The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
By Adams,
Douglas, 1952- Dewey: 823
Seconds before Earth is demolished
to make room for a galactic freeway, an earthman is saved by his friend.
Together they journey through the galaxy.
AR: 6.6 YA 8.0 RC: 8.3 13
Lexile: 1000 1980 IL:YA |
In our defense : the Bill of Rights in action
By
Alderman, Ellen. Dewey: 342.73
Examines the historical and
legal significance of each Constitutional amendment and human stories that
have shaped these basic
rights. 1991 IL:AD |
Only yesterday : an informal history of the
1920's
By Allen, Frederick Lewis, 1890-1954. Dewey:
973.91
History of the 1920's from the collapse of Wilson and the New
Freedom to the collapse of Wall Street and the New Era.
1997 IL:AD |
In the time of the butterflies
By Alvarez,
Julia. Dewey: 813
Gives a fictionalized account of four
sisters in the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of General
Trujillo.
AR: 5.8 AD 18.0 RC: 7.1 22 Lexile: 910
1994 IL:AD |
Undaunted courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson,
and the opening of the American West
By Ambrose, Stephen
E. Dewey: 917.804
Chronicles the experiences of Meriwether
Lewis, the man chosen by President Jefferson to lead a voyage from the
Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, discusses the experiences of those
who took part in the expedition, and tells of the leading political,
scientific, and military figures involved in the mapping of the American
West.
AR: 9.0 YA 42.0 RC: 10 54 Lexile: 1190
1996 IL:YA |
Feed
By Anderson, M. T. Dewey:
-Fic-
In a future where most people have computer implants in their
heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in
serious trouble.
AR: 4.4 YA 7.0 RC: 6.7 13 Lexile: 770
2002 IL:YA |
It's not about the bike : my journey back to
life
By Armstrong, Lance. Dewey: 796.6
Champion
cyclist Lance Armstrong describes his triumph over cancer.
AR: 6.7 AD
15.0 RC: 7.5 20 Lexile: 890 2000 IL:AD |
I, robot
By Asimov, Isaac,
1920-1992. Dewey: 813
Dr. Susan Calvin, the first great
practitioner of the new science of robopsychology in 2008, looks back on
her career with U.S. Robotics on the occasion of her retirement fifty
years later, telling stories of how the mechanical race developed.
AR:
6.1 YA 11.0 RC: 7.1 16 Lexile: 820
1950 IL:YA |
Cat's eye
By Atwood, Margaret Eleanor,
1939- Dewey: 813
A feminist painter returns to Toronto for a
retrospective of her work and confronts her memories, family, and
friends.
AR: 6.1 AD 22.0 RC: 9 29 Lexile: 850
1988 IL:AD |
Emma
By Austen, Jane,
1775-1817. Dewey: 823
A novel of Regency England that
centers upon a self-assured young lady who is determined to arrange her
life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her
romantic fancy.
AR: 9.3 AD 30.0 RC: 9 37 Lexile: 1070
IL:AD |
Pride and prejudice
By Austen, Jane,
1775-1817. Dewey: 823
In early nineteenth-century England, a
spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as
well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.
AR: 12.0 AD
27.0 RC: 9 28 Lexile: 1100 IL:AD |
Forgotten fire
By Bagdasarian,
Adam. Dewey: 813
The story of how Vahan Kenderian survived
the Turkish massacre of the Armenians in 1915.
AR: 5.7 YA 9.0 RC: 7.1
14 Lexile: 1050 2000 IL:YA |
The fire next time
By Baldwin, James,
1924- Dewey: 305.896
Presents African-American author James
Baldwin's letter to his nephew from the hundredth anniversary of the
Emancipation Proclamation, in which he discusses his childhood, Black
Muslims, and race in America; and includes seven related writings
including stories, essays, a speech, a song, and an interview with Malcolm
X. 2000 IL:AD |
Go tell it on the mountain
By Baldwin,
James. Dewey: 813
Describes a day in the life of several
members of a Harlem fundamentalist church. The saga of three generations
of people is related through flashbacks.
AR: 6.5 YA 13.0 RC: 7.1 19
Lexile: 1030 1981 IL:YA |
If it ain't Baroque--more music history as it ought to
be taught
By Barber, David W. (David William),
1958- Dewey: 781.17
A humorous history of classical music.
1992 IL:AD |
Darwin's children
By Bear, Greg,
1951- Dewey: 813
Scientists Kaye Lang and Mitch Rafelson,
parents of Stella, a genetically-enhanced child born as a result of
mutations in the human genome caused by the SHEVA virus, lose the struggle
to keep their daughter safe from a repressive government that wants to
control the virus children by isolating them from the general
population.
