Brittney Hammond's Library
Northwest High
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9780545614931 | Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Special Edition 2014 | Ripley's (Editor) | Scholastic | |
| 9781609910006 | Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Strikingly True (8) (ANNUAL) | Ripleys Believe It or Not | The newest title in the Ripley's Annual series is a compendium of new and bizarre stories, pictures and interviews all of which are packaged nicely within a vibrant red foil and lenticular cover. For the legions of dedicated Ripley’s fans, and anyone else on the planet who loves unbelievable facts and jaw-dropping images, the latest annual in our bestselling series is a feast of delights. Be amazed at a portrait made from 200,000 dead ants, the man who traversed the English Channel by holding onto a bunch of balloons, and the single human hair featuring paintings of all 42 American presidents. A compendium of incredible and bizarre facts, stories, interviews and features, presented in a stunning new design, this book also drives readers to Ripley’s fully interactive website. There are intriguing interviews with some of the astounding individuals who are featured in the book that spotlight their achievements and reveal more about what motivates them. A dramatic eight-page gatefold sections presents Ripley’s first ever odditorium, which showcased sideshow performers and was built for the World’s Trade Fair in 1933. This features a selection of choice memorabilia including Robert Ripley’s original annotated list of performers. Informative “Ripley’s Research” boxes give the scientific explanation behind some of the most incredible tales in the book, such as how people have turned their fingers into magnets. A section on the Olympic games, past and present, highlights the wacky as well as the amazing feats that have taken place at the height of sporting achievement. Additional black and white Ripley archive photographs feature throughout the book, and miscellaneous lists are also scattered throughout. This year specially commissioned photographic features will also appear in the book. | Ripley Publishing |
| 9781609911652 | Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Unlock The Weird! (13) (ANNUAL) | Ripley Publishing | ||
| 9798612460787 | Shine From Within | Nikki Banas | "You shine so bright, as you are right now, flaws and faults entirely." The debut book from the rising Instagram writer Walk the Earth offers a remarkable collection of poetry in the form of letters to touch your heart and inspire boundless hope. Nikki Banas speaks directly to your soul with every letter she writes. She reminds you of the light you already hold within and teaches you how to nourish your flame. In Shine from Within, she encourages you to celebrate your own beautiful spirit because only when we all shine our unique lights can we light up the entire night sky. | Independently published |
| 9781603804097 | Survival Handbook | Marc Sumerak | Wherever Adventure Takes You, Take This Book! The Survival Handbook: An Essential Companion To The Great Outdoors Includes Crucial Tips On Exactly What You Need To Know To Survive Even The Most Unexpected Circumstances. This Illustrated Guide Shows You How To Make A Shelter, Build A Fire, Locate Clean Water, Forage For Food, Avoid Deadly Animals, Protect Yourself From Bad Weather, And Find Your Way Back Home Safely Afterwards. And It Comes With Some Of The Tools To Help You Do So. Whether Your're Lost, Hungry, Burned, Or Buried, Knowing Essential Emergency Survival Skills Could Literally Mean The Difference Between Life And Death. Don't Go Into The Wild Without This Book!--back Cover. | Becker&Mayer |
| 9780876950135 | Tennessee Tales | |||
| 9780374303235 | The 57 Bus: A True Story Of Two Teenagers And The Crime That Changed Their Lives | Dashka Slater | The riveting New York Times bestseller and Stonewall Book Award winner that will make you rethink all you know about race, class, gender, crime, and punishment. Artfully, compassionately, and expertly told, Dashka Slater's The 57 Bus is a must-read nonfiction book for teens that chronicles the true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by another teen while riding a bus in Oakland, California.Two ends of the same line. Two sides of the same crime.If it weren’t for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a Black teen, lived in the economically challenged flatlands and attended a large public one.Each day, their paths overlapped for a mere eight minutes. But one afternoon on the bus ride home from school, a single reckless act left Sasha severely burned, and Richard charged with two hate crimes and facing life imprisonment. The case garnered international attention, thrusting both teenagers into the spotlight. But in The 57 Bus, award-winning journalist Dashka Slater shows that what might at first seem like a simple matter