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Our Facebook Page www.fb.com/kaufmansilverberglibrary Adult Judaic Non Fiction Exodus: a memoir, by Deborah Feldman. Traces the author's life as an independent young

woman and single mother searching for an authentic and personal Jewish identity, describing how after leaving her Hasidic community she pursued healing in a circle of like-minded outcasts and misfits. Call number: Z 920 FEL

The heart of Torah: essays on the weekly Torah portion, by Rabbi Shai Held. The essays - two for each weekly portion - open new horizons in Jewish biblical commentary. Held mines Talmud and midrashim, great writers of world literature, and astute commentators of other religious backgrounds to ponder fundamental questions about God, human nature, and what it means to be a religious person in the modern world. Call number: Z 263.2 HEL

Seder talk: the conversational Haggada, by Erica Brown. Features two books in one: an erudite, sensitive commentary on the Haggada text with conversation trigger points, and eight short essays for each day of the holiday. Call number: Z 243.2 BRO

Judaic Fiction Between friends, by Amos Oz. These eight interconnected stories, set in the fictitious Kibbutz

Yekhat in the late 1950s, draw masterly profiles of idealistic men and women enduring personal hardships in the shadow of one of the greatest collective dreams of the twentieth century. Call number: Z FIC OZ

Dinner at the center of the earth, A political thriller that unfolds in the highly charged territory of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and pivots on the complex relationship between a secret prisoner and his guard. by Nathan Englander. Call number: Z FIC ENG

Forest dark: a novel, by Nicole Krauss. Leaving her family in Brooklyn, a young, well-known novelist arrives at the Tel Aviv Hilton where she has stayed every year since birth. Troubled by writer’s block and a failing marriage, she hopes that the hotel can unlock a dimension of reality—and her own perception of life—that has been closed off to her. But when she meets a retired literature professor who proposes a

Annotated List of New Resources at The Kaufman Silverberg Library

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project she can’t turn down, she’s drawn into a mystery that alters her life in ways she could never have imagined. Call number: Z FIC KRA Look for me: a novel, by Edeet Ravel. In a love story framed by the vivid realities of the Israeli-

Palestinian conflict, tenderly explores the complicated ways people connect when violence touches every aspect of their lives Dana Hillman is a young Israeli woman whose humanity and passion for justice are obvious to all who meet her. Call number: Z FIC RAV

Once more with feeling, by Meira Cook. After twenty years Max Binder is still in love with his

fiery wife, Maggie, and is determined to get her the perfect fortieth birthday gift. But Max’s singular desire to make his wife happy leads to an unexpected event that changes the course of his family’s life and touches the people who make up their western prairie city. Call number: Z FIC COO

General Non Fiction No is not enough: resisting the new shock politics and winning the world we need, by Naomi

Klein. Exposes forces behind Trump's success -- reality TV branding, celebrity obsession and CEO-worship, Vegas and Guantanamo, fake news and vulture bankers all rolled into one. Shares a bold vision, a clear-eyed perspective on how to break the spell of his shock tactics and counter the rising chaos. Call number: 303.6 KLE

General Fiction The Alice network: a novel, by Kate Quinn. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American

college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive. So when Charlie's parents banish her to Europe to have her 'little problem' taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London, determined to find out what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister.

Call number: Z FIC QUI The Cuban affair: a novel, by Nelson DeMille. US Army combat veteran Daniel "Mac"

MacCormick is living in Key West, the owner of a forty-two-foot charter fishing boat. Short on cash, Mac agrees to listen when a hotshot Miami lawyer offers him 2 million dollars for a trip to Cuba to recover sixty million American dollars hidden by a man who fled Castro's revolution. Call number: FIC DEM

First snow, last light, by Wayne Johnston. Ned Vatcher, only 14, ambles home from school in the

winter of 1936 to find the house locked, the family car missing, and his parents gone without a trace. From that point on, his life is driven by the need to find out what happened to the Vanished Vatchers. When Ned meets Sheilagh Fielding, he believes the enigmatic Fielding to be his soulmate. The novel builds to a spectacular resolution of the mystery of all the Vanished Vatchers. Call number: FIC JOH

