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Freshmen
Crutcher, Chris
King of the Mild
Frontier: an Ill-Advised Autobiography
Chris Crutcher shares his outrageous tales of being a little brother, a young
scholar, a doomed outdoorsman, and an athlete of questionable repute, which will
have readers convulsing with laughter. He gives readers a look at his path to
becoming a writer.
Level: E101/102
Dessen, Sarah
The Truth About
Forever
This title is also available as an
audiobook.
Sixteen-year-old Macy Queen is looking forward to a long, boring summer. But
everything changes when she attends her mother’s open house event and meets the
chaotic Wish Catering crew. Between landing a new job in catering and hanging
out with her dreamy co-worker Wes, Macy starts to get a new outlook.
Level: E102/108
Grisham, John
Bleachers
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audiobook.
Neely Crenshaw, a legendary quarterback for the Messina Spartans, returns home
to memorialize his controversial high school football coach. The athletes
reminisce about their glory days and how their coach made them great under his
demanding regime.
Level: E101/102
Johnson, Maureen
13 Little Blue
Envelopes
Ginny’s adored Aunt Peg, a free-spirited artist, has died, and her legacy to her
niece is a plane ticket to London and a series of letters that will guide Ginny
throughout Europe on the adventure of a lifetime.
Level: E101/102
Meyer, Stephenie
Twilight
(Twilight, #1)
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audiobook.
When 17-year-old Bella Swan reluctantly moves to Forks, Washington, she meets
Edward Cullen, a beautiful pale-faced boy, at her new high school. She learns
that his family is a group of vampires that has given up human prey. Edward is
constantly protecting Bella from dangerous situations, and one day he is up
against one of his own who fixates on Bella as prey.
Level: E102/108
Mikaelsen, Ben
Touching Spirit
Bear
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Large Print.
After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison,
agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the Native American
Circle Justice. He is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a
huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
Level: E101/102
Muchamore, Robert
The Recruit
(Cherub, #1)
Although Cherub agents look like regular kids, they’re trained professionals
sent on missions to spy on terrorists and international drug dealers. James, who
was recently orphaned, is the latest recruit. This is the first book in the
series and documents James’ hellish boot camp experience through his first
mission and its shocking aftermath.
Level: E102
Patterson, James
Maximum Ride:
The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, #1)
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audiobook.
A group of genetically engineered children, part human and part bird, flee the
lab where they were created, and the brutal Erasers, wolf-like predators, are
sent to eliminate them so their existence will never be discovered.
Level: E102/108
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Sophomores
Brown, Dan
Angels and
Demons
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audiobook.
When symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to analyze a mysterious symbol
seared into the chest of a murdered physicist, he discovers evidence of an
ancient secret brotherhood, the most powerful underground organization ever to
walk the earth.
Level: 202/208
Davis, Sampson, George Jenkins, and Rameck
Hunt
The Pact: Three
Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream
When a college recruiter visits a New Jersey high school, three best friends
decide to make something of their lives. Through the rigors of medical and
dental school, and a brief detour into performing rap music at local clubs, they
support each other and become three successful doctors.
Level: 201/202
Frankl, Victor
Man’s Search
for Meaning
Between 1942 and 1945, Frankl labored in four different concentration camps. He
shares his stories and argues that while we cannot avoid suffering, we can
choose how to move forward with renewed purpose.
Level: 202/208
Oates, Joyce Carol
Big Mouth and
Ugly Girl
Big Mouth Matt Donaghy threatens to blow up the school, or so officials think.
Ugly Girl Ursula Riggs is the only one who can help him. This story of
friendship, family and loyalty reveals how Matt and Ursula figure out who they
are, together.
Level: 201/202
Pfeffer, Susan Beth
Life as We Knew
It
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audiobook.
Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear when a meteor knocks the moon closer to the
earth. This catastrophe changes the Earth’s climate drastically. Miranda’s
journal entries document the struggle to hold on to the most important resource
of all–hope–in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world.
Level: 201/202
Scott, Elizabeth
Bloom
Lauren, a not-so-popular high school junior, is dating the most popular boy in
school. Unexpectedly, Evan, an old friend, returns to town and stirs up
confusing emotions for Lauren, who once believed that a popular boyfriend
equaled happiness.
Level: 201/202
Wiesel, Elie
Dawn
Caught between the horrors of the past and the dilemmas of the present, Elisha
wrestles with guilt, ghosts and ultimately God as he waits for the appointed
hour and his act of assassination.
