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Par Susan Beth Pfeffer. 2008
After a meteor hits the moon causing a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of…
his younger sisters alone in the chaos of New York City. Companion to Life as We Knew It (RC 65047, BR 18228). For junior and senior high readers. 2008Par Tony Johnston, Susan Beth Pfeffer, Barry Moser. 2006
Sixteen-year-old Miranda keeps a journal describing her family's struggle to survive after an asteroid hits the Moon and causes disastrous…
climate change on Earth. She records her feelings about losing contact with friends and the outside world, locating food, and keeping hope alive. For junior and senior high readers. 2006Par Liz Williams. 2002
India, 2030. Aliens arrive to integrate Earth into their empire. In exchange for a pardon and rights for the untouchable…
caste, ailing revolutionary Jaya Nihalani--a Receiver who can communicate with the visitors--acts as a liaison and discovers their true intent. Some violence and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2002Par Liz Williams. 2001
Eleres is fiercely protective of his ailing sister, Mevennen--called a ghost by their people because of her disconnect from their…
world's natural energies. Seeking a cure, Eleres takes Mevennen into the wilderness, where they meet Shu, a gaian spirit whose hope for healing may come at a terrible price. 2001Par Jeanne DuPrau. 2008
Lina's trade with a roamer gains Doon a battered old book that alludes to a mysterious device. Lina and Doon…
return underground to Ember to retrieve the machine, hoping it will help their new community, Sparks. Companion to The People of Sparks (DB 60098). For grades 5-8. 2008Par Katy Kelly. 2009
Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. Ten-year-old Adam "Melonhead" Melon, a friend of Lucy Rose, has a talent for landing in trouble.…
But right now he and his pal Sam are dreaming up inventions to win a science contest. For grades 2-4. 2009Par Kimberley Burton Heuston. 2008
1989. Fifteen-year-old Jude and her Mormon family relocate to communist Czechoslovakia after Jude's mother wins a Fulbright fellowship to study…
art. But the move and the country's political turmoil overwhelm Jude until she is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and treated. For senior high readers. 2008Par Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer. 1999
Two planets, Bronson Alpha and Bronson Beta, hurtle through space on a collision course with Earth. Scientist Cole Hendron secretly…
recruits fellow scientists to construct a powerful, Noah's ark-inspired spacecraft to evacuate a select few people before the inevitable cosmic disaster. Includes sequel After Worlds Collide. 1932Par Jonathan Friesen. 2008
Isolated at school and tormented by his stepdad, Minnesota high school senior Sam Carrier feels defined by his Tourette syndrome.…
But long-distance running, his deceased father's friend George, a girl named Naomi, and a road trip to Jerk, California, change his perspective. Some strong language. For senior high readers. 2008Responding to an interrupted message from the Reverend Shipton Cruet and his daughter, the Mumby family swiftly embarks on a…
mission to planet Georgium Sidus. They hope to rescue their friends and investigate the monstrous cloud encroaching on the known universe. Sequel to Starcross (BR 17670). For grades 6-9. 2008Par Paul Auster. 2008
Recuperating at his daughter's Vermont home, insomniac widower August Brill suppresses painful memories of his wife by imagining an America…
mired in civil war. He commiserates with his granddaughter, Katya, whose boyfriend was murdered in Iraq, and eventually confronts his past. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2008Par Igor Nikolic. 2023
You know you really made someone raging mad-when they try to kill you with a nuke. Michael and those who…
follow him had reached a temporary safe base, but now those in power know his identity. His people are in a race against time, and it's no longer a question of if they are going to be discovered-but when. Opposing them are modern-day pirates, slavers, genocidal terrorists, drug cartels, and those who rule the Earth from the shadows. And every single one of them wants to see Michael dead. When betrayal causes the death of someone close to him, he decides that diplomacy is far overrated. And sometimes crossing the line isn't enough; sometimes you need to demolish it to do what is right. So, set the Geneva Conventions on fire and punish the guilty, because sometimes, mercy is a luxury you cannot afford. If pain and death are the only things his enemies know, then he will speak their language fluently. Can they finish and launch the spaceship into orbit before time runs out? And what did the ancient aliens hide underneath the Pacific Ocean?Par Douglas Preston. 2010
National Book Award finalist Julie Anne Peters delivers a moving, classic love story with a coming out theme and a…
modern twist. The largest known meteorite has been discovered, entombed in the earth for millions of years on a frigid, desolate island off the southern tip of Chile. At four thousand tons, this treasure seems impossible to move. New York billionaire Palmer Lloyd is determined to have this incredible find for his new museum. Stocking a cargo ship with the finest scientists and engineers, he builds a flawless expedition. But from the first approach to the meteorite, people begin to die. A frightening truth is about to unfold: The men and women of the Rolvaag are not taking this ancient, enigmatic object anywhere. It is taking themPar Steven Gould. 2007
Nine-year-old Griff O'Conner causes his parents' murders in San Diego when he teleports himself to avoid a bully. Griff hides…
with friends until, at sixteen, he is ready to confront the killers. Sequel to Jumper (DB 37465, BR 9548). Violence and strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 2007Par Tom Sullivan, Betty White. 2008
Colorado. Twenty-five-year-old Brenden McCarthy is a first-year medical resident and an avid mountain climber until a climbing accident blinds him.…
Now Brenden's widowed mother wants to care for him and his fiancée considers leaving him, while Brenden enters rehabilitation and gets a guide dog--thrice-rejected black Labrador Nelson. 2008Par Gigi Amateau. 2008
Chancey, an albino Appaloosa left abandoned in a field, becomes a project for Claire, a ten-year-old rider who needs him…
as much as he needs her. As Chancey becomes increasingly blind, he and Claire leave show-jumping behind and make a new start as a therapeutic team. For grades 4-7. 2008Par Janice Repka. 2004
Eleven-year-old Phillip's dream of running away from the circus, where his father is a clown and his mother is the…
fat lady, comes true. He moves in with relatives in Hardingtown, Pennsylvania, unofficial dodgeball capital of the world--but life is far from normal. For grades 4-7. 2004Par Joanne Greenberg. 2006
Sixteen-year-old Deborah has schizophrenia and retreats into a fantasy world of her own invention. Only after her parents reluctantly commit…
her to a mental hospital does she begin to face reality. Some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 1964Par Andrew Clements. 2008
Still adjusting to being blind, Alicia, first met in Things Not Seen (RC 54713, BR 17135), must outwit an invisible…
man following Bobby, once invisible himself. This man's demands threaten Bobby, Alicia's family, and perhaps global security. Sequel to Things Hoped For (RC 63723). For grades 6-9. 2008Par Leslie Connor. 2008
Upstate New York. Addie's plucky spirit makes the best of awkward situations such as moving into a tiny trailer with…
her difficult mother, separating from her stepdad and two half sisters, and coping with her learning difficulties in her new school's band. For grades 5-8. Schneider Family Book Award. 2008