New+Books+January+2009

= = = = =January 2009=

Realistic Fiction
Airhead / Meg Cabot. (realistic fiction) Antsy does time / by Neal Shusterman. (realistic fiction – sequel to The Schwa Was Here) Girl at sea / Maureen Johnson. (realistic) A girl named Disaster / Nancy Farmer. (realistic/survival) Grow : a novel in verse / Juanita Havill ; illustrated by Stanislawa Kodman. (realistic) Hate that cat / Sharon Creech (realistic – in verse – sequel to Love That Dog) I am not Joey Pigza / Jack Gantos (realistic) The key to the Golden Firebird : a novel / Maureen Johnson. (realistic) The leanin' dog / by K.A. Nuzum (realistic) Let it snow : three holiday romances / by John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle. (realistic) My one hundred adventures / Polly Horvath. (realistic) The Penderwicks on Gardam Street / Jeanne Birdsall ; illustrations by David Frankland (realistic - sequel to The Penderwicks) Secrets of my Hollywood life : family affairs : a novel / by Jen Calonita. (realistic - Secrets of my Hollywood life series) Smiles to go / Jerry Spinelli. (realistic) Suite Scarlett / Maureen Johnson. (realistic)


Baseball crazy : ten short stories that cover all the bases / edited by Nancy E. Mercado. The big field / Mike Lupica. (realistic – sports) Boost / by Kathy Mackel. (Realistic-Sports) Box out / John Coy. (realistic-sports) Football hero / Tim Green (realistic-sports) Long shot / Mike Lupica. (realistic – sports – Comeback Kids series) Safe at home / Mike Lupica. (realistic - Comeback Kids series)

Action/Adventure
Blood fever : a James Bond adventure / Charlie Higson. (Action/Adventure – Young James Bond Series) Double or die : a James Bond adventure / Charlie Higson. (Action/Adventure – Young James Bond Series) SilverFin : a James Bond adventure / Charlie Higson. (Action/Adventure – Young James Bond Series)


Chains / Laurie Halse Anderson. (Historial) Shooting the moon / Frances O'Roark Dowell. (historical - Vietnam) Spirit / J.P. Hightman. (Historical/Fantasy - Salem)


A curse dark as gold / Elizabeth C. Bunce. (fantasty/historical) Devilish / by Maureen Johnson. (fantasy/realistic) Ever / Gail Carson Levine. (fantasy) Gone / Michael Grant. (fantasy - supernatural) The graveyard book / Neil Gaiman ; with illustrations by Dave McKean. (fantasy) The Hunger Games / Suzanne Collins. (Fantasy – post-modern) Inkdeath / Cornelia Funke (Fantasy – Inkheart series) The last of the high kings / Kate Thompson. (fantasy- sequel to The New Policeman) Merlin's dragon / T.A. Barron. (fantasy) Nation / Terry Pratchett. (fantasy) Masterpiece / Elise Broach (fantasy - Animal) Pandora gets jealous / Carolyn Hennesy (fantasy) Princess Ben : being a wholly truthful account of her various discoveries and misadventures, recounted to the best of her recollection, in four parts / written by Catherine Gilbert Murdock. (fantasy) Rebel angels / Libba Bray (fantasy/historical – Great and Terrible Beauty series) The sweet far thing / Libba Bray. (fantasy/historical – Great and Terrible Beauty series)) Suck it up / Brian Meehl. (fantasy – vampire) Things that are / Andrew Clements. (fantasy/realistic - Things Not Seen and Things Hoped For)

Mystery
The Greek who stole Christmas : a Diamond Brothers mystery / Anthony Horowitz. (Mystery - Diamond Brothers Series)

Memoir
The year we disappeared : a father / Cylin and John Busby (memoir)

Non-Fiction
Ancient Mathematics / Rob Staeger Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak / Kay Winters ; illustrated by Larry Day Don't steal copyrighted stuff! : avoiding plagiarism and illegal Internet downloading / Ann Graham Gaines. Elephant run / Roland Smith George Washington Carver / Tonya Bolden Jim Thorpe : original All-American / Joseph Bruchac Letters to a Bullied Girl: Messages of Healing and Hope by Olivia Gardner with Emily and Sarah Buder The Lincolns : a scrapbook look at Abraham and Mary / Candace Fleming. Presidential elections and other cool facts / written by Syl Sobel ; illustrated by Jill Wood. Presidential races : the battle for power in the United States / Arlene Morris-Lipsman. Red Power : the Native American civil rights movement / Troy R. Johnson. Remember Valley Forge : patriots, Tories, and redcoats tell their stories / Thomas B. Allen. Six million paper clips : the making of a children's Holocaust memorial / Peter W. Schroeder & Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand Snow falling in spring : coming of age in China during the cultural revolution / Moying Li. The trouble begins at 8 : a life of Mark Twain in the wild, wild West / Sid Fleischman. Z is for Zeus : a Greek mythology alphabet / written by Helen L. Wilbur ; and illustrated by Victor Juhasz.

Poetry
America at war : poems / selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins