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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.

This year we are adding an additional requirement for students beyond reading the books (and of course passing the AR quizzes.) Students will be asked to comment on each of the books they read on a wiki I have created for that purpose at http://libraryfieldtrip2009-2010.wikispaces.com

Check it out!  Lots of kids have been posting messages, and some even know how to write a complete sentence!

Columbia Pictures
DreamWorks Pictures
Fine Line Features
Focus Features
Hollywood Pictures
Lionsgate
Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer (MGM)
Miramax Films
NBC Universal
New Line Cinema
Paramount Pictures, Paramount Classics, Paramount Vantage
Picturehouse
Sony Pictures
Touchstone Pictures
Tri-Star Pictures
United Artists
Walt Disney Pictures
Warner Bros.
Warner Independent Pictures

LMS's Flip Camcorder

See a sample “Flip” video on the library web page at:
http://www.usd416.org/pages/uploaded_files/Jul_31_2009_-_VID00076.mov