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Don't Ask Me Where I'm FromFirst-generation American LatinX Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-white school. But when family secrets spill out and racism at school ramps up, she must decide what she believes in and take a stand. So what if she changes her name? So what if she changes the way she talks? So what if she’s seeing her neighborhood in a different way? But then light is shed on some hard truths: It isn’t that her father doesn’t want to come home—he can’t…and her whole family is in jeopardy. And when racial tensions at school reach a fever pitch, the walls that divide feel insurmountable. Call number: FIC LEO Genre: YA Fiction Reading level: 10-12 Lexile text measure: HL590L Length: 336 pages Availability: MHHS | Just BreatheYou can't see the future yet, but it's there. Just hang on. David Scheinman is the popular president of his senior class, battling cystic fibrosis. Jamie Turner is a quiet sophomore, struggling with depression. The pair soon realizes that they're able to be more themselves with each other than they can be with anyone else, and their unlikely friendship starts to turn into something so much more. But neither Jamie nor David can bring themselves to reveal the secrets that weigh most heavily on their hearts--and their time for honesty may be running out Call number: FIC McG Genre: YA Fiction Reading level: 9-12 Length: 368 pages Availability: MHHS | CRISPR: A Powerful Way to Change DNAWe can change the world with genetic modification—but should we? CRISPR stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. If it sounds complicated, it is—but it’s also one of the most powerful ways we can shape the future. And it’s poised to completely upend the way we think about science. Call number: 576.5 RID Genre: Nonfiction/Science Reading level: 9-12 Lexile text measure: 1180L Length: 126 pages Availability: MHHS |
Don't Ask Me Where I'm From
First-generation American LatinX Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-white school. But when family secrets spill out and racism at school ramps up, she must decide what she believes in and take a stand.
So what if she changes her name? So what if she changes the way she talks? So what if she’s seeing her neighborhood in a different way? But then light is shed on some hard truths: It isn’t that her father doesn’t want to come home—he can’t…and her whole family is in jeopardy. And when racial tensions at school reach a fever pitch, the walls that divide feel insurmountable.
Call number: FIC LEO
Genre: YA Fiction
Reading level: 10-12
Lexile text measure: HL590L
Length: 336 pages
Availability: MHHS
Just Breathe
You can't see the future yet, but it's there. Just hang on.
David Scheinman is the popular president of his senior class, battling cystic fibrosis. Jamie Turner is a quiet sophomore, struggling with depression. The pair soon realizes that they're able to be more themselves with each other than they can be with anyone else, and their unlikely friendship starts to turn into something so much more. But neither Jamie nor David can bring themselves to reveal the secrets that weigh most heavily on their hearts--and their time for honesty may be running out
Call number: FIC McG
Genre: YA Fiction
Reading level: 9-12
Length: 368 pages
Availability: MHHS
CRISPR: A Powerful Way to Change DNA
We can change the world with genetic modification—but should we?
CRISPR stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. If it sounds complicated, it is—but it’s also one of the most powerful ways we can shape the future. And it’s poised to completely upend the way we think about science.
Call number: 576.5 RID
Genre: Nonfiction/Science
Reading level: 9-12
Lexile text measure: 1180L
Length: 126 pages
Availability: MHHS
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Class ActGRAPHIC NOVEL New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft returns with a companion book to New Kid, winner of the 2020 Newbery Medal, the Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Kirkus Prize. Eighth grader Drew Ellis recognizes that he isn't afforded the same opportunities, no matter how hard he works, that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted, and to make matters worse, Drew begins to feel as if his good friend Liam might be one of those privileged kids and is finding it hard not to withdraw, even as their mutual friend Jordan tries to keep their group of friends together. GRAPHIC NOVEL Call number: 741.5 CRA Genre: Graphic Novel Reading level: 5-8 Length: 249 pages Availability: MHHS | Rural VoicesThink you know what rural America is like? Discover a plurality of perspectives in this enlightening anthology of stories that turns preconceptions on their head. For most of America’s history, rural people and culture have been casually mocked, stereotyped, and, in general, deeply misunderstood. Now an array of short stories, poetry, graphic short stories, and personal essays, along with anecdotes from the authors’ real lives, dives deep into the complexity and diversity of rural America and the people who call it home. Fifteen extraordinary authors—diverse in ethnic background, sexual orientation, geographic location, and socioeconomic status—explore the challenges, beauty, and nuances of growing up in rural America. Call number: FIC CAR Genre: Fiction/Stories Reading level: 9-12 Length: 336 pages Availability: MHHS | The Sacrifice of DarknessGRAPHIC NOVEL Follow one woman’s powerful journey through this new landscape as she discovers love, family, and the true light in a world seemingly robbed of any. As she challenges notions of identity, guilt, and survival she’ll find that no matter the darkness, there remains sources of hope that can pierce the veil. Roxane Gay, Tracy Lynne Oliver, and Rebecca Kirby adapt Gay’s New York Times bestselling short story “We Are the Sacrifice of Darkness” as a full length graphic novel, expanding and further developing the unforgettable world where the sun no longer shines. GRAPHIC NOVEL Call number: 741.5 GAY Genre: YA Fiction/Graphic Novel Reading level: 11-12 Length: 128 pages Availability: MHHS |
Class Act
GRAPHIC NOVEL
New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft returns with a companion book to New Kid, winner of the 2020 Newbery Medal, the Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Kirkus Prize.
