Series: Hitchhiker number 1

Sequel to: Followed by: Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

Other books by Mitch Albom: Tuesdays with Morrie.

Series: Westmark Trilogy number 2

Sequel to: Westmark ; Followed by The Beggar Queen.

Notes: Junior Library Guild selection.

Other books written by Laurie Halse Anderson: Fever, 1793 and Speak

Series: Gemini number 3

Sequel to: Black Cat

Series: Everworld number 9

Sequel to: Gateway to the Gods ; Followed by: Understand the Unknown.

Notes: Newbery Medal Winner 1970. Donation made by Title I.

Summary: Through adventures involving a haunted marsh, talking trees, and the creature called the ballymag, the young wizard Merlin continues to experience both his growing powers and his essential humanity.

Series: Lost years of Merlin number 4

Sequel to: The Fires of Merlin; Followed by: The Wings of Merlin.

Summary: Story about what happens when a great white shark terrorizes a small Long Island town.

Notes: Replacement copy purchased with fines. Book made into movie.

Summary: Callum and Sephy played together as small children, and their love is forbidden, now he is a second class citizen, a member of the naughts, and she is a cross, a part of the ruling elite, but when Sephy and her mother are nearly caught in a terrorist bombing and Callum's father is the prime suspect, more than there love is tested.

Note: Junior Library Guild selection.

Summary: Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.

Other books in the WHS Library by Edward Bloor: Crusader.

Note: Book donated by Title I.

Summary: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants graduates from high school and spends their last summer before college learning about life and themselves.

Series: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants number 3

Sequel to: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood.

Note: Junior Library Guild selection. The WHS Library owns the entire series.

Series: Jim Qwilleran Feline Whodunnit number 26

Sequel to: The Cat Who Brought Down the House

Note: Recommended by the Librarian, Mrs. Bowen.

Summary: World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol seared into the chest of a murder victim, where he discovers evidence of the resurgence of an ancient brotherhood with a vendetta against the Catholic Church.

Other books in the WHS Library by Dan Brown: The Da Vinci code.

Notes: Donation.

Summary: Samir, a Palestinian boy, is sent for surgery to an Israeli hospital where he has two other worldly experiences, making friends with an Israeli boy, Yonatan, and traveling with him to Mars where Samir finds peace about his brother's death in the war.

Notes: Book donated by Title I. The book received the The Mildred L. Batchelder Award.

Summary: Alternates between two stories--contemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation.

Other books in the WHS Library by Aidan Chambers: Dance on my grave: a life and a death in four parts ...

Notes: Recommended at the YA Literature seminar. The book received the The Michael L. Printz award for Excellence in Young Literature.

Summary: Three men from the armed forces are approached by a small firm named Hendley Associates to become their newest agents in fighting terrorism, using whatever means possible.

Series: Jack Ryan number 12

Sequel to: Red Rabbit

Notes: The WHS Library has every book in this series.

Summary: Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.

Other books in the WHS Library by James Lincoln Collier : Battleground ; the United States Army in World War II, The bloody country, Jump ship to freedom, Progressivism, the Great Depression, and the New Deal, 1901-1941, and War comes to Willy Freeman.

Notes: Donation made by Title I. This book is a Newbery Honor Book shelved in the Winner's circle.

Summary: An assortment of teens working in a supermarket cope with health and family problems, future hopes and dreams, the complications of on-the-job romances, and the challenges of customer service.

Notes: Junior Library Guild selection

Summary: A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.

Notes: California Young Reader Medal Nominee 2004. Donated by Title I

Summary: Deeply involved in his cold and manipulative mother's shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan, fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home For Men, all the while dreaming of going to college and becoming a philosopher.

Other books in the WHS Library by Christopher Paul Curtis: The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 and Bud, not Buddy both Coretta Scott King Honor winners.

Notes: Recommended at the YA Literature seminar.

