by Deb Caletti
Money can’t buy everything, but it sure is nice when you have it, or so Indigo Skye thinks when she receives a 2.5 million dollar tip from a mysterious customer. Indigo was already pretty happy, but suddenly everyone she loves wants to help her decide how to live her life as a millionaire.
June 12th, 2009
by Michael Scott
An ancient book is lost and the modern world could be torn at the seams. Twins Sophie and Josh Newman are swept up in a quest to protect the secret of eternal life when they meet Nicholas Flamel, the 700-year-old discoverer of the magic formula.
June 12th, 2009
by Cory Doctorow
In the near future, the worst terrorist attack since 9/11 turns the United States into a technological police state in the name of security. Wrongfully suspected of helping the terrorists, hacker Marcus vows to bring down the entire system.
February 27th, 2009
by Lisa Alvarado, Ann Hagman Cardinal, and Jane Alberdeston Coralin
A school paper brings together three unlikely friends who offer support and guidance as they meet weekly for dinner at a Chicago café.
February 10th, 2009
edited by Sarah Cortez
Real, gritty, and tender stories written by young people about their own lives. Whether a story about the death of a grandfather or the failure of a mother to learn English, the reader is reminded about “moments of change” in the lives of teens.
February 9th, 2009
by Greg Mortenson
A failed attempt to climb K2 results in the unlikely pairing of an American climber and the Pakistani villagers of Korphe. A vow to return and build a school in their village turns into a life-long mission to bring education to over fifty communities throughout Pakistan.
February 9th, 2009
by Carrie Brown
In this beautiful coming-of-age story, a young girl and her neighbor agree to read to an artist who returns to his home town to die of AIDS. All three become drawn into Lewis & Clark’s Journals, and those travels become symbolic of the journeys each of them undertakes.
February 9th, 2009
by Claire Messud
Three Brown graduates in their thirties, friends since college, remain unsettled despite the privileged circles they inhabit.
February 9th, 2009
by Patricia McCormick
Sold into prostitution by her stepfather at the age of 13, Lakshmi is beaten, starved, and drugged into submission. Her heartbreaking story is an unflinching look at sexual slavery as it exists today.
January 23rd, 2009
by Frances O’Roark Dowell
Isolated at school and neglected at home, Tobin is rescued by friendship with a chicken-obsessed new kid and his little brother, a budding business tycoon.
January 23rd, 2009
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