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by Tracie Burcham
September 23, 2009
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“There
are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift.
Sometimes the big changes don’t happen gradually but all at
once. That’s how it was for us.”
Brashares, Ann
3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows
Delacorte Press, 2009
RL 4.5 / Points 9.0
Ama,
Jo, and Polly, three close friends from Bethesda, Maryland, spend
the summer before ninth grade learning about themselves, their
families, and the changing nature of their friendship.
Subjects: Best Friends – Fiction
Friendship – Fiction
Conduct of life – Fiction
Bethesda (Md.) -- Fiction
“Somewhere in the world I have a tiara in a little box. It is not safe for me to wear it…It is not safe for me even to tell anyone who I really am. But I know – I have always known.”
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Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Palace of Mirrors
Simon & Schuster Books for
Young Readers, 2008
Fourteen-year-old Cecilia has always known she is the true princess of Suala, but when she and her best friend, Harper, decide to speed up her ascendancy to the throne they find danger and many imposters who challenge her claim.
SUBJECTS: Princesses – Fiction
Identity – Fiction
Best friends – Fiction
Orphans – Fiction
RL 5.4 / 10.0 Points
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Clark, Mary Higgins
Just Take My Heart
Simon & Schuster, 2008
RL 6.4 / 14.0
In her new thriller, America's #1 bestselling Queen of Suspense delves into a legal battle over the guilt or innocence of a man accused of murdering his wife. Woven into her plot is an eerie, little-understood but documented medical phenomenon -- the emergenceof a donor's traits and memories in the recipient of a heart transplant.
Natalie Raines, one of Broadway's brightest
stars, accidentally discovers who killed her former roommate and
sets in motion a series of shocking events that puts more than one
life in extreme peril.
While Natalie
and her roommate, Jamie Evans, were both struggling young
actresses, Jamie had been involved with a mysterious married man to
whom she referred only by nickname. Natalie comes face to face with
him years later and inadvertently addresses him by the nickname
Jamie had used. A few days later, Natalie is found in her home in
Closter, New Jersey, dying from a gunshot wound.
Immediately the
police suspect Natalie's theatrical agent and
soon-to-be-ex-husband, Gregg Aldrich. He had long been a "person of
interest" and was known to have stalked Natalie to find out if she
was seeing another man. But no charges are brought against him
until two years later, when Jimmy Easton, a career criminal,
suddenly comes forward to claim that Aldrich had tried to hire him
to kill his wife. Easton knows details about the Aldrich home that
only someone who had been there -- to plan a murder, for instance
-- could possibly know.!”
SUBJECTS: Heart – Transplantation – Patients --Fiction
Murder – Investigation -- Fiction
Cape Cod Bay (Mass.) -- Fiction
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Foxlee, Karen
The
Anatomy of Wings
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009
RL 4.8 / Points 11.0
Ten-year-old Jennifer Day
lives in a small mining town full of secrets. Trying to make sense
of the sudden death of her teenage sister, Beth, she looks to the
adult world around her for answers.
As she recounts the final months of Beth’s life, Jennifer sifts
through the lies and the truth, but what she finds are mysteries,
miracles, and more questions. Was Beth’s death an accident? Why
couldn’t Jennifer—or anyone else—save her?
Through Jennifer’s eyes, we see one girl’s failure to cross the
threshold into adulthood as her family slowly falls
apart.
“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you’ve finished, just to stay near it. The Anatomy of Wings is one of those books.”
--Markus Zusak, author of
The Book Thief
SUBJECTS: Suicide – Fiction
Grief -- Fiction
Sisters – Fiction
Family problems – Fiction
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An
unanswered question: Who is the Creature in the Night?
A gripping story of debt, murder
and mystery
- David Maybury
Totally
absorbing and utterly beguiling, it is all done with a remarkable
lightness of touch. Books such as this don't come around very
often."
Philip Ardagh, The Guardia
Thompson, Kate
Creature of the Night
New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2008
When Bobby's mother moves the family into a rented house in the country, a neighbour tells him that a child was once murdered there. Bobby doesn't care. All he wants is to get back to Dublin and to resume his wild life there, stealing from the crowded shopping streets and racing stolen cars at night. But getting his old life back doesn't turn out to be so easy, and the longer he spends in the old cottage, the more convinced he becomes that something very strange is going on there. Was there really a murder? And if so, was it the one he has been told about?
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