is demanding that it be completed by the time the Pope visits at Easter. And Giacomo
knows that if Leonardo doesn't pick up his pace, the Duke may invite a young genius -- Michelangelo -- to finish the painting instead.
Which means that Leonardo won't be paid, which means that Milan's shopkeepers (to whom he owes massive amounts) will take drastic
measures against him. With more twists and turns than a spiral staircase, this thriller is as unique as its two heroes -- the most
celebrated artist who ever lived, and a young man without a past, who will stop at nothing to find the truth about his life.
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Historical Fiction)
John Boyne
Berlin 1942. When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has
received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and
nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in
the distance. Bored and lonely, he befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
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Life as we knew it (Science Fiction)
Susan Beth Pfeffer
High school sophomore Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when an asteroid knocks the moon closer to Earth, like "one
marble hits another." The result is catastrophic. How can her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis are wiping out the
coasts, earthquakes are rocking the continents, and volcanic ash is blocking out the sun?
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Erebos: It's a game. It watches you. (Science Fiction)
Ursula Poznanski
An intelligent computer game with a disturbing agenda.
When 16-year-old Nick gets a package, he wonders if it will explain the behavior of his classmates, who have been secretive lately. The
package contains the mysterious computer game Erebos. Players must obey strict rules: always play alone, never talk about the game,
and never tell anyone your nickname.
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Maze Runner (Science Fiction)
James Dashner
If you ain't scared, you ain't human. When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He's surrounded by
strangers-boys whose memories are also gone. Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade.
Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It's the only way out-and no one's ever
made it through alive. Everything is going to change. Then a girl arrives. The first girl ever. And the message she delivers is terrifying.
Remember. Survive. Run.
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The Awesome, Almost 100% True Adventures of Matt & Craz (Humorous Fiction)
Alan Silberberg
Best friends Matt and Larry "Craz" Crazinski couldn't be more different. Matt loves order, while Craz lives on the edge. The boys share a
passion for cartooning, but thanks to the school paper gatekeeper (and kind-of bully), Skip Turkle, it seems their cartoons will never be
published.But then the boys discover a pen that promises to help them DRAW BETTER NOW!-and quickly realize it's no ordinary pen:
Whatever they draw comes to life!
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Anya’s Ghost (Graphic Novel)
Vera Brosgol
Anya could really use a friend. But her new BFF isn’t kidding about the “Forever” part . . .
Of all the things Anya expected to find at the bottom of an old well, a new friend was not one of them. Especially not a new friend who’s
been dead for a century.
Falling down a well is bad enough, but Anya’s normal life might actually be worse. She’s embarrassed by her family, self-conscious about
her body, and she’s pretty much given up on fitting in at school. A new friend—even a ghost—is just what she needs.
Or so she thinks.
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Mercury (Graphic Novel)
Hope Larson
August 31, 5:15 PM, French Hill, Nova Scotia: A girl named Tara is running. She runs through her nice neighborhood and up a road to the
burned ruins of what was once a beautiful house--her family's house. August 31, 1859, French Hill, Nova Scotia: A girl named Josey is
picking blackberries with her friend Connie. As the girls gossip, a handsome stranger knocks on the door of Josey's house. His name is
Asa, and with his coming, Josey's life--and later in time, Tara's as well--is about to change forever.
Because there is treasure in the woods that belong to Josey's family. Gold--an untold fortune. Asa has a secret way of finding it, and his
partnership with Josey's father could make them all rich. But there is darkness in the woods, and in Asa. And in the present day, Tara,
Josey's descendent, is about to discover the truth about what really happened in the family's past.
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Cardboard (Graphic Novel)
Doug Tennapel
Cam's down-and-out father gives him a cardboard box for his birthday and he knows it's the worst present ever. So to make the best of a
bad situation, they bend the cardboard into a man-and to their astonishment, it comes magically to life. But the neighborhood bully,
Marcus, warps the powerful cardboard into his own evil creations that threaten to destroy them all!
