Most Circulated Titles

Number the stars

Lowry, Lois.


books: trade/library, Intermediate - Junior High, 137 pg. In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Date Published:2005

The Hunger Games

Collins, Suzanne.


books: trade/library, Junior High - Senior High, 374 pg . In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
Date Published:2008

The outsiders

Hinton, S. E.


books: trade/library, Junior High - Senior High, 188 pg, Revised. Ponyboy and his brothers struggle to find their place in a difficult world after the deaths of their parents.
Date Published:2007

Holes

Sachar, Louis, 1954-


"Frances Foster books." books: trade/library, Junior High, 233 pg . Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), September 1998. Horn Book Starred, September 1998. Kirkus Review, June 1998. New York Times, November 1998. Publisher's Weekly, July 1998. School Library Journal Starred, September 1998. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 1998. As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Date Published:1998

"Frances Foster books." books: trade/library, Junior High, 233 pg . Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), September 1998. Horn Book Starred, September 1998. Kirkus Review, June 1998. New York Times, November 1998. Publisher's Weekly, July 1998. School Library Journal Starred, September 1998. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 1998. As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

Date Published:1998

Wonder

Palacio, R. J.


books: trade/library, Intermediate - Junior High, 313 pg. Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
Date Published:2012

Because of Winn-Dixie

DiCamillo, Kate.


books: trade/library, Primary - Junior High, 182 pg . Book Links (A.L.A.), May 2000. Booklist, May 2000. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), June 2000. Horn Book, July 2000. Kirkus Review Starred, April 2000. New York Times, May 2000. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2001. Publisher's Weekly, February 2000. School Library Journal Starred, June 2000. Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
Date Published:2000

books: trade/library, Primary - Junior High, 182 pg . Book Links (A.L.A.), May 2000. Booklist, May 2000. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), June 2000. Horn Book, July 2000. Kirkus Review Starred, April 2000. New York Times, May 2000. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2001. Publisher's Weekly, February 2000. School Library Journal Starred, June 2000. Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.

Date Published:2000

The city of Ember

DuPrau, Jeanne.


books: trade/library, Intermediate - Junior High, 270 pg. Booklist, April 2003. Horn Book, May 2003. Kirkus Review Starred, May 2003. Publisher's Weekly, March 2003. School Library Journal, May 2003. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), June 2003. In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
Date Published:2003

books: trade/library, Intermediate - Junior High, 270 pg. Booklist, April 2003. Horn Book, May 2003. Kirkus Review Starred, May 2003. Publisher's Weekly, March 2003. School Library Journal, May 2003. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), June 2003. In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.

Date Published:2003

Hatchet

Paulsen, Gary.


"Puffin books." books: trade/library, Intermediate - Senior High, 195 pg. Wilson's High School Catalog. Wilson's Junior High School. After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
Date Published:1988

Brian's winter

Paulsen, Gary.


Companion book to: Hatchet and The river. books: trade/library, Intermediate - Senior High, 133 pg. Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.
Date Published:1996

Frindle

Clements, Andrew, 1949-


books: trade/library, Intermediate, 110 pg. When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.
Date Published:1996

Halloween 1st Gr. Set 1


Set Includes: Let's Get Ready for Halloween, Shake dem Halloween Bones, Pumpkin Heads!, Big Pumpkins, Word Bird-Halloween Words, A Know-Nothing Halloween, Apples and Pumpkins, Clifford's First Halloween, Lionel in the Fall, Creepy Crawly Critters, The Witch Who Went for a Walk, It's Halloween Dear Dragon, Halloween by Julie Murray, Halloween ABC, Mercy Watson-Princess in Disguise, Witches Four and One Halloween Night.
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Set Includes: Let's Get Ready for Halloween, Shake dem Halloween Bones, Pumpkin Heads!, Big Pumpkins, Word Bird-Halloween Words, A Know-Nothing Halloween, Apples and Pumpkins, Clifford's First Halloween, Lionel in the Fall, Creepy Crawly Critters, The Witch Who Went for a Walk, It's Halloween Dear Dragon, Halloween by Julie Murray, Halloween ABC, Mercy Watson-Princess in Disguise, Witches Four and One Halloween Night.

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The boy in the striped pajamas : a fable /

Boyne, John, 1971-


books: trade/library, Intermediate - Junior High, 216 pg. Booklist, July 2006. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), October 2006. Horn Book, September 2006. Kliatt starred, September 2006. Publisher's Weekly, July 2006. School Library Journal Starred, September 2006. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2006. Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
Date Published:2006

books: trade/library, Intermediate - Junior High, 216 pg. Booklist, July 2006. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), October 2006. Horn Book, September 2006. Kliatt starred, September 2006. Publisher's Weekly, July 2006. School Library Journal Starred, September 2006. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2006. Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.

Date Published:2006

The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples),


books: paperback, Intermediate - Junior High, 189 pg, Paperback . Kirkus Review. Wilson's Children. Wilson's Junior High School. Four English school children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
Date Published:1994

The great Gatsby

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940,


books: trade/library, Senior High - College/Adult, 172 pg . The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession, it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.
Date Published:2004

Night

Wiesel, Elie, 1928-


"With a new preface by the author"--Cover. "Oprah's book club"--Cover. books: trade/library, Senior High, 120 pg . The narrative of a boy who lived through Auschwitz and Buchenwald provides a short and terrible indictment of modern humanity.
Date Published:2006

The giver

Lowry, Lois.


books: trade/library, Intermediate - Junior High, 180 pg. 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.
Date Published:1993

Al Capone does my shirts

Choldenko, Gennifer, 1957-


books: trade/library, Intermediate - Junior High, 228 pg. Booklist, February 2004. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), March 2004. Kirkus Review Starred, March 2004. Kliatt, March 2004. Publisher's Weekly, February 2004. School Library Journal Starred, March 2004. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), April 2004. A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
Date Published:2004

books: trade/library, Intermediate - Junior High, 228 pg. Booklist, February 2004. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), March 2004. Kirkus Review Starred, March 2004. Kliatt, March 2004. Publisher's Weekly, February 2004. School Library Journal Starred, March 2004. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), April 2004. A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.

Date Published:2004

Charlotte's web

White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-


books: trade/library, Primary, 184 pg . Book Links (A.L.A.), January 1999. Booklist. Child Study Children's Book Committee. Horn Book. Library Journal. School Library Journal. Wilson's Children, November 1996. Wilbur the pig is desolate when he discovers he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner, until his spider friend Charlotte comes up with a plan to save him.
Date Published:1952

Catching fire

Collins, Suzanne.


books: trade/library, Junior High - Senior High, 391 pg . By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
Date Published:2009

The house on Mango Street

Cisneros, Sandra,


"Originally published, in somewhat different form, by Arte PÃºblico Press in 1984. Reprinted by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1991"--T.p. verso. books: trade/library, Intermediate - Senior High, 134 pg. A young girl living in a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends.
Date Published:1994

"Originally published, in somewhat different form, by Arte PÃºblico Press in 1984. Reprinted by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1991"--T.p. verso. books: trade/library, Intermediate - Senior High, 134 pg. A young girl living in a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends.

Date Published:1994