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We hope your school year is off to a great start. This past summer, we were saddened to learn of the passing of an American literary master—author E.L. Doctorow, who died on July 21st at the age of 84. Doctorow’s works of fiction—including Billy Bathgate, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, and The March, to name a few—spanned centuries in American history, while illuminating social and political issues. To honor Doctorow’s legacy, we have included a “Read Doctorow’s America” classroom poster in the back of this catalog, featuring a colorful timeline of his works and their American settings.

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In other news, last fall Penguin Random House announced the recipients of its Third Annual Teacher Awards for Literacy at a special event held during the 2014 NCTE meeting in National Harbor, MD. The winners were: • First Place ($10,000 Grant Recipient): Robin Muse, 5th Grade Reading Teacher, Cache 5th–6th Grade Center (Cache, OK) • Second Place ($5,000 Grant Recipient): Cassie Cox, English Teacher, Two Rivers High School (Ogden, UT) • Third Place ($2,500 Grant Recipient): Kim Snow, English Teacher, Whitehaven High School (Memphis, TN) The Fourth Annual Teacher Awards will be presented at the 2015 NCTE Conference in Minneapolis, MN. For more information, including an application for next year’s awards, go to www.penguinrandomhouse.com/teacherawards. Speaking of events, we moved our Annual Author Event for NYC Educators from its traditional summer date to Columbus Day in October, held at the Random House headquarters. Ten authors across all of our publishing divisions participated in a fun afternoon of presentations, panel discussions, and book signings. Visit our YouTube channel to watch the entire event (YouTube.com/CommonReads)! Hot off the press! We’re happy to announce brand new teacher’s guides for the following books: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, Headstrong by Rachel Swaby, and The Martian by Andy Weir (now a movie starring Matt Damon!). All of the guides have been integrated with Common Core State Standards. Visit our website www.randomhouse.com/highschool for a full list of downloadable teacher’s guides, or email us at highschool@randomhouse.com to request printed copies (while supplies last). And last, but certainly not least, we hope you enjoy the many other exciting books featured in this catalog. Subjects range from the extreme sacrifices of Afghan women and girls as revealed in Jenny Nordberg’s The Underground Girls of Kabul (Broadway Books); a young boy confronting issues of race, class, and sexuality in Adam Silvera’s novel More Happy Than Not (Soho Teen); and Carol S. Dweck’s arguments about how growth mindset principles play a critical role in both student and professional development in Mindset (Ballantine Books). As always, feel free to drop us a line at any point via email, phone, or social media! Have a safe, successful, and healthy school year! Sincerely,

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Social Studies: Current Events & Life Stories A Top Common Reading Title at Colleges/Universities

JUST MERCY A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

A New York Times Bestseller Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times • The Washington Post • The Boston Globe • The Seattle Times • Esquire • TIME Winner of: • the Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction • the NAACP Image Award for Nonfiction • a Books for a Better Life Award Finalist for: • the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • the Kirkus Reviews Prize An American Library Association Notable Book

A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time. Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship—and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever. Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer’s coming of age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice.

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“Every bit as moving as To Kill a Mockingbird, and in some ways more so . . . a searing indictment of American criminal justice and a stirring testament to the salvation that fighting for the vulnerable sometimes yields.” —David C ole , The New York Review of Books

“Searing, moving . . . Bryan Stevenson may, indeed, be America’s Mandela.” —Nicholas K ristof, The New York Times

About the author BRYAN STEVENSON is the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, and a professor of law at New York University Law School. He has won relief for dozens of condemned prisoners, argued five times before the Supreme Court, and won national acclaim for his work challenging bias against the poor and people of color. He has received numerous awards, including the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant. Photo: © Nina Subin

Universal Themes: Overcoming Adversity; Social Justice Companion Titles: The Pact; Mountains Beyond Mountains; My Own Country

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y grandmother was the daughter of people who were enslaved in Caroline County, Virginia. She was born in the 1880s, her parents in the 1840s, and the legacy of slavery very much shaped her and the things she would say to me. When I visited my grandmother, she would hug me so tightly I could barely breathe. After a little while, she would ask me, “Bryan, do you still feel me hugging you?” If I said yes, she’d let me be; if I said no, she would assault me again. I said no a lot because it made me happy to be wrapped in her formidable arms. She never tired of pulling me to her. “You can’t understand most of the important things from a distance, Bryan. You have to get close,” she told me all the time. This book is about getting closer to mass incarceration and extreme punishment in America. It is about how easily we condemn people in this country and the injustice we create when we allow fear, anger, and distance to shape the way we treat the most vulnerable among us. It’s also about a dramatic period in our recent history, a period that continues to mark the lives of millions of Americans—of all races, ages, and sexes—and the American psyche as a whole. The prison population in America has grown from 300,000 in 1972 to 2.3 million people today. The United States now has the highest incarceration rate in the world. We have condemned thousands of children, some as young as 13, to die in prison with life imprisonment without parole sentences. We’ve executed over 1,400 people with a death penalty system that has proved remarkably unreliable. Over 150 people condemned to execution have been proved innocent, exonerated and released. In 1983, I was a 23-year-old student at Harvard Law School working in Georgia on an internship, eager and inexperienced, and worried that I was in over my head. When I learned that I would be visiting a death row prisoner alone, with no lawyer accompanying me, I tried not to let my panic show. When I signed up for this internship, I hadn’t given much thought to the fact that I would actually be meeting condemned prisoners. To be honest, I didn’t even know if I wanted to be a lawyer. The distance I experienced in my first year of law school made me feel lost. I could not have known that proximity to the condemned, to people unfairly judged, would guide me back to something that felt like home. I document my journey and some remarkable people I represented, including an innocent man named Walter McMillian who was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in Monroeville, Alabama, the home of Harper Lee’s fictional novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. In this book, you will learn the story of Walter’s case, which taught me about our system’s disturbing indifference to inaccurate or unreliable verdicts, our comfort with bias, and our tolerance of unfair prosecutions and convictions. Walter’s experience taught me the ways our system traumatizes and victimizes people when we exercise our power to convict and condemn irresponsibly—not just the accused but also their families, their communities, and even the victims of crime. But Walter’s case also taught me something else: that there is light within this darkness. My work has taught me some basic and humbling truths, including this vital lesson: Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done. My work with the poor and the incarcerated has persuaded me that the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice. I’ve come to believe that the true measure of our commitment to justice, the character of our society, our commitment to the rule of law, fairness, and equality cannot be measured by how we treat the rich, the powerful, the privileged, and the respected among us. The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned. We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. I believe it’s necessary to recognize that we all need mercy, we all need justice, and—perhaps—we all need some measure of unmerited grace. For additional books, excerpts, and more, visit www.randomhouse.com/highschool

Science

HEADSTRONG 52 Women Who Changed Science—and the World by Rachel Swaby

Broadway Books ★ TR ★ 978-0-553-44679-1 288pp. ★ $16.00/$19.00 Can. Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-553-44680-7 ★ N Reading Level: 9

In 2013, The New York Times published an obituary for Yvonne Brill. It began: “She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job, and took eight years off from work to raise three children.” It wasn’t until the second paragraph that readers discovered why the Times had devoted several hundred words to her life: Brill was a brilliant rocket scientist who invented a propulsion system to keep communications satellites in orbit, and had recently been awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Among the questions the obituary—and consequent outcry—prompted were, Who are the role models for today’s female scientists, and where can we find the stories that cast them in their true light? Headstrong delivers a powerful, global, and engaging response. Covering Nobel Prize winners and major innovators, as well as lesserknown but hugely significant scientists who influence our every day, Rachel Swaby’s vibrant profiles span centuries of courageous thinkers and illustrate how each one’s ideas developed, from their first moment of scientific engagement through the research and discovery for which they’re best known. This fascinating tour reveals these 52 women at their best—while encouraging and inspiring a new generation of girls to put on their lab coats.

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Universal Themes: STEM; Scientific Inquiry; Women’s History Companion Titles: Galileo’s Daughter; Antigone; Frankenstein; The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

“Headstrong is a true gem. So many amazing women have had an incredible impact on STEM fields, and this book gives clear, concise, easy-to-digest histories of 52 of them—there’s no longer an excuse for not being familiar with our math and science heroines. Thank you, Rachel!” —Danica McK ellar , actress and New York Times bestselling author of Math D oesn’t Suck

“Although many of these women may not be familiar names outside their courses of study, the author’s spadework should bring them to the forefront, allowing the general public to learn about the females who pushed beyond sexist attitudes to undertake and achieve success in a maledominated arena. These short accounts should inspire girls who want to study science to follow their dreams. . . . succinct and informative.” —K irkus Reviews

About the author RACHEL SWABY is a freelance journalist. Her work has appeared in Runner’s World, Wired, O, The Oprah Magazine, New Yorker.com, Afar, and others. She is a senior editor at Longshot magazine, the editor-in-chief of The Connective: Issue 1, a former research editor at Wired, and a past presenter at PopUp magazine. She lives in Brooklyn.

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programmer examines a computer as massive as a room and finds the first computer bug—a moth stuck in the machine’s relays. A 10-year old is hunting for treasure and discovers a dinosaur skeleton. Hidden in a pile of data, a woman finds the inner core of the earth, another reveals nuclear fission, and another spots evidence of continental drift in the ocean floor. Who are these incredible scientists? Most of us can’t even name one. I wrote Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science—And the World to help reveal the hidden history of women in STEM fields. The desire to write these stories was three-pronged. First, I was dismayed at the way women in science were being covered. When the New York Times obituary for the rocket scientist Yvonne Brill started with, “She made a mean beef stroganoff,” I was as disappointed as the rest of the Internet. I wanted to rewrite Yvonne Brill’s profile and find a way to more appropriately honor the exceptional work of other women in science. Secondly, I was shocked how few scientists I knew. I found surprises even in those women I thought I knew. Florence Nightingale, for instance, was not just the founder of modern nursing, but also an important health statistician. In many more cases, I knew the discovery but not the discoverer. The Apgar Score, for example, isn’t just an acronym, but also the last name of Virginia Apgar, the pioneering anesthesiologist and the score’s developer. I found so many stories—and such fascinating ones! My hope is that one day we’ll be able to rattle off these accomplishments and the scientists behind them with ease, just as we name any number of male scientists and their work. Lastly—and most importantly—I hoped that girls considering STEM fields might pick up this book and read about a whole history of women succeeding. I hoped that girls would read about Grace Hopper and consider computer science. I hoped they’d hear about Mary Anning and picture themselves becoming dinosaur hunters. I hoped the stories of Inge Lehmann, who discovered Earth’s inner core, Lise Meitner, whose insight and leadership identified nuclear fission, and Marie Tharp, who mapped the ocean floor, would inspire the next generation of women in STEM.

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Language Arts: Biography & Memoir

A COMEDY & A TRAGEDY A Memoir of Learning How to Read and Write by Travis Hugh Culley

Ballantine Books ★ HC ★ 978-0-345-50616-0 272pp. ★ $26.00/$31.00 Can. Exam Copy: $13.00 EB: 978-0-8041-7755-9 Reading Level: 7

In this powerful memoir, former bicycle messenger and acclaimed author of The Immortal Class recounts his difficult journey to literacy. When Travis Hugh Culley moves with his family to Miami, the bright six-year-old hopes things will be easier for him. Instead, he is classified by his new teachers as a discipline problem. Travis fakes his way through tests and homework assignments, pretending to know how to read. When his music teacher suggests that he audition for an acting program, Travis begins an unlikely path toward literacy. The moment Travis begins to perform, he is confronted by his angry father, who is threatened by the transformation in his son. Unsure of how to make sense of what has happened, Travis grabs a pen and writes his experience down. Suddenly, everything can be seen in a new light. Having written, he begins to understand in a new way the relationship between words and actions. The troubled student eventually runs away from home but does not drop out of school. With pen in hand, he commits to an education in Theater and begins to fully realize the power and importance of literacy. A Comedy & A Tragedy is an important and inspired memoir that will touch the hearts of parents, teachers, students, and anyone who has struggled with traumatic experiences in education. It is a work of love, of friendship, and of confidence in one young scholar’s infinite belief in language.

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“This tale of struggle, survival, and triumph addresses the inner lives of children and the grave responsibility of adults to ensure that their voices are heard. Readers will readily warm to the story of a bright, illiterate boy who is destined to become a lauded writer.” —Publishers Weekly

About the author TRAVIS HUGH CULLEY is the author of The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power. He holds an MFA in writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2006, he was a recipient of the Ox-Bow Fellowship in Saugatuck, Michigan.

Universal Themes: Overcoming Adversity; Education; Coming of Age Companion Titles: The Curious Incident of the Dog in Nighttime; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; The Pact; A Child Called IT

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looked out the window of my dad’s brown van, watching trees pass by. My mom and brother, Joe, were strapped in behind their seat belts, waving goodbye to the mountains in the rearview mirror. It was the spring of 1980, and we were driving from Denver, Colorado, to Miami, Florida. A truck filled with furniture and clothes drove east a few hours ahead of us. Feeling the van rock side to side, I caught myself staring at miles of wheat and corn, barbed-wire fences, and occasional barrels of hay. Looking ahead, smelling the pine and horses, feeling the wind carry, I felt that my life was changing. Houses peered out at us and vanished. Once fascinated, I had to wonder where they went. Whole towns disappeared, never to be seen again. One moment I saw cabbages, radio towers, farms, and then empty stretches of road. Weeks before, Joe and I had been taken out of school to prepare for our move back east. Joe was in the third grade. I was in the first. Before our move I asked him, thinking he knew better, how things would be different in Florida. He looked around at the schoolyard where we stood: “Everything will be different.” We moved into a neighborhood house with an acre yard that sat back from the shoulder of a busy two-lane street in North Miami. The house was spacious and open. The walls were paneled with stained wood. The hall creaked and moaned. There was a porch at the front of the house and an enclosed swimming pool in the back. The screens whistled differently in the warm wind. The windows were glass venetian-style shutters, thin plates that we opened and closed with little metal dials. Each window was covered by an awning, and so the house was always dark within, even when we had every light on. Dad thought we had no room to complain. With a pool and a backyard like ours, he was sure Joe and I had everything we should need. Dad warned us that we would soon be going to a bigger school, and that we’d need to prepare ourselves. First of all, Miami was nothing like the suburbs of Denver. Here, we’d be taking classes with people from all over the world. We’d have to learn to talk with different kinds of people, and even deal with the sense of being a minority in some of our classrooms, although this, he suggested, wasn’t really true and would in time wear off. Passing tests and turning in assignments should be easy. The problem would be the jealousy of other boys, he said. At school, kids would envy us because we were luckier than they. He had this phrase: most likely to succeed. Here began two very different journeys in education. My brother would become an honors student, earning high marks and graduating easily. I would be called a discipline problem. My path would be beset with many obstacles, and I would remain illiterate until high school.

Excerpted from A Comedy & A Tragedy by Travis Hugh Culley Copyright © 2015 by Travis Hugh Culley. Excerpted by permission of Ballantine Books, a division of Penguin Random House. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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Social Studies: Current Events & Life Stories

THE UNDERGROUND GIRLS OF KABUL In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan by Jenny Nordberg

Broadway Books ★ TR ★ 978-0-307-95250-9 384pp. ★ $15.00/$17.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 Reading Level: 8 EB: 978-0-307-95251-6 ★ N

In Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is cause for celebration and the arrival of a daughter is often mourned as misfortune. A bacha posh (literally translated from Dari as “dressed up like a boy”) is a third kind of child—a girl temporarily raised as a boy and presented as such to the outside world. Jenny Nordberg, the reporter who broke the story of this phenomenon for The New York Times, constructs a powerful and moving account of those secretly living on the other side of a deeply segregated society where women have almost no rights and little freedom. The Underground Girls of Kabul is anchored by vivid characters who bring this remarkable story to life: Azita, a female parliamentarian who sees no other choice but to turn her fourth daughter Mehran into a boy; Zahra, the tomboy teenager who struggles with puberty and refuses her parents’ attempts to turn her back into a girl; Shukria, now a married mother of three after living for twenty years as a man; and Nader, who prays with Shahed, the undercover female police officer, as they both remain in male disguise as adults. At the heart of this emotional narrative is a new perspective on the extreme sacrifices of Afghan women and girls against the violent backdrop of America’s longest war. Divided into four parts, the book follows those born as the unwanted sex in Afghanistan, but who live as the socially favored gender through childhood and puberty, only to later be forced into marriage and childbirth. The Underground Girls of Kabul charts their dramatic life cycles, while examining our own history and the parallels to subversive actions of people who live under oppression everywhere.

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“Through extensive interviews with former bacha posh, observation of present ones and conversations with doctors and teachers, Nordberg unearths details of a dynamic that one suspects will be news to the armies of aid workers and gender experts in post-invasion Afghanistan.” —The New York Times Book Review

About the author JENNY NORDBERG is an award-winning journalist based in New York. A correspondent and columnist for Swedish national newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, she has a long record of investigative reports for, among others, The New York Times, where she also contributed to a series that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. In 2010, she was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism for a television documentary on Afghan women. She is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).

