Griffin, John Howard, 1920-. Black like me. 35th anniversary ed. /. New York : Signet, [1996].
The author, a white man, recounts his experiences when he darkened his skin and traveled through the South as an African-American man.

Starting with "I" : personal essays by teenagers. 1st ed. New York : Persea Books, c1997.
Essays by teenagers about diverse issues, from racism, violence, and teen parenting to shopping for clothes and listening to music.

International perspectives on education. Bronx, NY : H. W. Wilson, 2007.

Rees, Peter. Liberty : blessing or burden? New York : Children's Press, 2008.
Examines what it means to be free and looks at freedom through history and around the world today.

Bookbinder, Steve. The dictionary of the global economy. New York : Franklin Watts, 2001.
Contains over four hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about concepts and terms related to the global economy, and includes biographical entries, maps, graphs, charts, and photographs.

Griffith, Gail, 1950-. Will's choice : a suicidal teen, a desperate mother, and a chronicle of recovery. New York : Harper, 2006, c2005.
Gail Griffith chronicles her efforts to save her teenage son from the throes of teen depression, sharing how her son's suicide attempt impacted their family and her own feelings of self-worth.

World hunger. Bronx, N.Y. : H.W. Wilson Company, 2007.
The slow and silent killer: what causes famine? -- Starved for attention / Susan Sechler -- Starving season / Samuel Loewenberg -- Africa sinks deeper into despair as famine worsens / Rob Crilly -- From credit to crops / Stijn Claessens and Erik Feijen -- Why democracies don't have famines / Miren Gutierrez -- Freedom is not enough / Joshua Hammer -- Famines in the world today -- Millions in Niger facing food shortages once again / Samuel Loewenberg -- So little to eat / Mike Crawley -- Who caused the Malawi famine / Kwesi Owusu and Francis Ng'ambi -- Letter from Zimbabwe / Gabrielle Menezes -- Glimpses of a hermit nation: trading ideals for sustenance / Barbara Demick -- Relief efforts: aid versus development -- Fighting world hunger / Ryan Swanson -- Food sovereignty: ending world hunger in our time / Frederic Mousseau and Anuradha Mittal -- Starving for the cameras / The Economist -- The problem with predicting famine / Miren Gutierrez -- When food aid doesn't solve Africa's problems / Edgar Batte -- Localized food aid / Alexandra Starr -- Women and children: greatest victims, greatest hope -- Hunger: the silent emergency / Jan Goodwin, Marie Claire -- Malnutrition is cheating its survivors, and Africa's future / Michael Wines -- Hunger stalks Niger / Kirsten Scharnberg -- The face of famine / Anderson Cooper -- Promising solution or risky experiment? The biotechnology debate -- Hunger and the biotech wars / Peter Pringle -- Debate grows over biotech food / Justin Gillis -- Genetic engineering is not the answer / Sean McDonagh -- Feed starving masses, not irrational fears / USA Today -- Food stamps and farm subsidies: hunger in America -- Hungry in America / Trudy Lieberman -- America's hunger epidemic / Anna Quindlen -- Cost of hunger calculated at $90 billion / Cheryl Wetzstein -- No longer hungry, just folks of 'low food security' / Marie Cocco -- Lawmaker cuts budget to $3 a day / Bella English -- Appendix -- United Nations Millennium declaration. September 18, 2000.

Larousse pocket dictionary : Portuguese-English, English-Portuguese. New ed. Paris, France : Larousse ;, c2007.
A Portuguese-English, English-Portuguese dictionary containing fifty-five thousand entries, eighty thousand translations, idiom and grammatical construction examples, a pronunciation guide, and coverage of abbreviations, acronyms, and proper nouns.

The illustrated on the shoulders of giants : the great works of physics and astronomy. Philadelphia : Running Press, c2004.
Presents abridgements of Nicolaus Copernicus's "On the Revolution of Heavenly Spheres," Galileo Galilei's "Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences," Johannes Kepler's "Harmonies of the World," and Sir Isaac Newton's "Principia" and selections from Albert Einstein's "The Principle of Relativity," with introductions and 125 color illustrations.

Aretha, David. On the rocks : teens and alcohol. New York : Franklin Watts, 2007.
Discusses alcohol abuse among adolescents, investigates the scope of the problem, and looks at warning signs and treatment options.

Petersen, Christine. Does everyone have ADHD? : a teen's guide to diagnosis and treatment. New York : Franklin Watts, 2007.
Understanding ADHD -- What is ADHD? -- Diagnosing ADHD -- Causes of ADHD -- Living well with ADHD -- Treatment options -- ADHD and learning -- Healtful habits -- The future can be bright -- Glossary -- To find out more. Explores attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder; discussing what it is, diagnosis, causes, treatments, healthful habits, and other related topics.

Fleming, Christine. Art as science. New York : Children's Press, 2008.
Provides information on how science and art intertwine with ongoing restoration projects, discusses the math used by artists in their work and more.

Sfar, Joann. Vampire loves. 1st American ed. New York : First Second, 2006.
A collection of four graphic comics that follows the strange and romantic adventures of Ferdinand and his friends.

Wormser, Richard, 1933-. To the young filmmaker : conversations with working filmmakers. New York : Franklin Watts, c2002.
Contains profiles of individuals involved in the movie industry, including a writer, producers, directors, an actress, and others, in which they offer insights into the process of filmmaking.