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lass houses: a novel, by Louise Penny. When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache, now Chief Superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec, knows something is seriously wrong. From the moment its shadow falls over Three Pines, Gamache suspects the creature has deep roots and a dark purpose. When it suddenly vanishes and a body is discovered, it falls to Gamache to discover if a debt has been paid or levied. In the early days of the investigation into the murder, and months later, as the trial for the accused begins in a Montreal courtroom on a steamy day in July, the Chief Superintendent continues to struggle

with actions he's set in motion, from which there is no going back. Call number: FIC PEN The history of bees, by Maja Lunde. Follows three generations of beekeepers from the past,

present, and future, weaving a spellbinding story of their relationship to the bees--and to their children and one another against the backdrop of an urgent, global crisis. Call number: FIC LUN

It: a novel, by Stephen King. It began and ended in 1958 when seven children searched in the

drains beneath Derry for an evil creature, but in 1985, Mike, once one of those children, makes six phone calls and disinters an unremembered promise that sets off the ultimate terror. Call number: FIC KIN

The last Tudor, by Philippa Gregory. Three sisters. A family of secrets -- and tragedy. Jane Grey

was queen of England for nine days. Crowned instead of the dead king's half-sister Mary Tudor, who mustered an army, claimed her throne, and locked Jane in the Tower of London, and sent her to the executioner's block. Her younger sister Katherine is heir to the insecure and infertile Queen Mary and then to her sister Queen Elizabeth, but is imprisoned when her secret marriage is discovered. The youngest Grey sister, Mary, is a beautiful dwarf, disregarded by the court and

acutely aware of the danger. What will happen when the last Tudor defies her ruthless and unforgiving cousin Queen Elizabeth? Call number: FIC GRE Manhattan Beach: a novel, by Jennifer Egan. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old,

accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family with the Great Depression underway. Years later her father has disappeared, and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where she becomes the first female diver, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. She is the sole provider for her family. At a nightclub, she chances to meet Dexter Styles again, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father's life and the reasons he might have

vanished. Call number: FIC EGA The red house: a novel, by Mark Haddon. Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister

Angela and her family to join him for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. Richard has just re-married and inherited a willful stepdaughter in the process. Angela has a feckless husband and three children who sometimes seem alien to her. The stage is set for seven days of resentment and guilt, a staple of family gatherings the world over. Call number: FIC HAD

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The secret wife, by Paul Gill. A Russian grand duchess and an English journalist. Linked by one of the world's greatest mysteries. Love. Guilt. Heartbreak. 1914 Russia is on the brink of collapse, and the Romanov family faces a terrifyingly uncertain future. Grand Duchess Tatiana has fallen in love with cavalry officer Dmitri, but events take a catastrophic turn, placing their romance and their lives in danger. 2016 Kitty Fisher escapes to her great-grandfather's remote cabin in America, after a devastating revelation makes her flee London. There, on the shores of Lake Akanabee, she discovers the spectacular jeweled pendant that will lead her to a

long-buried family secret. Call number: FIC PAU The shadow land: a novel, by Elizabeth Kostova. A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has

traveled to Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving, however, she helps an elderly couple into a taxi--and realizes too late that she has accidentally kept one of their bags. Inside she finds an ornately carved wooden box engraved with a name: Stoyan Lazarov. Raising the hinged lid, she discovers that she is holding an urn filled with human ashes. As Alexandra sets out to locate the family, she will first have to

uncover the secrets of a talented musician who was shattered by oppression--and she will find out all too quickly that this knowledge is fraught with its own danger. Call number: FIC KOS Videos Food: delicious science, a BBC production with PBS. Dr. Michael Mosley and botanist James

