320.973 MA
Living through the red scare. Detriot : Greenhaven Press : Thomson/Gale, c2006. Presents twelve essays on the Cold War Communist threat written by Ronald Reagan, Joseph McCarthy, and others on topics such as reprisals against teachers and suppression of free speech, the Hollywood film industry, the Alger Hiss trial, and more.
324 HA
Halperin, Mark. The undecided voter's guide to the next president : where the candidates come from, what they believe, and how to make your choice. New York : Harper Perennial, c2007. Profiles seven 2008 presidential candidates, including Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, and Fred Thompson, discussing their beliefs, public and private lives, and presidential prospects.
342.73 HE
Freedom of the press. Detroit : Greenhaven Press : Thomson/Gale, c2005. Presents a series of thirteen essays that discusses the history of the first amendment freedom of the press and examines colonial freedoms, the Supreme Court and twentieth-century laws regarding obscenity and libel, as well as issues concerning the Patriot Act.
342.73 ZA
Freedom of religion. Detroit : Greenhaven Press : Thomson/Gale, c2005. Traces the history of freedom of religion as a guaranteed liberty in the United States by providing primary and secondary text analysis and commentary. Includes an annotated list of related Supreme Court cases.
345.73 WI
The right to a trial by jury. Detroit : Greenhaven Press : Thomson/Gale, c2005. Traces the development of the right to a trial by a jury--a guaranteed right in the United States--and provides information through primary and secondary text analysis and commentary. Includes an annotated list of related Supreme Court cases.
346.73 AL
Allman, Toney. Downloading music. Yankton, SD : Erickson Press, c2007. Explores the laws and controversies surrounding music downloading, discussing lawsuits against downloaders, the restrictions of DRM, and differing opinions within the music industry.
347.73 LA
The right to a fair trial. Detroit : Greenhaven Press : Thomson/Gale, c2005. Presents an examination of the right to a fair trail, as guaranteed by the United States Bill of Rights, providing information on its inception, foundation, and tracing its evolution through primary source documents, secondary sources, and looking at how it applies today.
347.73 TR
The right to due process. Detroit : Greenhaven Press : Thomson/Gale, c2005. Presents a comprehensive study of due process as stated in the fifth and fourteenth amendments, and contains essays on the history of due process and the rights of the accused, civil liberties, and other issues.
354.75 DA
Policing the Internet. Detroit : Greenhaven Press : Thomson/Gale, c2007. The Internet needs policing / David Talbot -- Teenagers need policing online / Vicki Haddock -- Government should regulate the Internet / Ronald J. Mann and Seth R. Belzley -- Government should not regulate the Internet / Michael R. Nelson -- Cyberterrorism is a serious threat / John Mallery -- Cyberterrorism is not a serious threat / Joshua Green -- Identity theft is a growing problem / Sunil Dutta -- Identity theft is not a growing problem / Brian Bergstein -- Children face a growing risk of identity theft / Alyssa Work -- Internet pornography harms society / Richard Jerome -- Internet pornography benefits society / Annalee Newitz -- Social networking sites contribute to crime / Bill Hewitt -- Social networking sites do not contribute to crime / Gary Stager -- Cyberbullying is a growing problem / Rachel Simmons. Essays from various sources provide a wide range of opinions on policing the Internet, discussing monitoring of teenagers, government regulations, cyberterrorism, identity theft, pornography, social networking sites, and cyberbullying.
362.8 KI
The truth about rape. New York : Facts on File, c2005. Presents an A to Z volume that provides information on rape and sexual assault important to teens, and addresses issues such as date rape, sexual harassment, the impact of drugs and alcohol on rape, and much more.
363.45 BA
Drug trafficking. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008. Contains twenty-six essays that offer varying perspectives on issues related to drug trafficking, including how and if it should be stopped, the effects on the United States of stopping drug trafficking, the War on Drugs and Latin America, and the War on Terror; and provides contact information for organizations and a bibliography.
371.2 CA
School policies. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008. Are all school policies necessary and effective? -- Do school policies ensure students' safety? -- Do school policies respect students' rights? -- What school policies are needed in the future? Contains twenty-four essays that offer varying perspectives on issues related to school policies, including if they are all necessary and effective, if they insure student safety, if they respect students' rights, and policies that might be needed in the future; and provides discussion questions, contact information for organizations, and bibliographies.
