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Health & Well-being

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Health & Well-being”:

Senior: Blame My Brain; Toxic Masculinity; Reproductive Rights; Are Graphic Music Lyrics Harmful?; The Effectiveness of Alternative Medicine; Teens: Cutting and Self-Injury

Middle: Positively Teen; Anorexia and Bulimia: Dangerous Eating Disorders; Drug Addiction and Substance Use Disorders; Sleep Disorders: What Keeps People Up at Night?; The Tween Book: A Growing-up Guide for the Changing You; Left Brain vs. Right Brain

Junior: What to Do When You Worry Too Much; A Journey Through the Digestive System with Max Axiom; What to Do When Your Temper Flares; Let’s Talk About Where Babies Come From; Human Body; Dealing With Bullying

2020-02-28T14:23:21+00:00February 28th, 2020|

Once Upon a Crime

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Once Upon a Crime”:

Senior: D.O.G.S.; Murder on the Orient Express; Crime and Punishment; Incarceration of Minors; Crime, Punishment and Protest; Incarceration: Punishment or Rehabilitation?

Middle: First Class Murder; Framed; The Medusa Plot; Illegal; The Death Penalty; Cruel Crime and Painful Punishment

Junior: Gangsta Granny; The Mystery of the Invisible Thief; The Mysterious Cheese Thief; The Dark Web: The Covert World of Cybercrime; Investigating a Car Crash; Forensics

2020-02-21T11:43:58+00:00February 21st, 2020|

Math & Technology

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Math & Technology”:

Senior: Professor Povey’s Perplexing Problems; Slicing Pizzas, Racing Turtles, and Further Adventures in Applied Mathematics; College Mathematics Through Baseball; Learn to Program with Scratch; Data Mining; Artificial Intelligence: Building Smarter Machines

Middle: Code Like a Girl; The Dark Web: The Covert World of Cybercrime; Digital Data Security; Piracy from the High Seas to the Digital Age; Computer Coding for Kids; The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl

Junior: If… A Mind-Bending Way of Looking at Big Ideas & Numbers; Bio-Inspired Transportation and Communication; Bionic Bodies: High-tech Body Science; Artificial Intelligence; Jack and the Geniuses: At the Bottom of the World; Codes and Codebreaking

2020-02-07T12:35:59+00:00February 7th, 2020|

Sweet Reads

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Sweet Reads”:

Senior: Lovely War; Pride; Love, Simon; Field Notes on Love; Ethel & Ernest; Hidden Surprise Cakes

Middle: Puppy Love; Love Lessons; Notes from a Totally Lame Vampire; Cherry Crush; The Truth Behind Soft Drinks; Eat This! How Fast Food Marketing Gets You to Buy Junk (and how to fight back)

Junior: The Chocolate Chase; Love Stinks; Saving Winslow; Love and Chicken Nuggets; Madame Pamplemousse and the Enchanted Sweet Shop; Cookbook for Girls

2020-01-31T11:44:26+00:00January 31st, 2020|

Art Attack

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Art Attack”:

Senior: The History of Photography; Decorated Skin: A World Survey of Body Art; Ways of Seeing; The Power of Comics; The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium; Graphic: Inside the Sketchbooks of the World’s Great Graphic Designers

Middle: The Art of Origami; The Usborne Introduction to Modern Art; Creating the Cover for your Graphic Novel; Complete Book of Drawing; Chasing Vermeer; The Guggenheim Mystery

Junior: The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas; Vincent van Gogh; Famous Paintings; Roman Things to Make and Do; Leonardo da Vinci; The Mona Mousa Code

2020-01-24T14:42:47+00:00January 24th, 2020|

Earth Week

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Earth Week”:

Senior: Junk Raft: An ocean voyage and a rising tide of activism to fight plastic pollution; Development, Land Use, and Environmental Impact; The Economics of Clean Energy; Climate Change and Population Displacement; Eyes Wide Open: Going behind environmental headlines; The Paris Climate Agreement

Middle: The Climate Change Crisis; Renewable Resources and You; Biodegradability and You; Recycling and You; Defining and Discussing Climate Change; Planet Protection

