Fountain Valley H.S. Library
California Recommended Literature by Title

811 NYE
Nye, Naomi Shihab. 19 varieties of gazelle : poems of the Middle East. 1st ed. [New York] : Greenwillow Books, c2002. A collection of sixty poems in which the Arab-American author examines life in the Middle East.

FIC ORWELL
Orwell, George, 1903-1950. 1984 : a novel. Rev. and updated bibliography. New York : Signet, 1950,c1949. The classic science fiction story of a society in which "Big Brother" is always watching everyone's actions.

FIC VERNE
Verne, Jules, 1828-1905. 20,000 leagues under the sea. New York : HarperCollins, c2000. Retells the adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo.

FIC MCNAMEE
McNamee, Graham. Acceleration. New York : Wendy Lamb Books, 2003. Stuck working in the Lost and Found of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, seventeen-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him.

FIC ELIOT
Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Adam Bede. New York : Dodd, Mead, 1947. Set in the early nineteenth-century English
countryside, an English squire yields to the temptation of an innocent country girl and crime, remorse, and suffering are the consequences.

FIC CLEMENS
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York : Dodd Mead, c1984. Huck, escaping from his cruel father, meets Jim, a runaway slave. Together they float down the Mississippi.

FIC SOTO
Soto, Gary. The afterlife. 1st ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2003. A senior at East Fresno High School lives on as a ghost after his brutal murder in the restroom of a club where he had gone to dance.

921 VALLADARES
Valladares, Armando. Against all hope : a memoir of life in Castro's gulag. 1st paperback ed. San Francisco :
Encounter Books, 2001. The author tells of his experiences in Cuba's Isla de Pinos Prison where he spent over twenty years for his stand against communism, discussing the violence, disease, and squalid conditions he endured as a political prisoner. Includes an essay in which Valladares discusses his life since his release in 1982.

FIC WHARTON
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. The age of innocence. New York, : Scribner, [1968]. A portrayal of New York society in the 1870's where money counted for less than manners and morals.

FIC COETZEE
Coetzee, J. M., 1940-. Age of Iron. 1st American ed. New York : Random House, c1990. Mrs. Curren, a dying professor in Cape Town, South Africa has been insulated from the brutality of apartheid but now is forced to come to terms with the iron-hearted rage that the system has wrought.

FIC GARCIA
García, Cristina, 1958-. The Agüero sisters. 1st Ballantine Books ed. New York : Ballantine Pub., 1998, c1997. Two Cuban sisters--one a master electrician in Havana, the other a successful cosmetics saleswoman in Miami--are reunited after a thirty-year separation and learn the truth behind their mother's tragic death at the hands of their father years earlier.

FIC HESSE
Hesse, Karen. Aleutian sparrow. 1st ed. New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, c2003. An Aleutian Islander recounts her suffering during World War II in American internment camps designed to "protect" the population from the invading Japanese.

FIC CARROLL
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898. Alice's adventures in Wonderland ; and, Through the looking glass. Paulton, England : Purnell, 1975. By falling down a rabbit hole and stepping through a mirror, Alice experiences unusual adventures with a variety of nonsensical characters.

940.53 APP
Appleman-Jurman, Alicia. Alicia : my story. Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1988. Alicia's tells of her flight from the Nazis through the fields of Poland, rescuing other Jews, leading them to safe hideouts, and offering them courage and hope.

636.089 HER
Herriot, James. All creatures great and small. New York : Bantam, 1973,c1972. The memoirs of a countryside animal doctor in Yorkshire, filled with humor, tale-telling and a love of life.

921 BRAGG
Bragg, Rick. All over but the shoutin'. 1st Vintage ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1998, c1997. The author recalls his poverty stricken youth in Alabama in the 1960s and 70s, focusing on the extraordinary efforts of his mother to protect her sons from the violence of their father and her encouragement to become successful men.

FIC REMARQUE
Remarque, Erich Maria, 1898-1970. All quiet on the Western front. New York : Fawcett, 1975,c1929. Tells of the men of World War I who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the events of the war.

FIC MCCARTHY
McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-. All the pretty horses. 1st Vintage International ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1993, c1992. The story of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers, who, along with two companions, sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.

FIC LE GUIN
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-. Always coming home. 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1985. A complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork, and music about the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific coast.

364.1 ROD
Rodriguez, Luis J., 1954-. Always running : La Vida Loca, gang days in L.A. 1st Touchstone ed. New York : Simon &Schuster, 1994. Rodriguez's memoir explores the motivations of gang life and cautions against the death and destruction that inevitably claim its participants.

921 ARNOLDI
Arnoldi, Katherine. The amazing true story of a teenage single mom. New York : Hyperion, c1998.

812 ALB
Albee, Edward, 1928-. The American dream : and Zoo story : two plays. New York : Plume, 1997. Contains two plays, "The American Dream" and "The Zoo Story," written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Albee.

FIC DREISER
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945. An American tragedy. New York, : World Pub. Co., [1971, c1948]. The tragedy of a young man brought up in simple Salvation Army piety who goes East to find success.

808.81 AME
Americans' favorite poems : the Favorite Poem Project anthology. 1st ed. New York : Norton, 2000. Contains two hundred poems selected from the personal letters of thousands of Americans who responded to Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky's invitation to send him a favorite poem, and includes comments from the people who chose them.

940.54 AND
And justice for all : an oral history of the Japanese American detention camps. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1999.

371.95 COR
Corwin, Miles. And still we rise : the trials and triumphs of twelve gifted inner-city high school students. 1st Perennial ed. New York : Perennial, 2001, c2000. Chronicles the experiences of twelve South Central Los
Angeles high school seniors in a program for gifted students, as well as their teachers and administrators, and
discusses the potential ramifications of the elimination of affirmative action in California.

FIC CRICHTON
Crichton, Michael, 1942-. The Andromeda strain. New York : Ballantine, 1993,c1969. Recounts the five-day history of a major American scientific crisis.

929.208 MCC
McCourt, Frank. Angela's ashes : a memoir. New York : Scribner, c1996. Memoir of the author's miserable childhood growing up in the perpetually damp country of Ireland, with the sterotypically long-suffering mother and drunken father who nurtures in his son an appetite for stories.

FIC STEGNER
Stegner, Wallace Earle, 1909-. Angle of repose. New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, [1992], c1971. Story of four generations in the life of the Ward family, from America's western frontier to today.

FIC RENNISON
Rennison, Louise. Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging : confessions of Georgia Nicolson. 1st American ed. New York : HarperCollins, 2000. Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.

FIC KINGSOLVER
Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal dreams : a novel. Cutchogue, NY : Buccaneer Books, c1990. Codi returns to her hometown to confront her past and face her ailing father. What she finds is a town threatened by an environmental catastrophe and a man who could change her life.

FIC ORWELL
Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Animal farm. New York : New American Library, 1946. A political satire in which the animals take over running the farm, but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship and ultimately adopting the ways of their former owner.

FIC TOLSTOY
Tolstoy, Leo, 1828-1910. Anna Karenina. [Rev. ed.]. New York : Modern Library, c1965. A woman of fine nature forsakes her husband for a lover, and after a bitter experience commits suicide.

940.534 FRA
Frank, Anne, 1929-1945. Anne Frank; : the diary of a young girl. Pocket, 1953, c1952. A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps.

839.3 FRA
Frank, Anne, 1929-1945. Anne Frank's tales from the secret annex. New York : Bantam Books, 1994, c1983. A complete collection of Anne Frank's lesser-known writings: short stories, fables, personal reminiscences, and an unfinished novel. Also, there are portions of the diary originally withheld from publication by her father.

FIC KINCAID
Kincaid, Jamaica. Annie John. New York : New American Library, 1986, c1985. A fictional account of a young girl's coming of age in Antigua, from a doted upon childhood to an adolescence fraught with events and alliances leading her away from mutual complacent acceptance.

FIC ACHEBE
Achebe, Chinua. Anthills of the savannah. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, 1988, c1987. A fictional account of African politics that prophesies social change.

882 SOP
Sophocles. Antigone. New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. King Creon of Thebes refuses to allow the burial of his nephew, whom he has declared a traitor and whose sister, Antigone, is betrothed to Creon's son.

811.54 PLA
Plath, Sylvia. Ariel. Cutchogue, N.Y. : Buccaneer Books,

FIC ACHEBE
Achebe, Chinua. Arrow of God. New York : Anchor Books, [1989], c1974. Tells of Nigeria in the 1920s when age -old tribal customs came into conflict with the ways of westernization.

700 ARO
Aronson, Marc. Art attack : a short cultural history of the avant-garde. New York : Clarion Books, c1998. Discusses the arts, life styles, politics, and fashions while tracing the story of bohemians, radicals, hipsters, and hippies from Paris in the nineteenth century to contemporary America.

FIC FAULKNER
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. As I lay dying. [New ed.]. New York : Random House, 1964, c1957. Describes a family's struggle to get their mother properly buried, while they encounter catastrophes of flood and fire, as well as the chaos of their own feelings.

FIC MALAMUD
Malamud, Bernard. The assistant. 1st Perennial Classics ed. New York : Perennial Classics, 2000, c1957. Malamud's classic 1957 story of a young Gentile hoodlum who works at a family-owned Jewish grocery store in exchange for a place to stay. What the family doesn't know is that he was one of the boys responsible for a previous robbery of their store.

FIC OBRIEN
O'Brien, Flann, 1911-1966. At Swim-Two-Birds. 1st Dalkey ed. Normal, IL : Dalkey Archive Press, 1998, c1951.
A Irish college student avoids studying by writing a novel in which the central character, a writer named Dermot
Trellis, is attacked by his own characters--figures, including the Pooka and Finn MacCool, whom he has borrowed
from Irish myth and legend.

FIC VARGAS LLOSA
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-. Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter. New York : Penguin Books, 1995. Mario's romance with and marriage to his divorced Aunt Julia provides the main plot, while his friend, soap opera scriptwriter Pedro Camacho, provides the counterpoint of this comedic tale of Lima in the 50s.

921 FRANKLIN
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790. The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin & selections from his other writings. 2001 Modern Library ed. New York : Modern Library, [2001]. Franklin's draft scheme of the autobiography -- The autobiography -- The Dogood papers -- Journal of a voyage.

921 CLEMENS
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. The autobiography of Mark Twain. New York : Perennial Classics, 2000.

FIC KINCAID
Kincaid, Jamaica. The autobiography of my mother. New York, N.Y. : Plume, 1997. Xuela Claudette Richardson grows up in the care of her father's laundress obsessed with trying to piece together a portrait of her Carib mother who died at the moment of Xuela's birth.

921 GANDHI
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948. An autobiography : the story of my experiments with truth. Boston : Beacon Press, [1993]. An autobiography in which Indian leader Mohandas K. Gandhi shares the story of his life and the development of his concept of active nonviolent resistance which he employed in the struggle for the independence of India.

921 MYERS
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. Bad boy : a memoir. New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins Publishers, 2001.

FIC APPELFELD
Appelfeld, Aron. Badenheim 1939. 1st Godine softcover ed. Boston : David R. Godine, 1990, c1980. A group of
middle-class Jews arrive in the resort town of Badenheim near Vienna in the spring of 1939 where they proceed to
ignore the signs of impending disaster and convince themselves that everything is just fine.

FIC DRAPER
Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills). The Battle of Jericho. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2003. A high school junior and his cousin suffer the ramifications of joining what seems to be a "reputable" school club.

FIC KINGSOLVER
Kingsolver, Barbara. The bean trees : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1988. Taylor, a poor Kentuckian, makes her way west with an abandoned baby girl and stops in Tucson. There she finds friends and discovers resources in apparently empty places.

FIC NAPOLI
Napoli, Donna Jo, 1948-. Beast. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2000. Elaborates on the tale of"Beauty and the Beast," told from the point of view of the beast and set in Persia.

398.2 MCK
McKinley, Robin. Beauty : a retelling of the story of Beauty & the beast. New York : HarperCollins, c1978. Kind Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay and through her love releases him from the spell which had turned him from a handsome prince into an ugly beast.

FIC GOLDBERG
Goldberg, Myla. Bee season : a novel. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, 2001, c2000. Eliza Naumann is used to being the unremarkable member of her family, but when she wins a series of spelling bees, her once distant family begins to lavish praise on her, bringing about surprising complications.

FIC PLATH
Plath, Sylvia. The bell jar. [1st U.S. ed.]. New York, : Harper & Row, [1971]. Chronicles the mental breakdown of
Esther Greenwood--a brilliant, beautiful, talented and successful young woman.

FIC MORRISON
Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New York : Knopf, 1998. Sethe, an escaped slave who now lives in post-Civil War Ohio, has borne the unthinkable and works hard at "beating back the past." She struggles to keep Beloved, an intruder, from gaining possession of her present while throwing off the legacy of her past.

829.3 BEO
Beowulf : a new verse translation. 1st bilingual ed. New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, c2000. Twentieth-century Irish poet Seamus Heaney's verse translation of the Christian-pagan, classic Old English poem "Beowulf," in which a Norse hero saves Denmark's royal house from monsters; provides the Old English version on facing pages and includes brief genealogies of the work's Danish, Geat, and Swedish royal families, and an introduction by Heaney.

SS MAU
Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893. The best short stories of Guy de Maupassant. Mattituck, N.Y. : Amereon House, 1976. Contains nineteen short fiction stories by nineteenth-century French author Guy de Maupassant.

FIC OATES
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-. Big Mouth & Ugly Girl. 1st pbk. ed. New York, NY : HarperTempest, 2003, c2002. When sixteen-year-old Matt is falsely accused of threatening to blow up his high school and his friends turn against him, an unlikely classmate comes to his aid.

FIC CHANDLER
Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959. The big sleep. Vintage Books ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1988, c1939. Philip Marlowe, a private detective in Los Angeles in the 1930s, takes a case involving a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder.

FIC MELVILLE
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Billy Budd. New York, : F. Watts, [1968?]. A story in which a young sailor is sentenced to be hanged for inadvertently striking and killing an officer. He faces death with a blessing for the benevolent captain who is forced to execute him.

FIC ERDRICH
Erdrich, Louise. The bingo palace. 1st HarperPerennial ed. New York : HarperPerennial, 1995, c1994. Summoned by his grandmother, Lipsha returns to the reservation where he falls in love with Shawnee Ray. He finds himself at
crossroads torn between success and meaning, love and money, the future and the past.

921 WRIGHT
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. Black boy; : a record of childhood and youth. New York, : Harper & Row, [1966].

921 BLACK ELK
Black Elk, 1863-1950. Black Elk speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2004]. Black Elk, a Sioux holy man, shares his own life story and the story of the Oglala Sioux during the tragic decades of the Custer battle, the ghost dance, and the Wounded Knee massacre, and relates many aspects of Native American spirituality.

921 CARY
Cary, Lorene. Black ice. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1992. An autobiographical narrative of the author's days at Saint Pauls, a private prep school in New Hampshire and of her adolescent turmoil.

FIC WERLIN
Werlin, Nancy. Black mirror : a novel. New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2001. Convinced her brother's death was murder rather than suicide, sixteen-year-old Frances begins her own investigation into suspicious student activities at her boarding school.

FIC IBUSE
Ibuse, Masuji. Black rain. New York : Bantam, 1985. Translation of Kuroi Ame, first published in Japan
Quarterly. A novel about the day the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and how the lives of a Japanese businessman, his wife, and their niece changed.

811.5 LOR
Lorde, Audre. The Black Unicorn : Poems. Reissue. W W Norton & Co, 1995. Collection of poems of the African-American poet Audre Lordes, on such themes as the struggles of African-Americans, motherhood, and feminism.

FIC ANAYA
Anaya, Rudolfo A. Bless me, Ultima; : a novel. [Berkeley, Calif., : Quinto Sol Publications], 1972.

FIC SWARTHOUT
Swarthout, Glendon Fred. Bless the beasts and children. Garden City, N.Y., : Doubleday, 1970. While at Box Canyon Boys Camp, a group of disturbed boys search for a way to improve their lives.

FIC SARAMAGO
Saramago, José. Blindness. 1st ed. New York : Harcourt Brace & Company, [1998]. Translation of a Portuguese novel about the chaos that ensues when a city is struck with an epidemic of blindness in which its victims see only white.

FIC KLAUSE
Klause, Annette Curtis. Blood and chocolate. New York, N.Y. : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, [1999], c1997. Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.

808.3 KER
Kerr, M. E. Blood on the forehead : what I know about writing. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 1998. Using examples from five novels and five short stories, young adult writer M. E. Kerr offers insights into ways writers can get ideas and create successful stories.

917.304 HEA
Heat Moon, William Least. Blue highways : a journey into America. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown, c1982. Records
the author's travels on the back roads of America. This trip around America celebrates underestimated pleasures, simple lives, and the appreciation of a continuity with the past.

FIC MORRISON
Morrison, Toni. The bluest eye; : a novel. [1st ed.]. New York, : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1970]. Eleven-year-old Pecola prayed that she would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting, her father would stop drinking, and her brother would stop running away.

FIC CONROY
Conroy, Frank, 1936-. Body & soul. New York : Delta Trade Paperbacks, [1998], c1993. The life of young Claude
Rawlings, the son of an eccentric taxi-driver mother, is changed forever in the 1940s when a local music store owner discovers the boy is a piano prodigy.

FIC PLUM-UCCI
Plum-Ucci, Carol, 1957-. The body of Christopher Creed. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt, Inc., c2000. Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious
disappearance of the class outcast.

FIC BROOKS
Brooks, Martha, 1944-. Bone dance. New York : Orchard Books, c1997. When her father wills her a cabin on land in rural Manitoba, Alexandra meets a young man who shares her Indian heritage and her experience of being haunted by spirits.

FIC SAGAN
Sagan, Françoise, 1935-. Bonjour tristesse. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Ecco, 2001. Translates Francoise Sagan's 1954 novel in which a seventeen-year-old girl named Cécile meddles in her philandering father's latest romance, with tragic results.

FIC KUNDERA
Kundera, Milan. The book of laughter and forgetting. 1st Perennial Classics ed. New York, NY : Perennial Classics, 1999. Analyzes and examines various aspects of human existence through seven integrated stories.

808.81 BOO
A book of luminous things : an international anthology of poetry. 1st Harvest ed. New York : Harcourt Brace & Co., 1998. Presents three hundred poems from across the world, written by a variety of authors throughout history, organized under eleven headings such as "Epiphany," "Nature," "Places," and"The Moment," and includes brief commentary on each featured poet.

SS AGNON
Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 1888-1970. A book that was lost and other stories. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Schocken : Distributed by Pantheon Books, [1996], c1995. A collection of stories depicting the modern Jewish experience, particularly Eastern European Jewry and life in modern Israel.

921 DAHL
Dahl, Roald. Boy : tales of childhood. New York : Puffin, 1986,c1984. Presents humorous anecdotes from the author's childhood, which included summer vacations in Norway and in an English boarding school.

