Kierstin Holman's Library
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| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9780439388818 | A Corner Of The Universe (Scholastic Gold) | Ann M. Martin | Ann Martin's phenomenal Newbery Honor book, now in paperback The summer Hattie turns 12, her predictable smalltown life is turned on end when her uncle Adam returns home for the first time in over ten years. Hattie has never met him, never known about him. He's been institutionalized; his condition invovles schizophrenia and autism. Hattie, a shy girl who prefers the company of adults, takes immediately to her excitable uncle, even when the rest of the family -- her parents and grandparents -- have trouble dealing with his intense way of seeing the world. And Adam, too, sees that Hattie is special, that her quiet, shy ways are not a disability, The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town. | Scholastic Inc. |
| A Farewell To Arms | ||||
| 9781250235824 | A Hope More Powerful Than The Sea | Melissa R. Fleming | Describes The Struggles Of Syrian Refugees Following The Country's Brutal Civil War. | |
| 9780395616192 | A Murder For Her Majesty | Hilgartner, Beth | HMH Books for Young Readers | |
| 9780064407663 | A Series of Unfortunate Events: the Bad Beginning Movie Tie-in Edition | Lemony Snicket | Tie–in books for the feel–bad movie of the year! | HarperCollins |
| 9780547534268 | A Single Shard | Linda Sue Park | Contains the author's] 2002 Newbery Award acceptance speech-- Cover. | Clarion Books |
| 9780547076362 | A Wreath For Emmett Till | Nelson, Marilyn | HMH Books for Young Readers | |
| 9780689807220 | After The War | Matas, Carol | "Didn't the gas ovens finish you all off?" is the response that meets Ruth Mendenberg when she returns to her village in Poland after the liberation of Buchenwald at the end of World War II. Her entire family wiped out in the Holocaust, the fifteen-year-old girl has nowhere to go. Members of the underground organization Brichah find her, and she joins them in their dangerous quest to smuggle illegal immigrants to Palestine. Ruth risks her life to help lead a group of children on a daring journey over half a continent and across the sea to Eretz Israel, using secret routes and forged documents — and sheer force of will. This adventure will touch readers, who will marvel at the resources and inner strength of mere children helping other children to find a place in this world in which they can belong. Carol Matas, one of the foremost authors of historical fiction, brings the desperation and passion of this remarkable journey to life. After being released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II, fifteen-year-old Ruth risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe to Palestine. | Simon Pulse |
| 9780060741877 | Alas, Babylon | Pat Frank | When A Nuclear Holocaust Ravages The United States, A Thousand Years Of Civilization Are Stripped Away Overnight, And Tens Of Millions Of People Are Killed Instantly. But For One Small Town In Florida, Miraculously Spared, The Struggle Is Just Beginning, As Men And Women Of All Backgrounds Join Together To Confront The Darkness. Pat Frank ; Foreword By David Brin. Originally Published: Philadelphia, Lippincott 1959. | Harper Perennial Modern Classics |
| 9781481430494 | Always And Forever, Lara Jean (3) (To All The Boys I've Loved Before) | Han, Jenny | “sweetly Funny.” —entertainment Weekly New York Times Bestselling Author Lara Jean’s Letter-writing Days Aren’t Over In This Surprise Follow-up To The Bestselling To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before And P.s. I Still Love You. Lara Jean Is Having The Best Senior Year A Girl Could Ever Hope For. She Is Head Over Heels In Love With Her Boyfriend, Peter; Her Dad’s Finally Getting Remarried To Their Next Door Neighbor, Ms. Rothschild; And Margot’s Coming Home For The Summer Just In Time For The Wedding. But Change Is Looming On The Horizon. And While Lara Jean Is Having Fun And Keeping Busy Helping Plan Her Father’s Wedding, She Can’t Ignore The Big Life Decisions She Has To Make. Most Pressingly, Where She Wants To Go To College And What That Means For Her Relationship With Peter. She Watched Her Sister Margot Go Through These Growing Pains. Now Lara Jean’s The One Who’ll Be Graduating High School And Leaving For College And Leaving Her Family—and Possibly The Boy She Loves—behind. When Your Heart And Your Head Are Saying Two Different Things, Which One Should You Listen To? | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