Wong celebrate the physics, chemistry, and biology hidden inside every bite of a next meal. Learn how the hidden chemistry of food keeps bodies fit and healthy; take a global culinary adventure to reveal the science that makes food taste delicious; and discover how the chemistry in food affects the brain and creates the deepest cravings. Call number: DVD 363.19 FOO

Young Adult (Gr. 9 and up) 40 things I want to tell you, by Alice Kuipers. Amy has a seemingly perfect life, including a hot

boyfriend. She writes an online advice column to help other teens take control of their lives, but after Pete--the consummate bad boy-- shows up at school, Amy can't seem to follow her own wisdom, affecting her relationship with her boyfriend. Call number: YA FIC KVI

And then there were four, by Nancy Werlin. When five high school students are brought

together under mysterious circumstances, they begin to piece together a theory that their parents are working together to kill them all. Call number: YA FIC WER

Antisocial, by Jillian Blake. One by one, students' phones are hacked at Alexandria Prep. What

was thought to be a joke escalates quickly as private information and secrets are revealed, leaving everyone exposed, and Anna Soler on the hunt for the hacker. Call number: YA FIC BLA

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Bad romance, by Heather Demetrios. When Grace and Gavin fall in love, Grace is sure it's too good to be true. She has no idea their relationship will become a prison she's unable to escape. Call number: YA FIC DEM

Don't you trust me?, by Patrice Kindl. Fifteen-year-old Morgan, an emotionless schemer, moves in with a family after impersonating their niece and will continue the deception no matter the cost. Call number: YA FIC KIN

Dreamology, by Lucy Keating. Experiencing dreams about her soulmate all of her life, Alice meets the real boy, Max, when she moves to a new school and finds that their real relationship is more complicated than their dream one. Call number: YA FIC KEA

Eden summer, by Liz Flanagan. When her best friend inexplicably goes missing, Jess retraces the life-changing summer they spent together and begins questioning everything she assumed she knew about her friend as she is forced to look back on the buried secrets they shared. Call number: YA FIC FLA

Enter title here, by Rahul Kanakia. Eighteen-year-old Reshma Kapoor has no friends, no hobbies, no love interests. She is desperate to prove to her parents that beating the system guarantees a place at the top more than hard work does, and determined to be class valedictorian, with an early acceptance at Stanford. She also has a literary agent interested in publishing her novel. Only there is no novel, and she has no ideas for one. A head-spinning, wry examination of the life of an overachieving teenager trapped in the miasma of Silicon Valley privileged society.

Call number: YA FIC KAN Every hidden thing, by Kenneth Oppel. Deep in the Badlands, embedded in rock and sand, lies

the skeleton of a massive dinosaur. For Samuel Bolt it's the dinosaur that could put him and his father into the history books. But Samuel and his father aren't the only ones on the trail. For Rachel Cartland the Rex could be her ticket to finally explore her love of science and adventure. Samuel and Rachel are pushed closer together as their paths cross and the rivalry between their fathers becomes more intense. And with both after the same prize, any romance seems destined to fail. Can they

find the skeleton, and with it a new life together, or will the rivalry tear them apart? Call number: YA FIC OPP

Every last word, by Tamara Ireland Stone. Samantha looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But deep inside Sam is suffering from Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries. Second-guessing every move, thought, and word makes daily life a struggle, and it doesn't help that her lifelong friends will turn toxic at the first sign of a wrong outfit, wrong lunch, or

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wrong crush. So when Sam meets Caroline, she has to keep her new friend with a refreshing sense of humor and no style a secret. Caroline introduces Sam to Poet's Corner, a tight-knit group of misfits who have been ignored by the school at large. am is drawn to them immediately, especially a guitar-playing guy with a talent for verse, and starts to discover a whole new side of herself. Call number: YA FIC STO Face-off, by Michael Betcherman. Seventeen-year-old Alex Petrovic is surprised when he

discovers that he has a twin brother he never knew about. This meeting with his brother uncovers family secrets that involve a civil war that tore apart their home country. Two war criminals from this conflict escape and Alex hopes to bring them to justice. Call number: YA FIC BET

