One Book, One Chicago
Chicago Spring 2012
Gold boy, emerald girl / Yiyun Li.
Author: Li, Yiyun, 1972-
Publisher: New York : Random House Trade Pbks., 2011.
The Alpha bet / Stephanie Hale.
Author: Hale, Stephanie.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Woodbury, Minn. : Flux, 2010.
Subject: Greek letter societies Fiction.
Universities and colleges Fiction.
Dating (Social customs) Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) Fiction.
Summary: Grace Kelly Cook, a self-proclaimed "science geek," starts college
by allowing her roommate to help with a makeover, kissing a cute boy, and
pledging a sorority, but she fears what will happen when others learn that
she lied about her family connections and is only sixteen.
I will save you / Matt de la Pena.
Author: Peña, Matt de la.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, 2010.
Description: 310 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject: Emotional problems of teenagers Juvenile fiction.
Schizophrenia Juvenile fiction.
Mental illness Juvenile fiction.
Emotional problems Fiction.
Schizophrenia Fiction.
Mental illness Fiction.
Cardiff by the Sea (Encinitas, Calif.) Juvenile fiction.
Cardiff by the Sea (Encinitas, Calif.) Fiction.
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Kidd Ellison runs away to work for the summer
at a beach campsite in California where his hard work and good looks lead to
friendship and love but painful past memories surface in menacing ways.
ONE BOOK, ONE CHICAGO FALL 2011
Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Augie March (1953) is a novel by Saul Bellow.
Recommended Reading list for Young Adults
New titles in the library:
Crank
by Ellen, Hopkins
Mockingjay
by Suzanne, Collins
Burned
by Hopkins, Ellen
The compund by Bodeen, S.A.
I am Nujood, age 10 and divorced by
Ali, Nujood
Love drugged
by Klise, James
The replacement
by Yovanoff, Brenna
Coming of Age Stories:
Bad: Jean Ferrries
Nothing but the truth / John Lescroart
Author: Lescroart, John T.
Ninth-grader Philip has never been in trouble, but he's upset because his
English grade is keeping him off the track team. Meanwhile, though the rule
is "respectful, silent attention," he hums along with the daily playing of
the national anthem -- a habit ignored by his homeroom teacher. When he's
moved to the homeroom of Miss Narwin, and she tries to enforce the silence
rule, Philip responds with offhand rudeness borne of his distress about track
plus his desire to stand up for what he believes. The ensuing confrontation
escalates into a two-day suspension followed by national media attention
based on the erroneous belief that Philip has been denied the right to
express his patriotism.
Ironman / by Chris Crutcher
Author: Crutcher, Chris.
Summary: While training for a triathlon, seventeen-year-old Bo attends an
anger management group at school which leads him to examine his relationship
with his father.
So You Don’t Like to Read….
Stargirl / Jerry Spinelli
Author: Spinelli, Jerry.
Summary: In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of
nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named
Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
Breathing underwater / Alex Flinn.
Author: Flinn, Alex.
Summary: Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered
to keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with
Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living
with his abusive father
Short Thin and Fast:
Weetzie Bat / Francesca Lia Block.
Author: Block, Francesca Lia.
Summary: Follows the wild adventures of Weetzie Bat and her Los Angeles
friends, Dirk, Duck, and My-Secret-Agent-Lover-Man.
Athletic shorts [sound recording] / by Chris Crutcher
Author: Crutcher, Chris.
Summary: A collection of short stories featuring characters from earlier
books by Chris Crutcher.
Get in the Game:
Night hoops / Carl Deuker
Author: Deuker, Carl.
Summary: While trying to prove that he is good enough to be on his high
school's varsity basketball team, Nick must also deal with his parents'
divorce and the erractic behavior of a troubled classmate who lives across
the street.
Tangerine / Marilynn Griffith
Author: Griffith, Marilynn.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero
brother Erik fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness
and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
Best of the Best 2009
Fiction for Teens in High School
Bog Child
By Siobhan Dowd
David Fickling
Summery: In the summer of 1981, Fergus finds the preserved body of a young
girl in a bog on the North/South border in Ireland and spends the rest of the
summer distracted by dreams about the child he found imprisoned in the peat.
