New Books The Angel’s Command Voyage of Slaves Pearls of Lutra Triss Eragon Eldest Technical Foul Word Eater Fugitive How Angel Peterson Got His Name Doing Time Online Full Service Zig Zag Olive’s Ocean The Last Treasure Thin Wood Walls Merlin and the Making of the King Swan Town Uglies Pretties Specials

PLHS Media Center New Materials

Newsletter 11/12/07

Purpose

The purpose of this newsletter is to provide students,

faculty, and community with a list of recently acquired

media center materials. We hope it will be beneficial.

Let’s keep reading!

Pearls of Lutra

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Ben and Ned, a boy and dog gifted with eternal

youth and the ability to communicate with one

another nonverbally, encounter pirates on the high

seas and rescue a kidnapped prince from a band of

gypsy thieves.

The Angel’s Command

Continuing their adventures through space and time, Ben

and his faithful dog, Ned, find themselves in the

Mediterranean region in 1703, befriended by a troupe of

traveling entertainers and relentlessly pursued by ruthless

Barbary slave traders. (This is the third novel in Brian

Jacques’ Castaways Of the Flying Dutchman series.)

Voyage of Slaves

Tansy, a young hedgehog living at Redwall Abbey,

attempts to solve the riddle of the missing pearls while at

the same time the evil marten, Mad Eyes, desires them for

himself.

Triss

Eragon

Eldest

In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage

called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his

life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power,

peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.

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After successfully evading an Urgals ambush, Eragon is adopted into the Ingeitum clan and sent to finish his training so he can further help theVarden in their struggle against the Empire.

Triss, Shogg, and Welfo escape from slavery at Riftgard and are pursued across the sea toward Redwall by Princess Kurdah, Prince Bladd, and a band of freebooters who seek the rumored treasure of Brockhall.

Technical Foul

The Word Eater

Fugitive

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Lerner Chanse, a new student at Cleveland Park

MiddleSchool, finds a worm that magically

makes things disappear, and she hopes it will

help her fit in, or get revenge, at her hated

school.

Jared, a high-scoring member of the Hudson City Middle School basketball team, gets angry when the point guard accuses him of being responsible for their string of losses, but finally realizes they can win only if he becomes a team player.

Jesse infiltrates the group Peace First in order to

track down a man called Ari and bring him into

C2 headquarters.

How Angel Peterson Got His Name

Doing Time Online

Full Service

Author Gary Paulsen relates tales from his youth in

a small town in northwestern Minnesota in the late

1940s and early 1950s, such as skiing behind a

souped-up car and imitating daredevil Evel

Knievel..

After he is involved in a prank that led to an

elderly woman's injury, twelve-year-old Mitchell

must make amends by participating in a police

program in which he chats online with a nursing

home resident.

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In the summer of 1965, teenager Paul Sutton,

a northern Minnesota farm boy, takes a job at

a gas station in town, where his strict

religious upbringing is challenged by new

people and experiences.

The Last Treasure

On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by

the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective

on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with

her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy,

and on her plans to be a writer.

Newbery Medal/Honor 1/12/2004

A high-school junior makes a trip with her aunt and

two cousins, discovering places she did not know

existed and strengths she did not know she had.

Zig Zag

Olive’s Ocean

Thirteen-year-old Ellsworth leaves his father to visit the relatives he has never met and eventually joins forces with Jess, his distant counsin, to uncover family secrets and search for their ancestor's hidden treasure.

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Thin Wood Walls

Merlin and the Making of the King

Swan Town

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Joe Hamada and his family face growing prejudice in their Seattle community after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, and are eventually torn away from their home and sent to a relocation camp in California, even as his older brother joins the U.S. Army to fight in World War II.

A retelling of four Arthurian legends, "The Sword in the Stone," "Excalibur," "The Lady of the Lake," and "The Last Great Battle," which feature Merlin, King Arthur, and other familiar figures.

Restricted by the authorities from practicing Catholicism and forbidden by her parents from seeing a Puritan boy, Susanna, the daughter of William Shakespeare, vents her anger by writing in a journal and composing a play.

Uglies

Pretties

Specials

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Tally is faced with a difficult choice when her new friend Shay decides to risk life on the outside rather than submit to the forced operation that turns sixteen year old girls into gorgeous beauties, and realizes that there is a whole new side to the pretty world that she doesn't like.

Tally's perfect life as a Pretty is disrupted when she receives a letter from herself, written when she was an Ugly, reminding her of the promise she made to take a drug developed to cure the brain lesions that keep the Pretties shallow and happy--and when she takes the pills, she becomes a target of those determined to keep Pretty society carefree.

Tally has been turned into a Special and is offered a chance to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke permanently.