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Author:   Lucy Schall
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Libraries Unlimited Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9781440834929

ISBN 10:   144083492
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   12 February 2015
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Educational: Primary & Secondary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction 1—Issues A. Love 1. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green 2. My Book of Life by Angel by Martine Leavitt 3. Rotten by Michael Northrop 4. Irises by Francisco X. Stork 5. When We Wuz Famous by Greg Takoudes 6. Beneath a Meth Moon: An Elegy by Jacqueline Woodson B. Justice 1. Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition by Karen Blumenthal 2. Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow 3. We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March by Cynthia Levinson 4. Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina 5. Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans during World War II by Martin W. Sandler 6. The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano by Sonia Manzano 7. The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin 8. Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers by Tanya Stone 2—Contemporary A. Personal Progress 1. Little Fish: A Memoir from a Different Kind of Year by Ramsey Beyer 2. Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality by Elizabeth Eulberg 3. Starbird Murphy and the Outside World by Karen Finneyfrock 4. What Boys Really Want by Pete Hautman 5. Go: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design by Chip Kidd 6. In Honor by Jessi Kirby 7. Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley 8. The List by Siobhan Vivian B. Winning 1. Pinned by Sharon G. Flake 2. Grandmaster by David Klass 3. Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong by Prudence Shen and Faith Erin Hicks 4. Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip by Jordan Sonnenblick 5. On the Road to Find Out by Rachel Toor 6. The Final Four by Paul Volponi 7. The Lucy Variations by Sara Zarr 3—Action/Adventure/Survival A. Human vs. Human 1. The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb 2. After the Snow by S. D. Crockett 3. Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz 4. The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die by April Henry 5. I Pledge Allegiance: Book One by Chris Lynch 6. Templar by Jordon Mechner (text), Leuyen Pham and Alex Puvilland (illus.), Hilary Sycamore and Alex Campbell (color) 7. Terezín: Voices from the Holocaust by Ruth Thomson 8. Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917 by Sally M. Walker B. Human vs. Nature 1. The Raft by S. A. Bodeen 2. Titanic: Voices from the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson 3. Monument 14 by Emmy Labourne 4. Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure by Jim Murphy and Alison Blank 5. Surrounded by Sharks by Michael Northrop 6. The Impossible Rescue: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Adventure by Martin W. Sandler 7. The Finest Hours: The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue by Michael J. Tougais and Casey Sherman 4—Mystery and Suspense A. Family Secrets 1. Guy Langman, Crime Scene Procrastinator by Josh Berk 2. All the Truth That's in Me by Julie Berry 3. The Dark Unwinding by Sharon Cameron 4. Black Ice by Andrew Lane 5. The Girl Is Trouble by Kathryn Miller Haines 6. Ripper by Stefan Petrucha 7. Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher B. Identity 1. Being Henry David by Cal Armistead 2. Fall from Grace by Charles Benoit 3. The Body in the Woods by April Henry 4. Paper Covers Rock by Jenny Hubbard 5. What We Saw at Night by Jacquelyn Mitchard 6. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein 5—Fantasy/Science Fiction A. Power 1. Shadow and Bone: Book 1 in the Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo 2. The Diviners: Book One by Libba Bray 3. Don't Turn Around by Michelle Gagnon 4. 172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad 5. Seraphina by Rachel Hartman 6. Mortal Fire by Elizabeth Knox 7. Divergent by Veronica Roth 8. The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater B. Love 1. Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson 2. Vessel by Sarah Beth Durst 3. Monstrous Beauty by Elizabeth Fama 4. Eve & Adam by Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate 5. Son by Lois Lowry 6. This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel 7. Midwinter Blood by Marcus Sedgwick 6—History and Change A. Creation 1. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos 2. Mr. Sam: Satisfaction Guaranteed! by Karen Blumenthal 3. Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different by Karen Blumenthal 4. Fighting Fire!: Ten of the Deadliest Fires in American History and How We Fought Them by Michael L. Cooper 5. ""Scribbling Women"": True Tales from Astonishing Lives by Marthe Jocelyn 6. Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (with a Few Flat Tires along the Way) by Sue Macy 7. The Iron Road: An Illustrated History of the Railroad by Christian Wolmar B. Destruction 1. D-Day: The Invasion of Normandy, 1944 by Rick Atkinson 2. A Medal for Leroy by Michael Morpurgo 3. The War within These Walls by Aline Sax (text), Caryl Strzelecki (illus.), and Laura Watkinson (trans.) 4. ""The President Has Been Shot!"": The Assassination of John F. Kennedy by James L. Swanson 5. Why Do We Fight?: Conflict, War, and Peace by Niki Walker 6. Marathon by Boaz Yakin and Joe Infurnari 7. Boxers and Saints by Gene Luen Yang (text) and Lark Pien (color) 8. Saints by Gene Luen Yang (text) and Lark Pien (color) 7—Multiple Cultures A. Animal Cultures 1. Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 by Phillip Hoose 2. Dogs of War by Sheila Keenan (text), Nathan Fox (illus.), Rico Renzi and Guy Major (colors) 3. Chained by Lynne Kelly 4. Shadow by Michael Morpurgo 5. Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas by Jim Ottaviani and Maris Wicks 6. Endangered by Eliot Schrefer B. Human Cultures 1. Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal by Margarita Engle 2. Salt by Helen Frost 3. The Fire Horse Girl by Kay Honeyman 4. The Undertaking of Lily Chen by Danica Novgorodoff 5. A Girl Called Problem by Katie Quirk 6. Words in the Dust by Trent Reedy 7. Golden Boy by Tara Sullivan 8. The Milk of Birds by Sylvia Whitman 9. Jerusalem: A Family Portrait by Boaz Yakin and Nick Bertozzi Index"

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Lucy Schall is a retired middle and high school teacher and a book reviewer for VOYA.

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