AR: 5.4 AD 21.0 2003 IL:AD |
Darwin's radio
By Bear, Greg,
1951- Dewey: 813
Molecular biologist Kay Lang, a specialist
in retroviruses, teams up with virus hunter Christopher Dicken and
anthropologist Mitch Rafelson in an attempt to trace the ancient source of
a flu-like disease that is killing expectant mothers and their offspring
and threatening the future of the human race.
AR: 5.5 YA 24.0
2000 IL:YA |
Never change
By Berg,
Elizabeth. Dewey: 813
Myra Lipinsky, a fifty-one-year-old
visiting nurse who never married and has resigned herself to a solitary
life with her dog, crosses paths with the man she admired from afar in
high school when he becomes one of her patients--one with a terminal
illness. 2001 IL:AD |
The long gone lonesome history of country
music
By Bertholf, Bret. Dewey: 781.642
An
illustrated history of American country music along with brief profiles of
country music legends such as Jimmie Rodgers, Minnie Pearl, and Hank
Williams.
AR: 5.2 K-3 1.0
2007 IL:K-3 RL:2.9 |
Friday night lights : a town, a team, and a
dream
By Bissinger, H. G. Dewey: 796.332
Chronicles a
football season in Odessa, Texas, exploring the role of high school sports
in America and how they can bring communities together, and tear them
apart. 2003 IL:YA |
Valiant : a modern tale of faerie
By Black,
Holly. Dewey: -Fic-
Seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs
away to New York City and befriends a group of very unusual characters who
live in the city's subway tunnels and soon finds herself bound into
service by a troll named Ravus.
AR: 5.2 YA 10.0 RC: 6.3 16 Lexile:
820
2005 IL:YA |
Moby-Dick
By Bogart, Shirley. Dewey:
-Fic-
A young seaman joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by
the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the great white whale, Moby
Dick.
AR: 5.3 5-8 2.0
1990 RL:8.6 |
Billy Joel : the life & times of an angry young
man
By Bordowitz, Hank. Dewey: 782.42166
Chronicles
the life of Billy Joel, discussing his childhood in New York, years as a
gang member, boxer, and working musician, career highs and lows, personal
tragedies and struggles, and other related
topics.
2005 IL:AD |
Fahrenheit 451
By Bradbury, Ray,
1920- Dewey: 813
A bookburning official in a future fascist
state finds out that books are a vital part of a culture he never knew. He
clandestinely pursues reading, until he is betrayed.
AR: 5.2 YA 7.0 RC:
10 13 Lexile: 890 1953 IL:YA |
Dandelion wine
By Bradbury,
Ray. Dewey: -Fic-
In a small town in 1928, a twelve year-old
boy savors the magic of childhood and the wonders of summer.
AR: 6.0 YA
10.0 RC: 6.2 14 Lexile: 880
1957 IL:YA RL:6.2 |
Martha Washington : an American life
By Brady,
Patricia, 1943- Dewey: 973.4
Chronicles the life of Martha
Washington, discussing her childhood, schooling, impact on George
Washington's career, marriage to the President, and place in American
history. 2005 IL:AD |
Jane Eyre
By Bronte, Charlotte,
1816-1855. Dewey: 823
Jane, a plain and penniless orphan in
nineteenth-century England, accepts employment as a governess at
Thornfield Hall and soon finds herself in love with her melancholy
employer, Mr. Edward Rochester, a man with a terrible secret. Includes an
introduction, explanatory notes, and excerpts of nineteenth-century
reviews.
Lexile: 840 2000 IL:AD |
Wuthering heights
By Bronte, Emily,
1818-1848. Dewey: 823
Forced by a storm to spend the night
at the home of Heathcliff, Mr. Lockwood uncovers a tale of terror and
hatred on the Yorkshire moors.
AR: 11.3 AD 23.0 RC: 9 20 Lexile:
880
2003 IL:AD |
The good earth
By Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl
Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. Dewey: 813
Wang Lung, a peasant
in China in the 1920s, becomes a prosperous landowner with the help of his
humble wife, O'Lan, with whom he shares a devotion to duty, land, and
survival.
RC: 8.2 25 Lexile:
1530
1931 IL:AD |
Silent spring
By Carson, Rachel,
1907-1964. Dewey: 363.738
Presents Rachel Carson's 1962
environmental classic "Silent Spring," which identified the dangers of
indiscriminate pesticide use; and includes an introduction by biographer
Linda Lear and an afterword by scientist Edward O. Wilson.
AR: 11.5 YA
19.0 RC: 10 25 Lexile: 1340
1962 IL:YA |
Bound feet & Western dress
By Chang,
Pang-Mei Natasha, 1965- Dewey: 305.42
Tells the story of the
author's great-aunt Chang Yu-i, a woman who challenged Chinese tradition
by refusing to have her feet bound, marrying and divorcing preeminent poet
Hsu Chih-mo, and running the Shanghai Women's Savings Bank during the
1930s.
