Summary: Writing in the notebook which her teacher gave her, thirteen-year-old Celiane describes life with her mother and brother in Haiti as well as her experiences in Brooklyn after the family finally immigrates there to be reunited with her father.

Note: Donation made by Washington Mutual Bank

Summary: Paul Brenner, forced to retire from the Army's Criminal Investigation Division, embarks upon a path of lies, secrets, and betrayals when he is called back into service to uncover the truth about a thirty-year-old murder case that occurred during the Vietnam War.

Series: Paul Brenner number 2

Sequel to: The General's Daughter

Other books in the WHS Library by Nelson DeMille: Cathedral

Note: Donation

Summary: On the eve of World War II, Hart, an Australian boy and Mitsy, a Japanese-Australian girl, fall in love but are driven apart.

Note: Donation made by Washington Mutual Bank. Historical Fiction.

Summary: The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.

Series: Hazelwood Trilogy number one

Followed by: Forged By Fire

Note: Coretta Scott King Award. Student request. This book is shelved in the Winner's circle.

Summary: America in 1996 is still ruled by England, having averted the Revolutionary War with a pact reached by George Washington and King George III. Now the peace is threatened by the Sons of Liberty who have stolen a painting commemorating the historical agreement and Colonel Thomas Bushnell of the North American Union's Royal American Mounted Police must stop them.

Note: Donation.

Summary: Just after his best friends make a list of things sixteen-year-old Ted should do to live it up, he learns that he has injested poison and will be dead in twenty-four hours--which might be enough time to do everything on the list.

Note: Recommended at the Young Adult Literature Seminar.

Summary: Presents historical information and short stories about the Roman gladiators, Japanese samurai, the Wars of the Roses, the Alamo, and U.S. Special Forces, as well as a look at the future of warfare: robot wars circa 2099 A.D.

Note: Donation made by Washington Mutual Bank

Summary: All thirteen-year-old Raspberry can think of is making money so that she and her mother never have to worry about living on the streets again.

Note: Coretta Scott King Honor Award. Student request.

Summary: When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battleschool, he becomes the reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and winds up protecting the kingdom from danger.

Series: The Ranger's Apprentice number one

Summary: The story of four strong-willed women of the del Pino family of Havana and of Brooklyn who are divided by conflicting political loyalties.

Note: Student request.

Summary: Fourteen-year-old Sunny is stunned when a total stranger shows up at her house posing as her older sister Jazz, who supposedly died in a fire months earlier.

Summary: When Franklin Roosevelt puts Fleming Pickering in charge of the OSS's Pacific operations, Fleming finds himself relying on the son he thought he lost to help him save his country.

Series: The Corps number 8

Sequel to: Behind the lines ; Followed by: Under Fire.

Note: Donation

Summary: Valena, her family, and dog live in rural Ohio, where she and her cousin Melinda share experiences that include seeing the aurora borealis, surviving a tornado, and going to an amazing circus.

Note: Donation made by Washington Mutual Bank

Summary: After his father leaves their family, twelve-year-old Uton Hinds, known as Tall T, tries to earn extra money in his Jamaican village and tries to further his education as he ponders how he feels about his father's behavior.

Note: Donation made by Washington Mutual Bank

Summary: Doug and Andy are unlikely best friends--one a loner obsessed by his model trains, the other a popular student involved in football and theater--who grew up together and share a bond that nothing can sever.

Other books in the WHS Library by Pete Hautman: Stone Cold

Note: Junior Library Guild selection.

Summary: In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state.

Series: Dear America number sixteen

Sequel to: Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: the Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl ; Followed by: A Coal Miner's Bride : the Diary of Anetka Kaminska.

Note: Donation made by Washington Mutual Bank

Summary: Chan, a homeless woman, learns to care after befriending eleven-year-old Elizabeth.

Note: Donation made by Washington Mutual Bank

Summary: Eleven-year-old Nickel, a boy with a great affinity for both animals and photography, moves into an apartment building run by the strange and mysterious Mr. Beastly and discovers a secret about the other tenants.

Note: Donation made by Washington Mutual Bank

Summary: Calma, who is smart and an excellent writer, and her unlikely friend, Kiffo, a seeming all-around failure, undertake a dangerous project when they follow an abusive teacher whom they suspect of dealing drugs.

Note: Junior Library Guild selection.

Summary: In 1758, at the age of sixteen, Mary Jemison is taken by a Shawnee raiding party and gradually becomes integrated into her new family and culture.

Note: Donation

Summary: When, in the winter of 1691, accusations of witchcraft surface in her small New England village, twelve-year-old Mary Chase fights to save her mother from execution.

Other books in the WHS Library by Kathryn Lasky: Alice Rose & Sam, Beyond the divide, Christmas after all: the great depression diary of Minnie Swift, Dreams in the golden country: the diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish immigrant girl and many more.

Summary: The past comes back to haunt three men who shared a friendship as children when Sean Devine, now a policeman, is assigned to investigate the murder of Jimmy Marcus's teenager daughter, a crime the third member of their group, Dave Boyle, is suspected of committing.

Notes: Donation. Books made into movies

Summary: Tricked by their parents into taking a trip to Italy together, two brothers--one in high school and the other recently graduated from college--reflect on the directions of their own lives and on the distance that has grown between them.

Notes: Junior Library Guild Selection.

Summary: In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.

Other books in the WHS Library by Lois Lowry: The Giver, Gathering Blue, Anastasia again!, Attaboy, Sam!, Find a stranger, say goodbye, and many more.