FIC REUTER
Reuter, Bjarne B. The boys from St. Petri. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Puffin Books, 1996, c1994. In 1942, a group of young men begins a series of increasingly dangerous protests against the German invaders of their Danish homeland.

FIC HUXLEY
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963. Brave new world,. New York, London, : Harper & brothers, 1946. A satirical novel about the Utopia of the future, when babies are decanted from bottles and the great Ford is worshipped.

FIC FLINN
Flinn, Alex. Breaking point. 1st ed. New York : HarperTempest, c2002. Fifteen-year-old Paul enters an exclusive private school and falls under the spell of a charismatic boy who may be using him.

FIC JIMENEZ
Jiménez, Francisco, 1943-. Breaking through. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2001. Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education.

FIC NAPOLI
Napoli, Donna Jo, 1948-. Breath. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2003. Elaborates on the tale of"The Pied Piper," told from the point of view of a boy who is too ill to keep up when a piper spirits away the healthy children of a plague-ridden town after being cheated out of full payment for ridding Hamelin of rats.

FIC YOLEN
Yolen, Jane. Briar Rose. New York : T. Doherty Associates, [1993], c1992. In this retelling of "Sleeping Beauty", a
young woman learns that her grandmother had a secret past tied to the Holocaust.

FIC AGNON
Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 1888-1970. The bridal canopy. 1st Syracuse University Press ed. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2000. Rob Yudel, a devout Galician Jew, wanders the countryside in the early nineteenth century with his companion, Nuta, in search of husbands for his three daughters.

FIC EMECHETA
Emecheta, Buchi. The bride price : a novel. New York : G. Braziller, 1976. The love story of Aku-nna, a young Ibogirl, and Chike, the son of a prosperous former slave.

FIC WILDER
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975. The bridge of San Luis Rey. New York : Perennial Library, 1998,c1927. When five Peruvian travelers are killed when a bridge collapses, a Franciscan retells their lives to prove their deaths were a part of God's plan.

811 KOE
Koertge, Ronald. The Brimstone journals. 1st ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2001. In a series of short
interconnected poems, students at a high school nicknamed Brimstone reveal the violence existing and growing in their lives.

FIC GRIMES
Grimes, Nikki. Bronx masquerade. New York : Dial Books, c2002. While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.

FIC DOSTOYEVSKY
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881. The brothers Karamazov. New York : Bantam, 1981. The story of the lives of three sons of an old drunkard are used to depict Russian character and investigate the concepts of good, evil, and faith.

FIC KOJA
Koja, Kathe. Buddha boy. 1st ed. New York : Frances Foster Books, 2003. Justin spends time with Jinsen, the unusual and artistic new student whom the school bullies torment and call Buddha Boy, and ends up making choices that impact Jinsen, himself, and the entire school.

FIC GORDIMER
Gordimer, Nadine. Burger's daughter. New York : Penguin Books, 1980. The story of a young woman's evolving identity in the political environment of present-day South Africa.

921 SENDER
Sender, Ruth Minsky. The cage. New York : Aladdin, 1997,c1986. A teenage girl recounts the suffering and persecution of her family under the Nazis, in a Polish ghetto, during deportation, and in a concentration camp.

FIC LONDON
London, Jack, 1876-1916. The call of the wild. New York : Harmony Books, c1977. A dog in the Klondike reverts to wilderness life and becomes the leader of a pack of wolves.

FIC VOLTAIRE
Voltaire. Candide. New York : Bantam, 1981,c1959. The story of a gentleman who, though treated harshly by fate, believes in "the best of all possible worlds.".

FIC STEINBECK
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. Cannery row. Toronto ; New York : Bantam, 1988, c1973. Recounts the adventures and misadventures of cannery workers living in the run-down waterfront section of Monterey, California.

FIC MILLER
Miller, Walter M., 1923-. A canticle for Leibowitz. Lippincott, c1959. In a barren desert, a humble monk unearths a fragile link to 20th-century civilization.

FIC CISNEROS
Cisneros, Sandra. Caramelo, or, Puro cuento : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2002. Celaya "Lala" Reyes, traveling from Chicago to Mexico City each summer, draws together stories of her Mexican-American family of shawl-makers, including her papa and Awful Grandmother.

FIC ANDERSON
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Catalyst. New York : Viking, 2002. Eighteen-year-old Kate, who sometimes chafes at being a preacher's daughter, finds herself losing control in her senior year as she faces difficult neighbors, the
possibility that she may not be accepted by the college of her choice, and an unexpected death.

FIC HELLER
Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. New York : Dell, 1990, c1961. Set on a tiny Mediterranean island during World War II, this comic novel recounts the amazing adventures of the 256th bombing squadron and its lead bombardier, Captain Yossarian.

FIC SALINGER
Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David) 1919-. The catcher in the rye. Toronto ; New York : Bantam, 1986, c1951. Unable to conform despite pressure from his family, teachers, and friends, Holden Caufield embarks on a journey of self-discovery.

FIC SILKO
Silko, Leslie, 1948-. Ceremony. New York : Penguin Books, 1986, c1977. Follows Tayo, a young Native American, after his release from a veteran's hospital following World War II as he searches for meaning and sanity in his life.

FIC BLOCK
Block, Francesca Lia. Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys. New York : HarperTrophy, 1993,c1992. With their parents away, four young people form a rock band that becomes wildly popular, carrying them into a "freer" life than they can cope with.

362.7 PEL
Pelzer, David J. A child called "It" : one child's courage to survive. Deerfield Beach, Fla. : Health Communications, c1995. David Pelzer, victim of one of the worst child abuse cases in the history of California, tells the story of how he survived his mother's brutality and triumphed over his past.

921 HECK
Heck, Alfons, 1928-. A child of Hitler : Germany in the days when God wore a swastika. Frederick, CO : Renaissance House, c1985. Alfons Heck was 10 years old when he was chosen to attend the Nuremberg Reichsparteitag, annual high mass of the Nazi regime. In this starkly candid account of a boy's indoctrination into the Hitler Youth, we see a side of Nazism that is little recorded. Very few once-enthusiastic Hitler Youth have come forward to speak about their adolescence under the Fuhrer. This book reveals that life and its lessons.

FIC LEE
Lee, Gus. China boy : a novel. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Dutton, c1991. Tells the story of a Chinese American family's relationship while relating how Kai Ting learned to survive in a black San Francisco slum in the 1950s.

FIC POTOK
Potok, Chaim. The chosen. New York : Fawcett, 1968,c1967. The story of a Jewish family living in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn in the 1940's.

FIC KING
King, Stephen 1947-. Christine. New York : Signet, 1983. Seventeen-year-old Arnie Cunningham loves his car,
Christine, but his family and friends find a strange, unexplained power residing in her.

FIC GARCIA MARQUEZ
García Márquez, Gabriel, 1928-. Chronicle of a death foretold. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1983.

759.13 GRE
Greenberg, Jan, 1942-. Chuck Close, up close. 1st ed. New York, N.Y. : DK Ink, 1998. A biography of the revisionist artist who achieved prominence in the late 1960s for enormous, photographically realistic, black and white portraits of himself and his friends.

FIC JIMENEZ
Jiménez, Francisco, 1943-. The circuit : stories from the life of a migrant child. 1st ed. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1997. Explores a migrant family's experiences moving through labor camps, facing poverty and impermanence, and discusses how they endure through faith, hope, and back-breaking work.

FIC MCCARTHY
McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-. Cities of the plain. 1st ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1998. The third of a three-part saga, following the lives of John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, cowboys and friends in 1952 who must find a way to cope with their changing world.

FIC OKUBO
Okubo, Miné. Citizen 13660. Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1983. A Japanese artist illustrates and narrates her experiences in the Japanese internment camps where 110,000 people of Japanese descent were held in the U.S. during World War II.

FIC BOLL
Böll, Heinrich, 1917-. The clown. New York : Penguin Books, 1994. A novel about a mime who retreats to his home in post-World War II Germany after an accident cripples him and leaves him trying to cope with his life, his "friends" desertion, and the world around him.

FIC FRAZIER
Frazier, Charles, 1950-. Cold mountain : a novel. Vintage Contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1998, 1997. Inman, a wounded Confederate soldier, leaves the hospital where he is being treated and determines to walk home to his sweetheart Ada, only to find the land and the girl he
remembers as changed by the war as he.

FIC BURNS
Burns, Olive Ann. Cold Sassy tree. Laurel trade ed. New York : Dell ; Bantam, 1988, c1984. Grandpa Blakeslee marries a young milliner just three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward. Young Will is boggled by this act but becomes the newlyweds' conspirator and confidant; meanwhile he does some growing up on his own.

811 AUD
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973. Collected poems. 1st Vintage International ed. New York : Vintage International, Vintage Books, 1991.

821.912 ELI
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. Collected poems, 1909-1962. [1st American ed.]. New York, : Harcourt, Brace& World, [1963]. A selection of the poet's complete text of"collected poems 1909-1935," the full text of "Four Quartets," and several other poems.

811.4 DIC
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Collected poems of Emily Dickinson. New York : Chatham River Press, 1983.

SS PORTER
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980. The collected stories of Katherine Anne Porter. 1st Harvest/HBJ ed. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985,1979, c1969. Collection of short stories by Katherine Anne Porter featuring four stories not available elsewhere in book form.

FIC FOWLES
Fowles, John, 1926-. The collector. 1st Back Bay paperback ed. Boston : Back Bay Books, 1997. Ferdinand has always loved collecting butterflies, but when he becomes obsessed with a young college student, he decides to add her to his collection, against her wishes.

921 MCBRIDE-JORDAN
McBride, James, 1957-. The color of water : a Black man's tribute to his white mother. New York : Riverhead, 1997,c1996. The author relates the accomplishments of his mother, the daughter of a rabbi who married a black man in Harlem, helped to found a Baptist church and raised twelve children.

FIC WALKER
Walker, Alice, 1944-. The color purple : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1982. Tells the story of two sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the South, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God.".

973.3 PAI
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Common sense. New York : Barnes & Noble Books, 1995.

811 ANG
Angelou, Maya. The complete collected poems of Maya Angelou. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c1994.

818.309 POE
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Complete stories and poems. Garden City, N.Y., : Doubleday, [1966].

811 ROD
Rodriguez, Luis J., 1954-. The concrete river. Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press, c1991. A collection of poems by the winner of the 1991 Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for Poetry.

811.5 FER
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. A Coney Island of the mind, poems. [New York] : New Directions, [1958].

FIC MAGUIRE
Maguire, Gregory. Confessions of an ugly stepsister. 1st ed. New York, N.Y. : Regan Books, c1999. Retells the story of Cinderella from her stepsister's point of view.

FIC CLEMENS
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court. Mahwah, NJ : Watermill, c1980. The tale of an American who travels back in time to King Arthur's England.

FIC GAIMAN
Gaiman, Neil. Coraline. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2002. Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must
challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.

FIC DUMAS
Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870. The Count of Monte Cristo. Abridged ed. New York : Signet Classics, [2005]. Presents the classic novel by Alexandre Dumas about Edmond Dantes, a young sailor who is falsely imprisoned, escapes, and assumes a new identity on the island of Monte Cristo.

SS NAN
The Crazy iris and other stories of the atomic aftermath. 1st Grove Press ed. New York : Grove Press, 1985.

302.3 HIN
Hinojosa, Maria. Crews : gang members talk to Maria Hinojosa. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1995. Presents a sampling of interviews with gang members. Portrays a sometimes shocking and sometimes heartening picture of the young men and women who live on the edge of poverty and violence.

FIC DOSTOYEVSKY
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881. Crime and punishment. [Unabridged ed.]. New York : New American Library, c1968. Describes the resultant physical and mental depletion after a student in St. Petersburg murders an old woman, a money lender, and her sister.

812 HEN
Henley, Beth. Crimes of the heart. New York : Dramatists Play Service, 1982. Contains the text of the Pulitzer
Prize-winning play about the MaGrath sisters, a trio of Southern women who are doing their best to deal with the disasters of their lives.

FIC AVI
Avi, 1937-. Crispin : the cross of lead. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion Books For Children, 2002. Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.

FIC LAMOTT
Lamott, Anne. Crooked little heart. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, 1998. Thirteen-year-old tennis
champion Rosie Ferguson, her mother Elizabeth, and her stepfather James, all struggle with their own heartbreaks
along the road to becoming a united family.

812.5 MIL
Miller, Arthur, 1915-. The crucible : a play in four acts. New York : Penguin, 1976. A play based on the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

FIC PATON
Paton, Alan. Cry, the beloved country. 1st Scribner classic/Collier ed. New York : Collier Books, 1987, c1948.
Accused of murdering a white man, a young black man in South Africa is helped by his minister father and by a white attorney, but the racial problems of the country prevent justice being done.

FIC PYNCHON
Pynchon, Thomas. The crying of lot 49. New York : Perennial Library, 1986, c1966. Tells of the adventures of Mrs. Oedipa Maas after she learns she has been named executor of the estate of former lover Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul.

FIC GIBBONS
Gibbons, Kaye, 1960-. A cure for dreams : a novel. 1st ed. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991. A mother-daughter relationship that spans several generations and images the effect of time and change on individual lives.

842.89 ROS
Rostand, Edmond, 1868-1918. Cyrano de Bergerac : heroic comedy in five acts. Cutchogue, N.Y. : Buccaneer Books, c1976.

303.3 BES
Best, Joel. Damned lies and statistics : untangling numbers from the media, politicians, and activists. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2001. Offers advice on how to understand social statistics and how to recognize bad statistics that are sometimes put out by the media, or special interest groups; and presents analyses of a selection of bad statistics.

FIC HILLERMAN
Hillerman, Tony. Dance hall of the dead. Cutchogue, N.Y. : Buccaneer Books, [1997?], c1973. No one was seriously alarmed by the disappearance of two teenage boys, until Lt. Joe Leaphorn found the splattered trail of blood which lead to a ritually slaughtered victim.

FIC BEAR
Bear, Greg, 1951-. Darwin's radio. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Pub. Group, 1999. Molecular biologist Kay Lang,
a specialist in retroviruses, teams up with virus hunter Christopher Dicken and anthropologist Mitch Rafelson in an
attempt to trace the ancient source of a flu-like disease that is killing expectant mothers and their offspring and
threatening the future of the human race.

FIC DICKENS
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. David Copperfield. New York : Macmillan, The Modern Library. As a child, David, is sent by his stepfather to work in a London warehouse, from where he runs away to his great-aunt Betsy who gives him a warm welcome.

FIC WIESEL
Wiesel, Elie, 1928-. Dawn. New York : Bantam, 1982, c1961. An eighteen-year-old terrorist spends a night waiting to murder an Englishman, in Palestine, as a reprisal.

921 ASHE
Ashe, Arthur. Days of grace : a memoir. 1st Ballantine Books ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 1994, c1993.

FIC GOGOL
Gogol', Nikola„i Vasil'evich, 1809-1852. Dead souls. New York, : Modern Library, [1965].ineteenth-century Russian novel about Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant turned confidence man who comes up with a plan to elevate his social standing by buying the souls of dead peasants.

959.704 EDE
Dear America : letters home from Vietnam. New York : Norton, c1985. Contains letters and poems written to families and friends by soldiers expressing their homesickness and the horrors of war.

FIC HINOJOSA
Hinojosa, Rolando. Dear Rafe. Houston, Tex. : Arte Público Press, 1985. This addition to Hinojosa's "Klail City Death Trap Series" focuses on wealthy ranchers and their domination of the economic and politcal life of a small city on the Texas-Mexico border.

921 GUNTHER
Gunther, John. 1901-1970. Death be not proud. Perennial Library, 1965. A biography of the author's son, who died at seventeen after a fourteen-month illness caused by a brain tumor.

FIC MANN
Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955. Death in Venice. New York, : Knopf, 1965 [c1924].

812.5 MIL
Miller, Arthur, 1915-. Death of a salesman : certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem. London : Cresset Press, 1949. The prize-winning play concerned with the despair of a 63 year old traveling salesman when he is forced to face the reality that has evaded all his life.

FIC JAMES
James, P. D. Death of an expert witness. New York : Scribner, c1977.

FIC KERR
Kerr, M. E. Deliver us from Evie. New York : HarperCollins, c1994. Sixteen-year-old Parr Burrman and his family face some difficult times when word spreads through their rural Missouri town that his older sister is a lesbian, and she leaves the family farm to live with the daughter of the town's banker.

321.8 TOC
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859. Democracy in America. New York : Signet Classic, [2001]. Presents an abridged edition of twenty-five-year-old Alexis de Tocqueville's account of America's social and political characteristics, which he observed in the early 1830s while visiting from France.

921 UCHIDA
Uchida, Yoshiko. Desert exile : the uprooting of a Japanese American family. Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1982. A first-person story telling of the U.S. internment of persons of Japanese ancestry during World War II.

940.534 FRA
Frank, Anne, 1929-1945. The diary of a young girl. New York : Bantam, 1993,c1952. The diary of Anne Frank, the daughter of Jews forced by encroaching Nazis to live in seclusion.

921 FRANK
Frank, Anne, 1929-1945. The diary of a young girl : the definitive edition. 1st ed. in the U.S.A. New York :
Doubleday, c1995.

FIC KING
King, Stephen, 1947-. Different seasons. New York : Viking Press, 1982. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption --Apt pupil--The body--The breathing method.

FIC TYLER
Tyler, Anne. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 1987, c1982. Cody, Jenny, and Ezra, who were deserted by their father and raised by their angry mother, go their separate ways but meet again for their mother's funeral.

FIC PASTERNAK
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960. Doctor Zhivago. [Pantheon pbk. ed.]. New York : Pantheon Books, 1991.
Classic love story of Dr. Zhivago and Lara during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution.

839.8 IBS
Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906. A doll's house. Chicago : I. R. Dee, c1999.

FIC BROOKS
Brooks, Bruce. Dolores : seven stories about her. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2002. A series of events captures the life of a free-spirited girl as she grows from a savvy seven-year-old to a self-assured sixteen-year-old.

FIC WERLIN
Werlin, Nancy. Double helix. New York : Dial Books, c2004. Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.

FIC HALAM
Halam, Ann. Dr. Franklin's island. New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2002. When their plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean, three science students are left stranded on a tropical island and then imprisoned by a doctor who is performing horrifying experiments on humans involving the transfer of animal genes.

FIC STOKER
Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912. Dracula. New York : Grosset & Dunlap, c1994. Having discovered the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.

FIC MCCAFFREY
McCaffrey, Anne. Dragonflight. New York : Ballantine, [1986],c1978. Lessa must rally the telepathic dragons to
protect Pern from destruction.

973 CHI
Dreaming in color, living in black and white : our own stories of growing up Black in America. Abridged young readers ed. New York : Pocket Books, c2000.