AR: 7.1 AD 11.0 1996 IL:AD |
The man who was Thursday : a nightmare
By
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936. Dewey: 823
The
seven members of the Central Anarchist Council call themselves by the days
of the week, and the man called Thursday is a Scotland Yard
detective.
2001 IL:AD |
Girl with a pearl earring
By Chevalier,
Tracy. Dewey: 813
Imagines the young woman in Johannes
Vermeer's mysterious painting "The Girl With a Pearl Earring" as a
sixteen-year-old Dutch girl named Griet who sparks the interest of the
artist when she becomes a maid in his turbulent household.
AR: 5.4 AD
11.0 RC: 6.9 16 Lexile: 770 1999 IL:AD |
The awakening
By Chopin, Kate,
1851-1904. Dewey: 813
Edna Pontellier, a Victorian-era wife
and mother, is awakened to the full force of her desire for love and
freedom when she becomes enamored with Robert LeBrun, a young man she
meets while on vacation.
RC: 7.9 11 Lexile: 960
1972 IL:AD |
Watership Down
By Adams, Richard, 1920- Dewey: 823
Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace.
AR: 6.2 YA 25.0 RC: 7.4 30 Lexile: 880 1972 IL:YA RL:7.4 |
Lord Jim
By Conrad, Joseph,
1857-1924 Dewey: 823
A man who has been branded a coward
earns the respect of the Malay people.
AR: 9.1 YA 24.
2000 IL:YA RL:7 |
Coma
By Cook, Robin, 1940- Dewey:
813
When more than a dozen minor-surgery patients die inexplicably on
the operating table, a medical student determines to find the
reason.
1977 IL:AD $5.19 |
What to listen for in music
By Copland, Aaron,
1900-1990. Dewey: 781.1
Composer Aaron Copland offers his
insights into the process of listening to music, providing explanations of
the elements, fundamentals, texture, and structure of musical
compositions.
1939 IL:AD |
I am the cheese
By Cormier,
Robert. Dewey: -Fic-
A young boy's desperate search for his
father leads him to discover secrets of his past that might very well
threaten his life. 1977 IL:YA |
What to listen for in music
By Copland, Aaron,
1900-1990. Dewey: 781.1
Composer Aaron Copland offers his
insights into the process of listening to music, providing explanations of
the elements, fundamentals, texture, and structure of musical
compositions. 1939 IL:AD |
Stotan!
By Crutcher, Chris. Dewey:
-Fic-
A high school coach invites members of his swimming team to a
memorable week of rigorous training that tests their moral fiber as well
as their physical stamina.
AR: 5.8 YA 9.0 RC: 7.1 13 Lexile: 1020
1986 IL:YA RL:6.3 |
Whale talk
By Crutcher, Chris. Dewey:
-Fic-
Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial,
adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his
high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of
the school's less popular students.
AR: 6.1 YA 10.0 RC: 7.2 16 Lexile:
1000 2001 IL:YA RL:6.6 |
Eagle blue : a team, a tribe, and a high school
basketball season in Arctic Alaska
By D'Orso,
Michael. Dewey: 796.323
Follows the Fort Yukon Eagles high
school basketball team from its 2004 preseason to the 2005 Alaskan state
championship, exploring the lives of its players and coach and examining
the six-hundred-person village's Gwich'in Athabascan heritage.
2006 IL:AD |
Seventeenth summer
By Daly, Maureen,
1921- Dewey: -Fic-
The summer after high school graduation,
seventeen-year-old Angie finds herself in love for the first time.
AR:
5.9 YA 14.0 RC: 7.5 22 Lexile: 1130
1942 IL:YA |
The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe
By
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Dewey: 823
The classic account of
a shipwrecked Englishman and his survival on a desert island.
RC: 9 34
Lexile: 1320 1986 IL:YA $4.24 |
We talk, you listen : new tribes, new turf
By Deloria,
Vine. Dewey: 305.800973
We Talk, You Listen is strong, boldly unconventional medicine
from Vine Deloria Jr. (19332005), one of the most important voices of
twentieth-century Native American affairs. Here the witty and insightful
Indian spokesman turns his penetrating vision toward the disintegrating
core of American society. ISBN-13: 978-0803259850
2007 IL:AD |
The hound of the Baskervilles
By Doyle, Arthur
Conan, Sir, 1859-1930. Dewey: 823
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's
classic Sherlock Holmes mystery, "The Hound of the Baskervilles," about a
legendary monster that haunts the
moor.
2006 IL:YA |
|
The three musketeers
By Dumas, Alexandre,
1802-1870. Dewey: 843
Alexandre Dumas's classic novel about
the nobleman D'Artagnan who, along with three Musketeers, defend the honor
of Anne of Austria against the plots of Cardinal Richeliu during the reign
of France's King Louis XIV.
