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进化,我, & Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande attacks the controversial arguments surrounding religion in schools from a new perspective. Mena, Brande’s protagonist, starts the school year having been kicked out of her church group. When none of her former friends will speak to her, Mena finds refuge in science class with a charismatic teacher and cute new lab partner. When the class begins the unit on evolution, 然而, Mena finds herself in a difficult position between her old and new friends. Tackling a number of controversial subjects, this book tells a compelling story of a young girl figuring out what she believes阅读更多→

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   来世 by Gary Soto grabs the reluctant reader in the first few pages with the story of Chuy who is stabbed, 死, and becomes the ghostly protagonist of this compelling story.  As Chuy struggles to find the significance of his life and watches his family come to terms with his violent end, 他遇到了可爱的克里斯托, 最近也去世了.  I read this story with junior high students who “HATE to read” but they were quickly drawn into Chuy’s search for understanding and the question of whether his death would be avenged.  The author of this book, Gary Soto, is a favorite of阅读更多→

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的Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel) tells the story of teen twins Sophie and Josh who discover that a San Francisco bookstore owner, 尼克·弗莱明, 真的是尼古拉斯·勒梅吗, a nearly 700 year old alchemist who created the elixir of life.  他的敌人，博士. 约翰迪, 偷走古抄本, an ancient book containing the secrets of magic, 还有关于双胞胎的预言. As Flamel and the twins race to recover the book, they are pursued by Dee and the members of the Elder race who are the source of most of humanity’s ancient myths and legends.  Throughout this riveting book, Elders and other magical creatures line up on阅读更多→

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到达, 肖恩·谭的新书, tells the the familiar story of an immigrant in an intriguing new way.  Conveyed entirely in detailed drawings which look like sepia-toned, 穿照片, this book feels like paging through an old photo album without the aid of captions or notes.  We follow the immigrant as he packs a small bag, says a heartbreaking goodbye to his wife and small daughter, and boards a steamer ship along with hundreds of others to reach a new land.  The new city is at once recognizable and surreal and recalls the halls and images of Ellis Island and New York City.阅读更多→

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is Sherman Alexie’s first novel for young adults.  It’s based in part on his own experiences growing up poor on the Spokane Indian Reservation.  It tells the story of Junior (known as Arnold to the white people in the world he inhabits on a part-time basis), 即将成年的印度少年.  当他决定离开这个破旧的地方, dead-end reservation school to attend a rich, 怀特农场镇学校, his mom tells him “you’ll be the first one to ever leave the rez this way.  The Indians around here are going to be angry with you.”阅读更多→

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巴克斯顿的以利亚 by Christopher Paul Curtis tells the story of Elijah Freeman, the first freeborn child born in the colony of Buxton, 加拿大, a settlement of runaway slaves just over the border from Detroit.  The year is 1860 and when a conman steals the money of a family friend that was intended to buy the man’s family from slavery in the South, Elijah embarks on a dangerous journey to America in pursuit of the thief and he discovers the unimaginable horrors of the life his parents fled. As readers have come to expect from Curtis, he delivers superior historical research (the author’s notes at the end阅读更多→

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Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer’s much-anticipated follow up to her highly successful novels Twilight and New Moon, 继续吸血鬼的传奇, 狼人, 贝拉·斯旺, 一个同时爱他们俩的女孩. 从新月离开的地方开始, 日食充满了危险, 阴谋, 打斗和大量的悬念. While the plot is riveting and the book is a page-turner that is almost impossible to set down, Eclipse differs from the first two books in the amount of background and character development Meyer provides. Not only does Meyer delve more deeply into the mythology of the 狼人 and vampires, 她还挑出了个人阅读更多→

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以上帝之名 by Paula Jolin is a moving and eye-opening depiction of the struggle to find one’s self and what one believes in. 娜迪娅, 蔡依林故事的叙述者, is a seventeen-year-old girl in modern Damascus who is trying to figure out how to be the best Muslim she can be. Her quest is interrupted when her cousin Fowzi is arrested for speaking out against the government. As she watches her family and their varying degrees of faith deal with her cousin’s arrest, 娜迪亚必须弄清楚她相信什么. Jolin’s compelling book provides a far-reaching look into a complex and controversial阅读更多→