Ritter, Al. The 100/0 principle : the secret of great relationships. Naperville, IL : Simple Truths, LLC, 2010.
Learn how to recognize certain relationship pitfalls, how to overcome them, and make every relationship great.

Goodman, Ellen. I know just what you mean : the power of friendship in women's lives. 1st Fireside ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2001, c2000.
Examines the bonds of friendship between women, drawing from interviews with women of all ages and life stages; and explores the problems of some famous friends such as the Indigo Girls and Monica Lewinski.

Butler, Judith, 1956-. Gender trouble : feminism and the subversion of identity. New York : Routledge, 2006.

Baldwin, James, 1924-. Notes of a native son. Boston : Beacon Press, c1984, c1955.
Contains essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and Americans abroad.

Hot jobs. Chicago : College & Career Press, c2011.
Provides an overview of more than twenty-five careers that have been identified by the U.S. Department of Labor as offering the highest pay, fastest employment growth, and most new jobs through 2018, with each article providing an overview of job duties, educational requirements, interviews with workers in the field and more.

Teen's guide to college & career planning : your high school roadmap for college & career success. 11th ed. Lawrenceville, NJ : Peterson's, c2011.
Offers students, parents, and educators practical advice on the best ways to maximize a student's, and their parents', investments of time, money, and belief that the student will embark on a successful college life and a fulfilling career.

Trudon, Taylor. University of Connecticut : Storrs, CT. 2012 ed. Pittsburgh, PA : College Prowler, c2011.
Presents a student perspective on University of Connecticut, providing statistics, facts, and opinions on academics, local atmosphere, safety and security, facilities, dining and housing, diversity, athletics, and other topics, and includes a summary of the top ten best and worst things about life on campus.

Adelson-Goldstein, Jayme. Oxford picture dictionary. 2nd ed. New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.
Illustrations and text help define four thousand words in both English and Haitian Creole, grouped by theme with language exercises, indexes, and a verb guide.

Dicker, Katie. Diet and nutrition. Mankato, Minn. : Amicus, c2011.
The body's fuel -- Absorbing nutrients -- The right amount -- You are what you eat -- Body image -- Food awareness -- Food for life. Discusses the importance of having a balanced diet and a healthy body image during the teen years, gives information on how the body digests various foods, and offers tips for making healthy choices to avoid eating disorders and obesity.

Sexual health information for teens : health tips about sexual development, reproduction, contraception, and sexually transmitted infections. 3rd ed. Detroit, MI : Omnigraphics, c2011.
Provides basic consumer health information for teens about puberty, sexuality, reproductive health, contraception, and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases. Includes index, resource information, and recommendation for further reading.

McDowell, Gayle Laakmann, 1982-. The Google résumé : how to prepare for a career and land a job at Apple, Microsoft, Google, or any top tech company. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2011.
Explains how to get a job at a top technology company, offering advice on choosing college courses, creating a résumé, landing an interview, making a good impression, getting through the hiring process, and negotiating an offer.

CLAMP (Mangaka group). Tsubasa. 1st ed. New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 2004.
Sakura, the princess of Clow, travels to an archaeological dig site to tell her childhood friend, Syaoran, the leader of the dig, that she loves him, but when a puzzling symbol is uncovered, it robs her of her memories, and Syaoran embarks on a quest to get them back.

CLAMP (Mangaka group). Tsubasa. 1st ed. New York : Del Rey/Ballantine, 2004.
The team heads to the Hanshin Republic where Syaoran finds his "Kudan," a wolf-spirit whose powers mirror Syaoran's own strengths, and encounters enemies and obstacles in his quest to retrieve the magical feathers that contain Sakura's missing memory.

CLAMP (Mangaka group). Tsubasa. 1st ed. New York : Del Rey/Ballantine, 2004.
Syaoran, on a quest to recover the lost memory of Sakura, the princess of Clow, travels with his friends to a new universe where they must confront a suddenly powerful magician who is terrorizing an entire town, and to make matters worse, they have no weapons with which to fight.

Dorkin, Evan. Beasts of Burden : animal rites. 1st ed. Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse Books, 2010.
A group of dogs and one cat work to keep the community of Burden Hill safe from a variety of paranormal incidents while the human residents of the town remain unaware of the danger.

Layman, John, 1967-. Chew. Berkeley, CA : Image Comics, c2011.
Continues the adventures of federal agent Tony Chu, who has the ability to get psychic impressions from food, as he tries to find his place in a world where people are predicting the end of days and ignoring the laws of the FDA.

Layman, John, 1967-. Chew. Berkeley, CA : Image Comics, c2009.
Tony Chu, a detective who gets psychic impressions from whatever he eats, is recruited by the Special Crimes Division of the powerful FDA law enforcement agency, where he gets a chance to show off his impressive skills--even though it means chewing on an occasional corpse.

Layman, John, 1967-. Chew. Berkeley, CA : Image Comics, c2010.
Tony Chu, the cibopathic federal agent with the ability to get psychic impressions from the things he eats, is happy with the way his life is going, but his ruthless ex-partner poses a threat to Tony and those he cares about.

Layman, John, 1967-. Chew. Berkeley, CA : Image Comics, c2010.
Detective Tony Chu of the FDA's Special Crimes Division, who gets psychic impressions from the food he eats, investigates a newly-discovered fruit that tastes like chicken. His investigation takes him to a small Western Pacific island where he encounters secrets, intrigue, and murder.

Mochizuki, Jun. Pandora hearts. 1st Yen Press ed. New York : Yen Press, 2009.
Fifteen-year-old Oz Vessalius is punished for a sin he knows nothing about and thrown into an inescapable prison, but an encounter with a young girl named Alice brings Oz a glimmer of hope.

Mochizuki, Jun. Pandora hearts. 1st Yen Press ed. New York : Yen Press, 2010.
Having escaped from the prison known as the Abyss, Oz Vessalius, Alice, and Raven of the Pandora organization travel to the site of Oz's coming of age ceremony to investigate the crime for which he was imprisoned, but, once again, harsh reality awaits him there.

