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Fiction and Nonfiction Pairings
Sometimes you come across the perfect team . . .
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These books make a great team, too!
Darkness Over Denmark
940.53 LEV - An account of people in Denmark who risked their lives to protect and rescue their Jewish neighbors from the Nazis during World War II.
Terezin: Voices from the Holocaust
940.53 THO - Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany turned the small town of Terezín, Czechoslovakia, into a ghetto, and then into a transit camp for thousands of Jewish people. It was a "show" camp, where inmates were forced to use their artistic talents to fool the world about the truth of gas chambers and horrific living conditions for imprisoned Jews. Here is their story, told through the firsthand accounts of those who were there.
Number the Stars
FIC LOW - Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmark are "relocated," Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be one of the family. Soon Annemarie is asked to go on a dangerous mission to save Ellen's life.
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I Am An American
940.53 STA - Young Shi Nomura was among the 120,000 American citizens who lost everything when he was sent by the U.S. government to Manzanar, an interment camp in the California desert, simply because he was of Japanese ancestry. In clear and fascinating prose, Stanley has set forth the compelling story of one of America's darkest times--the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Weed Flower
FIC KAD - When Pearl Harbor is attacked, the lives of a Japanese-American girl and her family are thrown into chaos when they are sent to live in an internment camp in the California desert.
Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans During WWII
940.53 SAN - While Americans fought for freedom and democracy abroad, fear and suspicion towards Japanese Americans swept the country after Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Extensive interviews and oral histories of Japanese American survivors of internment camps are used in this in-depth account of their lives before, during their imprisonment, and after their release.
Heaven is for Real
133.901 BUR - When Colton Burpo made it through an emergency appendectomy, his family was overjoyed at his miraculous survival. What they weren't expecting, though, was the story that emerged in the months that followed--a story as beautiful as it was extraordinary, detailing their little boy's trip to heaven and back.
Love Letters to the Dead
FIC DEL - Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to the dead—to people like Janis Joplin, Heath Ledger, Amelia Earhart, and Amy Winehouse—though she never gives a single one of them to her teacher.
Radiance
FIC NOE - Riley has crossed the bridge into the afterlife—a place called Here, where time is always Now. She has picked up life where she left off when she was alive, living with her parents and dog in a nice house in a nice neighborhood. When she’s summoned before The Council, she learns that the afterlife isn’t just an eternity of leisure. She’s been assigned a job, Soul Catcher, and a teacher, Bodhi, a possibly cute, seemingly nerdy boy who’s definitely hiding something.
Chew on This
Chew on This
394.1 SCH - In Chew On This, they share with kids the fascinating and sometimes frightening truth about what lurks between those sesame seed buns, what a chicken ‘nugget’ really is, and how the fast food industry has been feeding off children for generations.
Wintergirls
FIC AND - After the death of her former best friend Cassie, 18-year-old Lia slowly spirals toward her own death, drowning in guilt while starving, cutting, and running on a treadmill in the middle of the night in this emotional novel by Laurie Halse Anderson.
Skinny
FIC COO - Hopeless. Freak. Elephant. Pitiful. These are the words of Skinny, the vicious voice that lives inside fifteen-year-old Ever Davies’s head. Skinny tells Ever all the dark thoughts her classmates have about her. Ever knows she weighs over three hundred pounds, knows she’ll probably never be loved, and Skinny makes sure she never forgets it.
The Warrior's Heart
92 GRE - Readers will share in Eric Greitens' evolution from average kid to globe-traveling humanitarian to warrior, training and serving with the most elite military outfit in the world: the Navy SEALs. Along the way, they’ll be asked to consider the power of choices, of making the decision each and every day to act with courage and compassion so that they grow to be tomorrow’s heroes.
I Pledge Allegiance
FIC LYN - Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck are best friends for life. So when one of the teens is drafted into the Vietnam War, the others sign up, too. Although they each serve in a different branch, they are fighting the war together--and they pledge to do all they can to come home together.
Lone Survivor
958.104 LUT - On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less then twenty-four hours later, only one of those Navy SEALs remained alive.
Knights of the Hill Country
FIC THA - Welcome to Kennisaw--where Friday night high school football ranks right up there with God and country, and sometimes even comes in first. This year, the Kennisaw Knights are going for their fifth straight undefeated season, and if they succeed, they'll be more than the best high school team in the eastern Oklahoma hill country--they'll be legends.
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Friday Night Lights
796.332 BRI - Permian Panthers of Odessa -- the winningest high school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Socially and racially divided, its fragile economy follows the treacherous boom-bust path of the oil business.In bad times, the unemployment rate barrels out of control; in good times, its murder rate skyrockets. But every Friday night from September to December, this West Texas town becomes a place where dreams can come true.
