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Be sure to check out the library display windows to catch a glimpse of our new books. Also,  we are always accepting donations in order to build our collection. Feel free to donate books that are appropriate for high school students and that have a copyright date of 2003 - present. A big thank you to Mr. Billington, Mrs. Potter, Mr. Spear, Mrs. Baker, and Jess Cook for donating this year. Also, thank you to Chris Carroll and Alex Hill, who have given our graphic novel a major boost throughout the past three years. You guys are the best! Below is a list of our recently purchased titles. Come GOBBLE them up!

 

New Books Purchased With School District Library

Grant Money: 

NEW  BOOKS (More backordered books coming soon)
Nonfiction
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Model: A Memoir by Cheryl Diamond
`The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P.T. Barnum by Candace Fleming
`A Girl’s Life Online by Katherine Tarbox 

`Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston
`Hole in my Life by Jack Gantos
`Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
`Persepolis 2 (graphic novel) by Marjane Satrapi
`Grief Girl: My True Story by Erin Vincent
`The Full Spectrum A New Generation Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, `Questioning, and Other Identities by David Levithan
`I’m Down by Mishna Wolff`The Assist: Hoops, Hopes, and the Game of Their Lives by Neil Swidey`

The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon
`The Year We Disappeared by Cylin Busby and John Busby
`Charles and Emma: The Darwins Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
`Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois by Jan Greenberg
`Graffiti World: Street Art from Five Continents by Nicholas Ganz
`Whatcha Mean What’s a Zine? By Esther Watson (a guide to teaching kids how to write and illustrate zines)

Poetry
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The Rose that Grew From Concrete by Tupac Amar Shakur
`I Don’t WEant To Be Crazy by Samantha Schultz
 

Graphic Novels
`Orange by Benjamin
 

Fiction Series and Continuations of Series
1. Make Lemonade, True Believer, and This Full House by Virginia Euwer Wolff (realistic/urban fiction)

2. Septimus Heap by Angie Sage Magyk, Flyte, Physik, Queste, and Syren (fantasy)

3. Chronicles of Vladimir Todd Books by Heather Brewer  Eight Grade Bites, Ninth Grade Slays

4. Pretty Little Liars Series by Sara Shepard Pretty Little Liars, Flawless, Perfect, Unbelievable, Killer, Heartless

5. Luxe Series by Anna Godberson  Luxe, Envy, Rumors, and Splendor

6. Peter and the Secret of Rundoon and Peter and the Sword of Mercy by Dave Barry

7. Cirque de Freak series by Darren Shan A Living Nightmare, The Vampire’s Assistant, Tunnels of Blood, Vampire Mountain, Trials of Death, The Vampire Prince, Hunters of the Dusk, Allies of the Night, The Lake of Souls, Sons of Destiny

8. Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead Vampire Academy, Frostbite, Shadow Kiss, and Blood Promise

Fiction Books`

`Amiri and Odette: A Love Story by Walter Dean Myers`

`Prey by Lurlene McDaniel
`Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
`The Brothers Torres by Coert Voorhees
`Rose Sees Red by Cecil Castellucci`

`How Not To Be Popular by Jennifer Ziegler
`After the Moment by Garret Freymann-Weyr
`The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl by Barry Lyga`

`Sweetgrass Basket by Marlene Carvell`

`The Secret Story of Sonia Rodriguez by Alan Lawrence Sitomer
`Ten Cents a Dance by Christine Fletcher
`Slam by Nick Hornby
`Paranoid Park by Blake Nelson
`Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin

`Good Girls by Laura Ruby`

`Goth Girl Rising by Barry Lyga`

`The Vast Fields of Ordinary by Nick Burd

 

 
 

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