After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
Book of the Day: Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
Book of the Day: The Penderwicks: a summer tale of four sisters, two rabbits and a very interesting boy by Jeanne Birdsall
While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.
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Book of the Day: My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Kate Fitzgerald has a rare form of leukemia. Her sister, Anna, was conceived to provide a donor match for procedures that become increasingly invasive. At 13, Anna hires a lawyer so that she can sue her parents for the right to make her own decisions about how her body is used when a kidney transplant is planned.
Book of the Day: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Captures the vivid lives of the García sisters, four privileged and rebellious Dominican girls adapting to their new lives in America.
Book of the Day: The Secret of Castle Cant by K.P. Bath
After learning that she is not the biological daughter of boring Mr. and Mrs. Drudger, Fern embarks on magical adventures with her real father and finally finds "a place that feels like home."
Book of the Day: The Anybodies by N.E. Bode
After learning that she is not the biological daughter of boring Mr. and Mrs. Drudger, Fern embarks on magical adventures with her real father and finally finds "a place that feels like home."
Book of the Day: Devil on My Heels by Joyce McDonald
In 1957 fifteen-year-old Dove, the daughter of a prosperous orange grower in Benevolence, Florida, feels increasingly uneasy after learning of acts of racism against the African American orange pickers by those close to her.
Book of the Day: Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
Gemma and her friends from the Spence Academy return to the realms to defeat her foe, Circe, and to bind the magic that has been released.
Book of the Day: Voices After Midnight by Richard Peck
Living with their sister and parents in a rented house in New York City during the summer, Chad and Luke uncover a mystery involving the former tenants of the house when the two brothers slip back in time to 1888.
Book of the Day: The Terrorist by Caroline B. Cooney
Sixteen-year-old Laura, an American living in London, tries to find the person responsible for the death of her younger brother Billy, who has been killed by a terrorist bomb. (A BPHS AR BOOK)
Book of the Day: Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
In the late 1800s, a fourteen-year-old Ozark mountain boy spends the summer trying to recapture monkeys escaped from a traveling circus. (BPHS AR BOOK)
Book of the Day: Larger than Life Lara by Dandi Daley Mackall
Using the writing techniques she has learned in school, fourth-grader Laney relates how an obese girl new to the class changes the lives of those around her, despite being bullied by her peers.
Book of the Day: Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
A thirteen-year-old girl gains a much more sympathetic understanding of her relationship with her mother when she has to spend a day in her mother's body. This is one of those deals where the book is DEFINATELY better than the movie, even though the movie was awesome! (BPHS AR BOOK)
Book of the Day: After by Francine Prose
In the aftermath of a nearby school shooting, a grief and crisis counselor takes over Central High School and enacts increasingly harsh measures to control students, while those who do not comply disappear.
Book of the Day: An Unlikely Friendship: A novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley by Ann Rinaldi
Relates the lives of Mary Todd Lincoln, raised in a wealthy Virginia family, and Lizzy Keckley, a dressmaker born a slave, as they grow up separately then become best friends when Mary's childhood dream of living in the White House comes true.
Book of the Day: Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
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Book of the Day: Surrender by Tonya Hartnett
As life slips away, Gabriel looks back over his brief 20 years, which have been clouded by frustration and humiliation. A small, unforgiving town and distant, punitive parents ensure that he is never allowed to forget the horrific mistake he made as a child. He has only two friends --- his dog, Surrender, and the unruly wild boy, Finnigan, a shadowy doppelganger with whom the meek Gabriel once made a boyhood pact. But when a series of arson attacks grips the town, Gabriel realizes how unpredictable and dangerous Finnigan is. As events begin to spiral violently out of control, it becomes devastatingly clear that only the most extreme measures will rid Gabriel of Finnigan for good.
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Book of the Day: Quiet Courage: the definitive account of Flight 93 and its afterman by Glenn J. Kashurba
Combines previously collected oral histories with those recorded through 2006, adding details of the 9/11 plot and what occurred on Flight 93.
AUTHOR GLENN J. KASHURBA will be appearing at the Bethel Park Library on March 12 at 7:00 PM. Register today.
Book of the Day: The White Horse by Cynthia D. Grant
In her writing for a concerned teacher, sixteen-year-old Raina reveals her troubles with a disfunctional family, life on the streets, drug abuse, and finally an unplanned pregnancy.
Book of the Day: Down the Yukon by Will Hobbs
In the wake of Dawson City's Great Fire of 1899, sixteen-year-old Jason and his girlfriend Jamie canoe the Yukon River across Alaska in an epic race from Canada's Klondike to the new gold fields at Cape Nome. (BPHS AR BOOK)
Book of the Day: Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevada's Aspen Springs mental hospital after each has attempted suicide connect with each other in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in their lives.
Book of the Day: Black-eyed Suzie
Suzie's stay in a mental hospital helps her tear down the walls of a devastating psychological prison she calls "the box."
Book of the Day: Cheating Lesson by Nan Willard Cappo
When her team is announced as finalists in the state Classics Bowl contest, Bernadette suspects that cheating may have been involved. (BPHS AR BOOK)
Book of the Day: The Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings
Living near the water on Maryland's Eastern Shore, thirteen-year-old Brady and his best friends J.T. and Digger become entangled in a tragedy which tests their friendship and their ideas about right and wrong.
Book of the Day: Valentine Princess: a Princess Diaries Book by Meg Cabot
Sixteen-year-old Mia finds an old diary and enjoys reading what she wrote about her first Valentine's Day with Michael.