Books added to the LMS Library collection in Fall 2009.
If you take a minute to glance over the list, you’ll see that although more of the books are fiction, I am still trying to keep a balanced collection of non-fiction books , too. Research shows that boys, in particular, often prefer informational books to novels, but they aren’t often encouraged to read non-fiction. I feel that when students use the Internet for nearly all of their informational needs, they are missing one huge advantage an actual book can provide, which is the BIG PICTURE. Looking up details on a web site is great, but to grasp underlying concepts students still need someone (an author or teacher) to put it in context. I encourage more teachers to offer extra credit or some type of incentive for our kids to read true books in your content areas–lots of our non-fiction books have AR quizzes to help us make them accountable, especially in the Social Studies and Science areas. I know Jeremy gives “Cat’s Points” for AR quizzes on history books, with double points awarded for those set before 1900, and there may be other teachers doing something similar.
Sue
Louisburg Middle School
NEW BOOKS FALL 2009
973.7 ALL
Allen, Thomas B. Mr. Lincoln’s high-tech war : how the North
used the telegraph, railroads, surveillance balloons,
iron-clads, high-powered weapons, and more to win the Civil
War. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2009.
Examines how Abraham Lincoln’s interest in technology played
a role in the outcome of the Civil War; and explains how the
telegraph, railroads, surveillance balloons, and other
inventions helped the North win the war and rebuild the
economy.
F ALV
Alvarez, Julia. Return to sender. 1st ed. New York : Knopf,
c2009. After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to
help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure,
eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but
when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he
realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
PB AUS
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Pride and prejudice. 1st Tor ed. New
York : Tor, 1994. In early nineteenth-century England, a
spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish
gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four
sisters.
F BEC
Becker, Tom. Darkside. 1st ed. New York : Orchard Books, 2008,
c2007. Jonathan Starling’s father is in an asylum and his
home has been attacked when, while running away from
kidnappers, he stumbles upon Darkside, a terrifying and
hidden part of London ruled by the descendents of Jack the
Ripper, where Jonathan is in mortal danger if he cannot find
the way out.
F BEC
Becker, Tom. Lifeblood. 1st ed. New York : Orchard Books,
2008, c2007. As Jonathan searches London’s Darkside for the
same murderer that his mother was seeking when she
disappeared twelve years earlier, it becomes clear that it
is Jonathan who is being hunted.
F BRA
Brashares, Ann. 3 willows : the sisterhood grows. 1st ed. New
York : Delacorte Press, c2009. Ama, Jo, and Polly, three
close friends from Bethesda, Maryland, are looking forward
to high school, but wonder if their relationship will
survive the challenges that each girl faces over the summer
break.
F CAB
Cabot, Meg. Being Nikki. 1st ed. New York : Point, 2009.
Studious, socially conscious Emerson Watts learns startling
news about the family of Nikki Howard, the teen supermodel
into whose body Emerson’s brain was transplanted by the
nefarious Stark corporation.
PB CAT
Catanese, P. W. The brave apprentice. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks
ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2005. Patch Ridling, a
simple tailor’s apprentice, saves his friend Osbert from an
aging troll and his is summoned by King Milo to help wage
war on a band of trolls trying to destroy the kingdom.
PB CAT
Catanese, P. W. The mirror’s tale : a further tales adventure.
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks,
2006. Identical twins Bert and Will’s mischief-making leads
their father, the baron of Ambercrest, to the decision to
separate the boys for the summer, and Bert is sent off to
the deserted outpost known as The Crags where his kinship
with his brother is replaced by dark magic and deceit.
PRO 371.39 DAN
Daniels, Harvey, 1947-. Literature circles : voice and choice in
book clubs and reading groups. 2nd ed. Portland, Me. :
Markham, Ont., Canada : Stenhouse Publishers ; Pembroke
Publishers, c2002. A guide to forming, managing, and
assessing peer-led book discussion groups that provides
strategies, structures, tools, and stories which demonstrate
how to launch a guide successful literature circles.
PRO 372.41 DAN
Daniels, Harvey, 1947-. Mini-lessons for literature circles.
Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2004. Joining the book club –
Getting ready for peer-led discussion — Practicing with
short text : tools for thoughtful response — Getting
started with whole books — Refining discussion skills :
creating deeper comprehension — Solving problems : students
and groups who struggle — Examining the author’s craft –
Assessment and accountability — Performance projects that
rock — Do it yourself!. Presents forty-five short,
practical lessons for literature circles and includes
student examples, reproducible forms, recommended reading
lists, and strategies for encouraging reading among
students.
PB DEU
Deuker, Carl. On the Devil’s court : a novel. 1st Little, Brown
and Co. pbk. ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co. Books for
Young Readers, 2008, c1988. Struggling with his feelings of
inadequacy and his failure to make the basketball team in
his new school, seventeen-year-old Joe Faust finds himself
willing to trade his soul for one perfect season of
basketball.
F DIO
Dionne, Erin, 1975-. Models don’t eat chocolate cookies. New
York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c2009. Overweight
thirteen-year-old Celeste begins a campaign to lose weight
in order to make sure she does not win the Miss Huskey Peach
modeling challenge, in which her mother and aunt have
entered her–against her wishes.
F DOW
Dowell, Frances O’Roark. The kind of friends we used to be. 1st
ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2009.
Twelve-year-olds Kate and Marylin, friends since preschool,
draw further apart as Marylin becomes involved in student
government and cheerleading, while Kate wants to play guitar
and write songs, and both develop unlikely friendships with
other girls and boys.
629.45 DYE
Dyer, Alan, 1953-. Mission to the moon. 1st U.S. ed. New York
: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2009, c2008. An
exploration of the first lunar landing that provides
information and commentary as well as photographs,
illustrations, and a DVD with archival footage.
F FAL
Falkner, Brian. The tomorrow code. 1st ed. New York : Random
House, c2008. Two New Zealand teenagers receive a desperate
SOS from their future selves and set out on a quest to stop
an impending ecological disaster that could mean the end of
humanity.
F FAN
Fantaskey, Beth. Jessica’s guide to dating on the dark side.
New York : Harcourt, 2009. Seventeen-year-old Jessica,
adopted and raised in Pennsylvania, learns that she is
descended from a royal line of Romanian vampires and that
she is betrothed to a vampire prince, who poses as a foreign
exchange student while courting her.
523.1 GAR
Garlick, Mark A. (Mark Antony), 1968-. Atlas of the universe.
1st U.S. ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young
Readers, 2008, c2007. A guide to the universe, and features
full-color illustrations and information regarding the solar
system, the universe, stargazing, and exploring space; and
also discusses meteors, comets, black holes, and other
related topics.
F GEO
George, Jessica Day, 1976-. Princess of the midnight ball. 1st
U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury, 2009. A retelling of the
tale of twelve princesses who wear out their shoes dancing
every night, and of Galen, a former soldier now working in
the king’s gardens, who follows them in hopes of breaking
the curse.
F HAH
Hahn, Mary Downing. All the lovely bad ones : a ghost story.
New York : Clarion Books, c2008. Travis and his sister
Corey decide to boost business at their grandmother’s
Vermont inn by staging a few “hauntings” that soon draw
tourists from across the country, but when their antics
awaken a dark force, they must find a way to put to rest the
ghosts they have disturbed.
PB HAM
Hampshire, Anthony, 1951-. G force. Markham, Ont. ; Brighton,
Mass. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside, c2009. Rising star Eddie
Stewart is on the starting grid of the Indianapolis 500, but
a mysterious series of dangerous crashes threatens to end
Eddie’s dream of winning at Indy before it even begins.
F HAN
Han, Jenny. The summer I turned pretty. New York : Simon &
Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2009. Belly spends the
summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other
summer of her life, but this time things are very different
as she finds herself falling for a boy she has known since
childhood.
F HAR
Hartinger, Brent. Project Sweet Life. 1st ed. New York :
HarperTeen, c2009. When their fathers insist that they get
summer jobs, three fifteen-year-old friends in Tacoma,
Washington, dedicate their summer vacation to fooling their
parents into thinking that they are working, which proves to
be even harder than having real jobs would have been.