Mochizuki, Jun. Pandora hearts. 1st Yen Press ed. New York : Yen Press, 2010.
Oz is forced to face memories of his own childhood trauma after he rescues a boy being bullied, who is then claimed by Echo, an agent of the Nightray family.

Mochizuki, Jun. Pandora hearts. 1st Yen Press ed. New York : Yen Press, 2011.
Alice falls into the Cheshire Cat's trap, which whisks both her and nearby Xerxes Break to the Cheshire Cat's lair, but with Sharon's help, Oz Vessalius and his valet, Gilbert, are able to find a way in and they encounter the man from one of Alice's earlier memories.

Mochizuki, Jun. Pandora hearts. 1st Yen Press ed. New York : Yen Press, 2011.
Oz, guided by the man from Alice's memories known as Jack Vessalius, travels back into the world of lost remembrances in search of Alice, and when he uncovers the tragedy of Sablier and the truth about Alice's memories, the powers of the B-Rabbit become a threat to everyone trapped in the dreamlike dimension, including Alice.

Mochizuki, Jun. Pandora hearts. 1st Yen Press ed. New York : Yen Press, 2011.
Oz's sudden appearance wreaks havoc in Pandora until Jack Vessalius manifests in Oz's body. Sensing the unease Jack's presence causes Oz, Uncle Oscar takes him and his companions to Lutwidge Academy to reunite Oz with his little sister, Ada, but the happy reunion is marred by the presence of enemies lying in wait for Oz, ready to torture him for answers about the past.

Mochizuki, Jun. Pandora hearts. 1st Yen Press ed. New York : Yen Press, 2011.
In an effort to learn more about the tragedy of Sablier, Oz and his friends seek an audience with Duke Rufus Barma, but the story the Duke reveals is not about Sablier, but instead the more recent and shocking events of Break's past.

Urushibara, Yuki, 1974-. Mu shi shi. New York : Del Rey/Ballantine, c2007.
Mushi have been around since the beginning of time, making trouble for humans and wreaking havoc in the world, and Ginko has taken it upon himself to help those plagued by mushi, even if it means risking his own life.

Urushibara, Yuki, 1974-. Mu shi shi. New York : Del Rey/Ballantine, c2007.
Ginko sets out to find a fellow mushishi on a mushi-infested mountain, and puts his own life in jeopardy.

Urushibara, Yuki, 1974-. Mu shi shi. New York : Del Rey/Ballantine, c2008.
Ginko, who is a mushishi, or naturalist and wandering healer, tries to help a boy who found spring in the dead of winter, and they both fall prey to life-sucking creatures called mushi.

Hammond, Lee, 1957-. Animals. 1st ed. Cincinnati, Ohio : North Light Books, c2002.
A guide to drawing animals that offers step-by-step instructions for a variety of drawing techniques.

Macdonald, Fiona. How would you survive as an ancient Greek? New York : F. Watts, 1995.
A guide to how the ancient Greeks lived, including how they built cities, how they spent their days, and how they set up a democracy.

Exploring biodiversity : the search for new medicines. Version 1.0. Chevy Chase, Md. : Howard Hughes Medical Institute, c2010.
Disc 1. Features: Short talks on biodiversity: E.0. Wilson, Ph.D., Eric Chivian, M.D. ; Animations: Prialt blocks motor synapse in fish ; Prialt blocks pain signaling in mice ; The LUX operon controls light production ; Motor cabal toxins block motor neuron synapses ; Lighting-strike cabal acts like a Taser ; The molecular cascade in bacterial quorum sensing ; Lectures: From venoms to drugs ; Shedding light on an invisible world ; Biodiversity at a snail's pace ; Eavesdropping on tiny conspiracies ; Video clips: Demo: Live cone snail ; Conus catus strikes a fish ; Conus textile strikes a snail ; Conus imperialis strikes a worm ; Bobtail squid swimming and burrowing ; Demo: glowing bacteria in a flask ; Conus tulipa hunts fish by net ; Deep nets to havest Turrids ; Demo: Quorum sensing molecules ; Screening chemical libraries with robotics -- Disc 2. Special features, interviews and discussion. Two leading biologists discuss their paths of medical discovery based on a deeper understanding of biodiversity. Bonnie L. Bassler examines the molecular mechanisms that bacteria use to communicate with one another. Baldomero Olivera conducts research using the venomous predatory cone snail which has led to a better understanding of ion channels and identification of several therapeutic drug candidates.

Sexting in suburbia. New York : History Channel :, 2012.
Starring Liz Vassey, Jean Proske, Ryan Kelley and Kelli Goss. This dramatic thriller is about the suicide of Dina Van Cleve and her mother, Rachel's search to find out who bullied her into committing suicide.

Ultimate factories coca-cola. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, 2011.
A beverage consumed in 99 percent of the populated world. The Coca-Cola company has never revealed its secret formula.

Physics. Widescreen format. Silver Spring, MD : Discovery School, 2005, c2004.
Hosted by Bill Nye. Bill Nye hosts a look at the history of discovery in the field of physics, discussing how the universe operates, the laws of motion, the second law of thermodynamics, electromagnetism, superconductors, the theories of Einstein, the structure of an atom, and other topics.

Roller coaster physics. Standard format. Silver Spring, MD : Discovery Channel School, c2004.
Narrators, Thom Kikot, Leyna Juliet Weber. Explores the world of applied physics using examples taken from the amusement park roller coasters.

Electricity : 2-pack. Silver Springs, MD : Discovery Education, 2005, 1997.
1. Understanding magnetism (originally produced for television in 1997, 54 min.). Demonstrates how the force of magnetism is used in everyday life and technology and how it affects humans and animals. Segments cover television technology, controlling electricity for different applications, and electromagnetic power.

Electricity and magnetism. Widescreen format. Silver Spring, MD : Discovery School, 2007, c2005.
Hosted by Jamie Hyneman, Adam Savage. Narrator, Robert Lee. Mythbusters Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman conduct experiments to determine if there is any truth or scientific basis to various myths related to electricity and magnetism.

