Katelynn Gregory's Library
West Creek High
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9780385737951 | The Maze Runner (Book 1) | Dashner, James | the First Book In The new York Times Bestselling Maze Runner Series—the Maze Runner Is A Modern Classic, Perfect for Fans Of the Hunger Games And divergent.when Thomas Wakes Up In The Lift, The Only Thing He Can Remember Is His First Name. His Memory Is Blank. But He’s Not Alone. When The Lift’s Doors Open, Thomas Finds Himself Surrounded By Kids Who Welcome Him To The Glade—a Large, Open Expanse Surrounded By Stone Walls.just Like Thomas, The Gladers Don’t Know Why Or How They Got To The Glade. All They Know Is That Every Morning The Stone Doors To The Maze That Surrounds Them Have Opened. Every Night They’ve Closed Tight. And Every Thirty Days A New Boy Has Been Delivered In The Lift.thomas Was Expected. But The Next Day, A Girl Is Sent Up—the First Girl To Ever Arrive In The Glade. And More Surprising Yet Is The Message She Delivers.thomas Might Be More Important Than He Could Ever Guess. If Only He Could Unlock The Dark Secrets Buried Within His Mind. | Delacorte Press |
| 9781423101482 | The Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Three: Titan's Curse | Rick Riordan | When the goddess Artemis goes missing, she is believed to have been kidnapped. And now it’s up to Percy and his friends to find out what happened. Who is powerful enough to kidnap a goddess? They must find Artemis before the winter solstice, when her influence on the Olympian Council could swing an important vote on the war with the titans. Not only that, but first Percy will have to solve the mystery of a rare monster that Artemis was hunting when she disappeared—a monster rumored to be so powerful it could destroy Olympus forever. | Hyperion |
| 9781423103349 | The Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Two: Sea of Monsters | Rick Riordan | Percy and his friends battle to save Camp Half-Blood, which is on the verge of being overrun by mythological monsters. | Disney Press |
| 9780486280486 | The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Hester Prynne is ostracized from her seventeenth-century Puritan community for refusing to name the father of her child, the product of an adulterous relationship. | Courier Corporation |
| 9781774021750 | The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne Classic Novel, (Hester Prynne, Adultery, Romantic Tragedy), Ribbon Page Marker, Perfect For Gifting | Nathaniel Hawthorne, Paper Mill Press | This edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel features a suede-like custom cover with beautiful metallic foiling and a ribbon marker.In a masterwork of historical fiction, The Scarlet Letter presents a powerful view on legalism, sin and guilt during the seventeenth century. This romantic tragedy revolves around Hester Prynne, a young woman who conceives a daughter through an affair. Follow the life and hardships of Hester as she struggles to rebuild a life of dignity after this unforgettable sin. | Paper Mill Press |
| 9780385738767 | The Scorch Trials | James Dashner | After surviving horrific conditions in the Maze, Thomas is entrapped, along with nineteen other boys, in an experiment designed to observe their responses and gather data believed to be essential for the survival of the human race. | Delacorte Press |
| 9780062060624 | The Song Of Achilles: A Novel | Miller, Madeline | Achilles, "the best of all the Greeks," son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful— irresistible to all who meet him. Patroclus is an awkward young prince, exiled from his homeland after an act of shocking violence. Brought together by chance, they forge an inseparable bond, despite risking the gods' wrath. They are trained by the centaur Chiron in the arts of war and medicine, but when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, all the heroes of Greece are called upon to lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause, and torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows. Little do they know that the cruel Fates will test them both as never before and demand a terrible sacrifice. Winner of the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction | Ecco |
| 9780525562627 | The Testaments: A Novel (The Handmaid's Tale) | Margaret Atwood | NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE • A modern masterpiece that "reminds us of the power of truth in the face of evil” (People)—and can be read on its own or as a sequel to Margaret Atwood’s classic, The Handmaid’s Tale.“Atwood’s powers are on full display” (Los Angeles Times) in this deeply compelling Booker Prize-winning novel, now updated with additional content that explores the historical sources, ideas, and material that inspired Atwood.More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results.Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third: Aunt Lydia. Her complex past and uncertain future unfold in surprising and pivotal ways.With The Testaments, Margaret Atwood opens up the innermost workings of Gilead, as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes. | Anchor |