Level: 202
Yeager, Chuck
Yeager: An
Autobiography
Chuck Yeager relates stories of his exciting and dangerous life as a United
States Air Force combat pilot in WWII and the Korean War, becoming an ace early
in his career. Read how he became the first man to crack the sound barrier.
Level: All
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Juniors
Breem, Wallace
Eagle in the
Snow
Maximus comes from a family line of Roman military leaders, who protected
Britannia from the warlike Saxons and Scoti. Now, in his most dangerous
assignment given by the Emperor, he must defend Gaul with a small but skilled
force against the brutal axis of Vandals, Alemans and Goths.
Level: 302/336/319
Connolly, John
The Book of
Lost Things
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Large Print.
While his family falls apart, David is violently propelled into a world that is
a strange reflection of his own – populated by heroes and monsters and ruled by
a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book–The Book of Lost Things.
Level: 302/336/319
Craughwell, Thomas J.
Stealing
Lincoln’s Body
Beginning with the night of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, this historical
account traces the surprising travels of the slain president’s body, the
elaborate plot to steal the corpse from its Springfield tomb, and the efforts
made to protect the bodies of Lincoln and his family.
Level: 302/336/319
Crutcher, Chris
Athletic Shorts
In these six stories, athletes face up to more than sports in tales of love and
death, of bigotry and heroism, of real people doing the best that they can, even
when that best is not enough.
Level: 301
Draper, Sharon
Copper Sun
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Large Print.
Forced into a world of slavery and inhumanity after witnessing the destruction
of her village and family, 15-year-old Amari fights to survive and persevere.
Draper is the author of
Tears of a Tiger.
Level: 301/302/336
Larson, Erik
Devil in the
White City
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audiobook.
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Large Print.
Larson tells the true tales of two men: the brilliant architect behind Chicago’s
legendary 1893 World’s Fair and the serial killer who used the fair to lure his
victims to their deaths.
Level: 302/336/319
Picoult, Jodi
Nineteen Minutes
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audiobook.
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On March 6, 2007, Peter Houghton’s act of violence changes the town of Sterling,
New Hampshire forever. Nineteen Minutes compels readers to question the ideas of
judgment, morality and acceptance.
Level: All
Romano, Tony
When the World
Was Young
The secrets and misunderstandings in an Italian family are at the center of this
dramatic, charming novel by Fremd’s own Tony Romano.
Level: 319
Roach, Mary
Stiff : The
Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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audiobook.
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Large Print.
Be brave enough to find out what really happens to a body that is donated to
science.
Level: All
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Seniors
Boyle, T.C.
Tortilla
Curtain
This story examines the American Dream in the lives of two couples: wealthy
liberals and Mexican illegals. These four very different people meet in an
accident, showing what happens when cultures and classes collide.
Level: 404/405/419
Gruen, Sara
Water for Elephants
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audiobook.
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Large Print.
Jacob Jankowski reflects on his time with the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular
Show on Earth, a motley crew of circus performers and sideshow attractions.
Level: 404/405/419
Hosseini, Khaled
A Thousand Splendid Suns
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audiobook.
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Large Print.
Set against the backdrop of the war-torn nation of Afghanistan, this story
follows Mariam and Laila as they search for redemption.
Level: 404/405/419
Merullo, Roland
Breakfast with
Buddha
As Otto Ringling helps Volya Rinpoche to discover America, Otto discovers
himself.
Level: 402/403/404/405/419
Murray, Jaye
Bottled Up
A high school boy on the edge faces a defining moment. Will he follow his
father’s destructive path or choose a future avoiding addiction and cruelty?
Level: 401/402/403/411
Pink, Daniel
A Whole New
Mind
The skills needed for success in the 21st Century are very different from those
needed just a few years ago. Pink provides entertaining descriptions and stories
of the new “six senses” necessary for workplace effectiveness and personal
satisfaction.
Level: All
Troost, J. Maarten
Sex Lives of
Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
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audiobook.
Troost wittily describes the two years he and his girlfriend spent living on a
tiny island in the Pacific island nation of Kiribati.
Level: All
Walls, Jeanette
The Glass Castle
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audiobook.
With an alcoholic father and an eccentric mother, Walls and her siblings learn
to be self-sufficient as the family moves all over the country.
Level: 402/403/404/405/419
Wiesel, Elie
Day
Day is the story of a Holocaust survivor who is struck by a taxicab in New York
City. This novel reflects upon the meaning and worth of surviving the
annihilation of a race and the effects of the Holocaust upon the modern
character of the Jewish people.
Level: All
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