590.73 VA
Zoos and animal welfare. Detroit, MI : Greenhaven Press, c2008. Contains fourteen essays that offer varying perspectives on issues related to zoo and animal welfare, discussing if animals suffer in captivity, whether or not elephants are thriving in zoos, the role of zoos in education, and other topics; and provides contact information for organizations and a bibliography.
613.8 SL
Slade, Suzanne. OxyContin abuse. New York : Rosen Central, 2008. What is OxyContin? -- Effects on the body -- Effects on the mind -- Abusing OxyContin -- It's your life. Provides information about the pain medication OxyContin, explaining what it is, describing its effects on the body and mind, and discussing the consequences of OxyContin abuse.
616.7 AB
Abramovitz, Melissa, 1954- Lupus. Detroit : Lucent Books, c2008. Introduction: no longer a death sentence -- What is lupus? -- What causes lupus? -- How is lupus treated? -- Living with lupus -- The future. Offers an overview of lupus, discussing its causes, symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatment options, and impact on patients' everyday lives.
616.8 LI
Lillrank, Sonja M. Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. New York : Chelsea House, c2007. What is dementia? -- Signs and symptoms of dementia -- Disorders related to dementia -- Alzheimer's disease -- Other types of dementias -- Causes and treatments of dementia -- Outlook for the future. Examines the symptoms, causes, and effects of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, and discusses available treatments, as well as the outlook for the future.
616.86 HA
Harrow, Jeremy. Crystal meth. New York : Rosen Central, 2008. Provides information about the drug crystal meth, explaining what it is, describing its effects on an addict's physical appearance, mind, and body, and discussing the consequences of crystal meth abuse.
616.86 SC
Addiction. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008. Personal narratives explore the dangers of addiction, with people describing the devastating impact their addictions had on their personal and professional lives and sharing how they overcame their addictions.
616.86 TH
Thakkar, Vatsal, 1972- Addiction. New York : Chelsea House, c2006. A brief history of addiction -- Causes of addiction -- Nicotine -- Alcohol and other sedatives -- Marijuana -- Ecstasy -- Cocaine and stimulants -- Heroine and other opiates -- Inhalants and hallucinogens -- Non-drug addictions: food, sex, and gambling -- Treatment and recovery. Examines the symptoms, causes, and effects of addiction to nicotine, alcohol, marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine, heroin, and inhalants, as well as non-drug addictions to food, sex, and gambling, and looks at treatment options and recovery.
616.9 BO
Bozzone, Donna M. Causes of cancer. New York : Chelsea House, c2007. An unexpected clue -- How do we determine the causes of cancer? -- Cancer and lifestyle -- Infectious agents as causes of cancer -- Radiation and cancer -- Occupational andenvironmental carcinogens -- Can cancer be inherited? -- Cancancer be prevented? -- Questions and challenges for the future. Examines the biology of cancer, focusing on the causes of cancer, looking at infectious agents, radiation, and occupational and environmental carcinogens, and considering whether the disease can be inherited or prevented. . Includes a glossary and resources for further research.
616.9 LY
Lyons, Lyman. Diagnosis and treatment of cancer. New York : Chelsea House, c2007. What is cancer? -- Diagnosing cancer -- Deciding on treatment -- Cutting out tumors: surgery -- Bombarding cancer: radiation therapy -- Cancer-killing molecules: chemotherapy -- Stem cell transplant and biological therapy -- Complementary and alternative therapies -- Living with cancer. Examines the biology of cancer, focusing on methods used to detect and diagnosis the disease, and looking at various forms of treatment. Includes a glossary and resources for further research.
616.9 NA
Nardo, Don, 1947- Human papillomavirus (HPV). Detroit : Lucent Books, c2007. Explores the history, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of human papillomavirus and discusses different cancers caused by the virus.
618.7 MI
Miller, Debra A. Postpartum depression. Detroit : Lucent Books, c2008. Introduction: when motherhood becomes a nightmare -- What is postpartum depression? -- Diagnosis and drug treatment -- Nondrug therapies -- Effects of PPD on the child and others -- The road to recovery. An introduction to postpartum depression, explaining what it is, and discussing its diagnosis, drug and nondrug treatments and therapies, and the effects of the condition on the newborn and other family members.