Universal Themes: Gender and Identity; Multiculturalism; Women’s Rights Companion Titles: Reading Lolita in Tehran; A Thousand Splendid Suns; The Bonesetter’s Daughter; Twelfth Night

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acha posh, the practice of dressing a girl like a boy, offers a window into a system of severe gender apartheid—a system that exists not only in Afghanistan, but in many countries where women are oppressed. The Underground Girls of Kabul is about disguising oneself to survive in such a place. Resistance to this kind of patriarchy has occurred throughout history when women were excluded from education and unable to freely choose who they married, or whether to have children. Many girls and women beyond Afghanistan, and in our own history, have had to pretend to be boys and men to reach for rights that society dictated were not theirs. I wanted this book to be urgent. Because I am, frankly, angry that my own education did not include a conversation about why women have historically been seen as less valuable and less important than men—nor where these ideas come from. It was always presented as an accepted, unexamined fact. In my book, I’ve searched for the roots of these beliefs, in religion, biology and culture. Some extremely brave Afghan women revealed their most intimate secrets to me. They spoke about what it feels like to have tasted life “on the other side” and to then be forced to let go of the privilege they found there. They have all infiltrated the world of men and boys in a real-life nature versus nurture experiment that questions binary gender definitions, and whether we as humans can exist along a broader spectrum. Their stories constitute a defiant piece of history that I hope will spur conversations about the discrimination that still remains in our part of the world and the culture of honor, which often requires girls and women to be pure and modest, while men are asked to be strong and protective. I also hope this book will provoke hard questions about why we go to war and whether we really are so different from those we fight. Trying to be someone—or something—else has always been a way for those of a marginalized gender, skin color, religion or sexuality to escape discrimination. But what does it really do to you to deny who you are? And why should anyone ever have to do it? So what is the difference between men and women? I have asked many Afghan women that and their answers often come back as a single word: freedom. One gender has it, the other does not. And those with pants always come first. From that point, my story begins. And so, I hope, do your own questions. I would love to be part of your conversations, in classrooms and in chat rooms and wherever they take place. You can find me at @nordbergj and bachaposh.com. I am very curious to know who else lives in disguise, and what that has been like—I know there are so many of us out there.

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Science

THUNDER & LIGHTNING Weather Past, Present, Future by Lauren Redniss

Random House ★ HC 978-0-8129-9317-2 272pp. ★ $30.00/$39.00 Can. Exam Copy: $15.00 EB: 978-0-679-64472-9 Reading Level: 12

From the National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss, author of Radioactive, comes a dazzling fusion of storytelling, visual art, and reportage that grapples with weather in all its dimensions: its danger and its beauty, why it happens and what it means. Weather is the very air we breathe—it shapes our daily lives and alters the course of history. In Thunder & Lightning, Lauren Redniss tells the story of weather and humankind through the ages. This wide-ranging work roams from the driest desert on earth to a frigid island in the Arctic, from the Biblical flood to the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Redniss visits the headquarters of the National Weather Service, recounts top-secret rainmaking operations during the Vietnam War, and examines the economic impact of disasters like Hurricane Katrina. Drawing on extensive research and countless interviews, she examines our own day and age, from our most personal decisions—Do I need an umbrella today?—to the awesome challenges we face with global climate change. Redniss produced each element of Thunder & Lightning: the text, the artwork, the covers, and every page in between. She created many of the images using the antiquated printmaking technique copper plate photogravure etching. She even designed the book’s typeface. The result is a book unlike any other: a spellbinding combination of storytelling, art, and science.

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Universal Themes: STEM; Climate and Environment Companion Titles: An Inconvenient Truth; Grapes of Wrath; Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Lauren Redniss is one of the most creative science writers of our time— her combination of beautiful artwork, reporting, and poetic prose brings science to life in ways that words alone simply cannot. Thunder & Lighting is a fascinating meditation on how climate affects the earth’s landscape and the lives inhabiting it, but also how the landscape of a book— the layout of its text, the images on its pages—impacts the telling of a story. This is an important book about a topic that couldn’t be more important to us all.” —R ebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta L acks

About the author LAUREN REDNISS is the author of Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies and Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout, a finalist for the National Book Award. She teaches at Parsons the New School for Design. www.LaurenRedniss.com

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Social Studies: World History

RENA’S PROMISE A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz by Rena Kornreich Gelissen with Heather Dune MacAdam

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An expanded edition of the powerful memoir about two sisters’ determination to survive during the Holocaust featuring new and never before revealed information about the first transport of women to Auschwitz. In March 1942, Rena Kornreich and 997 other young women were rounded up and forced onto the first Jewish transport of women to Auschwitz. Soon after, Rena was reunited with her sister Danka at the camp, beginning a story of love and courage that would last three years and forty-one days. From smuggling bread for their friends to narrowly escaping the ever-present threats that loomed at every turn, the compelling events in Rena’s Promise remind us that humanity and hope can survive inordinate brutality. “An extraordinary book, vividly written and generously told. You will not easily forget Rena Kornreich and her sister Danka. Nor should you. Harrowing as it often is, this is less a tragedy than a love story. By turns soul-wrenching, inspiring, and heartbreaking, this is a tale that should live long beyond the wonderful woman who inspired it.”

“Rena’s Promise is written with simplicity and grace. . . . The overwhelming feeling upon finishing is one of triumph: It is still possible to find selflessness and human connection among people living in a place of relentless horror.” —Los A ngeles Times Book Review

“A poignant and important act of remembrance.” —Sir M artin G ilbert, author of The Holocaust : The Human Tragedy

About the authors RENA KORNREICH GELISSEN lives with her husband in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

—A lexandra Fuller , author of Don’t Let ’s Go to the Dogs Tonight

“One of the most accurate accounts, and the only account of the first women’s camp in Auschwitz. This is a book historians will refer to for years to come.” —Irena Strezlecka , director , A uschwitz Museum of Women , Oswiecim , Poland

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Universal Themes: Courage; War; Faith; Sibling Relationships Companion Titles: Night; The Diary of Anne Frank; Maus; Kite Runner

HEATHER DUNE Mac ADAM (Hampton Bays, New York) is a writer and educator, and the director and president of the Rena’s Promise International Creative Writing Camp. She divides her time between New York and Herefordshire, England.

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ow many of you know that the very first Jewish transport to Auschwitz was made up entirely of women? Raise your hands.” No one’s hand goes up. It is a beautiful spring day—the kind of day we think never occurred in Auschwitz— and I am standing outside the Holocaust Memorial Museum, where over a thousand young people are waiting in line with their teachers. “Two-hundred and ninety-seven of them were teenagers,” I tell them. “Why did they take girls first?” one young woman asks. It’s a great question. “Why do you think?” I ask. A scintillating discussion ensues. I have been teaching for over twenty years and know how overwhelming it can be to get beyond the horror that often accompanies Holocaust curriculum. Rena’s Promise, which chronicles over three years in the death camps, is different. Young readers marvel at the courage of young men who risk their lives to help Rena and her sister, Danka. They cheer when the sisters outwit the nefarious Dr. Mengele and escape from his deadly work detail. Along with paying tribute to every single person who helped she and her sister survive—be they prisoners, prison guards, or complete strangers—Rena tells a story of hope and the power of love. Skype chatting with classrooms as far north as Montana and as far south as North Carolina, students and teachers have told me they like Rena’s story, saying, “Rena is so positive,” “I feel like I’m in Auschwitz with her,” “I like the footnotes,” “It’s about women,” and “It’s like finding out what happened to Anne Frank.” Whether it is a discussion on morality and ethics, courage and faith, or the difference between men and women’s experiences in the camps, young readers do more than think their way through Rena’s story—they feel it in their hearts, and that is where this history belongs. On our website, www.RenasPromise.com, you will find plenty of resources to help navigate this daunting and compelling history, including: • A study guide with interactive exercises • A video blog chronicling my research trips to Slovakia and Poland • A free online curriculum with a research assignment, essay topic ideas, and unique and visual ways to write text analyses • An interactive timeline focusing on women in Auschwitz • The Promise Project, where students can see actual photos and newly discovered family histories about girls on the first transport • A link to the Rena’s Promise Facebook page, where Rena and Danka’s daughters share insights about their mothers • Contact information to arrange a Skype chat session with your class and me Rena’s Promise is a positive and dynamic learning opportunity that can be lifechanging for both teachers and students.

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Language Arts: Fiction

GIRL AT WAR A Novel by Sara Novi´c

Random House ★ HC ★ 978-0-8129-9634-0 336pp. ★ $26.00/$31.00 Can. Exam Copy: $13.00 EB: 978-0-8129-9635-7 ★ N Reading Level: 10

A powerful debut novel about a girl’s coming of age—and how her sense of family, friendship, love, and belonging is profoundly shaped by war. Zagreb, 1991. Ana Juric´ is a carefree ten-year-old, living with her family in a small apartment in Croatia’s capital. But that year, civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, splintering Ana’s idyllic childhood. Daily life is altered by food rations and air raid drills, and soccer matches are replaced by sniper fire. Neighbors grow suspicious of one another, and Ana’s sense of safety starts to fray. When the war arrives at her doorstep, Ana must find her way in a dangerous world. New York, 2001. Ana is now a college student in Manhattan. Though she’s tried to move on from her past, she can’t escape her memories of war—secrets she keeps even from those closest to her. Haunted by the events that forever changed her family, Ana returns to Croatia after a decade away, hoping to make peace with the place she once called home. As she faces her ghosts, she must come to terms with her country’s difficult history and the events that interrupted her childhood years before. Moving back and forth through time, Girl at War is an honest, generous, brilliantly written novel that illuminates how history shapes the individual. Sara Novic´ fearlessly shows the impact of war on one young girl—and its legacy on all of us. It’s a debut by a writer who has stared into recent history to find a story that continues to resonate today.

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Universal Themes: Coming of Age; War; Women’s Identity Companion Titles: Persepolis; Snow Flower and the Secret Fan; Between Shades of Gray

“Outstanding . . . Girl at War performs the miracle of making the stories of broken lives in a distant country feel as large and universal as myth.” —The New York Times Book Review (E ditor’s C hoice )

“Powerful and vividly wrought . . . Nović writes about horrors with an elegant understatement. In cool, accomplished sentences, we are met with the gravity, brutality and even the mundaneness of war and loss as well as the enduring capacity to live.” —San Francisco Chronicle

About the author SARA NOVIC´ was born in 1987 and has lived in the United States and Croatia. She is a graduate of the MFA program at Columbia University, where she studied fiction and translation. She is the fiction editor at Blunderbuss Magazine and teaches writing at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Columbia University. She lives in Queens, New York. Photo © Alan Caras

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ecently my first novel became an audiobook to which I cannot listen. This is not a complaint, exactly; to write a book someone wants to publish in any format is a writer’s dream. But to hold some disc that contains a thing I made, transformed into a thing I can no longer understand, is a quandary few writers experience. To be a Deaf writer is to make a certain kind of shortlist. Growing up with a progressive hearing loss, I was educated in spoken English alongside my hearing peers; when that became too difficult I learned American Sign Language (ASL) and had interpreters in class. Still, the linguistic modality in which I am most fluent is written English, because in it I have the most access and the most control. When I’m writing I need not be translated for a hearing audience. When I’m reading a book, sounds and words are clear; paper never covers its mouth or turns its head. And yet there seems an undeniable link between speech and hearing the practice of writing. Famous authors, Stephen King among them, frequently declare that one must read his or her work aloud in order to edit it. At best this advice leaves me feeling left out, but at worst, I wonder: am I making mistakes a hearing writer wouldn’t? Dialogue, specifically, feels inextricable from hearing. Someone who writes dialogue well is said to “have an ear” for it. I don’t think I write dialogue well. Whether this is an average writerly paranoia or is linked to the physiology of hearing loss, I’m not sure. But certainly a cultural divide between Deaf and hearing worlds with regard to frankness comes into play. In Deaf culture subtlety is not a valued trait. Stemming from the language’s visual nature and the days before SMS and email, when it was harder to keep tabs on a deaf person, it’s expected that people will openly discuss their feelings, plans, bodily functions, etc. In the writing world, this directness translates to “bad dialogue.” “That’s not how people talk,” my workshopmates have said. And they’re right. Furthermore, the English phraseology of deafness is overwhelmingly negative. To hear is synonymous with understanding—“I hear you” suggests the speaker’s knowledge or capacity for empathy on a subject, whereas, across the headlines, cries for justice often “fall on deaf ears.” These language norms may seem inconsequential, but they wear shortcuts in our thinking, and so as long as deafness is a synonym for ignorance, d/Deaf people are ‘othered’ into a position of inferiority. Working within a language that works against me can sometimes seem a less-than-ideal occupation. Then again, what is the job of a writer if not to reinvent language, or at least to create the space and tools for the silenced? I am reminded of a Chinua Achebe essay I teach my Composition students. In an examination of English in postcolonial Africa, Achebe looks to Baldwin, who says of the language’s limits: “Perhaps the language was not my own because I had never attempted to use it, had only learned to imitate it.” Achebe goes on to say, “I recognize of course that Baldwin’s problem is not exactly mine, but I feel the English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. But it will have to be a new English.”1 And while neither Baldwin’s nor Achebe’s problems are exactly mine, and are in fact much bigger, I can look at the successes of these literary giants and extract a hope that English, with a little work, can carry the Deaf voice, too.

Chinua Achebe “English and the African Writer,” Transition 18: 1975.

This piece was originally published in The Guardian.

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Language Arts: Fiction

MORE HAPPY THAN NOT A Novel by Adam Silvera

Soho Teen ★ HC ★ 978-1-61695-560-1 304pp. ★ $18.99/$18.99 Can. Exam Copy: $9.50 Do not order paperback before 4/26/2016. Soho Teen ★ TR ★ 978-1-61695-677-6 304pp. ★ $10.99/$10.99 Can. Exam Copy: $3.00

A Booklist Top 10 Novel for LGBTQ Youth

Part Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, part Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Adam Silvera’s extraordinary debut confronts race, class, and sexuality during one charged near-future summer in the Bronx. The Leteo Institute’s revolutionary memory-relief procedure seems too good to be true to Aaron Soto—miracle cure-alls don’t tend to pop up in the Bronx projects. Aaron could never forget how he’s grown up poor, how his friends aren’t there for him, or how his father committed suicide in their one-bedroom apartment. Aaron has the support of his patient girlfriend, if not necessarily his distant brother and overworked mother, but it’s not enough. Then Thomas shows up. He has a sweet movie-watching setup on his roof, and he doesn’t mind Aaron’s obsession with a popular fantasy series. There are nicknames, inside jokes. Most importantly, Thomas doesn’t mind talking about Aaron’s past. But Aaron’s newfound happiness isn’t welcome on his block. Since he can’t stay away from Thomas or suddenly stop being gay, Aaron must turn to Leteo to straighten himself out, even if it means forgetting who he is.

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Universal Themes: Coming of Age; Gender; Identity Companion Titles: Slaughterhouse Five; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Flowers for Algernon

EB: 978-1-61695-561-8 Reading Level: 6

“A beautiful debut novel [that] manages a delicate knitting of class politics through an ambitious narrative about sexual identity and connection that considers the heavy weight and constructive value of traumatic memory. . . . Aaron’s Bronx universe [is captured] with a precision that feels at once dreamy and casually reportorial. . . . Mandatory reading.” —The New York Times Book Review

“[An] important addition to speculative fiction for young adults. . . . Silvera’s tale combines the best features of science fiction with social justice in this engaging read, as Aaron finds a place where he belongs.” —The Los A ngeles Times

“A gut-wrenching story telling of race and sexuality.” —The Guardian

About the author ADAM SILVERA was born and raised in the Bronx. He was a bookseller before shifting to children’s publishing where he worked at a literary development company, a creative writing website for teens, and as a book reviewer of children’s and young adult novels. He lives in New York City. Photo © Margot Wood www.adamsilvera.com

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Dear Aaron Soto, Sorry to go all Darth Vader on you, but I am your father. Kind of, maybe, sort of. I guess creator is a more apt title, which I’m going to roll with because it sounds way cooler. Imagine homeboy Darth telling Luke, “I am your creator.” I can see it on t-shirts now. I’m just realizing this now, but fathers play a huge role in More Happy Than Not, the novel you narrate. Your father—as you know—has recently committed suicide before the novel begins for reasons unclear to you, as is sometimes the case with suicide. Trying to find a why is crippling for those left behind. Your girlfriend Genevieve’s father isn’t very protective of his only child, which has screwed with her head a bit. That boy Thomas you’re going to be crushing on? (Whoops, spoiler!) His father sucks even more than Genevieve’s because he ditched him when he was a kid—on his birthday. He just got in a car and drove away, never writing or calling Thomas again. Your sort-of best friend, Brendan, is living with his grandfather because his father has been in jail for close to a year now. This might be of little surprise to you, but I don’t have the best relationship with my father either, and quickly learned that there’s a difference between having a father and having a dad. A dad takes you and your friends to the movies and is always there for your birthday and loves you despite who you love. A father is the less intimate version, a person who helps make up your DNA and doesn’t necessarily carry any responsibilities beyond that. I also grew up with friends whose fathers were either not around or not present in the way that mattered. I guess this letter shouldn’t be a surprise to me at all, nor should the awful patriarchal representation of my four primary players in More Happy. But life isn’t easy—mine wasn’t and still isn’t. Same goes for you. As your creator, I have to say I’m sorry. I put you on a path where I put you through more than the average sixteen-year-old should suffer through. Even your seventeenth birthday brings a nasty surprise. Whenever you’re an inch away from victory and happiness, I throw another roadblock your way and force you to reinvent yourself. I don’t do this for the sake of exciting and/or heartbreaking fiction, but instead to explore the life I thought I had in store for me. The life you’re battling your way through is the war I thought I was going to have to fight myself. Coming out in the Bronx seemed impossible, and it took me until adulthood before I found the strength to do it. Your cautious feelings were my feelings, but your greatest consequences are yours alone, and I ache for you, truly. I am your creator, but my empathy for you also makes me more of a dad than a father, I guess, because I hate seeing you go through this. And while a happy ending isn’t on the way, you do come away from everything with a deep understanding that being more happy than not will be good enough during times of great tragedy, and that happiness will come again if you’ll let it. Mad love, Adam The above is a letter from Adam Silvera, the author, to Aaron Soto, the lead character, in the fictional book More Happy Than Not.