The fight for power, by Eric Walters. After defeating raiders intent on taking the fortified neighborhood of Eden Mills, Adam struggles with his mentor's security decisions and fears the cost of his mistakes and blind trust. Call number: YA FIC WAL

The flip side, by Shawn Johnson with Amy Sonnichsen. An elite teenaged gymnast with Olympic dreams finds it hard to train when an irresistible guy comes along and threatens to throw her whole world off balance. Call number: YA FIC JOH

The game of lives, by James Dashner. Michael and his friends, Sarah and Bryson, must stop the

Mortality Doctrine and those behind it now as the fate of humanity is in the balance. Call number: YA FIC DAS

Gemini, by Sonya Mukherjee. In a small town, as high school graduation approaches, two conjoined sisters must weigh the importance of their dreams as individuals against the risk inherent in the surgery that has the potential to separate them forever. Call number: YA FIC MUK

Genius: the con, by Leopoldo Gout. Three young geniuses from around the globe hatch a plot to trick a vicious warlord, infiltrate a mastermind's organization, to protect their families, and save the world. Call number: YA FIC GOU

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The girl with the red balloon, by Katherine Locke. When Ellie Baum accidentally time-travels via red balloon to 1988 East Berlin, she's caught up in a conspiracy of history and magic. She meets members of an underground guild in East Berlin who use balloons and magic to help people escape over the Wall. But even to the balloon makers Ellie's time travel is a mystery. When it becomes clear that someone is using dark magic to change history, Ellie must risk everything-- including her only way home-- to stop the process. Call number: YA FIC LOC

Hoops, by Walter Dean Myers. A teenage basketball player from Harlem is befriended by a former professional player who, after being forced to quit because of a point shaving scandal, hopes to prevent other young athletes from repeating his mistake. Call number: YA FIC MYE

The incident on the bridge, by Laura McNeal. When Thisbe Locke is last seen standing on the edge of the Coronado Bridge it looks like there is only one thing to call it and the town prepares to mourn the loss, but her sister Ted, and Fen, the new kid in town, are not convinced and they set out to figure out what happened on that bridge and find Thisbe. Call number: YA FIC MCN

Invictus, by Ryan Graudin. "A group of time-traveling teens races through history to try to stop time and the multiverse from unraveling. Call number: YA FIC MOL

Kill the Boy Band, by Goldy Moldavsky. Four fan-girls of The Ruperts, sneak away to a hotel in Manhattan to see their favorite boy band, but when one of them literally drags Rupert Pierpont to their room and they tie him up, things get complicated--and when Rupert is killed things go from bad to worse. Call number: YA FIC MOL

The last true love story, by Brendan Kiely. Hendrix and Corrina bust Hendrix's grandfather out of

assisted living, and leave LA for New York in pursuit of freedom, truth, and love. Call number: YA FIC KIE

The leaving, by Tara Altebrando. Six kindergarteners were taken. Eleven years later, five come back--with no idea of where they've been. No one remembers the sixth victim, Max. Avery, Max's sister, needs to find her brother dead or alive and isn't buying this whole memory-loss story. Call number: YA FIC ALT

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The lovely reckless, by Kami Garcia. Seventeen-year-old Frankie Devereux would do anything to forget the past. Haunted by the memory of her boyfriend's death, she lives her life by one dangerous rule: nothing matters. Then a reckless mistake forces her to leave her privileged life in the Heights to move in with her dad. She transfers to public school in the Downs, where illegal street racing is more popular than football. Marco Leone is the fastest street racer, and it is impossible for Frankie to ignore him. But the risks Marco takes for his family could have devastating consequences for them both. When Frankie discovers his secret, she has to make

a choice. Will she let the pain of the past determine her future? Or will she risk what little she has left to follow her heart? Call number: YA FIC GAR No good deed, by Goldy Moldavsky. Gregor Maravilla wants to feed starving children, so going

to a new summer camp, Camp Save the World, for teen activists sounds like a great idea; but the various causes the teens are representing are so varied and frankly, strange, (Boycott Camp, Eat Dirt are just two) that it is hard to get a handle on what is going on--and as the saying goes, no good deed goes unpunished. Call number: YA FIC MOL