Electricity's attraction. Standard format. Silver Spring, MD : Discovery Channel School, 2004, c2003.
Narrators, Thom Kikot, Leyna Juliet Weber. Discusses the discovery of magnetism and how it works, examines the science of electricity, looks at electric currents, explores the use of electricity and magnetism on theme park rides, and considers the many uses of electronics.

Atom. New York : Ambrose Video Publishing, 2010.
Presenter, Jim Al-Khalili. Chronicles the great scientific discovery that everything is made of atoms, exploring how the variety and richness of the universe is made up of atoms and the mysterious laws they obey.

Potent biology : stem cells, cloning, and regeneration. Version 1.0. Chevy Chase, MD : Howard Hughes Medical Institute, c2007.
Disc 1. Lecture 1. Understanding embryonic stem cells / Douglas A. Melton. Lecture 2. Adult stem cells and regeneration / Nadia Rosenthal. Lecture 3. Coaxing embryonic stem cells / Douglas A. Melton. Lecture 4. Stem cells and the end of aging / Nadia Rosenthal -- Disc 2. Interviews and discussion session. Stem cells are fundamental to biology. In the course of embryonic development, stem cells generate all the specialized cells that populate body tissues like muscle, the nervous system, and blood. In adults, reserves of stem cells repair and regenerate tissues damaged by disease and wounding. Because of the potential of stem cells to generate fresh, healthy cells, there is a huge interest in cultivating them to treat various diseases. This year's Holiday Lectures will explore exciting progress toward the goal of harnessing stem cells to treat diabetes, nerve damage, and heart disease--WWW page of biointeractive.org.

Evolution : Fossils, Genes, and Mousetraps. Chevy Chase, MD : Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2007.
Leading evolution educator Ken Miller discusses the controversy surrounding the teaching of evolution, presents compelling evidence for evolution and reasons why "intelligent design" is not scientific.

The making of the fittest. Chevy Chase, MD : Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2011.
A trilogy of short films featuring unforgettable examples of the evolutionary process in action.

Viral outbreak : the science of emerging disease. Chevy Chase, Md. : Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2011.
Infectious diseases are a serious threat to world health. They are particularly devastating in tropical countries where infectious agents thrive and where healthcare resources are stretched thin. The warming trend in the global climate, coupled with increased international travel, has resulted in infectious outbreaks that spread more rapidly and that now affect regions with more temperate climates, including the United States. Many diseases that had been contained, such as dengue fever, have re-emerged as global health threats. How can scientific research help us detect and fight potential epidemics?.

Modern marvels. [New York] : A & E Television Networks :, 2010.
Narrator, Max Raphael. Examines the work of inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla, covering his various experiments in places such as Niagara Falls and Colorado Springs pertaining to alternating current and other forms of electromagnetic power and electromechanical engineering.

Congo. [Widescreen format]. Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, 2006.
Laura Linney, Dylan Walsh, Ernie Hudson, Grant Heslov, Joe Don Baker, Tim Curry. A scientist who wants to release his trained gorilla into the wild, a treasure hunter and a lady scientist in search of her missing finacee are thrown together in the African jungle with the most advanced communication technology available and set about wiping out a rare species of gorillas.

The executioner's song. [Standard format], Director's cut. Hollywood, Calif. : CBS DVD :, 2008, 1982.
Tommy Lee Jones, Christine Lahti, Rosanna Arquette, Eli Wallach. The story of convicted murderer Gary Mark Gilmore, who made news in the 20th Century when he demanded the death penalty rather then spending his life in jail. Based on the novel by Norman Mailer.

The Express : the Ernie Davis story. Widescreen format. Universal City, Calif. : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, 2009.
Rob Brown, Dennis Quaid, Darrin Dewitt Henson, Omar Benson Miller, Nelsan Ellis, Charles S. Dutton. A drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.

Gattaca. Standard format. Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 2005, c1997.
Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Alan Arkin, Jude Law, Loren Dean, Gore Vidal, Ernest Borgnine, Blair Underwood, Xander Berkeley, Tony Shalhoub, Jayne Brook. In a society ruled by a genetically elite overclass, Vincent is an "In-Valid," who assumes the identity of an elite in order to travel into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation.

Harrison Bergeron. Los Angeles : Republic Pictures, c1994.
Sean Austin, Miranda de Pencier, Buck Henry, Eugene Levy, Howie Mandel, Andrea Martin, Christopher Plummer. In a future where equality is achieved by making everyone average, a hopelessly bright boy is destined for brain surgery to correct his superior intellect. Instead he attempts to start a rebellion.

National treasure. [Standard format]. Burbank, Calif. : Walt Disney Home Entertainment :, 2005, [2004].
Nicolas Cage, Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel, Diane Kruger, Sean Bean. Benjamin Franklin Gates, obsessed with finding the mythical Knights Templar Treasure, finds himself having to steal the Declaration of Independence, which holds the key to the mystery of the treasure's whereabouts, in order to keep it out of another's dangerous hands.

17 again. Widescreen or standard format. Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2009.
Zac Efron, Leslie Mann, Thomas Lennon, Michelle Trachtenberg, Matthew Perry. A man whose life didn't quite turn out how he wanted it to wishes he could go back to high school and change it. He wakes up one day and is seventeen again and gets the chance to rewrite his life.

Shane. Standard format. Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Video, 2000, c1952.
Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde, Walter Jack Palance, Ben Johnson, Edgar Buchanan, Emile Meyer. A nomadic gunfighter defends a farm family from a malevolent cattleman and his armed minion. The outsider is as quick to capture the devotion of a young boy as he is to shoot a gun.

Abbott, Tony. Lunch-box dream. 1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2011.
Told from multiple points of view, a white family on a 1959 road trip between Ohio and Florida, visiting Civil War battlefields along the way, crosses paths with a black family near Atlanta, where one of their children has gone missing.