| 9780767905923 | Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, And Life's Greatest Lesson, 25Th Anniversary Edition | Albom, Mitch | it S Been Ten Years Since Mitch Albom First Shared The Wisdom Of Morrie Schwartz With The World. Now Twelve Million Copies Later In A New Foreword, Mitch Albom Reflects Again On The Meaning Of Morrie S Life Lessons And The Gentle, Irrevocable Impact Of Their Tuesday Sessions All Those Years Ago...maybe It Was A Grandparent, Or A Teacher, Or A Colleague. Someone Older, Patient And Wise, Who Understood You When You Were Young And Searching, Helped You See The World As A More Profound Place, Gave You Sound Advice To Help You Make Your Way Through It. For Mitch Albom, That Person Was Morrie Schwartz, His College Professor From Nearly Twenty Years Ago. Maybe, Like Mitch, You Lost Track Of This Mentor As You Made Your Way, And The Insights Faded, And The World Seemed Colder. Wouldn't You Like To See That Person Again, Ask The Bigger Questions That Still Haunt You, Receive Wisdom For Your Busy Life Today The Way You Once Did When You Were Younger? publishers Weekly as A Student At Brandeis University In The Late 1970s, Albom Was Especially Drawn To His Sociology Professor, Morris Schwartz. On Graduation He Vowed To Keep In Touch With Him, Which He Failed To Do Until 1994, When He Saw A Segment About Schwartz On The Tv Program nightline, And Learned That He Had Just Been Diagnosed With Lou Gehrig's Disease. By Then A Sports Columnist For The detroit Free Press And Author Of Six Books, Including fab Five, Albom Was Idled By The Newspaper Strike In The Motor City And So Had The Opportunity To Visit Schwartz In Boston Every Week Until The Older Man Died. Their Dialogue Is The Subject Of This Moving Book In Which Schwartz Discourses On Life, Self-pity, Regrets, Aging, Love And Death, Offering Aphorisms About Each E.g., After You Have Wept And Grieved For Your Physical Losses, Cherish The Functions And The Life You Have Left. Far From Being Awash In Sentiment, The Dying Man Retains A Firm Grasp On Reality. An Emotionally Rich Book And A Deeply Affecting Memorial To A Wise Mentor, Who Was 79 When He Died In 1995. | Crown |
| 9780553210590 | Turn Of The Screw, The | Jr. James Henry James,Henry | To read a story by Henry James is to enter a fully realized world unlike any other—a rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complex characters. Devious children, sparring lovers, capricious American girls, obtuse bachelors, sibylline spinsters, and charming Europeans populate these five fascinating nouvelles, which represent the author in both his early and late phases. From the apparitions of evil that haunt the governess in “The Turn of the Screw” to the startling self-scrutiny of an egotistical man in “The Beast in the Jungle,” the mysterious turnings of human behavior are coolly and masterfully observed—proving Henry James to be a master of psychological insight as well as one of the finest prose stylists of modern English literature. | Bantam Classic & Loveswept |
| 9780525555360 | Turtles All The Way Down | John Green | FEATURED ON 60 MINUTES and FRESH AIR“So surprising and moving and true that I became completely unstrung.” – The New York TimesNamed a best book of the year by: The New York Times, NPR, TIME, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Southern Living, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, A.V. Club, Bustle, BuzzFeed, Vulture, and many more!JOHN GREEN, the acclaimed author of Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars, returns with a story of shattering, unflinching clarity in this brilliant novel of love, resilience, and the power of lifelong friendship.Aza Holmes never intended to pursue the disappearance of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Pickett’s son Davis.Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts. | Dutton Books for Young Readers |
