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Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis CarrollThis 1872 sequel to Lewis Carroll's beloved Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finds the inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Looking-glass land, a topsy-turvy world lurking just behind the mirror over Alice's mantel, is a fantastic realm of live chessmen, madcap kings and queens, strange mythological creatures, talking flowers and puddings, and rude insects.
Masterman Ready: The Wreck of the "Pacific"
by Frederick MarryatThis is a vivacious juvenile novel that captures exhilarating adventures related to sea life. The novel is full of wit and excited accounts based on Marryat's practical experiences. It is a marvelous specimen of nautical fiction and worthy to be read by those who have passion for invigorating and exciting ventures.
Carver: A Life In Poems
by Marilyn NelsonGeorge Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1864 and was raised by the childless white couple who had owned his mother. In 1877 he left home in search of an education, eventually earning a master's degree. In 1896, Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department at the all-black-staffed Tuskegee Institute, where he spent the rest of his life seeking solutions to the poverty among landless black farmers by developing new uses for soil-replenishing crops such as peanuts, cowpeas, and sweet potatoes. Carver's achievements as a botanist and inventor were balanced by his gifts as a painter, musician, and teacher. This Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book by Marilyn Nelson provides a compelling and revealing portrait of Carver's complex, richly interior, profoundly devout life.<P><P> Newbery Medal Honor book
Undelivered Mail
by Reginald RoseReginald Rose, author of "Twelve Angry Men' and creator of "the defenders", writes letters to the friends of his youth on the Upper West side of New York City. He concentrates on the year 1937, when he was sixteen. Alternately funny, poignant, outrageous and bittersweet, this memoir explores a young man's coming of age and the joy and pain that goes along with it.
Warslayer
by Rosemary EdgehillRosemary Edgehill has written previous fantasies both by herself and in collaboration with Mercedes Lackey. This is her first solo work in five years and it is the tale of a tv heroine asked to become a real heroine in another world where real demons and monsters are threatening the peaceful folk of the land.
Bouncing Off the Moon
by David GerroldThree extremely bright teen-agers and their parents end up on the moon and are mixed up in crime and the courts. David Gerrold is doing his best writing for years in this series and it is well worth your time.
The Road Home (Guardians of the Flame, Book #7)
by Joel RosenbergThis is part of a long series of books written in the same universe. This series is well-written and appeals to young adults as well as young older people.
A Place Within the Sphere
by Tanis MorranEsmeralda Mrky sees herself as an outsider, cut off from other girls her age. Her friendship with Savannah Andreason, who has autism, helps her appreciate her own uniqueness and the power of her imagination. The book has some fantasy elements involving a magic Christmas ornament that transports Esmeralda into alternate realities.
The Walking Fern
by Matilda Joslyn GageMatilda Joslyn Gage a famous Womans Rights suffragist also wrote many books, speaches, stories and articles.In the 1800's The Walking Fern, is a short story about two young ladies who go out in search of a rare fern, and meet a strange man with a secret past.
I Know How It Feels to Fight for Your Life
by Jill KrementzThis book presents first-person accounts by fourteen children (ages seven to sixteen) who live with chronic illnesses and/or disabilities. The conditions include leukemia, spina bifida, juvenile diabetes, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and kidney failure. The stories are very positive and pubeat. Most of the children emphasize the importance of the support they have received from family and friends.
Finding H.F.
by Julia WattsAbandoned by her mother and raised by her loving but religiously zealous grandmother, 16-year-old Heavenly Faith Simms (H.F. for short) has never felt like she belonged anywhere. When she finds her mother's address in a drawer, she and her best friend, Bo, an emotionally repressed gay boy, hit the road in Bo's scrap heap of a car and head south. Their journey through the heart of the American South awakens both teens to the realization that there is a life waiting for them that is very different from what they have known and that the concept of family is more far-reaching than they had ever imagined.
Mrs. Pollifax and the Lion Killer (Mrs. Pollifax #12)
by Dorothy GilmanIn response to a desperate SOS Kadi Hopkirk flies to the African country of Ubangiba, where her childhood friend Sammat is soon to be crowned king. Mrs. Pollifax reluctant to allow the girl to venture alone into what she fears may be grave danger, crashes the party. On arrival, Kadi and Mrs.P soon discovers that Sammat has dangerous enemies.