Themes: IRA, political prisoners/hunger strikes/suicide; Northern Irish
politic (Republican/Unionists); British relations; Irish history;
terrorism/murder; dwarfs; love; education; escape; family dynamics; personal
choices; sacrifice and change
Reads with Similar Themes:
The Grave by James Heneghan
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
A swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd
Sioban Dowd and other Interesting Information:
When Siobhan Dowd died of breast cancer in 2007, aged 47, she had written two
published and two unpublished novels-one of which was Bog Child and the
other, Solace of the Road, will be published in October 2009.
http://siobhandowd.co.uk/
Author’s website
http:www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=71819&view=fullsptlgt
Black Rabbit Summer
By Kevin Brooks
Chicken House
Summery:
When Pete’s Childhood friend Nicole calls and invites him to join her and
some of their old pals at the town fair, he is no longer disillusioned about
why their friendships didn’t last; his only regret is bringing Raymond along.
Themes: friendship; sexuality; homicide; drugs/alcohol
Reads with Similar Themes:
Acceleration by Graham Nash
The book of Dead Days by Marcus Sedgwick
The Christopher Killer: A Forensic Mystery by Alane Ferguson
Endgame by Nancy Garden
Right Behind You by Gail Giles
The Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks
Tenderness by Robert Cormier
The weekend was murder by Joan Lowry Nixon
Kevin Brooks and Other Interesting Information:
http://www.doublecluck.com/authordetails.pp?aname=Brooks,+Kevin&btype=
fiction 11
Author website at Chicken House
http://www.thisispush.com/voices/brooks.htm
Author website at Push Voices
http://www.chipublib.org/forteens/teenspages/brooks interview.php
Interview with the author on the CPL website
Here is a new list of books in the libray.
Shattered / Dick Francis.
Author: Francis, Dick.
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2000.
Subject(s): Glassworkers Fiction.
Glass blowing and working Fiction.
Horse racing Fiction.
England Fiction.
Detective and mystery stories. gsafd
2011-2012 Recommended list:
The book thief / by Markus Zusak.
Author: Zusak, Markus.
Adition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Description: p. cm.
Subject(s): Books and reading Fiction.
Storytelling Fiction.
Death Fiction.
Jews Germany History 1933-1945 Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 Jews Rescue Fiction.
Germany History 1933-1945 Juvenile fiction.
Germany History 1933-1945 Fiction.
Summary: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates
the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-
telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding,
as well as their neighbors.Bottom of Form
The circle of blood : a forensic mystery / by Alane Ferguson.
Author: Ferguson, Alane.
Publisher: New York : Viking, 2008.
Description: 238 p. ; 20 cm.
Subject(s): Coroners Fiction.
Forensic sciences Fiction.
Mothers and daughters Fiction.
Mystery and detective stories.
Summary: As she uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to investigate the
death of a young runaway, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney, an assistant to
her coroner father, worries that her secretive mother may be involved.
Fire from the rock / Sharon M. Draper.
Author: Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills).
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Dutton Children's Books, c2007.
Subject(s): African Americans Juvenile fiction.
Race relations Juvenile fiction.
Family Arkansas Juvenile fiction.
Schools Juvenile fiction.
African Americans Fiction.
Race relations Fiction.
Family life Arkansas Fiction.
Schools Fiction.
Little Rock (Ark.) History 20th century Juvenile fiction.
Little Rock (Ark.) History 20th century Fiction.
Summary: In 1957, Sylvia Patterson's life--that of a normal African American
teenager--is disrupted by the impending integration of Little Rock's Central
High when she is selected to be one of the first black students to attend the
previously all white school. Includes author's note and related websites.
How they met, and other stories / David Levithan.
Author: Levithan, David.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Description: 244 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject(s): Love stories, American.
Short stories, American.
Love Fiction.
Short stories.