AR: 11.3 YA 42.0
2006 IL:YA |
Drawing on the artist within : an inspirational and
practical guide to increasing your creative powers
By Edwards,
Betty. Dewey: 153.3
Discusses research on the creative
process, in how humans view processes and objects, how humans use
intuition, imagination, and insight in everyday life, and how these
techniques can be used in problem
solving.
1986 IL:AD |
The new drawing on the right side of the
brain
By Edwards, Betty. Dewey: 741.2
Presents a set
of exercises designed to release creative potential and tap into the
special abilities of the right hemisphere of the brain, focusing on the
five basic skills of drawing which include the perception of edges,
spaces, relationships, lights and shadows, and the whole, or gestalt.
1999 IL:AD |
Founding brothers : the revolutionary
generation
By Ellis, Joseph J. Dewey: 973.4
Profiles
the intertwined lives of seven of America's founding fathers, including
John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas
Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.
AR: 12.8 AD 22.0
2000 IL:AD |
Good rockin' tonight : Sun Records and the birth of
rock 'n' roll
By Escott, Colin. Dewey:
781.66
Examines the history of Sun Records, Sam Phillips, and the early
days of rock and roll, and contains over two hundred forty black-and-white
photographs of legendary artists such as Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis,
Johnny Cash, B.B. King, and many others.
1991 IL:AD |
The Christopher killer : a forensic mystery
By
Ferguson, Alane. Dewey: -Fic-
On the payroll as an assistant
to her coroner father, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney uses her
knowledge of forensic medicine to catch the killer of a friend while
putting herself in terrible danger.
AR: 5.1 YA 9.0 RC: 6.1 15 Lexile:
800
2006 IL:YA |
| |
Phineas Gage : a gruesome but true story about brain
science
By Fleischman, John. Dewey: 362.1
The true
story of Phineas Gage, whose brain had been pierced by an iron rod in
1848, and who survived and became a case study in how the brain
functions.
AR: 7.4 5-8 2.0 RC: 7.5 6 Lexile: 1030
2002 RL:7.6 |
Eleanor Roosevelt : a life of discovery
By
Freedman, Russell. Dewey: 973.917
A biography of the first
wife of a president to have a public life and career of her own.
AR:
7.8 5-8 6.0 RC: 8.5 9 Lexile: 1100 1993 RL:8.5 |
The voice that challenged a nation : Marian Anderson
and the struggle for equal rights
By Freedman,
Russell. Dewey: 782.1
Tells the life story of singer Marian
Anderson, describing her famous 1939 Lincoln Memorial performance and
explaining how she helped end segregation in the American arts after being
refused the right to perform at Washington's Constitution Hall because of
the color of her skin.
AR: 8.2 5-8 3.0 RC: 7.3 7 Lexile: 1180
2004 RL:6.3 |
One hundred years of solitude
By Garcia Marquez,
Gabriel, 1928- Dewey: 863
The rise and fall, birth and death
of the mythical town of Macondo as told through the history of the Buendia
family. 1970 IL:AD |
Good brother, bad brother : the story of Edwin Booth
and John Wilkes Booth
By Giblin, James. Dewey:
792.02
Tells the life stories of nineteenth-century actor Edwin Booth
and his actor brother John Wilkes Booth, describing the differences
between the two men, chronicling John's assassination of Abraham Lincoln,
and examining the impact of John's crime on the Booth family for decades
afterward.
AR: 8.3 5-8 12.0RC: 9 16 Lexile: 1130
2005 RL:6.8 |
The history of jazz
By Gioia,
Ted. Dewey: 781.65
Traces the development of jazz music from
its origins in New Orleans through the late twentieth century, examining
the different forms the music has taken throughout the years, telling of
great moments in jazz history, and discussing some of the genre's most
significant performers.
Lexile: 1440
1997 IL:AD |
Fat kid rules the world
By Going, K. L. (Kelly
L.) Dewey: -Fic-
Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed,
suicidal, and weighing nearly three hundred pounds, gets a new perspective
on life when Curt, a semi-homeless teen who is a genius on guitar, asks
Troy to be the drummer in a rock band.
AR: 4.7 YA 8.0 RC: 4.3 14
Lexile: 700 2003 IL:YA RL:5.9 |
The last juror
By Grisham,
John. Dewey: 813
In 1970s Clanton, Mississippi, college
dropout Willie Traynor turns a failed small-town paper into a success
covering a local rape and murder case and finds his life coming full
circle when the man convicted of that crime is paroled nine years after
receiving a life sentence and jury members from the trial begin turning up
dead.
AR: 6.8 AD 19.0 2004 IL:AD |
Codex
By Grossman, Lev. Dewey:
813
Edward Wozny's curiosity turns to mystery and obsession when he
realizes that a medieval codex may be hidden among a personal library of
rare books and enlists the help of Margaret Napier, a medieval scholar, to
help him discover the strange history that lies within its
pages.
