Kierstin Holman's Library
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| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OS_642EE081E90E9500B5E3303B | Charlotte's Web | E.B. White | ||
| 9780439701792 | Cheat | Amy Goldman Koss | Scholastic | |
| 9780757300950 | Chicken Soup For The Christian Teenage Soul: Stories To Open The Hearts Of Christian Teens (Chicken Soup For The Soul) | Canfield, Jack, Hansen, Mark Victor, Kirberger, Kimberly, Aubery, Patty, Autio, Nancy Mitchell | For teens who make God an integral part of their lives, teens who are sorting through doubts about whether God really cares about them, and teens who don't know God at all, Chicken Soup for the Christian Teenage Soul may be one of the most influential books they'll ever read. These stories about love, friendship, forgiveness, making a difference, courage, dating (and lots more) show how God is at work in teenagers' lives. Teens share stories about how God has given them the courage to cope with the tough stuff, the joy to live a fulfilling life, the strength to persevere when they feel alone, and the love and confidence they need to feel good about themselves. This very special volume will also help them to use other teens' experiences to build a stronger relationship with God. For teens tempted to use drugs, alcohol or other substances, Chicken Soup for the Christian Teenage Soul can be a lifeline to God. They will know that God cares what they think when it feels as if no one else does, and that He loves them no matter what. | HCI Teens |
| 9780439284967 | Chicken Soup For The Preteen Soul (101 Stories Of Changes,Choices And Growing Up For Kids 9-13) | jack canfield,mark victor hansen, patty hansen, irene dunlap | Filled With Stories From And About Readers Between The Ages Of Nine And Thirteen, This Inspirational Book Covers Issues Such As Personal Identity, Violence, Family Issues, And The Opposite Sex. | Scholastic |
| 9780439465564 | Chicken Soup For The Preteen Soul (Chicken Soup For The Soul) | Demco Media | ||
| 9781558742628 | Chicken Soup For The Soul: 101 Stories To Open The Heart And Rekindle The Spirit | Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen | Two Of America's Best-loved Inspirational Speakers Share The Best Of Their Stories, Tales That Have Touched The Hearts Of People Everywhere. Canfield And Hansen Bring You Wit And Wisdom, Hope And Empowerment To Buoy You Up Through Life's Dark Moments. chapters Titled On Love/on Parenting/on Learning/live Your Dream/learning To Love Yourself/overcoming Obstacles. | Health Communications, Inc. |
| 9781558749429 | Chicken Soup For The Teenage Soul On Tough Stuff: Stories Of Tough Times And Lessons Learned (Chicken Soup For The Soul) | Canfield, Jack, Hansen, Mark Victor, Kirberger, Kimberly | This latest offering in the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soulseries explores a host of challenges faced by today's teens. Within its pages teens will find portraits of life's complexities expressed from the viewpoint of their peers. Teen contributors share their thoughts and feelings on difficult issues, ranging from poor self-image to thoughts of suicide, from family discord to coping with the loss, from peer pressure to school violence.Teens ranked stress as one of their top concerns (along with child abuse and STDs). Oftentimes, the pressure can feel overwhelming, whether they involve worrying about an upcoming test, competition sports, family responsibilities,dating, or more extreme issues such as depression, suicide and school violence.The first three volumes of the Teenage Soul series and the companion journal illustrate the ongoing popularity of this series (unit sales exceed 11million). Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Tough Stuff and the Spring2001 release Teenage Soul Letters will undoubtedly follow suit as the next best-sellers in a phenomenally popular series. | HCI Teens |
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| 9780316160209 | Eclipse (Twilight) | Meyer, Stephenie | the #1 new York Times Bestseller Is Available For The First Time In A Mass Market Paperback Edition, Featuring A Striking Movie Tie-in Cover. readers Captivated By twilight And new Moon Will Eagerly Devour The Paperback Edition eclipse, The Third Book In Stephenie Meyer's Riveting Vampire Love Saga. As Seattle Is Ravaged By A String Of Mysterious Killings And A Malicious Vampire Continues Her Quest For Revenge, Bella Once Again Finds Herself Surrounded By Danger. In The Midst Of It All, She Is Forced To Choose Between Her Love For Edward And Her Friendship With Jacob —- Knowing That Her Decision Has The Potential To Ignite The Ageless Struggle Between Vampire And Werewolf. With Her Graduation Quickly Approaching, Bella Has One More Decision To Make: Life Or Death. But Which Is Which?publishers Weeklythe Legions Of Readers Who Are Hooked On The Romantic Struggles Of Bella And The Vampire Edward Will Ecstatically Devour This Third Installment Of The Story Begun In twilight, but It's Unlikely To Win Over Any Newcomers. Jake, The Werewolf Met In new Moon, Pursues Bella With Renewed Vigilance. However, When Repercussions From An Episode In twilightplace Bella In The Mortal Danger That Series Fans Have Come To Expect, Jake And Edward Forge An Uneasy Alliance. The Plot Patterns Have Begun To Show Here, But Meyer's Other Strengths Remain Intact. The Supernatural Elements Accentuate The Ordinary Human Dramas Of Growing Up. Jake And Edward's Competition For Bella Feels Particularly Authentic, Especially In Their Apparent Desire To Best Each Other As Much As To Win Bella. Once Again The Author Presents Teenage Love As An Almost Inhuman Force: [he] Would Have Been My Soul Mate Still, Says Bella, If His Claim Had Not Been Overshadowed By Something Stronger, Something So Strong That It Could Not Exist In A Rational World. According To Meyer, The Fourth Book Should Tie Up At Least The Edward Story, If Not The Whole Shebang. Ages 12-up. (aug.)copyright 2007 Reed Business Information | Little, Brown |