My Girl
by Patricia HermesWhen your dad's getting married and your Grandma's got a screw loose... it's good to have a friend who understands you. Even if he is a boy.
The Story Of Britain: Magna Carta
by C. Walter HodgesA history of the Magna Carta, describing how the "Great Charter" allowed Britain to become "a government of laws, and not of men." The Story of Britain series.
A Return to Christmas
by Chris HeimerdingerUntil he was three years old, Artemus Holiday and his twin brother, Andrew, had shared the adventures of life together. But when young Artemus lost his brother in a terrible tragedy on Christmas day, the magic of the Christmas season seemed forever shrouded by a cloud of sadness and despair. But miracles have been known to happen during this time of year. . . . This heartwarming Christmas story follows the lives of two eleven-year-old heroes-the weary and cynical Artemus and an outcast named Chess, a homeless con-artist with a heart of gold. Through a simple twist of fate, these boys will find themselves swept into the adventure of a lifetime--one that takes them beyond their wildest imaginings.
Girl Walking Backwards
by Bett WilliamsSixteen-year-old Sky deals with irresponsible parents and her own life difficulties.
Raising a Mother Isn't Easy
by Elisabet MchughEleven-year-old Karen is an adopted Korean orphan. Her mother is a single parent, and Karen has decided that what her mother needs is a husband. Although to the outside world Karen's mother is a thoroughly competent woman (she is a successful veterinarian, who can, when necessary, tune her own car), this is not the way Karen sees her. Karen's well-intentioned plan, kept secret from her mother, of course, doesn't work out in the way Karen hoped it would. But her funny, heartwarming efforts and the book's surprise ending will bring readers a very special satisfaction. A fresh, humorous, and touching first novel.
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo
by Zlata Filipovic Christina Pribichevich-ZoricThis journal entry represents Zlata's insightful writing and the translators skill: "Thursday, October 14, 1993 Dear Mimmy, Those lunatics up in the hills must have read what I wrote about the shooting yesterday. They want to show me that they're still around. They went SHOOTING today. Shells fell around the market-place, and we don't know how Grandma and Grand-dad are. Poor things. These lunatics haven't just stolen from us our childhood, they've stolen from my grandparents and other old people a peaceful old age. They're not letting them live out the rest of their lives in peace. They had to ruin that too. I didn't have classes or music school today. They sent us home, so I'll spend the whole day at home reading, playing the piano, spending some time with Nejra and Haris. I was supposed to go to Mirna's today, but they spoiled that for me. I didn't tell you, Mimmy, that you're about to go out into the world. You're going to be published abroad. I allowed it, so you could tell the world what I wrote to you. I wrote to you about the war, about myself and Sarajevo in the war, and the world wants to know about it. I wrote what I felt, saw and heard, and now people outside of Sarajevo are going to know it. Have a good journey into the world. Your Zlata" A fine book for a book report. Teens sensitive to cruelty will want to share this diary with parents. This was a horrific piece of history.
The Gospel According to Harry Potter: Spirituality in the Stories of the World's Most Famous Seeker
by Connie Nealfrom a Review of "The Gospel According to Harry Potter by Connie Neal" by Jonathan Marlowe, pastor of Shiloh United Methodist Church in Granit Quarry, NC Connie Neal goes carefully through the four Harry Potter books that have been published so far, and patiently shows us the same kind of "points of contact" with the Bible that I discussed with the children in my church. These "points of contact" (or "glimmers of the gospel," as she calls them) include how Lily Potter's sacrifice for the sake of her son Harry corresponds to Christ's sacrifice for us on the cross, how Dumbledore's deep wisdom mirrors the character of God, and how evil forces operate through deception and violence. Neal is careful not to treat the Potter series as Christian allegory, acknowledging that the Potter stories are different from C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia. But she wants to prove that J. K. Rowling was right when she said, "You can find in these stories whatever you are looking for." So many have found evidence of witchcraft and the occult in these stories because that is what they were seeking. But Neal has gone to the same stories looking instead for the gospel, and much to the reader's delight, she has found it.
Fright Time - Black
by Rochelle Larkin Joshua Hanft3 spine-tingling tales: Don't Breathe, Overnight-mare, and It's in the Attic.
Fright Time - Green
by Rochelle Larkin Joshua Hanft3 spine-tingling tales: Forest of Fear, Ghost Twin, and Something's in the Sewer.