Braille Books 1995-1996 National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped Library of Congress Washington 1997 Young Adults Nonfiction Against All Opposition: Black Explorers in America BR 10070 by Jim Haskins 1 volume Collective biography of black men who have "left their footprints in the soil of the Americas." Through the lives of such men as Matthew Henson, codiscoverer of the North Pole; Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, founder of Chicago; and Guion Stewart (Guy) Bluford Jr., the first black American to travel in space, Haskins demonstrates how goals, ideals, and hard work can lead to discovery. For junior and senior high readers. 1992. American Music Makers: An Introduction to American Composers BR 9980 by Janet Nichols 2 volumes Biographical sketches of ten composers born in the United States. Nichols describes their most important works, suggests recordings worth listening to, and explores what made their music important. One composer added Creole touches, one drew on the sounds of Tin Pan Alley, and one was first to use the synthesizer, but all produced distinctly American music. For junior and senior high and older readers. 1990. Blazing Bladers: The Wild and Exciting World of In-Line Skating BR 9457 by Bill Gutman 1 volume In-line skating began in the 1980s. In-line skates consist of a single line of three to five wheels in the center of a boot. According to the author, in-line skating, or blading, is a versatile sport that can be adapted for roller-hockey, racing, and simulated skiing. Provides tips on getting started, safety information, and techniques. For junior and senior high readers. 1992. Breaking Free: An Anthology of Human Rights Poetry BR 10282 selected by Robert Hull 1 volume Most of these poems about the search for human dignity and equality were, or still are, banned in the countries in which they were written. In one, people appreciate the right to sort peas and to cup water in their hands. In another, a man's son has been missing since May of the previous year although "they took him just for a few hours." For junior and senior high and older readers. 1994. The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts BR 9499 by Arthur Miller 1 volume A drama based on the Salem, Massachusetts, witchcraft trials of 1692. The play deals with the consequences of fear, insecurity, the power of suggestion, and the hounding to death of a nonconformist. For high school and older readers. 1952. The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition BR 10113 by Anne Frank 3 volumes This notebook kept by a German-born Jewish girl includes material that was omitted from the first edition in 1947. Begun on her thirteenth birthday, the diary is a personal, sometimes humorous, account of years spent with her family in a Dutch attic hiding from the Nazis. After Anne heard a radio appeal about the importance of such papers, she expanded the scope of her entries. For high school and older readers. 1995. Hearing Us Out: Voices from the Gay and Lesbian Community BR 10222 by Roger Sutton 1 volume In their own words, gays and lesbians tell what being homosexual means to them. Giving their stories are a policewoman, a minister, gay activists, teenagers, a drag queen, and others. They discuss issues such as the reactions of their families, friends, and co-workers to their "coming out"; AIDS; the military; and gay parenting. Some strong language. For high school and older readers. 1994. Herman Melville BR 10112 by Rebecca Stefoff 1 volume This biography opens with an account of how Melville and his mate jumped ship in the South Seas and found themselves on an island thought to be inhabited by cannibals. Real-life adventures like this often found their way into the nineteenth-century novelist's books, such as Moby-Dick (BR 1608) and Billy Budd (BR 3614). Gives brief descriptions of all Melville's novels. For high school and older readers. 1994. Lincoln: In His Own Words BR 9994 edited by Milton Meltzer 2 volumes Quotes from letters, speeches, court papers, and articles create this portrait of Lincoln. Meltzer traces the life of the sixteenth president, from his childhood to his career as a lawyer and his role as commander in chief of the armed forces during the Civil War. The author sets the stage by commenting on the political forces at the time and by introducing contemporary figures. For junior and senior high and older readers. 1993. Lost in Yonkers BR 10242 by Neil Simon 1 volume Play set in New York, 1942. After their mother's death, Arty and Jay are visiting their stern grandmother. When their father finishes a private talk with his mother, the boys are shocked to learn he wants them to stay there while he takes a traveling job. Grandmother agrees with the boys that it would be a very bad idea. But childlike Aunt Bella surprises everyone by insisting they remain. For high school and older readers. Pulitzer Prize. 