Liam's father has AIDS, and his family cannot talk about it until Liam reveals a secret that he has tried to deny ever since he saw his father embracing another man at the beach.Book of the Day: Eagle Kite by Paula Fox
Liam's father has AIDS, and his family cannot talk about it until Liam reveals a secret that he has tried to deny ever since he saw his father embracing another man at the beach.Book of the Day: A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.Book of the Day: Shadow by Joyce Sweeney
During the summer when her older brothers' fighting escalates dangerously, thirteen-year-old Sarah becomes increasingly aware of her ability to sense things that others cannot, including the presence of her beloved dead cat.Book of the Day: The Changeover by Margaret Mahy
When her little brother seems to become possessed by an evil spirit, fourteen-year-old Laura seeks the help of the strangely compelling older boy at school who she is convinced has supernatural powers.Book of the Day: Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris
A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father.
Book of the Day: The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five foot sailboat, which, along with uncles and another cousin, is en route to visit their grandfather in England.
Book of the Day: Begging for Change by Sharon Flake
In 1931, a young girl travels around the country performing on a tightrope during revival meetings held by her father, and seeking her own answers about God, her family, and her life of poverty and homelessness.
Book of the Day: Worth the Risk : true stories about risk takers plus how you can be one, too by Arlene Erlbach.
Discusses the value of taking risks and different kinds of risk-taking, both good and bad, and offers advice on and examples of this type of behavior and how to learn from both successes and mistakes.
Book of the Day: The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories by Val Ross
Ross covers plenty of historical ground in this wide-ranging discussion of maps and mapmakers. Each of the 13 chapters spotlights a different topic--from the voyages of fifteenth-century Chinese explorer and chart maker Cheng Ho to the mapping of North America.
Book of Day: Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story about Brain Science by John Fleischman
Tells the story of Phineas Gage, a railroad construction foreman who survived eleven years years after an accident in which a thirteen-pound iron rod shot through his brain.
Book of the Day: Buckin the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis
Deeply involved in his cold and manipulative mother's shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan, fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home For Men, all the while dreaming of going to college and becoming a philosopher.
Book of the Day: Wolf on the Fold
When his father dies, fourteen-year-old Kenny has to leave school and find work. Includes flashbacks to previous generations of Kenny's family.
Book of the Day: Walking on Air by Kelly Easton
In 1931, a young girl travels around the country performing on a tightrope during revival meetings held by her father, and seeking her own answers about God, her family, and her life of poverty and homelessness.
Book of the Day: The Freedom Writers diary : how a teacher and 150 teens used writing to change themselves and the world around them
Did anyone see the movie Freedom Writers? This book came first. It contains the actual writings of the students that were featured in the film.
Book of the Day: We Just Want to Live Here: a Palestinian teenager, an Israeli teenager : an unlikely friendship by Amal Rifa'i
An unsparing--yet hopeful--account of what it means to grow up in Jerusalem today as told through the candid exchange of letters between a Palestinian teenager and an Israeli teenager.
Posting Early!
Posting Books of the Day early because I will be out of town for a school librarian's conference with Mrs. Paz. Any of you folks have Mrs. Paz when you were in elementary school? She rules!
See you soon! Don't forget that the Star Wars movie nights are coming up and also we have that cool bracelet craft next week! CLICK HERE TO SEE DETAILS. Call us at 412-835-2207, ex. 267 to register!
See you soon! Don't forget that the Star Wars movie nights are coming up and also we have that cool bracelet craft next week! CLICK HERE TO SEE DETAILS. Call us at 412-835-2207, ex. 267 to register!
Book of the Day: Straydog by Kathe Koja
Rachel, a teenager with a healthy dose of both aptitude and attitude, begins to feel at home volunteering at an animal shelter.
Book of the Day: The River Between Us by Richard Peck
During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.
Book of the Day: The Schwa Was Here by Neil Schusterman
A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone.
Book of the Day: The Book of Dead Days by Marcus Sedgwick
With the help of his servant and an orphan girl, a magician named Valerian searches graveyards, churches, and underground waterways for a book he hopes will save him from a pact he has made with evil.
Book of the Day: Hush by Jacqueline Woodson
Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the witness protection program.
Book of the Day: Secret Hour by Scott Westerfield
Upon moving to Bixby, Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Jessica Day learns that she is one of a group of people who have special abilities that help them fight ancient creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight; creatures that seem determined to destroy Jess.
Book of the Day: Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator by Jennifer Allison
During the summer before ninth grade, intrepid Gilda Joyce invites herself to the San Francisco mansion of distant cousin Lester Splinter and his thirteen-year-old daughter, where she uses her purported psychic abilities and detective skills to solve the mystery of the mansion's boarded-up tower.
Book of the Day: Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez
In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.
Book of the Day: Goblin Wood by Hilari Bell
A young Hedgewitch, an idealistic knight, and an army of clever goblins fight against the ruling hierarchy that is trying to rid the land of all magical creatures.
Book of the Day: Race for the Sky: the Kitty Hawk Diaries by Johnny Moore by Dan Gutman
Johnny Moore was just a typical boy enjoying life in North Carolina in 1900 until 2 things happened. His mother gave him a book, a blank book, and told him to fill it up. Then two brothers named Wright came to town with a hair-brained idea of building a flying machine.
Book of the Day: Alice, I Think by Susan Juby
Fifteen-year-old Alice keeps a diary as she struggles to cope with the embarrassments and trials of family, dating, school, work, small town life, and a serious case of "outcastitis."
Book of the Day: Alphabet of Dreams by Susan Fletcher
Mitra and her younger brother, Babak, are refugees in ancient Persia, living in a labyrinth of caves, scraping by with the food they can steal in the nearby marketplace. Disguised as a boy for safety and mobility, Mitra dreams of returning to her former life of opulence before her father's plot against a despotic king scattered the family. When it is discovered that Babak possesses the ability of prophetic dreaming, he comes to the attention of a local magus, Melchior, who takes the children under his protection as he travels westward, following signs in the stars.
Book of the Day: Odd Man Out by Sarah Ellis
Twelve-year-old Kip is spending the summer with his grandmother and his five cousins, all of whom are full of enthusiasm, action, and talk. His mother has just remarried and he is not sure what life will be like when the newlyweds get back from Hawaii. Gran's seaside home is like nowhere else. The house has been sold and will be demolished soon so Kip and the girls are free to write on the walls, paint them, and bash them with sledgehammers if they wish, and the cousins do so with gusto. The onslaught of the girls takes a while to adjust to, but Kip has the attic bedroom as his retreat. There he finds his deceased father's adolescent journal, a notebook filled with a story of espionage, secret plots, and a boy called the Operative. Kip feels an instant connection to this story and comes to see that Tristan was the same sort of kid that he is.
Book of the Day: The Killer's Tears by Ann-Laure Bondoux
A young boy, Paolo, and the man who murdered his parents, Angel, gradually become like father and son as they live and work together on the remote Chilean farm where Paolo was born.