796 WA Child athletes. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008. Collects fifteen articles that present positive and negative viewpoints on childhood sports, exploring such aspects as physical and mental benefits and harmfulness, neglect of academics, and financial costs; and includes an annotated list of related organizations.
796.22 PR
Preszler, Eric. Skateboarding. Mankato, Minn. : Capstone Press, c2005. Skateboarding -- Skateboarding gear -- Skateboarding moves -- Skateboarding stars. Examines the history of skateboarding, following its development into an extreme sport, looks at skateboarding gear, describes various moves, and introduces some of the stars of the sport. Includes instructions for performing a Frontside 180.
916.5 DI
DiPiazza, Francesca, 1961- Algeria in pictures. Minneapolis, MN : Twenty-First Century Books, c2008. Brief illustrated presentation of the physical and political geography of Algeria.
970.01 FR
Freedman, Russell. Who was first? : discovering the Americas. New York : Clarion Books, c2007. Before Columbus -- Admiral of the ocean sea -- Did China discover America? -- Leif the lucky -- The not-so-new world -- Who really discovered America? Examines the evidence that indicates others may have traveled to the Americas before Columbus in 1492 including Viking ruins, Mayan stonework, and other mysterious objects found in New England that date before Columbus.
973.91 CO
Living through the Great Depression. San Diego : Greenhaven Press ; Detroit : Thomson/Gale, c2004. Contains primary and secondary documents that provide insights into life in the United States during the Great Depression, discussing marriage and family, education, work projects, art and literature, leisure and entertainment, and communities and support.
973.91 WE Living in 1920s America. Detroit : Greenhaven Press : Thomson/Gale, c2006. Presents a collection of essays that describe what life was like in America in the 1920s, including information on family, home life, food, drink, women's roles, education, technology, and more.
B BE Beah, Ishmael, 1980- A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier. New York : Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2007. Ishmael Beah describes his experiences after he was driven 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.
B BO
Giblin, James. Good brother, bad brother : the story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth. New York : Clarion Books, c2005. Tells the life stories of nineteenth-century actor Edwin Booth and his actor brother John Wilkes Booth, describing the differences between the two men, chronicling John's assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and examining the impact of John's crime on the Booth family for decades afterward.
B CO
Koestler-Grack, Rachel A., 1973- Hernándo Cortés and the fall of the Aztecs. Philadelphia : Chelsea House, c2006. Leave none without a wound -- A reckless youth -- We shall conquer -- The conquest begins -- Cortez meets Moctezuma -- March to Tenochtitlán -- The kidnap of Moctezuma -- Aztec uprising -- Conquest! -- "I am the man!"?. Examines the life of Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes, discussing his youth, his leadership during the conquest of the Aztec Empires, and his later years.
B CO
Mountjoy, Shane, 1967- Francisco Coronado : and the seven cities of gold. Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2006. The seven cities of gold -- The explorer's early life -- Coronado's world -- Friar Marcos -- The expedition begins -- Cíbola -- From conquistador to explorer -- Fighting and failure -- Coronado returns to New Spain. Chronicles the life of sixteenth-century Spanish explorer Francisco Coronado, describing his search for the Seven Cities of Gold, the challenges his expedition faced as it traveled through the American southwest, and his impact on Spanish and American history.
B CO
Shields, Charles J., 1951- James Cook and the exploration of the Pacific. Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2002. Examines the life and career of eighteenth-century English navigator and mapmaker James Cook, focusing on his exploration of the South Pacific.
B FR
Marcovitz, Hal. John C. Frémont : pathfinder of the West. Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2002. Examines the life and work of nineteenth-century explorer and mapmaker John C. Frémont, focusing on his accomplishments as leader of several expeditions into the largely uncharted American West.
B KU
Duffield, Katy. Ken Kutaragi : PlayStation developer. Detroit : KidHaven Press : Thomson/Gale, c2008. An up-and coming inventor -- Challenges at Sony -- The PlayStation phenomenon -- The phenomenon continues. A brief biography of Ken Kataragi, inventor and developer of PlayStation, that describes his childhood in Japan and early inventions and interest in electronics.
B LI
Koestler-Grack, Rachel A., 1973- Spirit of St. Louis. Edina, Minn. : Abdo & Daughters, c2005. Presents a brief biography of Charles Lindbergh, in simple text with photographs, providing information on his famous flight across the Atlantic Ocean in his plane, "Spirit of St. Louis," his celebrity, and the kidnapping of his young son, Charles Jr.