2004 IL:AD |
Mythology
By Hamilton, Edith,
1867-1963. Dewey: 291.13
A collection of Greek, Roman, and
Norse myths retold by the author.
AR: 8.2 AD 20.0 RC: 8.3 27 Lexile:
1040 1998 IL:AD |
Modoc : the true story of the greatest elephant that
ever lived
By Helfer, Ralph. Dewey: 791.3
Presents
the true story of Modoc and Bram Gunterstein, an elephant and boy--born on
the same day in 1896--following their adventures from Germany, to India,
to the United States, and telling of the extraordinary relationship shared
by the man and animal for over seventy years.
1997 IL:AD |
Catch-22
By Heller, Joseph. Dewey:
813
A bombardier, based in Italy during World War II, repeatedly tries
to avoid flying bombing missions while his colonel tries to get him killed
by demanding that he fly more and more missions.
AR: 7.1 AD 30.0 RC: 9
42 Lexile: 1140 1989 IL:AD |
The sun also rises
By Hemingway, Ernest,
1899-1961. Dewey: 813
Focuses on a "lost generation" of
Americans who fought in France during World War I and who expatriated
themselves from America after the war.
AR: 4.4 AD 10.0 RC: 8.3 16
Lexile: 610 1996 IL:AD |
The true believer : thoughts on the nature of mass
movements
By Hoffer, Eric. Dewey: 303.48
Presents an
analysis of the psychology of mass movements, whether religious, social,
or nationalist, identifying the traits they have in common, and looking at
the types of people who participate in such
movements.
2002 IL:AD |
Brave new world
By Huxley, Aldous,
1894-1963. Dewey: 823
A satirical novel about the utopia of
the future, a world in which babies are decanted from bottles and the
great Ford is
worshipped.
1982 IL:AD |
The remains of the day
By Ishiguro, Kazuo,
1954- Dewey: 823
The life of Stevens, an aging English
butler, changes after three decades of service to the same man.
AR: 7.9
AD 13.0 Lexile: 1210 1988 IL:AD |
Sacred hoops : spiritual lessons of a hardwood
warrior
By Jackson, Phil. Dewey: 796.323
Former
Chicago Bulls coach Phil Jackson shares his philosophy of basketball and
team play, which led his team to multiple championships.
AR: 7.8 AD
10.0 1995 IL:AD |
Music, the brain, and ecstasy : how music captures our
imagination
By Jourdain, Robert. Dewey: 781
Examines
various apsects of music, discussing sound, tone, melody, harmony, rhythm,
composition, performance, listening, understanding, and ecstasy; and
attempts to understand the effects of music on
people.
1997 IL:AD |
The perfect storm : a true story of men against the
sea
By Junger, Sebastian. Dewey: 974.4
Uses
interviews, memoirs, radio conversations, and technical research to
recreate the last days of the crew of the "Andrea Gail," a fishing boat
that was lost in a storm off the coast of Nova Scotia in October
1991.
AR: 7.4 AD 13.0 RC: 9 20 Lexile: 1140
1997 IL:AD |
Andersonville
By Kantor, MacKinlay,
1904- Dewey: 813
Captures the glory and shame of America's
most tragic conflict, the Civil War, in the crowded world of the infamous
prison, Andersonville, and the people who lived outside its
barricades.
AR: 7.8 AD 62.0 RC: 7.2 70 Lexile: 980
1955 IL:AD |
Annie John
By Kincaid,
Jamaica. Dewey: 813
A fictional account of a young girl's
coming of age in Antigua, from a doted upon childhood to an adolescence
fraught with events and alliances leading her away from mutual complacent
acceptance.
AR: 5.9 AD 7.0 RC: 6.9 12 Lexile: 1220
1985 IL:AD |
A separate peace
By Knowles, John,
1926-2001. Dewey: 813
Gene Forrester looks back fifteen
years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend Phineas were
roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school. Their friendship is marred
by Finny's crippling fall, an event for which Gene is responsible and one
that eventually leads to tragedy.
AR: 6.9 AD 10.0 RC: 8.9 14 Lexile:
1110 1987 IL:AD |
Into the wild
By Krakauer,
Jon. Dewey: 917.9804
Tells the story of Chris McCandless, a
twenty-four-year-old who walked into the Alaskan wilderness on an
idealistic journey and was found dead of starvation four months later.
Attempts to discover what led the young man to that point.
AR: 8.1 AD
12.0 RC: 9 19 Lexile: 1270 1997 IL:AD |
Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest
disaster
By Krakauer, Jon. Dewey: 796.52
The author
relates his experience of climbing Mount Everest during its deadliest
season and examines what it is about the mountain that makes people
willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense.
