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What The Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
by Gladwell, Malcolm
Synopsis: What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers?
Copyright Date: 2009
Obsessives, Pioneers, And Other Varieties Of Minor Genius: Part One From What The Dog Saw
by Gladwell, Malcolm
Synopsis: What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers?
Copyright Date: 2009
Personality, Character, And Intelligence: Part Three From What The Dog Saw
by Gladwell, Malcolm
Synopsis: What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers?
Copyright Date: 2009
Theories, Predictions, And Diagnoses: Part Two From What The Dog Saw
by Gladwell, Malcolm
Synopsis: What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers?
Copyright Date: 2009
Silver (Pirates Of The Caribbean: Jack Sparrow #6)
by Kidd, Rob
Synopsis: Sixth volume chronicling the early adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow!
Copyright Date: 2007
Massie (Clique Summer Collection #1)
by Harrison, Lisi
Synopsis: After getting thrown out of horse camp, Massie's parents force her to take on a summer job as a sales rep for a high-end cosmetics brand. But will her tell-it-as-it-is sales pitch land her out of another job?
Copyright Date: 2008
Claire (Clique Summer Collection #5)
by Harrison, Lisi
Synopsis: Will Claire's Florida BFFs become former BFFs? Back in Orlando for the summer, Claire is reunited with her Florida best friends, Sarah, Sari, and Mandy, after a long year apart.
Copyright Date: 2008
Kristen (Clique Summer Collection #4)
by Harrison, Lisi
Synopsis: Kristen sets sail on the Love Boat... With the rest of the Pretty Committee scattered across the globe, Kristen is stuck in summer school at OCD, making good on her scholarship commitments.
Copyright Date: 2008
Alicia (Clique Summer Collection #3)
by Harrison, Lisi
Synopsis: Alicia takes on Mission Spalfa: Spanish Alpha! Back in Spain to visit her relatives, Alicia discovers that Spain's newest pop sensation Ignacio! He's searching for a true Spanish beauty to star in his new hit-single video.
Copyright Date: 2008
Dylan (Clique Summer Collection #2)
by Harrison, Lisi
Synopsis: Game, Set, Match... Dylan? When Dylan and her mom arrive in Maui for the Aloha Open, Dylan couldn't give two milkshakes about Merri-Lee's big interview with Svetlana Slootskya.
Copyright Date: 2008
Granny
by Horowitz, Anthony
Synopsis: Twelve-year-old Joe Warden isn't happy. Sure, he's rich, but his parents don't care about him. His grandmother should make everything better, except that Joe's granny is a nightmare. She's not just physically repulsive, she's horribly mean. Everyone thinks she's just a dotty old woman, but Joe knows the truth. He's seen behind her mask and glimpsed the wicked glimmer in her eyes--- she is pure evil. And now she's out to get Joe, unless he can stop her and her band of nasty grannies first.
Copyright Date: 1994
Myths And Legends
by Horowitz, Anthony
Synopsis: Tragedies and triumphs are memorable themes in this collection of thirty-five myths and legends from the ancient world. While most are Greek, there are also myths from the Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Norse, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Native American, Incan, Polynesian, and West African worlds. Ages 9-14.
Copyright Date: 2007
The Killing Joke
by Horowitz, Anthony
Synopsis: When Guy Fletcher scoffs at a feeble joke he overhears in his local pub, he finds himself, in quick succession, head-butted and struck by an idea. Is it possible to trace a joke all the way back to its original source?
Copyright Date: 2004
The White Elephant
by Fleischman, Sid
Synopsis: In old Siam, young elephant trainer Run-Run and his old charge, Walking Mountain, must deal with the curse of a sacred white elephant.
Copyright Date: 2006
The Giant Rat Of Sumatra Or Pirates Galore
by Fleischman, Sid
Synopsis: A cabin boy on a pirate ship finds himself in San Diego in 1846 as war breaks out between the United States and Mexico.
Copyright Date: 2005
Lost
by Davies, Jacqueline
Synopsis: In 1911 New York, sixteen-year-old Essie Rosenfeld must stop taking care of her irrepressible six-year-old sister when she goes to work at the Triangle Waist Company, where she befriends a missing heiress who is in hiding from her family.
Copyright Date: 2009
The Everafter
by Huntley, Amy
Synopsis: After her death, seventeen-year-old Maddy finds a way to revisit moments in her life by using objects that she lost while she was alive, and by so doing she tries to figure out the complicated emotions, events, and meaning of her existence.
Copyright Date: 2009
King Of The Screwups
by Going, K. L.
Synopsis: After getting in trouble yet again, popular high school senior Liam, who never seems to live up to his wealthy father's expectations, is sent to live in a trailer park with his gay "glam-rocker" uncle.
Copyright Date: 2009
Betraying Season
by Doyle, Marissa
Synopsis: In 1838, Penelope Leland goes to Ireland to study magic and prove to herself that she is as good a witch as her twin sister Persy, but when Niall Keating begins to pay her court, she cannot help being distracted.
Copyright Date: 2009
Slot Machine
by Lynch, Chris
Synopsis: When overweight thirteen-year-old Elvin Bishop is sent to camp at Christian Brothers Academy Retreat Center, he and his two best friends are forced to try various sports in order to find out where they belong.
Copyright Date: 1995
Jumping Off Swings
by Knowles, Jo
Synopsis: Tells, from four points of view, the ramifications of a pregnancy resulting from a "one-time thing" between Ellie, who feels loved when boys touch her, and Josh, an eager virgin with a troubled home life.
Copyright Date: 2009
Battle Dress
by Efaw, Amy
Synopsis: As a newly arrived freshman at West Point, seventeen-year-old Andi finds herself gaining both confidence and self-esteem as she struggles to get through the grueling six weeks of training for new cadets known as the Beast.
Copyright Date: 2000
King Kong: A Novelization
by Golden, Christopher
Synopsis: With vaudeville in its death throes, actress Ann Darrow finds herself out of a job in Depression-era New York. But her luck changes when she meets Carl Denham, a man struggling to make a name for himself in the entertainment industry.
Copyright Date: 2005
Oracles Of Delphi Keep
by Laurie, Victoria
Synopsis: In 1938, three orphans-- Theo, Carl, and Ian, ages ten to thirteen-- lead three teachers through a portal that takes them from Dover, England, to Morocco in their quest to locate six silver boxes.
Copyright Date: 2009
Up On Cloud Nine
by Fine, Anne
Synopsis: While Stolly struggles to regain consciousness in a hospital bed, Ian recalls some of their best and worst times together as he writes a biography of his eccentric best friend.
Copyright Date: 2002