F HEA
Heath, Jack. The lab. New York : Scholastic Press, c2008. In a
world dominated by an evil corporation, an organization
called the Deck, in which the staff is named after suits
such as Hearts and Diamonds, deals out justice while Six of
Hearts, their best operative, does his work without killing
anybody.
F HER
Herlong, Madaline. The great wide sea. New York : Viking, 2008.
Still mourning the death of their mother, three brothers go
with their father on an extended sailing trip off the
Florida Keys and have a harrowing adventure at sea.
F HIA
Hiaasen, Carl. Scat. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, c2009. Nick
and Marta are both suspicious when their biology teacher,
the feared Mrs. Bunny Starch, disappears, and try to uncover
the truth despite the police and headmaster’s insistence
that nothing is wrong.
F HIG
Higson, Charles, 1958-. Blood fever : a James Bond adventure.
1st Hyperion Paperbacks ed. New York : Hyperion Paperbacks
for Children, 2007, c2006. During a summer holiday in
Italy, the teenage James Bond tangles with an underground
empire of criminals as he attempts the rescue of a kidnapped
young girl.
F HIG
Higson, Charles, 1958-. Double or die : a James Bond adventure.
1st Disney Hyperion pbk. ed. New York : Disney/Hyperion
Books, 2009, c2007. Teenage James Bond is on the case when
a professor is kidnapped in a north London cemetery, and an
encoded letter arrives which, once deciphered, leaves James
with just forty-eight hours to rescue the captured scholar
and save the world.
F HIG
Higson, Charles, 1958-. SilverFin : a James Bond adventure. New
Disney Hyperion pbk. ed. New York : Disney/Hyperion Books,
2009, c2005. Young James Bond, a student at the Eton
boarding school in the 1930s, travels to his aunt’s Scotland
estate for the Easter holidays where he becomes caught up in
investigating the disappearance of a local boy, a crime
allegedly linked to a madman with a plot for global
domination.
F HOR
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-. Necropolis. 1st ed. New York :
Scholastic Press, 2009. As the power of the evil Nightrise
corporation increases, Matt and his Gatekeepers travel to
Hong Kong, where they explore the secretive underworld and
meet another Gatekeeper named Scar, whose fate will be
crucial to the future of the world.
F HOR
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-. The switch. 1st American ed. New
York : Philomel Books, 2009, c1986. Wealthy, spoiled,
thirteen-year-old Tad Spencer wishes he were someone else,
and awakens as Bob Snarby, the uncouth, impoverished son of
carnival workers, and as he is drawn into a life of crime,
Tad begins to discover truths about himself and his family.
F HUL
Hulme, John, 1970-. The split second. 1st U.S. ed. New York :
Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 2008. Becker Drane, a fixer,
is sent into the Department of Time after a bomb exploded,
but the damage is so great that Becker begins to question
his abilities, as well as his faith in The Seems–the
company responsible for building the world.
PB JON
Jones, Frewin. The seventh daughter. 1st pbk. ed. New York :
Eos, 2009, c2008. Tania returns from the mortal world of
modern London with the long-lost Queen Titania to find that
the Faerie Court has been devastated by the evil Sorcerer
King, leaving Tania and her beloved Edric to rescue King
Oberon and return him to power before it is too late.
551 KEL
Kelly, Erica. Evolving planet : four billion years of life on
Earth. New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, c2008.
Provides an overview of the Earth’s diversity of life both
on land and in the sea, discussing mass extinctions and how
they have shaped the history of the planet.
970 KIN
King, David C. First people. 1st ed. London ; New York : DK,
2008. An illustrated examination of Native American tribes
that covers their history, traditions, and art.
921 FIT
Krohn, Katherine E. Ella Fitzgerald : first lady of song.
Minneapolis : Lerner, c2001. A biography of the celebrated
jazz singer, known especially for her scat singing and
“songbook” recordings of the works of many major American
composers.
PB LAS
Lasky, Kathryn. The river of wind. New York : Scholastic,
c2007. Primrose and Eglantine uncover a plot by Nyra to
kill Coryn and Soren and set out to warn them.
