ms. adriana's favorites

may 2001

Beauty
by Donna Jo Napoli
Who was the Beast before Beauty found him?  Prince Orasmyn loved to read battle stories, look over his private garden, and spend time with his parents the Queen and King of Persia, but that was before his entrapment in a lion's body.
YA FICTION Napoli

Dancing with an Alien
by Mary Logue
Branko is on a mission. He has come to earth to find a female. Tonia is on a mission too. She is on a mission to have a fantastic summer, swimming at the lake and not acting like those other girls who just sit on the beach and anoint themselves with oil.
YA FICTION Logue

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
by Louise Rennison
Ms. Georgia Nicholson has something to confess....her life is a big mess. Read her diary and laugh out loud. Remember to use the trusty glossary in the back. Ms. Georgia is from England and some of words aren't too familiar to us in America. You know, old chap?
YA FICTION Rennison

december 2000

Stargirl
by Jerry Spinelli
The first time Leo sees Stargirl he knows she is different from the other girls. She walks around in different clothes, no makeup, has a ukulele, and sings happy birthday to people she doesn't even know in the school cafeteria.
YA FICTION SPINELLI

If You Come Softly
by Jacqueline Woodson
Elli and Jeremiah are meant for each other, but the rest of society doesn't think so. Elli is white and Jewish and Jeremiah is an African-American. Elli and Jeremiah will fight for their love until the end of time.
YA FICTION WOODSON

Haunted Sister
by Lael Littke
"It was raining the day I died." 
Janine finds herself floating over her body as doctors mop at her blood and poke her with needles.

Locked in Time
by Lois Duncan
What Eleanor finds at Shadow Groove is much more dangerous and more frightening than ghosts.  When she arrives at her step-mother's estate she is standing at the top of the mansion's stairs with arms open wide, but in her step-mother's eyes she does not find the promise of friendship but something far more sinister and evil.
YA FICTION DUNCAN

Doing Time
by Rob Thomas
Read these short stories by Rob Thomas....."How would you feel if on Thanksgiving you were delivering food to the needy and the delivery van stopped at your house?"
YA FICTION THOMAS

Holes
By Louis Sachar
There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. And there are no happy campers. Stanley Yelnats finds this out all too soon when he arrives at Camp Green Lake and is given three things, 1)a shovel, 2) a canteen, 3) a long sleeve orange jump suit. Stanley Yelnats has bad luck.
JUVENILE AWARD SACHAR

Speak
by Laurie Halse Anderson
We are herded into the auditorium.   We fall into clans...Jocks, Country Clubbers, Cheerleaders, Goths, Idiot Savants,   and the Marthas. I am clanless. I spent the last few weeks of summer watching bad cartoons. I didn't go to the pool, the mall, or talk on the phone. I have started out high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes and the wrong attitude and I have no one to sit with.
YA FICTION ANDERSON

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