of right and wrong, justice and injustice, victim and criminal, is something more complicated―and far more heartbreaking.Awards and Accolades for The 57 Bus:A New York Times BestsellerStonewall Book Award WinnerYALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults FinalistA Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Honor Book WinnerA TIME Magazine Best YA Book of All TimeA Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistDon’t miss Dashka Slater’s newest propulsive and thought-provoking nonfiction book, Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed, the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Winner which National Book Award winner Ibram X. Kendi hails as “powerful, timely, and delicately written.” | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
| 9780722532935 | The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | A global phenomenon, The Alchemist has been read and loved by over 62 million readers, topping bestseller lists in 74 countries worldwide. Now this magical fable is beautifully repackaged in an edition that lovers of Paulo Coelho will want to treasure forever. Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. This is such a book - a beautiful parable about learning to listen to your heart, read the omens strewn along life's path and, above all, follow your dreams. Santiago, a young shepherd living in the hills of Andalucia, feels that there is more to life than his humble home and his flock. One day he finds the courage to follow his dreams into distant lands, each step galvanised by the knowledge that he is following the right path: his own. The people he meets along the way, the things he sees and the wisdom he learns are life-changing. With Paulo Coelho's visionary blend of spirituality, magical realism and folklore, The Alchemist is a story with the power to inspire nations and change people's lives. | HarperCollins |
| The Best Poems Ever: A Collection Of Poetry's Greatest Voices | ||||
| 9781442459519 | The Boy In The Black Suit | Jason Reynolds | A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book Just when seventeen-year-old Matt thinks he can’t handle one more piece of terrible news, he meets a girl who’s dealt with a lot more—and who just might be able to clue him in on how to rise up when life keeps knocking him down—in this “vivid, satisfying, and ultimately upbeat tale of grief, redemption, and grace” (Kirkus Reviews) from the Coretta Scott King – John Steptoe Award–winning author of When I Was the Greatest.Matt wears a black suit every day. No, not because his mom died—although she did, and it sucks. But he wears the suit for his gig at the local funeral home, which pays way better than the Cluck Bucket, and he needs the income since his dad can’t handle the bills (or anything, really) on his own. So while Dad’s snagging bottles of whiskey, Matt’s snagging fifteen bucks an hour. Not bad. But everything else? Not good. Then Matt meets Lovey. Crazy name, and she’s been through more crazy stuff than he can imagine. Yet Lovey never cries. She’s tough. Really tough. Tough in the way Matt wishes he could be. Which is maybe why he’s drawn to her, and definitely why he can’t seem to shake her. Because there’s nothing more hopeful than finding a person who understands your loneliness—and who can maybe even help take it away. | Simon and Schuster |
| 9780787903381 | The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers Of African American Children | Ladson-Billings, Gloria | Quality Education Remains An Elusive Dream For Most African American Children. Historically, They Have Been Denied Schooling, Subject To Separate And Unequal Education, And Forced Into Unsafe, Unhealthy, Substandard Schools. In The Dreamkeepers, Gloria Ladson-billings Explores The Positive Signs For The Future. Who Are The Successful Teachers Of African American Students? What Do They Do? And How Can We Learn From Them? Her Portraits Of Eight Exemplary Teachers Who Differ In Personal Style And Methods But Share An Approach To Teaching That Affirms And Strengthens Cultural Identity Are Inspiring And Full Of Hope. Written In Three Voices - That Of An African American Scholar And Researcher, A Teacher, And A Parent And Active Community Member - This Book Is A Mixture Of Scholarship And Storytelling. Ladson-billings' Portraits, Interwoven With Personal Reflections, Challenge Readers To Envision Intellectually Rigorous And Culturally Relevant Classrooms That Have The Power To Improve The Lives Of Not Just African American Students But All Children. A Dream Deferred -- Does Culture Matter? -- Seeing Color, Seeing Culture -- We Are Family -- The Tree Of Knowledge -- Culturally Relevant Teaching -- Making Dreams Into Reality -- Methodology -- Context. Gloria Ladson-billings. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 169-181) And Index. | Jossey-Bass |
