Monday, 2/13/12

Getting Over Garrett Delaney
Abby McDonald
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Seventeen-year-old Sadie Allen has spent the last two years pining for her best friend, Garrett, but when he heads off to literary camp for the summer without her, she decides to kick her unrequited crush for good, with the help of her co-workers, another boy, and her own summer twelve-step program. (NoveList)





The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia, 3rd edition
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With today's emphasis on fast-moving technology and the focus on testing standards for science and math, the need for students to grasp key scientific principles has never been greater. The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia, 3rd edition is the one reference that includes all of the information students need to know in a concise and trustworthy package. Fully revised and updated, with clear, accessible writing by scientific experts and plenty of illustration for visual learners, this volume provides in-depth insight and succinct authoritative answers to all areas of scientific inquiry-avoiding the need to hunt and peck for information across multiple sources. An impressive supplementary section at the end of the book includes mini-biographies of famous scientists, and an illustrated time line of key inventions and discoveries. Arranged thematically into ten subjects, with reference summaries for each chapter and a full index, this encyclopedia does more than merely provide facts-it helps the reader develop an integrated, hands-on understanding of the science which drives everything around us. (Publisher)

Legend
Marie Lu
FIC LU

In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy. (NoveList)




  

Top Ten of Everything 2012
Caroline Ash and Alexander Ash
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The bestselling Top 10 annual is back, with more than 700 updated lists and brand-new feature spreads revealing exactly who or what is the best, worst, richest, deadliest, biggest, or baddest of almost everything under the sun!  Featuring over 7,000 of the most intriguing facts about history, science, sports, music, movies, nature, people, and places, this fascinating full-color resource will astonish, inform, entertain, and educate. (Publisher)

Winter Reading Challenge: Get Cozy With Good Books!

Winter Reading Challenge:

Get Cozy With Good Books

Sponsored by Friends of the OES Libraries

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· Read 5 books or 1,005 pages or 15 hours between December 1, 2011 and Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2012.

· Record the books (new to you) or pages or hours below.

· Your name will go into a drawing for a $25 Powell’s gift card.

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The Apothecary

Mailie Meloy

FIC MEL

Fourteen-year-old Janie Scott, newly arrived in London from Los Angeles in 1952, becomes friends with a mysterious apoth

try to steal his book of secrets. (TitleWave)ecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows, and is drawn into a dangerous adventure with Benjamin when his father is kidnapped and Russian spies

Cool Stuff Exploded

Chris Woodford

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It’s difficult to think of a book title more appealing to geek

adults and kids than Cool Stuff Exploded. You may be a bit disappointed to discover that no dynamite or C-4 or such is involved, but if so any disappointment will evaporate once you see the inside of the book. Instead of being about pyrotechnics, it’s full of pictures of all kinds of mechanical and digital devices, gadgets, and machines with their parts pulled apart from one-another. (Matt Blum in Wired.) Donated to the MS Library by the family of Amanda Rosch.

Crossed

FIC CONAlly Condie

In search of a future that may not exist and faced with the decision of who to

share it with, Cassia journeys to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky - taken by the Society to his certain death - only to find that he has escaped, leaving a series of clues in his wake. (Publisher)

Liesl & Po

Lauren Oliver

FIC OLI

A mix-up involving the greatest

magic in the world has tremendous consequences for Liesl, an orphan who has been locked in an attic, Will, an alchemist's runaway apprentice, and Po, a ghost, as they are pursued by friend and foe while making an important journey.

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Middle School: the Worst Years of My Life

James Patterson

FIC PAT

When Rafe Kane enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leothe Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.n, to fihhhhhnd

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Monday, November 14

Radioactive: A tale of love and fallout

Lauren Redniss

920 Curie

Described simply, “Radioactive” is an illustrated biography of Marie Curie, the Polish-born French physicist famous for her work on radioactivity — she was the first person to win the Nobel Prize twice — and her equally accomplished husband, Pierre. It lays bare their childhoods, their headlong love story, their scientific collaboration and the way their toxic discoveries, which included radium and polonium, poisoned them in slow motion. (New York Times)

The Magnificent 12: the Call

Michael Grant

FIC GRA

A seemingly average twelve-year-old learns that he is destined to gather a team of similarly gifted children to try to save the world from a nameless evil, which is threatening to reappear after having been imprisoned for three thousand years. (NoveList)

The Secret Voice of Gina Zhang

Dori Jones Yang

FIC YAN

When her extreme shyness makes her unable to speak at her new American school, twelve-year-old Jinna, newly arrived from China, retreats into her own fairy tale world. (Novelist) Series: American girl fiction

Geth and the Return of the Lithens

Obert Skye

FIC SKY

Geth and Clover seek adventure near the borders of Foo and discover a new civilization that needs their aid. (Novelist) Series: Beyond Foo,

The Absolute Value of Mike

Katherine Erskine

FIC ERS

Fourteen-year-old Mike, whose father is a brilliant mathematician but who has no math aptitude himself, spends the summer in rural Pennsylvania with his elderly and eccentric relatives Moo and Poppy, helping the townspeople raise money to adopt a Romanian orphan. (NoveList)

Gool

Maurice Gee

FIC GEE

Sixteen years after Hari and Pearl defeated the tyrant Ottmar, their children Xantee and Lo face an even more dangerous foe who they must find and destroy if they are to save their father and the world they know. (NoveList)

Series: Salt trilogy2

The Limping Man

Maurice Gee

FIC GEE

When the Limping Man, who controls minds for evil purposes, and his army invade Blood Burrow, Hana flees into the woods for safety, where she joins a group who wants to confront and destroy him before he takes over the world. (NoveList) Series: Salt trilogy, 3

Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King

William Joyce

FIC JOY

Nicholas St. North, a daredevil swordsman seeking treasure in the fiercely guarded village of Santoff Claussen finds, instead, the great wizard Ombric Shalazar and a battle against the Nightmare King and his evil Fearlings--a battle Nicholas can win only if he finds five other Guardians in time. (NoveList)
Series: Guardians of childhood

13 Gifts

Wendy Mass

FIC MAS

Shortly before her thirteenth birthday, shy and withdrawn Tara is sent to stay with her aunt, uncle, and cousin in her parents' hometown of Willow Falls, where she makes friends and becomes involved with an elderly buyer and seller of collectibles, who seems to be trying to give Tara some kind of mysterious message. (NoveList)

Home for the Holidays

Heather Vogel Frederick

FIC FRE

Four girls continue their mother-daughter book club, reading Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol," but from unexpected blizzards to a sledding disaster, nothing goes as planned. (NoveList) Series: Mother-Daughter Book Club, 5

Friday, November 4

The Man in the Moon

William Joyce

FIC JOY

When a newly orphaned baby in the moon makes friends with the children of Earth, he begins to shine as brightly as possible to ward off their fears. Series: Guardians of childhood The first in an exciting new series the author has been working on for the past several years. The next one will be a novel for middle readers. The website has a lot of fun information about the series to come. (NoveList)

All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky

Joe Lansdale

FIC LAN

When the devastation wrought by endless dust storms in 1930s Oklahoma makes orphans of Jack, his schoolmate Jane, and her brother Tony, they takethe truck of a dead man and set out to find a new start. (NoveList)

Miss Perigrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ransome Riggs

FIC RIG

After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there. (NoveList)

Inside Out and Back Again

Lan Tranhha

FIC TRA

Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama. (Novelist) National Book Award Finalist

Daughter of Smoke and Bone (MATURE)

Laini Taylor

FIC TAY

Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known. (Novelist) Local Author

My Name is Not Easy

Debby Dahl Edwardson

FIC EDW

Alaskans Luke, Chickie, Sonny, Donna, and Amiq relate their experiences in the early 1960s when they are forced to attend a Catholic boarding school where, despite different tribal affiliations, they come to find a sort of family and home. (NoveList) National Book Award Finallst