B MA
Crompton, Samuel Willard. Ferdinand Magellan : and the quest to circle the globe. Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2006. Presents a comprehensive study of sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his quest to find the Spice Islands of the Far East and to circumnavigate the globe.
B ME Adelson, Bruce. George Gordon Meade : Union general. Philadelphia : Chelsea House, c2002. Chronicles the life of Union General George Gordon Meade, providing information on his childhood in Philadelphia, his education at West Point, his work for the army, and his involvement in the Civil War.
B PI
Mountjoy, Shane, 1967- Francisco Pizarro : and the conquest of the Inca. Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2006. Chronicles the life of sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro, describing his conquest of Peru and the impact of his subjugation of the Incas on world history.
B PO
Davenport, John. Juan Ponce de León and his lands of discovery. Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2006. 1493 -- A new Spain and a new world -- A young adventurer -- A new life in a new land -- Finding Florida -- Building on success -- Florida and the price of ambition -- Ponce de León, the new world, and history. Examines the life and adventures of sixteenth-century Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon, and describes his discoveries, victory, and defeats.
F AP
Applegate, Katherine. Home of the brave. New York : Feiwel And Friends, 2007. Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth-grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner.
F CO
Colfer, Eoin. Airman. New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2008. In the 1890s on an island off the Irish coast, Conor Broekhart is falsely imprisoned and passes the solitary months by scratching designs of flying machines into the walls, including one for a glider with which he dreams of escape.
F CU
Curtis, Christopher Paul. Elijah of Buxton. New York : Scholastic, 2007. Eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American South in 1859, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
F DA
Davis, Deborah, 1957- Not like you. New York : Clarion Books, c2007. When she and her mother move once again in order to make a new start, fifteen-year-old Kayla is hopeful that her mother will be able to stop drinking and begin a better life, as she has been promising for years.
F HA
Hale, Shannon. Book of a thousand days. New York : Bloomsbury ; [S.l.] : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007. Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.
F HA
Harper, Suzanne. The secret life of Sparrow Delaney. [New York] : Greenwillow Books, c2007. In Lily Dale, New York, a community dedicated to the religion of Spiritualism, tenth-grader Sparrow Delaney, the youngest daughter in an eccentric family of psychics, agonizes over whether or not to reveal her special abilities in order to help a friend.
F HO
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki. A stir of bones. New York : Firebird, 2005, c2003. After discovering the secrets that lie in an abandoned house, fourteen-year-old Susan Backstrom, with the help of some new friends, has the ability to make a safe, new life for herself.
F HO
Holm, Jennifer L. Middle school is worse than meatloaf : a year told through stuff. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2007. Ginny makes a to do list for her seventh grade year, which includes landing a role in the school play, trying to make friends, ignoring her horoscope, and going to see her grandpa Joe in Florida; but she always seems to come up short in accomplishing any of it.
F HU
Hulme, John, 1970- The glitch in sleep. New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck, 2007. When twelve-year-old Becker Drane is recruited by The Seems, a parallel universe that runs everything in The World, he must fix a disastrous glitch in the Department of Sleep that threatens the ability of everyone to fall asleep.
F JI
Jinks, Catherine. Evil genius. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, 2007, c2005. Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.
F JO
Jocelyn, Marthe. How it happened in Peach Hill. New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2007. When fifteen-year-old Annie Grey and her "clairvoyant" mother arrive in Peach Hill, New York, in 1924, each finds a reason for wanting to finally settle down, but to reach their goals they will have to do some serious lying and Annie will have to stand up for herself.
F JO
Johnston, Tony, 1942- Bone by bone by bone. New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2007. In 1950s Tennessee, ten-year-old David's racist father refuses to let him associate with his best friend Malcolm, an African American boy.
F KO
Kostick, Conor. Epic. New York : Viking, 2007, c2004. On New Earth, a world based on a video role-playing game, fourteen-year-old Erik pursuades his friends to aid him in some unusual gambits in order to save Erik's father from exile and safeguard the futures of each of their families.
F MA
Mass, Wendy, 1967- A mango-shaped space : a novel. New York : Little, Brown, 2005, c2003. Afraid that she is crazy, thirteen-year-old Mia, who sees a special color with every letter, number, and sound, keeps this a secret until she becomes overwhelmed by school, changing relationships, and the death of her beloved cat, Mango.