| 9780743247542 | The Glass Castle: A Memoir | Jeannette Walls | THE BELOVED #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER—FROM THE AUTHOR OF HANG THE MOONThe extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, “nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world’s most gifted storytellers.The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn’t want the responsibility of raising a family.The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.The Glass Castle is truly astonishing—a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.The memoir was also made into a major motion picture from Lionsgate in 2017 starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts. | Scribner |
| 9780439574273 | The Invisible Man | H. G. Wells | Scholastic Paperbacks | |
| 9780593237465 | The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times | Michelle Obama | #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • In an inspiring follow-up to her acclaimed memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world.There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life’s big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all locate and lean on a set of tools to help us better navigate change and remain steady within flux. In The Light We Carry, she opens a frank and honest dialogue with readers, considering the questions many of us wrestle with: How do we build enduring and honest relationships? How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What tools do we use to address feelings of self-doubt or helplessness? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much?Michelle Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt to change and overcome various obstacles—the earned wisdom that helps her continue to “become.” She details her most valuable practices, like “starting kind,” “going high,” and assembling a “kitchen table” of trusted friends and mentors. With trademark humor, candor, and compassion, she also explores issues connected to race, gender, and visibility, encouraging readers to work through fear, find strength in community, and live with boldness.“When we are able to recognize our own light, we become empowered to use it,” writes Michelle Obama. A rewarding blend of powerful stories and profound advice that will ignite conversation, The Light We Carry inspires readers to examine their own lives, identify their sources of gladness, and connect meaningfully in a turbulent world. | Crown |
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| The Lord Of The Rings The Hobbit | ||||
| The Lord Of The Rings The Return Of The King | ||||
| The Lord Of The Rings The Two Towers | ||||
| 9780996487191 | The Strength In Our Scars | Bianca Sparacino | Happiness was always about being kind to yourself; it was always about embracing the person you were becoming.One day, you will understand that happiness was always about learning how to live with yourself, that your happiness was never in the hands of others. It was always about you. It was always about you.I think it’s brave that you get up in the morning when your heart aches and life is messy and you do not feel like being soft for the world.I think it is brave that you fight, I think it is brave that you choose, every single day, to move forward – because that is what makes you strong. That is what makes you strong.The Strength In Our Scars is Bianca Sparacino’s reminder to you: No matter what you’re going through, no matter where you are on your healing journey—you are strong. Through poetry, prose, and compassionate encouragement you would expect from someone who knows exactly what you’re working through, Sparacino is here with the words you need. The Strength In Our Scars tackles the gut-wrenching but relatable experiences of moving on, self-love, and ultimately learning to heal. In this book you will find peace, you will find a rock, you will find understanding, and you will find hope. | Thought Catalog Books |
| 9780060935467 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | the Unforgettable Novel Of A Childhood In A Sleepy Southern Town And The Crisis Of Conscience That Rocked It, to Kill A Mockingbird Became Both An Instant Bestseller And A Critical Success When It Was First Published In 1960. It Went On To Win The Pulitzer Prize In 1961 And Was Later Made Into An Academy Award-winning Film, Also A Classic. Compassionate, Dramatic, And Deeply Moving, to Kill A Mockingbird Takes Readers To The Roots Of Human Behavior - To Innocence And Experience, Kindness And Cruelty, Love And Hatred, Humor And Pathos. Now With Over 18 Million Copies In Print And Translated Into Forty Languages, This Regional Story By A Young Alabama Woman Claims Universal Appeal. Harper Lee Always Considered Her Book To Be A Simple Love Story. Today It Is Regarded As A Masterpiece Of American Literature.the New Yorkerskilled, Unpretentious And Tototally Ingenuous . . . Tough, Melodramatic, Acute, Funny. | Harper Perennial |