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Frankenstein meets Wolfman : adapted from the screenplay "Frankenstein meets the Wolfman" by Curt Siodman

Thorne, Ian.


Illustrations from Universal's 1943 film, Frankenstein meets the Wolf man. School Library Journal. A werewolf who wishes to be released from his curse and die visits Frankenstein's ruined castle to learn the secrets of life and death.
Date Published:1981

The man who knew infinity : a life of the genius, Ramanujan

Kanigel, Robert.


Wilson's Senior High School Wilson's Public Library Booklist starred The life story of Srinivasa Ramanujan, an improvished Indian clerk, and his collaboration with H. Hardy, an English mathematician.
Date Published:1991

The only way I know

Ripken, Cal, 1960-


USA Today,
Date Published:1997

Agnes the sheep

Taylor, William, 1940-


An eccentric old lady leaves her large and nasty sheep, Agnes, to Belinda and Joe, setting off a wild and woolly sheep chase.
Date Published:1990

The perks of being a wallflower

Chbosky, Stephen.


Through a series of personal letters Charlie tells about his family and coming-of-age experiences.
Date Published:1999

Encyclopedia of contemporary French culture


Choice, February 1999 Reference and Research Book News, February 1999 Contains over seven hundred alphabetically arranged articles that provide information about French culture, covering education, film, food and wine, media, music, intellectual life, performing arts, and other topics.
Date Published:1998

The lovely bones : a novel

Sebold, Alice.


Library Journal Starred Booklist starred Pub Weekly 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.
Date Published:2002

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time

Haddon, Mark.


Pub Weekly Booklist Kirkus Starred Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
Date Published:2003

City of the beasts

Allende, Isabel.


Translation of: Ciudad de las bestias. Wilson's Junior High School, September 2003 Publisher's Weekly, June 2002 Booklist, November 2002 Horn Book, January 2003 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), February 2003 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), April 2003 Multicultural Review, June 2003 When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.
Date Published:2002

Translation of: Ciudad de las bestias. Wilson's Junior High School, September 2003 Publisher's Weekly, June 2002 Booklist, November 2002 Horn Book, January 2003 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), February 2003 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), April 2003 Multicultural Review, June 2003 When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.

Date Published:2002

Eragon

Paolini, Christopher.


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.
Date Published:2003

The Concise Oxford English-Arabic dictionary of current usage


Abridged ed. of: The Oxford English-Arabic dictionary of current usage / edited by N.S. Doniach. 1972.
Date Published:1982

Keeping faith : a novel

Picoult, Jodi, 1966-


Wilson's Fiction Library Journal Booklist Seven-year-old Faith White, the object of a custody battle, becomes the focus of a much larger controversy when she begins quoting from the Bible, develops stigmata, and appears to be able to perform miraculous healings.
Date Published:1999

It's kind of a funny story

Vizzini, Ned, 1981-


New York City teenager Craig Gilner succumbs to academic and social pressures at an elite high school and enters a psychiatric hospital after attempting suicide.
Date Published:2006

Chibi vampire : volume 1. Volume 1 /

Kagesaki, Yuna.


Translated from the Japanese. Book reads from right to left. Karin, an unusual child vampire who has blood to spare, aspires to donate blood to humans rather than steal it, but unfortunately things never seem to work out as she plans.
Date Published:2006

The maze runner

Dashner, James, 1972-


School Library Journal, October 2009. Publisher's Weekly, September 2009. Horn Book, April 2010. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), November 2009. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2009. Kirkus Review, September 2009. Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
Date Published:2009

The mark of Athena

Riordan, Rick.


"The Greek and Roman demigods will have to cooperate in order to defeat the giants released by the Earth Mother, Gaea. Then they will have to sail together to the ancient land--Greece itself--to find the Doors of Death"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2012

The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-


Library Journal Starred, December 2009. Booklist starred, December 2009. Pub Weekly, October 2009. Kirkus Starred, January 2010. Examines the experiences of the children and husband of Henrietta Lacks, who, twenty years after her death from cervical cancer in 1951, learned doctors and researchers took cells from her cervix without consent which were used to create the immortal cell line known as the HeLa cell; provides an overview of Henrietta's life; and explores issues of experimentation on African-Americans and bioethics.
Date Published:2010

Library Journal Starred, December 2009. Booklist starred, December 2009. Pub Weekly, October 2009. Kirkus Starred, January 2010. Examines the experiences of the children and husband of Henrietta Lacks, who, twenty years after her death from cervical cancer in 1951, learned doctors and researchers took cells from her cervix without consent which were used to create the immortal cell line known as the HeLa cell; provides an overview of Henrietta's life; and explores issues of experimentation on African-Americans and bioethics.

Date Published:2010

Panic

Oliver, Lauren.


"In the poor town of Carp, New York, a group of teens enters a high-stakes game that involves a series of secretive, possibly deadly challenges throughout the summer, with the winner receiving more than $50,000, enough money to start a new life."
Date Published:2014

Behind enemy lines : the true story of a French Jewish spy in Nazi Germany

Cohn, Marthe, 1920-


Originally published: New York : Harmony Books, c2002.
Date Published:2002

Go ask Alice


A 15-year-old drug user chronicles her daily struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
Date Published:1998