Our New Books
This page will highlight a selection of our newer fiction and nonfiction books. Check back often as the titles shown will change.
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Please come to the Library Media Center to check
out some good reads! I want you to be a lifelong reader!
This page will highlight a selection of our newer fiction and nonfiction books. Check back often as the titles shown will change.
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| Newer Fiction | ||
| Maximum Ride series -- James Patterson -- Our library has the first three books of this series. They are fast-moving, exciting reads featuring teenagers with some special abilities (like being able to fly). Try them!! | ||
| Another Faust -- Would you sell your soul for special talents: mind-reading, athletic ability, great writing, control over time, and extreme beauty? Faust, in the legend, traded his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge. Five teens, the "Fausts", manipulated by evil adults, try to live "normal" lives...Interesting! | ||
| After -- "In complete denial that she is pregnant, straight-A student and star athlete Devon Davenport leaves her baby in the trash to die, and after the baby is discovered, Devon is accused of attempted murder." | ||
| Newer Nonfiction | ||
| No Time to Think: The Menace of Speed and the 24-Hour News Cycle -- Howard Rosenberg -- In an engaging way, the journalist co-authors examine "the impact of the amped-up, overwrought nature of modern news gathering"..."Under pressure to fill hours of airtime, networks began inflating stories by constantly updating them, magnifying non-news events, and injecting personal conjecture from anchors." | ||
| Police Lab -- David Owen -- An overview of forensic science for young adult readers that includes case studies of actual crimes. | ||
| Seize the Story: A Handbook for Teens Who Like to Write -- Victoria Hanley -- "Tips, tricks, and writing exercises from award-winning authors of teen fiction" will inspire teenage creative writers | ||