http://whitelib.emporia.edu/ New books added to the collection eng Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:20:40 CST Millennium Feed Builder 720 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/screens/feeds.gif http://whitelib.emporia.edu/ 88 31 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1651009*eng Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War. 9780399246555 (hardcover) http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1651008*eng In Moundville, Alabama, in 1917, twelve-year-old Dit hopes the new postmaster will have a son his age, but instead he meets Emma, who is black, and their friendship challenges accepted ways of thinking and leads them to save the life of a condemned man. 9780399250903 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1651007*eng During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots. 9780399247095 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1651006*eng Thrown into a river by a cruel human, a young tiger-striped cat fights to survive amid feral cats and other creatures near Roxville train station, aided by Mike, an eleven-year-old foster boy who is not allowed to have a pet. 9780525421405 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1651005*eng In Omaha, Nebraska, twelve-year-old Oliver Watson has everyone convinced that he is extremely stupid and lazy, but he is actually a very wealthy, evil genius, and when he decides to run for seventh-grade class president, nothing will stand in his way. 9781595142405 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1651004*eng Follows the fortunes of a German immigrant family through nine generations, beginning in 1845, as they experience American life and play baseball. 9780803732247 (hardcover) http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1651003*eng When twelve-year-old Simon becomes the official Keeper of the Order of Physics, he and his friends Owen and Alysha face extreme danger as they try to protect the Universe from destruction by evil forces. 9780525420828 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1651002*eng In the spring of 1851 San Francisco is booming. 12-year-old Amelia Forrester has just arrived with her family and they are eager to make a new life in Phoenix City. But the mostly male town is not that hospitable to females and Amelia decides she will earn more money as a boy. Cutting her hair and donning a cap, she joins a gang of newsboys, selling Eastern newspapers for a fortune. 9780670011193 : $17.99 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1651001*eng Winston and his friends enter an all-day puzzle contest to win fifty-thousand dollars for their school, but they must also figure out who is trying to keep them from winning. Puzzles for the reader to solve are included throughout the text. 9780399251986 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1651000*eng After a fellow slave is beaten to death, Sadie and her family flee the plantation for freedom through the Underground Railroad. 9780399250774 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1650999*eng The causes and results of the Dust Bowl and how the lessons learned are still used today. 9780525420774 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1650998*eng 9780670011896 (hardcover) http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1650997*eng Thirteen-year-old Sunny, accompanied by a stray dog, takes advantage of a windfall to travel from her Nebraska foster home to Enumclaw, Washington, to find the twin sister from whom she was separated at age three. 9780525421771 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1650996*eng Relates the surprising gifts bestowed on twelve-year-old Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently moved to a small Illinois town in 1958, by their larger-than-life neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel. 9780803730823 (hc) http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1650995*eng Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed. 9780399247057 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1650994*eng Devastated when her beautiful, older sister dies from anorexia, twelve-year-old Jane recovers slowly from the tragedy, with help from unexpected sources. 9780525420781 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1650993*eng Seventh-grader Emma-Jean Lazarus uses her logical, scientific mind to navigate the mysteries of the upcoming Spring Fling, her friend Colleen's secret admirer, and other love-related dilemmas. 9780803733213 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1650992*eng When ten-year-old Newton dresses up as an unusual superhero for Halloween, he decides to keep wearing the costume after the holiday to help save townspeople and eventually his injured brother. 9780399250347 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1650991*eng Danny Dragonbreath and his friend Wendell get an up-close underwater tour of the Sargasso Sea from Danny's sea-serpent cousin, encountering giant squid and mako sharks--and learn about standing up to bullies in the process. 9780803733633 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1650990*eng When the magic wind switches Katie into her mother just before a tap dancing audition, Katie panics, ruining her mother's big chance to appear on television. 9780448450414 (pbk.) http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1650989*eng Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner there, wants a favor in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose. 9780803734609 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1650988*eng Overweight thirteen-year-old Celeste begins a campaign to lose weight in order to make sure she does not win the Miss HuskeyPeach modeling challenge, in which her mother and aunt have entered her--against her wishes. 9780803732964 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1650987*eng Jimmy Cannon tells about his life in the 1940s as the son of a West Virginia railroad man, loving the trains and expecting one day to work on the railroad like his father and brothers. 9780399251894 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1650560*eng "What children's book changed the way you see the world?" Anita Silvey asked this question to more than one hundred of our most respected and admired leaders in society, and she learned about the books that shaped financiers, actors, singers, athletes, activists, artists, comic book creators, novelists, illustrators, teachers... Writers (Anna Quindlen, Sherman Alexie, Bobbie Ann Mason, Azar Nafisi, Angela Johnson, David McCullough, Ann Tyler, Dave Eggers,); inventors and scientists (Steve Wozniak, Andrew Weaver); politicians and activists (Donna E. Shalala, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.); artists (Wendell Minor, Pete Seeger); and the media (Lesley Stahl, Scott Simon) are just some of the people who share their stories. The lessons they recall are inspiring, instructive, and illuminating. And the books they remember resonate as influential reading choices for families. Everything I need to know I learned from a children's book, with its full color excerpts of beloved children's books, is a treasury and a guide: a collection of fascinating essays. 