Abbott, Tony. The postcard. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2009, c2008.
Thirteen-year-old Jason finds an old postcard at his recently-deceased grandmother's house that leads him on an adventure blending figures from an old, unfinished detective story with his family's past.

Adornetto, Alexandra. Hades. 1st ed. New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2011.
Angel Bethany Church, having been tricked into a motorcycle ride that brought her to Hell, relies on Jake Thorn to save her, but what he asks of her threatens those she loves and what he has her boyfriend Xavier believing about her fate could result in an act of betrayal.

Adornetto, Alexandra. Halo. 1st Square Fish ed. New York : Square Fish, 2011, c2010.
When three angels are sent from heaven to protect the town of Venus Cove against the gathering forces of darkness, their mission is threatened as the youngest angel, Bethany, enrolls in high school and falls in love with another student.

Avasthi, Swati. Split. 1st Ember ed. New York : Ember, 2012, c2010.
A teenaged boy thrown out of his house by his abusive father goes to live with his older brother, who ran away from home years earlier under similar circumstances.

Bock, Caroline. Lie. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2011.
Seventeen-year-old Skylar is the prime witness when her boyfriend, Jimmy, is accused of brutally assaulting two El Salvadoran immigrants from a neighboring town, but Skylar is refusing to talk to the police, until one of the victims steps up to demand justice and Skylar begins to have second thoughts about protecting Jimmy.

Brezenoff, Steven. Brooklyn, burning. Minneapolis, MN : Carolrhoda Lab, c2011.
Sixteen-year-old Kid, who lives on the streets of Brooklyn, loves Felix, a guitarist and junkie who disappears, leaving Kid the prime suspect in an arson investigation, but a year later Scout arrives, giving Kid a second chance to be in a band and find true love.

Bunce, Elizabeth C. A curse dark as gold. New York : Scholastic, [2009], c2008.
Upon the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running in the face of an overwhelming mortgage and what the local villagers believe is a curse, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide if his help is worth the price.

Cameron, Peter, 1959-. Someday this pain will be useful to you. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Eighteen-year-old James Sveck copes with the uncertainties of adolescence as he works in his mother's Manhattan art gallery, falls for a charming older gentleman, and tries to decide what he wants out of life.

Castle, Jennifer. The beginning of after. 1st ed. New York : HarperTeen, c2011.
In the aftermath of a car accident that killed her family, sixteen-year-old Laurel must face a new world of guilt, painful memories, and the possibility of new relationships.

Clare, Cassandra. City of fallen angels. 1st ed. New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, c2011.
As mysterious murders threaten the new peace between Shadowhunters and Downworlders, only Simon, the Daylighter vampire, can help bring both groups together.

Clare, Cassandra. Clockwork angel. 1st Margaret K. McElderry Books pbk. ed. New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2011, c2010.
Sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray travels to England in search of her brother only to be abducted by the Dark Sisters, residents of London's Downworld, home to the city's supernatural folk, and she becomes the object of much attention--both good and bad--when it is discovered she has the power to transform at will into another person.

Clare, Cassandra. Clockwork prince. 1st ed., Collector's 1st ed. New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, c2011.
As the Council attempts to strip Charlotte of her power, sixteen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray works with the London Shadowhunters to find the Magister and destroy his clockwork army, learning the secret of her own identity while investigating his past.

Clark, Catherine, 1962-. Icing on the lake. 1st Avon ed. New York : Avon Books, 2006.
Kirsten spends winter break avoiding her best friends' match-making attempts and is distracted by the new guy who shows up to shovel the driveway after the snowstorm.

Clark, Catherine, 1962-. Picture perfect. 1st ed. New York : HarperTeen, c2008.
Emily Matthias looks forward to a summer vacation with her family so she can take pictures and flirt with boys before going off to college.

Clark, Jay (Jay Patrick), 1982-. The edumacation of Jay Baker. 1st ed. New York : Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt, 2011.
In small-town Ohio, fifteen-year-old Jay Baker's popular new blog helps him navigate high school as he faces off against his mortal enemy, meets the girl of his dreams, and watches his parents' relationship implode.

Cook, Kristi. Haven. 1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2011.
Violet McKenna's life started falling apart when a premonition of her father's murder came true, but at a new school, Winterhaven, she finds friends with psychic gifts and an alluring boy whose destiny is entwined with hers in a critical--and deadly--way.

De la Cruz, Melissa, 1971-. Masquerade. 1st Hyperion Paperbacks ed. New York : Hyperion Paperbacks, 2008, c2007.
Schuyler Van Alen, growing comfortable with her newfound vampire powers, seeks her grandfather in Italy, while back in New York plans are being completed for the fabulous Four Hundred Ball, to be followed by an elite, teens-only event at which masks hide a terrible secret.

Dashner, James, 1972-. The death cure. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2011.
In a final effort to complete the blueprint for the cure, Thomas must rely on the Gladers, with full memories restored, but Thomas does not trust Wicked and he remembers much more than they realize.

Dashner, James, 1972-. The Scorch trials. 1st Ember ed. New York : Ember, 2011, c2010.
Thomas and the Gladers, having solved the Maze, plan on returning to their lives, but instead find the earth a wasteland with Cranks roaming the desert in search of their next meal and they are faced with the challenge of crossing the Scorch in two weeks in order to arrive at a safe haven.

Despain, Bree, 1979-. The dark Divine. Pbk. ed. New York : Egmont USA, 2010.
Grace Divine, almost seventeen, learns a dark secret when her childhood friend--practically a brother--returns, upsetting her pastor-father and the rest of her family, around the time strange things are happening in and near their small Minnesota town.

Despain, Bree, 1979-. The lost saint : a dark divine novel. New York : Egmont USA, 2011.
After she makes the ultimate sacrifice to save Daniel, Grace Divine turns herself into a Hound of Heaven to find Jude, and befriends Talbot, a newcomer to town, but as she becomes more confident in her abilities, Grace's pride grows and she is unaware that an old enemy has resurfaced and a trap is about to be sprung.