Nyxia, by Scott Reintgen. Emmett accepts an interstellar space contract but learns en route that

to win the promised fortune he and nine other recruits face a brutal competition, putting their very humanity at risk. Call number: YA FIC REI

On the spectrum, by Jennifer Gold. Growing up in the shadow of a famous mother, Clara has never felt good about her body. Now, at sixteen, she has an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating. After a social media disaster, she decides to escape for the summer to Paris to stay with her estranged dad and her six-year-old brother, Alastair, who is on the autism spectrum. Charged with his care, Clara and Alastair set out to explore the city. Paris teaches Clara about first love and gives her a new love of food. And Alastair teaches Clara about patience, trust and the beauty of loving without judgment. Call number: YA FIC GOL

One of us is lying, by Karen M. McManus. When the creator of a high school gossip app

mysteriously dies in front of four high-profile students all four become suspects. It's up to them to solve the case. Call number: YA FIC MCM

The other F-word, by Natasha Friend. A teen girl who was conceived via in vitro fertilization goes

off in search for answers about her past. Call number: YA FIC FRI

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Prisoner B-3087, by Alan Gratz. Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau. Call number: YA FIC GRA

The rule of thoughts, by James Dashner. Michael completed the Path. What he found at the end

turned everything he'd ever known about his life completely upside down. He thought he'd been helping VirtNet Security to track down the cyber-terrorist Kaine. He thought the VirtNet would be safe for gamers once more. But the truth is more terrifying than he could ever have imagined. Call number: YA FIC DAS

The rule of three, by Eric Walters. One ordinary afternoon, every single machine in sixteen-year-

old Adam's high school computer lab stops working. At first the problem seems to be an electrical outage, but it quickly becomes apparent that it is far more serious. Soon--as resources dwindle, crises mount, and chaos descends--he will see that his suburban neighborhood must band together for protection. Soon violence will erupt and Adam will understand that having a police captain for a mother and a retired government agent living next door are not just the facts of his life but the keys to his survival. Call number: YA FIC WAL

The fight for power (The Rule of Three, bk. 2), by Eric Walters. After defeating raiders intent on

taking the fortified neighborhood of Eden Mills, Adam struggles with his mentor's security decisions and fears the cost of his mistakes and blind trust. Call number: YA FIC WAL

The running dream, by Wendelin Van Draanen. When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-

year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again. Call number: YA FIC VAN

Troy, by Adele Geras. Told from the point of view of the women of Troy, portrays the last weeks of the Trojan War, when women are sick of tending the wounded, men are tired of fighting, and bored gods and goddesses find ways to stir things up. Call number: YA FIC GER

The way it hurts, by Patty Blount. Guitarist Elijah and actress Kristen connect after unusual circumstances bring them together, but cruelty from strangers online and Kristen's strict father threaten their relationship. Call number: YA FIC BLO

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What to say next, by Julie Buxbaum. When an unlikely friendship is sparked between relatively popular Kit Lowell and socially isolated David Drucker, Kit asks David for his help figuring out the how and why of her father's tragic car accident. Call number: YA FIC BLO

Who killed Christopher Goodman?, by Allan Wolf. Everybody likes Chris Goodman, but when he is found dead no one understands how something like this could happen. Call number: YA FIC WOL

With malice, by Eileen Cook. Eighteen-year-old Jill Charron's senior trip to Italy was supposed to

be the adventure of a lifetime. And then the accident happened. Waking up in a hospital room, her leg in a cast, stitches in her face, and a big blank canvas where the last 6 weeks should be. She was jetted home by her affluent father to receive quality care. Care that includes a lawyer. And a press team. Because maybe the accident wasn't an accident. Wondering not just what happened but what she did, Jill tries to piece together the events of the past six weeks before she loses her thin hold on her once-perfect life. Call number: YA FIC COO