All These Things I've Done
Gabrielle Zevin
FIC ZEV (MATURE)
In a dystopian future where chocolate and caffeine are contraband, teenage cellphone use is illegal, and water and paper are carefully rationed, sixteen-year-old Anya Balanchine finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight as heir apparent to an important New York City crime family. (NoveList)





Brotherband Chronicles: The Outcasts (Book 1)
John Flanagan
FIC FLA
Skandian outcasts Hal, Stig, and others do battle at sea against the Wolves and the Sharks, in the ultimate race across icy waters where not everyone thinks of the competition as playing. (NoveList)

John Flanagan will visit Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing at 2 p.m. on Sunday, 11/6/11.

The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales

For more than 25 years, the illustrations in Chris Van Allsburg's extraordinary Mysteries of Harris Burdick have inspired children to weave stories to go with these enigmatic pictures. Now, some of our best adult storytellers have written their own tales, which have been collected in The Chronicles of Harris Burdick (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Mysterious, funny, creepy, poignant, these are tales you won't soon forget. (Powell's)


The Perfect Shot
Elaine Marie Alphin
FIC ALP

Brian uses basketball to block out memories of his girlfriend and her family who were gunned down a year ago, but the upcoming murder trial and a high school history assignment force him to face the past and decide how far he should go to see justice served. Includes facts about miscarriages of justice in American history. (NoveList

Treasury of Greek Mythology: Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Heroes and Monsters Donna Jo Napoli

The new National Geographic Treasury of Greek Mythology offers timeless stories of Greek myths in a beautiful new volume. Brought to life with lyrical text by award-winning author Donna Jo Napoli and stunning artwork by award-winning illustrator Christina Balit, the tales of gods and goddesses such as Zeus, Aphrodite, Apollo, and Athena and heroes and monsters such as Helen of Troy, Perseus, and Medusa will fascinate and engage children’s imaginations. (Publisher)

Ranger's Apprentice: The Lost Stories
John Flanagan
FIC RAN

In 1896, an archaeological dig unearths an ancient trunk containing manuscripts that confirm the existence of Araluen Rangers Will and Halt and tell of their first meeting and some of their previously unknown exploits. (NoveList)



Vanishing Acts
Phillip Margolin
Ami Margolin Rome
FIC MAR

In Portland, Oregon, between soccer games and beginning seventh grade, twelve-year-old Madison Kincaid and new classmate Jake try to track down her missing best friend, while also helping her attorney father solve a missing-persons case. (NoveList)

Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
Sally M. Walker

Reports on the work of forensic scientists who are excavating grave sites in James Fort, in Jamestown, Virginia, to understand who lived in the Chesapeake Bay area in the 1600s and 1700s; and uncovers the lives of a teenage boy, a ship's captain, a colonial officer, an African slave girl, and others. (TitleWave)

Between Shades of Gray
by Ruta Sepetys
FIC SEP

In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note. (NoveList)




Every Thing On IT: Poems and Drawings
by Shel Silverstein

A collection of more than 130 original, never-before published poems and drawings by Shel Silverstein. (TitleWave)

Here' one from the collection. Read it and then TRY say to yourself, I don't need to read any more Shel Silverstein poems!

A spider lives inside my head

Who weaves a strange and wondrous web

Of silken threads and silver strings

To catch all sorts of flying things,

Like crumbs of thought and bits of smiles

And specks of dried-up tears,

And dust of dreams that catch and cling

For years and years and years . . .

Life On Mars: Tales from the New Frontier
edited by Jonathan Strahan
FIC LIF

Strahan's Mars-themed collection features twelve authors, including Ellen Klages, Alastair Reynolds, Cory Doctorow, and Kage Baker. A rich and satisfying set of tales about old worlds left behind and new pioneers, but always implicit is the understanding that we are all--Earthling and Martian alike--making our own worlds and figuring out how to live in them. (Horn Book)

A Resource for Banned Books Week 2011

For those interested in learning more about where and why books have been banned or challenged, this map was compiled using data from the American Library Association (ALA) and the Kids' Right to Read project. Click through and have a look!