Summary: A collection of eighteen stories describing the surprises,
sacrifices, doubts, pain, and joy of falling in love.
Glass / Ellen Hopkins.
Author: Hopkins, Ellen.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Margaret K. McElderberry Books, c2007.
Subject(s): Teenage girls Drug use Juvenile fiction.
Ice (Drug) Juvenile fiction.
Methamphetamine Juvenile fiction.
Drug abuse Juvenile fiction.
Teenage mothers Juvenile fiction.
Teenage girls Drug use Fiction.
Ice (Drug) Fiction.
Methamphetamine Fiction.
Drug abuse Fiction.
Teenage mothers Fiction.
Novels in verse.
Target Audience: 9 up.
Summary: Kristina thinks that she can control her use of crystal meth but
finds that she needs more of the drug to face the pressures of day-to-day
life.
Me, the missing, and the dead / Jenny Valentine.
Other Titles: Finding Violet Park
Author: Valentine, Jenny.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: New York : HarperTeen, 2008.
Subject(s): Death Juvenile fiction.
Missing persons Juvenile fiction.
Fathers Juvenile fiction.
Single-parent families Juvenile fiction.
Death Fiction.
Missing persons Fiction.
Fathers Fiction.
Single-parent families Fiction.
Coming of age Fiction.
London (England) Juvenile fiction.
London (England) Fiction.
Notes: Originally published as: Finding Violet Park.
Summary: When a series of chance events leaves him in possession of an urn
with ashes, sixteen-year-old Londoner, Lucas Swain, becomes convinced that
its occupant, Violet Park, is communicating with him, initiating a voyage of
self-discovery that forces him to finally confront the events surrounding his
father's sudden disappearance
Twisted / Laurie Halse Anderson.
Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse.
Publisher: New York : Viking, c2007.
Subject(s): Family problems Fiction.
Interpersonal relations Fiction.
High schools Fiction.
Schools Fiction.
Coming of age Fiction.
Ohio Fiction.
Summary: After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies
and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new
reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go
bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his
destructive thoughts.
So this is how it ends / Tui T. Sutherland.
Author: Sutherland, Tui.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Eos, c2006.
Series: Avatars ; bk. 1
Subject(s): End of the world Fiction.
Time travel Fiction.
Science fiction.
Summary: During an earthquake in the year 2012 five teens are transported
seventy-five years into the future, where the end of the world is imminent,
and are drawn together by a mysterious force.
Story of a girl : a novel / by Sara Zarr.
Author: Zarr, Sara.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown, 2007.
Subject(s): Self-esteem Fiction.
Forgiveness Fiction.
Family problems Fiction.
Interpersonal relations Fiction.
Erotic stories.
California Fiction.
Summary: In the three years since her father caught her in the back seat of a
car with an older boy, sixteen-year-old Deanna's life at home and school has
been a nightmare, but while dreaming of escaping with her brother and his
family, she discovers the power of forgiveness.
One whole and perfect day / Judith Clarke.
Author: Clarke, Judith, 1943-
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Asheville, N.C. : Front Street, 2006.
Subject(s): Grandparents Fiction.
Brothers and sisters Fiction.
Family problems Fiction.
Australia Fiction.
Summary: As her irritating family prepares to celebrate her grandfather's
eightieth birthday, sixteen-year-old Lily yearns for just one whole perfect
day together.
Dirty Jersey / Phillip Thomas Duck.
Author: Duck, Phillip Thomas.
Publisher: New York : Kimani Tru, c2008.
Subject(s): African American teenagers Juvenile fiction.
Gangs Juvenile fiction.
Brothers and sisters Juvenile fiction.
African American teenagers Fiction.
Gangs Fiction.
Brothers and sisters Fiction.
Summary: Eric Posey gets in with the cool crowd, but there may be a price he
isn't willing to pay.
Cheater : a novel / by Michael Laser.
Author: Laser, Michael.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Dutton Books, c2008.
Subject(s): Cheating Juvenile fiction.
Peer pressure Juvenile fiction.
Conduct of life Juvenile fiction.
High schools Juvenile fiction.
Schools Juvenile fiction.
Cheating Fiction.
Peer pressure Fiction.
Conduct of life Fiction.
High schools Fiction.
Schools Fiction.
Summary: When brilliant high school student Karl Petrovsky gets talked into
participating in an elaborate cheating operation at his school, he ends up
involved in a bigger problem than he ever anticipated.
Big fat manifesto / by Susan Vaught.
Author: Vaught, Susan, 1965-
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck
Publishers, 2008.
Subject(s): Overweight persons Juvenile fiction.
Self-confidence Juvenile fiction.
Interpersonal relations Juvenile fiction.
Prejudices Juvenile fiction.
High schools Juvenile fiction.
Schools Juvenile fiction.
Overweight persons Fiction.
Self-confidence Fiction.
Interpersonal relations Fiction.
Prejudices Fiction.
High schools Fiction.
Schools Fiction.
Summary: Overweight, self-assured, high school senior Jamie Carcaterra writes
in the school newspaper about her own attitude to being fat, her boyfriend's
bariatric surgery, and her struggles to be taken seriously in a very thin
world.
7 days at the hot corner / Terry Trueman.
Author: Trueman, Terry.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : HarperTempest, c2007.
Description: 150 p. ; 19 cm.
Subject(s): Baseball stories.
Best friends Fiction.
Friendship Fiction.
Homosexuality Fiction.
Interpersonal relations Fiction.
Summary: Varsity baseball player Scott Latimer struggles with his own
prejudices and those of others when his best friend reveals that he is gay.
New Titles:
The Murder of Emmeitt Till
The Trial of the Scottsboro Boyes
Pullman Strike of 1894
Waging Peace: The Story of Jane Addams
Chicago Movie Palaces of Balaban and Katz
Chicago Painting 1895 to 1945 the Bridges collection
Chicagos Wrigley Field
Eastland Disaster
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse a Social History of Welare in America
Iranians in Chicagoland
Korean Americans in Chicago
Prayer and Religion in the public School
Reason Why the Colored American is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition
BLUFORD HIGH SERIES
Blood Is Thicker
Brothers in Arms
Bully
Payback
Summer of Secrets
Lost and Found
Matter of Trust
Secrets in the Shadows
Until We Meet Again
Title: Taking sides. Clashing views in Unted States history. Volume 2,
Reconstruction to the present / selected, edited, and with introductions by
Larry Madaras and James M. SoRelle.
Title: Taking sides. Clashing views on controversial issues in health and
society / selected, edited, and with introductions by Eillen L. Daniel.
Title: Taking sides. Clashing views on controversial issues in religion /
selected, edited, and with introductions by Daniel K. Judd.
Title: Taking sides. Clashing views on controversial isssues in religion /
selected, edited, and with introductions by Daniel K. Judd.
Title: Illigal immigration/ by Debra A. MilerTitle: American immigraiion/
Maldwn Allen Jones.--end ed.
Title: Affirmative action/ by M.J. Cosson.
Title: Affirmative action/ by Kathiann Kowalski.
Title: Child labor and sweatshops/ by Ann Manheimer.
Title: Child labor today: a human rights issue/ by Wendy Herumin
Come and check out our new books in the library.
Title: Nothing but the turth (and a few white lies)
Author: Headley, Justina Chen,
Notes: Fifteen-year-old Patty Ho, half Taiwanese and half white, feels she
never fits in, but when her overly-strict mother ships her off to math camp
at Standford, instead being miserable, Patty starts to becom comfortable with
her true self.
Title: A different kind of heat
Author: Pagliarulo, Antonio
Notes: Trying to come to terms with her brother's death, high school student
and former gang member Luz meets his killer face to face as she begins to
rebuild her own life in a group home in New York City.
Title: Boy Kills man
Author: Whyman, Matt
Notes: Two thirteen-year-old boys, blood brothers and best friends, get drawn
into a dangerous, violent world on the streets of a troubled Columbian city.
