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    9-11 Artists Respond: Volume One
      Over 100 graphic artists draw their reactions to the 9-ll attack on the World Trade Center. There are as many styles and points-of-view as artists. Although graphic in nature, some texts would be difficult for beginning readers due to size and type face
      Author: No author cited HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, The
      When Junior (Arnold) Spirit chooses to go to school off his North Dakota reservation to attend an all white farm school, he encounters a few new friends and loses an old one as he navigates the worlds of whites and Native Americans.
      Author: Alexie, Sherman HSE Descriptors: language arts - reading | social studies

    Big Mouth and Ugly Girl
      In this engrossing 266-page book, Matt, age 17, is falsely accused of trying to blow up his high school. His friends desert him, but a girl who calls herself "Ugly Girl" befriends him, and together they weather public opinion, the police, parents, teache
      Author: Oates, Joyce Carol

    Chess Rumble
      Since his sister died, Marcus is in trouble all the time at school. Then he meets CM and learns to take control of his life through the game of chess. This book was inspired by inner-city chess enrichment programs.
      Author: Neri, G.

    Chess Rumble
      Since his sister died, Marcus is in trouble all the time at school. Then he meets CM and learns to take control of his life through the game of chess. This book was inspired by inner-city chess enrichment programs.
      Author: Neri, G.

    Coal Miner's Bride, A: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska
      In journal format, the life of a thirteen year old girl in 1896 comes to life. Anetra Kaminska is sold to an older widower of three children in a mining town, for the price of her and her brother's tickets from Poland to America. Her life is extremely ha
      Author: Bartoletti, Susan Campbell HSE Descriptors: language arts - reading | language arts - writing | social studies

    Journey
      Journey, an eleven-year-old boy whose Mom has left him and his sister to live with her parents, feels angry and betrayed. He spends the summer looking at family photos, learning to recognize the sustaining love of his grandparents, and letting go of his
      Author: MacLachlan, Patricia

    Just One Flick of the Finger
      Young Jack brings his father's gun to school hoping to scare a bully, but events take an unexpected and violent turn.
      Author: Lorbiecki, Marybeth

    Letting Swift River Go
      This book tells the story of a community's act of selling up the houses and land to the government so that a water reservoir can be built. It is told from the view point of a woman who felt as though she lost her childhood because all her landmarks had
      Author: Yolen, Jane

    Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
      This coming-of-age novel is a Newbery Honor Book. It tells the story of people in Maine in the early 1900s, a friendship between a minister's son and an island girl, and the ways greed and prejudice change all their lives.
      Author: Schmidt, Gary

    Long Way Gone, A: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
      The story of a Sierra Leonian boy who at age 12 was recruited and forced into being a gun toting, drug crazed soldier and then learned how to live with what he had done after going through a UNICEF rehabilitation program.
      Author: Beah, Ishmael HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Marching for Freedom
      The compelling story of the events in Selma, Alabama that led to the voter rights march to Montgomery in 1965. Interviews with some of the marchers and black and white photographs highlight the struggles of African Americans to get the right to vote.
      Author: Partridge, Elizabeth HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Memories of Summer
      The novel is set in 1955. A father and 2 daughters (Lyric, the narrator, is 13 and sister Summer is 16) move from rural Kentucky to Flint, MI. The story is about the move, about Lyric's adjustment, but mostly about Summer's descent into mental illness and
      Author: White, Ruth

    Mind's Eye
      This is a novel in play form. Courtney, 16 and paralyzed, learns about the power of the mind from an elderly blind woman and a game they play--taking an imaginary trip to Italy using a 1910 Baedeker's guidebook.
      Author: Fleischman, Paul HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Miss Spitfire
      Using real letters and records, the author vividly imagines the early days of the relationship between Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan from the teacher's perspective.
      Author: Miller, Sarah

    Miss Spitfire
      Using real letters and records, the author vividly imagines the early days of the relationship between Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan from the teacher's perspective.
      Author: Miller, Sarah

    My Sister's Keeper
      Set in modern day Rhode Island, this novel tells the story of two sisters: Kate, the elder sister, has a rare form of leukemia and Anna, the younger sister, was conceived as a bone marrow donor for her sister. This book deals with medical and moral ethics
      Author: Picoult, Jodi

    Real Time
      A gripping story told in real time (hence the title)from the viewpoints of several characters involved in the bombing of an Israeli bus.
      Author: Kass, Pnina Moed HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois
      This biography of Louise Bourgeois traces the influences of her childhood in France and her independent development as a woman artist later in the U.S. The book includes beautiful reproductions of her work and numerous back pages for further exploration.
      Author: Greenberg & Jordan, Sandra HSE Descriptors: language arts - writing | social studies

    Safekeeping
      Radley returns home to Vermont from a volunteer stay in Haiti to complete chaos. She begins a long trek to try to find her parents and some sense of normalcy in a country becoming completely dysfunctional.The underling message is articulated, as a vision
      Author: Hesse, Karen HSE Descriptors: social studies | language arts - reading | language arts - writing

    Saying It Out Loud
      Mindy is a typical 16-year-old teenager when her mother develops a serious medical problem. This touching story alternates between Mindy's current feelings and actions and flashbacks to earlier memories to show her reaction to this terrible tragedy.
      Author: Abelove, Joan

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      Author: bunting, eve HSE Descriptors: literature and arts | literature and arts | literature and arts | literature and arts | literature and arts

    Stitches: A Memoir
      An autobiographical graphic novel that profoundly describes the author's disturbing and often horrific childhood. This is a riveting and groundbreaking work by children's book illustrator David Small.
      Author: Small, David HSE Descriptors: language arts - reading | language arts - writing

    Touching Spirit Bear
      Cole, a juvenile "delinquent," is offered jail or "circle justice," a system based on Native American traditions that attempts to provide healing for the criminal, his victim, and the community. Cole's time at a remote Alaskan island and his interactions
      Author: Mikaelsen, Ben

    Under the Shadow of Wings
      Obie, a developmentally disabled boy dies causing a variety of emotional response from his friend Tatnall, an 11-year-old girl.
      Author: Banks, Sara

    Wagon, The
      At the time of Emancipation and Lincoln's death, a young boy, born into slavery, looks back on his anger at slavery and the support of his family as he helps his father build a wagon for the master which later carries them to freedom.
      Author: Johnston, Tony HSE Descriptors: social studies

    Well, The
      Set in Mississippi in the early 1900's, African American David Logan and his family share their well with blacks and whites in their community which leads to racial violence.
      Author: Taylor, Mildred


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