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Cleopatra Rules!
92 CLE - Good. Evil. Dangerous. Glamorous. Will the real Cleopatra please stand up? Almost everything we know about the last queen of Egypt came from her enemies—the Romans. Now it's time to meet the "real" Cleopatra, a ruler more complex, brilliant, and powerful than we ever knew. Cleopatra didn't just rock the boat when she became queen at seventeen. She rocked the world with brilliant alliances that kept her in power and in control.
Raucous Royals
352.23 BEC - This entertaining collective biography looks at rumors about a dozen royal figures and presents evidence of each tale’s truth or falsehood. The discussion begins with Prince Dracula (a real vampire?) and Richard III (a hunchback? murdered his nephews?), spotlights five colorful Tudors, then moves on to six later figures, including Marie Antoinette (“Let them eat cake”?) and Catherine the Great (crushed by her horse?).
Wicked History - King George III
92 GEO - He was loved by British Revolutionary War loyalists and hated by American patriots. What made King George III so mad? He hoped torestore glory to the British crown. Instead he plunged two countries into a seven-year bloodbath and died plagued by insanity and failure.
You Wouldn't Want to Be an Egyptian Mummy!
932.01 STE - As an ancient Egyptian, your body is being prepared for the afterlife. But it's fairly disgusting business, and you can't be sure that you will always be treated with respect.
Wrapped
FIC BRA - At a "mummy unwrapping party," Lord Showalter hands Agnes a pair of scissors and encourages her to make a cut into the sarcophagus wrappings, where she uncovers a silver jackal's head and impulsively hides it in her dress. Soon after her subterfuge, a suspicious-looking waiter follows her and, ultimately, turns up dead. Agnes is too scared to confess her theft and instead heads to the British Museum to try to find some answers.
You Wouldn't Want to be Cursed by King Tut!
932 STE - Valley of the Kings, Egypt, 1922: Archeologist Howard Carter and his employer Lord Carnarvon discover the tomb of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamen. The treasures found there attract feverish excitement all around the world. But when Lord Carnarvon dies suddenly, there are rumors that the tomb is cursed! Is it true, or is there a logical explanation for everything?
The Lost Boy
92 PEL - Imagine a young boy who has never had a loving home. His only possesions are the old, torn clothes he carries in a paper bag. The only world he knows is one of isolation and fear. Although others had rescued this boy from his abusive alcoholic mother, his real hurt is just begining -- he has no place to call home.
One Child
618.9 HAY - Six year old Sheila never spoke, she never cried, and her eyes were filled with hate. Abandoned on a highway by her mother, abused y her alcoholic father, Sheila was placed in a class for the hopeless after she committed an atrocious act of violence against another child. Everyone said Sheila was lost forever - everyone except teacher Torey Hayden.
Three Little Words
362.73 RHO - "Sunshine, you're my baby and I'm your only mother. You must mind the one taking care of you, but she's not your mama." Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes, living by those words. As her mother spirals out of control, Ashley is left clinging to an unpredictable, dissolving relationship, all the while getting pulled deeper and deeper into the foster care system.
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Disasters
904 GUI - Taking on a theme with great dramatic appeal, each of the book’s chapters presents a notable disaster: the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the sinking of the Titanic, the 1930s Dust Bowl, and the drowning of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.
Fateful
FIC GRA - Claudia Gray delivers paranormal adventure, dark suspense, and alluring romance set against the backdrop of the Titanic’s first—and last—voyage.
Uprising
FIC HAD - Bella and Yetta are at work--and Jane is visiting the factory--on March 25, 1911, when a spark ignites some cloth and the building is engulfed in fire, leading to one of the worst workplace disasters ever.
Texas Ghost Stories
133.1 TIN - Some humorous, some haunting, and some just late-night terrifying, these stories, gathered by two favorite Texas tellers, span a rich cultural heritage from the earliest Spanish explorers to the present, from La Llorona (the Weeping Woman) to the vanishing hitchhiker.
Ghost Stories
The Name of the Star
FIC JOH - Louisiana teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London to start a new life just as a series of brutal murders mimicking the horrific Jack the Ripper killing spree of more than a century ago has broken out across the city. The police are left with few leads and no witnesses. Except one. Rory spotted the man believed to be the prime suspect. But she is the only one who saw him - the only one who can see him. And now Rory has become his next target...unless she can tap her previously unknown abilities to turn the tables.
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Nazi Hunters
940.53 BAS - In 1945, at the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final Solution, walked into the mountains of Germany and vanished from view. Sixteen years later, an elite team of spies captured him at a bus stop in Argentina and smuggled him to Israel, resulting in one of the century's most important trials -- one that cemented the Holocaust in the public imagination.