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Language Arts: Science Fiction

ARMADA A Novel by Ernest Cline

Also by the author: READY PLAYER ONE A Novel Broadway Books ★ TR 978-0-307-88744-3 400pp. ★ $14.00/$17.00 Can. Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-307-88745-0 ★ N

Zack Lightman has spent his life dreaming. Dreaming that the real world could be a little more like the countless science-fiction books, movies, and video games he’s spent his life consuming. Dreaming that one day, some fantastic, world-altering event will shatter the monotony of his humdrum existence and whisk him off on some grand space-faring adventure. But hey, there’s nothing wrong with a little escapism, right? After all, Zack tells himself, he knows the difference between fantasy and reality. He knows that here in the real world, aimless teenage gamers with anger issues don’t get chosen to save the universe. And then he sees the flying saucer. Even stranger, the alien ship he’s staring at is straight out of the video game he plays every night, a hugely popular online flight simulator called Armada—in which gamers just happen to be protecting the earth from alien invaders. At once gleefully embracing and brilliantly subverting science-fiction conventions as only Ernest Cline could, Armada is a rollicking, surprising thriller, a classic coming-of-age adventure, and an alien invasion tale like nothing you’ve ever read before—one whose every page is infused with the pop-culture savvy that has helped make Ready Player One a phenomenon.

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Universal Themes: Coming of Age; Science Fiction; Postmodernism Companion Titles: War of the Worlds; Ready Player One; Ender’s Game

Crown ★ HC ★ 978-0-8041-3725-6 368pp. ★ $26.00/$32.00 Can. Exam Copy: $13.00 EB: 978-0-8041-3726-3 ★ N Reading Level: 7

“Video games come to life in this witty, extraterrestrial thriller.” —New York Post

“Built like a summer blockbuster. . . . Cline recombines the DNA of Ender’s Game, Star Wars, The Last Starfighter, and old-school arcade games like Asteroids into something that’s both familiar and unpredictable. It’s a mutant homage to sci-fi tropes past.” —G awker

“Those conspiracies you imagined when you were fourteen turn out to be true in this masterful tale of Earth’s desperate struggle against a powerful alien foe.” —A ndy Weir , New York Times bestselling author of The Martian

About the author ERNEST CLINE is a novelist, screenwriter, father, and full-time geek. His first novel, Ready Player One, was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller and appeared on numerous “best of the year” lists. Ernie lives in Austin, Texas, with his family, a time-traveling DeLorean, and a large collection of classic video games.

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From where did you get the inspiration for your latest novel? I think the main inspiration came from growing up as a child of Star Wars, ET, and Close Encounters, as well as growing up at the dawn of the video game and home computer age. I was part of the first generation to have a starship simulator in my living room, in the form of an Atari 2600. I used to build an X-Wing cockpit out of couch pillows in front of the television, so I could pretend that I was Luke Skywalker on his way to blow up the Death Star. I spent a huge portion of my childhood wishing that my wicked video game skills might someday have value in the real world, a fantasy that was made even more intense by all of the video gamesbecome-reality stories I devoured back in the 80s, like WarGames, Tron, Ender’s Game, or The Last Starfighter. But I think the very first kernel of the idea for Armada came from reading a news story about the tank combat video game BATTLEZONE, released by Atari in 1980. In 1981, the US Army purchased the rights to the game and had its creator, Ed Rotberg, reprogram it to be an actual tank combat simulator called Bradley Trainer, which they intended to use to train real Army recruits how to operate a new tank called the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. Bradley Trainer never made it past the prototype phase, but the realization that a video game could actually be used to train you for real world combat had a profound effect on me, and on how I viewed video games. Eventually, all of these separate threads were woven together to form the idea for Armada: What if all of the science fiction movies I grew up watching, and all of the alien invasion video games I grew up playing, were actually created to prepare the people of Earth for the real thing?

You have visited many schools that have adopted Ready Player One for common reading. What’s the most interesting or memorable thing a student has said to you? Why do you think young people can relate to your work? The most memorable thing students usually say to me is also the most common. “This is the first book I’ve ever been assigned as homework that I actually enjoyed reading.” I take it as huge compliment. I think one reason young people might be able to relate to my work is because it deals with issues that are so relevant to their everyday lives: technology, the Internet, social media, online identity, and simulation versus reality. Both of your books feature a high school student as the main protagonist. Did you/do you share any similarities with either or both characters? I was sort of a socially awkward geek like Wade when I was in grade and middle school, but by the time I was in high school I was dating girls and had developed a big circle of friends— although my friends and girlfriends were usually geeks-of-a-feather, like me. Do you have any advice for young writers? I don’t have any new advice, but I can share some that has stuck with me over the years: • Write what you know. • Write about things that interest and excite you, but only if you hope to make your work interesting and exciting to others. • Try not to let anyone rush you—including yourself. • Finish what you start.

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Language Arts: Fiction

MYCROFT HOLMES A Novel by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse

Titan Books ★ HC ★ 978-1-78329-153-3 336pp. ★ $25.99/$33.99 Can. Exam Copy: $13.00 EB: 978-1-78329-156-4 Reading Level: 9

Fresh out of university, Mycroft Holmes assists the British Secretary of State for War, and is a rising star in the government. Through his best friend, Cyrus Douglas, he learns of a series of disappearances and murders in Trinidad. They travel there to investigate a deadly situation based on actual history and tied to the slave trade immediately following the American Civil War. What they discover will forever change Holmes, and set him on the path to become the man he will be in the Doyle adventures.

“I’m proud to have worked with Kareem, my friend of many years, on this project! It adds an exciting, new dimension to the life of Sherlock Holmes, and Kareem’s passion for history has given the story a new twist.” —L eslie S. K linger , editor , The New A nnotated Sherlock Holmes

“Moving beyond the echo of big-time basketball’s cheering multitudes, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has found an unlikely second career in the quietude of a writer’s life. In his latest literary effort, he indulges his longtime appreciation for the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and gives us a rousing mystery novel featuring Sherlock Holmes’ older and smarter brother, Mycroft, while launching a new series of adventures.”

“Basketball legend Abdul-Jabbar makes his triumphant adult fiction debut with an action yarn that fills in the backstory of Sherlock Holmes’s older and smarter brother, Mycroft. . . . Sherlockians who relish the screen adventures of Cumberbatch and Downey will be particularly entertained.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

About the authors KAREEM ABDULJABBAR is a huge Holmesian—7’2” tall, basketball’s all-time leading scorer, and a U.S. cultural ambassador. He’s written extensively, including What Color is My World, Brothers in Arms, and On the Shoulders of Giants.

—G ay Talese , acclaimed author , A Writer’s Life

ANNA WATERHOUSE is a professional screenwriter and script consultant.

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he best English teacher I ever had is a familiar name to many people: Coach John Wooden. When I was playing basketball for U.C.L.A. and traveling to away games, Coach Wooden was a very handy guy to have around. He had also taught English, and since I worked on my writing assignments on the road, I could always ask him about run-on sentences and dangling modifiers. Years before, in grammar school, what first drew me to writing were the similarities between what I saw and heard in my history class and what I read in the morning paper. In my child’s mind, it seemed that the reporter was actually an historian—only he or she was cataloguing history on a daily basis. I found it fascinating, that ability to communicate what was happening in the world to the world: not just with images . . . but with the power of words. My particular school also emphasized language skills. At a youth journalism project in Harlem (called H.A.R.Y.O.U.), I found myself with a bunch of kids who also had an interest in writing. The difference was, I was the only one up to speed with grammar and syntax. (I may’ve been the only one who knew the meaning of the word, ‘syntax.’) My ability to punctuate and proofread made me an instant editor! From grammar school on, teachers encouraged me to express myself on the page. I was a history major (with an English minor) at U.C.L.A. and though I’ve authored ten books, including children’s stories, two autobiographies, and several historical subjects, this venture into my first full-length fiction novel, a mystery/adventure entitled Mycroft Holmes, has been the most rewarding to date. I chose to write about Mycroft Holmes because I’m a huge fan of Arthur Conan Doyle’s better-known creation, Sherlock. But there are so many variations of Sherlock. I didn’t want to join an already crowded field—and I was always intrigued by this older brother whom Sherlock himself said was “smarter” than he was, and who was in the smack-center of British government when Great Britain was the most powerful country in the world. My co-writer and I batted the story back and forth, chapter by chapter, finessing and polishing each one. We wanted to be true to the era in which our story takes place (1870), as well as pay homage to the style of Arthur Conan Doyle without mimicking it. Although Mycroft Holmes deals with some adult subjects (slavery and the resultant violence), it’s more than just an entertaining adventure: it has life lessons that both you and your students will draw from and enjoy. It’s turned into a little jewel, in my opinion. I sincerely hope you’ll join me in this fresh look at Sherlock Holmes’s “older, smarter brother”!

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Language Arts: Science Fiction

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGEDY OF THE SITH’S REVENGE by Ian Doescher

Quirk Books ★ HC ★ 978-1-59474-808-0 168pp. ★ $14.95/$15.95 Can. Exam Copy: $7.50

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The curtain rises once again on that star-crossed galaxy far, faraway—this time, to chronicle a once-heroic knight’s transformation into the darkest of villains. William Shakespeare’s Tragedy of the Sith’s Revenge is the climactic conclusion to the fall of the house of Skywalker, a collaboration between William Shakespeare and George Lucas that’s filled with masterful meter, stirring soliloquies, inside jokes, and intricate Elizabethan illustrations. You’ll fall in love with Star Wars® — and Shakespeare—all over again. At the same time!

“Doescher’s pseudo-Shakespearean language is absolutely dead-on; this is one of the best-written Shakespeare parodies created for this audience and it is absolutely laugh-out-loud funny for those familiar with both The Bard and Star Wars.” —School Library Journal

“Is it all a great, geeky, inter-galactic goblet of literary fun? Verily!” —American Profile

Other books in the William Shakespeare’s Star Wars® series: Reading Level for all: 8

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S STAR WARS® Quirk Books ★ HC ★ 978-1-59474-637-6 ★ 176pp. $14.95/$15.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $7.50 EB: 978-1-59474-655-0 ★ N

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S THE EMPIRE STRIKETH BACK Quirk Books ★ HC ★ 978-1-59474-715-1 ★ 176pp. $14.95/$15.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $7.50

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S THE JEDI DOTH RETURN

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S THE CLONE ARMY ATTACKETH

Quirk Books ★ HC ★ 978-1-59474-713-7 ★ 168pp. $14.95/$15.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $7.50 EB: 978-1-59474-714-4 ★ N

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S THE PHANTOM OF MENACE

Quirk Books ★ HC ★ 978-1-59474-807-3 ★ 176pp. $14.95/$15.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $7.50 EB: 978-1-59474-820-2

Universal Themes: Shakespearean Drama; Tragedy; Revenge Companion Titles: Hamlet; Henry V; Julius Caesar; King Lear

About the author IAN DOESCHER lives in Portland, Oregon with his spouse and two children. He has a B.A. in Music from Yale University, a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary. He is currently the Director of Nonprofit Marketing at Pivot Group LLC, a full service marketing, research and web agency in Portland, Oregon. www.IanDoescher.com

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I’m a Big Nerd

hen I was in high school, I was that nerd in the class who, when told to memorize a speech from Shakespeare, went home immediately and started memorizing. I was the first one to raise my hand to recite the speech, and, one year of high school—I kid you not—I took a fake sword to school to recite a speech from Macbeth. I was one of the lucky ones. I knew back then (and I know now) that Shakespeare doesn’t come easily to everyone. In fact, some people would rather undergo repeated root canals than read Shakespeare. Fair enough. When I wrote the William Shakespeare’s Star Wars ® books, I mostly just wanted people to laugh. After all, R2-D2 speaks in English, Han Solo sings, Luke Skywalker is a triumphant hero, Boba Fett is a suave player, Yoda speaks in haiku, and Jar Jar Binks is a genius (no, really!). But another little part of me hoped that, for young people in middle school, high school, and college—the ones who loathe the idea of memorizing Shakespeare, or who roll their eyes when the Shakespeare unit comes around in English class, or who just think they won’t get it—William Shakespeare’s Star Wars ® might form a bridge into Shakespeare’s plays. But I don’t want you to try these books because of my ulterior motives. Don’t try them because some random guy wants you to. Try them because you love Star Wars ®, or because you’re like me when I was younger, and you love Shakespeare. Or both! Find out what makes Darth Vader declare, “What a rogue and peasant Sith am I!” or to whom Luke Skywalker is speaking when he says, “Friend, rebels, starfighters, lend me your ears.” I threw all kinds of things in, just for fun—a few references to Star Trek™, a Snoop Dogg lyric, even a rickroll. Every line Mace Windu says includes the title of a Samuel L. Jackson movie. I also couldn’t help but have Qui-Gon Jinn say, just before he fights Darth Maul, these words that you may recognize from another Liam Neeson movie: Qui-Gon:

I know not who you are or what you want, Yet I do have skills most particular, Acquir’d throughout a Jedi’s long career. These skills do make me nightmarish to such As you. Surrender now, and you shall live— If not, you shall be dead, and there’s an end.

That’s a pretty direct quote of Liam Neeson’s famous speech from the movie Taken, just in case you don’t recognize it. As you can see, I take great geeky pleasure in reading these books, and I’m hoping just a little bit of that rubs off on you. So, if you read one of my books, and you write me and tell me you like it, I’ll be happy. And if you read one of my books and tell me that, because of the book, you decided to give Shakespeare a try, I’ll be really happy. And if you think I’m just a huge nerd, well, you wouldn’t be the first.

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Language Arts: Fiction

THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Beacon Press ★ TR 978-0-8070-8326-0 216pp. ★ $15.00/$17.00 Can. Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-8070-9374-0 Reading Level: 9

Lalu Nathoy’s father calls his 13-year-old daughter his treasure, his “thousand pieces of gold,” yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloon keeper, and offered as a prize in a poker game. Complete with photographs and documents, this biographical novel is the extraordinary story of a legendary pioneer’s fight for independence and dignity on the American frontier.

“A story of struggle and survival as a woman—and slave—in China and the American West. . . . Fast-paced and entertaining—packed with adventure, drama, and inspiration.” —Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston , San Francisco Chronicle

“From Shanghai to San Francisco, Lalu Nathoy’s courageous journey is an important contribution to the history of pioneer women.” —Ms . M agazine

“This biographical novel has plenty of suspense and a strong story line. Reading it is a liberal education in one phase of pioneer life in the West.” —L ucille McDonald, The Seattle Times

“A valuable book that gives Chinese Americans another true heroine.” —M axine Hong K ingston

“Ruthanne Lum McCunn has woven an enthralling work of fiction from the truelife story of Lalu Nathoy.” —E lena Brunet, Los A ngeles Times

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About the author RUTHANNE LUM McCUNN writes about the Chinese on both sides of the Pacific. Her award-winning books include The Moon Pearl and, most recently, Chinese Yankee. McCunn’s work has been translated into 13 languages, published in 22 countries, and adapted for stage and screen. She lives in San Francisco.

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The Enduring Legacy of Thousand Pieces of Gold

ver the years, many students have confessed they started reading Thousand Pieces of Gold reluctantly and solely because it was assigned. Invariably, these students have then added in wonderment that they soon found themselves so deeply engrossed they couldn’t put the book down. What hooks them, they tell me, is Lalu’s capture during a bandit raid on her village in northern China. And what keeps them turning the pages are her courageous attempts to escape captivity and then enslavement, her unflagging efforts to live free in the American West as Polly. Throughout her life, Lalu/Polly was victimized yet never a victim. Nor, despite devastating losses, did she succumb to bitterness. Strong without being hard, she survived with her humor, generosity, and capacity for love intact. Her irrepressible spirit made a lasting impression on even casual acquaintances and inspired me to write her story in Thousand Pieces of Gold, which has won readers’ hearts the world over. Reflective of the book’s universality is a Philadelphia student, a lost boy of the Sudan who—eyes glistening, hands clutching a copy of Thousand Pieces of Gold to his chest—choked, “This is my story.” And so abiding is the affection and respect of some students for Lalu/Polly that several have named their daughters after her. One has even successfully entrusted finding paths through life’s thickets by asking, “What would she do?”

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Language Arts: Science Fiction

THE MARTIAN A Novel by Andy Weir

Broadway Books ★ TR 978-0-553-41802-6 ★ 384pp. $15.00/$18.00 Can. Exam Copy: $3.00

Winner of the Alex Award Now a Major Motion Picture

The Martian, by debut science fiction novelist Andy Weir, is a survival story about an astronaut who gets left behind on the red planet when his crew believes him to be dead. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate, Mark finds himself stranded on Mars and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won’t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old “human error” are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark isn’t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills—and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit—he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?

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“A book I just couldn’t put down! It has the very rare combination of a good, original story, interestingly real characters and fascinating technical accuracy.” —A stronaut C hris H adfield, C ommander of the International Space Station and author of A n A stronaut ’s G uide to L ife on E arth

“Weir has crafted a relentlessly entertaining and inventive survival thriller, a MacGyver-trapped-on-Mars tale that feels just as real and harrowing as the true story of Apollo 13.” —E rnest C line , author of Ready Player One

About the author ANDY WEIR was first hired as a programmer for a national laboratory at age fifteen and has been working as a software engineer ever since. He is also a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of subjects like relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. The Martian is his first novel.