Diffenbaugh, Vanessa. The language of flowers : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, c2011.
Eighteen-year-old Victoria Jones, having been emancipated from the foster care system and planted a flower garden in the park in which she slept, is hired to work for a local florist, and, after meeting a mysterious vendor at the flower market, she is forced to confront her past and decide what she wants for her future.

Downham, Jenny. You against me. 1st U.S. ed. Oxford ; : David Fickling Books, [2011], c2010.
Eighteen-year-old Mikey's younger sister claims to have been raped and he seeks to avenge the crime, but when he meets and makes friends with Ellie, the sister of the accused, he complicates the situation considerably for all of them.

Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills). Forged by fire. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 1998.
Gerald, a teenager who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, must face the prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved.

Elkeles, Simone. Perfect chemistry. New York : Walker, 2009.
When wealthy, seemingly perfect Brittany and Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, develop a relationship after Alex discovers that Brittany is not exactly who she seems to be, they must face the disapproval of their schoolmates--and others.

Fantaskey, Beth. Jessica rules the dark side. Boston : Harcourt, 2012.
Newly married Jessica Packwood is having a hard time adjusting to life as a vampire princess, and when her husband, Lucius, is implicated in the murder of a powerful elder, she must find a way to clear his name before it is too late.

Fitzpatrick, Becca. Crescendo. 1st Simon & Schuster BFYR pbk. ed. New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2012, c2010.
Nora, concerned that she seems to be in danger more than the average high school student, and having decided she relies too much on her guardian angel, Patch, sets out to investigate what really happened the night her father left for Portland, Maine, and never came back.

Fitzpatrick, Becca. Silence. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, c2011.
Patch and Nora have overcome the secrets that existed in Patch's past, faced tests of betrayal and trust, and fallen in love, and when a villain threatens everything they have, the couple must rely on their faith in each other to win the fight.

Forman, Gayle. Where she went. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Books, c2011.
Adam, now a rising rock star, and Mia, a successful cellist studying at Juilliard, are reunited in New York City and reconnect for the first time since Mia's near-fatal car accident three years earlier drove them apart.

Gallagher, Liz. My not-so-still life. 1st ed. New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2011.
Artistic sixteen-year-old Vanessa has never tried to fit in, but counts the days until she reaches adulthood and all it brings, but when her first job introduces her to James, who leads her into new, sometimes risky situations, she wonders if she is ready to be a grown up.

Garcia, Kami. Beautiful chaos. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2011.
Swarms of locusts, record-breaking heat, and devastating storms ravage Gatlin as Ethan and Lena struggle to understand and control the impact of Lena's claiming, which is even causing her family members' abilities to dangerously misfire.

Garcia, Kami. Beautiful creatures. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2010, c2009.
In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.

Garcia, Kami. Beautiful darkness. 1st pbk. ed. Boston : Little, Brown, 2011, c2010.
In a small southern town with a secret world hidden in plain sight, sixteen-year-old Lena, who possesses supernatural powers and faces a life-altering decision, draws away from her true love, Ethan, a mortal with frightening visions.

Goobie, Beth, 1959-. Born ugly. Markham, ON : Red Deer Press, c2011.
Shir has always tried to be invisible, but is still tormented by the bullies at her school and treated like an outcast in her own home, leaving her with only two places where she feels she can escape--at her part-time job delivering groceries and at her secret retreat by the river--but when her job leads her into a world of uncertainty and a stranger invades her haven by the river, Shir's whole world is turned upside down.

Griffin, Paul, 1966-. The Orange Houses. New York : Speak, 2011, c2009.
Tamika, a fifteen-year-old hearing-impaired girl, Jimmi, an eighteen-year-old veteran who stopped taking his antipsychotic medication, and sixteen-year-old Fatima, an illegal immigrant from Africa, meet and connect in their Bronx, New York, neighborhood, with devastating results.

Griffin, Paul, 1966-. Stay with me. New York : Dial Books, c2011.
Fifteen-year-olds Mack, a high school drop-out but a genius with dogs, and Céce, who hopes to use her intelligence to avoid a life like her mother's, meet and fall in love at the restaurant where they both work, but when Mack lands in prison, he pushes Céce away and only a one-eared pit-bull can keep them together.

Han, Jenny. It's not summer without you : a summer novel. 1st Simon & Schuster BFYR pbk. ed. New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2011, c2010.
Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.

Hand, Cynthia, 1978-. Hallowed. 1st ed. New York : HarperTeen, c2012.
Clara Gardner, part girl and part angel, questions her feelings toward Christian--and her boyfriend, Tucker--while she struggles to make sense of what happened on the day of the fire and come to terms with the knowledge that her fate will force her to lose someone she loves.

Hand, Cynthia, 1978-. Unearthly. 1st ed. New York : HarperTeen, c2011.
Sixteen-year-old Clara Gardner's purpose as an angel-blood begins to manifest itself, forcing her family to pull up stakes and move to Jackson, Wyoming, where she learns that danger and heartbreak come with her powers.

Handler, Daniel. Why we broke up : novel. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2011.
Sixteen-year-old Min Green writes a letter to Ed Slaterton in which she breaks up with him, documenting their relationship and how items in the accompanying box, from bottle caps to a cookbook, foretell the end.

Harrison, Troon. The separated. Original pbk. ed. Weston, CT : Brown Barn Books, c2006.
As the evil Lord Maldici's powers grow stronger, three sixteen-year-olds must discover their own strength and magical abilities to save their land from destruction.

Harrison, Troon. The twilight box. Original pbk. ed. Weston, CT : Brown Barn Books, 2007.
As they search for their identities, two very different teenagers living in a world of ancient magic join forces to save their land from the forces of evil.

Hoffman, Mary, 1945-. David. New York : Bloomsbury, 2011.
An eighteen-year-old stonecutter who is caught in the middle of political conflict in Florence, Italy, in the early 1500s, must flee for his life in disguise because his has become the best-known face and figure in Florence.