FIC GARCIA
Garcia, Cristina, 1958-. Dreaming in Cuban. 1st Ballantine Books ed. New York : Ballatine Books, 1993, c1992. The story of four strong-willed women of the del Pino family of Havana and of Brooklyn who are divided by conflicting political loyalties.

305.868 BUR
Burciaga, José Antonio. Drink cultura : Chicanismo. Santa Barbara : Joshua Odell Editions, 1993. A collection of
essays about the Chicano experience of living within two cultures, written by the Texas-raised Chicano cultural
activist, muralist, and humorist.

FIC BRINK
Brink, André Philippus, 1935-. A dry white season. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :
Penguin, 1984, c1979.

SS JOYCE
Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Dubliners. New York : The Modern library, [c1926]. The sisters -- An encounter -- Araby -- Eveline -- After the race -- Two gallants -- The boarding house -- A little cloud -- Counterparts -- Clay -- A painful
case -- Ivy day in the committee room -- A mother -- Grace -- The dead.

FIC HERBERT
Herbert, Frank. Dune. Ace special 25th anniversary ed. New York : Berkley, 1990, c1965. Forced by the Emperor of the known universe to live in exile on a barren planet, Duke Leto Atreides and his son lead the struggle against the Empire.

FIC PATTOU
Pattou, Edith. East. Orlando : Harcourt, 2003. A young woman journeys to a distant castle on the back of a great white bear who is the victim of a cruel enchantment.

FIC STEINBECK
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. East of Eden. New York : Penguin Books, 1979, c1952. The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton families in the early 1900's in Northern California.

FIC LEM
Lem, Stanislaw. Eden. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1991], c1989. A crew of six crash-land on Eden, fourth planet from another sun, a strange world inhabited by naked dtorsos, flying saucers, genetic engineering, and death.

921 CODELL
Codell, Esmé Raji, 1968-. Educating Esmé : diary of a teacher's first year. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books, 2001. Presents the diary of teacher Esme Raji Codell's first year in charge of a fifth-grade classroom in an inner-city public school.

812.54 ZIN
Zindel, Paul. The effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds; : a drama in two acts. New York, : Harper & Row, [1971]. A two-act play depicting an embittered mother who vents her frustrations upon her two daughters.

921 GARNER
Garner, Eleanor Ramrath. Eleanor's story : an American girl in Hitler's Germany. 1st ed. Atlanta, GA : Peachtree, 1999.

SS MUR
Murakami, Haruki, 1949-. The elephant vanishes. 1st Vintage International ed. New York : Vintage, 1994, c1993.
Contains seventeen short fiction stories by Haruki Murakami about people whose lives veer off the path of normalcy.

FIC GIBBONS
Gibbons, Kaye, 1960-. Ellen Foster. 1st Vintage contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1988, c1987. Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.

FIC AUSTEN
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Emma. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, [1991]. A novel of Regency England which centers upon a self-assured young lady who is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy.

FIC CARD
Card, Orson Scott. Ender's game. Rev. ed. New York : Tor, 1991. Ender, who is the result of genetic experimentation, may be the military genius Earth needs in its war against an alien enemy.

FIC CARD
Card, Orson Scott. Ender's shadow. 1st ed. New York : Tom Doherty Associates Book, 1999. Bean must overcome his past and prove to the recruiters at the Battle School that he can help save the planet from an alien invasion.

921 HAUTZIG
Hautzig, Esther. The endless steppe : growing up in Siberia. New York : HarperKeypoint, 1987,c1968. During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe.

FIC SINGER
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-. Enemies, a love story. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1972. Having managed to live through World War II, Jewish refugee Herman Broder takes up residence in New York where he goes about his business with an impending sense of doom due to the fact that he is juggling three wives.

FIC ONDAATJE Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-. The English patient : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 1992. The stories of four people reveal themselves during the final moments of World War II in a deserted Indian Villa.

FIC PAOLINI
Paolini, Christopher. Eragon. 1st Knopf trade pbk. ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2005, c2002. In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.

FIC RYAN
Ryan, Pam Muñoz. Esperanza rising. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2000. Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.

FIC ESCANDON
Escandón, María Amparo. Esperanza's box of saints. New York : Scribner Paperback Fiction, c1999. Esperanza, told that her daughter has died and not allowed to view the body, refuses to believe the child is dead, and embarks upon a quest--spurred by the words of a saint who appeared to her in the oven door--that challenges her faith and transforms her life.

895.6 ESS
The essential haiku : versions of Bash›o, Buson, and Issa. Hopewell, N.J. : Ecco Press, c1994.

FIC DICKINSON
Dickinson, Peter, 1927-. Eva. New York, N.Y. : Dell Pub., 1990, c1988. After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee.

FIC WILLIAMS-GARCIA
Williams-Garcia, Rita. Every time a rainbow dies. New York : HarperCollins, 2002,c2001. After seeing a girl raped and becoming obsessed with her, sixteen-year-old Thulani finds motivation to move beyond his interest in his pigeons and his grief over his mother's death.

FIC BOSSE
Bosse, Malcolm. The examination. New York : Farrar, 1996,c1994. Fifteen-year-old Hong and his older brother Chen face problems on their journey through 15th-century China as Chen pursues his calling as a scholar and Hong becomes involved with a secret society known as the White Lotus.

FIC NOLAN
Nolan, Han. A face in every window. 1st ed. San Diego, Calif. : Harcourt Brace, c1999. After the death of his
grandmother, who held the family together, teenage JP is left with a mentally challenged father and a mother who
seems ineffectual and constantly sick, and he feels everything sliding out of control.

967.62 LEK
Lekuton, Joseph. Facing the lion : growing up Maasai on the African savanna. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2003. A lion hunt -- The proud one -- Cows -- The pinching man -- School -- Herdsman -- Initiation -- Kabarak -- Soccer -- America -- A warrior in two worlds. A member of the Masai people describes his life as he grew up in a northern Kenya village, traveled to America to attend college, and became an elementary school teacher in Virginia.

FIC BRADBURY
Bradbury, Ray, 1920-. Fahrenheit 451. New York : Ballantine Books, [1953]. A bookburner official in a future fascist state finds out books are a vital part of a culture he never knew. He clandestinely pursues reading, until he is betrayed.

FIC MYERS
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. Fallen angels. New York : Scholastic Inc., 1989, c1988. Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.

921 MAH
Mah, Adeline Yen, 1937-. Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter. New York : Wiley, c1997. Autobiography of physician and writer Adeline Yen Mah, discussing her emotionally abusive childhood, experiences of isolation and loneliness, success as a student, and triumphant struggle to achieve freedom and a new life.

FIC HEMINGWAY
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. A farewell to arms. 1st Scribner classic/Collier ed. New York : Collier Books, 1986, c1929. An American ambulance driver serving on the Austro-Italian front becomes entangled with an English nurse and deserts to join her after the retreat of Caparetto.

921 HOUSTON
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki. Farewell to Manzanar : a true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment. New York : Bantam, 1974,c1973. The true story of the impact that the internment of Japanese living in the U.S. during World War II had on one family.

394.1 SCH
Schlosser, Eric. Fast food nation : the dark side of the all-American meal. Boston , Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, 2001. Traces the history of the fast food industry and discusses how it arose in postwar America.

FIC GOING
Going, Kelly. Fat kid rules the world. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2003. Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly 300 pounds, gets a new perspective on life when a homeless teenager who is a genius on guitar wants Troy to be the drummer in his rock band.

FIC ANDERSON
Anderson, M. T. Feed. 1st ed. Cambridge, MA : Candlewick, 2002. In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.

FIC TREVOR
Trevor, William, 1928-. Felicia's journey. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1999, c1994. A pregnant young woman leaves her small Irish town to search for her boyfiriend in the English Midlands.

940.53 COO
Cooper, Michael L., 1950-. Fighting for honor : Japanese Americans and World War II. New York : Clarion Books,
c2000. Examines the history of Japanese in the United States, focusing on their treatment during World War II,
including the mass relocation to internment camps and the distinguished service of Japanese Americans in the American military.

FIC PAUSEWANG
Pausewang, Gudrun. The final journey. New York : Puffin Books, 1998. During World War II, eleven-year-old Alice, whose life has been sheltered and comfortable, discovers some important things about herself and the people she meets when she and her grandfather board a train and begin an increasingly intolerable journey to an unknown destination.

305.896 BAL
Baldwin, James, 1924-. The fire next time. Modern Library ed. New York : Modern Library, 1995. Contains a letter to Baldwin's nephew on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Also describes his childhood, views on Black Muslims, and his visions.

FIC JOHNSON
Johnson, Angela, 1961-. The first part last. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2003. Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.

959.604 UNG
Ung, Loung. First they killed my father : a daughter of Cambodia remembers. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2000. Loung Ung, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official in Phnom Penh, tells of her experiences after her family was forced to flee from Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army, discussing her training as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, and telling of how her surviving siblings were eventually reunited.

305.23 CAN
Canada, Geoffrey. Fist, stick, knife, gun : a personal history of violence in America. Boston : Beacon Press, c1995. A personal account of inner-city violence and its effect on children.

940.54 BRA
Bradley, James, 1954-. Flags of our fathers. New York : Bantam Books, 2000. Presents an account of the Marines who came together during the battle of Iwo Jima to raise the American flag in a moment that has been immortalized in one of the most famous photographs of World War II.

FIC KEYES
Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon,. [1st ed.]. New York, : Harcourt, Brace & World, [1966]. After being mentally retarded for all of his thirty-two years, Charlie Gordon undergoes an operation designed to change his life.

811 SHA
Shange, Ntozake. For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf : a choreopoem. 1st Scribner poetry ed. New York : Scribner Poetry, 1997. A"choreo-poem" reflecting the views of a black American woman about the women of her race.

FIC HEMINGWAY
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. For whom the bell tolls. New York, : MacMillan, 1940. The story of an American, Robert Jordan, who fought during the Civil War in Spain with the anti-facist guerrillas in the mountains of Spain.

FIC ASIMOV
Asimov, Isaac, 1920-. Foundation. Bantam ed. New York : Bantam Books, 1991. As the Galactic Empire declines,
psychohistorian Hari Seldon and his band of psychobiologists form the Foundation, designed to form the nucleus of an eventual ideal universal ruling corporation.

979.4 KIY
Kiyama, Henry Yoshitaka, b. 1885. The four immigrants manga : a Japanese experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924. Berkeley, Calif. : Stone Bridge Press, c1999. A translation of the 1931 chronicle of the author's experiences as a Japanese immigrant in the United States, presented in comic-strip style

842.91 ION
Ionesco, Eugène. Four plays. New York, : Grove Press, [1958]. The bald soprano.--The lesson.--Jack; or, The
submission.--The chairs.

FIC OATES
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-. Foxfire : confessions of a girl gang. 1st ed. New York : Dutton, c1993. During the 1950s, five high school girls in upstate New York form a gang called Foxfire.

FIC SHELLEY
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus. Logan, IA : Perfection Learning, [1994]. Victor Frankenstein creates a living being from electrical currents and pieces of dead bodies, but his creation develops a mind of its own and comes to hate himself and his creator.

FIC LYNCH
Lynch, Chris. Freewill. 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers, c2001. A teenager trying to recover from the tragic death of his father and stepmother believes himself to be responsible for the rash of teen suicides occurring in his town.

FIC CORMIER
Cormier, Robert. Frenchtown summer. New York : Delacorte Press, c1999. A series of vignettes in free verse in which the writer reminisces about his life as a twelve-year-old boy living in a small town during the hot summer of 1938.

FIC FLAGG
Flagg, Fannie. Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c1987. Evelyn Couch hears 80 year old Ninny Threadgoode's life story which centers on a cafe in the railroad town of Whistle Stop, Ala., and on Idgie and Ruth, the two women who own the cafe.

FIC SHUSTERMAN
Shusterman, Neal. Full tilt : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2003. When
sixteen-year-old Blake goes to a mysterious, by-invitation-only carnival he somehow knows that it could save his comatose brother, but soon learns that much more is at stake if he fails to meet the challenge presented there
by the beautiful Cassandra.

FIC GAINES
Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-. A gathering of old men. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 1983. Beau Boutan, a Cajun farmer, is found shot on a Louisiana plantation. The claimants to the killing form a wall of protection around the real murderer.

FIC SAYERS
Sayers, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh), 1893-1957. Gaudy night. New York : HarperPaperbacks, [1995], c1964. Harriet Vane finds herself trapped in a web of romance and terror when her attendance at her Oxford is marred by a series of bizarre, threatening pranks.

FIC LEE
Lee, Chang-rae. A gesture life. 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed. New York : Riverhead Books, 2000, c1999. Hardworking Franklin Hata is careful to never overstep his bounds and to always make his neighbors and customers feel comfortable, but when they learn of his forbidden affair with a Korean comfort woman, his carefully crafted reputation is destroyed.

FIC LAWRENCE
Lawrence, Iain, 1955-. Ghost boy. New York : Dell, 2002,c2000. Unhappy in a home seemingly devoid of love, a
fourteen-year-old albino boy who thinks of himself as Harold the Ghost runs away to join the circus, where he works with the elephants and searches for a sense of who he is.

323.42 LEW
Lewis, Anthony, 1927-. Gideon's trumpet. Vintage Books ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1989, c1964. Account of Clarence Earl Gideon who in 1962 was tried in Supreme Court without a lawyer because he could not afford one and how his case has changed the law of the United States.

FIC COHN
Cohn, Rachel. Gingerbread. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2002. After being expelled from a fancy boarding school, Cyd Charisse's problems with her mother escalate after Cyd falls in love with a sensitive surfer and is subsequently sent from San Francisco to New York City to spend time with her biological father.

FIC VREELAND
Vreeland, Susan. Girl in hyacinth blue. Denver, CO : MacMurray& Beck, c1999. Tells the story of how a priceless Vermeer painting came to be hanging in the home of lowly college professor Cornelius Engelbrecht.

FIC CHEVALIER
Chevalier, Tracy. Girl with a pearl earring. New York : Dutton, c1999. The life of sixteen-year-old Griet is transformed forever when she goes to work as a maid in the home of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, and catches the eye of the famous artist.

812.5 WIL
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. The glass menagerie. New York : New Directions, 1999,c1945. The classic play about a mother and her handicapped daughter not destined to ever see life in the same way.

FIC BALDWIN
Baldwin, James, 1924-. Go tell it on the mountain. New Laurel ed. New York : Laurel : Dell, 1985, c1981. Describes a day in the life of several members of a Harlem fundamentalist church. The saga of three generations of people is related through flashbacks.

FIC ROY
Roy, Arundhati. The god of small things. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Random House, c1997. On a December Day in 1969 twins Rahel and Estha, born to a wealthy family living in the provice of Kerala, India, find their lives changed after the death of their English cousin visiting for the holidays.

FIC RYLANT
Rylant, Cynthia. God went to beauty school. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, 2003. A novel in poems that reveal God's discovery of the wonders and pains in the world He has created.

FIC O'BRIEN
O'Brien, Tim, 1946-. Going after Cacciato. 1st Broadway Books trade pbk. ed. New York : Broadway Books, 1999. An American soldier in Vietnam decides to leave the war and simply walks out of the jungle, with the intent of going to Paris.

FIC MITCHELL
Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949. Gone with the wind. Warner Books ed. New York : Warner Books, [1993], c1936. After the Civil War sweeps away the genteel life to which she has been accustomed, Scarlett O'Hara sets about to salvage her Georgia plantation home.

FIC BUCK
Buck, Pearl S., Pearl Sydenstricker, 1892-1973. The good earth. Pocket, 1958. Wang Lung, a peasant in China in the 1920s, becomes a prosperous landowner with the help of his humble wife, O'Lan, with whom he shares a devotion to duty, land, and survival.

SS BUTLER
Butler, Robert Olen. A good scent from a strange mountain : stories. 1st ed. New York : H. Holt, 1992. Open arms--Mr. Green--The trip back--Fairy tale--Crickets--Letters from my father--Love--etc. Fifteen short stories blending
Vietnamese folklore with American realities as Vietnamese refugees try to balance their traditions with American
popular culture.

599.88 FOS
Fossey, Dian. Gorillas in the mist. Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, 1983. Contains case studies over a period of
fifteen years of four gorilla families living in the rain forests of the Virunga mountains of Rwanda.

FIC STEINBECK
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. The grapes of wrath. New York : Penguin, 1992,c1939. Tells of the experiences of an Oklahoma farmer and his family as they cross the country to reach the promised land of California.

FIC DICKENS
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Great expectations. New York : New American Library, 1980. An unknown person has provided money for the education of a poor English boy in eighteenth-century England.

FIC FITZGERALD
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. The great Gatsby. Scribner trade pbk. ed. New York : Scribner, 2004, c1925. Tells the tragic love story of Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, a dashing, enigmatic millionaire obsessed with an elusive, spoiled young woman.

921 BAKER
Baker, Russell, 1925-. Growing up. 1st ed. New York : Congdon& Weed : Distributed by St. Martin's Press, c1982. The memoirs of the Pulitzer prizewinning columnist of the New York Times.

810.8 GRO
Growing up Asian American. New York : Avon Books, 1995, c1993. Stories of childhood, adolescence and coming of age in America, from the 1800s to the 1900s - by 32 Asian American writers.

SS GROWING
Growing up ethnic in America : contemporary fiction about learning to be American. New York : Penguin Books, 1999. Contains thirty-five short fiction stories in which the authors explore issues of race and ethnicity in America.

FIC SWIFT
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Gulliver's travels. [New York] : Macmillan, 1962. The classic story of Gulliver's voyages to Lilliput, Brobdingnag, and other strange places, written as a satire of the author's world.

822.33 SHA
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet. 1st U.S. ed. Hauppauge, N.Y. : Barron's, 1986. Presents the original
text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time,
and provides quizzes and other study activities.

FIC ATWOOD
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939-. The handmaid's tale. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, 1998, c1986. Set in the near future, America has become a puritanical theocracy and Offred tells her story as a Handmaid under the new social order.

FIC WITTLINGER
Wittlinger, Ellen. Hard love. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1999. After starting to publish a zine in which he writes his secret feelings about his lonely life and his parents' divorce, sixteen-year-old John meets an unusual girl and begins to develop a healthier personality.

FIC RUSHDIE
Rushdie, Salman. Haroun and the sea of stories. London ; New York : Granta Books in association with Penguin Books, [1991], c1990. The tale of a son who tries to rescue his father, a professional storyteller, and return his "Gift of Gab.".

921 TUBMAN
Petry, Ann(Lane) 1911-. Harriet Tubman : conductor on the Underground Railroad. New York : Pocket Books, 1971,c1955. A biography of the black woman whose cruel experiences as a slave in the South led her to seek freedom in the North for herself and for others through the Underground railroad.

303.3 HAT
Hatred, bigotry, and prejudice : definitions, causes & solutions. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1999. Contains twenty-seven essays in which the authors discuss various cases of hate crimes in America; look at hate crime legislation; consider the origins and reasons for hatred, bigotry, and prejudice; and offer suggestions for how such crimes can be eliminated.