Universal Themes: Survival; The Journey; Courage Companion Titles: The Right Stuff; Life of Pi; Alas, Babylon

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or some students, being in the classroom is a lot like being stranded on Mars. They feel isolated from the content. They have difficulty connecting with the subject, the teacher, or even other students. Whether they’re reluctant readers, reluctant mathematicians, or just plain reluctant, some students need a creative catalyst to get excited about learning. Andy Weir’s novel The Martian is the perfect spark for igniting students’ curiosity. That’s why I was so excited to share it with high school students during Northern Illinois University’s creative writing and STEM summer camps. Andy Weir makes science the hero of the book. He transforms chemistry from letters on a periodic table into a life or death struggle to create water. He teaches trial and error in engineering by blowing up his main character. He applies math to rocket trajectories and rescue missions and he shows his work without being boring. The Martian’s protagonist Mark Watney has a strong voice and makes hilarious observations about being marooned on an empty planet. He also thinks up amazingly inventive ways to stay entertained while staying alive. He survives by thinking his way out of problems, by pushing himself to work harder, design better, and use more duct tape. Mark Watney’s refusal to quit spurs global collaboration as scientists and mathematicians around the world mount a space race to save him. I love a good dystopian novel as much as the next girl, but it’s refreshing to read a book where society is coming together rather than falling apart. Over the summer, STEM Read used The Martian as the basis for writing and science exercises for teens. NIU’s Creative Writing camp looked at Weir’s use of dialogue and spent an afternoon analyzing The Martian’s opening line and paragraph. Rather than shying away from the language, we discussed why Weir chose it and how it provided context and characterization. In the STEM Careers camp, we used the book as inspiration for computer science, communications, and engineering scenarios. Students programmed mini rovers to perform missions and send messages. They also used everything from PVC pipes to duct tape as they engineered their own air-tight Habs. Best of all, the students got to participate in a virtual visit with Andy Weir. At first, some of the students were reluctant about participating, but Andy Weir quickly set an easy-going tone by introducing his cats and talking about the failed writing projects that led up to The Martian. Weir is smart, witty, and engaging. His experiences as an author and a software engineer made him a hit with young writers and scientists. After the talk, students who hadn’t read the book begged me for copies. My favorite part of working with students is finding books that will blow their minds. The Martian is a mind-blowing book. It shows that STEM concepts can be practical and that scientists can be cool. Students who read it might not necessarily become engineers or astronauts, but they will gain an appreciation for the ways that science, technology, engineering, and math influence the world around them. They might not travel to Mars, but they might catch that spark of curiosity and become the next innovators here on Earth. —GILLIAN KING-CARGILE, Northern Illinois University STEM Read

Top right: Virtual Visit: STEM Read Director Gillian King-Cargile leads summer campers in a Q&A session with Andy Weir. Above left: High school students in NIU’s STEM camp programmed and tested mini-rovers. Above right: High school students in NIU’s STEM camp designed and built air-tight habs.

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Professional Reading

THE WORK Searching for a Life That Matters by Wes Moore

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THIS WAY HOME: A Novel by Wes Moore with Shawn Goodman Delacorte Press ★ HC 978-0-385-74169-9 256pp. ★ $17.99/$20.99 Can. Exam Copy: $9.00

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The acclaimed author of The Other Wes Moore continues his

“An intriguing follow-up to his bestselling The Other Wes Moore . . . Moore makes a convincing case that work has the most value if it’s built on a foundation of service, selflessness, courage, and risk-taking.”

inspirational quest for a meaningful life and shares the powerful lessons— about self-discovery, service, and risk-taking—that led him to a new definition of success for our times. The Work is the story of how one young man traced a path through the world to find his life’s purpose. Wes Moore graduated from a difficult childhood in the Bronx and Baltimore to an adult life that would find him at some of the most critical moments in our recent history: as a combat officer in Afghanistan; a White House fellow in a time of wars abroad and disasters at home; and a Wall Street banker during the financial crisis. In this insightful book, Moore shares the lessons he learned from people he met along the way—from the brave Afghan translator who taught him to find his fight, to the resilient young students in Katrina-ravaged Mississippi who showed him the true meaning of grit, to his late grandfather, who taught him to find grace in service. That’s where we find the work that lasts. An intimate narrative about finding meaning in a volatile age, The Work will inspire readers to see how we can each find our own path to purpose and help create a better world.

—Publishers Weekly

“As a Rhodes scholar who fought in Afghanistan and later became a social entrepreneur, Wes Moore is a shining light of his generation—and one who captivates audiences. But he’s also humble, inquisitive, and constantly searching, which makes his story accessible, relevant, and illuminating to all of us. The Work will inspire everyone who seeks greater meaning and impact in their life.” —C harles Best, founder , DonorsC hoose .org

About the author WES MOORE is a social entrepreneur and a combat veteran of Afghanistan. His first book, The Other Wes Moore, was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. He lives in his hometown of Baltimore with his wife and two children.

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he idea that we want to do our part—but are unsure of exactly how to do it—is not unusual. We start off our adult lives full of ideas about how we want to live, how we want to contribute to the greater good—how we want to do our part—but are immediately presented with the thorny puzzle of figuring out how to marry our instincts to action. When we are children our lives are relentlessly paced—someone tells us when to get up, when to go to bed, when to eat, when to study. I have two beautiful children under the age of four and their calendars are already stuffed with activities. But something important shifts in the way we live almost from the moment we leave school. Our adult lives begin with a first moment of stillness. We leave school and there’s no next grade to go to, no one to tell us how to spend our time—we are faced with an intimidating absence of inevitable next steps. Possibilities and choices suddenly abound. And for a lot of us it’s terrifying. There was once a clear answer to this terror. It used to be that we could extend childhood’s safe rhythms by burrowing deep into large institutions—the military or a corporation or a university or the government—and moving up the ranks, like a kid getting passed from grade to grade. This brought a measure of security, but it required submerging yourself in an institution and letting that institution’s logic guide the most productive moments of your life. This was in many ways the contract I was brought up to believe in. But my generation was among the last raised to believe there was a way to cheat the blank future by burrowing ourselves in paternal institutions and following the traditional paths. We are now confronted by a world where those institutions are in crisis—and where the old model of work has been thrown open, not only because so many forces (robotics, the Web, big data, a global labor market) are conspiring to eliminate jobs and even whole industries, but because many of the jobs that remain can feel unsatisfying on a personal level. David Graeber, an anthropologist and activist, recently wrote this about the contemporary state of work: “Huge swathes of people, in Europe and North America in particular, spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed. The moral and spiritual damage that comes from this situation is profound. It is a scar across our collective soul. . . . How can one even begin to speak of dignity in labour when one secretly feels one’s job should not exist?” This has created a great deal of angst for all of us who’ve had to live through these shifts. But it’s also created a greater sense of urgency around the task of designing our own lives to tap into our own specific ideals, talents, and resources— to find ways of not just working to live, but finding the work of our lives.

Excerpted from The Work by Wes Moore. Copyright © 2015 by Wes Moore. Excerpted by permission of Spiegel & Grau, a division of Penguin Random House. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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Professional Reading

HOW WE LEARN The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens by Benedict Carey

Random House ★ TR 978-0-8129-8429-3 272pp. ★ $16.00/$19.00 Can. Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-8129-9389-9 ★ N

From an early age, it is drilled into our heads: Restlessness, distraction, and ignorance are the enemies of success. We’re told that learning is all self-discipline, that we must confine ourselves to designated study areas, turn off the music, and maintain a strict ritual if we want to ace that test, memorize that presentation, or nail that piano recital. But what if almost everything we were told about learning is wrong? And what if there was a way to achieve more with less effort? In How We Learn, award-winning science reporter Benedict Carey sifts through decades of education research and landmark studies to uncover the truth about how our brains absorb and retain information. What he discovers is that, from the moment we are born, we are all learning quickly, efficiently, and automatically; but in our zeal to systematize the process we have ignored valuable, naturally enjoyable learning tools like forgetting, sleeping, and daydreaming. Is a dedicated desk in a quiet room really the best way to study? Can altering your routine improve your recall? Are there times when distraction is good? Is repetition necessary? Carey’s search for answers to these questions yields a wealth of strategies that make learning more a part of our everyday lives—and less of a chore.

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“A welcome rejoinder to the faddish notion that learning is all about the hours put in.” —The New York Times Book Review

“A valuable, entertaining tool for educators, students and parents.” —Shelf Awareness

“How We Learn is more than a new approach to learning; it is a guide to making the most out of life. Who wouldn’t be interested in that?” —Scientific American

“I know of no other source that pulls together so much of what we know about the science of memory and couples it with practical, practicable advice.” —Daniel T. Willingham , professor of University of Virginia

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About the author BENEDICT CAREY is an award-winning science reporter who has been at The New York Times since 2004, and one of the newspaper’s most emailed reporters. He graduated from the University of Colorado with a bachelor’s degree in math and from Northwestern University with a master’s in journalism, and has written about health and science for twenty-five years. He lives in New York City. Photo © Soo-Jeong Kang www.benedictjcarey.com

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BROADEN THE MARGINS

was a grind. That was the word for it back in the day: the kid who sweated the details, who made flashcards. A striver, a grade-hog, a worker bee— that kid—and I can see him clearly now, almost 40 years later, bent over a textbook, squinting in the glow of a cheap desk lamp. I can see him early in the morning, too, up and studying at 5 o’clock: sophomore year, high school, his stomach on low boil because he can’t quite master—what? The quadratic formula? The terms of the Louisiana Purchase? The Lend-Lease policy, the mean value theorem, Eliot’s use of irony as a metaphor for . . . some damn thing? Never mind. It’s long gone, the entire curriculum. All that remains is the dread. Time’s running out, there’s too much to learn, and some of it is probably beyond reach. But there’s something else in there, too, a lower frequency signal that takes a while to pick up, like a dripping faucet in a downstairs bathroom: doubt. The nagging sense of having strayed off the trail when the gifted students were arriving at the lodge, without breaking a sweat. Like so many others, I grew up believing that learning was all self-discipline: a hard, lonely climb up the sheer rock face of knowledge to where the smart people lived. I was driven more by a fear of falling than by anything like curiosity or wonder. That fear made for an odd species of student. To my siblings, I was Mr. Perfect, the serious older brother who got (almost) all As. To my classmates, I was the Invisible Man, too unsure of my grasp of the material I was studying to speak up. I don’t blame my young self, my parents or my teachers for this split personality. How could I? The only strategy any of us knew for deepening learning—

drive yourself like a sled dog—works, to some extent; effort is the single most important factor in academic success. Yet that was the strategy I was already using. I needed something more, something different— and I felt it had to exist. The first hint that it did, for me, came in the form of other students, those two or three kids in algebra or history who had—what was it?—a cool head, an ability to do their best without that hunted-animal look. It was as if they’d been told it was OK not to understand everything right away; that it would come in time; that their doubt was itself a valuable instrument. But the real conversion experience for me came later, when applying for college. College was the mission all along, of course. And it failed; I failed. I sent out a dozen applications and got shut down. All those years laboring before the mast and, in the end, I had nothing to show for it but a handful of thin envelopes and one spot on a waiting-list—to a college I attended for a year, before dropping out. What went wrong? I had no idea. I aimed too high, I wasn’t perfect enough, I choked on the SATs. No matter. I was too busy feeling rejected to think about it. No, worse than rejected. I felt like a chump. Like I’d been scammed by some bogus self-improvement cult, paid dues to a guru who split with the money. So, after dropping out, I made an attitude adjustment. I loosened my grip. I stopped sprinting. Broadened the margins, to paraphrase Thoreau. It wasn’t so much a grand strategy—I was a teenager, I couldn’t see more than three feet in front of my face—as a simple instinct to pick my head up and look around.

Excerpted from How We Learn by Benedict Carey. Copyright © 2014 by Benedict Carey. Excerpted by permission of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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Professional Reading

MINDSET The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D.

Ballantine Books ★ TR 978-0-345-47232-8 288pp. ★ $16.00/$19.95 Can. Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-1-58836-523-1

World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea—the power of our mindset. Dweck explains why it’s not just our abilities and talent that bring us success—but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence and ability doesn’t foster selfesteem and lead to accomplishment, but may actually jeopardize success. With the right mindset, we can motivate our kids and help them to raise their grades, as well as reach our own goals—personal and professional. Dweck reveals what all great parents, teachers, CEOs, and athletes already know: how a simple idea about the brain can create a love of learning and a resilience that is the basis of great accomplishment in every area.

“A good book is one whose advice you believe. A great book is one whose advice you follow. I have found Carol Dweck’s work on mindsets invaluable in my own life, and even life-changing in my attitudes toward the challenges that, over the years, become more demanding rather than less. This is a book that can change your life, as its ideas have changed mine.” —Robert J. Sternberg , IBM P rofessor of E ducation and P sychology at Yale University, director of the PACE C enter of Yale U niversity, and author of Successful Intelligence

“Highly recommended . . . an essential read for parents, teachers [and] coaches . . . as well as for those who would like to increase their own feelings of success and fulfillment.” —Library Journal (starred review)

“A serious, practical book. Dweck’s overall assertion that rigid thinking benefits no one, least of all yourself, and that a change of mind is always possible, is welcome.” —Publishers Weekly

About the author CAROL S. DWECK, Ph.D., is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading researchers in the fields of personality, social psychology, and developmental psychology. She has been the William B. Ransford Professor of Psychology at Columbia University and is now the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her work has been featured in such publications as The New Yorker, TIME, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, and she has appeared on Today and 20/20. www.mindsetonline.com

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hen I was in the 6th grade, my teacher Mrs. Wilson seated us around the room in IQ order. Only the highest IQ students were allowed to erase the blackboard or carry the flag in the school assembly. Mrs. Wilson believed that your IQ score embodied not just your inborn intelligence, but your character as well. This was my first and most powerful experience with the fixed mindset—the idea that your traits are fixed and that they define you. I have devoted my life to liberating students from this mindset. Mindset introduces students to a body of research they can use in their lives, especially during this challenging time. Every year I teach freshmen, and I am continually struck by what a struggle it is for so many of them, even the most academically prepared. Challenges are coming at them from every direction. If they’re away at school for the first time, they have to learn how to regulate themselves. Many of them have never gone to sleep or woken up without parental intervention. New social challenges await them. And many are confronting academic work that is much harder than anything they’ve done before. My students find the growth mindset—the idea that your qualities can be developed over time—to be critical to their adjustment. They constantly use the growth mindset principles to take on new challenges. Rigorous research shows that it can be very helpful for students to learn about the growth mindset in college. It can positively affect motivation, grade point averages, and self-esteem. In particular, it can help students transcend negative stereotypes, such as women in math or minority students in a variety of subjects, helping them understand that they can acquire these skills through good instruction and sustained effort. Mindset has also played a key role in professional development. Many educational institutions have made it required reading for their administrators and teachers because the book is full of crucial information about how to motivate students. The same thing is happening with athletic organizations, in which, according to coaches, a growth mindset is proving essential for the development of an athlete’s (and a coach’s) potential. Business schools and business organizations are using Mindset to encourage effective leadership and necessary innovation in times of change. Many professors who have adopted Mindset in their courses tell me that the students enjoy it tremendously, that it provokes excellent class discussions, and that it lends itself to useful and interesting exercises. For example, students can write about something they would like to change in themselves and how they would go about it, and keep a journal of their changes. Students can be asked to do something “outrageously” growth mindset (something they might not have otherwise done) toward their goal of change, and they can write about it or share this with their classmates. Professors have told me that many of their students gain the courage to pursue their most valued goals, ones they may not have pursued in the past because of the fear of failure. Almost every day, I get wonderful letters from educators who have assigned Mindset. I hope I will get a letter from you.

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EXTREME MEAN Ending Cyberabuse at Work, School, and Home by Paula Todd Signal ★ TR ★ 978-0-7710-8406-5 ★ 352pp. $17.95/$22.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-7710-8404-1

FAITH ED Teaching About Religion in an Age of Intolerance by Linda K. Wertheimer Beacon Press ★ HC ★ 978-0-8070-8616-2 240pp. ★ $25.95/$28.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $13.00 EB: 978-0-8070-8617-9

MASTERMINDS AND WINGMEN Helping Our Boys Cope with Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends, and the New Rules of Boy World by Rosalind Wiseman Harmony ★ TR ★ 978-0-307-98668-9 384pp. ★ $15.00/$18.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-307-98666-5

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ANGRY ROBOT is a global imprint dedicated to the best in modern adult science fiction, fantasy and everything in-between. TAO SERIES BY WESLEY CHU Reading Level for all: 9

THE LIVES OF TAO Winner of the Alex Award

“A totally original sci-fi thriller. . . . This is a story of human history, the hidden powers that have shaped it, and one man’s transformation from complete nobody to a key fighter in the war for humanity’s future.” —R amez Naam, H.G. Wells Award winner and author of Nexus Angry Robot ★ MM ★ 978-0-85766-329-0 464pp. ★ $7.99/$9.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-85766-330-6

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THE REBIRTHS OF TAO he world is split into pro-Prophus and pro-Genjix factions, and is poised on the edge of a devastating new World War. A Genjix scientist who defects to the other side holds the key to preventing bloodshed on an almost unimaginable scale.

Angry Robot ★ MM ★ 978-0-85766-430-3 512pp. ★ $7.99/$9.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-85766-431-0

STOLEN SONGBIRD

Malediction Trilogy Book One by Danielle L. Jensen “Stolen Songbird is a fantastic debut. The book had an amazing cast of developed characters, an intriguing plot, a swoon-worthy romance and an ending that’ll have you itching for the next book. I’d definitely recommend it.” —YA Midnight R eads Angry Robot ★ TR ★ 978-1-908844-96-5 480pp. ★ $9.99/$10.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 Reading Level: 10

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AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE: ESCAPE FROM RIVERDALE

by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Illustrated by Francesco Francavilla

hen Jughead’s beloved pet Hot Dog is killed in a hit and run, Jughead turns to the only person he knows who can help bring back his furry best friend—Sabrina the Teenage Witch. “Horror and Archie? Something this crazy could only happen in comic books.” —Bloody Disgusting

Archie Comics ★ TR ★ 978-1-61988-908-8 160pp. ★ $17.99/$19.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

THE DEATHS OF TAO he Prophus and the Genjix are at war. For centuries they have sought a way off-planet, guiding humanity’s social and technological development to the stage where space travel is possible. The end is now in sight, and both factions have plans to leave the Earth, but the Genjix method will mean the destruction of the human race.

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ARCHIE COMICS is one of the most popular, longest running brands in the history of the comic book industry and has created characters whose popularity has branched out into other media and who have become part of popular culture.