1991. Speaking Out: Teenagers Take on Race, Sex, and Identity BR 10073 by Susan Kuklin 2 volumes The author spent a year at the Bayard Rustin High School for the Humanities, the most culturally diverse school in Manhattan. Students, including members of the Humane Humanities Club, and teachers describe how they feel about prejudice and about how they are treated because of their race, religion, sexual preferences, appearances, and mannerisms. For junior and senior high readers. 1993. Taking Charge: Teenagers Talk about Life and Physical Disabilities BR 9505 by Kay H. and others Kriegsman 2 volumes The authors and the teenagers interviewed in this book offer guidance for coping with a disability and adolescence--which the authors term "the ultimate disability." Suggested are strategies for handling issues such as sexuality, staring strangers, siblings, and overprotective parents. For junior and senior high and older readers. 1992. Women Music Makers: An Introduction to Women Composers BR 9986 by Janet Nichols 2 volumes Sketches the lives of ten women who overcame discrimination in a field dominated by men. Beginning with a seventeenth-century composer, the author tells how women played instruments, sang, and wrote music, but few were paid for their work. Still, these women found a way to be heard, even if they had to publish under assumed names. For junior and senior high and older readers. 1992. Fiction Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me BR 9998 by Julie Johnston 2 volumes Sara Moone's adoptive parents died when she was three. Since then, she has shuttled from one foster home to another, refusing to make friends and dreaming of quitting school at sixteen. But at fifteen she is placed with the Huddlestons, where she reluctantly develops some relationships and comes face to face with her birth mother. Sara writes about her jumbled feelings in her computer journal. For junior and senior high readers. 1994. American Eyes: New Asian-American Short Stories for Young Adults BR 10180 edited by Lori M. Carlson 1 volume Ten coming-of-age stories about the conflict many Asian American youths experience when they examine their native Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Filipino heritages with American eyes. Sometimes it is a search for identity, sometimes it is cultural embarrassment, and sometimes it is a generation gap, but in each story something ignites an Asian fire. For junior and senior high readers. 1994. Around the World in Eighty Days BR 9468 by Jules Verne 2 volumes Phileas Fogg is certain that he can travel around the world in eighty days--an incredibly short period of time in 1873. He's so sure that it can be done that he's wagered half of his fortune and set off on the grand adventure with his servant Passepartout. For high school and older readers. 1874. Both Sides of Time BR 10273 by Caroline B. Cooney 2 volumes Annie wants romance from her boyfriend, Sean, but he's only interested in cars. While visiting his apartment at the crumbling Stratton mansion, Annie wanders through the building, sad that it is to be demolished. Suddenly, she is pulled back a century to 1895 and meets Strat, young heir to the mansion. The period is romantic but not kind to women or immigrant groups, and a murder threatens Annie and her new friends. For junior and senior high readers. 1995. The Burning Time BR 10229 by Carol Matas 1 volume Set in seventeenth-century France. Fifteen-year-old Rose and her mother are stunned when Rose's father, Philippe Rives, is killed in a riding accident. And soon after the accident, Madame Rives, a midwife and a healer, is accused of being a witch. Rose, too, is a suspect, but she manages to escape. Soon a simple country life becomes a fight for survival. For junior and senior high and older readers. 1994. The Call of the Wild BR 9833 by Jack London 1 volume Buck, a St. Bernard, is stolen and trained to be a sled dog in the Alaska gold fields. Abused by both men and dogs, Buck learns to fight ruthlessly until he finds in John Thornton a master he loves and respects. For junior and senior high and older readers. 1903. The Catswold Portal BR 9804 by Shirley Rousseau Murphy 3 volumes A fantasy set in 1957 Earth and in the Netherworld or world of faerie. Queen Siddonie, pretender to the throne of faerie, plans to conquer the Netherworld--an act that would profoundly affect the upper world. The true queen, seventeen-year-old Melissa, has been transformed into a calico cat and has taken up residence with artist Braden West, who lives near the portal between the two worlds. For high school and older readers. 