January
Anti-Bullying Books
Books that address the topic of bullying and promote tolerance and acceptance.
Michael Vey
The Prisoner of Cell 25 (Part of Michael Vey)
By: Richard Paul Evans
This edition: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publication date: August 9, 2011
Ages: above 12
My name is Michael Vey, and the story I’m about to tell you is strange. Very strange. It’s my story. To everyone at Meridian High School, Michael Vey is an ordinary fourteen-year-old. In fact, the only thing that...
Other Formats: eBook
Addie on the Inside
By: James Howe
This edition: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publication date: July 26, 2011
Ages: 10 - 14
The Gang of Five is back in this third story from Paintbrush Falls. Addie Carle, the only girl in the group of friends is outspoken, opinionated, and sometimes…just a bit obnoxious. But as seventh grade progresses,...
Getting Revenge on Lauren Wood
By: Eileen Cook
This edition: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publication date: September 21, 2010
Ages: above 14
Popularity is the best revenge. In the final weeks of eighth grade, Lauren Wood made a choice. She betrayed her best friend, Helen, in a manner so publicly humiliating that Helen had to move to a new town just to save face....
Out of My Mind
By: Sharon M. Draper
This edition: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publication date: March 9, 2010
Ages: above 10
Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there's no delete button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school—but no one knows it. Most...
Getting Revenge on Lauren Wood
By: Eileen Cook
This edition: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publication date: January 5, 2010
Ages: above 14
Popularity is the best revenge. In the final weeks of eighth grade, Lauren Wood made a choice. She betrayed her best friend, Helen, in a manner so publicly humiliating that Helen had to move to a new town just to save face....
What If Someone I Know Is Gay?
Answers to Questions About What It Means to Be Gay and Lesbian
By: Eric Marcus
This edition: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publication date: September 25, 2007
Ages: above 14
if you think your friend is a lesbian, can you ask her?
how do people become gay?
is it a sin? is it a choice?
No question goes unanswered in this important book about being gay. All
the basics -- and...
Totally Joe
By: James Howe
This edition: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publication date: April 24, 2007
Ages: above 10
"Everybody says you and Colin were kissing."
"What? That's ridiculous!"
"For heaven's sake, Joe, if you and Colin want to kiss, you have every right to."
"We did not kiss," I told her.
Addie shrugged....
Other Formats: eBook
Shattering Glass
By: Gail Giles
This edition: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publication date: September 1, 2003
Ages: above 12
"Simon Glass was easy to hate....I guess, really we each hated him for a different reason, but we didn't realize it until the day we killed him." Fat, clumsy Simon Glass is a nerd, a loser who occupies the lowest rung on the...
Anti-Bullying Books
Books that address the topic of bullying and promote tolerance and acceptance.
Cracked
By: K. M. Walton
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: January 3, 2012
Ages: above 14
In this gripping debut, a teen takes a bottle of pills and lands in the psych ward with the bully who drove him to attempt suicide.Victor hates his life. He’s relentlessly bullied at school and his parents constantly...
Other Formats: eBook
Michael Vey
The Prisoner of Cell 25 (Part of Michael Vey)
By: Richard Paul Evans
This edition: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publication date: August 9, 2011
Ages: above 12
My name is Michael Vey, and the story I’m about to tell you is strange. Very strange. It’s my story. To everyone at Meridian High School, Michael Vey is an ordinary fourteen-year-old. In fact, the only thing that...
Other Formats: eBook
Addie on the Inside
By: James Howe
This edition: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publication date: July 26, 2011
Ages: 10 - 14
The Gang of Five is back in this third story from Paintbrush Falls. Addie Carle, the only girl in the group of friends is outspoken, opinionated, and sometimes…just a bit obnoxious. But as seventh grade progresses,...
Getting Revenge on Lauren Wood
By: Eileen Cook
This edition: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publication date: September 21, 2010
Ages: above 14
Popularity is the best revenge. In the final weeks of eighth grade, Lauren Wood made a choice. She betrayed her best friend, Helen, in a manner so publicly humiliating that Helen had to move to a new town just to save face....
Out of My Mind
By: Sharon M. Draper
This edition: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publication date: March 9, 2010
Ages: above 10
Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there's no delete button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school—but no one knows it. Most...
What If Someone I Know Is Gay?
Answers to Questions About What It Means to Be Gay and Lesbian
By: Eric Marcus
This edition: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publication date: September 25, 2007
Ages: above 14
if you think your friend is a lesbian, can you ask her?
how do people become gay?
is it a sin? is it a choice?
No question goes unanswered in this important book about being gay. All
the basics -- and...
Totally Joe
By: James Howe
This edition: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publication date: April 24, 2007
Ages: above 10
"Everybody says you and Colin were kissing."
"What? That's ridiculous!"
"For heaven's sake, Joe, if you and Colin want to kiss, you have every right to."
"We did not kiss," I told her.
Addie shrugged....
Other Formats: eBook
Shattering Glass
By: Gail Giles
This edition: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publication date: September 1, 2003
Ages: above 12
"Simon Glass was easy to hate....I guess, really we each hated him for a different reason, but we didn't realize it until the day we killed him." Fat, clumsy Simon Glass is a nerd, a loser who occupies the lowest rung on the...
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
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
We honor the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with these special books.
The Rock and the River
By: Kekla Magoon
This edition: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publication date: January 6, 2009
Ages: 9 - 14
In 1968 Chicago, it’s not easy for thirteen-year-old Sam to be the son of known civil rights activist Roland Childs. Especially when his older brother, Stick, starts keeping to himself. Then, one day, Sam finds something...