The whole thing together, by Ann Brashares. On alternating weeks, Sasha and Ray vacation in

the beach house their parents refused to give up after their divorce, but they never meet until one summer when their lives and those of their siblings intersect in ways none of them could have imagined. Call number: YA FIC BRA

Will to survive: power (The Rule of Three, bk. 3), by Eric Walters. The struggle to survive in Adam

Daley’s suburban neighborhood began in the first minutes, hours, and days after a worldwide blackout. But as the months pass, there seems to be no end in sight to their nightmare. Now, Adam and his neighbors have been pushed to the very edge of their endurance and sanity. Call number: YA FIC WAL

Windfall, by Jennifer E. Smith. Alice loves Teddy, her best friend, but has never told him. When she buys him a lottery ticket that turns out to be a winner, their lives are changed forever and their friendship is put to the ultimate test. Call number: YA FIC SMI

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Words in deep blue, by Cath Crowley. Teenagers Rachel and Henry find their way back to each other while working in an old bookstore full of secrets and crushes, love letters and memories, grief and hope. Call number: YA FIC CRO

For Middle Years Students and Younger Readers Judaic Books for Young Readers Almost a minyan, by Lori S. Kline. Brings children into the world of a loving daughter and

granddaughter whose family stays connected to each other and to the past through sacred ritual. Call number: J 296 KLI

Avi the Ambulance to the rescue!, by Claudia Carlson. Bored with delivering supplies, Avi the Ambulance wants to rescue someone. Includes author's note on Magen David Adom, Israel's ambulance, blood services, and disaster relief organization. Call number: E CAR

The flower girl wore celery, by Meryl G. Gordon. When Emma's cousin Hannah gets married,

Emma is thrilled to be the flower girl. However, nothing is quite as she expected it to be, from the ring bearer whom she expected to be a bear, to her celery-colored dress, which she expected to be covered in real celery, to the wedding's two brides. Call number: J 306.76 GOR

How it's made: matzah, by Allison Ofanansky. Shows a step-by-step process of how handmade "shmurah" matzah is made, illustrated with full-color photographs. Call number: J 296.437 OFA

Maggid stories for children: holidays and around the year, by Chaviva Krohn Pfeiffer. This third volume in the Maggid Stories for Children series takes young readers on an unforgettable journey around the year - and around the world. They will learn how a broken jug of Chanukah oil in Italy brought a man back to Torah observance. In Argentina, a rabbi's cheerful good morning wishes save his life. Children will meet an athlete who gave up the Olympics for Shabbos and learn of an astonishing miniature succah that enabled its owners to keep the mitzvah in

the shadow of the Nazis. J 296.43 PFE On one foot, by Linda Glaser. A young man travels to Jerusalem to learn the Torah. When he

decides that the greatest teacher will be able to teach him the entire Torah while standing on one foot, he gets laughed at and shooed away. Finally, he meets the great Rabbi Hillel, who is willing to help him. Call number: E GLA

The six-day hero, by Tammar Stein. Twelve-year-old Motti discovers that there are many types of heroes as his tiny young nation of Israel fights for survival in the Six-Day War of 1967. Call number: M FIC STE

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Sukkot is coming!, by Tracy Newman. A family and their puppy prepare for Sukkot by building

and decorating a sukkah, cooking, and welcoming guests. Call number: J 296.433 NEW

General Non Fiction But I read it on the internet!, by Toni Buzzeo. In this fourth Mrs. Skorupski tale, the librarian with

the finest accessories in all of Liberty School shows students how to decide when the Internet is reliable. Call number: J 025.04 BUZ

Cell phoney, by Julia Cook. Uses a story format to introduce factual information. Joanie is excited to finally get her own cell phone but before she can use it, Joanie's mother requires her to learn the six rules of cell phone usage. Call number: J 025.04 COO

How tall, how short, how far away, by David A. Adler. Introduces several measuring systems such as the Egyptian system, the inch-pound system, and the metric system. Call number: J 530.8 ADL