Junior: Analyzing Disappearing Habitats; Climate Change and Food Production; Natural Resources Eco Facts; Climate Change Eco Facts; Pollution Eco Facts; Biodiversity Eco Facts

2020-01-17T09:51:55+00:00January 17th, 2020|

Science: Fiction and Fact

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Science: Fiction and Fact”:

Junior: The Extreme Climate; Cell Life With Max Axiom; All About Physics; The Day She Saved the Doctor; Jack and the Geniuses at the Bottom of the World; Secret Coders

Middle: Biology: Understanding Living Matter; Smash: Exploring the mysteries of the universe with the Large Hadron Collider; Scientific Revolution: How science and technology shaped the world; Jinxed; The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl; George and the Ship of Time

Senior: Reality is Not What it Seems; Tense Bees and Shell-Shocked Crabs: Are animals conscious?; 30-Second Theories; Never Let Me Go; Killer T; Otherworld

2020-01-10T14:28:02+00:00January 10th, 2020|

Chill Out With a Good Book

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Chill Out With a Good Book”:

Junior: Alice-Miranda in the Alps; Snow Tales; The Big Snow; The Snow Jewel; Crystal the Snow Fairy; Snowboard Superpipe

Middle: Endling: The Last; An Eagle in the Snow; The Snow Spider Trilogy; Julie of the Wolves; Ultimate Snowboarding; The Call of the Wild

Senior: Cold War Capitalism; Brief Answers to the Big Questions; The Dead of Winter; Looking for Alaska; Wintergirls; Let it Snow

2019-12-16T14:52:26+00:00January 4th, 2020|

Holiday Reads

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Holiday Reads”:

Junior: How the Grinch Stole Christmas; The Polar Express; A Christmas Carol; The Nutcracker; Invasion of the Christmas Puddings; Samantha’s Surprise

Middle: A Christmas Carol and other Christmas stories; Sky Song; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; Truce; The Meltdown; Skating Sensation

Senior: Lost Christmas; Windfall; The Christmas Books; Home; Hidden Surprise Cakes; A Train in Winter

2019-11-29T12:46:46+00:00November 29th, 2019|

History’s Mysteries

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “History’s Mysteries”:

Junior: Stone Age; Roman Soldier’s Handbook; The Story of the First World War; Gross Facts About Vikings; Life in a Medieval Castle; Prehistoric Adventures: Stone Circles

Middle: North Korea: A closer look at the secret state; The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The struggle for Middle East peace; The Red Baron; 10 Routes That Crossed the World; Renaissance Medicine; The End of World War I

Senior: Historical Revisionism; Recasting Bourgeois Europe; The French Revolution, Napoleon, and the Republic; The Blockade of the Gaza Strip; Showa: A History of Japan 1953-1989; Ancient World: 2700 B.C.E.-c.500 C.E.

2019-11-22T14:42:30+00:00November 22nd, 2019|

New Fiction

Check out some of our new fiction titles:

Junior: Louisiana’s Way Home; Barry Loser: Worst School Trip Ever; A Daring School Rescue; Kat Wolfe Investigates; Bob; 10 Ten-Minute Stories

Middle: The Book of Boy; How to Bee; Endling: The First; The Button War; Sunny; Libby in the Middle

Senior: She is Not Invisible; Scarlet, Otherworld; Refugee; Field Notes on Love; The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

2019-11-08T13:01:47+00:00November 8th, 2019|

Hot Topics!

Check out some of our new titles on Hot Topics:

Junior: Planet Protection; Analyzing the Food Supply Chain; Analyzing Disappearing Habitats; Defining and Discussing Immigration; Defining and Discussing Human Rights; Defining and Discussing Women’s Rights

Middle: The Dangers of Digital Addiction; Pandemics: Deadly Disease Outbreaks; The Climate Change Crisis; Poverty and Economic Inequality; The Global Threat of Terrorism; Alternative Energy Sources: The End of Fossil Fuels?

Senior: Whistleblowers; Automation of Labor; Reproductive Rights; School Shootings; Feminism; Cultural Appropriation

2019-11-01T10:35:00+00:00November 1st, 2019|
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