BETTY & VERONICA: GIRLS RULE!

by Archie Superstars

he gals take center stage and show the boys who’s boss in this collection spotlighting the ladies of Archie Comics. Betty, Veronica, Ethel, Midge, Ginger, Cheryl and all the other girls prove who the real stars and leaders of Riverdale are! Archie Comics ★ TR ★ 978-1-62738-952-5 224pp. ★ $10.99/$11.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 Reading Level: 5

DIARY OF A GIRL NEXT DOOR: BETTY

by Tania del Rio Illustrated by Bill Galvan

veryone’s favorite girl-next-door dives head first into high school and extracurricular activities. Betty can do it all—but can she get by WITHOUT a little help from her friend? Freshman year is off to a rocky start with some major BFF drama! Archie Comics ★ HC ★ 978-1-936975-37-2 224pp. ★ $13.99/$14.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $7.00 Reading Level: 6

KEVIN KELLER: DRIVE ME CRAZY

by Dan Parent

evin Keller sure is making a splash at Riverdale High School—he’s gone from the new kid in town to one of the most well-known and popular students! From his first car to first dates to a starring role in a school play (written by Veronica?!) it’s bound to be an eventful year for Kevin. Not to mention a surprise appearance and introduction by none other than George Takei!

Archie Comics ★ TR ★ 978-1-936975-58-7 104pp. ★ $11.99/$12.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 Reading Level: 7

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Reading Level: 7

Inspired by the relationship between a campfire and the memorable stories it evokes, the CAMPFIRE series features classic novels transformed into beautifully illustrated, dynamic graphic novels. “I highly recommend Campfire’s comics. They do what they are intended to do and do it in a way that excites kids about classic literature.” —Chris Wilson, The Graphic Classroom (a resource for teachers and librarians ) Reading Level for all: 5

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: The Graphic Novel

by Jane Austen Adapted by Laurence Sach Illustrated by Rajesh Nagulakonda

et in a time in which women were at the mercy of the arrangements made for them by their families, this story of the romantic courtship of Darcy and Elizabeth will resonate with readers. . . . The flow of the story is easy to follow, making it a good resource for students who find Austen difficult to decipher.

Campfire ★ TR ★ 978-93-80028-74-3 104pp. ★ $16.99/$18.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

DARK HORSE COMICS publishes a wide variety of graphic novels and art books and is known internationally as being one of the most diverse publishers in the industry. Featuring cutting-edge design and high production values, Dark Horse publishes well-known media properties as well as the work of popular authors from all over the world. THE NEW DEAL

Written and illustrated by Jonathan Case

he Waldorf Astoria is the classiest hotel along the Manhattan skyline in 1930s New York City. When a charming woman named Nina checks in with a high-society entourage, young Frank, a bellhop, and Theresa, a maid, get caught up in a series of mysterious thefts. The stakes quickly grow perilous, and the pair must rely on each other to discover the truth while navigating delicate class politics. Dark Horse Originals ★ HC ★ 978-1-61655-731-7 99pp. ★ $16.99/$18.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $8.50 Reading Level: 9

SALLY HEATHCOTE, SUFFRAGETTE

by Mary M. Talbot Illustrated by Kate Charlesworth

WORLD WAR TWO: AGAINST THE RISING SUN

by Jason Quinn Illustrated by Naresh Kumar

ampfire’s World War Two: Against the Rising Sun focuses on the war in the East, through the eyes of the servicemen and civilians on both sides of the conflict.

Campfire ★ TR ★ 978-93-81182-05-5 168pp. ★ $16.99/$16.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

MACBETH : The Graphic Novel

by William Shakespeare Adapted by Jyoti Bhansali Illustrated by Naresh Kumar

tale of loyalty, love, and courage, Sally Heathcote, Suffragette follows the fortunes of a common housemaid swept up in the feminist militancy of early 20th century Edwardian Britain. As the growing hunger for change grows within a culture of rigid social mores and class barriers, Sally and thousands like her rise up to break the bonds of oppression at the risk of ostracization and violence.

Dark Horse Books ★ HC ★ 978-1-61655-547-4 192pp. ★ $19.99/$21.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $10.00 Reading Level: 10

ACTION PHILOSOPHERS

ne of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, Macbeth goes beyond a mere tragedy of moral order to a deeply psychological study of a mind preyed on by ambition, insecurities, fear, and regret.

Campfire ★ TR ★ 978-93-80741-10-9 76pp. ★ $9.99/$10.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

THE TEMPEST: The Graphic Novel

by William Shakespeare Adapted by Max Popov Illustrated by Amit Tayal and Manikandan

delightful romantic drama with undertones of betrayal and retribution, domination and subjugation, The Tempest remains to this day one of the more popular plays written by Shakespeare.

by Fred Van Lente Illustrated by Ryan Dunlavey

tudy the tenets of Plato, the wrestling superstar from ancient Greece; learn the lessons of Nietzsche, the original übermensch; and meditate on the messages of Bodhidharma, a kung fu master. Laugh, learn, laugh some more, and ponder the messages of history’s great thinkers as Van Lente and Dunlavey deliver this comprehensive cartoon history from the pre-Socratics to Jacques Derrida!

Dark Horse Books ★ HC ★ 978-1-61655-539-9 352pp. ★ $29.99/$32.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $15.00 Reading Level: 9

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MELVILLE HOUSE is an independent publisher with offices in Brooklyn and London. The Last Interview is a celebrated series of pocket-sized interview collections, featuring conversations with some of the most iconic writers and thinkers of our time.

PYR® is a science fiction and fantasy imprint from PROMETHEUS BOOKS, a leader in publishing books for the scientific, professional, library, educational, popular, and consumer markets.

Reading Level for all: 9

Reading Level for all: 11

EDGE OF DARK JAMES BALDWIN: THE LAST INTERVIEW

(The Glittering Edge: Book One)

and Other Conversations

by Brenda Cooper

by James Baldwin Contribution by Quincy Troupe ”One of many reminders that Baldwin’s observations on race, sexuality, and society remain relevant— and that the voice in which he made them remains one of the most compelling in all of American letters.” —Biographile Melville House ★ TR ★ 978-1-61219-400-4 128pp. ★ $15.95/$15.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-1-61219-401-1

RAY BRADBURY: THE LAST INTERVIEW

and Other Conversations by Ray Bradbury Edited by Sam Weller

n Edge of Dark, meet ranger Charlie Windar and his adopted wild predator, and explore their home on a planet that has been desecrated and restored more than once. Meet Nona Hall, child of power and privilege from the greatest station in the system, the Diamond Deep. Meet Nona’s best friend, a young woman named Chrystal who awakens in a robotic body….

Pyr ★ TR ★ 978-1-63388-050-4 399pp. ★ $18.00/$19.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-1-63388-051-1

COVENANT’S END

A Widdershins Adventure

“The Bradbury edition benefits from the author’s warm rapport with his biographer, Sam Weller. . . . In their discussions [Bradbury] remains full of passion.” —The New Yorker Melville House ★ TR ★ 978-1-61219-421-9 112pp. ★ $15.95/$15.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-1-61219-422-6

GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ: THE LAST INTERVIEW

by Ari Marmell

he thief Widdershins and her own “personal god,” Olgun, return to their home city of Davillon after almost a year away. While Shins expects only to face the difficulty of making up with her friends, what she actually finds is far, far worse. Pyr ★ HC ★ 978-1-61614-986-4 271pp. ★ $17.99/$19.50 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $9.00 EB: 978-1-61614-987-1

and Other Conversations

STORM AND STEEL

by Gabriel García Márquez Edited and with an introduction by David Streitfeld

(The Book of the Black Earth: Part Two)

wide-ranging and revealing book, Gabriel García Márquez: The Last Interview is essential for lifelong fans of Márquez—and readers who are just encountering the master’s work for the first time.

by Jon Sprunk “An interesting magic system, complicated political scene, and loads of action make this Spartacus-with-magic a fun first volume in a new epic fantasy series.” —Library Journal Pyr ★ TR ★ 978-1-63388-010-8 479pp. ★ $18.00/$19.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

Melville House ★ TR ★ 978-1-61219-480-6 128pp. ★ $15.95/$15.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

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SUPERPOSITION

KURT VONNEGUT: THE LAST INTERVIEW

and Other Conversations by Kurt Vonnegut Edited by Tom McCartan

ne of the great American iconoclasts holds forth on politics, war, books and writers, and his personal life in a series of interviews, including his last—for US Airways Magazine. Melville House ★ TR ★ 978-1-61219-090-7 176pp. ★ $15.95/$17.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

by David Walton “Walton delivers fast-paced action, suspense, and riveting mystery—all of it spinning about a core of vivid, speculative science. Enjoy some tense, imaginative fun.” —David Brin, Ph.D., Hugo and Nebula Award -winning author of Existence Pyr ★ TR ★ 978-1-63388-012-2 303pp. ★ $17.00/$18.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-1-63388-013-9

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QUIRK BOOKS, founded in 2002, publishes innovative and buzzworthy books that entertain, amuse, and inform. HORRORSTÖR : A Novel

by Grady Hendrix

traditional haunted house story in a thoroughly contemporary setting, Horrorstör comes packaged in the form of a glossy mail order catalog, complete with product illustrations, a home delivery order form, and a map of Orsk’s labyrinthine showroom. Quirk Books ★ TR ★ 978-1-59474-526-3 240pp. ★ $14.95/$14.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-1-59474-727-4

Reading Level: 9

THE FANGIRL’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

A Handbook for Girl Geeks

SOHO PRESS publishes a list of YA mysteries and thrillers by international bestsellers, award winners, and debut novelists. Their titles include the paranormal and dystopian, the humorous and realistic, the tragic and uplifting—whatever serves a great story best. MAPMAKER

by Mark Bomback and Galaxy Craze “Mapmaker expertly brings the paranoid thriller into the age of surveillance, and the result is both moving and chilling.” —D.B. Weiss, co - creator, writer, and producer of Game of Thrones Soho Teen ★ HC ★ 978-1-61695-347-8 ★ 224pp. $18.99/$18.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $9.50 EB: 978-1-61695-350-8

Reading Level: 8

STRANGELETS

by Sam Maggs

anfic, cosplay, cons, books, memes, podcasts, vlogs, OTPs and RPGs and MMOs and more—it’s never been a better time to be a girl geek. The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy is the ultimate handbook for girls living the nerdy life, a fun and feminist take on the often male-dominated world of geekdom.

Quirk Books ★ HC ★ 978-1-59474-789-2 ★ 208pp. $15.95/$16.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $8.00

by Michelle Gagnon “Three very different teens on the edge of death get firsthand experience of the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics. . . . Interesting characters, some of whom have dangerous secrets, act and react like real teens. The slow reveal of what’s going on is as tantalizing as the action is pulse-pounding. . . . A fun ride.” —K irkus R eviews

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Soho Teen ★ TR ★ 978-1-61695-420-8 ★ 288pp. $9.99/$9.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

HOLLOW CITY: The Second Novel of

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Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children

HIDER, SEEKER, SECRET KEEPER: A Novel

by Ransom Riggs

aving escaped Miss Peregrine’s island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. Along the way, they encounter new allies, a menagerie of peculiar animals, and other unexpected surprises. Quirk Books ★ TR ★ 978-1-59474-735-9 ★ 416pp. $10.99/$11.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-1-59474-620-8

Reading Level: 10

NICK AND TESLA’S SPECIAL EFFECTS SPECTACULAR : A Mystery with

Animatronics, Alien Makeup, Camera Gear, and Other Movie Magic You Can Make Yourself!

by Bob Pflugfelder and Steve Hockensmith

leven-year-old siblings Nick and Tesla Holt find themselves on the set of a big-budget superhero movie. But someone’s sabotaging the onscreen debut of their favorite comic book hero, so the brother and sister sleuths must crack the case with the help of a fresh assortment of homemade special-effects gadgets. Quirk Books ★ HC ★ 978-1-59474-760-1 ★ 256pp. $12.95/$13.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $6.50 EB: 978-1-59474-780-9

Reading Level: 7

Reading Level: 5

by Elizabeth Kiem

rima ballerina Lana Dukovskaya leaves Moscow for New York, both as star of the latest Bolshoi tour and as chief suspect in a brutal attack on her rival—a crime that conveniently secured her a coveted solo spot.

Do not order paperback before 2/2/2016. Soho Teen ★ TR ★ 978-1-61695-569-4 ★ 272pp. $10.99/$10.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 Soho Teen ★ HC ★ 978-1-61695-412-3 ★ 272pp. $17.99/$17.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $9.00 EB: 978-1-61695-413-0

THE A-WORD : A Sweet Dead Life Novel

by Joy Preble

enna Samuels and her guardian angel brother battle heavenly head-honchos and earthbound bullies in this Texas-set hilarious follow up to The Sweet Dead Life. “[The Sweet Dead Life series] presents a fresh and humorous look at angels, sibling relationships, romance and the paranormal.” —The Woodlands Online Soho Teen ★ TR ★ 978-1-61695-489-5 ★ 272pp. $10.99/$10.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-1-61695-291-4

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Language Arts P OE T RY THE COMPLETE POETRY

DODGERS

A Novel by Bill Beverly

by Maya Angelou

rom her reflections on African American life and hardship in Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘fore I Diiie to her revolutionary celebrations of womanhood in And Still I Rise and Phenomenal Woman, every inspiring word of Maya Angelou’s poetry is included in the pages of this volume.

Random House ★ HC ★ 978-0-8129-9787-3 336pp. ★ $30.00/$35.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $15.00 EB: 978-0-8129-9788-0

AIMLESS LOVE : New and Selected Poems

by Billy Collins “[Collins’s] poetry presents simple observations, which create a shared experience between Collins and his readers, while further revealing how he takes life’s everyday humdrum experiences and makes them vibrant.”—The Times Leader Random House ★ TR ★ 978-0-8129-8267-1 288pp. ★ $16.00/$19.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

y a debut novelist, Dodgers is a dark, haunting, coming-of-age narrative story of a young man named East who works for an L.A. drug gang. “Every now and then, the publication of a novel seems to come at the perfect time. Bill Beverly’s Dodgers is one of those novels: a coming of age narrative that navigates a modern urban landscape with the same mythic gravitas that Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy brought to the mid-century American Southwest. The journey of brothers East and Ty is written in language that is immediate, accessible, and poetic in its depictions of both brutality and grace. The last line of the novel is impossible to read without considering the #blacklivesmatter, and equally impossible to forget.” —Amy Jurskis, English Department Head at Oxbridge Academy Do not order before 4/5/2016. Crown ★ HC ★ 978-1-101-90373-5 304pp. ★ $26.00/$34.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $13.00 Reading Level: 7 EB: 978-1-101-90374-2 ★ N To request a free advance reader’s copy, email: highschool@penguinrandomhouse.com

EB: 978-0-8129-8465-1 ★ N

THE RED RISING TRILOGY BY PIERCE BROWN

F IC T ION THE TRUTH ACCORDING TO US

A Novel by Annie Barrows “An epic but intimate family novel with richly imagined characters, an intriguing plot and the social sensibilities you would expect of a story set in the South. . . . Just as we did in Guernsey, we empathize with the characters as if they’re our neighbors.” —The Washington Post The Dial Press ★ HC ★ 978-0-385-34294-0 512pp. ★ $28.00/$34.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $14.00 EB: 978-0-8129-9784-2 ★ N

Reading Level: 5

THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY

A Novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

anuary 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. Dial Press ★ TR ★ 978-0-385-34100-4 304pp. ★ $16.00/$17.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 Reading Level: 6

RED RISING “[A] spectacular adventure . . . one heart-pounding ride . . . Pierce Brown’s dizzyingly good debut novel evokes The Hunger Games, Lord of the Flies, and Ender’s Game. . . . [Red Rising] has everything it needs to become meteoric.”—Entertainment Weekly Del Rey ★ TR ★ 978-0-345-53980-9 416pp. ★ $14.00/$17.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-345-53979-3

GOLDEN SON olden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom. “Brown writes layered, flawed characters . . . but plot is his most breathtaking strength. . . . Every action seems to flow into the next.”—NPR

Del Rey ★ TR ★ 978-0-345-53983-0 ★ 464pp. $15.00/$18.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-345-53982-3

Reading Level: 6

MORNING STAR ed Rising thrilled readers and announced the presence of a talented new author. Golden Son changed the game and took the story of Darrow to the next level. Now comes the exhilarating conclusion to the Red Rising Trilogy: Morning Star.

Do not order before 2/9/2016. Del Rey ★ HC ★ 978-0-345-53984-7 400pp. ★ $27.00/$33.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $13.50 EB: 978-0-345-53985-4

Reading Level: 6

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Language Arts TIRRA LIRRA BY THE RIVER : A Novel

PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN

by Jessica Anderson

by Jennifer Clement

“Finely honed structurally and tightly textured, it’s a wry, romantic story that should make Anderson’s American reputation and create a demand for her other work.” —The Washington Post Melville House ★ TR ★ 978-1-61219-388-5 144pp. ★ $15.95/$15.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-1-61219-389-2

Reading Level: 11

AS CHIMNEY SWEEPERS COME TO DUST

A Flavia de Luce Novel

n this acclaimed, debut novel by Jennifer Clement, Prayers for the Stolen explores the fate of women caught up in Mexico’s drug wars. “Jennifer Clement has cracked open, rewired, and madly reimagined the coming-of-age narrative through the eyes and mind of an ingenious and wise young woman.” —Patrick Somerville, author of This Bright R iver

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by Alan Bradley “Plot twists come faster than Canadian snowfall. . . . Bradley’s sense of observation is as keen as gung-ho scientist Flavia’s. . . . The results so far are seven sparkling Flavia de Luce mysteries.” —Library Journal Do not order paperback before 2/2/2016. Bantam ★ TR ★ 978-0-345-53994-6 416pp. ★ $15.00 ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 Delacorte Press ★ HC ★ 978-0-345-53993-9 416pp. ★ $25.00 ★ Exam Copy: $12.50 EB: 978-0-345-53995-3 ★ N

Reading Level: 7

Reading Level: 6

JURASSIC PARK

A Novel by Michael Crichton

rom the author of Timeline, Sphere, and Congo, this is the classic thriller of science run amok that took the world by storm. “Crichton’s dinosaurs are genuinely frightening.” —Chicago Sun-Times

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Reading Level: 6

KINDRED

by Octavia Butler

ana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her 26th birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. “One cannot finish Kindred without feeling changed. It is a shattering work of art with much to say about love, hate, slavery, and racial dilemmas, then and now.” —Sam Frank, Los A ngeles Herald -Examiner Beacon Press ★ TR ★ 978-0-8070-8369-7 264pp. ★ $15.00/$17.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-8070-8370-3

Reading Level: 7

THE DRESSMAKER’S WAR : A Novel

THESEUS AND THE MINOTAUR

by Graeme Davis Illustrated by Jose Peña

raeme Davis draws upon the classic sources to retell the great myths and legends of Theseus, the founder-king of Athens, and backs this narrative with a factual examination of the myth, its variations, and its development over time. Osprey ★ TR ★ 978-1-4728-0405-1 80pp. ★ $17.95/$19.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-1-4728-0406-8

Reading Level: 8

SINBAD THE SAILOR

by Mary Chamberlain

powerful, riveting work of historical fiction, The Dressmaker’s War is the story of a brilliant English seamstress taken prisoner in Germany during World War II. It is about her perseverance, the choices she makes to stay alive, and the haunting aftermath of war.

