Showing posts with label 9/11. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 9/11. Show all posts

Monday, March 31, 2014

New books to read during those April showers! (Part 3)

DIY Dye: Bright and Funky Temporary Hair Coloring You Do at Home by Loren Lankford
Want an accent streak of fire-engine red? How about forest-green tips? Or maybe you’re daring enough to transform your locks into a rainbow of bright colors? It’s all up to you!
With DIY Dye and some imagination, you can easily personalize your hair with any color and style imaginable. This comprehensive guide offers step-by-step instructions on every aspect of at-home hair coloring including:
• Picking the right dye
• Concocting original hues
• Adding highlights
• Getting an ombre in any color
Whether you’re looking to add color for a day, week, month or longer, DIY Dye shows you how to fashion the look you want using affordable options like coloring kits, chalks, henna, food coloring and even Kool-Aid packets.

No One Else Can Have You by Kathleen Hale
As sixteen-year-old Kippy of Friendship, Wisconsin, reads her best friend Ruth's diary, she is shocked at what she learns and spurred to solve Ruth's murder, certain that the boy who was arrested is innocent.

Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera
Khalid, a Muslim boy from England, is kidnapped during a family trip and imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he is held for two years suffering interrogations, water-boarding, and isolation for reasons unknown to him.

Zero Fade by Chris Terry
Thirteen-year-old Kevin Phifer has a lot to worry about. His uncle Paul is coming out, Tyrell the bully throws lit Black 'n' Milds at him, Demetric at school has the best last-year-fly-gear and Aisha's attention, girls prefer his nerdy friend David, his sister Laura is suddenly ignoring him, Mama is dating, and to top it off ... he's grounded.

Zom-B Baby by Darren Shan
Grateful for the company of The Angels, B nevertheless questions their mission to eradicate the living dead from the face of the earth, and encounters a horror beyond imagining.

Monday, October 1, 2012

New Books: Oct. 2012 (Part 1)

Here are the new books for October!

The Usual Rules by Joyce Maynard
It's a Tuesday morning in Brooklyn - a perfect September day. Wendy is heading to school, eager to make plans with her best friend, worried about how she looks, mad at her mother for not letting her visit her father in California, impatient with her little brother and with the almost too-loving concern of her jazz musician stepfather. She's out the door to catch the bus. An hour later comes the news: A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center - her mother's office building. 

Always Upbeat/All That by Stephanie Perry Moore & Derrick Moore
Urban Teen Fiction Flip Book - showing the point of view from two sides- the cheer squad and the football team. Want a different point of view? Just flip the book!...because every story has two sides. The Lockwood High cheer squad has it all. And the ballers are hot, tough, and on point. But where there's cheer, there's drama…

Ten by Gretchen McNeil
Ten teens head to a house party at a remote island mansion off the Washington coast . . . only for them to picked off by a killer one by one...

Butter by Erin Jade Lange
Unable to control his binge eating, a morbidly obese teenager nicknamed Butter decides to make live webcast of his last meal as he attempts to eat himself to death.

Girl Out Loud by Emily Gale
Fifteen-year-old Kass is trying to resist her manic-depressive father's attempts to make her try out for "The X Factor" while she also deals with her crush on the same older boy her best friend likes, her distant mother's mysterious comings and goings, and her younger brother's criminal activities.