FIC HEINLEIN
Heinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson), 1907-. Have space suit--will travel. New York, : Scribner, [1958]. A high school senior wins a space suit in a soap jingle contest, takes a last walk wearing "Oscar" before cashing him in for college tuition, and suddenly finds himself on a space odyssey.

FIC MCCULLERS
McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967. The heart is a lonely hunter. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1940, 1967 printing. A deaf mute who has lost his only friend to a hospital for the insane becomes the recipient of the confidences of several other town residents.

FIC CONRAD
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. Heart of darkness. New York : Perfection Learning, c1991. The captain of a steamship on the Congo River meets and observes Mr. Kurtz, the fabled chief of the Inner Station for the trading company on that river in 1890.

811 HEA
Heart to heart : new poems inspired by twentieth-century American art. New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2001. A compilation of poems by Americans writing about American art in the twentieth century, including such writers as Nancy Willard, Jane Yolen, and X.J. Kennedy.

FIC JHABVALA
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-. Heat and dust. 1st Touchstone ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1991, c1975. Set in India, Olivia a beautiful, spoiled, bored English colonial wife in the 1920s who is drawn inexorably into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince deeply involved in plots and intrigues. Olivia outrages the tiny, suffocating town where her husband is a civil servant by eloping with the captivating Nawab.

FIC RYLANT
Rylant, Cynthia. The Heavenly Village. New York : Blue Sky Press, c1999. Undecided souls who have died while they are not quite ready to go to heaven find themselves in the halfway place known as the Heavenly Village.

FIC CORMIER
Cormier, Robert. Heroes : a novel. New York : Delacorte, 1998. After joining the army at fifteen and having his face blown away by a grenade in a battle in France, Francis returns home to Frenchtown hoping to find (and kill) the former childhood hero he feels betrayed him.

940.54 HER
Hersey, John, 1914-. Hiroshima. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1989, c1985. An account of the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, from the viewpoint of the people who lived through it.

FIC ADAMS
Adams, Douglas, 1952-. The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. 1st American ed. New York : Harmony Books, 1989, c1979. Seconds before Earth is demolished to make room for a galactic freeway, an earthman is saved by his friend. Together they journey through the galaxy.

921 GANTOS
Gantos, Jack. Hole in my life. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.

FIC SACHAR
Sachar, Louis, 1954-. Holes. New York : Farrar, 1998. As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they
attribute to a curse, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his
first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

FIC WHELAN
Whelan, Gloria. Homeless bird. New York : HarperCollins, 2000. When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it.

FIC SHEA
Shea, Suzanne Strempek. Hoopi, shoopi Donna. New York : Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, [1997], c1996. Donna Milewski, an only child, is living a perfectly happy life with her grandmother, mother, and dad, who she charms with her accordian playing, until her parents adopt a precious, pitiful little girl from Poland who causes a rift between Donna and her father that takes many years to heal.

FIC HIAASEN
Hiaasen, Carl. Hoot. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c2002. Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.

FIC BAUER
Bauer, Joan. Hope was here. New York : Putnam, 2000. When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as a waitress, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.

FIC CUNNINGHAM
Cunningham, Michael, 1952-. The hours. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1998. Two women with very different lives are joined together at a party for an ailing poet, and together they realize that even though their lives are different, they are tied together by a common bond.

FIC NAIPAUL
Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-. A house for Mr. Biswas. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1983, c1969. An autobiography of the fictional Trinidadian title character, who struggles to rid himself of the influence of his wife's relatives and finally does so by buying a house, and his freedom, in one stroke.

FIC FARMER
Farmer, Nancy. The house of the scorpion. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2002. In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.

FIC HAWTHORNE
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. The house of the Seven Gables : a romance. Signet Classic ed. New York : New American Library, (1981). Rev. and updated bibliography. Hepzibah Pyncheon tries to protect her ex-convict brother from the persecution of the unscrupulous Judge Pyncheon.

FIC ALLENDE
Allende, Isabel. The house of the spirits. 1st American ed. New York : Knopf, 1985. The epic story of the passionate Trueba family begins at the turn of the century in South America.

FIC CISNEROS
Cisneros, Sandra. The house on Mango Street. Houston, Tex. : Arte Publico Press, 1983, c1984. A young girl living in an Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends.

362.29 TAY
Taylor, Clark (J. Clark). The house that crack built. San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c1992. Cumulative verses
describe the creation, distribution, and destructive effects of crack cocaine.

921 PAULSEN
Paulsen, Gary. How Angel Peterson got his name : and other outrageous tales about extreme sports. New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2003. Author Gary Paulsen relates tales from his youth in a small town in northwestern Minnesota in the late 1940s and early 1950s, such as skiing behind a souped-up car and imitating daredevil Evel Knievel.

921 QUINDLEN
Quindlen, Anna. How reading changed my life. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Pub. Group, 1998. American author Anna Quindlen discusses how her love of reading has impacted her life from childhood through adulthood. Includes eleven lists of recommended books.

FIC ALVAREZ
Alvarez, Julia. How the García girls lost their accents. New York : Plume, [1992], c1991. The story of the Garcia
family's adjustment to life in the United States.

FIC SAROYAN
Saroyan, William, 1908-. The human comedy. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1989], c1943. Working as a telegraph messenger in California during World War II, fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley gains an understanding of the world and an acceptance of his brother's death.

FIC HUGO
Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885. The hunchback of Notre Dame. New York : Dodd Mead, 1979. Relates the tragic life of the deformed Quasimodo and his hopeless love for the gypsy dancer Esmerelda.

FIC HAMSUN
Hamsun, Knut, 1859-1952. Hunger. New York : Noonday Press/Farrar, 1993, c1967. The narrator, an impoverished
Norwegian, keeps moving when he can't pay the rent. He survives by periodically selling an essay or a sketch.

921 RODRIGUEZ
Rodriguez, Richard. Hunger of memory : the education of Richard Rodriguez : an autobiography. Boston, Mass. : D.R. Godine, 1982. The author, a disadvantaged Mexican American, writes of feelings of alienation from his family as he learned English and earned a Ph.D.

FIC WOODSON
Woodson, Jacqueline. Hush. New York : Speak, 2003, c2002. Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the witness protection program.

L 305.896 KIN
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. I have a dream. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic, 1997. Text of the speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on August 28, 1963 describing his visionary dream of equality and brotherhood for humankind. Also includes illustrations by award winning artists depicting scenes described in the speech.

921 ANGELOU
Angelou, Maya. I know why the caged bird sings. New York : Random House, [1970, c1969]. Autobiography covering the childhood of a woman who has been a professional dancer, actress, poet, journalist, and television producer.

SS ASIMOV
Asimov, Isaac, 1920-. I, Robot. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1963, [c1950]. Robbie -- Runaround -- Reason -- Catch that rabbit -- Liar -- Little lost robot -- Escape -- Evidence -- The evitable conflict.

FIC LEVI
Levi, Primo. If not now, when? New York : Summit Books, c1985. A fact-based novel that chronicles the adventures of a courageous band of Jewish partisans that makes its way from Russia to Italy in the final days of World War II, wreaking vengeance against the Nazis along the way.

FIC WOODSON
Woodson, Jacqueline. If you come softly. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Puffin Books, 2000, c1998. After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.

862.6 GAR
García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936. III tragedies: Blood wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alba,. [New York] : New Directions, [1947].

883 HOM
Homer. The Iliad of Homer. 1st ed. Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill Educational Pub., c1977. Presents Homer's classic epic of the Trojan War, which follows proud Greek soldier Achilles from his angry dispute with his king, Agamemnon, to his battle with and brutal treatment of Troy's great hero, Hector; and includes a glossary of names and an introduction.

FIC BRADBURY
Bradbury, Ray, 1920-. The illustrated man. New York : Bantam, 1982, c1951. The other foot -- Zero hour -- The long rain -- Rocket man -- The last night of the world -- The exiles. Eighteen science fiction stories.

FIC MASON
Mason, Bobbie Ann. In country : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1985. Sam Hughes lives in Hopewell, Kentucky with her Uncle Emmett who is a Vietnam veteran. Sam's father was killed in Vietnam and she wants to understand about the war, but Emmett and other vets refuse to tell her much.

FIC ALVAREZ
Alvarez, Julia. In the time of the butterflies. New York : Plume, [1995]. Gives a fictionalized account of four
sisters in the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of General Trujillo.

FIC TRUEMAN
Trueman, Terry. Inside out. 1st ed. New York : HarperTempest, c2003. A sixteen-year-old with schizophrenia is caught up in the events surrounding an attempted robbery by two other teens who eventually hold him hostage.

917.98 KRA
Krakauer, Jon. Into the wild. 1st ed. New York : Villard Books, c1996. Tells the story of Chris McCandless, a
twenty-four-year-old who walked into the Alaskan wilderness on an idealistic journey and was found dead of starvation four months later. Attempts to discover what led the young man to that point.

796.52 KRA
Krakauer, Jon. Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster. New York : Villard, c1997. The author relates his experience of climbing Mount Everest during its deadliest season and examines what it is about the mountain that makes people willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense.

SS SALISBURY
Salisbury, Graham. Island boyz : short stories. New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2002. Island boyz -- The ravine -- Mrs. Noonan -- Forty bucks -- The hurricane -- Aumakua -- Frankie Diamond is robbing us blind -- Waiting for the war -- Doi store monkey -- Angel-baby -- Hat of clouds.

SS ORT
Ortiz Cofer, Judith, 1952-. An island like you : stories of the barrio. New York : Puffin Books, 1996, c1995. Bad
influence -- Arturo's flight -- Beauty lessons -- Catch the moon -- An hour with abuelo -- The one who watches --
Matoa's mirror -- Don José of La Mancha -- Abuela invents the zero -- A job for Valentín -- Home to El Building --
White balloons. Twelve stories about young people caught between their Puerto Rican heritage and their American
surroundings.

FIC WELLS
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946. The island of Dr. Moreau. New York : Leisure Books, c1968. Prendick was rescued by a creature and carried aboard a trader bound for an island where a scientist performs ghastly experiments.

921 ARMSTRONG
Armstrong, Lance. It's not about the bike : my journey back to life. New York : G.P.Putnam's Sons, c2000. Champion cyclist Lance Armstrong describes his triumph over cancer.

FIC SCOTT
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832. Ivanhoe : a romance. New York : Signet Classic, c1983. Relates the adventures of the Saxon knight Ivanhoe in 1194, the year of Richard the Lion-Hearted's return from the Third Crusade.

FIC KORMAN
Korman, Gordon. Jake, reinvented. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2003. Rick becomes friends with the popular new boy, Jake Garrett, football player and host of superlative parties, and in the process discovers the true nature of his schoolmates and uncovers the mystery of Jake's past.

FIC BRONTE
Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855. Jane Eyre. Logan, IA : Perfection Learning, 1998. The classic story of the relationship between Jane Eyre, a governess, and the eccentric millionaire Rochester.

FIC MUKHERJEE
Mukherjee, Bharati. Jasmine. New York : Grove Press, c1989. At seventeen, Jasmine is a widow in a small village in India where she was born. Just a few years later, she is Jane Ripplemeyer, happily pregnant by a middle-aged Iowa banker and adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee.

FIC MORRISON
Morrison, Toni. Jazz. 1st trade ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1992. A mysterious voice
weaves the story of an African-American door-to-door salesman of beauty products who shoots his young lover, and his wife who tries to disfigure the corpse with a knife in the winter of 1926.

FIC TRUMBO
Trumbo, Dalton, 1905-1976. Johnny got his gun. New York : Bantam, 1982. A young man who was severely wounded in World War One thinks about his life and about the horror and futility of war and its toll on him.

FIC TAN
Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club. New York : Putnam's, c1989. In 1949 four Chinese women began meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong. They called their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Forty years later they look back and remember.

FIC BERG
Berg, Elizabeth. Joy school. 1st Ballantine pbk. ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 1998, c1997. Katie, still mourning the death of her much-loved mother, is further upset when she must leave her friends to move with her father to Missouri, but then she meets Jimmy, a handsome, decent, married man, and learns about the joys and pain of first love.

811 FLE
Fleischman, Paul. Joyful noise : poems for two voices. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c1988. A collection of poems describing the characteristics and activities of a variety of insects.

FIC WALKER
Walker, Margaret, 1915-. Jubilee. Boston, : Houghton Mifflin, 1966. The fortunes of a mulatto girl--as a slave during the Civil War and then as a woman freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.

FIC HARDY
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. Jude the obscure. New York : New American Library, [1980]. The story of Jude Fawley, an impoverished stonemason who aspires to the ministry and fails to fulfill the opposite expectations of the two women he loves in Victorian society.

FIC GULIK
Gulik, Robert Hans van, 1910-1967. Judge Dee at work : eight Chinese detective stories. University of Chicago Press ed. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992, c1967. Five auspicious clouds -- The red tape murder -- He came with the rain -- The murder on the Lotus Pond -- The two beggars -- The wrong sword -- The coffins of the emperor -- Murder on New Year's Eve. Presents eight short stories by Robert van Gulik--an authority on Chinese history and culture--in which seventh-century Chinese detective Judge Dee solves such crimes as "The Red Tape Murder" and "Murder on New Year's Eve.".

822.33 SHA
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Julius Caesar. New York : Bantam, 1988. Contains an introduction to the play, the text of the play, and notes.

FIC GORDIMER
Gordimer, Nadine. July's people. New York : Penguin Books, 1982, c1981. When war break out in South Africa, a fugitive white family takes refuge with their black servant, July.

SS GORDIMER
Gordimer, Nadine. Jump and other stories. 1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, c1991. Jump -- Once upon a time -- The ultimate safari -- A find -- My father leaves home -- Some are born to sweet delight -- Comrades -- Teraloyna -- The moment before the gun went off -- Home -- A journey -- Spoils -- Safe houses -- What were you dreaming? -- Keeping fit -- Amnesty. Sixteen short stories about subjects including family life, racist society, and political upheaval.

811 GLE
Glenn, Mel. Jump ball : a basketball season in poems. 1st ed. New York : Lodestar Books, c1997. Tells the story of a high school basketball team's season through a series of poems reflecting the feelings of students, their families, teachers, and coaches.

FIC SINCLAIR
Sinclair, Upton 1878-1968. The jungle. Rev. and updated bibliography. New York : Signet, [1990],c1905. The
horrifying conditions in the meatpacking industry in the early 1900's are revealed through the experiences of
Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkis as he tries to make a living working in the Chicago stockyards.

921 MATHABANE
Mathabane, Mark. Kaffir boy : the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa. New York : Simon, 1998,c1986. Depicts the author's life story growing up in the ghetto of Alexandra, South Africa under apartheid.

FIC BUTLER
Butler, Octavia E. Kindred. 25th anniversary ed. Boston : Beacon Press, [2003], c1979. A young African-American woman is mysteriously transfered back in time leading to an irresistable curiosity about her family's past.

FIC RENAULT
Renault, Mary, pseud. The king must die. [New York] : Pantheon, [1958]. Tells the story of a boy, Theseus, who must prove his manhood in a semibarbaric society.

921 CRUTCHER
Crutcher, Chris. King of the mild frontier : an ill-advised autobiography. 1st ed. New York : Greenwillow Books,
c2003. Chris Crutcher, author of young adult novels such as"Ironman" and "Whale Talk," as well as short stories, tells of growing up in Cascade, Idaho, and becoming a writer.

811 JOR
Jordan, June, 1936-. Kissing God goodbye : poems, 1991-1997. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, c1997. Collection of over forty poems written between 1991 and 1997 by the recipient of the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award and the PEN West Freedom to Write Award.

FIC TAN
Tan, Amy. The kitchen god's wife. New York : Putnam, c1991. Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years, but now that she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything.

FIC HOSSEINI
Hosseini, Khaled. The kite runner. New York : Riverhead Books, 2003. Amir, haunted by his betrayal of Hassan, the son of his father's servant and a childhood friend, returns to Kabul as an adult after he learns Hassan has been killed, in an attempt to redeem himself by rescuing Hassan's son from a life of slavery to a Taliban official.

910.091 HEY
Heyerdahl, Thor. Kon-Tiki : across the Pacific by raft. 35th anniversary ed. New York : Pocket Books, 1984,c1950. Describes the voyages of exploration made by Thor Heyerdahl and prove that a balsa wood raft could travel from Peru to Polynesia.

FIC TAYLOR
Taylor, Mildred D. The land. New York : Phyllis Fogelman Books, 2001. After the Civil War Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own.

809.387 Le G
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-. The language of the night : essays on fantasy and science fiction. New York : Putnam, c1979. A collection of twenty-four essays concerned with writing in general, the field of fantasy and science fiction, and with the author's own writing.

FIC CHAVEZ
Chávez, Denise. The last of the menu girls. 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 2004. Contains seven related fiction stories that focus on the life of Rocío Esquibel as she grows from girl to woman in a small southern New Mexico town.

FIC COOPER
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. The last of the Mohicans : a narrative of 1757. [Complete and unabridged]. New York : TOR, 1992. The classic story of the flight of a small group of Americans before the British and their Indian allies during the French and Indian war.

811.3 WHI
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of grass. Comprehensive reader's ed.,. [N. Y.] : Norton, [c1965].

FIC LE GUIN
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-. The left hand of darkness. 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, [1980] c1969. An official from an interplanetary federation is called in to arbitrate peace on a planet whose inhabitants are technically advanced, androgynous, and have telepathic powers.

FIC GAINES
Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-. A lesson before dying. 1st Vintage contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1994, c1993. Tells the story of a young African-American man sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit, and a teacher who tries to impart to him his learning and pride before the execution.

331.54 AGE
Agee, James, 1909-1955. Let us now praise famous men : three tenant families. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1988. Words and photographs describe the daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the American South.

FIC MARSDEN
Marsden, John, 1950-. Letters from the inside. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, [1996], c1991. The relationship between two teenage girls who become acquainted through letters intensifies as their correspondence reveals some of the terrible problems of their lives.

FIC COETZEE
Coetzee, J. M., 1940-. Life & times of Michael K. New York : Penguin, 1985. The adventures and misadventures of a young man unwillingly caught up in a war in South Africa.

811.54 ANG
Angelou, Maya. Life doesn't frighten me. New York : Stewart, Tabori & Chang : Distributed in the U.S. by Workman Pub., 1993. Presents Maya Angelou's brave, defiant poem on the theme of courage in everyday life.

FIC EASTON
Easton, Kelly. The life history of a star. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2002, c2001. For more than a year, fourteen-year-old Kristin uses her diary to record her confused thoughts about the physical changes brought on by adolescence and the emotional strain on her family of living with the "ghost" of her beloved older brother who was physically and mentally destroyed while serving in Vietnam.