1992. A Cup of Christmas Tea BR 10231 by Tom Hegg 1 volume Shortly before Christmas a young man receives a letter from a great-aunt asking that he stop in for a cup of Christmas tea. Although he doesn't want to replace his childhood memories of her with what she might be like now, he reluctantly accepts. For senior high and older readers. 1982. The Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre BR 10211 by Ann Rinaldi 2 volumes Rachel Marsh is an indentured nursemaid for the children of John and Abigail Adams. Her friend Jane urges her to consider her future and side with the rebelling colonists, but like the Adamses, Rachel can't condone their gang-like activities. Although Rachel doesn't like the attitude of the newly arrived British troops either, she soon makes friends with a lonely British soldier. For junior and senior high readers. 1993. Firehand BR 9965 by Andre Norton and P.M. Griffin 2 volumes The Dominion of Virgin has been destroyed by the Baldies--a band of time-traveling predators who wipe out any race they encounter. Ross Murdock, Eveleen Riordan, and Gordon Ashe are time agents for the Project, whose goal is to rescue Dominion by going back to an earlier time and providing the residents with the mental powers needed to avoid the Baldies' attack. For high school and older readers. 1994. Gypsy Davey BR 10213 by Chris Lynch 1 volume Davey was raised by his sister Joanne while their mother was out having a good time. Now Davey is twelve and his sister is seventeen, with a baby. Davey is oddly quiet, although inside his head he's talking constantly. But there's another side to Davey that works perfectly in rhythm on his bike and that cares for his nephew like "nobody ever loved babies before." Strong language and some violence. For junior and senior high and older readers. 1994. The Hanged Man BR 10237 by Francesca Lia Block 1 volume Seventeen-year-old Laurel lives at the top of a canyon in Los Angeles. Waiting in a hospital for her father's death, she meets Jack, who befriends her. Jack also introduces Laurel to a fast-paced lifestyle. Meanwhile, Laurel slowly confronts a lot of strange things going on in her life. Descriptions of sex and some strong language. For high school and older readers. 1994. Hula BR 9633 by Lisa Shea 1 volume A ten-year-old girl and her slightly older sister fill their summer days with imaginative activities in their backyard. One is to hula dance the way their mother taught them. But their father takes away the grass skirts their mother brings home from the dance studio. Disturbed since the Vietnam War, their father is prone to rages and shooting sprees, so the girls are careful to stay out of his way. Some violence. For high school and older readers. 1994. I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This BR 9898 by Jacqueline Woodson 1 volume Twelve-year-old Marie is a popular eighth grader in a predominantly African American class when Lena, a poor white girl, arrives. Because both girls have lost their mothers, they are soon drawn to one another. Then Lena reveals that her father is molesting her. Marie refuses to believe her, but once Marie gets over the shock, she begins to ask questions and to try to help Lena find a way out of her tragic situation. For junior and senior high and older readers. 1994. If I Should Die before I Wake BR 10142 by Han Nolan 2 volumes Since her father died in an accident she attributes to his Jewish boss, Hilary has shaved her head and joined a local youth gang called the Great Aryan Warriors. Now in a Jewish hospital after a motorcycle accident, Hilary is annoyed by the pity in an elderly woman's eyes. Then Hilary spirals into another place and time--Nazi Germany--and realizes she is a Jewish girl named Chana. Strong language and some violence. For junior and senior high readers. 1994. Jesse BR 10145 by Gary Soto 1 volume In the 1960s, Jesse, seventeen, and his brother, Abel, move out of their drunken stepfather's house into a cottage of their own. Jesse then joins Abel in the community college. They live on their late father's Social Security benefits and their own work in the fields. Jesse worries about Cesar Chavez's cause and about Abel's involvement with a non-Mexican girl, and he tries to fit religion and girlfriends into his own life. For high school and older readers. 1994. Lord of the Flies BR 9480 by William Golding 2 volumes With horrifying implications, this novel relates the experiences of a group of English boys who are wrecked on a desert island and have to establish their own system of government. For junior and senior high and older readers. 1954. Murder on the Iditarod Trail BR 10307 by Sue Henry 2 volumes Critical injuries are rare during the Iditarod dog-sled race, but on day two musher George Koptak is found dead. While Alaska state trooper Alex Jensen investigates the accident, he learns that another contestant is dead. At a loss for determining a motive, Jensen turns to musher Jessie Arnold for help. As other racers die, Alex, who is growing fond of Jessie, begins to fear for her. Strong language and violence. For high school and older readers. 