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Into the Abyss (Non-Fiction)
Carol Shaben
On an icy night in October 1984, a Piper Navajo commuter plane carrying 9 passengers crashed in the remote wilderness of northern
Alberta, killing 6 people. 4 survived: the rookie pilot, a prominent politician, a cop and the criminal he was escorting to face charges. As
they fought through the night to stay alive, the dividing lines of power, wealth and status were erased and each man was forced to
confront the precious and limited nature of his existence.
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Black Like Me (Non-Fiction, Classic)
John Howard Griffin
He trudged southern streets searching for a place where he could eat or rest, looking vainly for a job other than menial labor, feeling the
"hate stare." He was John Griffin, a white man who darkened the color of his skin and crossed the line into a country of hate, fear, and
hopelessness--the country of the American Black man.
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Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World (Biography)
Sy Montgomery, Temple Grandin
When Temple Grandin was born, her parents knew that she was different. Years later she was diagnosed with autism. While Temple’s
doctor recommended a hospital, her mother believed in her. Temple went to school instead.
Today, Dr. Temple Grandin is a scientist and professor of animal science at Colorado State University. Her world-changing career
revolutionized the livestock industry. As an advocate for autism, Temple uses her experience as an example of the unique contributions
that autistic people can make.
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Léo Sacrin : mémoires catastrophiques pour collégiens du futur (French Fiction)
L.A. Campbell
Léo Rifkif a eu son premier devoir d'histoire, pour lequel il doit écrire un journal intime qui voyagera dans une capsule temporelle vers
les générations futures. S'il a de mauvaises notes, il devra continuer à partager sa chambre avec ses petites soeurs, absolument
insupportables. De plus, sa mère impose le végétarisme à toute la famille et il doit transporter ses affaires dans un caddie.
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La vie compliqué de Léa Olivier:Perdue #01 (French Fiction)
De Catherine Girard-Audet
L'existence de Léa Olivier est chamboulée lorsque ses parents lui annoncent qu'elle devra quitter son village natal pour s'installer avec
eux et son grand frère Félix à Montréal. Grâce aux clavardages et aux courriels échangés avec sa best Marilou, son chum Thomas et ses «
nouveaux amis », Léa nous raconte les hauts et les bas de son adaptation dans la grande métropole : un frère trop beau et trop
populaire, des notes d'anglais plutôt médiocres, une relation à distance houleuse, une gang de nunuches qui lui causent des ennuis.
Bref, La vie compliquée de Léa Olivier!
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Chi (French Graphic Novel)
Konami Kanata
Les aventures d'un petit chat recueilli par une famille et sa découverte du monde qui l'entoure : les autos, les chiens, la litière, les
croquettes...
SENIOR LIST
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Unlikely Hero of Romm 13B (Realistic Fiction)
Teresa Toten
When Adam meets Robyn at a support group for kids coping with obsessive-compulsive disorder, he is drawn to her almost before he
can take a breath. He's determined to protect and defend her--to play Batman to her Robyn--whatever the cost. But when you're
fourteen and the everyday problems of dealing with divorced parents and step-siblings are supplemented by the challenges of OCD,
it's hard to imagine yourself falling in love. How can you have a "normal" relationship when your life is so fraught with problems? And
that's not even to mention the small matter of those threatening letters Adam's mother has started to receive . . .
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Realistic Fiction)
Stephen Chbosky
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a story about what it's like to travel that strange course through the uncharted territory of high
school. The world of first dates, family dramas, and new friends. Of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Of those wild and
poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up. Standing on the fringes of life offers a unique perspective…but there comes a time
to see what it looks like from the dance floor.
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Looking for Alaska (Realistic Fiction)
John Green
Before.
Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last
words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and
anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is
Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event
unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . .
After. Nothing is ever the same.
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Code Name Verity (Historical Fiction)
Elizabeth Wein
Oct. 11th, 1943-A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the
girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun.