Stormbreaker
FIC HOR - Alex, 14, follows the footsteps of his uncle Ian, MI6 agent killed investigating the Stormbreaker computers donated to schools by Cairo beggar adopted into wealth Herod Sayle. In a few weeks, 1 April, Sayle's former bullying school-mate, grown into the British Prime Minister, will switch the units on across the country - and release death.
The Dark Game
327.73 JAN - Ever since George Washington used them to help topple the British, spies and their networks have helped and hurt America at key moments in history. In this fascinating collection, Paul B. Janeczko probes such stories as that of Elizabeth Van Lew, an aristocrat whose hatred of slavery drove her to be one of the most successful spies in the Civil War; the "Choctaw code talkers," Native Americans who were instrumental in sending secret messages during World War I; the staggering engineering behind a Cold War tunnel into East Berlin to tap Soviet phones (only to be compromised by a Soviet mole); and many more famous and less-known examples.
How Angel Peterson Got His Name
813 PAU - WHEN YOU GROW up in a small town in the north woods, you have to make your own excitement. High spirits, idiocy, and showing off for the girls inspire Gary Paulsen and his friends to attempt: Shooting waterfalls in a barrel, the first skateboarding, breaking the world record for speed on skis by being towed behind a souped-up car, and then . . . hitting gravel, and many more!
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Harris and Me
FIC PAU - A young boy spends his tenth summer on his aunt and uncle’s farm, where he is constantly involved in crazy escapades with his cousin Harris.
God and Goddess of Greek Mythology
398.21 NAR - Discover the exploits of all-powerful Zeus, leader of the Olympians, the mightiest of all the gods. Relive the excitement of the Titanomachy, the colossal War of the Titans. See what motivated the gods and goddesses, and encounter the ultimate winners and losers in Greek mythology s incredible battles.
Oh. My. Gods.
FIC CHI - When Phoebe's mom returns from Greece with a new husband and plans to move to an island in the Aegean Sea, Phoebe's well-plotted senior year becomes ancient history. Now, instead of enjoying a triumphant track season and planning for college with her best friends, Phoebe is trying to keep her head above water at the ?berexclusive Academy. If it isn't hard enough being the new kid in school, Phoebe's classmates are all descendents of the Greek gods! When you're running against teammates with superpowers, dealing with a stepsister from Hades, and nursing a crush on a boy who is quite literally a god, the drama takes on mythic proportions!
Olympians Series
GN OCO - Boom! Pow! Crash! Greek Gods as you’ve never seen them before! Graphic novel format!
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Horrible, Miserable Middle Ages
940.1 ALL - From leftover trenchers and stinky chamber pots to barber surgeons and the black plague, life could be really miserable for people during medieval times. Get ready to explore the nasty side of life in the Middle Ages.
Books about the Middle Ages
The False Prince
FIC NIE - In a discontent kingdom, civil war is brewing. To unify the divided people, Conner, a nobleman of the court, devises a cunning plan to find an impersonator of the king's long-lost son and install him as a puppet prince. Four orphans are recruited to compete for the role, including a defiant boy named Sage. Sage knows that Conner's motives are more than questionable, yet his life balances on a sword's point -- he must be chosen to play the prince or he will certainly be killed. But Sage's rivals have their own agendas as well.
9-11 Artists Respond
GN 9-1 - A moving memorial to the events of September 11, 2001. In vivid pictures and intensely autobiographic words, graphic artists celebrate the skyscraper heroes who still sustain us.
Books about 9-11
The Day our World Changed
973.931GOO - All of America's children were affected by the horrific events of September 11, 2001. At such times of pain and tragedy, children often turn to art to express their deepest emotions, and so they did after 9/11.
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
The Family Romanov
947.08 FLE - In these pages, we meet Rasputin, the shaggy, lecherous mystic; we visit the gilded ballrooms of the doomed aristocracy; and we pause in the sickroom of little Alexei, the hemophiliac heir who, with his parents and four sisters, would be murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
Egg and Spoon
FIC MAG - Privileged, wealthy 11-year-old Cat tumbles out of a train while trying to catch an intricate Fabergé egg, and in a classic case of mistaken identity starving-peasant Elena takes her place.
The Curse of the Romanovs
FIC RAB - It¹s 1916, the struggling Russian people are tired of war and are blaming their Romanov rulers for it, and some are secretly plotting to murder the young heir and his family. But nobody outside the palace knows that Alexei suffers from a terrible bleeding disease, hemophilia, which threatens to finish him off even before the family¹s enemies can. The only person able to help Alexei is the evil and powerful religious mystic Rasputin -- and now Rasputin is trying to kill him too! Desperate, Alexei flees through time to New York City in 2010, using a method taught to him by the mad monk himself.