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New Fiction |
Call number: FIC M - FIC Z |
Spring 2005 |
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Last update June 30, 2005 |
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Summary: Belle Teal Harper's entrance into fifth-grade in the early 1960s brings many changes and challenges as her Gran's memory begins to slip, her mom spends long hours away at work, and her class gets two new students, including an African-American boy. |
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| Note: Donation from Scholastic and Title I. | ||||||
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Summary: Dealing with family problems, girls, and their own competitive natures, high school seniors Ivan Korske and Bobby Zane face each other in the final match of the New Jersey State Wrestling Championship. |
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| Note: Junior Library Guild selection. | ||||||
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Summary: Quick thinking and the willingness to do whatever it takes are the Botany colonists' tactics, as they work to position their little world as an equal partner among the interstellar powers. |
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Series: Catteni number 4 Sequel to : Freedom's challenge Note: Donation |
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Summary: The saga of the Cleary family, beginning on an Australian sheep station in the early twentieth century and ending fifty years later. |
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| Note: Donation from WHS Book Fair. Translation of: The thorn birds. This book is written in Vietnamese. | ||||||
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Summary: In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well. |
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Summary: The Borrowers, a miniature family, journey down a drain, live briefly in a teakettle, and are swept away in a flood before finding a new home. |
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Series: Borrowers number 3 Sequel to: Borrowers Afield ; Followed by: Borrowers Aloft. Note: Donation |
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| Summary: Six genetically engineered bird-children struggle to stay with the couple who saved them from their captors while one scientist hunts for the oldest girl, Max, who knows too much about his new, even more portentous project. | |||||||
Series: Frannie O'Neill number 2 Sequel to: When the wind blows Notes: Donation. |
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| Summary: A huge bomb goes off a few hundred feet over Sunrise Valley, Nevada and world leaders have just four days to prevent the total destruction of major cities of the world prompting Alex Cross to join forces with Scotland Yard and Interpol to hunt down his two deadliest nemesis: the Wolf and the Weasel. | |||||||
Series: Alex Cross number 10 Sequel to: Big bad wolf Notes: Donation. The WHS Library has most of this series. |
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| Summary: After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "birdkids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose. | |||||||
Note: This book was purchased with library fine money. |
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| Summary: In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters. | |||||||
Series: Inheritance book 1 Followed by: Elder (not published yet) |
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| Note: Highly Recommended by the Librarian Mrs. Bowen. | |||||||
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| Summary: Fourteen-year-old Kel of Mindelan, a squire in training for knighthood, begins four years of preparation for her final test, the Ordeal--a psychological challenge that is breaking more squires in the land of Tortall than ever before. | |||||||
Series: Protector of the Small number 3 Sequel to: Page ; Followed by: Lady Knight. |
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| Note: Student request. Puchased with Library fine money. | |||||||
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Summary: The Time Tube has opened again between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries, and a wedding is arranged between the Sterkarms and the Grannams, catching Andrea up in the disastrous consequences. |
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Series: Sterkarm number 2 Sequel to: The Sterkarm handshake. Junior Library Guild selection |
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Summary: Joe Sloan vows revenge for his best friend's murder, and finds an unlikely ally in the French Artist Paul Gauguin, who helps Joe get his revenge and unlock the curse of the Smoking Mirror that haunts Joe. |
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Note: Junior Library Guild selection |
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Summary: This rollicking new novel promises to build Rowley's loyal audience even further. With all the sword-swinging action and magical intrigue his readers have come to savor, this book is sure to be a fan favorite! This book is set in the same universe as the tremendously popular Brazil Broketail series. |
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Note: Donation. |
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Summary: When a family tragedy occurs, ten-year-old Alyssa "Blister" Reed changes schools, moves to an apartment with her depressed mother while her father gets his own place, and tries to believe her grandmother, who tells her she is "elastic" and can handle it all. |
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| Summary: Having discovered the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire. | |||||||
Note: Book purchased with fines. Book needed to replace copies on shelf. Senior year reading selection. |
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| Summary: Nathaniel, a young magician's apprentice, becomes caught in a web of magical espionage, murder, and rebellion, after he summons the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Loveland. | |||||||
Series: The Bartimaeus Trilogy book number one Sequel : The Golem's eye. Notes: Book purchased with fines. The WHS Library has the sequel. |
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| Summary: Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had. | |||||||
Note: Donation made by Title I. Newbery Honor Book. This book is shelved in the Winner's circle. |
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| Summary: A talented basketball player struggles to deal with the helplessness and anger that come with having a brother rendered completely dysfunctional by severe cerebral palsy and a father who deserted the family. | |||||||
Companion to: Stuck in Neutral Note: Highly recommended by the Librarian Mrs. Bowen |
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| Summary: A young boy living in mid-nineteenth century Missouri relates the many adventures that he and his friend, an escaped slave, experience as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft. Includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and a further reading list. | |||||||
Notes: Student request. Two books purchased with fines. Books needed to replace copies on shelf. Junior year reading selection. |
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| Summary: On Halloween night, seventh grader Sammy stumbles onto a mystery involving a twenty-year-old family feud and some heirlooms stolen by a man in a skeleton costume. | |||||||
Series: Sammy Keyes number 2 Sequel to: Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief Followed by: Sammy Keyes and the Sisters of Mercy. Notes: Donation made by Title I. |
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| Summary: With Wendy's new glasses, she begins to see cheerful corpses, old crones disguised as teeny-boppers, and portals to another world--a place where everyone knows of the glasses' powers and will do anything they can to get them. | |||||||
Other books in the WHS Library by Vivian Vande Velde: Companions of the night, Curses, Inc.: and other stories, Dragon's bait, Ghost of a hanged man, A hidden magic, Never trust a dead man, The Rumpelstiltskin problem, Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird, There's a dead person following my sister around, and A well-timed enchantment. Junior Library Guild selection. |
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| Summary: Describes the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, particularly as it affects Sachi, who becomes one of the Hiroshima Maidens. | |||||||
| Note: Donation made by Title I. | |||||||
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