9781596433953 (hardcover) http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1650479*eng Rosy, a poor, eleven-year-old, half-Mohawk girl from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada enters an Anne of Green Gables look-alike contest in hopes of winning a set of Anne books, and gains a new friend and deeper understanding of Anne's character. 9780977918355 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1650327*eng 9781567923841 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1650326*eng 9781554550579 (pbk.) http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1650265*eng The classic story of a boy's journey to manhood under the joys and hardships of ranch life, focused around the life and death of his red pony. http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1649888*eng What were once just boys' games become matters of life and death as Petros and his older brother Zola each wonder if, like their resistance-fighter cousin, they too can make a difference in a Nazi-occupied Greece. 9780375856297 (trade pbk.) http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1649887*eng Santa Rosa, California, junior high school students Gene and Vince try to become famous and popular by publishing a free tabloid about real aliens, but a clash over whether to print a certain story not only damages their friendship, it lands them in the middle of an intergalactic conflict, as well. 9781416982982 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1649886*eng When twelve-year-old Steve Brixton, a fan of Bailey Brothers detective novels, is mistaken for a real detective, he must elude librarians, police, and the mysterious Mr. E as he seeks a missing quilt containing coded information. 9781416978152 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1649885*eng Ten-year-old Christina lives a sheltered life until she discovers a secret tunnel, an evil plot to enslave orphans, and a mysterious source of energy known as zoom. 9780805088564 (hardcover) : 16.99 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1649884*eng The painter Joseph Albers saw art in simple things. Late in his career, he began painting squares of solid, unmixed color, one within another. 9780805080728 (reinforced) : $16.99 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1649883*eng Inspired by the natural beauty of his homeland of Catalonia, Antoni Gaudi became a celebrated and innovative architect through the unique structures he designed in Barcelona, having a significant impact on architecture as it was known. 9780805087451 (hc : alk. paper) http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1649228*eng Fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman continue their magical training in Paris with Nicholas Flamel, Scatty, and the Comte de Sant Germaine, pursued by Doctor Dee and the immortal Niccolo Machiavelli. 9780385733588 (hc) http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1648457*eng On her sixteenth birthday in 1936, Sophia begins a diary of life in a fictional island country off the coast of Spain, where she is among the last descendants of an impoverished royal family trying to hold their nation together on the eve of the second World War. 9780375858642 (trade) http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1648456*eng Thirteen-year-old Eric discovers there are consequences to not standing by and watching as the bully at his new school hurts people, but although school officials are aware of the problem, Eric may be the one with a solution. 9780312379063 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1648454*eng In parallel stories, Bone, an orphaned dog, finds and loses a series of homes, Molly, a family pet, helps Charlie through the grief and other after-effects of his brother's death, and lonely Henry pleads for a dog of his own. 9780312386511 (hc) http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1648453*eng A mysterious stranger commissions a single, valuable shoe from a humble cobbler, changing the cobbler's life and the life of his young apprentice forever. 9780375856006 (trade) http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1648452*eng Neither a long list of rules, nor the inability to find the perfect gift--Cheddar Jam--nor being locked in a bathroom with a juggling bear will keep quirky fourth-grader Oggie Cooder from attending neighbor Donnica Perfecto's birthday pool party. 9780439927925 (hardcover) http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1648416*eng 0531206556 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1648415*eng 9780531206539 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1648412*eng 9780531206522 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1648411*eng 0531206513 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1648410*eng 0531206505 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1648409*eng 0531206548 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1648077*eng Octopus enjoys tickling other creatures, although most of them want him to stop, but one day his tickling causes big trouble and while he is trying to set things right, he discovers that he is good at doing other things, as well. 1589250648 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1648076*eng When her family moves from Chicago to the country, nine-year-old Emily is drawn to a mysterious playhouse she finds in the woods and soon meets its sad, lonely inhabitant. 0375840796 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1648068*eng Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas only thinks his life has been turned upside down after his developer father remarries and moves his new wife and daughter into the soon-to-be completed Mangrove Hollow. But an "expedition" to a nearby lake turns up a little nixie with a giant problem--the huge, lumbering, fire-breathing variety--and it's up to Nick, his stepsister Laurie, and his big brother, Julian (plus a familiar face from the original Spiderwick Chronicles) to figure out the best way to stop a host of rampaging giants before all of Florida goes up in smoke.--From publisher's description. 9780689871313 http://whitelib.emporia.edu/record=b1647715*eng While armies of the Shadowrealms gather and Machiavelli goes to Alcatraz to kill Perenelle Flamel, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman accompany the Alchemist to England to seek Gilgamesh. 9780385735292 (hc)