Title: An Encyclopedia of Swearing / Hughes, Geoffrey
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Examines the full range of swearing and foul language in English, including
fascinalting details on the history and origins of each term.
Title: A thousand splended suns / Khaled Hosseini
Notes: A novel set against the three decads of Afganistan's history shaped by
Soviet occupation, a civil war, and the Taliban, which tells the stories of
two women, Mariam and Laila, who grow close despite their nineteen-year age
difference and initial rivalry as they suffer at the hand of a common enemy:
their abusive husband.
Title: Shrimp
Author: Cohn, Rachel
If Cyd Charisse knows one thing, it's that Shrimp is her true love. Shrimp,
the hottest pint-size surfer-artist in San Francisco. That boy (as her mother
called him), who was the primary cause of Cyd being grounded to Alcatraz,
formerly known as her room. The boy who dumped Cyd before she left home to
spend the summer in New York City.
Now it's the start of senior year. Cyd has changed, but maybe Shrimp has
changed too -- and maybe Cyd and Shrimp will need to get to know each other
all over again to figure out if it's for real. Can Cyd get back together with
Shrimp and keep the peace with her mom? And can she get a life outside of her
all-encompassing boy radar?
This sequel to Gingerbread has all the sharp humor and searing attitude of
the original, which ELLEgirl praised as "not just Another Teen Novel" and
Teen People called "unforgettable."
Title: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
Author: Brashares, Ann
Notes: Sequel to: The sisterhood of the traveling pants.
When Carmen and her friends discover that jeans from thrift shop provide an
uncanny fit for all four of them they form a sisterhood, with the pants as
the symbol of their friendship, and embark on a sweet-sixteen summer.
Title: The Man in the High Castle
Subject: Science Fiction
Author: Dick, Philip
Notes: After the defeat of the allies during World War II, the United States
is divided up and ruled by the Axis powers.
New Books:
1. Guinness World Record 2006 (Guinness World Records)
2. The World Almanac for Kids 2006 (World Almanac for Kids)
3. The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2006 (World Almanac and Book of Facts
(Paper))
4.The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 2007 (World Almanac and Book of Facts
(Paper))
5. Guinness World Records 2007 (Guinness World Records)
I have several copies of "Silent Holler, Students Shout Out from Chicago
Public High Schools". This book is a collection of students’ writing to
encourage them to write and to increase their self-esteem. It is also a
collection of their life stories, the good and bad of life; they invite the
reader into their lives.
If you would like to have a copy, please stop by and see me in the library.
The following list covers our new additions to our school library. These books
are now available for check out.
Fiction:
Title: I am the messenger /Markus Ausak
Author: Zusak, Markus
Notes: After capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cab driveer Ed Kennedy
begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addressess where
people need help, and he begins getting over his lifelong feeling of
worthlessness.
Subject Self-esteem--Fiction
Subject Heroes and heroines--Fiction
Subject Taxicabs--Fiction
Title: A heart divided / Cherie Bennett & Jeff Gottesfeld.
Author: Bennett, Cherie
Note: When sixteen-year-old Kate, an aspiring playright, moves from New Jersey
to attend high school in the South, she becomes embroiled in a controversy to
remove the school's Confederate flag symbol.
Subject: High schools--Fiction
Subject: Schoo stories
Subject Moving--Fiction
Subject: Flags--Confederate States of America--Fiction
Subject: Racism--Fiction
Title: Looped: a novel /by Andrew Winston
Author: Winston, Andrew.
Subject Chicago )ILL.)--Fiction
Subject: City and town life--Fiction
Subject: Sexial orientation--Fiction
Non-Fiction
Title; How to draw manga. Ultimate manga lessons. Vol. 1 Drawing made easy /
(by Hikaru Hayashi).
Author: Hayashi, Hikaru
Notes: Outlines techniques for drawing manga, including tips on copying the
works of noted manga artists, observing characters' faces and bodies, and
portraying backgrounds.
Subject: Comic books, strips, etc. Japan--Technique