Featured Books
Books for 2009-2010
Fiction
A Classic
Sounder by William H. Armstrong
Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and with the help of the devoted dog Sounder.
An EMS Favorite
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
Something New
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
Nonfiction
A Classic
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
A collection of humorous poems and drawings.
An EMS Favorite
A Child Called It: An Abused Child’s Journey from Victim to Victor by David Pelzer
A autobiographical story of how one child survived through the abuse given by his mother.
Something New
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland by Sally M. Walker
Walker takes readers on an archaeological investigation of human and material remains from 17th- and 18th-century Jamestown and colonial Maryland, while addressing relevant topics in forensic anthropology, history, and archaeology.