AR:
8.9 YA 17.0 RC: 10 24 Lexile: 1320
1997 IL:YA |
When bad things happen to good people
By
Kushner, Harold S. Dewey: 296.3
Provides insight into the
question of how to deal with human suffering and death.
1981 IL:YA |
Endurance : Shackleton's incredible voyage
By
Lansing, Alfred. Dewey: 910.4
Provides an account of the
voyage undertaken by polar explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew aboard
the Endurance in 1914-15, telling how the men survived after their ship
became locked inside an island of ice and drifted for ten months before
being crushed.1999 IL:AD
|
The realm of possibility
By Levithan,
David. Dewey: -Fic-
A variety of students at the same high
school describe their ideas, experiences, and relationships in a series of
interconnected free verse stories.
AR: 5.2 YA 5.0 RC: 7.3 10
2004 IL:YA RL:3.7 |
Out of the silent planet
By Lewis, C. S. (Clive
Staples), 1898-1963. Dewey: 823
A philologist is kidnapped
and taken via space-ship from England to Malacandra where he escapes and
goes on the run.
AR: 7.4 AD 10.0 RC: 8.1 14 Lexile: 1020
1996 IL:AD |
Perelandra : a novel
By Lewis, C. S. (Clive
Staples), 1898-1963. Dewey: 823
Dr. Ranson faces evil when
the planet Perelandra is invaded by a dark force who strives to create a
new world order.
RC: 8.6 19 Lexile:
1020 1944 IL:AD |
The Screwtape letters ; with, Screwtape proposes a
toast
By Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. Dewey:
248.4
Contains a collection of fictional letters from Screwtape, an
elderly devil, advising his nephew Wormwood, an apprentice devil, how to
corrupt his earthly "patient."
AR: 8.8 YA 7.0 RC: 9 11 Lexile: 1250
2001 IL:YA |
That hideous strength : a modern fairy-tale for
grown-ups
By Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples),
1898-1963. Dewey: 823
Presents the third volume in C. S.
Lewis's Space Trilogy, in which brilliant and brave philologist Dr. Elwin
Ranson amasses forces to fight against a sinister technocratic
organization, secretly controlled by humanity's mortal enemies, that is
plotting to "recondition" society.
RC: 9 28 Lexile: 960
1945 IL:YA |
Through wolf's eyes
By Lindskold, Jane
M. Dewey: 813
Firekeeper, a young woman raised by royal
wolves with their own spoken language, returns to the world of humans to
fulfill the wishes of her late mother and learns that she may be the
daughter of Prince Barden, who left Hawk Haven years earlier to start a
colony and was never heard from again.
AR: 7.5 AD 34.0
2001 IL:AD |
Grania : she-king of the Irish seas
By Llywelyn,
Morgan. Dewey: 813
Brings to life the spirited story of
Grace O'Malley, an Irish chieftan-pirate who struggled to survive the
attacks of England's Elizabeth I in the sixteenth century.
2003 IL:YA |
Parrot in the oven : mi vida : a novel
By
Martinez, Victor, 1954- Dewey: -Fic-
Manny relates his
coming of age experiences as a member of a poor Mexican American family in
which the alcoholic father only adds to everyone's struggle.
AR: 6.1 YA
7.0 RC: 7.1 10 Lexile: 1000 1998 IL:YA |
Hardball : how politics is played--told by one who
knows the game
By Matthews, Christopher, 1945- Dewey:
320.973
Tells tales of how the ambitious get ahead in politics, with
behind-the-scenes stories of alliances formed, enemies made, deals struck,
and reputations lost at the hands of Washington politicians.
1988 IL:AD |
The color of water : a black man's tribute to his white
mother
By McBride, James, 1957- Dewey: 974.7
An
African-American male tells of his mother, a white woman, who refused to
admit her true identity.
AR: 6.1 YA 11.0 RC: 11 19 Lexile: 1240
1996 IL:YA |
Hardball : how politics is played--told by one who
knows the game
By Matthews, Christopher, 1945- Dewey:
320.973
Tells tales of how the ambitious get ahead in politics, with
behind-the-scenes stories of alliances formed, enemies made, deals struck,
and reputations lost at the hands of Washington politicians.
1988 IL:AD |
1776
By McCullough, David G. Dewey:
973.3
Based upon both American and British historical documents, the
author presents a comprehensive history of the American Revolution during
1776, George Washington, and those who followed him.
AR: 9.1 AD 20.0
RC: 12 23 Lexile: 1300 2005 IL:AD |
Mornings on horseback
By McCullough, David
G. Dewey: 973.91
Covers the life of Theodore Roosevelt from
1869, when he is ten, to 1886 when he returns from the west as a grown
man.