When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy
territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a
grisly execution.
As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and
why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life,
confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough
to save her from the enemy?
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The Orenda (Historical Fiction)
Joseph Boyden
A visceral portrait of life at a crossroads, The Orenda opens with a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of the young Iroquois Snow
Falls, a spirited girl with a special gift. Her captor, Bird, is an elder and one of the Huron Nation’s great warriors and statesmen. It has
been years since the murder of his family, and yet they are never far from his mind. In Snow Falls, Bird recognizes the ghost of his lost
daughter and sees that the girl possesses powerful magic that will be useful to him on the troubled road ahead. Bird’s people have
battled the Iroquois for as long as he can remember, but both tribes now face a new, more dangerous threat from afar.
Christophe, a charismatic Jesuit missionary, has found his calling among the Huron, and devotes himself to learning and
understanding their customs and language in order to lead them to Christ. An emissary from distant lands, he brings much more than
his faith to the new world.
As these three souls dance with each other through intricately woven acts of duplicity, small battles erupt into bigger wars and a
nation emerges from worlds in flux.
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Beautiful Creatures (Paranormal Fiction)
Kami Garcia
Note: MUCH better than the movie
Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power, and a
curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards
of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.
Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never
met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to
uncover the connection between them.
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This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein (Horror Fiction)
Kenneth Oppel
Victor and Konrad are the twin brothers Frankenstein. They are nearly inseparable. Growing up, their lives are filled with imaginary
adventures...until the day their adventures turn all too real. They stumble upon the Dark Library and discover secret books of
alchemy and ancient remedies. Father forbids them from ever entering the room again, but when Konrad falls gravely ill, Victor is
drawn back to the Dark Library where he uncovers an ancient formula for the Elixir of Life. Victor, along with his beautiful cousin
Elizabeth and friend Henry, immediately set out to find a man who was once known for his alchemical works to help them create the
formula. Determined to save Konrad, the three friends scale the highest trees in Strumwald, dive into the deepest lakes, and even
make an unthinkable sacrifice in their quest for the elixir’s ingredients. And as if their task was not complicated enough, a new realm
of danger—that of illicit love—threatens to end the ordeal in tragedy.
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Montrumologist (Horror Fiction)
Rick Yancey
These are the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed. But he is dead now and has been for nearly ninety years, the one
who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets. The one who saved me . . . and the one who cursed me.
So starts the diary of Will Henry, orphan and assistant to a doctor with a most unusual specialty: monster hunting. In the short time
he has lived with the doctor, Will has grown accustomed to his late night callers and dangerous business. But when one visitor comes
with the body of a young girl and the monster that was eating her, Will's world is about to change forever. The doctor has discovered
a baby Anthropophagus--a headless monster that feeds through a mouth in its chest--and it signals a growing number of
Anthropophagi. Now, Will and the doctor must face the horror threatenning to overtake and consume our world before it is too late.
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Anna Dressed in Blood (Horror Fiction)
Kendare Blake
Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by
a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch
mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. They follow legends and local lore, destroy the murderous dead, and keep pesky things like the
future and friends at bay. Searching for a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas expects the usual: track, hunt, kill. What he
finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day
of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every
person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home. Yet she spares Cas's life.
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The Truth About Forever (Romance Fiction)
Sarah Dessen
Macy's summer stretches before her, carefully planned and outlined. She will spend her days sitting at the library information desk.
She will spend her evenings studying for the SATs. Spare time will be used to help her obsessive mother prepare for the big opening
of the townhouse section of her luxury development. But Macy's plans don't anticipate a surprising and chaotic job with Wish
Catering, a motley crew of new friends, or…Wes. Tattooed, artistic, anything-but-expected Wes. He doesn't fit Macy's life at all—so
why does she feel so comfortable with him? So…happy? What is it about him that makes her let down her guard and finally talk
about how much she misses her father, who died before her eyes the year before?