F LEV
Levine, Kristin (Kristin Sims), 1974-. The best bad luck I ever
had. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2009. Harry “Dit”
Sims and his newest friend Emma Walker work together to come
up with a plan that could save the town barber, an
African-American, who is on put on trial and faces a
horrible end.
621.31 LEW
Lew, Kristi. Goodbye, gasoline : the science of fuel cells.
Mankato, MN : Compass Point Books, c2009. Pollution-free
power — From elements to electricity — All kinds of cells
— Fueling the cells — Obstacles and options — Our fuel
cell future. Introduces children to the science of fuel
cells, explaining how they convert chemicals into
electricity, why they are better for the environment, and
how they might impact the future of energy.
F LOW
Lowe, Helen, 1971-. Thornspell. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A.
Knopf, c2008. Prince Sigismund, having grown up hearing
rumors of an enchanted castle and sleeping princess in a
nearby woods declared off limits by his great-grandfather
one hundred years earlier, sets out to learn the truth about
his family, the legends, and the elusive girl who haunts his
dreams.
PB MAD
Maddox, Jake. Free climb. Mankato, MN : Stone Arch Books,
c2009. Amir’s new friend refuses to learn the right way to
climb, and soon finds himself in danger.
F MLY
Mlynowski, Sarah. Bras & broomsticks. New York : Delacorte
Press, c2005. Living in New York City with her mother and
her younger sister, Miri, fourteen-year-old Rachel tries to
persuade Miri, who has recently become a witch, to help her
become popular at school and to try to stop their divorced
father’s wedding.
F MLY
Mlynowski, Sarah. Frogs & French kisses. 1st ed. New York :
Delacorte Press, c2006. Love spells run amok in New York
City when high school freshman Rachel asks her younger
sister, who is a witch, for magical help in winning the
affection of heartthrob Raf Kosravi.
F MLY
Mlynowski, Sarah. Parties & potions. 1st ed. New York :
Delacorte Press, c2009. High school sophomore Rachel and
her younger sister Miri, both witches, are introduced to a
wider community of witches while grappling with the problem
of whether or not to reveal their powers to their school
friends, father, and step-mother.
F MLY
Mlynowski, Sarah. Spells & sleeping bags. 1st ed. New York :
Delacorte Press, c2007. Rachel and her younger sister, both
witches, spend the summer at Camp Wood Lake, where Rachel
tries to have a normal camp experience while surreptitiously
honing her newly discovered talents.
F MOR
Morris, Taylor. Total knockout : tale of an ex-class president.
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Mix, 2008.
Thirteen-year-old Lucia Latham gets straight As, loves
health food, and is a great boxer; but what she wants most
is to someday work in the White House.
F MYR
Myracle, Lauren, 1969-. Thirteen. New York : Puffin Books,
2009, c2008. Winnie’s thirteenth year brings many joys and
challenges as she negotiates her relationship with her first
boyfriend and realizes that change is inevitable in her
friends, family, and even herself.
F NAI
Naidoo, Beverley. Burn my heart. 1st U.S. ed. New York :
Amistad, 2009, c2007. While the Mau Mau rebellion threatens
the British settlers living in Kenya during the 1950s,
Mathew and Mugo maintain their friendship, despite their
different races, but during these tense times, a single act
of betrayal could alter everything.
F NAP
Napoli, Donna Jo, 1948-. The smile. 1st ed. New York : Dutton
Children’s Books, c2008. A fictionalized biography that
describes the life of Elisabetta, the woman who posed for
Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting, the Mona Lisa.
F NAY
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Including Alice. 1st Simon Pulse ed.
New York : Simon Pulse, 2005, c2004. Fifteen-year-old Alice
finds it hard to adjust to the changes in her life when her
father gets married and her brother moves to his own
apartment.
PB PAR
Parkinson, Curtis. The castle on Deadman’s Island. Toronto,
Ont. : Plattsburgh, N.Y. : Tundra Books ; Tundra Books of
Northern New York, c2009. When the owner of the castle on
Deadman’s Island passes away and three of his friends who
despise each other are included in the will, a dark curse
strikes again, and Neil, Graham, and Crescent investigate
when Aunt Henrietta, who was one of the three new owners of
the castle, disappears.