FIC LAWRENCE
Lawrence, Iain, 1955-. The lightkeeper's daughter. New York : Delacorte Press, c2002. When, after a four-year absence, seventeen-year-old Squid returns to her childhood home on a remote lighthouse island off British Columbia with her young daughter in tow, she and her parents try to come to terms with each other and the painful events of the past, especially the death of her older brother.

FIC ESQUIVEL
Esquivel, Laura, 1950-. Like water for chocolate : a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies. New York : Doubleday, c1992. A romantic and poignant tale of love and family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico.

921 LINDBERGH
Berg, A. Scott. Lindbergh. New York : G.P. Putnam's, c1998. Chronicles the life of Charles Lindbergh and discusses his childhood, his influence and accomplishments in the aviation industry, his child's murder, and his work on creating an artificial heart.

FIC NEUFELD
Neufeld, John. Lisa, bright and dark : a novel. New York : Signet, [1970], c1969. As her parents and teachers refuse to recognize Lisa's increasingly severe depression, three of her friends devise a plan to help her with amateur psychiatry.

FIC WELLS
Wells, Rebecca. Little altars everywhere : a novel. 1st Cliff Street Books hardcover ed. New York : Cliff Street Books, 1998. The Walker clan, Vivi and Big Shep; their children Sidda, Little Shep, Lulu, and Baylor; Vivi's long-time girlfriends the Ya-Yas; and neighbors Cheney and Willetta, live out their lives in flamboyant and secretive style in the bayou of Thorton, Louisiana.

FIC SAINT-EXUPERY
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944. The little prince. New York : Harcourt, c1943. An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little man from a small planet, who describes his adventures in the universe, seeking the secret of what is really important in life.

FIC TYAU
Tyau, Kathleen. A little too much is enough. 1st ed. New York : W. W. Norton, 1996. Portrays the struggles of a young girl discovering herself amid a large and complicated family, set in and around Honolulu.

FIC ALCOTT
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. Little women. New York : Grosset& Dunlap, 1985, c1947. The classic story of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy in nineteenth-century New England.

574.84 THO
Thomas, Lewis, 1913-. The lives of a cell; : notes of a biology watcher. New York, : Viking Press, [1974]. Essays which appeared in the New England journal of medicine. His reflections and observations on man and nature, science and life, biology and life and on health and language.

FIC WITTLINGER
Wittlinger, Ellen. The long night of Leo and Bree. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2002. On the anniversary of his sister's murder, Leo, tormented by his mother's insane accusations and his own waking nightmares, kidnaps a wealthy girl intending to kill her, but instead their long night together helps them both face their futures.

921 HARRISON
Sobel, Dava. Longitude : the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time. New York : Penguin Books, 1996, c1995. Story of John Harrison's forty-year quest to build the chronometer, the clock that enabled sailors to measure longitude, saving lives and fortunes.

FIC WOLFE
Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938. Look homeward, Angel : a story of the buried life. New York : Scribner, c1957. Describes the coming of age of Eugene Gant and his passion to experience life.

FIC DONALDSON
Donaldson, Stephen R. Lord Foul's bane. New York : Ballantine Books, 1987, c1977. Thomas Covenant finds himself magically shunted to a mysterious world known as the Land, a world threatened by the evil intentions of Lord Foul the Despiser.

FIC GOLDING
Golding, William, 1911-. Lord of the flies : a novel. New York : Perigee, 1954. The classic allegory in which a group of children from a boys' school are stranded on an island and regress to primitive savagery in an example of collapsing social order.

FIC AZUELA
Azuela, Mariano, 1873-1952. Los de abajo : novela de la Revolución Mexicana. New York : Penguin Books, 1997. During the Mexican Revolution, Demetrio Macias is forced to side with the rebels so he can save his family, and while he is fighting in Pancho Villa's army, he realizes he is more violent than he thought possible.

FIC CARPENTIER
Carpentier, Alejo, 1904-. The lost steps. 1st University of Minnesota Press ed. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2001, c1956. Translation of a Spanish novel which describes the adventures of a New York City composer who flees the city with his mistress to the jungle of South America where he begins a search for primitive musical instruments and personal fulfillment.

FIC G
Garland, Sherry. The lotus seed. 1st Voyager Books ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1997, c1993. A young Vietnamese girl saves a lotus seed and carries it with her everywhere to remember a brave emperor and the homeland that she has to flee.

FIC CREECH
Creech, Sharon. Love that dog. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 2003, c2001. A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.

FIC SEBOLD
Sebold, Alice. The lovely bones : a novel. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown, 2002. Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon, the victim of a sexual assault and murder, looks on from the afterlife as her family deals with their grief, and waits for her killer to be brought to some type of justice.

346.15 SEB
Sebold, Alice. Lucky. 1st Back Bay pbk. ed. New York : Back Bay Books/Little, Brown, 2002, c1999. The author tells the story of her violent rape at the age of eighteen, her accidental sighting of her attacker six months later, the resulting trial and conviction of the man, and the trauma she suffered for years afterwards.

FIC MANN
Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955. The magic mountain. : Der Zauberberg. New York, : Knopf, 1953. The story of Hans Castorp, an unassuming young engineer who ponders the meaning of life, time, and love while being treated for tuberculosis in a sanatorium.

FIC SIMENON
Simenon, Georges, 1903-. Maigret and the apparition. 1st Harvest/HJB ed. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980 c1976. Chief Inspector Jules Maigret invades the highest echelons of the Parisian art world in his attempts to discover who tried to kill his colleague, plainclothes detective Lognon.

FIC LEWIS
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951. Main street. New York : Signet, 1998,[c1920]. A college-bred girl marries a small town doctor and tries to improve the inhabitants of the small town.

FIC HAMMETT
Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961. Maltese Falcon. Amereon Ltd, 2000. In San Francisco in 1928, Sam Spade searches for a priceless statuette. He finds himself torn between loyalty to his murdered partner and an opportunity for personal gain.

FIC NAYLOR
Naylor, Gloria. Mama Day. Vintage Contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 1993, c1988. Mama Day uses her ancient knowledge of herbal medicine and pits herself in mortal combat with dark forces that threaten the body and soul of her niece, Cocoa.

921 CHAMBERS
Chambers, Veronica. Mama's girl. 1st Riverhead trade paperback ed. New York : Riverhead Books, 1997. Memoir of the author's life growing up as an overachiever in an underpriviledged family, chronicling the blessed
relationship she forged with her mother after her father deserted the family.

FIC COMAN
Coman, Carolyn. Many stones. 1st ed. Asheville, NC : Front Street, 2000. After her sister Laura is murdered in South Africa, Berry and her estranged father travel there to participate in the dedication of a memorial in her name.

921 BOURKEWHITE
Rubin, Susan Goldman. Margaret Bourke-White : her pictures were her life. New York, N.Y. : Abrams, c1999.

FIC BRADBURY
Bradbury, Ray, 1920-. The Martian chronicles. Garden City, N.Y., : Doubleday, [1973, c1958]. The first Earth people to attempt the colonization of Mars try to build their new world in the image of the civilization they left behind.

822 FUG
Fugard, Athol. "Master Harold"-- and the boys. New York, N.Y. : Penguin, 1984. "Master Harold," or Hally, learns that his alcoholic father is to be released from the hospital and struggles with his emotions during a confrontation with the two black men who help in the family's restaurant in 1950s South Africa.

FIC PATERSON
Paterson, Katherine. The master puppeteer. New York : HarperTrophy, 1989,c1975. A thirteen-year-old boy describes the poverty and discontent of eighteenth century Osaka and the world of puppeteers in which he lives.

940.53 SPI
Spiegelman, Art. Maus I : a survivor's tale. New York : Pantheon Books, c1986. A memoir of Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his
story, and history. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice, Nazis as cats.

940.53 SPI
Spiegelman, Art. Maus II : a survivor's tale : and here my troubles began. New York : Pantheon Books, c1991. A
continuation of the story begun in the Pulitzer Prize winning "Maus," in which the author relates, in cartoon
form, his father's experiences as an inmate at Auschwitz during World War II.

FIC HARDY
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. The mayor of Casterbridge. Burnt Mill, Harlow, Essex, England : Longman, c1985. Michael Henchard, an unemployed farmhand, gets drunk and sells his wife and baby daughter. Years later, when he is the Mayor of Casterbridge, his past is brought back to haunt him, and he reverts to drinking.

FIC NORRIS
Norris, Frank, 1870-1902. McTeague : a story of San Francisco. New York : New American Library, c1981. In
turn-of-the-century San Francisco, McTeague opens a quack dental parlor. His wife's former suitor is jealous and
exposes his malpractice. After his wife's murder, McTeague escapes to the desert.

882 EUR
Euripides. Medea and other plays. London, England ; New York, N.Y., USA : Penguin Books, 1963. Medea -- Hecabe -- Electra -- Heracles.

FIC MCCULLERS
McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967. The member of the wedding. New York : Bantam, 1983, c1946. Fictional study of child psychology. Twelve-year-old Frankie is utterly bored until she hears about her older brother's wedding. He returns from Alaska to his Georgia, and Frankie decides she will go, uninvited, on the honeymoon.

FIC GOLDEN
Golden, Arthur, 1957-. Memoirs of a geisha : a novel. Vintage contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1999. Nitta Sayuri, a young Japanese woman who was taken from her home at the age of nine and sold into slavery as a geisha, discovers a rare opportunity for freedom when the outbreak of World War II forces an end to the only life she has ever known.

SS LEM
Lem, Stanis€law. Memoirs of a space traveler : further reminiscences of Ijon Tichy. Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2000. The eighteenth voyage -- The twenty-fourth voyage -- Further reminiscences of Ijon Tichy -- Doctor Diagoras -- Let us save the universe. Ijon Tichy, a space traveler, encounters several scientists hungry for knowledge and observes--at times taking part in--their bizarre, risky experiments.

FIC LIMON
Limón, Graciela. The memories of Ana Calderón : a novel. Houston, Tex. : Arte Público Press, 1994.

822.33 SHA
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. The merchant of Venice. New York, : Washington Square Press, [1969, c1957].

FIC KAFKA
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. The metamorphosis. Mattituck, N.Y. : Amereon Ltd., 1983. A young man wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a giant beetle-like insect. He becomes an object of disgrace to his family and an alienated man.

FIC JOHNSON
Johnson, Charles Richard, 1948-. Middle passage. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Plume, [1991]. In 1830, Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave leading a dissolute life in New Orleans, finds himself forced into marriage.

FIC MUKHERJEE
Mukherjee, Bharati. The middleman and other stories. 1st ed. New York : Grove Press, 1988. The middleman -- A wife's story -- Loose ends -- Orbiting -- Fighting for the rebound -- The tenant -- Fathering -- Jasmine -- Danny's girls -- Buried lives -- The management of grief.

FIC RUSHDIE
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's children. New York : Penguin Books, 1991. The story of Saleem Sinal, born precisely at midnight, August 15, 1947, the moment India became independent. Saleem's life parallels the history of his
nation.

822.33 SHA
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. A midsummer night's dream. Washington Square Press New Folger's ed. New York : Pocket, 1993. Presents the text of the play with explanatory notes, as well as an essay highlighting Shakespeare's life, language, and theater productions.

FIC BOHJALIAN
Bohjalian, Christopher A. Midwives : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Harmony Books, c1997. Cut off from the hospital and rescue squad by an ice storm, midwife Sibyl Danforth makes the decision to perform a cesarean section on a patient she believes has died of a stroke during labor, but when her assistant tells police the mother was alive during the surgery, Sibyl and the entire community are drawn into a gripping trial.

FIC NICHOLS
Nichols, John Treadwell, 1940-. The Milagro beanfield war,. [1st ed.]. New York, : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1974]. Thirty-six-year-old Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, sets off what comes to be known as the Milagro beanfield war when he illegally taps into the small town's main irrigation channel.

FIC SPINELLI
Spinelli, Jerry. Milkweed : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. A street child, known to himself only as Stopthief, finds community when he is taken in by a band of orphans in Warsaw ghetto which helps him weather the horrors of the Nazi regime.

FIC ELIOT
Eliot, George, 1819-1880. The mill on the floss. New York : New American Library, [c1981?]. Reveals the conflict of affection and antipathy between a brother and sister, and again in the family relations of their father. The tension rises to a climax in Maggie's yielding to an unworthy lover.

FIC FLEISCHMAN
Fleischman, Paul. Mind's eye. 1st ed. New York : Holt, 1999. A novel in play form in which sixteen-year-old Courtney, paralyzed in an accident, learns about the power of the mind from an elderly blind woman who takes Courtney on an imaginary journey to Italy using a 1910 guidebook.

FIC WOODSON
Woodson, Jacqueline. Miracle's boys. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2000. Twelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother Charlie changes after Charlie is released from a detention home and blames Lafayette for the death of their mother.

FIC HUGO
Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885. Les miserables. New York : Dodd Mead, n.d. In early 19th-century France, a reformed ex-criminal finds himself threatened by people and events of his past.

FIC BLOCK
Block, Francesca Lia. Missing Angel Juan. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York, NY : HarperTrophy, 1995, c1993. Witch Baby follows Angel Juan to New York City and meets the ghost of her almost grandfather Charlie Bat.

FIC BRADLEY
Bradley, Marion Zimmer. The mists of Avalon. 1st Ballantine Books hardcover ed. New York : Ballantine Pub. Group, 2000. A re-creation of the Arthurian following the clash between Christianity and paganism that led to the demise of Camelot.

FIC MELVILLE
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick; or, The white whale. New York : Bantam, 1982, c1958. Captain Ahab's
determination to find and kill the great white whale becomes an obsession driving him to disaster.

FIC DEFOE
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Moll Flanders. New York : Knopf, c1991. Follows the heroine's adventures from
seventeenth-century England to the American colonies.

FIC FLAKE
Flake, Sharon. Money hungry. 1st ed. New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books For Children, c2001. All
thirteen-year-old Raspberry can think of is making money so that she and her mother never have to worry about living on the streets again.

FIC ABBEY
Abbey, Edward, 1927-. The Monkey wrench gang. New York : Avon, c1985. Throughout the American West, nature is being victimized by dams, bridges, and concrete. A motley quartet of individualists has decided that enough is enough. A burnt-out veteran, a mad doctor, a sexy revolutionary, and a polygamist outdoorsman have joined forces to dismantle the machinery of progress through peaceful means or otherwise.

FIC MYERS
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. Monster. New York : HarperCollins, 1999. While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

FIC PETERS
Peters, Ellis, 1913-. A morbid taste for bones. New York : Mysterious Press, 1994, c1977. In medieval times, an English prior becomes involved in a mystery when he leads a delegation into Wales to acquire the bones of Saint Winifred.

FIC VIJAYARAGHAVAN
Vijayaraghavan, Vineeta, 1972-. Motherland : a novel. New York : Soho Press, c2001. Fifteen-year-old Maya learns the cause of the rift she feels between her and her mother and is finally able to come to terms with her divided loyalties when she leaves New York to spend the summer with her grandmother in southern India, the land of her birth.

822 CHR
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. The mousetrap and other plays. New York : Signet, [2000]. Ten little indians -- Appointment with death -- The hollow -- The mousetrap -- Witness for the prosecution --Towards zero -- Verdict -- Go back for murder. Contains eight plays of murder and mayhem, including the title work in which a homicidal maniac terrorizes a group of people who are snowbound at Monkswell Manor.

921 HOCKENBERRY
Hockenberry, John. Moving violations : war zones, wheelchairs, and declarations of independence. 1st Paperback ed. New York : Hyperion, c1995. The memoir of a paraplegic journalist, describing his experiences as a reporter for National Public Radio in exotic locations, and the challenges of living in a wheelchair.

822.33 SHA
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Much ado about nothing. London, England ; New York, N.Y., USA : Penguin Books, 1968.

812.5 ELI
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. Murder in the cathedral,. New York, : Harcourt, Brace and company,
[c1935]. A drama of the conflict between church and state in 12th century England culminates in the murder of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.

FIC SAYERS
Sayers, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh), 1893-1957. Murder must advertise. New York : Harper & Row, [1986], c1983. Lord Peter Wimsey is called to a London advertising agency after an employee takes a fatal tumble down the stairs, and soon he finds himself investigating a bizarre series of murders involving cocaine, sex, and blackmail.

FIC CATHER
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. My Antonia. Boston, MA : Houghton, 1995,c1918. A Bohemian immigrant girl comes with her family to Nebraska and becomes Americanized.

921 PAULSEN
Paulsen, Gary. My life in dog years. New York, N.Y. : Delacorte Press, c1998. The author describes some of the dogs that have had special places in his life, including his first dog, Snowball, in the Phillippines; Dirk, who protected him from bullies; and Cookie, who saved his life.

921 ANDERSON
Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993. My Lord, what a morning; : an autobiography. New York, : Viking Press, 1956. The American opera contralto discusses her life and struggle to become America's first African-American opera star.

921 CLEARY
Cleary, Beverly. My own two feet : a memoir. New York : Morrow Junior Books, c1995. Follows the popular children's author through college years during the Depression; jobs including that of librarian; marriage; and writing and publication of her first book, "Henry Huggins.".

FIC FOX
Fox, Laurie Anne. My sister from the Black Lagoon : a novel of my life. 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1999, c1998. Lorna Person grows up unintentionally neglected in the shadow cast by her crazy sister, and it is not until she grows older that she finally gets the attention she needs when she takes to the stage.

FIC GORDIMER
Gordimer, Nadine. My son's story. 1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, c1990. A schoolboy playing truant bumps into his revered father coming out of a cinema with a woman.

290 HAM
Hamilton, Edith, 1867-1963. Mythology. Boston, : Little, Brown, 1942. A collection of Greek and Roman myths from various classical sources arranged in section on the gods and early heroes, love and adventure stories, heroes before and during the Trojan War, and lesser myths. Includes a brief section on Norse mythology.

921 GIBSON
Gibson, Aliona L. Nappy : growing up Black and female in America. New York : Published for Harlem River Press by Writers and Readers Publishing, c1995. A memoir in which Aliona Gibson discusses the challeges she faced growing up as an African-American female in the United States, touching on issues of self-acceptance and identity, standards of beauty, body-image, and education.

FIC HESSE
Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962. Narcissus and Goldmund. New York : Noonday Press, [1998], c1968. Two medieval men, the best of friends, live two very different lives. One is quietly content with his religion and monastic life, the other searches for world salvation.

921 DOUGLASS
Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895. Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an american slave. New York : New American Library, 1968.

FIC WRIGHT
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. Native son. New York : Perennial Library, 1989,c1940. Presents the story of Bigger Thomas, a Black man brutalized and depraved beyond ordinary humanity.

FIC MALAMUD
Malamud, Bernard. The natural. [1st ed.]. New York, : Harcourt, Brace, [1952]. Now an American baseball hero and
a winner after a dark period, Roy finds the woman he thought he had lost. But he is up against corrupters, seducers, and glory destroyers. And he has to win the toughtest game of his life.