1 1981 IL:AD |
Day the Sky Fell/Ain't Gonna Study War No
More
By Meltzer, Milton.The Day the Sky Fell provides
a history of international terrorism, from terrorist states to terrorist
revolutions, from the IRA to the Ku Klux Klan. In the new foreword and
five additional chapters, Meltzer offers reaction, reflection, and some
background information on September 11. First published in 1985, Ain't
Gonna Study War No More provides an authoritative and quite readable
history of the peace movement and nonviolent resistance in America.
2002 IL:AD |
Hold on tight : an insiders novel
By Minter,
J. Dewey: -Fic-
Five wealthy Manhattan high school juniors
visit several colleges while trying to decide which institutions fit their
images of who they are and who they want to be.
AR: 5.4 YA 9.0
2006 IL:YA |
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Sabriel
By Nix, Garth. Dewey:
-Fic-
Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into
the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land
of the Dead.
AR: 7.3 YA 16.0 RC: 7.9 21 Lexile: 1060
1995 IL:YA |
1984 : a novel
By Orwell, George,
1903-1950. Dewey: 823
Depicts life in a totalitarian regime
of the future.
AR: 8.9 YA 17.0 5976EN RC: 8.2 25 Lexile:
1090
1949 IL:YA RL:8.2 |
The Schernoff discoveries
By Paulsen,
Gary. Dewey: -Fic-
Harold and his best friend, both hopeless
geeks and societal misfits, try to survive unusual science experiments,
the attacks of the football team, and other dangers of junior high
school.
AR: 5.6 5-8 3.0 RC: 5.9 6 Lexile: 1030
1997 RL:6 |
Questions from Seventh Period Doc Pennock Answers
Teens' Questions on Life, Love, and the Catholic Faith
By Pennock,
Michael Francis. Dewey: 248.8
2006 IL:AD |
The bell jar
By Plath, Sylvia. Dewey:
813
The author presents a first-person narrative that chronicles the
mental break-down of Esther Greenwood from the doctor's office to the
asylum.
AR: 7.2 AD 11.0 RC: 8.1 18 Lexile: 1140
2005 IL:AD |
Three clams and an oyster
By Powell,
Randy. Dewey: -Fic-
During their humorous search to find a
fourth player for their flag football team, three high school juniors are
forced to examine their long friendship, their individual flaws, and their
inability to try new experiences.
AR: 4.1 YA 6.0 RC: 5.3 11 Lexile: 630
2002 IL:YA |
Dead man walking : an eyewitness account of the death
penalty in the United States
By Prejean, Helen. Dewey:
364.6
Sister Helen Prejean's story of her encounter with the death
penalty in America.
AR: 7.6 AD 18.0 RC: 9 9 Lexile: 1140
1994 IL:AD |
The cobra event
By Preston, Richard,
1954- Dewey: 813
Dr. Alice Austen, an officer with the
Epidemic Intelligence Service branch of the Centers for Disease Control,
goes to New York to investigate the hideous and mysterious death of a
seventeen-year-old girl, and uncovers a terrorist plot involving the use
of biological weapons.
AR: 6.2 AD 18.0 RC: 5.2 21 Lexile: 840
1998 IL:AD |
The hot zone
By Preston, Richard,
1954- Dewey: 614.5
Tells the dramatic story of U.S. Army
scientists and soldiers who worked to stop the outbreak of a deadly and
extremely contagious virus in 1989.
AR: 7.3 AD 16.0 RC: 7.8 22 Lexile:
1030 1995 IL:AD |
All quiet on the western front
By Remarque,
Erich Maria, 1898-1970. Dewey: 833
Depicts the experiences
of a group of young German soldiers fighting and suffering during the last
days of World War I.
AR: 6.0 YA 10.0 RC: 9 12 Lexile: 830
1958 IL:YA |
The holy longing : the search for a Christian
spirituality
By Rolheiser, Ronald. Dewey:
248
Examines what true spirituality is, using personal anecdotes and
examples to demonstrate the role spirituality plays in everyday life and
its importance to personal
fulfillment.1999 IL:AD |
The sparrow
By Russell, Mary Doria,
1950- Dewey: 813
Linguist Emilio Sandoz, a Jesuit priest who
leads a twenty-first century scientific mission to an extraterrestrial
culture, is involved in a tragic misunderstanding with the alien
civilization that leaves him physically and spiritually maimed.
1997 IL:AD |
The lives of the great composers
By Schonberg,
Harold C. Dewey: 780
A collection of brief biographies
discussing the lives of composers from throughout history, beginning with
seventeenth century musician Claudio Monteverdi and continuing in
chronological order through the mid-twentieth century to illustrate the
continuity of music history. 1997 IL:YA |
The lovely bones : a novel
By Sebold,
Alice. Dewey: 813
Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon, the victim
of a sexual assault and murder, looks on from the afterlife as her family
deals with their grief, and waits for her killer to be brought to some
type of justice.
