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Adult Books for High School Students
Source: lifestylepopculturebooks.suite101.com Date: Jun 24, 2009 A review of the non-fiction book The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries by Marilyn Johnson. More Source: teenfiction.suite101.com Date: May 2, 2009 Bella is torn between her vampire boyfriend and her werewolf best friend. The story continues with the ultimate love triangle. More Source: kidslit.menashalibrary.org Date: Apr 3, 2009 Jumped by Rita Williams-GarciaInspired by the dramatic increase of girl-on-girl violence, Williams-Garcia has given us a day in high school leading up to a violent incident. Dominique is already angry that her grades are keeping her off the basketball court, but when Trina pushes past her More Source: www.weta.org Date: Mar 25, 2009 Many, many years ago, when I was in high school, I went on an interview to be an exchange student and the committee members couldnt stop exclaiming about how I looked like a young Sally Field. I no longer look like a young or old Sally Field (that womans got good bones), More Source: Publishers Weekly Date: Dec 22, 2008 Fiction Moonraker Ian Fleming , read by Simon Vance. Blackstone Audio , unabridged, six CDs, 7 hrs., $19.95 ISBN 978-1-4332-5854-1 One of Ian Fleming’s most notable Bond novels, and one of the worst film adaptations of the series, the story of Sir Hugo Drax and his apocalyptic Moonraker missile More Source: www.streetfiction.org Date: Aug 25, 2008 The first time 16-year-old Jordan Richardson critiqued a book that wasnt for school was during a meeting of the DREAM Readers book club at Martin Library.That was 18 months ago when the teen club was new and the library just building up its collection of street lit, a gritty More Source: www.pushthekey.com Date: Feb 25, 2008 A very clever article in the New York Times by Sam Roberts on an unlikely semicolon sighting.Roberts was riding a New York City subway ... More Source: Library Journal Date: Oct 15, 2007 Al-Mohaimeed, Yousef . Wolves of the Crescent Moon . Penguin . Jan. 2008. c.179p. tr. from Arabic by Anthony Calderbank. ISBN 978-0-14-311321-8 . pap. $14. F In his short, poetic debut, Saudia Arabian-born Al-Mohaimeed explores the lives of three misfits in his native country's capital of Riyadh. More Source: Criticas Date: Aug 1, 2002 Críticas's first survey of U.S. public libraries shows that work still needs to be done, but for Spanish speakers the public libraries have never looked better. More Source: www.topix.net Date: Apr 4, 2009 Usually some level of expertise is necessary to produce a successful nonfiction book, especially for fields such as health, self-help, or parenting, where no one will trust your advice without recognized credentials. More Source: kidslit.menashalibrary.org Date: Mar 30, 2009 Mousetraps by Pat SchmatzMaxie is a person who looks at the world through her cartoon lens as she draws pictures of everything around her. Her family is large, boisterous and close and little has happened to challenge her security. Except that incident with Roddy her friend in More Source: www.streetfiction.org Date: Mar 26, 2008 Authors have their own ideas of what makes a good story, but a common goal is to write what they know. Shannon Holmes has known some hard times and it shows in his novels, which are part of a quickly growing genre known as street lit.These gritty stories feature characters that, on the surface, are More Source: teenfiction.suite101.com Date: Apr 10, 2009 Stephenie Meyer's Twilight is a compelling and romantic journey between a human girl and her vampire boyfriend, which will remind the reader of their own high school love More Source: Publishers Weekly Date: Feb 18, 2008 “I feel like I always have one foot back in high school,” says Sarah Dessen, who at 37 could almost pass for a recent graduate. Chapel Hill, her home since her parents took jobs at the University of North Carolina in 1973, is her town, and she relishes in disguising its landmarks in the fictional More Source: Publishers Weekly Date: Jan 7, 2008 This week: the Bomb, WorldCom, the Holocaust, DNA evidence, lost baggage, dubious imperatives, reggae madness and an all-new, all-star fiction anthology edited by Zadie Smith. Plus: now you can write, write, write your way to a flatter stomach! More Source: Publishers Weekly Date: Dec 24, 2007 Trespass is possibly a series best. Both reader and sleuth are working at full tilt as Kinsey interacts with a large cast. Her foremost opponent is the devious and homicidal black widow who has spun a web around the detective's aged and infirmed next door neighbor. More Source: www.pushthekey.com Date: Dec 12, 2007 Some good news from the University of Pennsylvania. The New York Times reports that in the midst of this huge research institution anchored by the famed ... More Source: Library Journal Date: Sep 15, 2007 Charlie Huston's The Shotgun Rule, Sampson Davis and others' The Bond, and other reviews just in! More Source: Library Journal Date: Aug 27, 2007 Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Greg Behrman's The Most Noble Adventure, and other reviews just in! More Source: Library Journal Date: Aug 15, 2007 Michael Dibdin's End Games, Howard Dully's My Lobotomy, and other reviews just in! More Previous | Next
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