Eighth grader Drew Ellis recognizes that he isn't afforded the same opportunities, no matter how hard he works, that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted, and to make matters worse, Drew begins to feel as if his good friend Liam might be one of those privileged kids and is finding it hard not to withdraw, even as their mutual friend Jordan tries to keep their group of friends together.
GRAPHIC NOVEL
Call number: 741.5 CRA
Genre: Graphic Novel
Reading level: 5-8
Length: 249 pages
Availability: MHHS
Rural Voices
Think you know what rural America is like? Discover a plurality of perspectives in this enlightening anthology of stories that turns preconceptions on their head.
For most of America’s history, rural people and culture have been casually mocked, stereotyped, and, in general, deeply misunderstood. Now an array of short stories, poetry, graphic short stories, and personal essays, along with anecdotes from the authors’ real lives, dives deep into the complexity and diversity of rural America and the people who call it home. Fifteen extraordinary authors—diverse in ethnic background, sexual orientation, geographic location, and socioeconomic status—explore the challenges, beauty, and nuances of growing up in rural America.
Call number: FIC CAR
Genre: Fiction/Stories
Reading level: 9-12
Length: 336 pages
Availability: MHHS
The Sacrifice of Darkness
GRAPHIC NOVEL
Follow one woman’s powerful journey through this new landscape as she discovers love, family, and the true light in a world seemingly robbed of any. As she challenges notions of identity, guilt, and survival she’ll find that no matter the darkness, there remains sources of hope that can pierce the veil.
Roxane Gay, Tracy Lynne Oliver, and Rebecca Kirby adapt Gay’s New York Times bestselling short story “We Are the Sacrifice of Darkness” as a full length graphic novel, expanding and further developing the unforgettable world where the sun no longer shines.
GRAPHIC NOVEL
Call number: 741.5 GAY
Genre: YA Fiction/Graphic Novel
Reading level: 11-12
Length: 128 pages
Availability: MHHS
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1789: Twelve Authors Explore a Year of Rebellion, Revolution, & Change“The Rights of Man.” What does that mean? In 1789, that question rippled all around the world. Do all men have rights—not just nobles and kings? What then of enslaved people, women, the original inhabitants of the Americas? Lauded anthology editors Marc Aronson and Susan Campbell Bartoletti, along with ten award-winning non-fiction authosr, explre a tumultuous year when rights and freedoms collided with enslavement and domination, and the future of humanity seemed to be at stake. Call number: 909.7 ARO Genre: Nonfiction/History Reading level: 9-12 Length: 200 pages Availability: MHHS | The Gravity of UsAs a successful social media journalist with half a million followers, seventeen-year-old Cal is used to sharing his life online. But when his pilot father is selected for a highly publicized NASA mission to Mars, Cal and his family relocate from Brooklyn to Houston and are thrust into a media circus. Amidst the chaos, Cal meets sensitive and mysterious Leon, another "Astrokid," and finds himself falling head over heels--fast. As the frenzy around the mission grows, so does their connection. But when secrets about the program are uncovered, Cal must find a way to reveal the truth without hurting the people who have become most important to him. Call number: FIC STA Genre: YA Fiction Reading level: 7-9 Length: 336 pages Availability: MHHS | Crossing the LineA Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever An inspiring memoir of defying the odds from Kareem Rosser, captain of the first all-black squad to win the National Interscholastic Polo championship. Crossing the Line will not just leave you with hope, but also ideas on how to make that hope transferable. Call number: 796.35 ROS Genre: Nonfiction/Biography Reading level: 9-12 Length: 287 pages Availability: MHHS, Sora (SDCL) Sora achievements: Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction |
1789: Twelve Authors Explore a Year of Rebellion, Revolution, & Change
“The Rights of Man.” What does that mean? In 1789, that question rippled all around the world. Do all men have rights—not just nobles and kings? What then of enslaved people, women, the original inhabitants of the Americas?
