If you are a fan of the weird, wonderful, and truly unbelievable, you'll be first in line to snap up the 2012 Guinness World Book of Records or Ripley's Believe It or Not 2012 which will be available Monday at lunch.
Here are some other great reads...
PERFECT by Ellen Hopkins
Many of you have already discovered the amazing emotional intensity of Hopkin's unusual prose verse in earlier novels like Crank, Glass, and Identical.
Everyone has something, someone, somewhere else that they’d rather be. For four high-school seniors, their goals of perfection are just as different as the paths they take to get there.
Everyone wants to be perfect, but when perfection loses its meaning, how far will you go? What would you give up to be perfect?
Everyone wants to be perfect, but when perfection loses its meaning, how far will you go? What would you give up to be perfect?
SIDEKICKS by Jack D. Ferraiolo
But after an embarrassing incident involving his too-tight spandex costume, plus some signs that Phantom Justice may not be the good guy he pretends to be, Scott begins to question his role. With the help of a fellow sidekick, once his nemesis, Scott must decide if growing up means being loyal or stepping boldly to the center of things.
THE WEDNESDAY WARS by Gary D. Schmidt
While all his classmates are enjoying (?) religious instruction, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood shares Wednesday afternoons with Mrs. Baker, his Camillo Junior High teacher. Not surprisingly, Holling lacks enthusiasm for mid-week appointments with an instructor who assigns him Shakespeare as out-of-class reading. Holling has other things on his mind besides English Renaissance drama. For his dad's sake, he's trying hard to stay out of trouble, but with hovering bullies and other impinging crises, that seems to be a full-time job. Fortunately, help arrives from an unexpected source. Another funny yet gripping novel from the author of Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy.
THE HUNCHBACK ASSIGNMENTS by Arthur Slade
This is a new steampunk fantasy series by the Canadian author of Dust. We have the next two books in the series, The Dark Deeps and The Empire of Ruins. Enjoy!
GAME OF THRONES (#1 in The Song of Ice and Fire series) by George R. R. Martin.
There has been a tremendous resurgence of interest in this epic fantasy series since the televised version came out on HBO and the fifth book, A Dance with Dragons, was released this summer. Here is a synopsis:
Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective wall. To the south, the King's powers are failing, and his enemies are emerging from the shadows of the throne. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the frozen land they were born to. Now Lord Eddard Stark is reluctantly summoned to serve as the King's new Hand, an appointment that threatens to sunder not only his family but also the kingdom itself. A heroic fantasy of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and evildoers who come together in a time of grim omens.
We have all five books.
MONSTER HIGH (#1 Monster High series) by Lisi Harrison
On the heels of her popular Alphas and The Clique series, comes a brand new series from Lisi Harrison. We will soon have the next two books in the series.
They prefer to call themselves RAD (Regular Attribute Dodgers), but some call them monsters. So far, the "monster" community has kept a low profile in Salem, but this year two new girls enroll at Master High School, and the town will never be the same.
Created just fifteen days ago, Frankie Stein is psyched to trade her father's formaldehyde-smelling basement lab for parties and cheerleading. But with a student body totally freaked out by rumors of monsters who might be stalking the halls, Frankie finds that life in the "normi" world can be rough for a chic freak like her.
She thinks she finds a friend in fellow new student Melody Carver--but can a normi be trusted with her big secret?
TIME RIDERS by Alex Scarrow
This first book in the series is an adrenaline pumping ride through time. I hope to have the next three books in very soon.
VIOLA IN REEL LIFE by Adriana Trigiani
When fourteen-year-old Viola is sent from her beloved Brooklyn to boarding school in Indiana for ninth grade, she overcomes her initial reservations as she makes friends with her roommates, goes on a real date, and uses the unsettling ghost she keeps seeing as the subject of her first short film.
THE DEMON KING (#1 Seven Realms series) by Cinda Williams Chima
This novel marks the first giant step in a momentous fantasy journey orchestrated by Cinda Williams Chima, the author of the popular Warrior Heir series. Its two chief protagonists are ex-thief Han Alister, an impoverished commoner, and Raisa ana'Marianna, the headstrong Princess Heir of the Fells. The Demon King brings them together, creating part of a volatile mix of action, magic, and danger.
We have the second book, The Exiled Queen, in the library.
PASSING STRANGE (#3 Generation Dead series) by Daniel Waters
Karen DeSonne is used to pretending to be something she’s not. All her life, she’s passed as a normal all-American teenager; with her friends, with her family, and at school. Passing cost her the love of her life. And now that Karen’s dead, she’s still passing this time, as alive.
THE HUNCHBACK ASSIGNMENTS by Arthur Slade
This is a new steampunk fantasy series by the Canadian author of Dust. We have the next two books in the series, The Dark Deeps and The Empire of Ruins. Enjoy!
GAME OF THRONES (#1 in The Song of Ice and Fire series) by George R. R. Martin.
There has been a tremendous resurgence of interest in this epic fantasy series since the televised version came out on HBO and the fifth book, A Dance with Dragons, was released this summer. Here is a synopsis:
Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective wall. To the south, the King's powers are failing, and his enemies are emerging from the shadows of the throne. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the frozen land they were born to. Now Lord Eddard Stark is reluctantly summoned to serve as the King's new Hand, an appointment that threatens to sunder not only his family but also the kingdom itself. A heroic fantasy of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and evildoers who come together in a time of grim omens.
We have all five books.
MONSTER HIGH (#1 Monster High series) by Lisi Harrison
On the heels of her popular Alphas and The Clique series, comes a brand new series from Lisi Harrison. We will soon have the next two books in the series.
Created just fifteen days ago, Frankie Stein is psyched to trade her father's formaldehyde-smelling basement lab for parties and cheerleading. But with a student body totally freaked out by rumors of monsters who might be stalking the halls, Frankie finds that life in the "normi" world can be rough for a chic freak like her.
She thinks she finds a friend in fellow new student Melody Carver--but can a normi be trusted with her big secret?
TIME RIDERS by Alex Scarrow
This first book in the series is an adrenaline pumping ride through time. I hope to have the next three books in very soon.
VIOLA IN REEL LIFE by Adriana Trigiani
THE DEMON KING (#1 Seven Realms series) by Cinda Williams Chima
This novel marks the first giant step in a momentous fantasy journey orchestrated by Cinda Williams Chima, the author of the popular Warrior Heir series. Its two chief protagonists are ex-thief Han Alister, an impoverished commoner, and Raisa ana'Marianna, the headstrong Princess Heir of the Fells. The Demon King brings them together, creating part of a volatile mix of action, magic, and danger.
We have the second book, The Exiled Queen, in the library.
PASSING STRANGE (#3 Generation Dead series) by Daniel Waters
Karen DeSonne is used to pretending to be something she’s not. All her life, she’s passed as a normal all-American teenager; with her friends, with her family, and at school. Passing cost her the love of her life. And now that Karen’s dead, she’s still passing this time, as alive.
Meanwhile, Karen’s dead friends have been fingered in a high-profile murder, causing a new round of anti-zombie regulations that have forced nearly all of Oakvale’s undead into hiding. Karen soon learns that the “murder” was a hoax, staged by Pete Martinsburg and his bioist zealots. Obtaining enough evidence to expose the fraud and prove her friends’ innocence means doing the unthinkable: betraying her love by becoming Pete’s girlfriend. Karen’s only hope is that the enemy never realizes who she really is because the consequences would be even worse than death.
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