Jeanette Shehy's Library
Rossview High
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780791041109 | George Orwell's Animal Farm (Bloom's Reviews : Comprehensive Research & Study Guides) | Includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas | Chelsea House Pub | |
| 9780679746041 | Girl, Interrupted | Kaysen, Susanna | In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching documnet that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery. In the late 1960s, the author spent nearly two years on the ward for teenage girls at McLean Hospital, a renowned psychiatric facility. Her memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perceptions, while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. "Searing . . . captures an exquisite range of self-awareness between madness and insight."--Boston Globe. | Vintage |
| Gnomeo And Juliet | ||||
| 9780385189514 | Hans Christian Andersen: The Complete Fairy Tales And Stories (Anchor Folktale Library) | Virginia Haviland, Hans Christian Andersen, Erik Christian Haugaard | This definitive collection of work from Hans Christian Andersen—one of the immortals of world literature—not only includes his own notes to his stories but is the only version available in trade paperback that presents Andersen's fairy tales exactly as he collected them in the original Danish edition of 1874. Recognizing the literary merit of Andersen's own simple colloquial language, which Victorian translators and their imitators very often altered to sentimentalize or vulgarize, translator Erik Haugaard has remained faithful to the original text.The fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen wrote, such as "The Snow Queen," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Red Shoes," and "The Nightingale," are remarkable for their sense of fantasy, power of description, and acute sensitivity, and they are like no others written before or since. Unlike the Brothers Grimm, who collected and retold folklore, Andersen adopted the most ancient literary forms of the fairy tale and the folktale and distilled them into a genre that was uniquely his own. | Anchor |
| Hatchet Audiobook | ||||
| 9780316041454 | Hate List | Brown, Jennifer | Five months ago, Valerie Leftman's boyfriend, Nick, opened fire on their school cafeteria. Shot trying to stop him, Valerie inadvertently saved the life of a classmate, but was implicated in the shootings because of the list she helped create. A list of people and things she and Nick hated. The list he used to pick his targets.Now, after a summer of seclusion, Val is forced to confront her guilt as she returns to school to complete her senior year. Haunted by the memory of the boyfriend she still loves and navigating rocky relationships with her family, former friends and the girl whose life she saved, Val must come to grips with the tragedy that took place and her role in it, in order to make amends and move on with her life.Publishers WeeklyWhen Val and her boyfriend Nick write the names of the people who torment or annoy them in a notebook dubbed the “Hate List,” she has no idea that Nick will use it as a checklist the day he brings a gun to school, killing several people, including himself, and wounding many more. Brown's riveting debut initially cuts between the day of the shooting in May and the following September when school begins again, then focuses on the aftermath of the shooting and the rest of Val's senior year; newspaper clips are interspersed throughout. Val's guilt is explored in realistic scenes with a therapist; she helped write the list (“[it] started as a joke. A way to vent frustration”) but also stopped the shooting by taking a bullet for popular student Jessica, now Val's staunchest defender. Val's complicated relationship with her family, Jessica and the surviving victims, as well as how she comes to terms with Nick's betrayal, are piercingly real, and the shooting scenes wrenching. Her successes are hard-won and her setbacks, such as her father's inability to forgive her, painfully true to life. Ages 15–up. (Sept.) | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| Horton Hears A Who (DVD) | ||||
| Hunger Games | ||||
| 9780316322423 | I Am Malala | Malala Yousafzai | A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE "I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she became a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize. I AM MALALA is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons. I AM MALALA will make you believe in the power of one person's voice to inspire change in the world. | Back Bay Books |
| 9781524700515 | I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter | Erika L. Sánchez | #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “stunning” (America Ferrera) YA novel about a teenager coming to terms with losing her sister and finding herself amid the pressures, expectations, and stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican American home. “Alive and crackling—a gritty tale wrapped in a page-turner. ”—The New York Times Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents’ house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga’s role. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken, too. Instead, her mother seems to channel her grief into pointing out every possible way Julia has failed. But it’s not long before Julia discovers that Olga might not have been as perfect as everyone thought. With the help of her best friend Lorena, and her first love, first everything boyfriend Connor, Julia is determined to find out. Was Olga really what she seemed? Or was there more to her sister’s story? And either way, how can Julia even attempt to live up to a seemingly impossible ideal? | Ember |
| 9781984836038 | I Must Betray You | Sepetys, Ruta | Philomel Books | |