FIC MARKANDAYA
Markandaya, Kamala, 1924-. Nectar in a sieve : a novel. New York : Signet, c1995. Tells of a simple peasant woman in a primitive village in India whose whole life was a gallant and persistent battle to care for those she loved.

FIC GIBSON
Gibson, William, 1948-. Neuromancer. Ace trade ed. New York : Ace Books, 2000, c1988. Case, a nerve-damaged data thief, is recruited by a new employer for a last-chance run against a powerful artificial intelligence.

599.744 MOW
Mowat, Farley. Never cry wolf. [1st American ed.]. Boston, : Little, Brown, [1963]. Describes an Arctic summer spent watching and tracking the activities of a wolf family.

305.569 EHR
Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America. 1st ed. New York : Metropolitan Books, 2001. Author Barbara Ehrenreich relates her experiences from 1998 to 2000, during which time joined the ranks of the working poor as a waitress, hotel housekeeper, cleaning woman, nursing home aide, and Wal-Mart clerk to see for herself how America's "unskilled" workers are able to survive on only $6 or $7 an hour.

940.531 WIE
Wiesel, Elie, 1928-. Night. 25th anniversary ed. New York : Bantam, 1986. A Jewish boy loses his entire family because of Nazi atrocities.

FIC SAINT EXUPERY
Saint Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944. Night flight. New York, : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1974, c1932].

910.45 LOR
Lord, Walter, 1917-. A night to remember. Bantam ed. New York : Bantam, 1956, c1955. The story of the "unsinkable" Titanic which went down with 1,503 men, women, and children aboard.

FIC FRIEDMAN
Friedman, Carl. Nightfather. New York : Persea Books, [1995]. The young daughter of a Holocaust survivor tells of the efforts she and her brothers make to try to bridge the gulf between themselves and their father that has been formed by his camp experiences.

FIC OE
›Oe, Kenzabur›o, 1935-. Nip the buds, shoot the kids. London ; New York : Marion Boyars, 1995. Recounts the exploits of fifteen teenage reformatory boys who are put in a remote mountain village during wartime.

FIC MONFREDO
Monfredo, Miriam Grace. North star conspiracy. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1993. In 1854, while the rest of Seneca Falls, New York, gears up for the opening of a new theater, librarian/sleuth/women's rights activist Glynis Tryon investigates the death of a freed slave and discovers shocking secrets about several abolitionists.

FIC DONNELLY
Donnelly, Jennifer. A northern light. Orlando : Harcourt, Inc., c2003. In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.

FIC AVI
Avi, 1937-. Nothing but the truth : a documentary novel. New York : Orchard Books, c1991. A ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story.

FIC DUONG
Duong, Thu Huong. Novel without a name. 1st ed. New York, NY : W. Morrow, 1995. Depicts, through the eyes of a disillusioned North Vietnamese soldier, the harrowing deprivation and suffering endured by the Vietnamese in the final years of the war.

FIC KOGAWA
Kogawa, Joy. Obasan. 1st U.S. ed. Boston : D.R. Godine, 1982, c1981. Naomi Nakane, a child of Japanese immigrant parents, is interned by the Canadians at the beginning of World War II when she is five years old.

921 HICKAM
Hickam, Homer H., 1943-. October sky. New York : Dell/Island Books, 1999, c1998. Homer Hickam, the introspective son of a mine superintendent and a mother determined to get him out of Coalwood, West Virginia forever, nurtures a dream to send rockets into outer space--an ambition that changes his life and the lives of everyone living in Coalwood in 1957.

883 HOM
Homer. The odyssey : the story of Odysseus. New York, N.Y : Penguin, c1937. A prose translation of the epic poem, recounting the story of Odysseus's journey home after the Trojan War.

FIC STEINBECK
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. Of mice and men. New York, : Covici-Friede, [c1937]. Sustained by the hope of someday owning a farm of their own, two migrant laborers arrive to work on a ranch in central California.

FIC FUENTES
Fuentes, Carlos. The old gringo. 1st Perennial Library ed. New York : Perennial Library, 1986, c1985. A fictional account of what happened to American journalist Ambrose Bierce when he disappeared in Mexico during the civil war there.

FIC SHUTE
Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960. On the beach. New York, : Ballantine, 1957. A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an inevitable end as radiation poisoning moves toward Australia from the North.

FIC KEROUAC
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. On the road. New York : Penguin, 1976. Chronicles the way of life of the beat generation as Dean Moriarty speeds across America.

813.54 KIN
King, Stephen, 1947-. On writing : a memoir of the craft. New York : Scribner, c2000. Stephen King reflects on how his writing has helped him through difficult times and describes various aspects of the art of writing.

FIC SOLZHENITSYN
Solzheniˆt‰syn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-. One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich. 2nd rev. and expanded ed. New York : Signet Classic, [1993]. Recounts the experiences of Shukhov, a prisoner at a Soviet work camp in Siberia, as he struggles for survival.

FIC KESEY
Kesey, Ken. One flew over the cuckoo's nest. New York : New American Library, 1962. Hate, violence, and death climax the struggle for power between a patient in a mental institution and the head nurse.

FIC GARCIA MARQUEZ
García Márquez, Gabriel, 1928-. One hundred years of solitude. [1st ed.]. New York : Harper & Row, [1970]. The rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family.

821 HEA
Heaney, Seamus. Opened ground : selected poems, 1966-1996. 1st Farrar, Straus and Giroux pbk. ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999, c1998. Includes indexes Presents a selection of over two hundred poems by Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney, drawn from throughout his career, from 1966 through 1996.

882 AES
Aeschylus. The Oresteia. New York : Alfred A Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004. Agamemnon -- Choephoroe -- Eumenides. Presents an English translation of the ancient Greek trilogy which traces the chain of murder and revenge within the royal house of Artreus.

822.33 SHA
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello. New York : Bantam Books, 1988. Presents the text of the play, accompanied by explanatory notes, an introduction to Shakespeare's life and theater, and a look at how the play has been staged.

FIC LESTER
Lester, Julius. Othello : a novel. New York : Scholastic, [1998], c1995. A prose retelling of Shakespeare's play in
which a jealous general is duped into thinking that his wife has been unfaithful, with tragic consequences.

FIC NAIDOO
Naidoo, Beverley. The other side of truth. 1st U.S. ed. New York : HarperCollins, 2001. Smuggled out of Nigeria after their mother's murder, Sade and her younger brother are abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the airport and they are fearful of their new surroundings and of what may have happened to their journalist father back in Nigeria.

940.53 FRI
Friedman, Ina R. The other victims : first-person stories of non-Jews persecuted by the Nazis. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1990. Personal narratives of Christians, Gypsies, deaf people, and blacks who suffered at the hands of the Nazis before and during World War II.

812.5 WIL
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975. Our town, a play in three acts. 1st Perennial library ed. New York : Harper & Row, 1985, c1957. A play in three acts portraying life in Grover's Corner, New Hampshire, in the early 1900's through the routine daily events and the major moments in the lives of George Gibbs, Emily Webb, and their families; and how their lives, although mundane, are touched by the universal forces of love, despair, apathy, nature, and death.

FIC HESSE
Hesse, Karen. Out of the dust. Apple Signature ed. New York : Scholastic, 1999. In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.

FIC HINTON
Hinton, S. E. The outsiders. New York : Viking Press, 1967. The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.

FIC DOYLE
Doyle, Roddy, 1958-. Paddy Clarke, ha ha ha. New York : Penguin Books, 1995. It is 1968 and a ten-year-old boy growing up in Dublin faces the triumphs, indignities, warmth, and cruelty of his world, and tries to make sense of it all.

FIC OZICK
Ozick, Cynthia. The pagan rabbi, and other stories. 1st Syracuse University Press ed. Syracuse, NY : Syracuse
University Press, 1995. The pagan rabbi -- Envy; or, Yiddish in America -- The suitcase -- The dock-witch -- The doctor's wife -- The butterfly and the traffic light -- Virility. A collection of seven short fiction stories by award-winning American author Cynthia Ozick.

FIC BUTLER
Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the sower. Warner Books ed. New York : Warner Books, [2000], c1993. The odyssey of a sensitive young woman in a world that has become almost completely dehumanized. Set in California in the years 2024 through 2027.

821.4 MIL
Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost, : and Paradise regained. New York, : New American Library, [1968].

FIC DUONG
Duong, Thu Huong. Paradise of the blind. New York : Morrow, c1993. Portrays three women fighting to maintain their dignity in a society that expects ever greater sacrifices from them.

FIC MARTINEZ
Martinez, Victor, 1954-. Parrot in the oven : mi vida : a novel. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 1998. Manny relates his coming of age experiences as a member of a poor Mexican American family in which the alcoholic father only adds to everyone's struggle.

109 SOL
Solomon, Robert C. A passion for wisdom : a very brief history of philosophy. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997. Tells the story of the development of philosophy through the ages, from ancient religious beliefs to the feminist and multicultural ideologies of the late twentieth century, and highlights some of the major philosophers and schools of thought.

921 ALLENDE
Allende, Isabel. Paula. 1st HarperPerennial ed. New York, NY : HarperPerennial, 1996, c1995. The autobiography of Isabel Allende written for her daughter, Paula, who has slipped into a coma.

FIC STEINBECK
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. The pearl. New York : Penguin, 1992,c1945. The story of a poor pearl fisherman and his family, and how their lives are forever changed by discovering a giant pearl.

362.1 WIN
Winick, Judd. Pedro and me : friendship, loss, and what I learned. 1st ed. New York : H. Holt, c2000. In graphic
art format, describes the friendship between two roommates on the MTV show "Real World," one of whom died of AIDS.

974.4 JUN
Junger, Sebastian. The perfect storm : a true story of men against the sea. New York : HarperPaperbacks, [1998]. Uses interviews, memoirs, radio conversations, and technical research to recreate the last days of the crew of the Andrea Gail, a fishing boat that was lost in a storm off the coast of Nova Scotia in October 1991.

FIC DICKENS
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. The personal history of David Copperfield. Peterborough, Ont. ; Orchard Park, NY :
Broadview Press, c2001. An illustrated, two-column-format nineteenth-century facsimile reprint of Charles Dickens's "David Copperfield," which traces an Englishman's lessons in love, betrayal, loyalty, and forgiveness from birth to fatherhood.

FIC KINGSOLVER
Kingsolver, Barbara. Pigs in heaven : a novel. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c1993. Six-year-old Turtle Green
witnesses a freak accident drawing her and her mother into a conflict of historic proportions.

500.975 DIL
Dillard, Annie. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. 1st Perennial Library ed. New York : Harper & Row, 1985, c1974. Observations of nature around Tinker Creek in a valley in Virginia's Blue Ridge mountains.

FIC REES
Rees, Celia. Pirates! : the true and remarkable adventures of Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kington, female pirates. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury, 2003. In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.

FIC BENITEZ
Benítez, Sandra, 1941-. A place where the sea remembers : a novel. Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 1993. Chayo and her husband Candelario, living in the small village of Santiago, Mexico, finally may be blessed with the child they thought they would never have.

FIC CAMUS
Camus, Albert, 1913-1960. The plague. 1st Vintage international ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1991. A coastal town in North Africa, the plague begins as a series of portents, unheeded by the people. It gradually becomes an omnipresent reality, obliterating all traces of the past and driving its victims to almost unearthly extremes of suffering, madness, and compassion.

FIC JIMENEZ
Jimenez, Juan Ramon, 1881-1958. Platero and I. Austin : University of Texas Press, 1983, c1957. A portrait of life in a remote Andalusian village in which two companions, donkey and poet, travel about speaking the things that touch them.

FIC BARRIO
Barrio, Raymond. The plum plum pickers. 2nd ed. Binghamton, N.Y. : Bilingual Press, c1971. This social and proletarian novel skillfully creates the agricultural milieu lived in but not shared by greedy landowners, company executives, groveling foremen, and oppressed stoop laborers.

897 FLO
Poems of the Aztec peoples. Ypsilanti, Mich. : Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, c1983. A collection of poems translated into English from pre-Columbian Nahuatl text; includes information about the poetic tradition and the Aztec people.

809.1 HAS
Hass, Robert. Poet's choice : poems for everyday life. 1st ed. Hopewell, N.J. : Ecco Press, 1998. A collection of poems selected by Robert Hass during his tenure as U.S. Poet Laureate to appear in a syndicated newspaper column designed to introduce a poem a week to readers across the country.

FIC JAMES
James, Henry, 1843-1916. The portrait of a lady. 2nd Modern Library ed., New York ed. New York : Modern Library, 1983, c1966. Explores the perilous allure of the older European civilization and its impact on the American character through the person of Isabel Archer.

FIC JOYCE
Joyce, James, 1882-1941. A portrait of the artist as a young man. New York : Knopf, c1991. An autobiographical novel depicting the childhood, adolescence, and early manhood of Stephen Dedalus.

FIC CHAMBERS
Chambers, Aidan. Postcards from no man's land. 1st American ed. New York : Dutton Books, 2002. Alternates between two stories--contemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation.

FIC IRVING
Irving, John, 1942-. A prayer for Owen Meany : a novel. New York : Ballantine, 1990,c1989. A story of friendship through adversity, faith and destiny, and the search for God.

FIC AUSTEN
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Pride and prejudice. New York : TOR, 1994. The classic story set in Great Britain in which the parents of five daughters cope with the problem of finding husbands suitable for them to marry.

FIC CLEMENS
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. The prince and the pauper. New York : Grosset & Dunlap, 1965. When young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns something about the other's very different station in life.

FIC CONROY
Conroy, Pat. The prince of tides. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1986. Tom Wingo is a high school football coach whose marriage and career are crumbling. He flies to New York after learning of his twin sister's suicide attempt. He realizes that while trying to save her, this may be his last chance to save himself as well.

FIC GOLDMAN
Goldman, William, 1931-. The princess bride: S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure. New York, : Ballantine, [1973]. The most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince in the world.

923.273 KEN
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. Profiles in courage. [Memorial ed.]. New York, : Harper & Row,
[c1964].

FIC POTOK
Potok, Chaim. The promise. [1st ed.]. New York, : Knopf, 1969. Sequel to: "The chosen." Danny Saunders and Reuven Malter now separated by occupation and personal involvements, are brought together by Michael Gordon, an adolescent heading for a breakdown.

FIC KONIGSBURG
Konigsburg, E. L. A proud taste for scarlet and miniver. [1st ed.]. New York, : Atheneum, 1973. While waiting in heaven for divine judgement to be passed on her second husband, Eleanor of Aquitaine and three of the people who knew her well recall the events of her life.

FIC GREENE
Greene, Graham, 1904-. The quiet American. New York : Penguin, 1977, c1973. An eager young American channels economic aid to a "third force", but when a British journalist intervenes his motives are suspect because the American took his Vietnamese mistress away from him.

FIC CORMIER
Cormier, Robert. The rag and bone shop : a novel. New York : Delacorte Press, 2001. Trent, an ace interrogator from Vermont, works to procure a confession from an introverted twelve-year-old accused of murdering his seven-year-old friend in Monument, Massachusetts.

921 VILLASENOR
Villaseñor, Victor. Rain of gold. New York : Dell, c1991. Weaves the parallel stories of two Mexican-American families and two countries. Describes the volatile bootlegger who would become the author's father and the beautiful Lupe, his mother.

FIC REYNOLDS
Reynolds, Sheri. The rapture of Canaan. Berkley trade pbk. ed. New York : Berkley Books, 1997. Explores the experience of miracles in everyday life through the eyes of a fourteen-year-old girl, the granddaughter of a
fundamentalist minister.

821 RAT
The rattle bag. London ; Boston : Faber and Faber, 1982. A collection of more than 400 hundred poems from all around the world.

FIC CLAIR
Clair, Maxine, 1939-. Rattlebone. New York : Penguin, 1994. Stories of the citizens of Rattlebone, a "fictional" black community north of Kansas City in the 1950s.

FIC DU MAURIER
Du Maurier, Daphne, Dame, 1907-. Rebecca. New York : Avon, [1994],c1938. In an isolated stone mansion the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter becomes interested in the life of her predecessor, the beautiful, mysterious Rebecca.

FIC GULIK
Gulik, Robert Hans van, 1910-1967. The red pavilion : a Judge Dee mystery. University of Chicago Press ed. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994, c1961. A novel by Robert van Gulik, an authority on Chinese history and culture, in which seventh-century Chinese detective Judge Dee enters the sordid underworld of prostitution to investigate three deaths.

921 JIANG
Jiang, Ji-li. Red scarf girl : a memoir of the Cultural Revolution. New York : HarperCollins, 1997. Ji-li Jiang
recounts her experiences growing up under Chairman Mao's New China and then the dramatic changes which occurred to her and her family during the Cultural Revolution.

FIC BRADFORD
Bradford, Richard, 1932-. Red sky at morning : a novel. [1st ed.]. Philadelphia : Lippincott, [1968]. The experiences of a teenager growing up in a small town in New Mexico are, at various times, funny, sad, and poignant.

FIC BARKER
Barker, Pat. Regeneration. New York : Plume, c1991. In 1917, Siegfried Sassoon, a combat officer and poet, writes a letter publicly disavowing the war. He is found to be "mentally unsound" and is sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital, where there is a psychiatrist renowned for curing such cases.

FIC ISHIGURO
Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-. The remains of the day. 1st Vintage international ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1990. A
profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world in postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving "a great gentleman.".

921 LANGE
Partridge, Elizabeth. Restless spirit : the life and work of Dorothea Lange. New York : Viking, 1998. A biography of Dorothea Lange, whose photographs of migrant workers, Japanese American internees, and rural poverty helped bring about important social reforms.

629.1 WOL
Wolfe, Tom. The right stuff. New York : Farrar, c1979. Discusses the lives, ambitions, thoughts, and feelings of
American astronauts before, during, and after their historic flights.

821 COL
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. The rime of the ancient mariner and other poems. New York : Dover Publications, Inc., 1992. Contains the title work in which a sailor tells about the terrible fate that befell his ship after he killed an albatross, and features twenty other works by the Romantic era poet, including "Kubla Khan," "Christabel," and a selection of sonnets, lyrics, and odes.

FIC PECK
Peck, Richard, 1934-. The river between us. New York : Dial Books, c2003. During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.

921 KHERDIAN
Kherdian, David. The road from home : the story of an Armenian girl. 1st ed. New York : Greenwillow Books, c1979. A biography of the author's mother concentrating on her childhood in Turkey before the Turkish government deported its Armenian population.

FIC SUTCLIFF
Sutcliff, Rosemary. The road to Camlann. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Puffin Books, 1994, c1981. The evil Mordred, plotting against his father King Arthur, implicates the Queen and Sir Lancelot in treachery and brings about the downfall of Camelot and the Round Table.

FIC DEFOE
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Robinson Crusoe. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1993. As the sole survivor of a shipwreck, an Englishman lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.

822.33 SHA
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Romeo and Juliet. Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1988. Two lovers are destroyed by the hatred of their families for one another.

