2008-2009 Reading Olympics Books

2008-2009 Senior High Reading Olympics Books AUTHOR LAST NAME Adams Albom Alexie Alvarez AUTHOR FIRST NAME Douglas Mitch Sherman Julia TITLE Life, the Universe and Everything Tuesdays with Morrie Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, The In the Time of the Butterflies ANNOTATION Sequel to: The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy and The restaurant at the end of the universe. The people of Krikkit are planning to destroy the rest of the universe. 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 lif e and death from his college mentor. Budding cartoonis t Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Native American is the school mascot. Gives a fictionalized account of four sis ters in the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of General Trujillo. After finally getting notic ed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose betw een transforming himself or giv ing in to his destructive thoughts. Tw o sisters of opposing temperaments share the pangs of tragic love. Their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between the two sisters, and true love finally triumphs. Ishmael Beah describes his experiences after he was driv en from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the government army at the age of thirteen, serving as a soldier for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF and eventually moving to the United States. Sixteen-year-old Lara, winner of beauty pageants and Homecoming Queen, is distressed and bew ildered when she starts gaining weight and becomes overweight. Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been vis ited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny. Tw o brothers, sons of an incarcerated gypsy, leave London traveling to an isolated and desolate village, in search of the brutal killer of their sister. A confused seventeen-year-old girl, a single mother and her young son, two elderly women, and a sad and lonely man, with their own individual tragedies to bear, come together in a small Manitoba tow n and find a way to a better future. A successful lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship w ith an immigrant Bohemian girl named Antonia. Presents a true account of the murder of fourteen-year-old, Emmett Till, in Mississippi, in 1955. A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies. For months after her death, the memory of Rebecca de Winter continues to dominate everyone at her former home, Manderley, one of the most famous English country houses. The tragic story of the wealthy Jay Gatsby and his attempt to w in back the love of Daisy Buchanan. Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically -gifted, autistic fif teen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother. A three-act play concerned w ith the tensions in a middle- class African American family living on Chicago's Southside in the 1950s. An old fisherman battles the sea and sharks to bring home the giant marlin he caught. As Dimple Lala turns seventeen, she realizes that life is about to become more complex as her best friend starts pulling away and her parents try to find a suitable boyfriend for Dimple, despite the fact that she is not interested. Kristina Georgia Snow's lif e is turned upside-down, when she visits her absentee father, gets turned on to the drug "crank", becomes addic ted, and is led down a desperate path that threatens her mind, soul, and her lif e. Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father Anderson Austen Laurie Halse Jane Tw isted Sense and Sensibility Beah Bennett Black Brooks Brooks Cather Crow e Dow nham DuMaurier Fitzgerald Ishmael Cherie Holly Kevin Martha Willa Chris Jenny Daphne F. Scott Long Way Gone Life in the Fat Lane Tithe: A Modern Fairy Tale Road of the Dead, The True Confessions of a Heartless Girl My Antonia Getting Away w ith Murder Before I Die Rebecca Great Gatsby Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime Raisin in the Sun, A Old Man and the Sea Haddon Hansberry Hemingw ay Mark Lorraine Ernest Hidier Tanuja Desai Born Confused Hopkins Ellen Crank Hudson Jan Sw eetgrass Jenkins Johnson Kerr Kingsolver Klause Koontz Letts Lynch A.M. Angela M.E. Barbara Annette Dean Billie Chris Repossessed First Part Last Deliver Us from Evie Bean Trees Blood and Chocolate Watchers Where the Heart Is Inexcusable Mikaelsen Myers Ben Walter Dean Touching Spirit Bear Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary : A fallen angel, tired of being unappreciated while doing his pointless, demeaning job, leaves Hell, enters the body of a seventeen-year-old boy, and tries to experience the full range of human feelings before being caught and punished, while the boy's family and friends puzzle over his changed behavior. Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter. 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 w ith the daughter of the town's banker. 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. 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 w ith whom. Relates the adventures of tw o creatures which have escaped from a secret, sinister government laboratory where experiments in genetic engineering are conducted. Novalee Nation, seventeen, pregnant, and living in a Wal-Mart store discovers friendship, encouragement, direction and love w ith a group of caring people in Sequoyah, Oklahoma. High school senior and football player Keir sets out to enjoy himself on graduation night, but when he attempts to comfort a friend whose date has left her stranded, things go terribly wrong. After his anger erupts into violence, fifteen year-old Cole, in order to avoid going to pris on, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the Native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island which changes his life. Chronicles the life of controversial militant leader Malcolm X. 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 w ith the course his life has taken. Janie w as four years old when she nearly drowned due to her mother's neglect. Through an unhappy foster home experience, and years of feeling that she is unwanted, she keeps alive her dream of someday being a famous singer. A political satire in whic h the animals take over running the farm, but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship. During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in tw o mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois. Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volc anic eruptions. A young German boy recounts the fate of his best friend, a Jew, during the Nazi regime. Presents the true story of Brent Runyon, who at fourteen set himself on fire and sustained burns over eighty percent of his body and describes the months of physical and mental rehabilitation that followed as he attempted to pull his life together. Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon, the victim of a sexual assault and murder, looks on from the afterlife as her family deals w ith their grief, and waits for her killer to be brought to some type of justice. When Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash, they end up in Everlost, or limbo for lost souls , where, although Nick is satisfied, Allie w ill stop at nothing--even skinjacking--to break free. Terrible events follow the dis covery of a magnificent pearl by a poor Mexican fis herman. Tired of being hungry, cold, and dirty from living on the streets of New York City w ith a tribe of other homeless teenagers who are dying, one by one, a girl named Maybe ponders her future and longs for someone to care about her. Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format. After a nasty fall, Naomi realizes that she has no memory of the last four years and finds herself reassessing every aspect of her lif e. Myers Walter Dean Monster Nolan Orwell Peck Han George Richard Born Blue Animal Farm River Betw een Us Pfeffer Richter Susan Beth Hans Life As We Knew It Friedrich Runyon Sebold Brent Alice Burn Journals, The Lovely Bones Shusterman Steinbeck Neal John Everlost Pearl Strasser Yang Zevin Todd Gene Luen Gabrielle Can't Get There From Here American Born Chinese Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac Annotations from Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Entries.