Do not order before 1/19/2016. Random House ★ HC ★ 978-0-8129-9737-8 320pp. ★ $27.00/$35.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $13.50 EB: 978-0-8129-9738-5

MYTHS AND LEGENDS SERIES

Reading Level: 7

IF I FALL, IF I DIE : A Novel

by Phil Masters Illustrated by RU-MOR

inbad the Sailor presents a retelling of the stories of the most famous adventurer from One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, with added information covering the history of the stories and the age in which they are set.

Osprey ★ TR ★ 978-1-4728-0613-0 80pp. ★ $17.95/$19.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-1-4728-0615-4

Reading Level: 8

THE MEURSAULT INVESTIGATION

by Michael Christie

hen Will, the son of an agoraphobe, ventures outside, life gets complicated. He and his new friend embark on an adventure that pulls Will far from the confines of his closed-off world and into the throes of early adulthood.

by Kamel Daoud Translated by John Cullen “A tour-de-force reimagining of Camus’s The Stranger, from the point of view of the mute Arab victims.” —The New Yorker

Hogarth ★ TR ★ 978-0-8041-4082-9 336pp. ★ $15.00 ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

Other Press ★ TR ★ 978-1-59051-751-2 160pp. ★ $14.95/$19.50 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

EB: 978-0-8041-4081-2

EB: 978-1-59051-752-9

Reading Level: 7

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Language Arts THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS

A Novel by Vanessa Diffenbaugh “Teens will relate to the book: there’s a push/pull romance, teen pregnancy, lots of feeling outcast and separate yet never descending into victimhood. On top of that, it’s smart, emotionally sophisticated, realistic, and beautifully written. Other books have explored the experiences of foster and abandoned youth. . . . The Language of Flowers soars above them.” —School Library Journal, Adult Books 4 Teens Ballantine Books ★ TR ★ 978-0-345-52555-0 368pp. ★ $16.00/$19.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-345-52556-7 ★ N

Reading Level: 6

WE NEVER ASKED FOR WINGS

A Novel by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

iffenbaugh blends gorgeous prose with compelling themes of motherhood, undocumented immigration, and the American Dream in a powerful and prescient story about family. Ballantine Books ★ HC ★ 978-0-553-39231-9 320pp. ★ $27.00/$35.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $13.50 EB: 978-0-553-39232-6 ★ N

Reading Level: 9

HERO COMPLEX: A Keaton School Novel

by Margaux Froley

eventy years after Pearl Harbor drew the US into World War II, a sinister secret—remnants of covert research done by the Army—haunts the Keaton School.

Soho Teen ★ TR ★ 978-1-61695-573-1 224pp. ★ $17.99/$17.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-1-61695-321-8

Reading Level: 7

PIRATE’S PASSAGE

by William Gilkerson “This marvelous tale crashed over me like a great wave, submerging me in a gleeful yarn of adventure, intrigue, and memorable characters. Pirate’s Passage creates its own kind of ship— and I advise any readers who enjoy a rollicking good story to climb aboard!” —T. A. Barron, author of The Great Tree of Avalon Trumpeter ★ TR ★ 978-1-61180-247-4 376pp. ★ $16.95/$16.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 Reading Level: 6

LIGHTLESS

by C.A. Higgins

ith bold speculation informed by a degree in physics, C. A. Higgins spins an unforgettable “locked spaceship” mystery guaranteed to catapult readers beyond their expectations—and into brilliantly thrilling new territory.

THE COLLECTED SHORT STORIES OF LOUIS L’AMOUR, VOLUME 4, PART 1

Adventure Stories by Louis L’Amour

he Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour, Volume 4, Part 1 kicks off this collection of L’Amour’s classic adventures and includes his very first published short story. Here are timeless tales of danger and daring, wanderlust and heroism, filled with ordinary men and women facing often life-threatening challenges with courage, dignity, and honor.

Bantam ★ MM ★ 978-0-8041-7974-4 336pp. ★ $6.99/$7.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 Reading Level for all: 6 Also available:

THE COLLECTED SHORT STORIES OF LOUIS L’AMOUR, VOLUME 4, PART 2

Adventure Stories by Louis L’Amour Bantam ★ MM ★ 978-0-8041-7975-1 544pp. ★ $6.99/$8.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

THE COLLECTED SHORT STORIES OF LOUIS L’AMOUR, VOLUME 5

Frontier Stories by Louis L’Amour Bantam ★ MM ★ 978-0-8041-7976-8 560pp. ★ $6.99/$8.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-553-90433-8

THE TRAVELS OF DANIEL ASCHER

by Déborah Lévy-Bertherat Translated by Adriana Hunter “Haunting. . . . the narrative reads like a mash-up of Sarah’s Key and The Book Thief, and it adroitly straddles the line between adult and YA literature. A piercing meditation on memory and history.” —Publishers Weekly Other Press ★ HC ★ 978-1-59051-707-9 208pp. ★ $22.95/$26.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $11.50 EB: 978-1-59051-708-6

Reading Level: 10

STAR WARS TRILOGY

by George Lucas

uke Skywalker dreamed of adventures out among the stars and alien worlds, but when he intercepted a message from a beautiful captive princess, he got more than he bargained for—and that was how the adventure of his life began. . . . LucasBooks ★ MM ★ 978-1-101-88537-6 688pp. ★ $9.99/$12.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 Reading Level: 6

Del Rey ★ HC ★ 978-0-553-39442-9 304pp. ★ $25.00/$33.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $12.50 EB: 978-0-553-39443-6 ★ N

Reading Level: 7

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Language Arts A CONSTELLATION OF VITAL PHENOMENA

A Novel

by Susan Carol McCarthy

by Anthony Marra

“Reminiscent of To Kill A Mockingbird, McCarthy’s debut novel is an engrossing story of one girl’s coming of age during the early years of the Civil Rights Movement.” —Library Journal

Winner of the National Book Critic Circle’s John Leonard Prize

“Marra’s debut novel places readers in Chechnya during its decade-long conflict with Russia and offers up an authentic, heartbreaking tale of intertwining relationships during wartime.” —Library Journal (starred review)

Bantam ★ TR ★ 978-0-553-38103-0 288pp. ★ $15.00/$18.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-307-41819-7

Hogarth ★ TR ★ 978-0-7704-3642-1 416pp. ★ $15.00 ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-7704-3641-4 ★ N

A Novel

Reading Level: 11

by Susan Carol McCarthy

ay That Trumpet in Our Hands author Susan Carol McCarthy returns with another enthralling story of a family—their longings, their fears, and their secrets—swept up in the chaos at the height of the Cold War.

A Novel by Colum McCann Winner of the National Book Award

Bantam ★ HC ★ 978-0-8041-7654-5 272pp. ★ $27.00/$35.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $13.50

“Mesmerizing. . . . A Joycean look at the lives of New Yorkers changed by a single act on a single day. . . . Dizzyingly satisfying to read and difficult to put down.” —Seattle Times

EB: 978-0-8041-7655-2

Random House ★ TR ★ 978-0-8129-7399-0 400pp. ★ $17.00 ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

Reading Level: 8

THE SCAPEGOAT

A Novel

Reading Level: 9

by Sophia Nikolaidou Translated by Karen Emmerich

THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING

Fiction by Colum McCann

n his first collection of short fiction in more than a decade, Colum McCann charts the territory of chance, and the profound and intimate consequences of even our smallest moments.

Random House ★ HC ★ 978-0-8129-9672-2 256pp. ★ $26.00 ★ Exam Copy: $13.00 EB: 978-0-8129-9673-9 ★ N

Reading Level: 6

A PLACE WE KNEW WELL

LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN

EB: 978-1-58836-873-7 ★ N

LAY THAT TRUMPET IN OUR HANDS

“A complex story in which murder and politics in postwar Greece resurface to change the life of a bright teenage boy who’s been going off the rails. . . . [A] carefully orchestrated tale of political expediency.” —K irkus R eviews Melville House ★ HC ★ 978-1-61219-384-7 320pp. ★ $24.95/$24.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $12.50 EB: 978-1-61219-385-4

Reading Level: 9

Reading Level: 10

UPROOTED

by Naomi Novik

TRANSATLANTIC

soaring novel that spans continents, leaps centuries, and unites a cast of deftly rendered characters, both real and imagined.

“Every so often you come upon a story that seems like a lost tale of Grimm newly come to light. Uprooted is such a novel. Its narrative spell is confidently wrought and sympathetically cast. I might even call it bewitching.”—Gregory Maguire, bestselling author of Wicked and Egg & Spoon

Random House ★ TR ★ 978-0-8129-8192-6 336pp. ★ $16.00 ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

Del Rey ★ HC ★ 978-0-8041-7903-4 448pp. ★ $25.00/$29.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $12.50

EB: 978-0-679-60459-4 ★ N

EB: 978-0-8041-7904-1

A Novel by Colum McCann

Reading Level: 9

LEAVING TIME : A Novel

THE PUSHCART WAR 50th Anniversary Edition

by Jean Merrill Illustrated by Ronni Solbert

Reading Level: 6

by Jodi Picoult

Now in Paperb ac

“The definitive history of New York’s war between the pushcarts and the trucks is one of those rarities—a book that is both humorous and downright funny. Such a lively book will need little introducing; once a boy or girl discovers it, the news will spread.” —The Horn Book M agazine

or more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Desperate to find the truth, Jenna enlists two unlikely allies in her quest.

Ballantine Books ★ TR ★ 978-0-345-54494-0 496pp. ★ $16.00 ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-345-54493-3

Reading Level: 7

NYRB Kids ★ TR ★ 978-1-59017-936-9 232pp. ★ $9.99/$12.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-1-59017-820-1

Reading Level: 5

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Language Arts MORT(E)

LISETTE’S LIST

by Robert Repino

A Novel

“Animal Farm set in a postapocalyptic world based on interspecies rivalry rather than communism, with a little religion on the side, this imaginative story can be taken as a somewhat satirical examination of the role of the individual in society. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal

by Susan Vreeland

Do not order paperback before 2/9/2016. Soho Press ★ TR ★ 978-1-61695-621-9 368pp. ★ $16.00/$16.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 Soho Press ★ HC ★ 978-1-61695-427-7 368pp. ★ $26.95/$26.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $13.50 EB: 978-1-61695-428-4

Reading Level: 9

CHINA DOLLS

richly imagined story of a woman’s awakening in the south of Vichy France— to the power of art, to the beauty of provincial life, and to love in the midst of war. “Mesmerizing . . . Vreeland’s passionate writing is as good as a private showing at the Louvre.” —K irkus R eviews (starred review) Random House ★ TR ★ 978-0-8129-8019-6 448pp. ★ $16.00/$19.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-8129-9685-2 ★ N

THE SAME SKY

A Novel

by Lisa See

by Amanda Eyre Ward

“In the beginning of See’s stellar ninth book, three young women, Grace, Helen, and Ruby, meet and form an unlikely but strong bond in San Francisco in 1938. . . . [A] wonderful journey through love and loss.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) Random House ★ TR ★ 978-0-8129-8282-4 416pp. ★ $16.00/$19.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-679-64416-3 ★ N

Reading Level: 7

ALIVE

Book One of the Generations Trilogy by Scott Sigler

group of teenagers wake up in a mysterious corridor with no knowledge of who they are or how they got trapped. Their only hope lies with an indomitable young woman who must lead them not only to answers but to survival.

Del Rey ★ HC ★ 978-0-553-39310-1 368pp. ★ $18.00/$24.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $9.00 EB: 978-0-553-39311-8

Ballantine Books ★ TR ★ 978-1-101-88376-1 304pp. ★ $15.00/$20.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-553-39051-3

Reading Level: 7

MAISIE DOBBS 10th Anniversary Edition

by Jacqueline Winspear “A delightful mix of mystery, war story and romance set in WWI–era England . . . A refreshing heroine, appealing secondary characters and an absorbing plot [make Winspear a] writer to watch.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) Soho Crime ★ TR ★ 978-1-61695-407-9 304pp. ★ $14.95/$14.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-1-56947-722-9

Reading Level: 9

BIRDS OF A FEATHER

by Jacqueline Winspear

ALIGHT

Book Two of the Generations Trilogy by Scott Sigler Do not order before 2/2/2016 Del Rey ★ HC ★ 978-0-553-39315-6 240pp. ★ $18.00/$24.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $9.00 Reading Level: 5

he second Maisie Dobbs mystery. “Birds of a Feather succeeds both as a suspenseful mystery and as a picture of a time and place . . . Maisie’s liveliness of mind, good sense, and kind nature make her a heroine a reader can enjoy spending time with.” —The Boston Globe

Soho Crime ★ TR ★ 978-1-61695-632-5 320pp. ★ $14.95/$14.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-1-56947-673-4

CLASH OF EAGLES

by Alan Smale

erfect for fans of action-adventure and historical fiction, this stunning work of alternate history imagines a world in which the Roman Empire has not fallen and the North American continent has just been discovered.

Del Rey ★ TR ★ 978-1-101-88530-7 464pp. ★ $9.99/$12.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-8041-7723-8

“The Same Sky is the timeliest book you will read this year—a wrenching, honest, painstakingly researched novel that puts a human face to the story of undocumented youth desperately seeking their dreams in America.” —Jodi Picoult

Reading Level: 5

Next book in the series:

EB: 978-0-553-39316-3

Reading Level: 8

Reading Level: 7

Reading Level: 9

THE GAP OF TIME : A Novel

by Jeanette Winterson

n this re-telling of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, we move from London, a city reeling after the 2008 financial crisis, to a storm-ravaged American city called New Bohemia. Winterson’s story is one of childhood friendship, money, status, technology and the elliptical nature of time.

Hogarth ★ HC ★ 978-0-8041-4135-2 240pp. ★ $25.00 ★ Exam Copy: $12.50 EB: 978-0-8041-4136-9 ★ N

Reading Level: 5

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Language Arts BIO G R A P H Y & M E M OI R

G R A P H IC NOV E L S

I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS

THE HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS

by Maya Angelou Foreword by Oprah Winfrey

by Max Brooks Illustrated by Caanan White

“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.” —James Baldwin Ballantine Books ★ MM ★ 978-0-345-51440-0 304pp. ★ $7.99/$9.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 Random House ★ TR ★ 978-0-8129-8002-8 304pp. ★ $17.00/$20.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-1-58836-925-3 ★ N

Reading Level: 9

“An utterly fresh and shocking blend of storytelling and graphic art that takes us back to the global conflagration at the dawn of the last century and the heroic and outsized role brave African American soldiers played in turning the tide for the Allies.” —Tom R eiss, author of The Black Count: Glory, R evolution, Betrayal, and the R eal Count of Monte Cristo Broadway Books ★ TR ★ 978-0-307-46497-2 272pp. ★ $16.95/$19.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 Reading Level: 8

MY LIFE IN MIDDLEMARCH

Also by the author:

by Rebecca Mead

WORLD WAR Z

writer revisits the seminal book of her youth– George Eliot’s Middlemarch–and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories.

Broadway Books ★ TR ★ 978-0-307-98477-7 320pp. ★ $15.00 ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-307-98478-4

An Oral History of the Zombie War Broadway Books ★ TR ★ 978-0-307-34661-2 352pp. ★ $14.95/$21.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-307-35193-7 ★ N

Max Brooks is available to Skype with classrooms. Email highschool@penguinrandomhouse.com for more information.

Reading Level: 11

THE BLACK COUNT Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

DEATH

by Neil Gaiman

by Tom Reiss “Alex Dumas, an extraordinary man whose sensational life had been largely lost to history solely because of his race, takes the spotlight in this dynamic tale. . . . Reiss capitalizes on his subject’s charged personality as well as the revolutionary times in which he lived to create an exciting narrative.” —Publishers Weekly

rom the pages of Newbery Medal winner Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman comes fan-favorite character Death in a collection of her solo adventures! “Undoubtedly the finest writing the mainstream comic book industry has ever seen.” —St. Louis Dispatch Vertigo ★ TR ★ 978-1-4012-4716-4 320pp. ★ $19.99/$23.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

Broadway Books ★ TR ★ 978-0-307-38247-4 432pp. ★ $16.00/$18.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

MY NEIGHBOR SEKI, 3

EB: 978-0-307-95295-0 ★ N

Reading Level: 12

LOST IN TRANSLATION

An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World by Ella Frances Sanders

n artistic collection of more than 50 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into English.

