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New Fiction |
Call number: FIC M - FIC Z |
Fall 2004 |
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Last update March 17, 2005 |
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| Summary: With the help of a couple of successful friends, eighteen- and nineteen-year-old Teesha and Keeba try to capitalize on their talents by opening a hair salon in the run-down Brooklyn housing project where they live. | |||||||
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| Summary: In 1803, after being exposed as a girl and forced to leave her ship, Jacky Faber finds herself attending school in Boston, where, instead of learning to be a lady, she battles her snobbish classmates, roams the city in search of adventure, and learns to ride a horse. | ||||||
Series: Bloody Jack Adventures Sequel to: Bloody Jack: being an account of the curious adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy. Donated by: WHS alumni student class of 1991 |
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| Summary: 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. | ||||||
Notes: Junior Library Guild selection Other books by Michael Morpurgo: Waiting for Anya. |
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| Summary: During a summer in Harlem, David relies on his mother and a close friend and on an old man he meets in the park to help him come to terms with his father's outbursts and unstable behavior. | ||||||
Other books by Walter Dean Myers: 145th Street: Short stories, Fallen Angels, Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff, The Glory Field, The Greatest: Muhammad Ali, Handbook for Boys: a novel, Harlem: a poem, The hidden Shrine, Hoops, The Legend of Tarik, Scorpions, and many more. |
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Summary: Elaborates on the tale of "The Pied Piper," told from the point of view of a boy who is too ill to keep up when a piper spirits away the healthy children of a plague-ridden town after being cheated out of full payment for ridding Hameln of rats. |
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Other books by Donna Jo Napoli: Beast, Crazy Jack, Sirena, Spinners, Stones in Water, Zel, and Great God Pan. |
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| Summary: Fifteen-year-old Frankie relates the events of the year leading up to her mother's mysterious disappearance and her own struggle to discover and accept the truth about her parents' relationship. | ||||||
| Other books by Joyce Carol Oates: Big Mouth & Ugly Girl and Solstice. | ||||||
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Summary: Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge near a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself. |
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| Note: Newbery Medal Winner 2002 | |||||||
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| Summary: A dying wizard attempts to pass his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son who is in the process of being born, not realizing until it is too late that the newborn is a girl. | ||||||
Series: Discworld number 3 Sequel to: The Light fantastic ; Followed by: Mort. |
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| Summary: Eleven-year-old Abigail presents a diary account of life in Valley Forge from December 1777 to July 1778 as General Washington prepares his troops to fight the British. | ||||||
Series: Dear America number 2 Sequel to: Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple; Followed by: When Will This Cruel War Be Over? : The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson. |
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| Summary: 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. | ||||||
| Note: Junior Library Guild selection | ||||||
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| Summary: A novel in poems that reveal God's discovery of the wonders and pains in the world He has created. | ||||||
Other books by Cynthia Rylant: A Fine White Dust, I had Seen Castles, Missing May. Recommended by the Librarian Mrs. Bowen. |
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| Summary: Dr. Moreau, a scientist, finds an isolated island that gives him the freedom to create hideous creatures with human intelligence. | ||||||
| Note: Donated by WHS alumni student class of 1991 | ||||||
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| Summary: Two teenagers, one obsessed with the world of ballet and the other with that of chess, join together in a quest across Europe and begin to learn not only how to connect with other people, but why. | ||||||
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