| 9780671666071 | Bambi: A Life In The Woods | Salten, Felix | The Prince of the Forest Bambi's life in the woods begins happily. There are forest animals to play with — Friend Hare, the chattery squirrel, the noisy screech owl, and Bambi's twin cousins, frail Gobo and beautiful Faline. But winter comes, and Bambi learns that the woods hold danger — and things he doesn't understand. The first snowfall makes food hard to find. Bambi's father, a handsome stag, roams the forest, but leaves Bambi and his mother alone. Then there is Man. He comes to the forest with weapons that can wound an animal. He does terrible things to Gobo, to Bambi's mother, and even to Bambi. But He can't keep Bambi from growing into a handsome stag himself, and becoming...the Prince of the Forest.John Chamberlain[Salten] has the gift of a tender, lucid style. His observation is next door to marvelous, and he invests the fruits of this observation with pure poetry. His comprehension makes his deer, his screech-owls, his butterflies, grasshoppers and hares, far more exciting to read about than hundreds of human beings who crowd the pages of our novels. -- Books of the Century; New York Times review, July 1928 | Aladdin |
| 9780689835902 | Beast | Napoli, Donna Jo | Atheneum | |
| 9780590440851 | Beware Dawn! (The Baby-Sitters Club Mystery) | Martin, Ann M. | Dawn Starts Getting Threatening Notes And Odd Phone Calls While She Is Baby-sitting. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780316067928 | Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) | Meyer, Stephenie | twilight Tempted The Imagination. new Moon Made Readers Thirsty For More. eclipse Turned The Saga Into A Worldwide Phenomenon. And Now, The Book That Everyone Has Been Waiting For... breaking Dawn, The Final Book In The #1 Bestselling Twilight Saga, Will Take Your Breath Away.publishers Weeklyit Ought To Seem Redundant To Dismiss The Fourth And Final Twilight Novel As Escapist Fantasy-but How Else Could Anyone Look At A Romance About An Ordinary, Even Clumsy Teenager Torn Between A Vampire And A Werewolf, Both Of Whom Are Willing To Sacrifice Their Happiness For Hers? Flaws And All, However, Meyer's First Three Novels Touched On Something Powerful In Their Weird Refraction Of Our Culture's Paradoxical Messages About Sex And Sexuality. The Conclusion Is Much Thinner, Despite Its Interminable Length. Everygirl Bella Achieves Her Wishes Quickly (marriage And Sex, In That Order, Are Two, And Becoming An Immortal Is Another), And Once She Becomes A Vampire It's Almost Impossible To Identify With Her. But That's Not The Main Problem. Essentially, Everyone Gets Everything They Want, Even If Their Desires Necessitate An About-face In Characterization Or The Messy Introduction Of Some Back Story. Nobody Has To Renounce Anything Or Suffer More Than Temporarily-in Other Words, Grandeur Is Out. This Isn't About Happy Endings; It's About Gratification. A Sign Of The Times? Ages 12-up. copyright © Reed Business Information, A Division Of Reed Elsevier Inc. All Rights Reserved. | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| 9780440413288 | Bud, Not Buddy | Christopher Paul Curtis | The Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy who decides to hit the road to find his father—from Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go To Birmingham—1963, a Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree. It’s 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud’s got a few things going for him: 1. He has his own suitcase full of special things. 2. He’s the author of Bud Caldwell’s Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself. 3. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: flyers advertising Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!! Bud’s got an idea that those flyers will lead him to his father. Once he decides to hit the road to find this mystery man, nothing can stop him—not hunger, not fear, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself. BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times School Library Journal Publishers Weekly “[A] powerfully felt novel.” —The New York Times “Will keep readers engrossed from first page to last.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred “Curtis writes with a razor-sharp intelligence that grabs the reader by the heart and never lets go. . . . This highly recommended title [is] at the top of the list of books to be read again and again.” —Voice of Youth Advocates, Starred | Yearling |
| 9780439221887 | Bud, Not Buddy | Christopher Paul Curtis | Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. | |
| 9780590406116 | Call It Courage | Armstrong Sperry | For use in schools and libraries only. Relates how Mafatu, a young Polynesian boy whose name means Stout Heart, overcomes his terrible fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his people. | |
| 9780439023498 | Catching Fire | Suzanne Collins | By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780439023535 | Catching Fire | Suzanne Collins | By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion. |