929.209 HAL
Haley, Alex. Roots : the saga of an American family. N.Y. : Gramercy Books, 2000, c1976. A black American traces his family's origins back to the African who was brought to America as a slave in 1767.

FIC DICKINSON
Dickinson, Peter, 1927-. The ropemaker. New York : Delacorte Press, 2001. When the magic that protects their Valley starts to fail, Tilja and her companions journey into the evil Empire to find the ancient magician Faheel, who
originally cast those spells.

FIC ABE
Abe, Kobo. The Ruined Map. Vintage Books, 2001. Mr. Nemuro, head of sales for Dainen Enterprises, has disappeared. In fact, he disappeared over half a year ago, but only now has his young wife hired a private eye to find him. The only clues the nameless detective has to go on are a photograph, a matchbox, and the sparse facts offered by Nemuro's alluring though alcoholic wife and his slippery brother-in-law.

FIC BANKS
Banks, Russell, 1940-. Rule of the bone : a novel. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c1995. The story of a troubled
14-year-old boy who, upon leaving an abusive homelife, lives on the edge of society, struggling to find himself.

FIC BAUER
Bauer, Joan. Rules of the road. New York : Putnam, 1998. Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father.

FIC BEN JELLOUN
Ben Jelloun, Tahar, 1944-. The sacred night. Johns Hopkins Paperbacks ed. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Tells of the adult life of Zahra, flower of flowers, who was once Ahmed.

FIC MISHIMA
Mishima, Yukio, 1925-1970. The sailor who fell from grace with the sea. New York : Knopf, 1965,. English translation of a Japanese novel tells of Noboru, a thirteen-year-old boy who becomes involved with a gang of savage youths who turn their deadly attentions on Noboru's prospective stepfather.

FIC HAWTHORNE
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. The scarlet letter. Bantam, 1986. The young and beautiful Hester Prynne is condemned as an adultress by the Puritan community where she lives. She is rejected by her lover and perscuted by her husband.

FIC KENEALLY
Keneally, Thomas. Schindler's list. New York : Simon and Schuster, c1982. The story of a man who took incredible
risks and spent his considerable fortune to build a factory camp to protect Jews in World War II Germany.

FIC EMECHETA
Emecheta, Buchi. Second-class citizen. New York : G. Braziller, 1983, c1974. The poignant story of a resourceful Nigerian woman who overcomes strict tribal domination of women and countless setbacks to achieve an independent life for herself and her children.

FIC CONRAD
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. The secret agent : a simple tale. New York : Signet Classic, [1983]. In turn-of-the-century London, an undercover, counter-revolutionary mole provokes a radical group he has penetrated into an act of violence that will bring about its own destruction.

500 BOD
Bodanis, David. The secret house : 24 hours in the strange and unexpected world in which we spend our nights and days. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1986. Eighty photographs, employing sophisticated photographic techniques, reveal the true physical nature of the contents of a home.

FIC KIDD
Kidd, Sue Monk. The secret life of bees. New York : Penguin, 2002. Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared for Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.

FIC FLEISCHMAN
Fleischman, Paul. Seek. 1st ed. Chicago : Cricket Books, 2001. Rob becomes obsessed with searching the airwaves for his long-gone father, a radio announcer.

FIC BELLOW
Bellow, Saul. Seize the day. New York : Penguin Books, 2003, c1996. A portrait of one day in the life of Tommy Wilhelm, a man on the brink of despair. A novel about one day in the life of a middle-aged New Yorker struggling to make sense of his failures, atone for his sins, and understand how to truly "live in the moment.".

818.3 EME
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. Selected essays, lectures, and poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson. New York, : Washington Square Press, [1965].

821.7 WOR
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. Selected poems. New York : Avenel, N.J. : Gramercy Books ; Distributed by Outlet Book Co., 1993.

861 NER
Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973. Selected poems. Bilingual ed. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1990], c1970. A collection of more than one hundred poems by twentieth-century Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, written between 1924 and 1967; presented in Spanish with English translations on facing pages.

FIC MONFREDO
Monfredo, Miriam Grace. Seneca Falls inheritance. New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 1994, c1992. The small town of Seneca Falls, New York, has become the setting for the Women's Rights Convention of 1848. Town librarian Glynis Tryon, who has chosen a life of independence over marriage and family, has agreed to help organize the event. She expected there would be controversy and opposition from the community, but she didn't expect murder.

FIC AUSTEN
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Sense and sensibility. New York : Oxford, 1991. Two sisters of opposing temperments share the pangs of tragic love. Their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between the two sisters, and true love finally triumphs.

FIC CARD
Card, Orson Scott. Seventh son. New York, N.Y. : T. Doherty Associate, c1987. In an alternate frontier America, Alvin, the seventh son of a seventh son is born. Such a boy is destined to become something great, perhaps even a Maker.

821.3 SHA
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Shakespeare's sonnets. New York : Gramercy Books, 1991. Contains the sonnets, information about Shakespeare, and explanatory notes.

FIC SCHAEFER
Schaefer, Jack, 1907-. Shane. New York : Bantam, 1950,c1949. A stranger rides into a small Western town in 1889 and creates a lasting impact on its inhabitants, especially on young Bob Starrett and his family.

FIC GILES
Giles, Gail. Shattering Glass. 1 st ed. Brookfield, Ct. : Roaring Brook Press, 2002. When Rob, the charismatic leader of the senior class, turns the school nerd into Prince Charming, his actions lead to unexpected violence.

FIC WILLIAMS
Williams, Lori Aurelia. Shayla's double brown baby blues. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2003, c2001. Thirteen-year-old Shayla is upset when her estranged father's new baby is born on her birthday, but she learns that her problems are nothing compared to those faced by her friends Kambia and Lemm.

FIC LAMB
Lamb, Wally. She's come undone : a novel. New York : Pocket Books, c1992. A series of tragedies, including the death of her baby brother, her parent's divorce, her mother's nervous breakdown, and her own rape at the age of thirteen, leaves Dolores Price wounded both mentally and physically, but she miraculously finds the strength to give herself one more chance at life and love.

FIC MORI
Mori, Kyoko. Shizuko's daughter. 1st ed. New York : H. Holt, c1993. After her mother's suicide when she is twelve years old, Yuki spends years living with her distant father and his resentful new wife, cut off from her mother's family, and relying on her own inner strength to cope with the tragedy.

FIC MYERS
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. Shooter. 1st Harper Tempest ed. New York : HarperTempest, 2005, c2004. Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal entries, the story of three troubled teenagers ends in a tragic school shooting.

FIC HESSE
Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962. Siddhartha. New York : New Directions, [199-?], c1951. A moral allegory, set in
ancient India, about one soul's quest for the ultimate answer to the enigma of man's role in this world. The hero,
Siddhartha, undergoes a series of experiences to emerge in a state of peace and wisdom.

FIC ELIOT
Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Silas Marner. New York : Bantam, 1981. Falsely accused of theft, Silas Marner retreats to a lonely life until an abandoned child comes into his life.

FIC PARK
Park, Linda Sue. A single shard. New York : Dell Yearling, [2003], c2001. Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in
medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon
ceramics himself.

FIC DREISER
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945. Sister Carrie. Special centennial ed. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Signet Classic, [2000]. The story of a young woman from Wisconsin who goes to Chicago, becomes an actress, marries and goes to New York, and when her husband loses his job, goes onstage again.

530 FEY
Feynman, Richard Phillips. Six easy pieces : essentials of physics explained by its most brilliant teacher. Reading,
Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub., 1996, c1995. A collection of essays and lectures in which Richard Phillips Feynman examines Albert Einstein's key theories of relativity, symmetry, and space-time.

FIC VONNEGUT
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death. 25th anniversary ed. New York, N.Y. : Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1994. A fourth-generation German-American is tortured by his memories of the firebombing of Dresden in 1944 which he witnessed while a prisoner of war.

FIC HOEG
Høeg, Peter, 1957-. Smilla's sense of snow. New York : Delta Trade Paperbacks, [1995], c1993. Smilla Qaavigaaq Jaspersen investigates the mysterious death of a six year old Inuit neighbor in Copenhagen.

FIC GUTERSON
Guterson, David. Snow falling on cedars. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1994. When a newspaper journalist covers the trial of a Japanese American accused of murder, he must come to terms with his own past.

FIC WULFFSON
Wulffson, Don L. Soldier X. New York : Viking, 2001. In 1943 sixteen-year-old Erik experiences the horrors of war when he is drafted into the German army and sent to fight on the Russian front.

FIC PAULSEN
Paulsen, Gary. Soldier's heart : being the story of the enlistment and due service of the boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers : a novel of the Civil War. New York : Delacorte Press, c1998. Eager to enlist,
fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart after experiencing both the physical horrors and mental anguish of
Civil War combat.

FIC BRADBURY
Bradbury, Ray, 1920-. Something wicked this way comes. Toronto ; New York : Bantam, 1985, c1962. Two boys, best friends in a small midwestern town, finally come to understand that of all the terrors threatening them from Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show the greatest menace exists within themselves.

FIC KESEY
Kesey, Ken. Sometimes a great notion : a novel. New York : Penguin Books, 1988, c1964. A powerful tale of an Oregon logging clan and a bitter strike in a small lumber town along the Oregon coast.

FIC MORRISON
Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. New York : Knopf, 1977. Follows the life of Macon Dead, Jr., the son of the richest black family in a midwestern town, as he leaves home on a quest for personal freedom.

FIC LIMON
Limón, Graciela. Song of the hummingbird. Houston, Tex. : Arte Público Press, 1996. From Aztec princess to slave and concubine, Huitzitzilin recounts her life during the Spanish conquest of Mexico. As she relates her tale to Father Benito, she forces him to see the conquest through the eyes of the conquered.

FIC CATHER
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. The song of the lark. 1st Vintage classics ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1999. Thea
Kronborg, a minister's daughter in a provincial Colorado town, seems destined from childhood for a place in the wider world. But as her path to the world stage leads her ever farther from the humble town she can't forget and from the man she can't afford to love, Thea learns that her exceptional musical talent and fierce ambition are not
enough.

821.3 SHA
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Sonnets. Harper & Row, 1964.

FIC GAARDER
Gaarder, Jostein, 1952-. Sophie's world : a novel about the history of philosophy. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994. A novel about the history of philosophy, that uses the life of a schoolgirl, Sophie, as a backdrop for a discussion of the meaning of life.

FIC FAULKNER The sound and the fury & As I lay dying Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.. New York, : The Modern library, [1946]. The members of a genteel Southern family are portrayed as petty failures, drunkards, suicides, pathological perverts, and idiots.

FIC ANDERSON
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Speak. 1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999. A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.

FIC KRISHER
Krisher, Trudy. Spite fences. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, 1996, c1994. As she struggles with her troubled relationship with her mother during the summer of 1960, a young girl is also drawn into the violence, hatred, and racial tension in her small Georgia town.

811 MAS
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950. Spoon River anthology. New York : Macmillan, c1944. A series of character sketches which reveal the life of a village community in the Middle West. They are in the form of epitaphs in verse.

SS HURSTON
Hurston, Zora Neale. Spunk; : the selected stories of Zora Neale Hurston. Turtle Island, 1985. Presents a stage adaptation of three stories by Zora Neale Hurston including "Sweat," the story of an abused woman, "Story in Harlem Slang," and "The Gilded Six-Bits."

FIC SPINELLI
Spinelli, Jerry. Stargirl. New York : Knopf, 2002,c2000. In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.

FIC NA
Na, An, 1972-. A step from heaven. 1st ed. Asheville, NC : Front Street, 2001. A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and adjust to life in America.

FIC HOFFMAN
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki. A stir of bones. New York : Viking, 2003. After discovering the secrets that lie in an abandoned house, fourteen-year-old Susan Backstrom, with the help of some new friends, has the ability to make a safe, new life for herself.

FIC DOERR
Doerr, Harriet. Stones for Ibarra. New York : Penguin Books, 1985. Richard and Sara Everton learn many lessons about life and fate when they leave America and go to live in the small village of Ibarra, Mexico, where Richard plans to reopen a copper mine abandoned by his grandfather fifty years earlier.

FIC HEGI
Hegi, Ursula. Stones from the river. 1st Scribner Paperback ed. New York : Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1995. Trudi Montag a dwarf, living in a small German town, through both world wars, learns to find acceptance, because she learns that all humans are different.

FIC SONES
Sones, Sonya. Stop pretending : what happened when my big sister went crazy. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c1999. A younger sister has a difficult time adjusting to life after her older sister has a mental breakdown.

FIC ALLENDE
Allende, Isabel. The stories of Eva Luna. New York : Atheneum, 1991. Collection of twenty-three short stories of Argentinean peasants and patricians, revolutionaries and tyrants, and seductresses and fortune tellers.

398.2 PYL
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911. The story of King Arthur and his knights. New York, N.Y. : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [1991?]. The legends of King Arthur, Excalibur and the Knights of the Round Table are retold retaining the spirit of Malory's Morte d'Arthur.

921 KELLER
Keller, Helen. The story of my life. New York : Bantam, 1990. An autobiography of Helen Keller, written while she was a young woman, in which she tells of her early life, her relationship with her teacher Anne Sullivan, and her struggles to triumph over blindness and deafness.

FIC STEVENSON
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894. The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Cutchogue, N.Y. : Buccaneer Books, c1994. A London physician who leads a double life discovers a drug that alters his appearance.

SS GARCIA MARQUEZ
García Márquez, Gabriel, 1928-. Strange pilgrims : twelve stories. New York : Penguin Books, 1994, c1993. Collection of twelve stories recounting the amazing experiences that befall Latin Americans visiting or living in Europe.

FIC CAMUS
Camus, Albert, 1913-1960. The stranger,. New York, : A. A. Knopf, 1946. The story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach.

FIC HOFFMAN
Hoffman, Mary, 1945-. Stravaganza : city of masks. New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrink, 2004, c2002. While sick in bed with cancer, Lucien begins making journeys to Belleza, a place in a parallel world that resembles Venice, Italy, and becomes caught up in the political intrigues surrounding the Duchessa who rules the city.

FIC PETRY
Petry, Ann Lane, 1911-. The street. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., [1991], c1946. Reprint of a 1946 novel, based upon the true story of Lutie Johnson, a young African-American woman who struggled to live and raise her son in the midst of the poverty and violence of Harlem in the late 1940s.

812.5 WIL
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. A streetcar named Desire. New York : New Directions Pub., 1980. Contains the text of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play in which the aging Southern belle Blanche DuBois loses her fragile grip on reality after an encounter with her brutish brother-in-law.

FIC TRUEMAN
Trueman, Terry. Stuck in neutral. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2000. Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his
condition, especially as he believes his father is planning to kill him.

FIC HEMINGWAY
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. The sun also rises. New York : Scribner, 1956 [c1954]. A group of American and British expatriates living in Paris go on an excursion to Pamplona, Spain.

FIC BANKS
Banks, Russell, 1940-. The sweet hereafter : a novel. 1st HarperPerennial ed. New York, NY : HarperPerennial, 1992. Explores a small community's response to the loss of fourteen children in a school bus accident.

921 CAMPBELL
Campbell, Bebe Moore, 1950-. Sweet Summer : Growing Up With and Without My Dad. Reissue. Berkley Pub Group, 2000. Bebe tells of the surprises, secrets disappointments, loneliness, and the bond between a daughter and her father who were separated by divorce.

576.8 ALV
Alvarez, Walter, 1940-. T. rex and the crater of doom. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1997. Tells the story of the scientific work that went into solving the riddle of what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, discussing how the theory that the dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid has been validated by the discovery of the giant Chicxulub Crater.

SS DEL GIUDICE
Del Giudice, Daniele. Takeoff : the pilot's lore. New York : Harcourt Brace & Co., c1996. A collection of eight essays by the author describing his personal flying experiences, as well as those of pilots flying in life-threatening situations.

FIC TALBOT
Talbot, Bryan. The tale of one bad rat. 1st trade paperback ed. Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Books, 1995. A graphic novel in which Helen, a homeless girl who feels a link to author Beatrix Potter, flees sexual abuse at the hands of her father and follows the path the writer took on her own escape into a new life in the Lake District of England.

FIC SARAMAGO
Saramago, José. The tale of the unknown island. 1st ed. New York, N.Y. : Harcourt Brace, c1999. When a man knocks on the king's door and asks him for a boat, he finds himself setting out on a journey that will change history.

FIC DICKENS
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. A tale of two cities. Logan, IA : Perfection Learning, [1994],c1859. Relates the adventures of a young Englishman who gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.

822.33 LAM
Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834. Tales from Shakespeare. Garden City, N.Y., : Junior Deluxe Editions, [1955]. Retells the stories of Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies for young people.

FIC BERG
Berg, Elizabeth. Talk before sleep : a novel. New York : Dell, [1997], c1994. Ann and Ruth have been great friends all their adult lives, when Ruth is diagnosed with cancer their friendship becomes even more profound.

822.33 SHA
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. The taming of the shrew. New York : Pocket, c1963. Contains the text of the play, information about Shakespeare and his theater, bibliography, key to famous lines, and explanatory notes.

FIC BLOOR
Bloor, Edward, 1950-. Tangerine. New York : Scholastic, [1998]. Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to
remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.

FIC TEMPLE
Temple, Frances. Taste of salt : a story of modern Haiti. New York : Orchard Books, c1992. In the hospital after being beaten by Macoutes, seventeen-year-old Djo tells the story of his impoverished life to a young woman who, like him, has been working with the social reformer Father Aristide to fight the repression in Haiti.

973 HEG
Hegi, Ursula. Tearing the silence : being German in America. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, c1997. Collection of interviews which explore the memories, feelings, and impressions of fifteen German-American immigrants concerning the Holocaust, assimilation, and cultural differences.

FIC KELLOGG
Kellogg, Marjorie. Tell me that you love me, Junie Moon. Aerial ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993, c1968. Upon their discharge from a hospital, a disfigured girl and two young men, one with a neurological disease and the other in a wheelchair, decide to share an apartment.

822.33 SHA
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. The tempest. [Rev. ed.]. Baltimore, : Penguin Books, [1970].

FIC MISHIMA
Mishima, Yukio, 1925-1970. The temple of the golden pavilion. 1st Vintage International ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1994. Mizoguchi, an acolyte at a Buddhist temple in Kyoto who also suffers from a childhood stutter, struggles to overcome his obsession with the beauty of the Golden Temple.

FIC HARDY
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Bantam Classic, 1971. An English woman finds herself the victim of fate and of forces beyond her control.

FIC DESSEN
Dessen, Sarah. That summer. New York : Puffin, 1998,c1996. During the summer of her divorced father's remarriage and her sister's wedding, fifteen-year-old Haven comes into her own by letting go of the myths of the past.

FIC HINTON
Hinton, S. E. That was then, this is now. Laurel Leaf ed. New York : Dell, 1989, c1971. Sixteen-year-old Mark and Bryon have been like brothers since childhood, but now, as their involvement with girls, gangs, and drugs increases, their relationship seems to gradually disintegrate.

