Crash
A homework pack that contains book and audio versions of "Crash" in which seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan, who has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, consider the meaning of friendship and importance of family after forming a relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and coping with his grandfather's stroke; and includes a student worksheet and teacher's guide.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 232
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 560
subjects: conduct of life, friendship [X], family life, family, families, accepting differences, identifying feelings, perceptions, reflection
Holes
A funfilled Adventure movie, starring Shia LaBeouf. Dogged by bad luck stemming fron an anceint family curse, young stanley is sent to Camp Green Lake, a very weird place that's not green and doesn't have a lake.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 808
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: juvenile delinquency, homeless persons, friendship [X], treasure troves, buried treasure, japanese language, large type books, buried treasure - fiction, friendship - fiction, homeless persons - fiction, juvenile deliquency - fiction, didactic fiction, children's audiobooks, large print books, adventure fiction, chinese language materials, audiobooks, detective and mystery fiction, mystery fiction, humorous fiction
The Cay
Philip, an adolescent white boy who is blinded in a torpedo attack at sea during World War II, acquires a new type of vision, courage, and love when he is stranded on a tiny Caribbean island with Timothy, a kind, elderly black man.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 288
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
subjects: large type books, survival, friendship [X], prejudices, blacks, shipwrecks, survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, race relations, blind, caribbean area, caribbean region, survival skills, castaways
Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes
The daily class discussions about the nature of man, the existence of God, abortion, organized religion, suicide and other contemporary issues serve as a backdrop for a high-school senior's attempt to answer a friend's dramatic cry for help.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 67
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 920
subjects: friendship [X], child abuse, school stories, coming of age, bildungsromans, schools, high schools, interpersonal relations, conduct of life, audiobooks, obesity, mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction
The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants
During their first summer apart, four teenage girls, best friends since earliest childhood, stay in touch through a shared pair of secondhand jeans that magically adapts to each of their figures and affects their attitudes to their different summer experiences.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 72
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600
subjects: jeans (clothing), girls, friendship [X], summer, large type books, best friends, conduct of life
The Second Summer Of The Sisterhood
A sequel to "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" in which the four girls, now sixteen, embark on another summer of travels and life lessons charmed by a shared pair of seemingly magical thrift-store jeans.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 66
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 610
The Crossing
Fourteen-year-old Manny, a street kid fighting for survival in a Mexican border town, develops a strange friendship with an emotionally disturbed American soldier who decides to help him get across the border.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 47
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1150
The Voice On The Radio
Fifteen-year-old Janie feels devastated when she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her and her family through his college radio program.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 40
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: friendship [X], parent and child, brothers and sisters, parent-child relationship, kidnapping
Playing For Keeps
Alicia, Carmen, Jamie, and Gaz travel to Texas to help a new client plan her quincean?era, but when the friends become distracted by outside events, fights, and romantic interests, their party planning business begins to fall apart.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: cruise ships, refugees, mystery and detective stories, caribbean area, horses, quincean?era (social custom), hispanic american teenagers, friendship [X], vacations, texas
Girls In Pants
The members of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants graduate from high school and spend their last summer before college learning about life and themselves.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
The Loud Silence Of Francine Green
In 1949, thirteen-year-old Francine goes to Catholic school in Los Angeles where she becomes best friends with a girl who questions authority and is frequently punished by the nuns, causing Francine to question her own values.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: conformity, catholic schools, best friends, friendship [X], family, los angeles (calif.), united states, families, school stories, schools, family life, historical fiction, historical fiction
When Zachary Beaver Came To Town
During the summer of 1971 in a small Texas town, thirteen-year-old Toby and his best friend Cal meet the star of a sideshow act, 600-pound Zachary, the fattest boy in the world.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 121
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
Other Bells For Us To Ring
When her father is transferred to an army camp in Massachusetts during the Second World War, Darcy feels isolated in her French-Canadian neighborhood until she meets the vivacious Kathleen Mary O'Hara and learns about Catholicism.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 980
Letters From The Inside
The relationship between two teenage girls who become acquainted through letters intensifies as their correspondence reveals some of the terrible problems of their lives.
FIC
year: 1996
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: letters, family problems, emotional problems, friendship [X], prisoners, australia, family life
Wrestling Sturbridge
Stuck in a small town where no one ever leaves and relegated by his wrestling coach to sit on the bench while his best friend becomes state champion, Ben decides he can't let his last high school wrestling season slip by without challenging his friend and the future.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850