Bloom, Steven F. (Steven Fredric), 1951-. Student companion to Eugene O'Neill. Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2007.
The life of Eugene O'Neill -- Literary heritage -- Anna Christie (1920) -- The emperor Jones (1920) and The hairy ape (1921) -- -- Desire under the elms (1924) -- Ah, wilderness! (1932) -- The iceman cometh (1939) -- Long day'sjourney into night (1941) -- A moon for the misbegotten (1943). Presents a critical analysis of the life and works of American playwright, Eugene O'Neill.

Nilsen, Alleen Pace. Joan Bauer. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.

Jiang, Ji-li. Red scarf girl : a memoir of the Cultural Revolution. Rev. Harper Trophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 2004, c1997.
The author tells about the happy life she led in China up until she was twelve-years-old when her family became a target of the Cultural Revolution, and discusses the choice she had to make between denouncing her father and breaking with her family, or refusing to speak against him and losing her future in the Communist Party.

Landau, Elaine. The Great Depression. New York : Children's Press, 2007.
Describes the 1929 stock market crash and the events and effects of the depression that followed, including the New Deal programs intended to restore the economy.

Strom, Laura Layton. Built below sea level : New Orleans. New York : Children's Press, 2008.
Presents a history of New Orleans, Louisiana, describes the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina on the city in 2005 and the work being done to clean up and takes a look at New Orleans today.

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David Attenborough(narrator). Planet Earth : as you've never seen it before. 2007. BBC/Discovery Channel, 2007.

ELEPHANT : A FILM BY GUS VAN SANT. HBO VIDEO.

Alvarez, Julia. How the García girls lost their accents. New York : Plume, [1992], c1991.
The story of the Garcia families adjustment to life in the United States.

Frank, E. R. Life is funny : a novel. New York : Puffin Books, 2002, c2000.
The lives of a number of young people of different races, economic backgrounds, and family situations living in Brooklyn, New York, become intertwined over a seven year period.

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Among the betrayed. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2003, c2002.
Thirteen-year-old Nina is imprisoned by the Population Police, who give her the option of helping them identify illegal "third-born" children, or facing death.

Kostova, Elizabeth. The historian : a novel. 1st large print ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2005.

Meyer, Stephenie, 1973-. Eclipse. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2007.
Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob and her relationship with Edward, both vampires, but when Seattle is ravaged by a mysterious string of killings, the three of them need to decide whether their personal lives are more important than the well-being of an entire city.

Meyer, Stephenie, 1973-. New moon. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2006.
When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways.

Morrison, Toni. The bluest eye. New York : Plume Book, 1994, c1970.
An eleven-year-old African-American girl in Ohio, in the early 1940s, prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be beautiful.

Patterson, James, 1947-. School's out-- forever. 1st mass market ed. New York : Warner Vision Books, 2007, c2006.
After a short stay with an FBI agent who gives them a chance to attend school and live a normal life, the six genetically-altered, winged youths head toward Florida and Max's ultimate destiny--to save the world, whether she wants to or not.

Poe, Edgar Allan. The raven and other poems and stories. New York : Franklin Watts, 2007.
Dreams -- The lake -- Sonnet, To science -- [Alone] -- Introduction -- To Helen -- Israfel -- The valley of unrest -- The city in the sea -- To one in paradise -- The Coliseum -- The haunted palace -- The conqueror worm -- Dream-land -- Eulalie -- The raven -- ["Deep in Earth"] -- To M.L.S. -- Ulalume, a ballad -- The bells -- To Helen [Whitman] -- A dream within a dream -- For Annie -- Eldorado. A collection of poems and stories by Edgar Allan Poe. Includes a study guide.

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the deathly hallows. 1st ed. New York : A.A. Levine, 2007.
Follows the journey of the series' protagonist Harry Potter as he attempts to bring an end to his archenemy, Lord Voldemort.

Sachar, Louis, 1954-. Holes. New York : Dell Yearling, [2000], c1998.
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

Darren Shan. Cirque Du Freak : A Living Nightmare, The vampire's Assistant, Tunnels of Blood. New York : Little, Brown, and Co, 2007.

Sinclair, April. Coffee will make you black. New York : Avon Books, 1995.

Sparks, Nicholas. The rescue. Warner Books ed. New York : Warner Books, [2001], c2000.
Taylor McAden's devotion to his work as a volunteer fireman has left no room in his life for love, but when he becomes involved in the search for four-year-old Kyle who has disappeared following an automobile accident in which his mom, Denise, was injured, Taylor develops feelings for Denise that he cannot deny.

Sparks, Nicholas. Three weeks with my brother. 1st trade ed. New York : Warner Books, 2006, c2004.
Novelist Nicholas Sparks provides an account of his adventures traveling around the world with his brother Micah on the trip of a lifetime, and shares the personal story of their childhood and the family tragedies they have endured, and how those experiences have made them closer.

Spinelli, Jerry. Love, Stargirl. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, c2007.
Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.

Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. The annotated hobbit. Rev. and expanded ed. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
An annotated edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" which includes textual notes, a bibliography, and a map of Wilderland.

Connecticut State Register and Manual. Hartford : Secretary of State, 2003.

Peterson's scholarships, grants & prizes, 2007. 11th ed. Australia ; : Thomson/Peterson's, c2006.
Presents details on over four thousand scholarship/grant programs and prize sources for undergraduates, arranged alphabetically by field, providing descriptions, award amounts, eligibility and application requirements, deadlines, and contact information.

Peterson's basic guidance set, 2007. Australia ; : Thomson/Peterson's, c2006.
Peterson's two-year colleges, 2007 -- Peterson's four-year colleges, 2007 -- Peterson's college money handbook -- Peterson's scholarships grants & prizes. Presents a guide to two-year colleges, four-year colleges, and scholarship and financial aid information.