FIC HURSTON
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their eyes were watching God; : a novel. New York, : Negro Universities Press, [1969, c1937]. Married to a man she did not love, Janie was not yet forty when Joe died. Then she found true happiness.

FIC O'BRIEN
O'Brien, Tim, 1946-. The things they carried : a work of fiction. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1990. A collection of related short fiction stories with recurring characters and an interwoven plot and theme, which recreate the Vietnam War experiences of an American foot soldier.

FIC KING
King, Stephen, 1947-. Thinner. New York : Signet, 1985,c1984. Billy Halleck's nightmare begins after he sideswipes an old Gypsy woman as she is crossing the street: he loses ninety-three pounds within six weeks.

FIC ANDERSON
Anderson, M. T. Thirsty. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, [2003], c1997. From the moment he knows that he is destined to be a vampire, Chris thirsts for the blood of people around him while also struggling to remain human.

FIC BUCHAN
Buchan, John, 1875-1940. The thirty-nine steps. Boston : D.R. Godine, 1991. Young mining engineer Richard Hannay, having returned to England from South Africa just before World War I, is pursued by both foreign agents and British authorities as he investigates clues left by a murdered man in an effort to save his own life and the future of his country.

808.81 THI
This same sky : a collection of poems from around the world. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1992. A poetry anthology in which 129 poets from sixty-eight different countries celebrate the natural world and its human and animal inhabitants.

FIC SMILEY
Smiley, Jane. A thousand acres. 1st Domestic Ballantine Books mass market ed. New York : Ivy Books, 1996, c1991. The story of an Iowa farmer who decides to retire in 1979 and turns over his valuable land to his three daughters.

FIC DUMAS
Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870. The three musketeers. New York : TOR, 1994. In seventeenth-century France, young D'Artagnan initially quarrels with, then befriends, three musketeers and joins them in trying to outwit the enemies of the king and queen.

812.5 O'NE
O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953. Three plays of Eugene O'Neill; : Desire under elms, Strange interlude, Mourning becomes Electra. Vintage Books, n.d.

FIC NAMIOKA
Namioka, Lensey. Ties that bind, ties that break : a novel. New York : Delacorte Press, 1999. Ailin's life takes a
different turn when she defies the traditions of upper class Chinese society by refusing to have her feet bound.

FIC FINNEY
Finney, Jack. Time and again. New York, : Simon and Schuster, [1970]. Illustrator Si Morley steps out of his
twentieth-century New York apartment one night--right into the winter of 1882.

FIC GRASS
Grass, Günter, 1927-. The tin drum. [New York] : Pantheon Books, [1963, c1962].

FIC PETRY
Petry, Ann Lane, 1911-. Tituba of Salem Village. New York : Crowell, c1964. Tells how Tituba, a slave, was sold in
Barbados to a preacher bound for Boston and became one of three women convicted at the beginning of the Salem witch trials.

326 LES
Lester, Julius. To be a slave. New York : Scholastic, 1968. A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.

SS LONDON
London, Jack, 1876-1916. To build a fire and other stories. Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1986. Includes
twenty-five stories including the Klondike stories, and other stories spanning american author Jack London's career.

921 MAM
Criddle, JoAn D. To destroy you is no loss : the odyssey of a Cambodian family. 1st East/West Bridge ed. Dixon, Calif. : East/West Bridge Pub., 1996. The true story of a teen-age girl's escape from Cambodia to a refugee camp in Thailand--and finally to America.

FIC LEE
Lee, Harper. To kill a mockingbird. New York : Warner, 1982, c1960. Eight-year-old "Scout" Finch tells of life in a small Alabama town where her father is a lawyer.

FIC LE GUIN
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-. The tombs of Atuan. [1st ed.]. New York : Atheneum, 1971. Arha's isolated existence as high priestess in the tombs of Atuan is jarred by a thief who seeks a special treasure.

FIC MARSDEN
Marsden, John, 1950-. Tomorrow, when the war began. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, [1996], c1993. Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip in the bush to discover that their country has been invaded and they must hide to stay alive.

FIC CART
Tomorrowland : 10 stories about the future. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 1999. A collection of ten stories about the future, by such authors as Lois Lowry, Katherine Paterson, and Jon Scieszka.

FIC BOYLE
Boyle, T. Coraghessan. The tortilla curtain. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1996, c1995. Tells the explosive story of yuppies, Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, a stay-at-home dad and his real-estate whiz wife, and their clash with Candido and America Rincon, illegal aliens who have crossed into California from Mexico and are living in a camp awaiting the birth of their baby.

FIC MIKAELSEN
Mikaelsen, Ben, 1952-. Touching Spirit Bear. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2001. After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.

FIC SHUTE
Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960. A town like Alice. 1st Ballantine Books ed. New York : Ballantine Book, 1991. Tells the
story of a young woman, Jean, who sets out on a journey following the memory of a lost love in Malaya who she met
during World War II when she survived a Japanese death march.

822.33 SHA
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Washington Square Press New Folger ed. New York : Washington Square Press, 1992. Presents Shakespeare's tragedy in which the Danish prince Hamlet takes revenge upon his uncle for murdering his father, and includes explanatory notes, a key to famous lines, an annotated further reading list, a modern perspective essay, and introductory text on Shakespeare's language, life, and theater, and on "Hamlet" itself.

822.33 SHA
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. The tragedy of Macbeth. Washington Square Press new Folger ed. New York : Washington Square Press, 1992. Shakespeare's tragedy of prophecy and royal murder in medieval Scotland.

FIC GREENE
Greene, Graham, 1904-. Travels with my aunt. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1993, c1969. Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral.

FIC SMITH
Smith, Betty, 1896-1972. A tree grows in Brooklyn. Perennial library ed. New York : Harper & Row, 1968, c1947. Young Francie Nolan experiences the problems of growing up in a Brooklyn slum.

FIC KAFKA
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. The trial. New York, : Knopf, 1957 [c1956]. Joseph K. is suddenly arrested and must spend the rest of his life fighting a charge against him about which he can get no information.

FIC PIERCE
Pierce, Tamora. Trickster's choice. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2003. Alianne must call forth her mother's courage and her father's wit in order to survive on the Copper Isles in a royal court rife with political intrigue and murderous conspiracy.

FIC WOLFF
Wolff, Virginia Euwer. True believer. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2002, c2001. Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it--an occasion to rise to.

378.12 ALB
Albom, Mitch, 1958-. Tuesdays with Morrie : an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson. New York : Doubleday, c1997. The author, an alumnus of Brandeis University, tells of his meetings with a former professor suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease and of the lessons he learned about life and death from his college mentor.

FIC JAMES
James, Henry, 1843-1916. Turn of the Screw. Buccaneer, 1993. Two children are haunted by the evil spirits of two former servants.

822.33 SHA
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Twelfth night, or, What you will. New York : Bantam Books, c1988. Presents the
complete text of Shakespeare's comedy of mixed-up identities and misplaced affections; and includes an essay on the play in performance, modern spelling and punctuation, and an annotated bibliography.

361 ADD
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935. Twenty years at Hull-house,. Macmillan, 1910. Presents Hull House founder Jane Addams's account of her work at the settlement home in Chicago's West side slums during the years between 1889 to 1909.

FIC APPELFELD
Appelfeld, Aron. Tzili, the story of a life. 1st Grove Press ed. New York : [Emeryville, CA] : Grove Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, 1996. A tale of a young girl living in the shadow of the Holocaust. Tzili's family has fled Hitler's encroaching armies and Tzili is left behind.

FIC STOWE
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin. New York : Hart Pub. Co., c1976. Presents the controversial novel, published in 1852, in which author Harriet Beecher Stowe offers an indictment of the pre-Civil War South through the story of Uncle Tom, an elderly slave who maintains his human dignity in the face of cruelty, suffering, and death.

917.804 AMB
Ambrose, Stephen E. Undaunted courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1996. Chronicles the experiences of Meriwether Lewis, the man chosen by President Jefferson to lead a voyage from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, discusses the experiences of those who took part in the expedition, and tells of the leading political, scientific, and military figures involved in the mapping of the American West.

FIC VIRAMONTES
Viramontes, Helena María, 1954-. Under the feet of Jesus. New York : Plume, [1996], c1995. Two young Mexican American migrant workers in California find hope in love, despite the poverty and social conditions in which they live.

947.718 SIE
Siegal, Aranka. Upon the head of the goat : a childhood in Hungary, 1939-1944. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, c1981. Nine-year-old Piri describes the bewilderment of being a Jewish child during the 1939-1944 German occupation of her hometown (then in Hungary and now in the Ukraine) and relates the ordeal of trying to survive in the ghetto.

FIC DAVIS
Davis, Terry. Vision quest. New York : Dell Pub., [1991]. Eighteen-year-old Louden Swain learns about determination, friendship, and love as he diligently trains for a crucial state wrestling tournament.

301.444 ATK
Voices from the fields : children of migrant farmers tell their stories. 1st ed. Boston : Joy Street Books, c1993. La Fresa / Silvino M. Murillo -- Hogar / Frank Pinedo -- Después de un día de campo / Eugenia Ortíz -- Mis amigos / Claudia García Moreno -- Mis padres / Adriana Ochoa. Photographs, poems, and interviews with children reveal the hardships and hopes of Mexican American migrant farm workers and their families.

808.81 VOI
Voices : poetry and art from around the world. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, c2000. An anthology of poetry and art from sources on six continents.

814 THO
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. Walden. Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 1971. Thoreau offers his philosophy of life and observations of nature gleaned from two years of solitude living in a cabin on Walden Pond in Massachusetts.

FIC TOLSTOY
Tolstoy, Leo, 1828-1910. War and peace. New York : Signet Classic, c1968. An epic novel featuring the Russian role in the Napoleonic wars and providing a complex panorama of the life of the time.

FIC WELLS
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946. The war of the worlds. Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1988. Nothing seems to stop the creatures from Mars as they spread death and terror across the planet.

370.19 BEA
Beals, Melba. Warriors don't cry : a searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High. New York : Washington Square Press, 1995, c1994. Beals chronicles her harrowing junior year at Central High where she underwent the segregationists' brutal organized campaign of terrorism which included telephone threats, vigilante stalkers, economic blackmailers, rogue police, and much more.

FIC HOWE
Howe, James, 1946-. The watcher. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1997. As she sits watching a seemingly perfect family and a handsome lifeguard on the beach, a lonely, troubled girl projects herself into the fantasy lives she has created for them.

FIC DOCTOROW
Doctorow, E. L., 1931- The waterworks.    New York, N.Y. : Plume, c1997.    While walking down Broadway in lower Manhattan on a rainy morning in 1871, Martin Pemberton sees in a horse-drawn omnibus several old men in black, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father.  

970.3 MOM
Momaday, N. Scott, 1934- The way to rainy mountain.    Albuquerque N.M. : Univ. of New Mexico Press, [1969]    Retells Kiowa myths the author learned from his grandmother and describes the Indian life he knew as a child.  

FIC CORMIER
Cormier, Robert. We all fall down : a novel.    New York : Delacorte Press, 1991.    As The Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed a house in his neighborhood, Buddy, one of the trashers, increases his drinking in order to cope with his parents' separation and his obsession with the daughter of the owner of the vandalized house.  

FIC PRATCHETT
Pratchett, Terry. The Wee Free Men.    New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins Pub., c2003.    A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland.  

SS VONNEGUT
Vonnegut, Kurt. Welcome to the monkey house : a collection of short works.    [New York] : Delacorte Press, [1968]    Where I live -- Harrison Bergeron -- Who am I this time? -- Welcome to the monkey house -- Long walk to forever -- The Foster portfolio -- Miss Temptation -- All the king's horses -- Tom Edison's shaggy dog -- New dictionary -- Next door -- More stately mansions -- The Hyannis Port story -- D.P. -- Report on the Barnhouse Effect -- The euphio question -- Go back to your precious wife and son -- Deer in the works -- The lie -- Unready to wear -- The kid nobody could handle -- The manned missiles -- EPICAC -- Adam -- Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.  

FIC SHULMAN
Shulman, Irving. West Side story : a novelization.    New York : Pocket, [1967], c1961.    Maria, a young Puerto Rican girl living in New York, and sister to Sharks gang leader Bernardo, falls in love with Tony, former leader of the rival gang, the Jets, setting the stage for tragedy. 
 
FIC CRUTCHER
Crutcher, Chris. Whale talk.    New York : Greenwillow Books, c2001.    Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students. 
 
FIC PLUM-UCCI
Plum-Ucci, Carol, 1957- What happened to Lani Garver.    San Diego : Harcourt, 2002.    Sixteen-year-old Claire is unable to face her fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to fit in with the popular crowd on Hackett Island, and her mother's alcoholism until the enigmatic Lani Garver helps her get control of her life at the risk of his own.  

808.81 WHA
What have you lost? : poems.    New York : Greenwillow Books, c1999.    A collection of poems by 140 authors that deal with different kinds of loss.  

921 KING
Bennett, Lerone, 1928- What manner of man : a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.    Chicago : Johnson Pub. Co., 1964.    A biography of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and advocate of non-violence who was shot in 1968.  

FIC WITTLINGER
Wittlinger, Ellen. What's in a name?.    New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2000.    Each of ten teenagers living in Scrub Harbor, Massachusetts, explores his or her identity at the same time that the local residents consider changing the name of their town.  

957.704 HAY
Hayslip, Le Ly. When heaven and earth changed places : a Vietnamese woman's journey from war to peace.    New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Plume, [1990]    A memoir of Le Ly Hayslip in which she recalls her experiences during the Vietnam War as a young spy for the Viet Cong, and tells of her return to her country and family twenty years after escaping to America.  

921 SANTIAGO
Santiago, Esmeralda. When I was Puerto Rican.    New York : Vintage, 1994.    Memoirs of the author's childhood and youth in Puerto Rico and New York City.  

FIC MEYER
Meyer, Carolyn, 1935- Where the broken heart still beats : the story of Cynthia Ann Parker.    San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1992.    Having been taken as a child and raised by Comanche Indians, thirty-four-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker is forcibly returned to her white relatives, where she longs for her Indian life and her only friend is her twelve-year-old cousin Lucy.  

811 SIL
Silverstein, Shel. Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein.    New York : Harper and Row, [1974]    A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author's own drawings.  

FIC FLEISCHMAN
Fleischman, Paul. Whirligig.    New York : Henry Holt, 1998.    While traveling to each corner of the country to build a whirligig in memory of the girl whose death he caused, sixteen-year-old Brian finds forgiveness and atonement.  

SS FLAKE
Flake, Sharon. Who am I without him? : short stories about girls and the boys in their lives.    New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, c2004.    So I ain't no good girl -- The ugly one -- Wanted: a thug -- I know a stupid boy when I see one -- Mookie in love -- Don't be disrespecting me -- I like white boys -- Jacob's rules -- Hunting for boys -- A letter to my daughter.   Presents ten short stories about teenage girls struggling with issues of self-worth.  

SS JEN Jen, Gish. Who's Irish? : stories.    New York : A.A. Knopf, 1999.    In eight wonderfully alive stories, the author chronicles Chinese and other Americans as they exuberantly win, lose, love, hate, overachieve, underachieve, and generally take on America--with sometimes comic, sometimes heartbreaking results.  

301.451 KIN
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. Why we can't wait.    New York : Signet Classic, 2000, c1964.  Explains the events, the forces, and the pressures behind the quest for civil rights. 

FIC REES
Rees, Celia. Witch child.    Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2002, c2000.    In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.  

133.4 ARO
Aronson, Marc. Witch-hunt : mysteries of the Salem witch trials.    New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2003.    Two Salem families, 1641-1692 -- Two mysteries -- The mysteries end and the hearings begin -- The accuser: Ann Putnam, junior -- The one and the many -- From hearings to trials -- The man in black -- Choosing death with a quiet conscience -- That no more innocent blood be shed -- A great delusion of Satan.  

812 WIT
With their eyes : September 11th, the view from a high school at ground zero.    New York : HarperTempest, c2002.    Presents the script of a play written by students at New York's Stuyvesant High School, presented in a series of monologues based on interviews with students on their experiences and feelings about the attack on the World Trade Center--visible from the school--and its aftermath.

FIC CLARKE
Clarke, Judith, 1943- Wolf on the fold.    Asheville, N.C. : Front Street, 2002, c2000.    Wolf on the fold -- The city of love -- Reading problems -- Dhilkusha -- Jerusalem the golden -- Chocolate icing.   A collection of six short stories by Judith Clarke which span seventy years and involve defining moments in each character's life.  

SS CISNEROS
Cisneros, Sandra. Woman hollering creek and other stories.    New York : Vintage Books, 1992.    A collection of short stories giving voice to the vigorous and varied life on both sides of the United States-Mexican border. 
 
921 KINGSTON
Kingston, Maxine Hong. The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts.    New York : Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1976.    A memoir of the American-born daughter of Chinese immigrants who lived within the traditions and fears of the Chinese past as well as the realities of the alien modern American culture.  

FIC TSUKIYAMA
Tsukiyama, Gail. Women of the silk.    New York : St. Martin's Press, 1993, c1991.    Relates the story of two women who struggle for economic independence in silk work in 1926 in a small village in China.
  
FIC BRONTE
Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848. Wuthering heights.    New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1991.    Forced by a storm to spend the night at the home of Heathcliff, Mr. Lockwood uncovers a tale of terror and hatred on the Yorkshire moors.  

FIC DORRIS
Dorris, Michael. A yellow raft in blue water.    New York, NY : Warner Books, 1988, c1987.    A saga of three generations of Indian women, beset by hardship and torn by angry secrets, yet joined together by the bonds of kinship.  

FIC KLASS
Klass, David. You don't know me : a novel.    New York : HarperTempest, 2002, c2001.    Fourteen-year-old John creates alternative realities in his mind as he tries to deal with his mother's abusive boyfriend, his crush on a beautiful, but shallow classmate and other problems at school.  

FIC O'BRIEN
O'Brien, Robert C. Z for Zachariah.    New York : Atheneum, 1974.    Seemingly the only person left alive after the holocaust of a war, a young girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape.  

921 FILIPOVIC
Filipovic, Zlata. Zlata's diary : a child's life in Sarajevo.    New York : Viking, c1994.    Growing up in Sarajevo, the only child of her parents, Zlata's life was like that of any ordinary girl her age. Soon war broke out on the streets and her world changed from that of an ordinary girl to one trapped in a war torn land. Includes color photographs reproduced from her diary.  

FIC KAZANTZAKIS Kazantzakis, Nikos, 1883-1957. Zorba the Greek;.    New York, Simon and Schuster, 1953 [c1952]   Accompanying the narrator to Crete, Zorba, a Greek workman, supervises laborers at a mine, copes with mad monk in a mountain monastery, and embellishes the tales of his past adventures.