New Materials Received February 2010

Social Sciences Science Literature Reference

Professional Collection DVD Graphic Novels YA Fiction MS Fiction

Call Number	Author	Title	Notes
177 L38	Lavinthal, Andrea	Friend or frenemy: a guide to the friends you need and the ones you don't
305.8 T57	Tischauser, Leslie	Race relations in the United States, 1920-1940
338.542 N33	Nagle, Jeanne	How a recession works	Middle School Nonfiction.
616.02774 S54	Skloot, Rebecca	Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks	The family of Henrietta Lacks learned, twenty years after her death in 1951 from cervical cancer, that researchers took her cervical cells without consent and created the immortal cell line known as the HeLa cell.
646.7 B52	Blatt, Jessica	Teen girl's gotta-have-it guide to embarrassing moments	Middle School Nonfiction.
741.59 F62 v.1		Flight. Volume one.	Collects twenty-four comics on the theme of flight by such authors as Enrico Casarosa, Bengal, Catia Chien, and Kazu Kibuishi.
741.59 F62 v.2		Flight. Volume two.	A complilation of short comics and graphic stories by various authors.
741.59 F62 v.4		Flight. Volume four.	A collection of twenty-five comics stories by such authors as Amy Kim Ganter, Michael Gagné, Phil Craven, Joel Carroll, and Israel Sanchez.
741.5952 N34	Nakano, Hitori	Densha otoko v.1	When a painfully shy young man falls for a woman he met on the train, he turns to an online community to improve his social skills, but their advice only confuses him and makes him more unsure of himself.
741.5952 S56 v.8:4		Shonen jump	Manga aimed at boys.
791.3 F53	Fleming, Candace	Great and only Barnum: the tremendous, stupendous life of showman P.T. Barnum	Middle School Nonfiction.
808.02 O53		110/110: a collection celebrating the 110th birthday of University Book Store	"110 original 110-word compositions by a group of authors we consider members of our University Book Store family."
813.52 H45ZYg		Ernest Hemingway	Critical insights series.
813.54 K56ZYa		Barbara Kingsolver	Critical insights series.
813.54 M32ZYg	Greenwood, Willard	Reading Cormac McCarthy
813.54 M67ZYi		Toni Morrison	Critical insights series.
813.6 H67kZYb		Khaled Hosseini's The kite runner	Bloom's guides.
813.6 H67ZYs	Stuhr, Rebecca	Reading Khaled Hosseini
844 C35	Camus, Albert	Myth of Sisyphus and other essays
863.64 G37ZYs		Gabriel Garcia Marquez	Critical insights series.
954 R35	Ram-Prasad, Chakravarthi	Exploring the life, myth, and art of India	Middle School Nonfiction.
DVD 152.4 Thi		This emotional life : in search of ourselves…and happiness	This program explores ways to improve our social relationships, cope with emotional issues, and become more positive, resilient individuals in these difficult times.
DVD 973.3 Ame 1765-1774		American Revolution for students: causes of the Revolution, 1765-1774
DVD 973.3 Ame 1776-1783		American Revolution for students: the Revolutionary War, 1776-1783
DVD F All		All in the timing: seven short comedies by David Ives	Performed by the Advanced Drama class in November, 2009.
J-F Ban	Banerjee, Anjali	Looking for Bapu	When his beloved grandfather dies, eight-year-old Anu feels that his spirit is near and will stop at nothing to bring him back, including trying to become a Hindu holy man.
J-F Col	Collins, Suzanne	Catching fire	By winning the Hunger Games, tributes Katniss and Peeta have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they defied the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
J-F Hav	Haven, Kendall	Reluctant heroes: true five-minute-read adventure stories for boys	A collection of twenty-five short read-aloud adventure stories designed to increase boys' interest in books and reading.
J-F Hun	Hunter, Erin	Fire and ice: warriors	Fireheart, a full-fledged warrior cat, must confront questions of loyalty and identity as he faces the possibility of betrayal from within his own forest clan.
J-F Kor	Korman, Gordon	Zoobreak	After a class trip to a floating zoo where animals are mistreated and Savannah's missing pet monkey is found in a cage, Long Island sixth-grader Griffin Bing and his band of misfits plan a rescue.
J-F Sag	Sage, Angie	Magyk (Septimus Heap: book one)	Septimus Heap, the 7th son of a 7th son, and Jenna, found abandoned in the snow the night Septimus was born and taken away, are threatened by the evil wizard DomDaniel, who intends to finish off the entire royal line.
J-F Spr	Springer, Nancy	Dusssie	At 13 Dusie discovers that she, like her New York artist mother, is a Gorgon--a Greek mythological monster sprouting snakes from her head and capable of turning humans into stone with one angry look.
J-F Ste	Stevermer, Caroline	Magic below stairs	Frederick, who is surreptitiously watched over by a brownie, is plucked from a London orphanage to be a servant to a wealthy wizard, and eventually his uncanny abilities lead him to become the wizard's apprentice.
J-F Sto	Stone, Phoebe	Deep down popular	In a small, Virginia town, sixth-grader Jessie Lou Ferguson has a crush on the hugely popular Conrad Parker Smith, and when he suddenly develops a medical problem and the teacher asks Jessie Lou to help him, they become friends, to her surprise.
J-F Yoo	Yoo, Paula	Good enough	A Korean American teenager tries to please her parents by getting into an Ivy League college, but a new guy in school and her love of the violin tempt her in new directions.
Pro 151.1534 P56	Pink, Daniel	Drive: the surprising truth about what motivates us	Professional collection.
Pro 370.973 Z52	Zhao, Yong	Catching up or leading the way: American education in the age of globalization	Professional Collection.
Ref 808.02 H42	Heath, Marilyn	MLA made easy: citation basics for beginners
Ref 808.042 H42	Hacker, Diana	Pocket style manual	Textbook collection.
YA-F Bra	Bray, Libba	Going bovine	Cameron Smith, a disaffected 16-year-old diagnosed with mad cow disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed, video-gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure.
YA-F Bro	Brown, Jennifer	Hate list: a novel	Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to integrate back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.
YA-F Ros	Rosen, Renee	Every crooked pot	Nina Goldman, growing up in Akron, Ohio, in the 1970s, struggles to overcome the feelings of inferiority caused by the birthmark that covers one of her eyes.
YA-F Sti	Stiefvater, Maggie	Shiver	In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.

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