Tag Archives: Social Issues

Crank

Rating: (108 reviews)
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Product Description
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina — she’s fearless. Through a boy, [...]

Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist

Rating: (43 reviews)
Author: Rachel Cohn, David Levithan
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

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NOW A MAJOR motion picture starring Michael Cera (Juno and Superbad) and Kat Dennings (The 40 Year-Old Virgin)! Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist is a comedy about two teens thrust together for one hilarious, sleepless night of adventure in [...]

Old Bear

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Kevin Henkes
Publisher: Greenwillow

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Snug and warm, curled and furry, Old Bear sleeps.
Red, orange, and brown leaves fly through the air, and it is snowing hard. Old Bear doesn’t notice.
Old Bear is dreaming about being a cub again. He is dreaming about the beauty [...]

Pretty Little Liars #5: Wicked (Pretty Little Liars)

Author: Sara Shepard
Publisher: HarperTeen

Product Description
In idyllic Rosewood, Pennsylvania, where Burberry earmuffs keep diamond-studded ears warm, four very pretty girls have done some very wicked things. . . .
High school juniors Hanna, Spencer, Emily, and Aria have paid dearly for their sins. A stalker named “A” terrorized them for months and revealed their [...]

The Dragon Princess (Tales of the Frog Princess)

Author: E.D. Baker
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books

Product Description
Meet Millie, the charming but somewhat cursed daughter of Princess Emma and Prince Eadric. Why cursed? You see, every time Millie gets mad (and she gets mad a little too often) she turns into a dragon. And not a cute little pink dragon either. She is [...]

What’s Going on Down There?: Answers to Questions Boys Find Hard to Ask

Rating: (44 reviews)
Author: Karen Gravelle, Nick Castro, Chava Castro, Robert Leighton, Walker & Co
Publisher: Walker Books for Young Readers

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Why is my voice making such weird sounds? When will I be able to start shaving? Why do I keep getting pimples? What is a wet dream? Your body has been behaving very strangely [...]

Impulse

Rating: (40 reviews)
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Simon Pulse

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Sometimes you don’t wake up. But if you happen to, you know things will never be the same.Three lives, three different paths to the same destination: Aspen Springs, a psychiatric hospital for those who have attempted the ultimate act — suicide.Vanessa is beautiful and [...]

Where’s My Stuff?: The Ultimate Teen Organizing Guide

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Samantha Moss, Lesley Schwartz
Publisher: Orange Avenue Publishing

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Free time is great. Unless you spend all of it searching for your homework, your mobile phone, or a clean pair of shorts. Then free time is not so great. In fact, it’s non-existent. If chaos and disorganisation are swallowing all [...]

A Smart Girls Guide to Boys: Surviving Crushes, Staying True to Yourself & Other Stuff (American Girl Library)

Rating: (19 reviews)
Author: Nancy Holyoke
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Inc

The Thief Lord

Rating: (392 reviews)
Author: Cornelia Funke
Publisher: The Chicken House

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Prosper and Bo are orphans on the run from their cruel aunt and uncle. The brothers decide to hide out in Venice, where they meet a mysterious character who calls himself the “Thief Lord.” Brilliant and charismatic, the Thief Lord leads a ring [...]

The Tiger Rising

Rating: (78 reviews)
Author: Kate Dicamillo
Publisher: Candlewick

Product Description
The National Book Award finalist from the best-selling author of BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE - now in paperback
Walking through the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger - a real-life, very large tiger - pacing back and forth [...]

Identical

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry

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Do twins begin in the womb?Or in a better place?Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical down to the dimple. As daughters of a district-court judge father and a politician mother, they are an all-American family — on the surface. Behind the facade each sister [...]

The Teen Girl’s Gotta-Have-It Guide to Money: Getting Smart About Making It, Saving It, and Spending It! (Teen Girl’s Gotta-Have-It Guides)

Author: Jessica Blatt
Publisher: Watson-Guptill

Product Description
Suze Orman advises women on how to handle their money–and now Jessica Blatt advises the women of tomorrow on how to handle theirs. The newest addition to the Teen Girl’s Gotta-Have-It series empowers girls by showing them why money matters. From making money, to saving money, to investing money, [...]

Writers Inc.: A Student Handbook for Writing And Learning

Rating: (40 reviews)
Author: Sebranek, Patrick Sebranek, Dave Kemper, Verne Meyer
Publisher: Great Source Education Group

Amazon.com Review
It’s meant for high schoolers, but adults who haven’t inhaled chalk dust for years might appreciate it even more. The process of organizing, researching and writing a paper is laid is out in easy-to-understand [...]

The Twilight Companion: The Unauthorized Guide to the Series

Author: Lois H. Gresh
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

Product Description
Everyone’s in love with vampires, and if his name happens to be Edward Cullen, then readers of the wildly popular Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer can’t help but be crazy about him. For all those who adore Bella Swan, Edward, and the rest of the Cullen family and [...]

I Am the Messenger

Rating: (64 reviews)
Author: Markus Zusak
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Meet Ed Kennedy—underage cabdriver, pathetic cardplayer, and useless at romance. He lives in a shack with his coffee-addicted dog, the Doorman, and he’s hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence, until [...]

The Giver

Rating: (39 reviews)
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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When Jonas turns 12, he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. Now, it’s time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back.

The American Heritage Student Dictionary

Rating: (11 reviews)
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

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The perfect dictionary for students in grades 6-9. This edition has been updated to reflect up-to-the-minute developments in all subject areas, from technology to world affairs.

How to Steal a Dog

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Barbara O’Connor
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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Half of me was thinking, Georgina, don’t do this. Stealing a dog is just plain wrong. The other half of me was thinking, Georgina, you’re in a bad fix and you got to do whatever it takes to get yourself out [...]

Listen!

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Stephanie S. Tolan
Publisher: HarperTrophy

Product Description
Learning to walk again is the easy part.
For twelve-year-old Charley, recovering from the accident that shattered her leg is nowhere near as difficult as facing the solitude of a summer without her best friend and with a father who does nothing, now, but work. [...]

Trial and Triumph: Stories from Church History

Rating: (15 reviews)
Author: Richard M. Hannula
Publisher: Canon Press

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“Thus says the LORD: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; then you will find rest for your souls“(Jer. 6:16). Christianity is a faith in love with history. God [...]

Master the SSAT & ISEE 2009 (Master the Ssat and Isee)

Author: Peterson’s
Publisher: Arco

Product Description
The guide for students AND parents! Master the SSAT & ISEE provides all the prep needed to score higher on the SSAT and ISEE: up-to-date information on the tests, hundreds of practice questions and four full-length practice tests (all with detailed answer explanations), and solid test-taking advice. Also includes [...]

The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt (Landmark Books)

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Elizabeth Payne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

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For more than 3,000 years, Egypt was a great civilization that thrived along the banks of the Nile River. But when its cities crumbled to dust, Egypt’s culture and the secrets of its hieroglyphic writings were also lost. The Pharaohs [...]

The Rules of Survival

Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Nancy Werlin
Publisher: Puffin

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For Matt and his sisters, life with their cruel, vicious mother is a day-to-day struggle for survival. But then Matt witnesses Murdoch coming to a child’s rescue in a convenience store, and for the first time, he feels a glimmer of hope. When, amazingly, Murdoch [...]

National Geographic Student Atlas of the World: Revised Edition

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: National Geographic
Publisher: National Geographic Children’s Books

Product Description
Combines full-color maps and data sets to introduce students to the importance of the connections between geography and other areas of study. The thematic atlas gives students a clear picture of the recent agricultural, industrial, demographic, environmental, economic and political changes [...]

A Young People’s History of the United States, Vol. 1: Columbus to the Robber Barons

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Howard Zinn
Publisher: Seven Stories Press

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Praise for A People’s History of the United States:
“Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history, and his text is studded with telling quotations from labor leaders, war resisters and fugitive slaves. There are vivid [...]

Gossip Girl #1: A Novel (Gossip Girl Series)

Rating: (319 reviews)
Author: Cecily Von Ziegesar
Publisher: Poppy

Product Description
lder teens and adult readers can’t get enough of Gossip Girl, the anonymous narrator who made her catty debut in the bestselling Gossip Girl and titillated readers in the juicy sequel, You Know You Love Me. Now in All I Want Is Everything, readers [...]

The Clique Summer Collection #2: Dylan (Clique Series)

Rating: (12 reviews)
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Publisher: Poppy

Product Description
Game, Set, Match… Dylan? Dylan and her TV-host mom are off to Hawaii’s Aloha Tennis Open. While Merri-Lee interviews tennis’s wild child Svetlana “Tennis the Menace” Slootskyia, Dylan lets the tropical sun melt away the memory of getting dumped by two guys at the [...]