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Eleanor & Park (Romance Fiction)
Rainbow Rowell
Bono met his wife in high school, Park says.
So did Jerry Lee Lewis, Eleanor answers.
I’m not kidding, he says.
You should be, she says, we’re 16.
What about Romeo and Juliet?
Shallow, confused, then dead.
I love you, Park says.
Wherefore art thou, Eleanor answers.
I’m not kidding, he says.
You should be.
Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits—smart enough to know that first love
almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you’ll remember your own first love—and just
how hard it pulled you under.
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Feed (Science Fiction)
M. T. Anderson
For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play with some
stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to
the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl
who has decided to fight the feed and its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. Following in the footsteps of
George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr., M. T. Anderson has created a not-so-brave new world — and a smart,
savage satire that has captivated readers with its view of an imagined future that veers unnervingly close to the here and now.
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Atlantia (Dystopian Fiction)
Ally Condie
Can you hear Atlantia breathing?
For as long as she can remember, Rio has dreamed of the sand and sky Above—of life beyond her underwater city of Atlantia. But in
a single moment, all Rio’s hopes for the future are shattered when her twin sister, Bay, makes an unexpected choice, stranding Rio
Below. Alone, ripped away from the last person who knew Rio’s true self—and the powerful siren voice she has long silenced—she
has nothing left to lose.
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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (Humour Fiction)
Jonas Jonasson
After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's
still in good health, and in one day, he turns 100. A big celebration is in the works, but Allan really isn't interested. So he decides to
escape. He climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey, involving, among other
surprises, a suitcase stuffed with cash, some unpleasant criminals, a friendly hot-dog stand operator, and an elephant (not to
mention a death by elephant).
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William Shakespeare’s Star Wars (Fantasy Fiction)
Ian Doescher
Return once more to a galaxy far, far away with this sublime retelling of George Lucas’s epic Star Wars in the style of the immortal
Bard of Avon. The saga of a wise (Jedi) knight and an evil (Sith) lord, of a beautiful princess held captive and a young hero coming of
age, Star Wars abounds with all the valor and villainy of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. ’Tis a tale told by fretful droids, full of faithful
Wookiees and fearstome Stormtroopers, signifying...pretty much everything.
Reimagined in glorious iambic pentameter—and complete with twenty gorgeous Elizabethan illustrations--William Shakespeare’s
Star Wars will astound and edify Rebels and Imperials alike. Zounds! This is the book you’re looking for.
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The Count of Monte Cristo (Adventure Fiction, Classic)
Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo is Alexandre Dumas' classic tale of revenge and adventure. The young sailor Dantes is fallaciously charged
with treason and loses his fiancé, his dreams and his life when he is locked up for thirteen years on the island prison of Chateau d'If.
Mentored by another prisoner, Dantes finally escapes the prison, reinvents himself as the Count of Monte Cristo and begins to exact
his revenge on the people who set him up.
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Pride and Prejudice (Romance Fiction, Classic)
Jane Austen
When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her
good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend
Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that
follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships,gossip and snobberies of
provincial middle-class life.
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This One Summer (Graphic Novel)
MarikoTamaki and Jillian Tamaki
Every summer, Rose goes with her mom and dad to a lake house in Awago Beach. It's their getaway, their refuge. Rosie's friend
Windy is always there, too, like the little sister she never had. But this summer is different. Rose's mom and dad won't stop fighting,
and when Rose and Windy seek a distraction from the drama, they find themselves with a whole new set of problems. One of the
local teens - just a couple of years older than Rose and Windy - is caught up in something bad... Something life threatening.
It's a summer of secrets, and sorrow, and growing up, and it's a good thing Rose and Windy have each other.
