New Year...New Books!
DVMS Library
Graphic Novels
"Graphic novel." Britannica School. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2015. Web. 30 Oct. 2015. <http://school.eb.com/levels/high/article/438033>.
Golden Compass Graphic Novel by Philip Pullman 741.5 PUL No AR | Mo and Jo Fighting Together Forever by Jay Lynch741.5 LYN BL 1.8 PV 0.5 "Mo and Jo love the same superhero-- but can't stand each other! When the mighty Mojo decides to give his powerful costume to them, Mo and Jo fight so much that they rip it in half. Now each twin is only half as strong! Can they find a way to combine their powers, fight the evil Saw-jaw and save their town?" |
Golden Compass Graphic Novel by Philip Pullman
No AR
“In the first of a three-volume graphic novel adaptation, Lyra Belacqua and her daemon familiar set out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
Mo and Jo Fighting Together Forever by Jay Lynch
741.5 LYN
BL 1.8 PV 0.5
"Mo and Jo love the same superhero-- but can't stand each other! When the mighty Mojo decides to give his powerful costume to them, Mo and Jo fight so much that they rip it in half. Now each twin is only half as strong! Can they find a way to combine their powers, fight the evil Saw-jaw and save their town?"
Non-Fiction
The College Football Championship by Matt Doeden 796.332 DOE BL 6.8 PV 2.0 | Voice of Freedom – Fannie Lou Hamer 973 WEA BL 5.8 PV 1.0 |
The College Football Championship by Matt Doeden
BL 6.8 PV 2.0
“In 2015, when Ohio State University took on the University of Oregon in the first College Football Playoffchampionship game, millions of sports fans tuned in. The game was the most-watched program in the history of cable television in the United States. But back in 1869, when Rutgers University and Princeton University played the first ever college football game, no one predicted the national spectacle that a college football championship game would become."
Voice of Freedom – Fannie Lou Hamer
BL 5.8 PV 1.0
The youngest of twenty children born to sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta, Fannie Lou Hamer grew up to become a hero of the Civil Rights Movement. She participated in marches, sit-ins, and voter education training - efforts that earned her severe beatings by the police, jail time, and bullets shot into her home. Malcolm X called her "the country's number one freedom-fighting woman.
Fiction
"Fiction." Britannica School. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2015. Web. 30 Oct. 2015. <http://school.eb.com/levels/high/article/125583>.
The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict by Trenton Lee Stewart FIC STE BL 6.2 PV 19.0 | Mothman’s Curse by Christine HayesFIC HEY BL 4.6 PV 9.0 | The Fate of Ten (Lorien Legacies #6) by Pittacus Lore FIC LOR BL 5.3 PV 14.0 |
The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict by Trenton Lee Stewart
BL 6.2 PV 19.0
“Nine-year-old Nicholas Benedict, a boy without parents and afflicted with an unfortunate nose and narcolepsy, is sent to a new orphanage where he encounters vicious bullies, selfish adults, strange circumstances, and a mystery that could change his life forever."
Mothman’s Curse by Christine Hayes
FIC HEY
BL 4.6 PV 9.0
"When Josie and her brother Fox discover the truth behind the legend of the Mothman, they must stop a disaster in order to break the curse that has been afflicting their town.”