December
Christmas
Ho Ho Ho! We think these Simon & Schuster Christmas books will definitely be on Santa's Nice List!
The True Gift
A Christmas Story
By: Patricia MacLachlan
Illustrated by: Brian Floca
This edition: Hardcover, 96 pages
Publication date: October 6, 2009
Ages: above 7
All year long Lily and Liam look forward to Christmas on their grandparents' farm. It's always the perfect trip -- walking to the lilac library, trimming the tree, giving gifts. But this year, thanks to a white cow alone in...
Freshman Reading/First Year Experience
Suggested titles for college common book programs as part of the Freshman First Year Experience
The Pregnancy Project
A Memoir
By: Gaby Rodriguez
with: Jenna Glatzer
This edition: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publication date: January 17, 2012
Ages: above 14
It started as a school project…but turned into so much more.Growing up, Gaby Rodriguez was often told she would end up a teen mom. After all, her mother and her older sisters had gotten pregnant as teenagers; from an...
Other Formats: eBook
Three Little Words
A Memoir
By: Ashley Rhodes-Courter
This edition: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publication date: May 5, 2009
Ages: above 14
"Sunshine, you're my baby and I'm your only mother. You must mind the one taking care of you, but she's not your mama." Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes, living by those...
Tweak
Growing Up on Methamphetamines
By: Nic Sheff
This edition: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publication date: January 6, 2009
Ages: above 15
Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always...
Copper Sun
By: Sharon M. Draper
This edition: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publication date: January 1, 2008
Ages: above 14
M. Sindy Felin's National Book Award finalist is in paperback for the first time. Karina has plenty to worry about on the last day of seventh grade: finding three Ds and a C on her report card again, getting laughed at by...
Other Formats: Hardcover
Holiday
Tis the season to be…reading! December is here bringing with it snow days, gingerbread houses, sleigh rides and carol singing; all the great things that lead up to our favorite holidays - Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa.
The True Gift
A Christmas Story
By: Patricia MacLachlan
Illustrated by: Brian Floca
This edition: Hardcover, 96 pages
Publication date: October 6, 2009
Ages: above 7
All year long Lily and Liam look forward to Christmas on their grandparents' farm. It's always the perfect trip -- walking to the lilac library, trimming the tree, giving gifts. But this year, thanks to a white cow alone in...
Last Christmas
The Private Prequel (Part of Private )
By: Kate Brian
This edition: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publication date: October 7, 2008
Ages: above 14
Ariana Osgood has everything an Easton Academy girl could want: straight A's, the perfect boyfriend, and a coveted spot in exclusive Billings House. But on the first night of Christmas vacation, a blizzard traps her on campus...
The Twelve Dates of Christmas
(Part of Romantic Comedies, The)
By: Catherine Hapka
This edition: Mass Market Paperback, 272 pages
Publication date: October 7, 2008
Ages: above 12
Lexi's feeling a little holidazed this winter....
Lexi's been going out with Cameron for way too long. Sure, he's a nice guy, but there's a spark missing between them. So she comes up with the perfect plan: get him to fall...
Other Formats: eBook