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Attack on Titan (Graphic Novel)
Hajime Isayama
In this post-apocalytpic sci-fi story, humanity has been devastated by the bizarre, giant humanoids known as the Titans. Little is
known about where they came from or why they are bent on consuming mankind. Seemingly unintelligent, they have roamed the
world for years, killing everyone they see. For the past century, what's left of man has hidden in a giant, three-walled city. People
believe their 100-meter-high walls will protect them from the Titans, but the sudden appearance of an immense Titan is about to
change everything.
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The Great Escape (Non-Fiction)
Paul Brickhill
They were American and British air force officers in a German prison camp. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade
tools, they sank shafts, forged passports, faked weapons, and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes. They developed a
fantastic security system to protect themselves from German surveillance. It was a split-second operation as delicate and as deadly
as a time bomb. It demanded the concentrated devotion and vigilance of more than six hundred men—every one of them, every
minute, every hour, every day and night for more than a year.
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I am Malala (Autobiography)
Malala Yousafzai with Patricia McCormick (Young Readers Edition)
Am Malala. This is my story.
Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women
weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn't go to school. Raised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan transformed by
terrorism, Malala was taught to stand up for what she believes. So she fought for her right to be educated. And on October 9, 2012,
she nearly lost her life for the cause: She was shot point-blank while riding the bus on her way home from school.
No one expected her to survive.
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Autobiography)
Maya Angelou
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey,
endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in
St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age–and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San
Francisco, Maya learns about love for herself and the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met
and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned.
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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for
Anything (Autobiography)
Chris Hadfield
Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has
broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, and been temporarily blinded
while clinging to the exterior of an orbiting spacecraft. The secret to Col. Hadfield's success-and survival-is an unconventional
philosophy he learned at NASA: prepare for the worst-and enjoy every moment of it.
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The Glass Castle (Autobiography)
Jeanette Walls
Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and
Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the
mountains. Later, when the money ran out, or the romance of the wandering life faded, the Walls retreated to the dismal West
Virginia mining town. Jeannette and her brother and sisters had to fend for themselves, supporting one another as they weathered
their parents' betrayals and, finally, found the resources and will to leave home.
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Hackerboy (French Fiction)
Julie Champagne
A 16 ans, la vie d'Alexandre Simard serait bien ordinaire sans son petit talent informatique. Une aptitude bien spéciale qui lui permet de
surfer sur le Web sous le pseudo de H@ckerb0y. Son but : pourchasser les fraudeurs en ligne qui profitent de la naïveté des
internautes. Quand une affaire de pilule énergisante attire son attention, Alex voit une énième occasion de dénoncer une escroquerie.
Pourtant, au moment de pirater le serveur de la compagnie, il tombe sur un courriel suspect. Qui sont les membres du HaKattak? Et en
quoi consiste leur prochaine opération? Résolu à mener l'enquête, Alex ne s'attend pas à se faire repérer ni à ce qu'on vole son
ordinateur. Traqué, il devra démêler les fils de cette étrange affaire et déjouer les plans de cybercriminels.
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Sorcière: Le livre des ombres (French Fiction)
Cate Tiernan
Il se passe quelque chose en moi que je ne comprends pas. * Je vois, je sens les choses différemment. J'accomplis des choses dont les
gens normaux sont incapables. Des choses puissantes, des choses magiques. Ça me fait peur. * Je n'ai jamais choisi d'étudier la
sorcellerie. Par contre, je commence à me demander si la sorcellerie ne m'aurait pas choisie.
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Jane, le renard et moi (French Graphic Novel)
Fanny Britt et Isabelle Arsenault
Jane, le renard et moi explore la méchanceté sans fin de certains enfants, le regard cruel que l'on porte parfois sur soi, les possibilités
infinies qu'offre la lecture d'un roman dans lequel on peut oublier le monde qui nous entoure et la différence qu'un seul être humain
peut avoir sur notre perception. Une vie en noir et blanc, une vie parsemée de touches de couleurs. Ce roman graphique saura vous
chavirer par ses mots, ses images, mais surtout par son regard tellement universel. »