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STRAYDOG
“Smart, angry, and alone, Rachel doesn’t
fit in . . .She feels best when she’s writing
and when she’s volunteering at the animal
shelter, especially after a feral collie
appears, whom she names Grrl. . . strong
characters, rich detail, and well-articukated
emotions.” —Booklist
Rec: BL, PW, SLJ
4 1/4 x 6 3/4 128 pp. 2004
978-0-14-240071-5 $5.99
KOSS, AMY GOLDMAN
THE CHEAT
“Koss explores the ramifications of a
school cheating scandal through the
eyes of six students, who are involved in
varying degrees…provide[s] an excellent
springboard to provocative discussion or
debate about the moral and ethical questions
that this issue raises.”
—School Library Journal
Rec: BL, C, SLJ, V
4 1/4 x 6 3/4 176 pp. 2004
978-0-14-240128-6 $5.99
KRIZMANIC, JUDY
THE TEEN’S VEGETARIAN
COOkBOOk
Illustrated by Matthew Wawiorka
Here are over 120 recipes for mouthwatering
and nutritious meals, snacks,
and desserts that are easy enough of
beggining chefs to handle. You’ll also
find a glossary of cooking terms and
unusual ingredients, and complete
step-by-step menus for meals the whole
family can enjoy.
Rec: BL, V
6 x 9 192 pp. 1999
978-0-14-038506-9 $10.99
LAIRD, ELIZABETH
kISS THE DUST
Because the Iraqi secret police are looking
for her father, Tara Hawrami and her
family must flee their suburban home
for the mountains of Kurdistan. But the
Iraquis want to annihilate the Kurds, and
their bombs drive the Hawramis over the
border into Iran, where they must live
in a brutal refugee camp. “Laird weaves
compelling facts about the conflict between
the Arabs and the Kurds into her
gripping tale about one family’s escape
to freedom.” —Publishers WeeklyH
Rec: AY, BL, C, CR, H, K, NYTA, PWH, SLJ, TE, W
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 281 pp. 1994
978-0-14-036855-0 $6.99
LARBALESTIER, JUSTINE
MAGIC LESSONS
Fifteen-year-old Reason Cansino has
learned the painful truth that she—
like her mother, grandmother, and new
friends Tom and Jay-Tee—must make a
choice: to use the magic that lives in her
blood and die young, or refuse to use
the magic and lose her mind. Now a new
threat leaves Reason stranded alone in
New York City, struggling to control a
power she barely understands. But could
the danger she faces also hold the key to
saving her life?
Rec: BL, C, K, SLJ, V
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 304 pp. 2007
978-1-59514-124-8 $7.99
MAGIC OR MADNESS
From the Sydney, Australia home of
a grandmother she believes is a witch,
fifteen-year-old Reason Cansino is
magically transported to New York City,
where she discovers that friends and
foes can be hard to distinguish. “In this
fierce, hypnotic novel, character, story,
and the thrumming forces of magic
strike a rare, memorable balance.”
—School Library JournalH
Rec: BLH, SLJH
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 304 pp. 2006
978-1-59514-070-8 $7.99
LASKY, KATHRYN
BROkEN SONG
“Like her award-winning The Night
Journey, this draws on Lasky’s Jewish
grandparents’ experience fleeing violent
persecution in Eastern Europe at the
turn of the nineteenth century. Her
focus is on Reuven Bloom, 15, a violin
prodigy living in a shtetl in the Pale of
Russia…the young man’s brave struggle
is a part of Jewish history, and it’s all the
more powerful here because it is told
without reverence.” —Booklist
Rec: BL, C, H, K, SLJ, V
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 160 pp. 2007
978-0-14-240741-7 $6.99
THE NIGHT JOURNEY
Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
“Each afternoon 13-year-old Rachel
spends time keeping her great-grandmother,
Nana Sashie, company. This
trial they both must endure turns into
the highlight of their lives when Nana
decides to share with Rachel the story of
her family’s escape from czarist Russia.”
—BooklistH
Rec: AN, BLH, C, NC, R, SLJ
National Jewish Book Award
4 3/8 x 7 1/8 160 pp. 1986
978-0-14-240322-8 $5.99
See index for more titles by Trina Schart Hyman.
LAWRENCE, SARA
THOSE GIRLS ❖
Jinx and Liberty are lovely, rich and
rambunctious seventeen-year-olds at the
exclusive Stagmount School for Girls.
It seems as if nothing can slow Jinx and
Liberty down in their pursuit of fun,
not even The Gunn, their bad-tempered
former headmistress.
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 288 pp. 2007
978-1-59514-169-9 $9.99
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