Hubbard, Jenny. Paper covers rock. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2011.
In 1982 Buncombe County, North Carolina, sixteen-year-old Alex Stromm writes of the aftermath of the accidental drowning of a friend, as his English teacher reaches out to him while he and a fellow boarding school student try to cover things up.

Kate, Lauren. Torment : a Fallen novel. 1st Ember ed. New York : Ember, 2011.
When Daniel, Luce's fallen angel boyfriend, tells her that he must leave to hunt the Outcasts, a group of immortals who want to kill Luce, he hides her at a school for the gifted on the California coast, where she learns that Daniel may be hiding dangerous secrets about his past.

Keplinger, Kody. Shut out. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2011.
Fed up with the increasingly violent rivalry between the football and soccer teams at Hamilton High, Lissa and other players' girlfriends go on strike, but the girls will succeed only if their libidos can be controlled longer than the boys' can.

Kunze, Lauren. The ivy. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Greenwillow Books, 2011, c2010.
When Callie arrives for her freshman year at Harvard, she encounters her three vastly different roommates, new friendships, romance, and scandalous secrets.

Kunze, Lauren. Secrets. 1st ed. New York : Greenwillow Books, c2011.
Returning to Harvard University after Thanksgiving break, freshman Callie is determined not to make the same mistakes that have alienated her friends and roommates, but secrets soon lead to social drama and heartbreak.

Lancaster, Mike A. Human.4. [1st American ed.]. New York : Egmont USA, 2011.
Twenty-first century fourteen-year-old Kyle was hypnotized when humanity was upgraded to 1.0 and he, incompatible with the new technology, exposes its terrifying impact in a tape-recording found by the superhumans of the future.

Lieb, Josh. I am a genius of unspeakable evil and I want to be your class president. New York : Razorbill, c2009.
Twelve-year-old evil genius, Oliver, uses his great brain to become the third richest person in the world, and finds that overthrowing foreign dictators is easier than getting the kids in his middle school to vote him class president.

Littman, Sarah. Life, after. New York : Scholastic Inc., [2011], c2010.
When poverty forces her family to leave their home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dani has a hard time adjusting to life in New York City, where everything is different except her father's anger, but an unlikely bond she forms with a wealthy, spoiled girl at school helps heal both of their families.

Littman, Sarah. Purge. New York : Scholastic Press, [2010], c2009.
When her parents check sixteen-year-old Janie into Golden Slopes to help her recover from her bulimia, she discovers that she must talk about things she has admitted to no one--not even herself.

Littman, Sarah. Want to go private? 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2011.
Insecure about the changes high school brings, Abby ignores advice from her parents and her only friend to "make an effort" and, instead, withdraws from everyone but with Luke, whom she met online, but when Abby agrees to meet Luke in person she discovers that her friend is not who he claims to be.

Lore, Pittacus. I am number four. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Harper, 2011, c2010.
In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.

Lore, Pittacus. The power of Six. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2011.
John Smith--who is Number Four--teams up with Number Six and learns more about the fate of his home planet, Lorien, after it was attacked by the Mogadorians, and tries to reconcile the stress of knowing that the fates of Lorien and Earth are tied to his success.

Meyer, Marissa. Cinder. 1st ed. New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2012.
Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing, but when Cinder's life gets intertwined with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle.

Mlynowski, Sarah. Ten things we did : (and probably shouldn't have). 1st ed. New York : HarperTeen, c2011.
Sixteen-year-old April, a high school junior, and her friend Vi, a senior, get a crash course in reality as the list of things they should not do becomes a list of things they did while living parent-free in Westport, Connecticut, for the semester.

Morgenstern, Erin. The night circus : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2011.
A circus known as Le Cirque des Rêves features two illusionists, Celia and Marco, who are unknowingly competing in a game to which they have been irrevocably bound by their mercurial masters, and as the two fall deeply and passionately in love with each other, their masters intervene with dangerous consequences.

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. Carmen : an urban adaptation of the opera. New York : Egmont USA, 2011.
A policeman's obsessive love for a tempestuous wig factory worker ends in tragedy in this updated version of Bizet's Carmen, set in Spanish Harlem, and told in screenplay format.

Nolan, Han. Pregnant pause. Boston : Harcourt, 2011.
Married, pregnant, and living at a "fat camp" in Maine, sixteen-year-old Eleanor has many questions about her future, especially whether the marriage will last and if she should keep the baby.

Paolini, Christopher. Inheritance. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
The young Dragon Rider Eragon must finally confront the evil king Galbatorix to free Alagaesia from his rule once and for all.

Picoult, Jodi, 1966-. Lone wolf : a novel. 1st Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books, 2012.
"When his father and sister are injured in an accident that has rendered his father comatose, estranged son Edward decides to stop his father's life support so that his organs can be donated, a choice his sister urges him to reconsider"--Provided by publisher.

Pierce, Tamora. Mastiff. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2011.
Beka, having just lost her fiance in a slaver's raid, is able to distract herself by going with her team on an important hunt at the queen's request, unaware that the throne of Tortall depends on their success.

Revis, Beth. A million suns. New York : Razorbill, c2012.
Amy is unplugged and holds to the hope that life on "Godspeed" will be better with Elder in charge, but when she and Elder discover shocking news about the ship, they must race to decipher a puzzle while romance blossoms between them.

Rosenthal, Lorraine Zago. Other words for love. 1st Ember ed. New York : Ember, 2012, c2011.
Ari, having transferred to an elite Manhattan prep school after receiving a large inheritance and been introduced to the glamorous side of New York by wealthy student Leigh, begins dating Leigh's cousin Blake, but when her parents start to worry about how close she has gotten to Blake and he pulls away after his family suffers misfortune, Ari is forced to reevaluate their intense relationship.

Schraff, Anne E. Dark secrets. [Costa Mesa, Calif.] : Saddleback Educational Pub., c2011.
Ernesto does not understand why Naomi, the girl who he cares for, puts up with her abusive boyfriend, Clay, but the dark secrets surrounding their relationship are brought to light after Clay hits Naomi in the face during one of their arguments.

