New Fiction |
Call number: FIC A - FIC L |
Fall 2004 |
Last update March 17, 2005 |
A | B | C | D | E-F | G | H-I | J |K | L |
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| Call number: FIC AMBROSE |
| Author: Ambrose, Stephen E. |
| Title: This Vast Land: a Young Man's Journal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: a novel |
| Accelerated Reader: Need test |
| Lexile: Not Listed yet |
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| Summary: Offers the fictional diary of nineteen-year-old George Shannon, the youngest member of Lewis and Clark's Corp of Discovery, as Shannon travels west into the Northwest Passage, encountering figures including Daniel Boone and Sacajawea. |
| Other books by Stephen E. Ambrose: Citizen soldiers: the U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945, The Good Fight: How World War II was Won, Nothing like it in the World: the Men who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869, The Victors: Eisenhower and his Boys : the Men of World War II. |
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| Call number: FIC BIRD, I. |
| Author: Bird, Isobel |
| Title: And it Harm None |
| Accelerated Reader: Need test |
| Lexile: Not Listed yet |
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| Summary: After Kate, Annie, and Cooper discover a possible crime, they must make a choice between helping a friend and abiding by the Wiccan law against causing injury to another. |
Series: Circle of three number 13
Sequel to: Written in the Stars, Followed by: The Challenge Box. |
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| Call number: FIC BIRD, I. |
| Author: Bird, Isobel |
| Title: Written in the Stars |
| Accelerated Reader: Need test |
| Lexile: Not Listed yet |
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| Summary: As Cooper, Kate, and Annie begin their exploration of astrology, they find it remarkably accurate, but they soon uncover foretellings that may take them off the Wiccan path. |
Series: Circle of three number 12
Sequel to: The House of Winter, Followed by: And it Harm None. |
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| Call number: FIC DEUKER |
| Author: Deuker, Carl |
| Title: High heat |
| Accelerated Reader: Need Test |
| Lexile: 870 |
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| Summary: When sophomore Shane Hunter's father is arrested for money laundering at his Lexus dealership, the star pitcher's life of affluence and private school begins to fall apart. |
| Other books by Carl Deuker: Heart of a Champion, On the Devil's Court. |
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| Call number: FIC DONNELLY, Jennifer (Winner’s circle) |
| Author: Donnelly, Jennifer |
| Titie: A Northern Light |
| Accelerated Reader: Need Test |
| Lexile: 700 |
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| Summary: 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. |
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Notes: Michael L. Printz Award. Recommended by the Librarian Mrs. Bowen. WHS Library owns two copies.
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| Call number: FIC FRANK, E. R. |
| Author: Frank, E.R. |
| Titie: Friction: a novel |
| Accelerated Reader: Need Test |
| Lexile: 630 |
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| Summary: When a new girl at the private school Alex attends starts rumors about Alex's favorite teacher, Alex and her eighth-grade classmates are not sure how to act around him or with each other. |
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Other books by E. R. Frank: America: a novel, Life is Funny: a novel. |
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| Call number: FIC FRAZIER |
| Author: Frazier, Charles |
| Title: Cold Mountain |
| Accelerated Reader: Need Test |
| Lexile: 1210 |
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| Summary:
A confederate soldier wounded and disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg decides to walk back to his home. |
| Notes: Now a major motion picture from Miramax Films. |
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| Call number: FIC HADDIX |
| Author: Haddix, Margaret Peterson |
| Title: Among the Barons |
| Accelerated Reader: Need test |
| Lexile: Not Listed yet |
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| Summary: In a future world of false identities, government lies, and death threats, Luke feels drawn to the younger brother of the boy whose name Luke has taken. |
Series: Shadow Children number 4
Sequel to: Among the Betrayed, Followed by: Among the Brave. |
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| Call number: FIC HADDIX |
| Author: Haddix, Margaret Peterson |
| Title: Among the Brave |
| Accelerated Reader: Need test |
| Lexile: Not Listed yet |
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| Summary: In a society that allows families to have only two children, a group of third-borns tries to save themselves and others like them. |
Series: Shadow Children number 5
Sequel to: Among the Barons. |
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| Call number: FIC HORVATH (Winner’s circle) |
| Author:Horvath, Polly |
| Title:
The Canning Season |
| Accelerated Reader: Need Test |
| Lexile: 870 |
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| Summary: Thirteen-year-old Ratchet spends a summer in Maine with her eccentric great-aunts Tilly and Penpen, hearing strange stories from the past and encountering a variety of unusual and colorful characters. |
Notes: National Book Award Winner. Highly recommended by the Librarian, Mrs. Bowen.
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Call number: FIC JOHNSON, Angela
(Winner’s circle) |
| Author: Johnson, Angela |
| Title: The first part last |
| Accelerated Reader: Need test |
| Lexile: 790 |
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| Summary: Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter. |
Awards: Coretta Scott King Award 2004, Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature 2004.
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| Call number: FIC KORMAN |
| Author: Korman, Gordon |
| Titie: Jake, Reinvented |
| Accelerated Reader: Need Test |
| Lexile: Not listed yet |
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| Summary: Rick becomes friends with the popular new boy, Jake Garrett, football player and host of superlative parties, and in the process discovers the true nature of his schoolmates and uncovers the mystery of Jake's past. |
| Other books by Gordon Korman: Don't Care High, Losing Joe's Place, A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag, Son of Interflux, and Son of the Mob. |
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| Call number: FIC LOWRY |
| Author: Lowry, Lois |
| Titie: The Silent Boy |
| Accelerated Reader: Need Test |
| Lexile: 870 |
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| Summary: Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy. |
| Other books by Lois Lowry: The Giver, Number the Stars, Anastasia Krupnik, Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye, Gathering Blue, Quien Cuenta las Estrellas?, El Dador and more. |
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