Summary: Dr. Rojas and Dirk Pitt are in Africa investigating different things, but are thrown together to save the world from environmental catastrophe.

Series: Dirk Pitt number 11

Sequel to: Dragon ; Followed by: Inca Gold.

Summary: The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief.

Other books in the WHS Library written by Sarah Dessen: Dreamland: a novel, Someone like you, and That Summer.

Note: Recommended at the YA Literature seminar.

Notes: Coretta Scott King Honor Award. Recommended at the YA Literature seminar.

Other books in the WHS Library written by Sharon M. Draper: Forged by Fire.

Notes: Recommended at the YA Literature seminar. Junior Library Guild selection

Notes: Recommended by the Library Assistant, Mrs. Rice. Oprah Book Club selection.

Notes: Recommended by the Library Assistant, Mrs. Rice. Oprah Book Club selection.

Notes: Recommended by the Library Assistant, Mrs. Rice. Oprah Book Club selection.

Notes: Recommended at the YA Literature seminar. Book purchased with fines.

Other books in the WHS Library written by Mariah Fredericks: The True Meaning of Cleavage.

Series: Kinsey Millhone number 5

Sequel to: D is for Deadbeat ; Followed by: F is for Fugitive.

Notes: Replacement of lost volume with library fine money. Purchased by request. The WHS Library has this entire series.

Series: Kinsey Millhone number 18

Sequel to: "Q" Is For Quarry.

Notes: Purchased by request with library fine money. The WHS Library has this entire series.

Notes: Junior Library Guild selection. National Book Award nominee.

Other books at the WHS Library by David Guterson: East of the Mountains

Notes: Donated and highly recommended by the Librarian Mrs. Bowen.

Notes: Junior Library Guild selection

Notes: Recommended at the YA Literature seminar. Book purchased with fines.

Other books in the WHS Library written by Nat Hentoff: Boston boy, Does this school have capital punishment?, The first freedom: the tumultuous history of free speech in America, and I'm really dragged but nothing gets me down. Donation.

Note: Donation

Series: Dark Tower number 6

Sequel to: Wolves of the Calla: Followed by: Dark Tower VII

Series: Dark Tower number 5

Sequel to: Wizard and glass; Followed by: Song of Susannah.

Notes: Recommended at the YA Literature seminar. Book purchased with fines.

Summary: "Every city has secrets. But none as terrible as this. His name is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who's traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself.."--back cover.

Series: Frankenstein number 1

Note: Book purchased with library fine money.

Summary: Before he died, Josef Tock spoke an unusual and frightening prophecy that his grandson Jimmy, who was born the same night, would have to endure five dark days in his life beginning in his twentieth year and ending in his thirtieth.

Note: Donation

Other books in the WHS Library by Dean R. Koontz: From the corner of his eye, The funhouse, Hideaway, House of thunder, Icebound and many more.

Summary: Michelina Bellsong, having put her own troubles aside after meeting Lani, a physically disabled nine year old, rushes off in pursuit when the child's stepfather, who claims to believe Lani is either going to be healed or abducted by aliens, spirits her away.

Note: Donation

Other books in the WHS Library by Dean R. Koontz: Lightning, The Mask, Midnight, Mr. Murder, Phantoms, The Servents of Twilight and many more.

Summary: Molly Sloan, an aspiring writer, and Neil, her ex-priest husband, cannot shake the feeling that something is wrong when a silvery downpour with a strange scent drenches their California mountain home, and their fears come to pass when extraterrestrial beings of great evil invade Earth, stripping humans of life and hope.

Note: Donation

Other books in the WHS Library by Dean R. Koontz: By the light of the moon, Door to December, Eyes of darkness, The face, False memory, Fear nothing, and many more.

Summary: Kit auditions for a controversial school play and discovers his talent for acting; however, both he and his costar face crises in their view of themselves and in their close relationships.

Note: Junior Library Guild selection.

Note: Junior Library Guild selection