Fresh new books! by Andrew Johnston https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf Here's a list of the new books in the library. Fiction, Nonfiction, Graphic Novels! en-us 2019-02-14 17:25:14 UTC 2020-09-29 18:39:27 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Thunder.png Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo ajohnston43 https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/331454116 In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives. Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people; In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance and Papi's secrets;the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered. And then, when it seems like they&;ve lost everything of their father, they learn of each other.]]> 2019-02-14 18:29:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/331454116 Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook ajohnston43 https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/331455100 It's 1983 during South Korea's Fifth Republic, a military regime that has entrenched its power through censorship, torture, and the murder of protesters.. In this charged political climate a freshman named Kim Hyun Sook seeks refuge in the comfort of books. When the handsome young editor of the school newspaper invites her to his reading group, she expects to talk about Moby Dick, Hamlet, The Scarlet Letter. Instead she finds herself hiding in a basement as the youngest member of an underground banned book club, And as Hyun Sook discovers, in a totalitarian regime, the delights of discovering great works of illicit literature are quickly overshadowed by fear and violence.]]> 2019-02-14 18:30:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/331455100 The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh by Candace Fleming ajohnston43 https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/331455261 Discover the dark side of Charles Lindbergh in a riveting biography of one of America's most celebrated heroes, and most complicated, troubled men.
First human to cross the Atlantic via airplane; one of the first American media sensations; Nazi sympathizer and anti-Semite; loner whose baby was kidnapped and murdered; champion of Eugenics, the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding; tireless environmentalist. Charles Lindbergh was all of the above and more. Here is a rich, multi-faceted, utterly spellbinding biography about an American hero who was also a deeply flawed man.
]]> 2019-02-14 18:31:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/331455261 Solstice by Lorence Alison ajohnston43 https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/331456291 Adri is on an all-expenses-paid trip to the exclusive Solstice Festival but suddenly it turns into a deadly nightmare when a dead body washes up on the beach and Adri must put together the clues to who--or what--is killing off the crowd one by one.]]> 2019-02-14 18:33:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/331456291 Again Again by e. lockhart ajohnston43 https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/331723959 Rising high school senior Adelaide Buchwald grapples with a family catastrophe and romantic upheaval while confronting secrets she keeps, her ideas about love, and the weird grandiosity of the human mind.]]> 2019-02-15 13:55:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/331723959 A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown ajohnston43 https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/331724740 "Ana, a half-android, half-human employee of a futuristic fantasy theme park, the Kingdom, faces a charge of murder in a tale told through flashbacks and court transcripts"--Provided by publisher.]]> 2019-02-15 13:57:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/331724740 The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu ajohnston43 https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/331728396 "Desperate to be forever remembered for her music, Nannerl Mozart makes a dangerous pact with a mysterious stranger from a magical land, which may cost her everything"--Provided by publisher.]]> 2019-02-15 14:05:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/331728396 Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang ajohnston43 https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/331730746 Gene Luen Yang understands stories -- comic book stories, in particular. Big action. Bigger thrills. And the hero always wins. But Gene doesn't get sports. As a kid, his friends called him 'Stick' and every basketball game he played ended in pain. He lost interest in basketball long ago, but at the high school where he now teaches, it's all anyone can talk about. The men's varsity team, the Dragons, is having a phenomenal season that's been decades in the making. Each victory brings them closer to their ultimate goal: the California State Championship. Once Gene meets these young all-stars, he realizes that their story is just as thrilling as anything he's seen on a comic book page. He knows he has to follow this epic to its end. What he doesn't know yet is that this season is not only going to change the Dragons' lives, but his own life as well.]]> 2019-02-15 14:10:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/331730746 Check Please! Book 2: Sticks & Stones ajohnston43 https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/331731839 Eric Bittle is heading into his junior year at Samwell University, and not only does he have new teammates--he has a brand new boyfriend! Bitty and Jack must navigate their new, secret, long-distance relationship, and decide how to reveal their relationship to friends and teammates. And on top of that, Bitty's time at Samwell is quickly coming to an end . . .]]> 2019-02-15 14:12:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/331731839 Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for their Lives and Warned the Nation by Candy J. Cooper ajohnston43 https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/331736046 Through interviews with residents and intensive research into legal records and new accounts, the authors reveal the story behind the water crisis in Flint, Michigan which began in 2014 when government officials of the cash-strapped city that had been abandoned by General Motors decided to temporarily switch its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River, which then caused widespread sickness and death to its residents.]]> 2019-02-15 14:21:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/331736046 Stamped by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi ajohnston43 https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/364041802 A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today, adapted from National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning"--Publisher.]]> 2019-05-28 14:43:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/364041802 High School by Tegan & Sara ajohnston43 https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/789218949 The authors share their experience exploring drugs, alcohol, love, music, and friendship growing up. Explores their lives as twins living right down the hall from each other.]]> 2020-09-29 18:36:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/789218949 Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Life & Work by Victoria Ortiz ajohnston43 https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/789222083 Explores the life and career of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, discussing her landmark cases that impacted the legal protection of human rights.]]> 2020-09-29 18:37:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/789222083 Free Lunch by Rex Ogle ajohnston43 https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/789228393 Rex Ogle recounts his first semester in sixth grade in which he and his younger brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies and he was on his school's free lunch program. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation of having to announce it every day in the school lunch line, Rex's is a compelling story of a more profound hunger -- that of a child for his parents' love and care.]]> 2020-09-29 18:38:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ajohnston43/m54k44cz4etf/wish/789228393