Ten Speed Press ★ HC ★ 978-1-60774-710-9 112pp. ★ $14.99/$17.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $7.50 EB: 978-1-60774-711-6

33 DAYS : A Memoir

by Leon Werth

Translated by Austin D. Johnston

rare eyewitness account by an important author of fleeing the Nazis’ march on Paris in 1940, featuring a never-before-published introduction by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Melville House ★ TR ★ 978-1-61219-425-7 144pp. ★ $16.00/$16.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-1-61219-426-4

Reading Level: 8

Reading Level: 11

Reading Level: 9

by Takuma Morishige y Neighbor Seki is a manga collection of short stories that revolve around two classmates who sit at the back of their high school homeroom. In each chapter Seki devises a new way to kill time at his school desk, to best avoid boredom. Along the way, he ends up distracting Rumi, the girl who sits next to him.

Vertical Comics ★ TR ★ 978-1-941220-48-1 176pp. ★ $10.95/$11.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 Reading Level: 8

LA LUCHA: The Story of Lucha Castro

and Human Rights in Mexico by Jon Sack Edited by Adam Shapiro Preface by Lucha Castro “This book provides unique, first-person insight into the struggle for justice in what remains one of the world’s most dangerous places for human rights defenders.” —Mary Robinson, former UN Commissioner for Human R ights Verso ★ TR ★ 978-1-78168-801-4 112pp. ★ $16.95/$19.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 Reading Level: 9

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Language Arts EARTH 2 : World’s End Vol. 1 (The New 52)

THE BEST PUNCTUATION BOOK, PERIOD

by Daniel H. Wilson and Marguerite Bennett Illustrated by Eddy Barrows

A Comprehensive Guide for Every Writer, Editor, Student, and Businessperson

n the infinite vastness of the Multiverse there exists a world much like our own, with heroes and villains different from the ones we know, yet strangely familiar. Together, the heroes of Earth 2 battled the forces of Darkseid and the New Gods of Apokolips. They thought they’d won. They were wrong.

by June Casagrande

DC Comics ★ TR ★ 978-1-4012-5603-6 272pp. ★ $29.99/$35 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $15.00 Reading Level: 8

W R I T I NG GU I DE S LEAP WRITE IN!

Adventures in Creative Writing to Stretch and Surprise Your One-of-a-Kind Mind by Karen Benke

his book provides students with a chance to create imaginative poems, stories, fragments, and real-life on-the-spot sketches. With a bounty of prompts to select from, students will be inspired to explore all the wanderings of their emerging lives. Roost Books ★ TR ★ 978-1-61180-015-9 256pp. ★ $16.95/$19.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

RIP THE PAGE!

Adventures in Creative Writing by Karen Benke “Alive with ideas, playful, encouraging, and full of heart, Rip the Page! will help you uncover stories of inner treasure and express them in a fresh new way.” —Susan Wooldridge, author of Foolsgold : M aking Something from Nothing Roost Books ★ TR ★ 978-1-59030-812-7 256pp. ★ $14.95/$17.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

WRITE BACK SOON!

Adventures in Letter Writing by Karen Benke

his new reference covers the basic rules of punctuation to offer clear answers to perplexing questions about semicolons, quotation marks, periods, apostrophes, and more. Ten Speed Press ★ TR ★ 978-1-60774-493-1 256pp. ★ $14.00/$17.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-1-60774-494-8

IT WAS THE BEST OF SENTENCES, IT WAS THE WORST OF SENTENCES

A Writer’s Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences by June Casagrande

n this accessible manual, language columnist June Casagrande uses grammar and syntax to show exactly what makes some sentences great, and others not.

Ten Speed Press ★ TR ★ 978-1-58008-740-7 224pp. ★ $14.00/$17.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-1-58008-378-2

SIN AND SYNTAX

How to Craft Wicked Good Prose, Revised and Updated by Constance Hale

veryone needs to know how to write stylish prose—students, professionals, and seasoned writers alike. Sin and Syntax covers grammar’s ground rules while revealing countless unconventional syntax secrets. Three Rivers Press ★ TR ★ 978-0-385-34689-4 320pp. ★ $15.00/$17.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-385-34693-1

THANK YOU FOR ARGUING

What Aristotle, Lincoln, And Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion Revised and Updated Edition by Jay Heinrichs

his book is an interactive workbook that encourages creative interactions between friends through the written word, complete with cross-outs, smudges, and parenthetical asides.

Roost Books ★ TR ★ 978-1-61180-268-9 208pp. ★ $16.95/$21.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

Three Rivers Press ★ TR ★ 978-0-385-34775-4 432pp. ★ $15.00/$17.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

ditor, magazine writer, and executive Jay Heinrichs not only teaches students how to recognize a paralipsis and a chiasmus, but also how to use practical and convincing arguments.

EB: 978-0-385-34778-5

WIRED FOR STORY

The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence by Lisa Cron

And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer Edited by Bret Anthony Johnson

“These entertaining and useful exercises, intelligently organized, are a boon for both beginning and experienced writers.” —Andrea Barrett, National Book Award -winning author of The A ir We Breathe

Ten Speed Press ★ TR ★ 978-1-60774-245-6 272pp. ★ $14.99/$17.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

Random House ★ TR ★ 978-0-8129-7548-2 400pp. ★ $16.00/$19.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

EB: 978-1-60774-246-3

EB: 978-0-307-48858-9

his guide reveals how writers can utilize cognitive storytelling strategies to craft stories that ignite readers’ brains and captivate them through each plot element.

NAMING THE WORLD

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Language Arts/Social Studies GOOD PROSE : The Art of Nonfiction

by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd

n 1973, a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder came looking for an assignment. Richard Todd was the editor who encouraged him. From that moment grew a lifelong connection. Good Prose—like Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style—is a succinct, authoritative, and entertaining story of contemporary writing standards.

Random House ★ TR ★ 978-0-8129-8215-2 224pp. ★ $16.00/$18.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-679-60472-3

JAMES A. MICHENER’S WRITER’S HANDBOOK

Explorations in Writing and Publishing by James A. Michener Introduction by Steve Berry

eproducing pages from his own handwritten rough drafts and working manuscripts, Michener walks the reader through a step-by-step guide to the entire process of writing, editing, revising, and publishing. Dial Press ★ TR ★ 978-0-679-74126-8 208pp. ★ $18.00/$24.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

DEAR MISTER ESSAY WRITER GUY

Advice and Confessions on Writing, Love, and Cannibals by Dinty W. Moore “. . . . a guide to writing essays that is both brilliantly instructive and wonderfully entertaining. . . . Highly recommended for writers and anyone who loves to laugh out loud while they read.” —Library Journal (starred review) Ten Speed Press ★ HC ★ 978-1-60774-809-0 208pp. ★ $14.99/$19.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $7.50 EB: 978-1-60774-810-6

YOUR LIFE IS A BOOK

How to Craft & Publish Your Memoir by Brenda Peterson and Sarah Jane Freymann

our Life Is a Book offers accessible and inspiring writing techniques, exercises, publishing tips, and real-life stories of other authors whose memoirs have transformed their life and work.

Sasquatch Books ★ TR ★ 978-1-57061-930-4 272pp. ★ $18.95/$18.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-1-57061-931-1

EB: 978-0-8041-5164-1

Social Studies U S H I S T ORY AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz “[An] impassioned history. . . . Belongs on the shelf next to Dee Brown’s classic, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Provides an essential historical reference for all Americans.” —Peterson Zah, former president of the Navajo Nation Beacon Press ★ TR ★ 978-0-8070-5783-4 312pp. ★ $16.00/$19.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-8070-0041-0

Reading Level: 9

THE WITCH OF LIME STREET

Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World by David Jaher

istory comes alive in this textured account of the rivalry between Harry Houdini and the so-called Witch of Lime Street, whose iconic lives intersected at a time when science was on the verge of embracing the paranormal. Crown ★ HC ★ 978-0-307-45106-4 432pp. ★ $28.00/$36.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $14.00 EB: 978-0-307-45108-8 ★ N

Reading Level: 8

A TIME TO BREAK SILENCE

INDEPENDENCE LOST

The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students

Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution

by Martin Luther King Introduction by Walter Dean Myers

by Kathleen DuVal “[An] astonishing story. . . . Paint yourself a mental picture of the American War of Independence. If all you see are British redcoats battling minutemen and Continentals, Kathleen DuVal’s Independence Lost will knock your socks off. . . .” —The New York Times Book R eview Random House ★ HC ★ 978-1-4000-6895-1 464pp. ★ $28.00/$34.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $14.00 EB: 978-1-58836-961-1

Time to Break Silence presents Martin Luther King, Jr.’s most important writings and speeches—carefully selected by teachers across a variety of disciplines—in an accessible and user-friendly volume.

Beacon Press ★ TR ★ 978-0-8070-3305-0 272pp. ★ $14.00/$16.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-8070-3306-7

Reading Level: 9

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Reading Level: 12

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Social Studies THE RADICAL KING

VOICES OF A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 10th Anniversary 3rd Edition

by Martin Luther King, Jr. Edited by Cornel West

by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove

“This useful collection takes King from the front lines of Southern segregation to a national movement for economic equality to an international condemnation of imperialism and armed intervention.” —K irkus R eviews Beacon Press ★ HC ★ 978-0-8070-1282-6 320pp. ★ $26.95/$31.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $13.50 Do not order paperback before 1/12/2016. Beacon Press ★ TR ★ 978-0-8070-3452-1 320pp. ★ $15.00/$18.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-8070-1283-3

elected testimonies to living history— speeches, letters, poems, songs—offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn.

Seven Stories Press ★ TR ★ 978-1-60980-592-0 704pp. ★ $24.95/$24.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $12.50 EB: 978-1-60980-593-7

Reading Level: 12

A MIGHTY LONG WAY

My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School by Carlotta Walls LaNier with Lisa Frazier Page Foreword by Bill Clinton “A searing and emotionally gripping account of a young black girl growing up to become a strong black woman during the most difficult time of racial segregation in Little Rock, Arkansas.” —Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard L aw School

Reading Level: 11

W OR L D H I S T ORY THE WOMAN WHO WOULD BE KING

Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney

n engrossing biography of the longestreigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power. “Engrossing and compulsively readable.” —TIME

Broadway Books ★ TR ★ 978-0-307-95677-4 320pp. ★ $16.00/$21.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

Ballantine ★ TR ★ 978-0-345-51101-0 336pp. ★ $16.00/$19.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

EB: 978-0-307-95678-1 ★ N

EB: 978-0-345-51724-1

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ALMANAC OF WORLD HISTORY, 3rd Edition

Reading Level: 8

THE 40s: THE STORY OF A DECADE

by The New Yorker Magazine Edited by Henry Finder “An absolutely breathtaking assemblage of some of America’s finest and most lasting writing . . . This is magnificent stuff, a cornucopia of truly distinguished literature.” —Booklist (starred review) Modern Library ★ TR ★ 978-0-8129-8329-6 720pp. ★ $22.00/$26.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $11.00 EB: 978-0-679-64480-4

Reading Level: 12

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THE 50s: THE STORY OF A DECADE

by The New Yorker Magazine Edited by Henry Finder Random House ★ HC ★ 978-0-679-64481-1 784pp. ★ $35.00/$45.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $17.50 EB: 978-0-679-64482-8

Reading Level: 12

THE REBELLIOUS LIFE OF MRS. ROSA PARKS Revised Edition

by Jeanne Theoharis “Jeanne Theoharis has written an eye-opening biography of Rosa Parks. It was ideal for the classroom: smart, brisk, and engaging. Best of all, Theoharis explodes all of the clichés surrounding a historical figure whom most students thought they knew. I will assign this book again and again.” —Thomas J. Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania Beacon Press ★ TR ★ 978-0-8070-7692-7 336pp. ★ $17.50/$21.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-8070-7693-4

Reading Level: 11

Reading Level: 10

by Patricia S. Daniels and Stephen G. Hyslop Foreword by Douglas Brinkley

pic in scope, yet loaded with captivating detail, this completely updated edition of National Geographic’s bestselling Almanac of World History encompasses all of human history, from ancient times to present. National Geographic ★ HC ★ 978-1-4262-1391-5 396pp. ★ $40.00/$46.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $20.00 Reading Level: 9

BAD DAYS IN HISTORY

A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year by Michael Farquhar “A catalog of historical anecdotes in which the historical agents experienced very bad days indeed.” —Library Journal National Geographic ★ HC ★ 978-1-4262-1268-0 480pp. ★ $26.00/$28.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $13.00 EB: 978-1-4262-1280-2

Reading Level: 10

THE POPE AND MUSSOLINI

The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

“Much more attention has been given to the Vatican’s compromises and complicity with Hitler, but Kertzer tells a fascinating and tragic story of its self-interested support for Mussolini when he was vulnerable early on.” —The New Yorker Random House ★ TR ★ 978-0-8129-8367-8 592pp. ★ $20.00/$24.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $10.00 EB: 978-0-679-64553-5 ★ N

Reading Level: 11

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Social Studies PIRATE HUNTERS : Treasure, Obsession,

BLACK EARTH

and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship

The Holocaust as History and Warning

by Robert Kurson

by Timothy Snyder

“John Chatterton and John Mattera . . . come across as modern heroes, the kind of men the modern world often finds it hard to make a place for. An enjoyable read, especially if you’ve got a thing for pirates.” —K irkus R eviews

“Black Earth is provocative, challenging, and an important addition to our understanding of the Holocaust. As he did in Bloodlands, Timothy Snyder makes us rethink those things we were sure we already knew.” —Deborah Lipstadt

Random House ★ HC ★ 978-1-4000-6336-9 304pp. ★ $28.00/$34.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $14.00

Tim Duggan Books ★ HC ★ 978-1-101-90345-2 480pp. ★ $30.00/$37.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $15.00

EB: 978-0-8129-9652-4 ★ N

EB: 978-1-101-90346-9 ★ N

Reading Level: 8

Reading Level: 12

SHADOW DIVERS

The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson

n the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery—and make history themselves.

Random House ★ TR ★ 978-0-375-76098-3 416pp. ★ $16.00/$19.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-1-58836-249-0 ★ N

Reading Level: 9

The Last Crossing of the Lusitania “Utterly engrossing . . . Expertly ratcheting up the tension . . . Larson puts us on board with these people; it’s page-turning history, breathing with life.” —The Seattle Times Crown ★ HC ★ 978-0-307-40886-0 448pp. ★ $28.00/$32.50 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $14.00 Reading Level: 11

powerful and beautifully written jeremiad that connects the dots between two of the great crises of our time—environmental destruction and human trafficking—and offers a new approach to resolving our biggest global problems. Do not order before 1/19/2016. Spiegel & Grau ★ HC ★ 978-0-8129-9576-3 320pp. ★ $27.00/$35.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $13.50 Reading Level: 10

Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity Winner of the National Book Award by Katherine Boo “This book belongs on reading lists as a work that allows high schoolers to see the incredible hardships of life in a developing country.” —School Library Journal, Adult Books 4 Teens Random House ★ TR ★ 978-0-8129-7932-9 288pp. ★ $16.00/$18.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS

EB: 978-0-679-64395-1 ★ N

Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin

Reading Level: 8

BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME

by Erik Larson

rik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power. Broadway Books ★ TR ★ 978-0-307-40885-3 480pp. ★ $16.00/$19.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 Reading Level: 11

THE WAR THAT ENDED PEACE

The Road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan

rom the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating portrait of Europe from 1900 up to the outbreak of World War I.

Random House ★ TR ★ 978-0-8129-8066-0 784pp. ★ $20.00 ★ Exam Copy: $10.00 EB: 978-0-8129-9470-4 ★ N

Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World by Kevin Bales

BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS

by Erik Larson

EB: 978-0-307-88795-5 ★ N

BLOOD AND EARTH : Modern Slavery,

EB: 978-0-8129-9577-0

DEAD WAKE

EB: 978-0-307-40886-0 ★ N

C U R R E N T E V E N T S & L I F E S T OR I E S

Reading Level: 12

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States.” (The New York Observer) “I’ve been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates. The language of Between the World and Me, like Coates’s journey, is visceral, eloquent, and beautifully redemptive. And its examination of the hazards and hopes of black male life is as profound as it is revelatory. This is required reading.” —Toni Morrison

Spiegel & Grau ★ HC ★ 978-0-8129-9354-7 160pp. ★ $24.00/$31.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $12.00 EB: 978-0-679-64598-6 ★ N

Reading Level: 12

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THE BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE : A Memoir Spiegel & Grau ★ TR ★ 978-0-385-52746-0 240pp. ★ $16.00/$21.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-385-52684-5

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Social Studies ELEPHANT COMPANY: The Inspiring Story

of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II by Vicki Croke “[Vicki] Croke is a natural storyteller. . . . Elephant Company is nothing less than a sweeping tale, masterfully written.” —Sara Gruen, The New York Times Book R eview Random House ★ TR ★ 978-0-8129-8165-0 368pp. ★ $17.00/$20.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-679-60399-3

Reading Level: 10

FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

hysician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive amidst the chaos of Hurricane Katrina.

