Amy Ritchart's Library
Northeast High
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pride And Prejudice | ||||
| 9780062996480 | Punching The Air | Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam | New York Times and USA Today bestseller * Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor * Walter Award Winner * Goodreads Finalist for Best Teen Book of the Year * Time Magazine Best Book of the Year * Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year * School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Best Book of the Year * New York Public Library Best Book of the YearFrom award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. A must-read for fans of Jason Reynolds, Walter Dean Myers, and Elizabeth Acevedo.The story that I thoughtwas my lifedidn't start on the dayI was born Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, because of a biased system he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated. Then, one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. "Boys just being boys" turns out to be true only when those boys are white. The story that I thinkwill be my life starts todaySuddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal is convicted of a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it? With spellbinding lyricism, award-winning author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam tell a moving and deeply profound story about how one boy is able to maintain his humanity and fight for the truth in a system designed to strip him of both. | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Punching The Air | ||||
| 9780553213881 | Ralph Waldo Emerson Selected Essays, Lectures And Poems | Ralph Waldo Emerson | A new, wide-ranging selection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s most influential writings, this edition captures the essence of American Transcendentalism and illustrates the breadth of one of America’s greatest philosophers and poets.The writings featured here show Emerson as a protester against social conformity, a lover of nature, an activist for the rights of women and slaves, and a poet of great sensitivity. As explored in this volume, Emersonian thought is a unique blend of belief in individual freedom and in humility before the power of nature. “I become a transparent eyeball,” Emerson wrote in Nature, “I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.” Written over a century ago, this passage is a striking example of the passion and originality of Emerson’s ideas, which continue to serve as a spiritual center and an ideological base for modern thought. | Random House Publishing Group |
| 9781338053807 | Restart | Gordon Korman | When Chase returns to middle school after falling off the roof and losing his memory, he learns that the person he was before the amnesia is not someone he likes. | |
| 9780803740167 | Roller Girl | Victoria Jamieson | The Newbery Honor Award Winner and New York Times bestseller Roller Girl is a heartwarming graphic novel about friendship and surviving junior high through the power of roller derby—perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier's Smile!For most of her twelve years, Astrid has done everything with her best friend Nicole. But after Astrid falls in love with roller derby and signs up for derby camp, Nicole decides to go to dance camp instead. And so begins the most difficult summer of Astrid's life as she struggles to keep up with the older girls at camp, hang on to the friend she feels slipping away, and cautiously embark on a new friendship. As the end of summer nears and her first roller derby bout (and junior high!) draws closer, Astrid realizes that maybe she is strong enough to handle the bout, a lost friendship, and middle school… in short, strong enough to be a roller girl.In this graphic novel debut that earned a Newbery Honor and five starred reviews, real-life derby girl Victoria Jamieson has created an inspiring coming-of-age story about friendship, perseverance, and girl power! | Dial Books |
| 9780312370848 | Sarah's Key | Tatiana de Rosnay | Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.Paris, May 2002: On Vel’ d’Hiv’s 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl's ordeal, from that terrible term in the Vel d'Hiv', to the camps, and beyond. As she probes into Sarah's past, she begins to question her own place in France, and to reevaluate her marriage and her life.Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode. | St. Martin's Griffin |
| Scarlett | ||||
| Schindler's List | ||||
| 9781484711873 | Serafina And The Black Cloak (The Serafina Series Book 1) (Serafina (1)) | Beatty, Robert | Disney-Hyperion | |
| 9781338179774 | Sisters | Raina Telgemeier | "Three weeks. Two sisters. One car. A true story. Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years. But when a baby brother enters the picture, and later, when something doesn't seem right between their parents, they realize they must figure out how to get along. They are sisters, after all."--Publisher information. | Scholastic |
| Skeleton Key | ||||
| 9780545289412 | Small Steps | Louis Sachar | Two years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along. | |
| 9780545132060 | Smile | Raina Telgemeier | An autobiography in graphic novel format describes how the author lost two of her front teeth in an accident when she was twelve, and her subsequent struggles with various corrective dental techniques throughout adolescence. | |
| Snakehead | ||||
| Someone Like You | ||||
| 9780312674397 | Speak | Anderson, Laurie Halse | 1999 National Book Award Finalistschool Library Journal Best Books Of The Yearbooklist Editors' Choicemelinda Is A Friendless Outcast At Merryweather High. She Busted An End-of-summer Party By Calling The Cops, And Now Nobody Will Talk To Her, Let Alone Listen To Her. As Time Passes, She Becomes Increasingly Isolated And Practically Stops Talking Altogether. It Is Through Her Work On An Art Project That She Is Finally Able To Face What Really Happened At That Terrible Party: She Was Raped By An Upperclassman, A Guy Who Still Attends Merryweather And Who Is Still A Threat To Her. It Will Take Another Violent Encounter With Him To Make Melinda Fight Back. This Time She Refuses To Be Silent. 1999 National Book Award Finalistschool Library Journal Best Books Of The Yearbooklist Editors' Choice | Square Fish |
| 9781250894021 | Stars And Smoke | Marie Lu | An Instant New York Times bestseller!He's a secret. She's an agent. This mission might just be impossible. This smoldering enemies-to-lovers novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu puts a superstar global phenomenon and a hotshot young spy on a collision course with danger--and Cupid's arrow--in an electric new series perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Ally Carter.Meet Winter Young--A global pop sensation, with a voice like velvet and looks that could kill. Meet Sydney Cossette--An agent in an elite covert ops group, and an ice queen whose moves are as dangerous as her comebacks. When a major crime boss gifts his daughter a private Winter Young concert for her birthday, Sydney's and Winter's lives suddenly collide. To stop an international disaster, the two must infiltrate the organization's innercircle, with Sydney posing as Winter's bodyguard and Winter tapped to join her as a new spy recruit. Sydney may be the only person impervious to Winter's charms, but as their mission brings them closer, she's forced toadmit that there's more to Winter Young than just a handsome face . . . Romance and danger abound in Stars and Smoke, a "brilliant, breathtaking ride that will leave you clamoring for the sequel." -- Tahereh Mafi, #1 internationally bestselling author of Shatter Me. | Roaring Brook Press |
| 9780142406113 | Stormbreaker | Anthony Horowitz | After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6. | Penguin |
| 9780310761921 | Swing | Kwame Alexander, Mary Rand Hess | Blink October 2018 |