Diamond in the Shadow

The DBTRC has 30 copies of this book.

LOCATION: St. Patrick Intermediate



COONEY, CAROLINE B.
DIAMONDS IN THE SHADOW

The Finch family doesn't know that five refugees have landed from Africa on the day they go to the airport to welcome the family sponsored by their church. The Finch family only knows about the four refugees they're meeting: Andre, Celestine, Mattu, and Alake -- mother, father, and teenage son and daughter.

Jared Finch was horrified and angry when he learned from his minister that his parents had agreed to take in this African refugee family. Jared is not amused that he will have to share his room with another teenage boy, and his home with a family who have never used a phone, driven a car, or seen a supermarket full of food. Jared's annoying younger sister, Mopsy, immature as usual, is so thrilled to share her room with an unknown girl that she's jumping up and down.

The Amabo family, who have suffered unimaginable horrors, begin to adjust to a life of plenty in the Finches' suburban Connecticut home. And the Finches begin to realize that what they understood about charity has been very little indeed. Still, life seems good.

The fifth refugee does not believe in good. This lawless rebel has managed to enter America undetected. And the Amabo family has something of his...something that they agreed to carry into the country for him.

When Jared realizes that the good guys are not always innocent, he must make a decision that could change the fates of both the Finches and the Amabos. In this uncommonly penetrating story, Caroline B. Cooney presents many points of view and a fresh perspective on doing the right thing.


GRL: Y

Half-Graph Literature Circle

Kit contains 6 copies of each book.
LOCATION: Brother Andre

* The books in this literature circle are half graphic movel and half regular novel.*

KINNEY, JEFF DIARY OF A WIMPY KID

Being a kid can really stink. And no one knows this better than Greg Heffley, who finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving.

As Greg says in his diary: "Just don't expect me to be all 'Dear Diary' this and 'Dear Diary' that. Luckily for us, what Greg Heffley says he won't do and what he actually does are two very different things.

RL: 5.3 GRL: T

LOOK, LENORE ALVIN HO : ALLERGIC TO GIRLS, SCHOOL, AND OTHER SCARY THINGS

A young boy in Concord Massechusetts , who loves superheroes and comes from a long line of Chinese farmer-warriors, wants to make friends, but first he must overcome his fear of everything.

RL: 3.8 GRL: O

MCDONALD, MEGAN STINK : SOLAR SYSTEM SUPERHERO

When Stink learns that Pluto has flunked the Planet Test for being too shrimpy, he has no choice but to take a stand for the sake of little planets (and little people) everywhere.

Will our humble hero, Stink Moody, be smart enough to defeat a panel of big-shot scientists and class know-it-all Riley Rottenberger? For the answer to this burning question, tune in and prepare to have your universe rocked!

RL: 3.0 GRL: N

MOSS, MARISSA AMELIA'S ARE-WE-THERE-YET LONGEST EVER CAR TRIP

When Amelia and her big sister, Cleo, are stuck together in the backseat of a car for a family road trip, there are fights, plenty of sights, and Amelia's best friend, Nadia, at the end of the road!

RL: 4.3 GRL: P

MOSS, MARISSA MAX DISASTER : ALIEN ERASER TO THE RESCUE

Weclome to Max's book of inventions, experiments, comic strips, and random thoughts about school, pimply older brothers, mutant marshmallows, erasers, and good parents who get into bad fights. Lucky for Max, he has a place to jot down his mixed-up thoughts and brilliant ideas.

RL: 3.0 GRL: N

The Hunger Games

The DBTRC has 60 copies of this book.

LOCATION: St. Patrick Intermediate, Our Lady of Victory

COLLINS, SUZANNE
THE HUNGER GAMES


Winning means fame and fortune.
Losing means certain death.
The Hunger Games have begun...


In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.


Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before -- and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weight survival against humanity and life against love.


RL: 5.3

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

The DBTRC has thirty copies of this book.

LOCATION: St. Patrick's Intermediate


BOYNE, JOHN
THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS


During the Holocaust, Bruno, the son of a high-ranking German soldier, befriends Schmuel, a Jewish prisoner at a concetration camp...


If you start to read this book, you will go on a journey with a nine-year-old boy named Bruno. (Though this isn't a book for nine-year-olds.) And sooner or later you will arrive with Bruno at the fence.


Fences like this exist all over the world. We hope you never have to encounter one.


"Powerful and unsettling...as memorable an introduction to the subject as The Diary of Anne Frank." -- USA Today


"Deeply affecting...Beautiful and sparely written." -- The Wall Street Journal


"Sure to take readers' breath away." -- Publishers Weekly


RL: 8.3