Monday, August 24, 2009

Isinglass Book List

The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah By Nora Raleigh Baskin

The Compound By S. A. Bodeen

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas By John Boyne

Eighth Grade Bites By Heather Brewer

Airman By Eoin Colfer

The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

Losing Forever By Gayle Frieseh

The Graveyard Book By Neil Gaiman

Gone By Michael Grant

Football Genius By Tim Green

Found By Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Ruby Key By Holly Lisle

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks By: E. Lockhart

The Declaration By Gemma Malley

The Reminder By Rune Michaels

Night of the Howling Dogs By Graham Salisbury

My Swordhand is Singing By Marcus Sedgwick

Amazing Grace By Megan Shull

Everlost By Neal Shusterman

The Red Thread By Roderick Townley

The Red Thread



The Red Thread
By Roderick Townley
Library Standing: We don’t have this book but we would be happy to ILL it for you!

Prompted by recurrent dreams, sixteen-year-old Dana Landgrave uncovers an ancient crime that has drawn the same souls together through three lifetimes.

There's nothing sinister about the girl's sunlit twenty-first-century American life in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Yet, centuries ago, terrible things were done — by someone she knows! Could it be her easygoing, easy-to-look-at boyfriend, Chase? Or her younger brother, Ben, who has been confined to a wheelchair since a school bus accident? What about Gianna, her inscrutable enemy on the yearbook staff? Or her eccentric psychotherapist, Dr. Sprague?

As Dana summons courage to reenter the past, each incarnation propels her to new discoveries — and new suspicions — until the threads of all three lives converge in a devastating revelation.

Everlost



Everlost
By Neal Shusterman
Library Standing: We don’t have this book but we would be happy to ILL it for you!

Nick and Allie don't survive the crash, and now their souls are stuck halfway between life and death in a sort of limbo called Everlost. It's a magical yet dangerous place, where bands of lost souls run wild andanyone who stands in the same spot too long sinks to the center of the Earth.
Frightened and determined, Nick and Allie aren't ready to rest in peace just yet. They want their lives back, and their search for a way homewill take them deep into the uncharted areas of Everlost. But the longer they stay, the more they forget about their pasts. And if all memory of home is lost, they may never escape this strange, terrible world.

Amazing Grace



Amazing Grace
By Megan Shull
Library Standing: We don’t have this book but we would be happy to ILL it for you!

Tired of the endorsements, press conferences, and tournaments, Grace Kincald, a beautiful tennis superstar, goes into hiding and starts a new life in Alaska, with the help of a former FBI agent, where she transforms herself into the girl she’s always wanted to be.

My Swordhand is Singing



My Swordhand is Singing
By Marcus Sedgwick
Library Standing: We have this in book form!

WHEN TOMAS AND HIS SON, Peter, settle in Chust as woodcutters, Tomas digs a channel of fast-flowing waters around their hut, so they have their own little island kingdom. Peter doesn't understand why his father has done this, nor why his father carries a long, battered box, whose mysterious contents he is forbidden to know.
But Tomas is a man with a past: a past that is tracking him with deadly intent, and when the dead of Chust begin to rise from their graves, both father and son must face a soulless enemy and a terrifying destiny.

Night of the Howling Dogs



Night of the Howling Dogs
By Graham Salisbury
Library Standing: We don’t have this book but we would be happy to ILL it for you!

DYLAN'S SCOUT TROOP goes camping in Halape, a remote spot below the volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. The only thing wrong with the weekend on a beautiful, peaceful beach is Louie, a tough older boy. Louie and Dylan just can't get along.
That night an earthquake rocks the camp, and then a wave rushes in, sweeping everyone and everything before it. Dylan and Louie must team up on a dangerous rescue mission. The next hours are an amazing story of survival and the true meaning of leadership.

The Reminder



The Reminder
By Rune Michaels
Library Standing: We have this in book form!

Daisy, otherwise known as Daze, keeps hearing her dead mother's voice. Sometimes it's because of her dad, who likes to watch old home movies when he can't sleep. Sometimes it's because of her brother, who was too young to remember Mom, and needs to be reminded by looking at photographs and watching videos. Sometimes it might just be her mind trying to work out what her therapist would call "issues." But this time, it is none of those things. It's something much more wonderful and much more terrifying, something Daze never thought possible. And it might allow Daze to do what she couldn't years ago: save her mother's life.