| 9780590411363 | Eight Tales of Terror | Edgar Allan Poe | A collection of horror stories includes depictions of a man haunted by the spirit of his dead wife, strange plots of revenge, and a traveler trapped on a ghost ship. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780689852732 | Escaping the Giant Wave | Peg Kehret | When an earthquake hits on their family vacation, can Kyle and his sister survive the following tsunami? The Worst Vacation Ever! Thirteen-year-old Kyle thought spending a vacation on the Oregon coast with his family would be great. He’d never flown before, and he’s never seen the Pacific Ocean. One evening Kyle is left in charge of his younger sister, BeeBee, while his parents attend an adults-only Salesman of the Year dinner on an elegant yacht. Then the earthquake comes—starting a fire in their hotel! As Kyle and BeeBee fight their way out through smoke and flame, Kyle remembers the sign at the beach that said after an earthquake everyone should go uphill and inland, as far from the ocean as possible. Giant tsunami waves—three or four stories high—can ride in from the sea and engulf anyone who doesn’t escape fast enough. Kyle and BeeBee flee uphill as a tsunami crashes over the beach, the hotel, and the town. The giant wave charges straight up the hillside and through the woods where the children are running for their lives. The perfect vacation has become a nightmare! Somehow Kyle and BeeBee have to outwit nature’s fury and save themselves from tsunami terror. | Aladdin |
| 9780553212327 | Gulliver's Travels And Other Writings (Bantam Classics) | Swift, Jonathan | Guliver's Travels, first published in 1726, was read from Cabinet-council to the Nursery. Written by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) it was and still is one of the greatest satires written on human nature. Captain Lemuel Gulliver takes voyages that end up at four fantastic places. The Lilliputians are only six inches tall. The land of Brobdingnag is populated with beings over sixty feet tall. He also visits a series of lands peopled by the most impratical groups. Lastly he visits a land ruled by horses where men are the laboring brutes. Guliver's Travels was rated by George Orwell as one of the six most indispensable books in the world. | Bantam Classics |
| 9780486264646 | HEART OF DARKNESS (THRIFT EDITION) | CONRAD, JOSEPH | Dark Allegory Describes The Narrator's Journey Up The Congo River And His Meeting With, And Fascination By, Mr. Kurtz, A Mysterious Personage Who Dominates The Unruly Inhabitants Of The Region. Masterly Blend Of Adventure, Character Development, Psychological Penetration. Considered By Many Conrad's Finest, Most Enigmatic Story. | DOVER |
| 9781453064573 | Heidi | Johanna Spyri, Mary Caprio | Heidi is only five when she is taken to live with her grandfather, known as Uncle Alp, in the Swiss Mountains. Notorious in the village for his gloomy outlook and reclusive nature, Uncle Alp nevertheless comes to love little Heidi, and she him. Just as Heidi begins to grow fond of her new mountain family and friends, she is suddenly taken to Frankfurt to be a companion to Clara, an invalid. Although she brings great joy into Clara's life, Heidi pines for her home in the mountains. | |
| 9780670869879 | Heidi (Whole Story) | Spyri, Johanna | Viking Juvenile | |
| 9780439095556 | Helen Keller (In Their Own Words) | Sullivan, George | Helen Keller was the first deaf and blind student to ever attend an American college, but graduating from Radcliffe with honors was only one of her many accomplishments. Her writing and speeches tell the poignant story of a woman who struggles to overcome personal adversity, while working as an advocate for the physically challenged. A biography, told using excerpts from her own writings, of the woman who successfully dealt with her own disabilities while trying to better the lives of other deaf and blind people. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780590208338 | Hiroshima (Apple Paperbacks) | Yep, Laurence | Describes the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, particularly as it affects Sachi, who becomes one of the Hiroshima Maidens.Publishers WeeklyYep's account of the bombing of Hiroshima and its devastating aftermath is at once chilling and searing, hushed and thundering. Within a factual framework, the author sets the fictional story of a girl named Sachi, allegedly a composite of several young residents of the bombed city. On the morning of August 6, 1945, 12-year-old Sachi and her classmates pull on their pitifully inadequate air-raid hoods when an alarm sounds, signifying the approach of an American bomber. They and others feel, ironically, a deep sense of relief when the aircraft passes by-the plane's mission, in fact, is to scout out the weather over Hiroshima; if there are clouds, the Enola Gay will be directed to drop its atom bomb on another city. But a single gap opens in the clouds directly over the target site, and "the sunlight pours through the hole on to the city." This is the last bit of brightness in Yep's story, which with haunting simplicity describes the actual bombing: "There is a blinding light like a sun. There is a boom