Schraff, Anne E. Deliverance. [Costa Mesa, Calif.] : Saddleback Educational Pub., c2011.
Naomi, saving up to buy her dream car, is thrilled when she lands a job at a local frozen yogurt shop and almost immediately gets a raise, but it is not long before the shop owner's constant staring begins to make her feel uneasy, and her discomfort is heightened by her ex-boyfriend's continued efforts to win her back.

Schraff, Anne E. Leap of faith. [Costa Mesa, Calif.] : Saddleback Educational Pub., c2011.
Ernesto, having witnessed a robbery in his neighborhood, thinks one of the suspects is Cruz, but struggles over whether or not he should report him because he is not completely sure it was him.

Schraff, Anne E. The lost. [Costa Mesa, Calif.] : Saddleback Educational Pub., c2011.
Carmen, a popular junior at Cesar Chavez High School, is excited when Paul Morales, an older boy, pays attention to her and asks her out, but her family is worried that Paul might be in a gang and could be dangerous for Carmen.

Schraff, Anne E. No fear. [Costa Mesa, Calif.] : Saddleback Educational Pub., c2011.
Naomi speaks out against her father's bullying and abuse toward her mother and Ernesto, who has cared for Naomi for a long time, hopes he can win her heart, but Ernesto is afraid that Clay, Naomi's old abusive boyfriend, will always come between them.

Schraff, Anne E. The stranger. [Costa Mesa, Calif.] : Saddleback Educational Pub., c2011.
Ernesto Sandoval is not happy to move back to his old neighborhood after a decade of living in Los Angeles, but his outlook changes about his junior year at Cesar Chavez High School quickly when he sees Naomi Martinez.

Schraff, Anne E. Time of courage. [Costa Mesa, Calif.] : Saddleback Educational Pub., c2011.
Sixteen-year-old Ernesto feels conflicted when his friend Carmen announces that her father is going to run for city council against incumbent Monte Esposito, a relative of the girl who Ernesto is in love with, and decides to keep quiet about the election, even though he feels that Esposito is not serving the community as well as Carmen's father would.

Schraff, Anne E. To catch a dream. [Costa Mesa, Calif.] : Saddleback Educational Pub., c2011.
Abel, a sixteen-year-old junior at Cesar Chavez High School, happily accepts a job at a local donut shop to make some money and distance himself from his parents, who continuously put him down, but when money goes missing from the register, Abel hopes that Claudia, the cute girl who works at the shop with him, is not responsible.

Schraff, Anne E. The unforgiven. [Costa Mesa, Calif.] : Saddleback Educational Pub., c2011.
Naomi Martinez has been estranged from her family for years but is determined to bridge the gap between her and her father so that her son can finally know his grandfather.

Schraff, Anne E. The water's edge. [Costa Mesa, Calif.] : Saddleback Educational Pub., c2011.
Ernesto and the other students at Chavez High are looking forward to graduation and starting out in the real world, but many of them, including Ernesto, fear they will wind up stuck in dead-end jobs, trapped in their poor city with no hope for a better life.

Scott, Kieran, 1974-. He's so not worth it. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, c2011.
Told in two voices, Allie and Jake continue to be bombarded by family issues and pressures from the "Cresties" and their poorer counterparts as they spend a summer dealing with the fallout of their breakup.

Scott, Kieran, 1974-. She's so dead to us. 1st Simon & Schuster BFYR pbk. ed. New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2011, c2010.
Told in two voices, high school juniors Allie, who now lives on the poor side of town, and Jake, the "Crestie" whose family bought her house, develop feelings for one another that are complicated by her former friends, his current ones, who refuse to forgive her for her father's bad investment that cost them all.

Sedgwick, Marcus. White crow. 1st American ed. New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2011.
Sixteen-year-old Rebecca moves with her father from London to a small, seaside village, where she spends the summer exploring the village's sinister history with a new friend.

Sharenow, Rob. The Berlin Boxing Club. 1st ed. New York : HarperTeen, c2011.
In 1936 Berlin, fourteen-year-old Karl Stern, considered Jewish despite a non-religious upbringing, learns to box from the legendary Max Schmeling while struggling with the realities of the Holocaust.

Silvey, Craig, 1982-. Jasper Jones : a novel. 1st American ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2011], c2009.
In small-town Australia, teens Jasper and Charlie form an unlikely friendship when one asks the other to help him cover up a murder until they can prove who is responsible.

Sparks, Nicholas. The best of me. 1st ed. New York : Grand Central Pub., 2011.
Two small-town former high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks, now middle-aged, are called back to their hometown for the funeral of the mentor who once gave them shelter, and they will be forced to confront the choices each has made.

Testa, Dom. The comet's curse. 1st mass market ed. New York : Tor, 2010, c2005.
Desperate to save the human race after a comet's deadly particles devastate the adult population, scientists create a ship that will carry a crew of 251 teenagers to a home in a distant solar system.

Turner, Megan Whalen. The thief. 1st ed. New York : Greenwillow Books, c1996.
Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.

Vrettos, Adrienne Maria. Burnout. 1st ed. New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, c2011.
Nan struggles to recollect her memories from the past twenty-four hours after she wakes up in a subway car wearing skeleton makeup and a too-small Halloween costume, but her efforts cause her to recall memories from her previous life, which was filled with danger and fueled by alcohol.

Ward, Jesmyn. Salvage the bones : a novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury, 2011.
Pregnant fifteen-year-old Esch and her family live in Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, which puts them in the path of Hurricane Katrina, and as they try to stock the small amount of food they have in preparation for the disaster, the family's love for each other will be their only hope for survival.

Weatherly, Lee. Angel burn. 1st U.S. ed. Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2011.
Willow, a girl with a gift that allows her to see a person's future, hopes, dreams, and sorrows just by touching him or her, meets Alex, a gorgeous, mysterious young man who knows all about Willow's powers and their link to dark and dangerous forces, and is sworn to destroy her.