1991. The Mysterious Island BR 10097 by Jules Verne 2 volumes During the Civil War, Northerner and engineer Cyrus Smith is a Southern captive. He escapes by hot-air balloon with three other men, a boy, and a dog. A storm blows them to an island, but Smith is lost at sea. Later the others find him, but no one can explain how he reached land. Mysterious events and resourcefulness help them survive the next four years. Sequel to Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (BR 9469). For high school and older readers. 1870. Out of Control BR 10096 by Norma Fox Mazer 1 volume High school football star Rollo, student senator Candy, and honor society president Brig are inseparable. So when Brig teases art student Valerie, the other two go along. But when the three fondle her in the hall and Valerie goes to the principal, Rollo becomes confused. He tries to make Valerie see that he's really a nice guy but begins to see himself through her eyes. Some strong language. For junior and senior high and older readers. 1993. The Prince and the Pauper BR 9695 by Mark Twain 2 volumes The future Edward VI of England and a young pauper agree to trade places for a few days. The pauper becomes king, and he finds it quite insufferable. Meanwhile, the prince is roaming the street in tatters. People and circumstances almost make the role reversal permanent. For junior and senior high and older readers. 1882. Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon BR 9553 by Lisa Goldstein 3 volumes London, 1590. A band of faeries invades the city as conspirators plot to unseat Queen Elizabeth I. The sprites are looking for their long-awaited king, Arthur--son of Alice Wood, a widowed bookseller. But also searching are alchemist Paul Hogg and famed London author Christopher Marlowe. As their paths cross with the faeries, a battle between good and evil ensues. For high school and older readers. 1993. Thwonk BR 10227 by Joan Bauer 2 volumes High school senior A.J. McCreary has a lot of problems. After four failed relationships, she now has a crush on unattainable Peter Terris, her father forbids her to pursue a career as a photographer, and she is running out of time to take a perfect photo for the Valentine issue of the school paper. Then A.J. receives a visit from a tiny, irritating cupid complete with arrows that go "thwonk." For junior and senior high and older readers. 1995. Twenty-Thousand Leagues under the Sea BR 9469 by Jules Verne 3 volumes A nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, the Nautilus; its eccentric captain, Captain Nemo; and the undersea world. The novel anticipates many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century. For junior and senior high and older readers. 1869. Under the Silk Cotton Tree BR 9594 by Jean Buffong 2 volumes Beginning and ending with the account of the wedding of her two admired teachers, a "fete for so," young Flora gives a fast-paced, rambling account of the highs and lows of her life thus far on Grenada. She lives with her mother and siblings after her father leaves for St. Croix to strike it rich and never returns. Some strong language. For high school and older readers. 1993. The War of the Worlds BR 9590 by H.G. Wells 2 volumes The Martians, a loathsome though highly organized race, invade England and, with their superior weapons, subdue and prey on the people. For high school and adult readers. 1898. White Fang BR 9693 by Jack London 1 volume A wolf-dog, rescued from danger and tamed by a kind master, redeems his brute nature by defending his master's family against an escaped convict. For junior and senior high and older readers. 1905. The Wind Blows Backward BR 9988 by Mary Downing Hahn 2 volumes Members of the popular crowd at Lauren's high school call her "Mouse" if they notice her at all. When Spencer, a fellow book lover and her secret crush in middle school, joined that crowd she gave up on him. But now, in their senior year, Spencer is starting to talk to her again. When they begin to date, Lauren quickly falls in love, despite Spencer's and others' warnings that he has problems. Some strong language. For high school and older readers. 1993. Yoruba Girl Dancing BR 9494 by Simi Bedford 2 volumes Remi's upbringing is entrusted to her wealthy grandparents because she is a girl. She loves the "miniature village" of her grandfather's African mansion. But at her grandfather's death, Remi's parents send the six-year-old to school in London, where she is set adrift in a sea of white faces. Remi conquers the hurtful cultural differences and adjusts to her life there. Years later she again becomes a Yoruba girl dancing. For high school and older readers. 1991.