| 9781442419810 | Uglies | Westerfeld, Scott | The Uglies series has more than 3 million books in print, has been translated into twenty-seven languages, and spent more than fifty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Now all four books feature fresh new covers and will reach an even wider audience. Tally’s adventures begin in Uglies, where she learns the truth about what life as a Pretty really means. She rebels against the surgery that will make her a Pretty, but ultimately succumbs. In Pretties, Tally has forgotten all about her Ugly life, and when she’s reminded, she has a hard time listening. And what little’s left of the old Tally is further compromised in Specials, because Tally has been transformed into a fierce fighting machine. But when she’s offered a chance to forever improve civilization, will she be able to overcome her brainwashing? The answer is evident years later in Extras, after the Pretty regime has ended. Boundless human creativity, new technologies, and old dangers have been unleashed upon the world. But fame and popularity can be just as dangerous as extreme beauty…. | Simon Pulse |
| 9781416912057 | Unwind (1) (Unwind Dystology) | Shusterman, Neal | Connor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives. The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child "unwound," whereby all of the child's organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn't technically end. Connor is too difficult for his parents to control. Risa, a ward of the state is not enough to be kept alive. And Lev is a tithe, a child conceived and raised to be unwound. Together, they may have a chance to escape and to survive. "Characters live and breathe; they are fully realized and complex, sometimes making wrenching difficult decisions. This is a thought-provoking, well-paced read that will appeal widely." School Library Journal, starred review "[A] gripping, brilliantly imagined futuristic thriller...could hardly be more engrossing or better aimed to teens." Publishers Weekly, starred review "[A] nail-biting, character-driven thriller." Horn Book magazineThe New York Times - Ned VizziniWhat keeps Unwind moving are the creative and shocking details of Shusterman's kid-mining dystopia. First, there are the Orwellian linguistic tricks. People who have been unwound are not "dead"—they are "in a divided state." Then there are the rules and rituals. Before being unwound, Lev is honored with a lavish "tithing party," which bears a strong resemblance to a bar mitzvah. The most terrifying scene is devoted to the unwinding itself. The author's decision to describe the process is a questionable one—a book's great unknown can leave the strongest impression on a reader—but he executes as precisely as the surgeons who perform the unwinding. Ultimately, though, the power of the novel lies in what it doesn't do: come down explicitly on one side or the other. | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
| 9780448494296 | Vampire Academy 10Th Anniversary Edition | Richelle Mead | Richelle Mead celebrates 10 years of Vampire Academy with an exclusive, never-before-seen collection of stories that sheds new light on the world and its players:The Turn and the Flame takes a deeper look into the dark stain on the Ozera dynasty...From the Journal of Vasilisa Dragomir unearths the princess’s private thoughts from a transformative period of her life…The Meeting gives us a glimpse of Rose Hathaway through Dimitri’s eyes...Hello My Name Is Rose Hathaway tracks the shenanigans that ensue when Rose and Dimitri become unlikely teammates in a high-stakes scavenger hunt...Lissa Dragomir is a Moroi princess: a mortal vampire with a rare gift for harnessing the earth's magic. She must be protected at all times from Strigoi; the fiercest vampires--the ones who never die. The powerful blend of human and vampire blood that flows through Rose Hathaway, Lissa's best friend, makes her a Dhampir. Rose is dedicated to a dangerous life of protecting Lissa from Strigoi, who are hell-bent on making Lissa one of them.After two years of freedom, Rose and Lissa are caught and dragged back to St. Vladimir’s Academy, where vampire royalty and their guardians-to-be prepare for a life fraught with danger. Rose and Lissa must navigate their treacherous world and never once let their guard down, lest the evil undead make Lissa one of them forever. But soon Rose finds herself gripped by temptation of forbidden love, leaving Lissa exposed to Strigoi attack. Now she must choose between the best friend she lives for, and the man she can't live without…. | Razorbill |
| 9780735219106 | Where The Crawdads Sing | Delia Owens | NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE—The #1 New York Times bestselling worldwide sensation with more than 18 million copies sold, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as “a painfully beautiful first novel that is at once a murder mystery, a coming-of-age narrative and a celebration of nature.”For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life—until the unthinkable happens.Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps. | G.P. Putnam's Sons |