AR: 6.0 AD 16.0 RC: 7.1 21 Lexile: 890
2002 IL:AD |
Ivanhoe
By Scott, Walter, Sir,
1771-1832. Dewey: 823
Relates the adventures of the Saxon
knight Ivanhoe in 1194, the year of Richard the Lion-Hearted's return from
the Third Crusade.
2000 IL:YA |
Pygmalion
By Shaw, Bernard,
1856-1950. Dewey: 822
Presents the text to George Bernard
Shaw's classic play "Pygmalion" about a professor of languages who sets
out to transform a Cockney girl into a sophisticated lady, and contains
explanatory and textual notes, chronology and background information on
the author, and a critical analysis of Shaw's work.
AR: 7.0 YA 6.0 RC:
8.1 9
1916 IL:YA |
A tree grows in Brooklyn
By Smith, Betty,
1896-1972. Dewey: 813
Young Francie Nolan, having inherited
both her father's romantic and her mother's practical nature, struggles to
survive and thrive growing up in the slums of Brooklyn in the early
twentieth century.
AR: 5.8 YA 23.0
1943 IL:YA |
Longitude : the true story of a lone genius who solved
the greatest scientific problem of his time
By Sobel,
Dava. Dewey: 526
Story of John Harrison's forty-year quest
to build the chronometer, the clock that enabled sailors to measure
longitude, saving lives and fortunes.
AR: 9.7 YA 7.0 RC: 11 12 Lexile:
1310 1995 IL:YA |
Chanda's secrets
By Stratton,
Allan. Dewey: -Fic-
Chandra Kabelo, a sixteen-year-old in a
small South African town, faces down shame and stigma in her efforts to
help friends and family members who are dying of AIDS.
AR: 3.7 YA 7.0
RC: 4.6 13 Lexile: 590
2004 IL:YA RL:3.9 |
My life and hard times
By Thurber, James,
1894-1961. Dewey: 818
A humorous memoir talking mostly about
small matters and the incredible things people do when they think they're
acting sensible.
RC: 9 6 Lexile: 1120
1999 IL:YA |
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court
By
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Dewey: 813
Nineteenth-century
mechanic Hank Morgan suffers a blow to the head and wakes up in King
Arthur's Court where he tries to introduce modern technology and political
ideas to the inhabitants.
AR: 9.2 YA 21.0 RC: 5.1 27 Lexile: 1080
1981 IL:YA |
Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a
duty-dance with death
By Vonnegut, Kurt. Dewey: 813
A
fourth-generation German-American is tortured by his memories of the
firebombing of Dresden in 1944 which he witnessed while a prisoner of
war.
AR: 6.0 AD 8.0 RC: 8.5 10 Lexile:
850 1969 IL:AD |
Double helix
By Werlin, Nancy. Dewey:
-Fic-
Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life
and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose
specialty is genetic engineering.
AR: 5.0 YA 9.0 RC: 6.7 14 Lexile: 690
2004 IL:YA RL:7.3 |
Doomsday book
By Willis,
Connie. Dewey: 813
Young twenty-first century historian
Kivrin Engle becomes stranded in the fourteenth century after a
time-travel expedition goes wrong, and she finds herself cast in the role
of an angel of hope during one of history's darkest hours.
1994 IL:AD |
The once and future king
By White, T. H.
(Terence Hanbury), 1906-1964. Dewey: 823
Tells the story of
the youth and reign of King Arthur, the establishment of the Round Table,
and the search for the Holy Grail.
AR: 7.4 YA 41.0 RC: 8.6 27 Lexile:
1080 1958 IL:YA |
The Caine mutiny : a novel of World War II
By
Wouk, Herman, 1915- Dewey: 813
This book is the account of a
well-to-do man who serves on a minesweeper during World War II, describing
the events on the Navy ship Caine and what ultimately led the first mate,
Lieutenant Maryk, a man with little schooling or experience, to take
command of the vessel from Captain Queeg and the subsequent court-martial
of Maryk.
AR: 6.4 AD 34.0 RC: 9 40 Lexile: 910
1992 IL:AD |
Fighting for Life
By Casey, Robert
Robert Former Governor of Pennsylvania Robert P. Casey has lived a life
infused with political justice and morality. But when heart and liver
failure threatened to end his life, he began to see with his new eyes. An
inspiring story of one public servant's personal act of courage. |
Bleachers
By Grisham, John. Dewey: 813
When his old coach dies, high school football star Neely Crenshaw returns to his hometown after fifteen years, reunites with his former teammates, and struggles to resolve his mixed feelings about the man.
AR: 5.2 AD 6.0 2003 IL:AD |
Drawing on the Artist Within
By Edwards,
Betty
Through simple step-by-step exercises that require no special
artistic abilities, Betty Edwards will teach you how to take a new point
of view, how to look at things from a different perspective, how to see
the forest and the trees, in short, how to bring your visual,
perceptual brainpower to bear on creative
problem-solving. |