Weatherly, Lee. Angel fire. 1st U.S. ed. Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2012, c2011.
Alex and Willow travel to Mexico City where they team up with Kara, a beautiful angel killer from Alex's past, but the team remains suspicious of Willow while they prepare for an attack on the Seraphic Council, and a mysterious boy from Willow's prophetic dream shows up and claims he has been searching for Willow his entire life.

Woodson, Jacqueline. Beneath a meth moon. New York, N.Y. : Nancy Paulsen Books, 2012.
"A young girl uses crystal meth to escape the pain of losing her mother and grandmother in Hurricane Katrina, and then struggles to get over her addiction"--.

Wrede, Patricia C., 1953-. Across the Great Barrier. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2011.
Eff, an unlucky thirteenth child, and her twin brother Lan, the powerful seventh son of a seventh son, face new challenges that force Eff to travel beyond the Great Barrier in an effort to understand her own magical abilities, as well as those of Lan, and try to save the settlers from a new threat.

Wynne-Jones, Tim. Blink & Caution. 1st ed. Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2011.
Blink, hoping to steal some breakfast, is forced to go on the run after stumbling upon the fake kidnapping of a CEO and recovering the man's cell phone, and he meets up with Caution, a girl trying to ditch her drug-dealing boyfriend, who identifies Blink as a mark until he tugs at her heart strings.

Zane. Addicted. New York : Pocket Books, [2001], c1998.
Successful African-American businesswoman Zoe Reynard turns to a compassionate woman therapist for help when sexual addiction threatens to destroy her marriage, her family, her business, and perhaps even her life.

Zane. Total eclipse of the heart. 1st Atria Books hardcover ed. New York : Atria Books, 2009.
Brooke Alexander, a waitress who is unsatisfied with her existence, pines for prominent--and emotionally mercurial--Washington, D.C., attorney Patrick Sterling, but when her life intersects with that of Damon Johnson, who is unsure of his marriage to Carleigh, they both reconsider their existing relationships.

Zarr, Sara. How to save a life. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2011.
Told from their own viewpoints, seventeen-year-old Jill, in grief over the loss of her father, and Mandy, nearly nineteen, are thrown together when Jill's mother agrees to adopt Mandy's unborn child but nothing turns out as they had anticipated.

Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. New York : Scholastic, [2009], c2008.
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.

Marshall, Kim, 1948-. Rethinking teacher supervision and evaluation : how to work smart, build collaboration, and close the achievement gap. 1st ed. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2009.
The challenge : closing the achievement gap -- Supervision and evaluation : why we need a new approach -- Mini-observations 1 : a system is born -- Mini-observations 2 : suggested best practices -- Curriculum design : the foundation of good teaching -- Interim assessments : using results to continuously improve instruction -- Rubrics : potent, time-efficient evaluation tools -- Time management : doing first things first -- Putting it all together. Presents a four-part framework designed to help principals more effectively supervise and evaluate a teacher's performance.

Hall, Peter A., 1971-. Building teachers' capacity for success : a collaborative approach for coaches and school leaders. Alexandria, VA : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, c2008.
Offers a school improvement plan that focuses on collaboration between site-based administrators and instructional coaches who will work together to motivate teachers, improve their skills, and build a cohesive staff.

Marzano, Robert J. School leadership that works : from research to results. Alexandria, VA : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development ;, c2005.
Examines the impact school leadership has on student achievement and lists twenty-one leadership responsibilities that have a significant effect on student achievement.

Guinness World Records 2012. [London] : Guinness World Records, c2011.
Presents the biggest, smallest, fastest, longest, and other record setters for 2011 in the categories of the universe, planet Earth, variety of life, time, the human body, skills and talents, adventure, society, sci-tech and engineering, popular culture, and sports.

The official study guide for all SAT subject tests. 2nd ed. New York : College Board, c2011.
Contains twenty full-length, previously administered SAT subject tests for each subject, with explained answers; and provides test-taking tips as well as two CDs with language listening tests in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, and Spanish.

Gods and goddesses of Greece and Rome. New York : Marshall Cavendish Reference, c2012.
An introduction to the gods and goddesses of ancient Greek and Roman mythology, featuring seventy-six alphabetically arranged articles on well-known deities from Achelous to Zeus, discussing their significance, associated forms of worship, and related topics, and including cross-references, a list of the major pantheons, and other resources.

Murphy, Barbara L. Writing the AP English essay 2012-2013. New York : McGraw-Hill, c2011.
Provides study tools for preparing to take the essay portion of the Advanced Placement English exam, including a study plan, test-taking strategies, reviews, and sample prompts and students essays.

Novels for students. : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels. Detroit : Gale Cengage Learning, c2012.
Contains profiles of fourteen novels commonly read by students, including "The absolutely true diary of a part-time indian," "Dreaming in Cuban," and "Schindler's list," each with an introduction to the story and its author, a plot summary, descriptions of characters, analyses of themes and style, discussion of historical context, a critical overview, and related information.

Murphy, Barbara L. AP English language 2012-2013. New York : McGraw-Hill, c2011.
A guide to taking the Advanced Placement English Language exam that provides a five-step plan for studying, sample tests based on actual AP exams, and hundreds of tips and strategies for the test; and includes a CD-ROM.

Rankin, Estelle M. AP English literature, 2012-2013. New York : McGraw-Hill, c2011.
A study guide to the advanced placement test in English literature, featuring a five-step study plan, test-taking tips and strategies, reviews of prose and poetry, and sample tests. Includes a companion CD.

American Civil War : the essential reference guide. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2011.
A reference guide to the American Civil War that includes historical illustrations and documents and alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on the war's causes, consequences, battles, key figures, weapons, uniforms, military tactics, strategies, and other related topics.

The 9/11 encyclopedia. 2nd ed. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2011.
Contains over 170 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on people and events related to the September, 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, and includes a chronology, and essays on the impact of the attacks on U.S. foreign policy, presidential power, and public opinion.

The 9/11 encyclopedia. 2nd ed. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2011.
Contains over fifty primary source documents that provide insights into events surrounding the September, 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.