The World According To Humphrey
Humphrey, pet hamster at Longfellow School, learns that he has an important role to play in helping his classmates and teacher.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 200
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: hamsters, pets, schools, audiobooks [X], school stories, humphrey (fictional character : birney), hamsters as pets
Wonder
Auggie Pullman was born with a facial deformity that prevented him from going to a mainstream school, until now.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 877
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: abnormalities, human, self-acceptance, middle schools, schools, school stories, young adult fiction, birth defects, audiobooks [X], children's audiobooks, bildungsromans, body image, beauty, personal, face, juvenile works, fiction, electronic books, school fiction, realistic fiction
My Life In Dog Years
The author describes how dogs have impacted his life from childhood through the present day, recounting the stories of his first dog, Snowball, in the Philippines; Dirk, who protected him from bullies; and Cookie, who saved his life.
920
year: 2011
copies: 171
call number/section: 920
lexile: 1150
subjects: paulsen, gary, authors, american, dog owners, dogs, large type books, large print books, american authors, audiobooks [X], animals, pets
Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie
The life of eighth-grader Steven Alper, already complicated by his friendship with two girls and a prodigious talent for drumming, is turned upside down when his five-year-old brother Jeffrey is diagnosed with leukemia.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 84
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 940
subjects: leukemia, brothers, self-realization, middle schools, schools, school stories, friendship, family life, drum, audiobooks [X], children's audiobooks
Emperors Of The Ice
Re-creates the voice of Apsley "Cherry" Cherry-Garrard to provide an account of his adventures as the youngest member of Robert Scott's expedition to Antarctica in the early twentieth century, during which he and Edward Wilson try to learn the evolutionary history of emperor penguins.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1050
subjects: cherry-garrard, apsley, wilson, edward adrian, scott, robert falcon, explorers, emperor penguin, penguins, antarctica, british antarctic ("terra nova") expedition, emperor penguins, audiobooks [X], compact discs, children's audiobooks, compact discs
Peace, Locomotion
Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 81
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
subjects: foster home care, brothers and sisters, orphans, peace, african americans, siblings, letters, audiobooks [X]
The Good Thief
Young Ren, a twelve-year-old orphan in nineteenth-century New England, is adopted by Benjamin Nab, a con artist who brings Ren into a strange underworld filled with seedy characters, including an assassin that the pair encounters on a mission to procure corpses for a scientist, who informs Ren that he was made for killing.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
subjects: orphans, chinese language, historical fiction, new england, united states, orphans-fiction; new england-fiction; united states-history-1783-1865-fiction, audiobooks [X], compact discs
The Things They Carried
Presents a collection of interconnected short stories that explore the Vietnam War experiences of the men of Alpha Company, beginning with a meditation on the things carried by each soldier, practical and personal, as they make their way through the theater of war.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 26
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 880
subjects: vietnam war, 1961-1975, audiobook, playaway, vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975, war stories, american, audiobooks [X], war stories, war stories, psychological fiction
The Julian Chapter
Middle-schooler Julian explains why he was so mean to his classmate Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, when Auggie entered a Manhattan public school after being homeschooled.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: bullies, birth defects, self-acceptance, middle schools, school stories, audiobooks [X], children's audiobooks
After Tupac & D Foster
In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: shakur, tupac, friendship, african americans, bildungsromans, audiobooks [X], queens (new york, n.y.)