Lauded anthology editors Marc Aronson and Susan Campbell Bartoletti, along with ten award-winning non-fiction authosr, explre a tumultuous year when rights and freedoms collided with enslavement and domination, and the future of humanity seemed to be at stake.
Call number: 909.7 ARO
Genre: Nonfiction/History
Reading level: 9-12
Length: 200 pages
Availability: MHHS
The Gravity of Us
As a successful social media journalist with half a million followers, seventeen-year-old Cal is used to sharing his life online. But when his pilot father is selected for a highly publicized NASA mission to Mars, Cal and his family relocate from Brooklyn to Houston and are thrust into a media circus.
Amidst the chaos, Cal meets sensitive and mysterious Leon, another "Astrokid," and finds himself falling head over heels--fast. As the frenzy around the mission grows, so does their connection. But when secrets about the program are uncovered, Cal must find a way to reveal the truth without hurting the people who have become most important to him.
Call number: FIC STA
Genre: YA Fiction
Reading level: 7-9
Length: 336 pages
Availability: MHHS
Crossing the Line
A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever
An inspiring memoir of defying the odds from Kareem Rosser, captain of the first all-black squad to win the National Interscholastic Polo championship. Crossing the Line will not just leave you with hope, but also ideas on how to make that hope transferable.
Call number: 796.35 ROS
Genre: Nonfiction/Biography
Reading level: 9-12
Length: 287 pages
Availability: MHHS, Sora (SDCL)
Sora achievements: Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction
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ScytheIn this Printz Honor-winning book, two teens must learn the "art of killing". Scythe is the first novel of a thrilling new series by National Book Award–winning author Neal Shusterman in which Citra and Rowan learn that a perfect world comes only with a heavy price. In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't. BOOK 1: Arc of a Scythe series Call number: FIC SHU Genre: YA Fiction Reading level: 9-12 Lexile text measure: 830L Length: 433 pages Availability: MHHS | Ready Player OneA spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut—part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed. In the year 2044, Wade Watts, like the rest of humanity, chooses to escape reality and spends his waking hours in the limitless, utopian virtual world of the OASIS, but when Wade stumbles upon the first of the fiendish puzzles set up by OASIS creator James Halliday he finds he must compete with thousands of others--including those willing to commit murder--in order to claim a prize of massive fortune. Call number: FIC CLI Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Reading level: 9-12 Lexile text measure: 990L Length: 374 pages Availability: MHHS, Sora (SDCL) Sora achievements: Fiction, Sci-Fi & Fantasy | The Sound of StarsCan a girl who risks her life for books and an alien who loves pop music work together to save humanity? A beautiful and thrilling debut novel for fans of Marie Lu and Veronica Roth. Two years ago, a misunderstanding between the leaders of Earth and the invading Ilori resulted in the deaths of one-third of the world’s population. Today, seventeen-year-old Ellie Baker survives in an Ilori-controlled center in New York City. With humans deemed dangerously volatile because of their initial reaction to the invasion, emotional expression can be grounds for execution. Music, art and books are illegal, but Ellie still keeps a secret library. Call number: FIC DOW Genre: YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy Reading level: 9-12 Length: 426 pages Availability: MHHS |
Scythe
In this Printz Honor-winning book, two teens must learn the "art of killing". Scythe is the first novel of a thrilling new series by National Book Award–winning author Neal Shusterman in which Citra and Rowan learn that a perfect world comes only with a heavy price.
In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't.