F PHI
Philbrick, W. R. (W. Rodman). The mostly true adventures of
Homer P. Figg. New York : Blue Sky Press, c2009. Homer P.
Figg escapes from his wretched foster home in Pine Swamp,
Maine, and sets out to find his beloved older brother,
Harold, who has been illegally sold into the Union Army.
523.8 REY
Rey, H. A. (Hans Augusto), 1898-1977. Find the constellations.
2nd ed. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [2008], c1982.
Describes stars and constellations seen in the night sky
throughout the year, and explains how to identify them.
F RIO
Riordan, Rick. The last Olympian. 1st ed. New York :
Disney/Hyperion Books, c2009. The long-awaited prophecy
surrounding Percy Jackson’s sixteenth birthday unfolds as he
leads an army of young demigods to stop Kronos in his
advance on New York City, while the Olympians struggle to
contain the rampaging monster, Typhon.
F RIT
Ritter, John H., 1951-. The desperado who stole baseball. New
York : Philomel Books, c2009. In 1881, the scrappy,
rough-and-tumble baseball team in a California mining town
enlists the help of a quick-witted twelve-year-old orphan
and the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid to win a big game
against the National League Champion Chicago White
Stockings.
F ROD
Rodda, Emily. Cavern of the Fear. 1st American ed. New York :
Scholastic, 2002. Lief, Barda, and Jasmine must combat the
sorcery of the evil Shadow Lord who holds thousands of
Deltorans hostage in the Shadowlands.
F ROD
Rodda, Emily. The isle of illusion. 1st American ed. New York
: Scholastic, 2002. Lief, Barda, and Jasmine search for a
weapon powerful enough to defeat the evil Shadow Lord and
free the thousands of Deltoran hostages being held in the
Shadowlands.
F ROD
Rodda, Emily. The Shadowlands. 1st American ed. New York :
Scholastic, 2002. Lief, Barda, and Jasmine must capture the
final part of the Pirran Pipe on the isle of Keras, in order
to defeat the Shadow Lord.
576.8 SCO
Scott, Elaine, 1940-. Mars and the search for life. New York :
Clarion Books, c2008. Observing Mars — Wet or dry? –
Proposals and payloads — Spirit and opportunity — Gusev
Crater and Meridiani Planum — Launches and landings –
Doing science — Imagine the future — Afterword : future
missions to Mars. Explores the possibility that life may
have existed on Mars, and looks at evidence that water was
present on the planet at one time.
F SCO
Scott, Michael, 1959-. The sorceress. 1st ed. New York :
Delacorte Press, c2009. While armies of the Shadowrealms
gather and Machiavelli goes to Alcatraz to kill Perenelle
Flamel, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman
accompany the Alchemist to England to seek Gilgamesh.
F SEN
Sensel, Joni, 1962-. The Farwalker’s quest. 1st U.S. ed. New
York : Bloomsbury, 2009. When twelve-year-old Ariel and her
friend Zeke find a mysterious artifact the like of which has
not been seen in a long time, it proves to be the beginning
of a long and arduous journey that will untimately reveal to
them their true identities.
523.4 SPA
Sparrow, Giles. Planets and moons. North American ed., U.S. ed.
Milwaukee, WI : World Almanac Library, 2007. Planets and
moons — The Earth and its moon — Extreme environments –
Among the giants — Minor worlds. An introduction to
planets and moons, discussing the origins of the solar
system, the history of planet discovery, the characteristics
of Earth and its moon, and conditions on other planets.
921 ELL
Stein Crease, Stephanie. Duke Ellington : his life in jazz with
21 activities. 1st ed. Chicago : Chicago Review Press,
c2009. Catching a tune — The Duke and his Serenaders –
The Serenaders become the Washingtonians — The
Washingtonians hit the big time — From the Cotton Club to
the world — It don’t mean a thing : Duke in the swing era
— Take the “A” train — The comeback kid — Duke on tour :
around the world in 80 days — Finale : the last tour. A
biography that explores Duke Ellington’s life and career,
with twenty-one activities for engaging children, such as
how to create a ragtime rhythm, make a washtub bass, and
write lyrics, and covers topics such as the Harlem
Renaissance, the evolution of jazz, and changes in music
technology.
F STE
Stewart, Paul, 1955-. Curse of the night wolf. 1st American ed.
New York : David Fickling Books, 2008, c2007. Barnaby
Grimes, a punctual lad who runs errands around the city,
seeks out mysteries to solve, is attacked one night by a
huge dog, and gets caught up in a world of corrupt doctors,
strange potions, and expensive furs.
F STE
Stewart, Paul, 1955-. Return of the emerald skull. 1st American
ed. Oxford ; New York : David Fickling Books, [2009],
c2008. Barnaby Grimes’ latest case has him tracking down
the origins of a curse that is plaguing the local school,
threatening students and teachers, but in the course of his
investigation, Barnaby learns everything is not as it seems.
F STR
Stroud, Jonathan. Heroes of the valley. 1st ed. New York :
Disney/Hyperion Books, c2009. Halli Sveinsson, a
mischievous young man who does not fit in with his peers and
siblings, plays a trick on Ragnor that goes too far, forcing
him to embark on a hero’s quest in which he will face
highway robbers, monsters, an intriguing girl, and truths
about his family and the legends he grew up with.
371.822 THO
Thomson, Sarah L. Three cups of tea. Young readers ed. New
York : Puffin Books, 2009. Adapts for young readers Greg
Mortenson’s book in which he recounts the experiences he had
while trying to help impoverished villages in Pakistan’s
Karakoram Himalaya build schools for their children.
F VAN
Vande Velde, Vivian. Stolen. 1st ed. Tarrytown, NY : Marshall
Cavendish, c2008. A girl finds herself running through the
forest at the edge of a village with no memory of anything,
even her own name, and later learns that she might be
twelve-year-old Isabelle, believed to be stolen by a witch
six years before.
982 WER
Werther, Scott P. Alive! : airplane crash in the Andes
mountains. New York : Children’s Press, c2003. Tells the
story of the 1972 plane crash that stranded several members
of a Uruguayan rugby team in the Andes Mountains for two
months, struggling to survive.
PB WES
Westerfeld, Scott. Extras. 1st Simon Pulse pbk. ed. New York :
Simon Pulse, 2009, c2007. In an alternative civilization
where the social status of each person is monitored and
rated and anyone can drop from celebrity to nobody,
fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse’s popularity ranking is so low her
only chance of moving up is to find a good story, so when
she meets a group of girls who hide an explosive secret, Aya
decides to expose the group and unknowingly puts her own
life in danger.
F WHI
Whitehouse, Howard. The island of mad scientists : being an
excursion to the wilds of Scotland, involving many marvels
of experimental invention, pirates, a heroic cat, a
mechanical man and a monkey. Toronto, ON ; Tonawanda, NY :
Kids Can Press, c2008. Fourteen-year-old Emmaline Cayley,
her friend, and Princess Purnah of Chiligrit try to avoid
the government’s attempts to return Purnah to her school and
a man who collects mad scientists and wants to capture the
children.
576.8 WIN
Winston, Robert M. L. Evolution revolution. 1st American ed.
London ; New York : DK, 2009. Simple text and full-color
illustrations provide an overview of the theory of
evolution.
F WOO
Woodson, Jacqueline. Peace, Locomotion. New York : Putnam’s,
c2009. Through letters to his little sister, who is living
in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known
as “Locomotion,” keeps a record of their lives while they
are apart, describing his own foster family, including his
foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the
Iraq War.
F YOH
Yohalem, Eve. Escape under the forever sky : a novel. San
Francisco : Chronicle Books, c2009. Lucy’s mother, the U.S.
Ambassador to Ethiopia, keeps Lucy confined to the embassy,
but Lucy’s desire to see what is beyond the compound walls
gets her kidnapped and she must rely upon her knowledge and
courage in order to escape.
F YOU
Young, E. L. STORM : the ghost machine. New York : Dial Books
for Young Readers, 2008, c2007. Teenage STORM agents Will,
Andrew, and Gaia seek answers to a pair of “ghostly”
burglaries in Venice, but uncover a larger plot that aims to
assassinate the leading figures of international
intelligence.