like a giant drum. There is a terrible wind. Houses collapse like boxes. Windows break everywhere. Broken glass swirls like angry insects." Though Yep's spare, deliberate description of the bomb's consequences delivers a brutal emotional punch-and though it is on the whole extremely well suited to the target audience-his novella has some jarring stylistic elements. Broken into brief chapters ("The Bomb," "The City," "The Attack," "Destruction," "Peace?"), the narrative is choppy. The text, for example, makes a hasty chronological jump from the announcement that WWII is over to Sachi's experience as one of 25 "Hiroshima Maidens," who in 1955 traveled to the United States for plastic surgery to correct disfiguring burns. And although expressing an opinion is clearly the novelist's prerogative, it should be noted that the story Yep relays is hardly balanced; witness the two simple sentences about the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, which make no mention of the resulting human casualties: "Four years before, on December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked American ships in Hawaii without warning. Caught by surprise, many ships and planes were wrecked at the naval base, Pearl Harbor." Yet in what is one of his tale's most haunting moments, Yep interjects the resonant words of an American-the Enola Gay's copilot-who, surveying the destruction just after the bomb has hit Hiroshima, scribbles a note to himself: "What have we done?" This powerful chronicle ensures that what was done on that awful day will remain in readers' memories for a very long time. Ages 8-11. (May) | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780064408196 | Homeless Bird | Whelan, Gloria | Gloria Whelan's National Book Award–winning novel, chronicles the breathtaking story of a remarkable young woman who dares to defy fate. Like many girls her age in India, thirteen–year–old Koly faces her arranged marriage with hope and courage. But Koly's story takes a terrible turn when in the wake of the ceremony, she discovers she's been horribly misled; her life has been sold for a dowry. In prose both graceful and unflinching, this powerful novel relays the story of a rare young woman, who even when cast out into a brutal current of time–worn tradition, sets out to forge her own remarkable future.Inspired by a newspaper article about the real thirteen–year–old widows in India today, this universally acclaimed best–selling novel, characterized by spare, lyrical language and remarkable detail, transports readers into the heart of a gripping tale of hope.Ages 10+Publishers WeeklyWhelan (Miranda's Last Stand) blends modern Hindu culture with age-old Indian traditions as she profiles a poor girl's struggle to survive in a male-dominated society. Only 13 when her parents find her a husband, Koly can't help feeling apprehensive about leaving home to live in a distant village with her in-laws and husband, none of whom she has met. The truth is worse than she could have feared: the groom, Hari, is a sickly child, and his parents have wanted only a dowry, not a wife for him, in order to pay for a trip to Benares so Hari might bathe in the holy waters of the Ganges. Koly is widowed almost immediately; later, she is abandoned in the holy city of Vrindavan by her cruel mother-in-law. Koly, likened to a "homeless bird" in a famous poem by Rabindranath Tagore, embodies the tragic plight of Hindu women without status, family or financial security. She is saved from a dismal fate by her love of beauty, her talent for embroidery and the philanthropy of others--and by Whelan's tidy plotting, which introduces a virtuous young man, a savvy benefactress and a just employer in the nick of time. The feminist theme that dominates the happily-ever-after ending seems more American than Indian, but kids will likely enjoy this dramatic view of an endangered adolescence and cheer Koly's hard-won victories. Ages 8-12. (Mar.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.| | HarperCollins |
| 9780152051600 | I Am David | Holm, Anne | David's entire twelve-year life has been spent in a grisly prison camp in Eastern Europe. He knows nothing of the outside world. But when he is given the chance to escape, he seizes it. With his vengeful enemies hot on his heels, David struggles to cope in this strange new world, where his only resources are a compass, a few crusts of bread, his two aching feet, and some vague advice to seek refuge in Denmark. Is that enough to survive? David's extraordinary odyssey is dramatically chronicled in Anne Holm's classic about the meaning of freedom and the power of hope. | HMH Books for Young Readers |
| 9781338746334 | I Know Your Secret | Daphne Benedis-Grab | One of Us is Lying meets Pretty Little Liars for middle-grade readers. The email arrives Sunday night: Do exactly what I say, when I say it, or I will reveal your secret. On Monday morning, seventh graders Owen, Gemma, Ally, and Todd, who have nothing in common and barely know each other, must work together and follow the instructions of an anonymous blackmailer. None of them want to go along with the blackmailer's instructions, but each of them have a secret they must protect at all costs. Set during a single day of school, the students race against the clock to complete a disquieting set of tasks, with fast-paced chapters detailing each moment of the day interspersed with a later interview-style recording made by the quartet. I Know Your Secret is an exploration of why we conceal the truth, how far we'll go to keep it hidden, and the power of being honest. | Scholastic Press |