BOOK 1: Arc of a Scythe series
Call number: FIC SHU
Genre: YA Fiction
Reading level: 9-12
Lexile text measure: 830L
Length: 433 pages
Availability: MHHS
Ready Player One
A spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut—part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed.
In the year 2044, Wade Watts, like the rest of humanity, chooses to escape reality and spends his waking hours in the limitless, utopian virtual world of the OASIS, but when Wade stumbles upon the first of the fiendish puzzles set up by OASIS creator James Halliday he finds he must compete with thousands of others--including those willing to commit murder--in order to claim a prize of massive fortune.
Call number: FIC CLI
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Reading level: 9-12
Lexile text measure: 990L
Length: 374 pages
Availability: MHHS, Sora (SDCL)
Sora achievements: Fiction, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The Sound of Stars
Can a girl who risks her life for books and an alien who loves pop music work together to save humanity? A beautiful and thrilling debut novel for fans of Marie Lu and Veronica Roth.
Two years ago, a misunderstanding between the leaders of Earth and the invading Ilori resulted in the deaths of one-third of the world’s population. Today, seventeen-year-old Ellie Baker survives in an Ilori-controlled center in New York City. With humans deemed dangerously volatile because of their initial reaction to the invasion, emotional expression can be grounds for execution. Music, art and books are illegal, but Ellie still keeps a secret library.
Call number: FIC DOW
Genre: YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Reading level: 9-12
Length: 426 pages
Availability: MHHS
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The Handmaid's TaleAn instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction". In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead’s commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive. Call number: FIC ATW Genre: Sci-fi/Fantasy Reading level: 9-12 Lexile text measure: 750L Length: 311 pages Availability: MHHS, Sora (SDCL & Serra) Sora achievements: Fiction | American War: A NovelA second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle—a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place. But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be. Call number: FIC AKK Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Reading level: 9-12 Lexile text measure: 890L Length: 333 pages Availability: MHHS, Sora (SDCL & Serra - audiobook only) Sora achievements: Fiction, Sci-Fi/Fantasy | The GiverIn Lois Lowry’s Newbery Medal–winning classic, twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind his fragile community. Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. Call number: FIC LOW Genre: YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy Reading level: 5-7 Lexile text measure: 760L Length: 180 pages Availability: MHHS |
The Handmaid's Tale
An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction".
In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead’s commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive.
Call number: FIC ATW
Genre: Sci-fi/Fantasy
Reading level: 9-12
Lexile text measure: 750L
Length: 311 pages
Availability: MHHS, Sora (SDCL & Serra)
Sora achievements: Fiction
American War: A Novel
A second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle—a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself.
Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place. But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be.
Call number: FIC AKK
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Reading level: 9-12
Lexile text measure: 890L
Length: 333 pages
Availability: MHHS, Sora (SDCL & Serra - audiobook only)
Sora achievements: Fiction, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Giver
In Lois Lowry’s Newbery Medal–winning classic, twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind his fragile community.
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Call number: FIC LOW
Genre: YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Reading level: 5-7
Lexile text measure: 760L
Length: 180 pages
Availability: MHHS
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DivergentDebut author Veronica Roth bursts onto the literary scene with the first book in the Divergent series - dystopian thrillers filled with electrifying decisions, heartbreaking betrayals, stunning consequences, and unexpected romance. In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all. Book 1 - Divergent series Call number: FIC ROT Genre: YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy Reading level: 9-12 Lexile text measure: HL700L Length: 487 pages Availability: MHHS | A Single StoneIn an isolated society, one girl makes a discovery that will change everything - and learns that a single stone, once set in motion, can bring down a mountain. Jena - strong, respected, reliable - is the leader of the line, a job every girl in the village dreams of. Watched over by the Mothers as one of the chosen seven, Jena's years spent denying herself food and wrapping her limbs have paid off. She is small enough to squeeze through the tunnels of the mountain and gather the harvest, risking her life with each mission. No work is more important. Call number: FIC McK Genre: YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy Reading level: 4-6 Lexile text measure: 660L Length: 267 pages Availability: MHHS | Ender's ShadowDid you love Ender's Game? With all the power of his original creation, Ender's Shadow is the author's parallel volume to Ender's Game, told from the viewpoint of Bean. Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best. In this new book, author Orson Scott Card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they call Bean - the one who became Ender's right hand, part of his team, in the final battle against the alien Buggers. Call number: FIC CAR Genre: YA Sci-Fi Reading level: 9-12 Lexile text measure: 780L Length: 384 pages Availability: MHHS, Sora (SDCL) Sora achievements: Fiction, Sci-fi/Fantasy |
Divergent
Debut author Veronica Roth bursts onto the literary scene with the first book in the Divergent series - dystopian thrillers filled with electrifying decisions, heartbreaking betrayals, stunning consequences, and unexpected romance.
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
Book 1 - Divergent series
Call number: FIC ROT
Genre: YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Reading level: 9-12
Lexile text measure: HL700L
Length: 487 pages
Availability: MHHS
A Single Stone
In an isolated society, one girl makes a discovery that will change everything - and learns that a single stone, once set in motion, can bring down a mountain.
Jena - strong, respected, reliable - is the leader of the line, a job every girl in the village dreams of. Watched over by the Mothers as one of the chosen seven, Jena's years spent denying herself food and wrapping her limbs have paid off. She is small enough to squeeze through the tunnels of the mountain and gather the harvest, risking her life with each mission. No work is more important.
Call number: FIC McK
Genre: YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Reading level: 4-6
Lexile text measure: 660L
Length: 267 pages
Availability: MHHS
Ender's Shadow
Did you love Ender's Game? With all the power of his original creation, Ender's Shadow is the author's parallel volume to Ender's Game, told from the viewpoint of Bean.
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best. In this new book, author Orson Scott Card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they call Bean - the one who became Ender's right hand, part of his team, in the final battle against the alien Buggers.
Call number: FIC CAR
Genre: YA Sci-Fi
Reading level: 9-12
Lexile text measure: 780L
Length: 384 pages
Availability: MHHS, Sora (SDCL)
Sora achievements: Fiction, Sci-fi/Fantasy
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UgliesWhat does it mean to be pretty? Beauty is not just skin-deep. Tally is faced with a difficult choice when her new friend Shay decides to risk life on the outside rather than submit to the forced operation that turns sixteen year old girls into gorgeous beauties, and realizes that there is a whole new side to the pretty world that Tally doesn't like. Call number: FIC WES Genre: YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy Reading level: 9-12 Lexile text measure: 770L Length: 425 pages Availability: MHHS | The Man in the High CastleIt's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war - and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan. This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip k. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it he offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to wake. Call number: FIC DIC Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Reading level: 11-12+ Length: 274 pages Availability: MHHS, Sora (SDCL) Sora achievements: Fiction, Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Red QueenRed Queen, by #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Aveyard, is a sweeping tale of power, intrigue, and betrayal, perfect for fans of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series. Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood—those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief in a poor, rural village, until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver court. Before the king, princes, and all the nobles, she discovers she has an ability of her own. Call number: FIC AVE Genre: YA Fantasy Reading level: 8-9 Lexile text measure: HL740L Length: 416 pages Availability: MHHS |
Uglies
What does it mean to be pretty? Beauty is not just skin-deep.
Tally is faced with a difficult choice when her new friend Shay decides to risk life on the outside rather than submit to the forced operation that turns sixteen year old girls into gorgeous beauties, and realizes that there is a whole new side to the pretty world that Tally doesn't like.
Call number: FIC WES
Genre: YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Reading level: 9-12
Lexile text measure: 770L
Length: 425 pages
Availability: MHHS
The Man in the High Castle
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war - and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.
This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip k. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it he offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to wake.
Call number: FIC DIC
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Reading level: 11-12+
Length: 274 pages
Availability: MHHS, Sora (SDCL)
Sora achievements: Fiction, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Red Queen
Red Queen, by #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Aveyard, is a sweeping tale of power, intrigue, and betrayal, perfect for fans of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series.
Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood—those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief in a poor, rural village, until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver court. Before the king, princes, and all the nobles, she discovers she has an ability of her own.
Call number: FIC AVE
Genre: YA Fantasy
Reading level: 8-9
Lexile text measure: HL740L
Length: 416 pages
Availability: MHHS
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Generation GreenThe Ultimate Teen Guide to Living an Eco-friendly Life It's really easy to do even more to help save the earth, and Generation Green shows you how. It doesn't matter if you can't vote or drive. Your efforts -- big or small -- will contribute to saving the planet. It's time for all of us to take action. It's time to go green! Call number: 333.7 SIV Genre: Nonfiction Reading level: 7-9 Length: 248 pages Availability: MHHS | World Without FishCan you imagine a world without fish? It's not as crazy as it sounds. But if we keep doing things the way we've been doing things, fish could become extinct within fifty years. So let's change the way we do things! Interwoven with the book is a twelve-page graphic novel. Each beautifully illustrated chapter opener links to the next to form a larger fictional story that perfectly complements the text. GRAPHIC NOVEL Call number: 338.3 KUR Genre: Nonfiction Reading level: 6-8 Lexile text measure: 1160L Length: 183 pages Availability: MHHS | SustainabilityBuilding Eco-Friendly Communities An introduction to sustainability that focuses the impact of eco-friendly communities on the environment, and provides information alternative materials and products, biopesticides, engineered food and crops, sustainable agriculture, white biotechnology, and related topics. Call number: 628 MAC Genre: Nonfiction Reading level: 9-12 Length: 223 pages Availability: MHHS |
Generation Green
The Ultimate Teen Guide to Living an Eco-friendly Life
It's really easy to do even more to help save the earth, and Generation Green shows you how. It doesn't matter if you can't vote or drive. Your efforts -- big or small -- will contribute to saving the planet. It's time for all of us to take action. It's time to go green!
Call number: 333.7 SIV
Genre: Nonfiction
Reading level: 7-9
Length: 248 pages
Availability: MHHS
World Without Fish
Can you imagine a world without fish? It's not as crazy as it sounds. But if we keep doing things the way we've been doing things, fish could become extinct within fifty years. So let's change the way we do things!
Interwoven with the book is a twelve-page graphic novel. Each beautifully illustrated chapter opener links to the next to form a larger fictional story that perfectly complements the text.
GRAPHIC NOVEL
Call number: 338.3 KUR
Genre: Nonfiction
Reading level: 6-8
Lexile text measure: 1160L
Length: 183 pages
Availability: MHHS
Sustainability
Building Eco-Friendly Communities
An introduction to sustainability that focuses the impact of eco-friendly communities on the environment, and provides information alternative materials and products, biopesticides, engineered food and crops, sustainable agriculture, white biotechnology, and related topics.
Call number: 628 MAC
Genre: Nonfiction
Reading level: 9-12
Length: 223 pages
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Trashing the Planet: Examining Our Global Garbage GlutOn a global scale, humans create around 2.6 trillion pounds of waste every year. None of this trash is harmless-landfills and dumps leak toxic chemicals into soil and groundwater, while incinerators release toxic gases and particles into the air. What can we do to keep garbage from swallowing up Earth? Reducing, reusing, recycling, and upcycling are some of the answers. Learn more about the work of the US Environmental Protection Agency, the Ocean Cleanup Array, the zero waste movement, and the many other government, business, research, and youth efforts working to solve our planet's garbage crisis. Call number: 363.72 KAL Genre: Nonfiction Reading level: 9-12 Lexile text measure: 1200L Length: 104 pages Availability: MHHS | Pilgrim at Tinker CreekPilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence." In the summer, she stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplated wave mechanics. In the fall, she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. She tries to con a coot, she collects pond water and examines it under a microscope. She unties a snake skin, witnesses a flood, and plays "king of the meadow" with a field of grasshoppers. The result in an exhilarating tale of nature and its seasons. Call number: 508.97 DIL Genre: Nonfiction Reading level: 7-9 Lexile text measure: 1100L Length: 288 pages Availability: MHHS, Sora (SDCL) Sora achievements: Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction | Wildlife AtlasA Complete Guide to Animals and their Habitats Journey through the world's habitats & explore the relationships between animals & their environment. Use the realistic illustrations & superb photographs to view the incredible range of wildlife on our planet. Find out which animals are in danger & why they are threatened. Discover fascinating accounts of often little-known animal behavior. Learn about more than 1,000 animals featured throughout these pages. Call number: 591.7 FAR Genre: Nonfiction Reading level: 7-9 Length: 176 pages Availability: MHHS |
Trashing the Planet: Examining Our Global Garbage Glut
On a global scale, humans create around 2.6 trillion pounds of waste every year. None of this trash is harmless-landfills and dumps leak toxic chemicals into soil and groundwater, while incinerators release toxic gases and particles into the air. What can we do to keep garbage from swallowing up Earth?
Reducing, reusing, recycling, and upcycling are some of the answers. Learn more about the work of the US Environmental Protection Agency, the Ocean Cleanup Array, the zero waste movement, and the many other government, business, research, and youth efforts working to solve our planet's garbage crisis.
Call number: 363.72 KAL
Genre: Nonfiction
Reading level: 9-12
Lexile text measure: 1200L
Length: 104 pages
Availability: MHHS
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence."
In the summer, she stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplated wave mechanics. In the fall, she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. She tries to con a coot, she collects pond water and examines it under a microscope. She unties a snake skin, witnesses a flood, and plays "king of the meadow" with a field of grasshoppers. The result in an exhilarating tale of nature and its seasons.
Call number: 508.97 DIL
Genre: Nonfiction
Reading level: 7-9
Lexile text measure: 1100L
Length: 288 pages
Availability: MHHS, Sora (SDCL)
Sora achievements: Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction
Wildlife Atlas
A Complete Guide to Animals and their Habitats
Journey through the world's habitats & explore the relationships between animals & their environment. Use the realistic illustrations & superb photographs to view the incredible range of wildlife on our planet. Find out which animals are in danger & why they are threatened. Discover fascinating accounts of often little-known animal behavior. Learn about more than 1,000 animals featured throughout these pages.
Call number: 591.7 FAR
Genre: Nonfiction
Reading level: 7-9
Length: 176 pages
Availability: MHHS
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Ocean: The Definitive Visual GuideAn illustrated overview of the oceans that describes ocean environments, geology, circulation, and climate and profiles hundreds of ocean-living animal and plant species. The power and wonder of the ocean is as strong today as ever, with new expeditions to its depths, and new discoveries beneath melting ice, in developing reefs, and on shores around the world. Call number: 551.46 COU Genre: Nonfiction Reading level: 9-12 Length: 512 pages Availability: MHHS | Silent SpringThe classic that launched the environmental movement! Rachel Carson's 1962 environmental classic, Silent Spring, alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Call number: 363.73 CAR Genre: Nonfiction Reading level: 9-12 Lexile text measure: 1340L Length: 378 pages Availability: MHHS, Sora (SDCL & Serra) Sora achievements: Nonfiction | Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water's Edge“Seaweed is ancient and basic, a testament to the tenacious beginnings of life on earth,” writes Susan Hand Shetterly in this elegant, fascinating book. “Why wouldn’t seaweeds be a protean life source for the lives that have evolved since?” On a planet facing environmental change and diminishing natural resources, seaweed is increasingly important as a source of food and as a fundamental part of our global ecosystem. Call number: 579.8 SHE Genre: Nonfiction Reading level: 10-12 Lexile text measure: 1250L Length: 271 pages Availability: MHHS |
Ocean: The Definitive Visual Guide
An illustrated overview of the oceans that describes ocean environments, geology, circulation, and climate and profiles hundreds of ocean-living animal and plant species.
The power and wonder of the ocean is as strong today as ever, with new expeditions to its depths, and new discoveries beneath melting ice, in developing reefs, and on shores around the world.
Call number: 551.46 COU
Genre: Nonfiction
Reading level: 9-12
Length: 512 pages
Availability: MHHS
Silent Spring
The classic that launched the environmental movement!
Rachel Carson's 1962 environmental classic, Silent Spring, alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water.
Call number: 363.73 CAR
Genre: Nonfiction
Reading level: 9-12
Lexile text measure: 1340L
Length: 378 pages
Availability: MHHS, Sora (SDCL & Serra)
Sora achievements: Nonfiction
Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water's Edge
“Seaweed is ancient and basic, a testament to the tenacious beginnings of life on earth,” writes Susan Hand Shetterly in this elegant, fascinating book.
“Why wouldn’t seaweeds be a protean life source for the lives that have evolved since?” On a planet facing environmental change and diminishing natural resources, seaweed is increasingly important as a source of food and as a fundamental part of our global ecosystem.
Call number: 579.8 SHE
Genre: Nonfiction
Reading level: 10-12
Lexile text measure: 1250L
Length: 271 pages
Availability: MHHS
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