Crown ★ HC ★ 978-0-307-71896-9 ★ 576pp. $27.00/$32.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $13.50 EB: 978-0-307-71898-3 ★ N

Reading Level: 9

SOUS CHEF: 24 Hours on the Line

by Michael Gibney

hef Michael Gibney uses 24 hours to animate the intricate camaraderie and culinary choreography in an upscale New York restaurant kitchen. “A terrific nuts-and-bolts account of the real business of cooking as told from the trenches.” —Anthony Bourdain

Ballantine Books ★ TR ★ 978-0-8041-7789-4 240pp ★ $16.00/$19.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-8041-7788-7 ★ N

Reading Level: 9

OFF THE SIDELINES : Speak Up, Be Fearless,

and Change Your World by Kirsten Gillibrand Foreword by Hillary Rodham Clinton “Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, in offering this compellingly personal account of her journey to the U.S. Senate, fulfills a vital public purpose. Writing in a voice that is honest, funny, blunt, and strong, she urges women to get off the sidelines and start changing the world.” —Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and founder of LeanIn.Org Ballantine Books ★ TR ★ 978-0-8041-7909-6 224pp. ★ $16.00/$19.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-8041-7908-9 ★ N

Reading Level: 10

by Laura Hillenbrand “Staggering . . . mesmerizing . . . Hillenbrand’s writing is so ferociously cinematic, the events she describes so incredible, you don’t dare take your eyes off the page.” —People Random House ★ TR ★ 978-0-8129-7449-2 528pp. ★ $16.00/$19.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 Movie Tie-In Edition : Random House ★ TR ★ 978-0-8129-8711-9 528pp. ★ $16.00/$19.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-679-60375-7 ★ N

Reading Level: 9

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WITHOUT YOU, THERE IS NO US

My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim

very day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: “Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, there is no us.” Author Suki Kim offers a moving and incalculably rare glimpse of life in the world’s most unknowable country. Broadway Books ★ TR ★ 978-0-307-72066-5 320pp. ★ $15.00/$20.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-307-72067-2

Reading Level: 9

DEVOTION: An Epic Story of Heroism,

Friendship, and Sacrifice by Adam Makos

evotion tells the inspirational story of the Navy’s most famous aviator duo: Tom Hudner, a white, blue-blooded New Englander, and Jesse Brown, an African-American sharecropper’s son from Mississippi. Ballantine Books ★ HC ★ 978-0-8041-7658-3 464pp. ★ $28.00/$36.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $14.00 EB: 978-0-8041-7659-0 ★ N

Reading Level: 9

DEAR MARCUS

A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me by Jerry McGill “Written with passion, honesty, humor, and a stubborn, rebellious optimism, Dear Marcus is like nothing I’ve ever read. When a bullet in the back told Jerry McGill not to go on, Jerry went on—smiling.” —Shalom Auslander, author of Hope : A Tragedy Spiegel & Grau ★ TR ★ 978-0-8129-8316-6 192pp. ★ $14.00/$17.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

FRESH OFF THE BOAT: A Memoir

EB: 978-0-679-64460-6

by Eddie Huang

ALPHA DOCS : The Making of a Cardiologist

“A surprisingly sophisticated memoir about race and assimilation in America . . . as much James Baldwin and Jay-Z as Amy Tan . . . rowdy [and] vital . . . It’s a book about fitting in by not fitting in at all.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times Spiegel & Grau ★ TR ★ 978-0-8129-8335-7 288pp. ★ $15.00/$17.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-679-64489-7 ★ N

UNBROKEN: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Reading Level: 6

by Daniel Muñoz, M.D., and James M. Dale

lpha Docs provides fresh perspective on the state of America’s healthcare system as it captures all the fulfillment and frustrations of life as a doctor in the twenty-first century.

Random House ★ HC ★ 978-1-4000-6887-6 256pp. ★ $27.00/$35.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $13.50 EB: 978-1-4000-6887-6

Reading Level: 9

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Social Studies/Science THE HANDBOOK FOR AMERICANS

ENRIQUE’S JOURNEY

The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite With His Mother

The Essential Reference for Citizens of the United States of America

by Sonia Nazario

by Sean Smith Edited by Anna Krusinski and June Eding

ased on the Los Angeles Times newspaper series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, this astonishing story puts a human face on the ongoing debate about immigration reform in the United States. Random House ★ TR ★ 978-0-8129-7178-1 400pp. ★ $16.00/$19.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-1-58836-602-3

Reading Level: 7

Spanish Language Edition:

he Handbook for Americans is an essential reference guide to the United States and its tradition of freedoms and responsibilities. Hatherleigh Press ★ HC ★ 978-1-57826-558-9 320pp. ★ $12.50/$14.50 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $6.25 Reading Level: 8

BOY 30529

A Memoir

LA TRAVESÍA DE ENRIQUE

by Felix Weinberg

La arriesgada odisea de un niño en busca de su madre by Sonia Nazario Translated by Ana V. Ras Random House ★ TR ★ 978-0-8129-7580-2 416pp. ★ $17.00/$21.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-307-54824-5

“A very witty and highly readable account of life in Nazi camps, with truly original information and an amazing sense of humor. A great lesson in resilience, survival, hope—and genuine modesty.” —Gilbert Achcar, author of The A rabs and the Holocaust Verso ★ TR ★ 978-1-78168-300-2 192pp. ★ $16.95/$19.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-1-78168-301-9

Reading Level: 10

Science MISSION TO MARS

ON THE BURNING EDGE

My Vision for Space Exploration

by Kyle Dickman

by Buzz Aldrin and Leonard David

An Outside Magazine “New Adventure Library” Title

“Any time an Apollo-era astronaut steps forward with ideas for our future in space, it’s time to stop whatever we’re doing and pay attention. Buzz Aldrin, one of the first moonwalkers, has no shortage of these ideas. And in Mission to Mars he treats us to how, when, and why we should travel there.” —Neil deGrasse Tyson National Geographic ★ TR ★ 978-1-4262-1468-4 258pp. ★ $14.95/$16.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-1-4262-1018-1

Reading Level: 11

THE THIRD CHIMPANZEE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

“Dickman offers a riveting account of a dangerous occupation and acts of nature most violent—and those who face both down.”—Library Journal Ballantine Books ★ HC ★ 978-0-553-39212-8 304pp. ★ $26.00/$31.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $13.00 EB: 978-0-553-39213-5 ★ N

Reading Level: 6

THIS IS WHAT YOU JUST PUT IN YOUR MOUTH?

From Eggnog to Beef Jerky, the Surprising Secrets by Patrick Di Justo

On the Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond Adapted by Rebecca Stefoff “Thoughtful readers interested in any fields related to evolutionary science, anthropology, psychology, human history, and culture will find plenty to ponder.” —John Peters, School Library Journal

hat do a cup of coffee and cockroach pheromone have in common? How is Fix-AFlat like sugarless gum? Is a Slim Jim meat stick really alive? If I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter isn’t butter, what is it? All of these pressing questions and more are answered in this fascinating book.

Three Rivers Press ★ TR ★ 978-0-8041-3988-5 272pp. ★ $15.00/$18.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-8041-3989-2

Reading Level: 6

Triangle Square ★ TR ★ 978-1-60980-611-8 368pp. ★ $17.95/$17.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-1-60980-523-4

Reading Level: 9

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Science/College & Career Guides ADA’S ALGORITHM

ROCKET GIRL

How Lord Byron’s Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age

The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America’s First Female Rocket Scientist

by James Essinger

by George D. Morgan

“A fine new Lovelace biography. . . . We need her as a symbol, too: a symbol of all the women who have contributed to the progress of science and technology, and of all the women who might have contributed if given the chance.” —Slate

“An accessible and enjoyable read. . . . [It reminds] us of the need to adequately record and credit the contributions of women scientists, like Morgan, to obtain the fullest account in our history-of-science collections. Recommended.” —Library Journal

Melville House ★ TR ★ 978-1-61219-457-8 272pp. ★ $16.95/$16.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

Prometheus ★ TR ★ 978-1-61614-739-6 310pp. ★ $18.00/$19.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

EB: 978-1-61219-409-7

EB: 978-1-61614-740-2

Reading Level: 12

Reading Level: 10

MINECRAFT Second Edition

THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES

The Unlikely Tale of Markus “Notch” Persson and the Game That Changed Everything

A Story of Lost Groves, the Science of Trees, and a Plan to Save the Planet

by Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson Translated by Jennifer Hawkins

by Jim Robbins

completely unique and in-depth look at the creator of Minecraft, Markus “Notch” Persson, and his rise from unknown computer programmer to multi-millionaire international gaming icon.

“Absorbing, eloquent, and loving . . . While Robbins’s tone is urgent, it doesn’t compromise his crystal-clear science. . . . Even the smallest details here are fascinating.” —Dominique Browning, The New York Times Book R eview

Seven Stories Press ★ HC ★ 978-1-60980-575-3 304pp. ★ $23.95/$23.95 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $12.00

Spiegel & Grau ★ TR ★ 978-0-8129-8129-2 256pp. ★ $16.00/$19.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

EB: 978-1-60980-686-6

EB: 978-1-58836-999-4

Reading Level: 9

THE HUNT FOR VULCAN

. . . And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe

Reading Level: 10

THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS

by Rebecca Skloot

by Thomas Levenson

he story of the fifty-year search by the world’s top scientists for a “missing” planet, and Albert Einstein’s remarkable proof of the Theory of Relativity, which showed that the planet never existed in the first place.

Broadway Books ★ TR ★ 978-1-4000-5218-9 400pp. ★ $16.00/$18.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00

Random House ★ HC ★ 978-0-8129-9898-6 256pp. ★ $26.00/$34.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $13.00 EB: 978-0-8129-8829-1

er name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor, black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine.

EB: 978-0-307-58938-5 ★ N

Reading Level: 9

Reading Level: 12

College & Career Guides WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? FOR TEENS, Third Edition

Discover Yourself, Design Your Future, and Plan for Your Dream Job by Carol Christen and Richard N. Bolles

his updated career guide for teens draws on the principles of What Color Is Your Parachute? to help high school and college students zero in on their favorite skills and find their perfect major or career. Ten Speed Press ★ TR ★ 978-1-60774-577-8 192pp. ★ $15.99/$18.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-1-60774-578-5

THE CAREER PLAYBOOK

Essential Advice for Today’s Aspiring Young Professional by James M. Citrin “This is the one book every young professional should read. Practical, wise, full of often counterintuitive insight—you won’t find a better roadmap for planning a modern career.” —M ark Thompson, CEO, The New York Times Company Crown Business ★ TR ★ 978-0-553-44696-8 256pp. ★ $14.00/$17.00 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $3.00 EB: 978-0-553-44697-5 To view author video interview, go to: http://tinyurl.com/CitrinVid

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College & Career Guides THE BEST 380 COLLEGES, 2016 Edition

by The Princeton Review “The offbeat indexes, along with the chattily written descriptions of each school, provide a colorful picture of each campus.” —The New York Times The Princeton Review ★ TR ★ 978-0-8041-2630-4 880pp. ★ $23.99/$30.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $12.00

THE COMPLETE BOOK OF COLLEGES, 2016 Edition

by The Princeton Review

his book is the mega-guide to 1,573 colleges and universities. User-friendly profiles answer questions about tuition costs, financial aid packages, popular majors and much more.

EB: 978-1-101-88159-0

The Princeton Review ★ TR ★ 978-0-8041-2631-1 1296pp. ★ $29.99/$38.99 Can. ★ Exam Copy: $15.00

COLLEGES THAT CREATE FUTURES

GRIT TO GREAT

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Index 10 PRACTICE TESTS FOR THE SAT . . . . . . . . . . . 54 33 DAYS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 40S: THE STORY OF A DECADE, THE . . . . . . . . . 48 500+ PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR THE NEW SAT ® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 50S: THE STORY OF A DECADE, THE . . . . . . . . . 48 550 AP® EUROPEAN HISTORY PRACTICE QUESTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54 Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 ACING THE ACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 ACT ELITE 36, 2nd EDITION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 ACTION PHILOSOPHERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 ADA’S ALGORITHM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 ADMISSIONS ESSAY BOOT CAMP . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE: ESCAPE FROM RIVERDALE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Aguirre-Sacasa, Roberto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 AIMLESS LOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Aldrin, Buzz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 ALIGHT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 ALIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 ALPHA DOCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 AMIGHTY LONG WAY, A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Anderson, Jessica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Angelou, Maya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Archie Superstars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 ARE YOU READY FOR THE SAT® AND ACT ® ?, 2nd EDITION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 ARMADA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 AS CHIMNEY SWEEPERS COME TO DUST . . . . 41 Austen, Jane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 A-WORD: A SWEET DEAD LIFE NOVEL, THE . . 39 BAD DAYS IN HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Baldwin, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Bales, Kevin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Barrows, Annie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Bazelon, Emily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 BECOMING NICOLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS . . . . . . . . 49 Benke, Karen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 BEST 380 COLLEGES, 2016 EDITION, THE . 53, 55 BEST PUNCTUATION BOOK, PERIOD, THE . . . 46 BETTY & VERONICA: GIRLS RULE! . . . . . . . . . . . 36 BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Beverly, Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 BIRDS OF A FEATHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 BLACK COUNT, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 BLACK EARTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 BLOOD AND EARTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Bomback, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Boo, Katherine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 BOY 30529 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 BOY MEETS DEPRESSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Bradbury, Ray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Bradley, Alan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Breel, Kevin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Brooks, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Brooks, Max . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Brown, Pierce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Butler, Octavia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Cain, Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 CAREER PLAYBOOK, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Carey, Benedict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Casagrande, June . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Case, Jonathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Chamberlain, Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 CHINA DOLLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Christen, Carol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Christie, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Chu, Wesley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Citrin, James M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 CLASH OF EAGLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 CLASS WAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Clement, Jennifer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Cline, Ernest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Coates, Ta-Nehisi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 COLLABORATIVE INTELLIGENCE . . . . . . . . . . . 35 COLLECTED SHORT STORIES OF LOUIS L’AMOUR, VOLUME 4, PART 1, THE . . . . . . . . 42 COLLECTED SHORT STORIES OF LOUIS L’AMOUR, VOLUME 4, PART 2, THE . . . . . . . 42 COLLECTED SHORT STORIES OF LOUIS L’AMOUR, VOLUME 5, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 COLLEGES THAT CREATE FUTURES . . . . . . 53, 55 COLLEGES THAT PAY YOU BACK . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Collins, Billy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 COMEDY & A TRAGEDY, A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 COMPLETE BOOK OF COLLEGES, 2016 EDITION, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 COMPLETE POETRY, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 CONSTELLATION OF VITAL PHENOMENA, A . 43 Cooney, Kara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Cooper, Brenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 COVENANT’S END . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 CRACKING THE ACT® PREMIUM EDITION WITH 8 PRACTICE TESTS AND DVD, 2016 . . . . . 53, 54 CRACKING THE ACT ® WITH 6 PRACTICE TESTS, 2016 EDITION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 CRACKING THE AP® Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54, 55 CRACKING THE NEW SAT® PREMIUM EDITION WITH 6 PRACTICE TESTS, 2016 . . . 55 CRASH COURSE FOR THE ACT ®, 5th EDITION 54 Crichton, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Croke, Vicki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Cron, Lisa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Culley, Travis Hugh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Damour, Lisa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Daniels, Patricia S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Daoud, Kamel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Davis, Graeme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 DEAD WAKE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 DEAR MARCUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 DEAR MISTER ESSAY WRITER GUY . . . . . . . . . . 47 DEATH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 DEATHS OF TAO, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Del Rio, Tania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 DEVOTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Di Justo, Patrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Diamond, Jared . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 DIARY OF A GIRL NEXT DOOR: BETTY . . . . . . . 36 Dickman, Kyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Diffenbaugh, Vanessa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 DODGERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Doescher, Ian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 DRESSMAKER’S WAR, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Duhigg, Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 DuVal, Kathleen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Dweck, Carol S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 EARTH 2: WORLD’S END VOL. 1 (THE NEW 52) 46 EDGE OF DARK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 ELEPHANT COMPANY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 ENGLISH AND READING WORKOUT FOR THE ACT ®, 3rd EDITION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 ENRIQUE’S JOURNEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Erickson, Megan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Essinger, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 EXTREME MEAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 FAITH ED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 FANGIRL’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, THE . . . . . 39 Farquhar, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Fink, Sheri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50 FRESH OFF THE BOAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Froley, Margaux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ: THE LAST INTERVIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Gagnon, Michelle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Gaiman, Neil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 GAP OF TIME, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Gelissen, Rena Kornreich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Gibney, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Gilkerson, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Gillibrand, Kirsten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 GIRL AT WAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Goldberg, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 GOLDEN SON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 GOOD PROSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 GRIT TO GREAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Hale, Constance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 HANDBOOK FOR AMERICANS, THE . . . . . . . . . . 51 HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 HEADSTRONG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Heinrichs, Jay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Hendrix, Grady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 HERO COMPLEX: A KEATON SCHOOL NOVEL 42 HIDER, SEEKER, SECRET KEEPER . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Higgins, C.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Hillenbrand, Laura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Hobert, Carl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 HOLDING FAST TO DREAMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 HOLLOW CITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 HORRORSTOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 HOW TO TEACH YOUR CHILDREN SHAKESPEARE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 HOW WE LEARN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Hrabowski, Freeman A., III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 Huang, Eddie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Huang, Quanyu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 HUNT FOR VULCAN, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 HYBRID TIGER, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS . . . . . . . 45 IF I FALL, IF I DIE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 IF THE U FITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 IN MY HANDS: MEMORIES OF A HOLOCAUST RESCUER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 INDEPENDENCE LOST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, AN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 IT WAS THE BEST OF SENTENCES, IT WAS THE WORST OF SENTENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Jaher, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 JAMES A. MICHENER’S WRITER’S HANDBOOK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 JAMES BALDWIN: THE LAST INTERVIEW . . . . 38 Jensen, Danielle L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 JOB U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Johnson, Bret Anthony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 JURASSIC PARK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 JUST MERCY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Kertzer, David I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 KEVIN KELLER: DRIVE ME CRAZY . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Kidder, Tracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Kiem, Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Kim, Suki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 KINDRED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 King, Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 King, Martin Luther, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Kurson, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 LIVES OF TAO, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 LOST IN TRANSLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Lucas, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Ludwig, Ken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 MACBETH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 MacMillan, Margaret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Maggs, Sam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 MAISIE DOBBS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Makos, Adam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 MAN WHO PLANTED TREES, THE . . . . . . . . . . . 52 MAPMAKER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Markova, Dawna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Marmell, Ari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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LAUREN REDNISS illustrates the history of weather (pg. 10)

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CAROL S. DWECK on the power of mindset (pg. 32)

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