Friday, September 24, 2010

Good Books for the Month of October!

"The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore"
By: Joan Lowery Nixon
Winner EDGAR AWARD Best Young Adult Mystery

Back Cover- Kidnapping victim?
Or criminal mastermind?
Christina spots the masked man in the dark, lonely parking lot-but too late. She's grabbed, drugged, and whisked off to a dingy basement, where she struggles to stay alive.
When her family pays the kidnappers' ransom, Christina thinks her ordeal is over.... but then discovers that her family thinks she orchestrated her own kidnapping! Christina is desperate. How far will she go to prove her innocence?

"Exciting and fast-paced"- Publishers weekly

"Readers are kept in suspense right up to the final pages."- School Library Journal



"CRANK"

By: Ellen Hopkins
The New York Times bestseller

Back Cover- Kristina is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. Then she meets the monster: crank. An what begins as a wild ride turns into a struggle for her mind, her soul- her life.




"Night"
By: Elie Wiesel
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

Back Cover- Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man.....

"A slim volume of terrifying power."- The New York Times

"Wiesel has taken his own anguish and imaginatively metamorphosed it into art"- Curt Leviant, Saturday Review

"As human document, Night is almost unbearably painful, and certainly beyond criticism."- A. Alvarez, Commentary