| 9780399256752 | Legend | Marie Lu | A New York Times bestseller!What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem.From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths - until the day June's brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect. Caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family's survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias's death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets.Full of nonstop action, suspense, and romance, this novel is sure to move readers as much as it thrills. | G. P. Putnam's Sons |
| 9780142420867 | Leverage | Cohen, Joshua C. | A timely book about bullies, their victims, and a high school football team where winning is the only thing that matters This intense sports novel will strike a chord with those who followed the tragic football stories that broke in 2011. In this heart-pounding debut, Joshua C. Cohen conveys the pressures and politics of being a high school athlete in a way that is both insightful and compelling. At Oregrove High, there's an extraordinary price for victory, paid both on and off the football field, and it claims its victims without mercy. When the unthinkable happens, an unlikely friendship is at the heart of an increasingly violent, steroid-infused power struggle. This is a book that will stay with readers long after they turn the last page. | Speak |
| 9781481438261 | Long Way Down | Reynolds, Jason | “an Intense Snapshot Of The Chain Reaction Caused By Pulling A Trigger.” —booklist (starred Review) “astonishing.” —kirkus Reviews (starred Review) “a Tour De Force.” —publishers Weekly (starred Review) A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner For Young Adult Literature Longlisted For The National Book Award For Young People’s Literature Winner Of The Walter Dean Myers Award An Edgar Award Winner For Best Young Adult Fiction Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner An Entertainment Weekly Best Ya Book Of 2017 A Vulture Best Ya Book Of 2017 A Buzzfeed Best Ya Book Of 2017 An Ode To Put The Damn Guns Down, This Is New York Times Bestselling Author Jason Reynolds’s Electrifying Novel That Takes Place In Sixty Potent Seconds—the Time It Takes A Kid To Decide Whether Or Not He’s Going To Murder The Guy Who Killed His Brother. A Cannon. A Strap. A Piece. A Biscuit. A Burner. A Heater. A Chopper. A Gat. A Hammer A Tool For Rule Or, You Can Call It A Gun. That’s What Fifteen-year-old Will Has Shoved In The Back Waistband Of His Jeans. See, His Brother Shawn Was Just Murdered. And Will Knows The Rules. No Crying. No Snitching. Revenge. That’s Where Will’s Now Heading, With That Gun Shoved In The Back Waistband Of His Jeans, The Gun That Was His Brother’s Gun. He Gets On The Elevator, Seventh Floor, Stoked. He Knows Who He’s After. Or Does He? As The Elevator Stops On The Sixth Floor, On Comes Buck. Buck, Will Finds Out, Is Who Gave Shawn The Gun Before Will Took The Gun. Buck Tells Will To Check That The Gun Is Even Loaded. And That’s When Will Sees That One Bullet Is Missing. And The Only One Who Could Have Fired Shawn’s Gun Was Shawn. Huh. Will Didn’t Know That Shawn Had Ever Actually Used His Gun. Bigger Huh. Buck Is Dead. But Buck’s In The Elevator? Just As Will’s Trying To Think This Through, The Door To The Next Floor Opens. A Teenage Girl Gets On, Waves Away The Smoke From Dead Buck’s Cigarette. Will Doesn’t Know Her, But She Knew Him. Knew. When They Were Eight. And Stray Bullets Had Cut Through The Playground, And Will Had Tried To Cover Her, But She Was Hit Anyway, And So What She Wants To Know, On That Fifth Floor Elevator Stop, Is, What If Will, Will With The Gun Shoved In The Back Waistband Of His Jeans, Misses. And So It Goes, The Whole Long Way Down, As The Elevator Stops On Each Floor, And At Each Stop Someone Connected To His Brother Gets On To Give Will A Piece To A Bigger Story Than The One He Thinks He Knows. A Story That Might Never Know An End…if Will Gets Off That Elevator. Told In Short, Fierce Staccato Narrative Verse, Long Way Down Is A Fast And Furious, Dazzlingly Brilliant Look At Teenage Gun Violence, As Could Only Be Told By Jason Reynolds. | Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books |
| 9780399501487 | Lord of the Flies | William Golding | Golding’s iconic 1954 novel, now with a new foreword by Lois Lowry, remains one of the greatest books ever written for young adults and an unforgettable classic for readers of any age. This edition includes a new Suggestions for Further Reading by Jennifer Buehler. At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far removed from reality as the hope of being rescued. | Penguin |
| Lord Of The Rings (DVD) | ||||
| 9780545928083 | Lost In The Pacific, 1942 | Tod Olson | Scholastic | |
| 9780385017336 | Love Poems & Sonnets Of William Shakespeare | William Shakespeare | The greatest sonnets ever written, by the greatest poet and playwright in the English language | Doubleday |
| 9780544439566 | Mary Poppins | Pamela Lyndon Travers | This classic tale continues to enchant readers of all ages From the moment Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry-Tree Lane, everyday life at the Banks house is forever changed. It all starts when Mary Poppins is blown by the east wind onto the doorstep of the Banks house. She becomes a most unusual nanny to Jane, Michael, and the twins. Who else but Mary Poppins can slide up banisters, pull an entire armchair out of an empty carpetbag, and make a dose of medicine taste like delicious lime-juice cordial? A day with Mary Poppins is a day of magic and make-believe come to life | Clarion Books |
| 9780020438007 | Max | Rachel Isadora | ALA Notable Children's Book International Reading Association Classroom Choice A Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies Max is a crack baseball player. Saturday mornings he walks with his sister, Lisa, to her dancing school on his way to the park for his weekly game. One morning Max is early, and Lisa's teacher invites him to join the class. Max stretches at the barre. He struggles for a split. And before he knows it, he's having fun! Young ballplayers and ballet dancers will share Max's delight when he discovers that dance class is a great way to warm up for a home run. | Aladdin |