F RO
Roy, Jennifer Rozines, 1967- Yellow star. Tarrytown, NY : Marshall Cavendish, c2006. From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
F SC
Schlitz, Laura Amy. Good masters! sweet ladies! : voices from a medieval village. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2007. Hugo, the Lord's nephew -- Taggot, the blacksmith's daughter -- Will, the plowboy -- Alice, the shepherdess -- Thomas, the doctor's son -- Constance, the pilgrim -- Mogg, the villein's daughter -- Otho, the miller's son -- Jack, the half-wit -- Simon, the knight's son -- Edgar, the falconer's son -- Isobel, the Lord's daughter -- Barbary, the mud slinger -- Jacob Ben Salomon, the moneylender's son, and Petronella, the merchant's daughter -- Lowdy, the varlet's child -- Pask, the runaway -- Piers, the glassblower's apprentice -- Mariot and Maud, the glassblower's daughters -- Nelly, the sniggler -- Drogo, the tanner's apprentice -- Giles, the beggar. A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.
F SC
Schmidt, Gary D. The Wednesday wars. New York : Clarion Books, c2007. During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
F SH
Shusterman, Neal. Unwind. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2007. Three teens embark upon a cross-country journey in order to escape from a society that salvages body parts from children ages thirteen to eighteen.
F ST
Stewart, Trenton Lee. The mysterious Benedict Society. New York : Little, Brown, 2007. After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.
F TA
Tan, Shaun. The arrival. New York : A. A. Levine, 2007. In this wordless graphic novel, a man leaves his homeland and sets off for a new country, where he must build a new life for himself and his family.
F TA
Tarshis, Lauren. Emma-Jean Lazarus fell out of a tree. New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c2007. A quirky and utterly logical seventh-grade girl named Emma-Jean Lazarus discovers some interesting results when she gets involved in the messy everyday problems of her peers.
F VA
Vaught, Susan, 1965- Big fat manifesto. New York : Bloomsbury, 2008. High school senior Jamie Carcaterra tries to win a scholarship by sharing her experiences as a fat girl in today's appearance-obsessed high school culture, but as she opens her life up to the criticism of her classmates and the media, she begins to wonder if she is being truly honest with herself.
F WE
Wells, Rosemary. Red moon at Sharpsburg : a novel. New York : Viking, 2007. Even though the odds are against her and the Civil War has ruined her home and given her a view of the darker side of humanity, thirteen-year-old India Moody continues to aspire to become a scientist and attend Oberlin College.
F WE
Westerfeld, Scott. Extras. New York : Simon Pulse, 2007. In an alternative civilization where the social status of each person is monitored and rated and anyone can drop from celebrity to nobody, fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse's popularity ranking is so low her only chance of moving up is to find a good story, so when she meets a group of girls who hide an explosive secret, Aya decides to expose the group and unknowingly puts her own life in danger.
F WO
Woodson, Jacqueline. Feathers. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2007. When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
F YO
Yolen, Jane. The devil's arithmetic. New York : Puffin, 2004, c1988. Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland.
REF 781.66 KN
Knight, Judson. Parents aren't supposed to like it : rock & other pop musicians of today. Detroit : UXL, c2002. Vol. 4. A-F -- v. 5. G-M -- v. 6. N-Z. Profiles over one hundred contemporary musicians and bands in the categories of alternative rock, rap, folk music, and others.
REF 917.1 JU
Junior Worldmark encyclopedia of the Canadian provinces. Detroit : U-X-L, 2007. Provides geographic, demographic, economic, and social information about the ten Canadian provinces and three territories, organized within forty subject categories such as location and size, languages, fishing, forestry, education, and famous people.