Millions to measure, by David M. Schwartz. Marvelosissimo the Magician explains the development of standard units of measure, and shows the simplicity of calculating length, height, weight, and volume using the metric system. Call number: J 530.8 SCH

The technology tail: a digital footprint story, by Julia Cook. Uses rhymes and colorful illustrations to offer a timeless message to a new generation learning to navigate the fast-changing digital age. Call number: J 025.04 COO

Middle Years Fiction Boy X, by Dan Smith. When twelve-year-old Ash McCarthy wakes up after his father's funeral, he

finds that he has been kidnapped to an island off the coast of Costa Rica, caught in the middle of a secret and deadly project named Kronos in which his mother is somehow involved, and he must find a way to save them both--and the only person he is sure he can trust is a Spanish girl his own age named Isabel. Call number: M FIC SMI

Dork diaries: tales from a not-so-secret crush catastrophe, by Rachel Renee Russell. As Nikki plans how she's going to spend her summer, things get more complicated after she starts hanging out with a visiting student. Call number: M FIC RUS

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Everyday disasters and impending doom (Frazzled, bk.1), by Booki Vivat. Nervous about middle

school because her family does not get her and her friends know exactly what they want to do, Abbie Wu searches for her own passion before discovering a knack for leadership when injustices in the cafeteria come to light. Call number: J FIC VIV

Gang tackle, by Eric Howling. Jamal and his teammates take a stand against their new football coach when his bullying and discrimination go too far. Call number: M FIC HOW

Last shot, by David Skuy. In this follow-up to Rocket Blues, Rocket is drafted in the OHL tryouts and heads off to training camp in his pursuit of one day becoming a hockey legend! Call number: M FIC SKU

Ordinary mishaps and inevitable catastrophes (Frazzled, bk.2), by Booki Vivat. Things are looking up for Abbie Wu: this year she'll run for class president and get a brand-new shiny locker. Until she doesn’t. Call number: J FIC VIV

Rebel glory, by Sigmund Brouwer. Seventeen-year-old hockey star B.T. McPhee needs to figure out why his team is suddenly being victimized by a series of mysterious accidents which threaten their chances to win the playoffs. Call number: M FIC BRO

The school for good and evil, by Soman Chainani. Best friends Sophie (princess wannabe) and

Agatha (witchy loner) are headed to the School for Good and Evil, but their assumed destinies are reversed. Call number: M FIC CHA

Juvenile Fiction Horrible Harry and the Dragon war, by Suzy Kline. Working on a dragon project in Room 3B

leads to a war between two good friends--Harry and Song Lee. Call number: J FIC KLI

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Graphic Novels Dawn and the impossible three, by Gale Galligan. Dawn, the newest member of the Baby-sitters

Club, gets more than she bargained for when her first job turns into a disaster and she has problems with Kristy. Call number: J FIC TEL

Picture Books The book of mistakes, by Corinna Luyken. As an artist creatively incorporates her slipups into a

drawing, readers see the ways in which 'mistakes' can provide inspiration and opportunity, and reveal that both the art and artist are works-in-progress. Call number: E LUY

Jim and the beanstalk, by Raymond Briggs. Jim climbs the beanstalk and discovers a toothless old giant who can no longer eat little boys. Call number: E BRI

Leave me alone, by Vera Brosgol. Grandmother wants so badly to be left alone to finish the knitting for her grandchildren that she leaves her tiny home and her big family to journey to the moon and beyond to find peace and quiet to finish her knitting. Call number: E BRO

Making friends is an art!, by Julia Cook. Meet Brown, the least used pencil in the box. He

discovers that in order to have friends, he needs to be a good friend. If Brown learns to use all of the friendship skills the other pencils have, he can make friends and have fun, too. Call number: J 395.1 COO

Sir Pete the Brave, by James Dean. When a dragon kidnaps Lady Callie, Sir Pete the Brave must

come to her rescue. Call number: E DEA