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Any Alan Gratz book!! Read them ALL!!
Most of his books are Historical Fiction
but all books can be found on a cart in the middle of the Histroical Fiction area.
SPORTS
I've had many students that hadn't ever finished a book that started this one and couldn't put it down! Great book!!
When Jessica is told she’ll never run again, she puts herself back together—and learns to dream bigger than ever before. The acclaimed author of Flipped delivers a powerful and healing story.
Jessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. She’s not comforted by the news that she’ll be able to walk with the help of a prosthetic leg. Who cares about walking when you live to run?
As she struggles to cope, Jessica feels that she’s both in the spotlight and invisible. People who don’t know what to say act like she’s not there. Jessica’s embarrassed to realize that she’s done the same to a girl with CP named Rosa. A girl who is going to tutor her through all the math she’s missed. A girl who sees right into the heart of her.
Will Jessica ever run again? Check out the Running Dream and see.
“Inspirational. Readers will zoom through the book just as Jessica blazes around the track. A lively and lovely story.” —Kirkus Reviews
SCI-FI - but you don't really notice!
To everyone at Meridian High School, fourteen-year-old Michael Vey is nothing special, just the kid who has Tourette’s syndrome. But in truth, Michael is extremely special—he has electric powers. Michael thinks he is unique until he discovers that a cheerleader named Taylor has the same mysterious powers. With the help of Michael’s friend, Ostin, the three of them set out to discover how Michael and Taylor ended up with their abilities, and their investigation soon brings them to the attention of a powerful group who wants to control the electric teens—and through them, the world. (ACTION PACKED)
Adventure/Survival
Twelve-year-old Petrel is an outcast, living on an ancient icebreaker that has been following the same ocean course for three hundred years. The ship's crew has forgotten its original purpose and has broken into three warring tribes. Everyone has a tribe except Petrel, whose parents were thrown overboard for alleged crimes. She has survived by living in the dark corners of the ship, and speaking to no one except two large rats, Mister Smoke and Mrs. Slink.
When a boy is discovered on a frozen iceberg, the crew is immediately on alert. Petrel hides him on board, hoping he'll be her friend. What she doesn't know is that the ship guards a secret, held down deep in its belly, and the boy has been sent to seek and destroy it.
Thrilling…Adventurous…Unforgettable Friendship!
Find this book in the Adventure Section in the Hub!
SCI-FI
Janitors by Tyler Whitesides
Have you ever fallen asleep during math class? Are you easily distracted while listening to your English teacher? Do you find yourself completely uninterested in geography? Well, it may not be your fault. The janitors at Welcher Elementary know a secret, and it s draining all the smarts out of the kids. Twelve-year-old Spencer Zumbro, with the help of his classmate Daisy Gullible Gates, must fight with and against a secret, janitorial society that wields wizard-like powers. Who can Spencer and Daisy trust and how will they protect their school and possibly the world? Janitors is book 1 in a 5 book fantasy series. You'll never look at a mop the same way again.
Beneath by Roland Smith
Pat O'Toole has always idolized his older brother, Coop. Coop is... different. He doesn't talk on the phone, doesn't use email, and doesn't have friends. He's never really cared for anything but the thrill of being underground, and for Pat of course. So it's no surprise to anyone that after a huge fight with their parents, Coop runs away. One year later, Pat receives a package containing a digital voice recorder and a cryptic message from his brother. He follows the clues to New York City and soon discovers that Coop has joined the Community, a society living beneath the streets. Now it's up to Pat to find his brother -- and bring him home.
You can find the book Beneath in the Survival section in the Hub!
Historical Fiction
While fishing with his friends off Honolulu on December 7, 1941, teenaged Adam is caught in the midst of the Japanese attack and through the chaos of the subsequent days tries to find his father, a naval officer who was serving on the U.S.S. Arizona when the bombs fell.
Historical Fiction
If you loved Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz then this book is for you!
Lida thought she was safe. Her neighbors wearing the yellow star were all taken away, but Lida is not Jewish. She will be fine, won't she? But she cannot escape the horrors of World War II. Lida's parents are ripped away from her and she is separated from her beloved sister, Larissa. The Nazis take Lida to a brutal work camp, where she and other children are forced into backbreaking labor. Starving and terrified, Lida bonds with her fellow prisoners, but none of them know if they'll live to see tomorrow. When Lida and her friends are assigned to make bombs for the German army, Lida cannot stand the thought of helping the enemy. Then she has an idea. What if she sabotaged the bombs... and the Nazis? Can she do so without getting caught? And if she's freed, will she ever find her sister again? This pulse-pounding novel of survival, courage, and hope shows us a lesser-known piece of history -- and is sure to keep you captivated until the last page.
Find Making Bombs for Hitler in the Hub today!
Horror/Mystery
5 books in this series!!
Do you like Action, Suspense and Humor? Then this may be the perfect book for you! A huge problem has occurred in London: ghosts, haunts, spirits and specters are showing up all over the city and they aren't exactly friendly. Only the young people have the psychic ability required to see and get rid of these nasty things. Many different Psychic Agencies have popped up to try to handle the dangerous word and they are in fierce competition for business.
In The Screaming Staircase, Lucy Carlyle teams up with Anthony Lockwood, the leader of Lockwood & Co, a small agency that runs independent of any adult supervision. After an assignment leads to both a grisly discovery and a disastrous end, Lucy, Anthony, and their teammate, George, are forced to take part in the dangerous investigation of Combe Carey Hall, one of the most haunted houses in England. Will Lockwood & Co. survive the Hall's legendary Screaming Staircase and Red Room to see another day?
Check out the Screaming Staircase today in the Hub!
Horror/Mystery
If you like scary, mystery, and adventure, check this book out!
Follow Sarah and Brian as they try to solve the mystery in Skeleton Creek. Their adventure brings them to the gold dredge where something strange is happening. On one visit Brian gets injured and is no longer able to leave his house.
Watch Sarah's videos...Read Brian's Journal
If you are a kid who doesn't enjoy reading, check out this book!
Historical Fiction
In the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami in Sumatra, two teenagers, Sarah, from America on vacation and Ruslan, living in Indonesia, meet where he works. After the tsunami, Sarah and Ruslan are torn from the lives that they were living, the people they love and are now thrown into survival mode.
Will Ruslan see Sarah again?
Will either of them find their loved ones?
Read the Killing Sea and follow these two characters as they try to survive the real event of the 2004 tsunami!
For two years, Cyrus and Antigone Smith have run a sagging roadside motel with their older brother, Daniel. Nothing ever seems to happen. Then a strange old man with bone tattoos arrives, demanding a specific room.
Less than 24 hours later, the old man is dead. The motel has burned, and Daniel is missing. And Cyrus and Antigone are kneeling in a crowded hall, swearing an oath to an order of explorers who have long served as caretakers of the world's secrets, keepers of powerful relics from lost civilizations, and jailers to unkillable criminals who have terrorized the world for millennia.
"The mythology behind the Order is neatly woven into the action-packed plot, offering a brief reprieve from chases and hunts without slowing the pace. Even at a hefty 400-plus pages, this exhilarating story reads like a breeze, and fans of adventure will have a hard time putting it down." - The Bulleting of the Center for Children's Books
Read all three books in this trilogy!
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