SC BE
Best shorts : favorite short stories for sharing. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006. Rogue wave / by Theodore Taylor -- The caller / by Robert D. San Souci -- Scout's honor / by Avi -- The dog of Pompeii / by Louis Untermeyer -- LAFFF / by Lensey Namioka -- Rip Van Winkle / by Washington Irving -- Nuts / by Natalie Babbitt -- Flight of the swan / by Marian Flandrick Bray -- Ho-Ichi the Earless / by Rafe Martin -- The lady who put salt in her coffee / by Lucrecia Hale -- The town cats / by Lloyd Alexander -- Zlatah the goat / by Isaac Bashevis Singer -- To starch a spook / by Andrew Benedict -- The night of the pomegranate / by Tim Wynne-Jones -- The librarian and the robbers / by Margaret Mahy -- The woman in the snow / by Patricia McKissack -- The binnacle boy / by Paul Fleischman -- The baby in the night deposit box / by Megan Whalen Turner -- The circuit / by Francisco Jiménez -- The Widow Carey's chickens / by Gerald Hausman -- The special powers of Blossom Culp / by Richard Peck -- A white heron / by Sarah Orne Jewett -- Jimmy takes vanishing lessons / by Walter R. Brooks -- The lady or the tiger? / by Frank Stockton. Presents a collection of old and new short stories for young readers including "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving, "The Town Cats" by Lloyd Alexander, and "Scout's Honor" by Avi.
DVD 374.2 CO
Code word caper. LeapFrog Enterprises, 2004. When Mr. Websley is accidentally silenced by the Silent E Machine, Leap, Lily and Tab must journey throughout the Complex Word Complex to solve the code needed to return his voice. Guided only by the "Absent Professor Device," the kids learn how to build the complex words needed to solve the code to save the day.
DVD 513 MA
Math circus.
LeapFrog Enterprises, 2004. Watch the Quidgit Family and the Subtractobats perform high-flying feats of mathematics. Leap, Lily, Tad and Professor Quigley train numbers to count, add and subtract in a series of amazing circus acts. Numbers and Quidgits bounce and fly from trampolines, trapezes and cannons as they teach early mathematical concepts.
DVD 550 PL
Planet Earth : Disc 1. Discovery Communications, 2007. Pole to Pole - Mountains - Deep Ocean Pole to Pole: Follow the sun as it touches the lives of creatures across the planet, bringing a fresh understanding of how the world is interconnected. From African herds migrating hundreds of miles in search of water to desperate animal hunts, Pole to Pole examines how the seasons produce the greatest spectacles on Earth. Mountains: Tour the planet's mightiest mountain ranges and meet the rare animals that inhabit them. From a never-before-seen hunt by snow leopards on the treacherous slopes of the Himalayas, to a family of pumas struggling to survive the unstable weather of the Andes, Mountains reveals life on the planet's highest peaks. Deep Ocean: Explore the depths of the planet's oceans and discover some of this mysterious world's most spectacular species. From light shows performed by squids to the blue whale, the largest animal ever to exist, Deep Ocean investigates the waters that cover two-thirds of the Earth's surface but remain largely unknown.
DVD 550 PL
Planet Earth : Disc 2. Discovery Communications, 2007. Deserts - Ice Worlds - Shallow Seas Deserts : Voyage to the world's harshest environments and learn how life manges to keep a precarious hold in every desert. From the llama-like guanacos of Chile's Atacama Desert that survive by licking dew from cactus spines, to lions that scour arid Namibia for antelopes, Deserts unravels the secrets behind survival in unimaginable conditions. Ice Worlds : Venture to the poles of our planet and find the harshest wildland, where seasonal change is extreme. From emperor penguins that defy the coldest conditions on Earth to the polar bear that emerges from hibernation with her new cubs, Ice World explores an ecosystem in which few could survive. Shallow Seas : Dive into the planet's shallow waters where sunlight reaches the seabed and find an explosion of life. From the rarely seen cooperation between snakes and fish hunting for food to the journey of the humpback whale and her newborn calf traveling thousands of miles in search of food, Shallow Seas explores the rarely seen sights of the world's mighty oceans.
DVD 550 PL
Planet Earth : Disc 3. Discovery Communications, 2007. Great Plains - Jungles - Fresh Water Great Plains : Trek to the Earth's largest land habitats, where vast open spaces play host to the biggest groups of animals in the world. From the 2,000 mile migration undertaken by three million caribou in the Arctic tundra, to a pride of 30 starving lions hunting elephants, Great Plains reveals the most impressive migrations and boldest hunts on the planet. Jungles : Delve deep into this ecosystem, beyond the flourishing plant life, and find an environment that tests each animal's survival skills. From the elaborate mating rituals of New Guinea's birds of paradise to the territorial battles of chimpanzees, Jungles examines an environment that occupies only three percent of the planet and yet is home to more than half the world's species. Fresh Water : Follow the rivers as they course from mountain to sea, nourishing unique and dramatic wildlife. From the world's deepest lake inhabited by the only species of freshwater seal, to a stunning look at the world's highest waterfall, Fresh Water offers a unique perspective on the secret lives teeming in our purest waters.
DVD 550 PL
Planet Earth : Disc 4. Discovery Communications, 2007. Seasonal Forests - Caves - Behind the Scenes Seasonal Forests : Investigate these temperate regions and find some of the most elusive and well-adapted plant life on Earth. From the giant sequoia tree ten times the size of a blue whale to the trackless Siberian forests where just forty Amur leopards remain, Forests brings to life a seemingly familiar world that remains largely unexplored.
DVD 550 PL
Planet Earth : Disc 5. Discovery Communications, 2007. The Future In this companion series to Planet Earth, we reveal the vulnerability of the natural history of the Earth--the poignant truth about the wildlife and landscapes of the series. This is an environmental series with a unique approach--using Planet Earth's most astonishing images as a starting point, we tell the new stories behind the images, and weave together key, and controversial, arguments from the world's most important environmental commentators about what the future may hold for the most endangered wild animals and places--and ultimately ourselves. This three part series includes, Saving Species, Into the Wilderness, and Living Together.
DVD 577.8 PA
Parasites : eating us alive. Discovery Communications, 2007. Take a tour of the hidden, miniature world of microscopic parasites. Learn about the minute, harmless insects that live in our hair, under our skin and even on our eyelashes. Meet the microscopic, one-celled protozoa that live within our blood cells, causing diseases like malaria and killing millions of people annually. Learn about the life cycles and survival strategies of parasites. They can adapt faster than we can attack and have shown a remarkable immunity to treatment, often turning our body's best defenses against us.
DVD 612.6 AN Anatomy of sex. Silver Spring, MD : Discovery Communications, Inc., 2007. As one young couple settles down to start a family, learn how biological and evolutionary forces conspire to keep the human race running. Our bodies work in specific, subtle ways for one reason only: making more humans.
DVD 612.6 AR
Architecture and design of man and woman. Silver Spring, MD : Discovery Communications, 2007. In terms of biology and design, the architecture of a man and woman begins with indifference; men and women start out exactly the same. Though sex has been identified and codified genetically, a six-week-old embryo is physiologically indistinguishable as either male or female. Follow a set of fraternal twins in utero (as their sexual characteristics begin to emerge and diverge) as revolutionary imaging techniques reveal these transformations for the first time. Watch as men and women push their bodies to athletic extremes to demonstrate how biological differences impact physical performance and even mental agility. However, our differences have evolved not to answer challenges in athletic contests, but to provide advantage in the game of life. Men have denser bones and greater muscle mass than women. Women can endure more pain and live longer than men. Is one sex "designed" to be superior to the other? For the answer, one needs only to examine the architecture of the sexes.
DVD 616.2 EV
Everydaykidz : Learn. Breathe. Play . AstraZeneca, 2005. Produced by AstraZeneca. Commercial slant. Learn how lungs work and what happens during an asthma attack. Learn the differences between reliever and controller medications. Learn how to use a nebulizer. Learn how to prevent asthma.
DVD 616.3 PO
The 750 pound man. Discovery Communications, 2007. Meet John Keitz. He has not left his bed in seven years because his legs simply cannot handle the weight of his massive body. He is severely, morbidly obese. Follow his journey as he tries to lose the weight that is slowly robbing him of his life.
V 590 CR
Crocodile Hunter's croc files. Santa Monica, CA : Discovery Communications, 2000. In Aussie Legends, look at some Australia's unusual animals including kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, wombats and possums. In Pacific Northwest, learn about bison, elk, otters, beavers, cougars, snakes and bears.
V 597.96 CR
Jaws and claws : creepy komodos and slimy snakes. Bethesda, MD : Discovery Communications, 1997. Take a trip to the steamy jungles of Indonesia, home of the world's only real dragon--the Komodo. In India, meet the red spitting cobra. In Venezuela, encounter an acaconda.
There is a display of free books on top of the black poster cabinet in the MS/HS Library. Take as many books as you would like. Some of the books would make great additions to your classroom library.