Cambridge High School Library 2024

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By: Cat Clarke Location: FIC CLA Genre: Contemporary Youth Fiction. Missing Family. LBGT Madeline McCann- its a name and a story we all know, the young girl taken from her family in Spain while they were on holiday. I cant help but think this book is inspired  by that story through the eyes of Madeleine siblings. What is THEIR story in this story. I also wonder why the author chose the protagonist to be called "Faith" - faith means to hope, to know that what is not possible can come to reality- like your sister returning! LOST.  When six-year-old Laurel Logan was abducted, the only witness was her younger sister. Faith’s childhood was dominated by Laurel’s disappearance – from her parents’ broken marriage and the constant media attention to dealing with so-called friends who only ever wanted to talk about her sister.  FOUND. Thirteen years later, a young woman is found in the garden of the Logans’ old house, disorientated and clutching the teddy b...

By:Ian Harrison Genre: Real weird stuff that happens here on Earth Location: NF 030.2HAR - Lying all over the place in the library- it is one of THOSE books!!! A guide to Earth, this title is packed with everything you ever needed to know about our planet and the people who live in it - and a lot you probably don't. Its Weird Its Strange Its  Bizarre Its True... And it all happens here on planet Earth! This book tells you the secrets of humans and their planet... How could the world end tomorrow, where could I get a decent Salami from? What is a perfect body, how do I fight a duel? How can I use a maggot, and what is the best time to escape from a sinking car? What things can be done with a spoon  and what is my body worth? How can I walk on water and how can I save the world? How do you say "I love you" in 100 different languages? Yes you want to know all this stuff don't you?   There are 352 chapters of facts, weirdness, knowledg...

By: Chelsea Cain Location: FIC CAI Genre: Mystrey- Thriller- Tough Topics! Series:  Kick Lannigan #1 Some books you wonder if you should have in the library and if you should expose to our students. Writing about child pornography and its impacts is a brave thing for a YF market. But perhaps exposing it for what it is has more power than silencing the beast that it is! Kick Lannigan is one kick-ass heroine! . Abducted at 6y old and used to make child pornography movies which still circulate on the internet, she was eventually rescued in a police raid six years later. Now at 21, she still suffers from the effects of her time in captivity. Her parents put her into all sorts of therapy but the only thing that worked for her was learning self defence, martial arts and how to shoot a gun with deadly accuracy. Now she lives alone with her old childhood dog, near her best friend James, another person damaged as a child. Into Kick's life explodes Bishop, a man with a mission, ex-co...

By: Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer Location: FIC PIC Genre: a FICPIC - Fairy Story retold THIS BOOK IS YUMMY!!!  It has different colored print for each characters chapters POV- there are three of them.. It has luscious illustrations  by Yvonne Gilbert   - they are traditional beauties. In fact is has  twelve full-color illustrations, and black-and-white decorations throughout. It is a stand alone story- which is refreshing but if you have read Between The Lines first- that is a good thing!!Escapism at its most fairytale-ish best!  This story is a beautiful "fairy-tale" about how your prince can get out of your favourite book and live your happily ever after in a real world. Of course, nothing is as easy as it seems.  Sixteen-year-old Delilah is finally united with Oliver—a prince literally taken from the pages of a fairy tale. There are, however, complications now that Oliver has been able to enter the real world. To exist in Delilah’s ...

By: Lincoln Peirce Location: FIC PEI Genre: Comics, humour, fun . “Give a boy - ANY boy - enough time, and he WILL eventually pick his nose!”  ―  Lincoln Peirce I just bought this whole series of books- as bit of a request from a couple of our  classes, but hopefully a bit of fun for everyone! Nate knows he's meant for big things. REALLY big things. But life doesn't always go your way just because you're awesome. Trouble always seems to find him, but Nate keeps his cool no matter what. He knows he's great. A fortune cookie told him so. For fans of the hilarious Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: Here comes BIG NATE, accidental mischief maker and definitely NOT the teacher's pet

By David Arnold Location: Still in the mail but on its way Genre: Road trip, mental health, contemporary . " And as simple as it sounds, I think understanding who you are--and who your are  not --is the the most important thing of all Important Things. " After the sudden collapse of her family, Mim Malone is dragged from her home in northern Ohio to the "wastelands" of Mississippi, where she lives in a medicated milieu with her dad and new stepmom. Before the dust has a chance to settle, she learns her mother is sick back in Cleveland. So she ditches her new life and hops aboard a northbound Greyhound bus to her real home and her real mother, meeting a quirky cast of fellow travelers along the way. But when her thousand-mile journey takes a few turns she could never see coming, Mim must confront her own demons, redefining her notions of love, loyalty, and what it means to be sane. Told in an unforgettable, kaleidoscopic voice, "Mosquitoland" is a m...

By: Sophie Kinsella Location: FIC KIN Genre: Chic Lit. Mental Health “Most people underestimate eyes. They're infinite. You look someone straight in the eye and your whole soul can be sucked out in a nanosecond. Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me.”  ―  Sophie Kinsella ,  Finding Audrey School bullying- why oh why do we have to tear each other apart because we are different, or because we have a set of views, or because we have a mental health issues. What makes one human thrive on the hope of destroying anothers soul? Why do we bash someone down to enhance ourselves? It really is so dumb because she who destroys- gets destroys, he who bashes- becomes smaller. It is so counter productive and so destructive. Bullying harms everyone!   It is no wonder that some of us crawl into a self preservation cave and refuse to stick our head out- that way we can at leas...

By: Carolyn Menteith Photos by: Andrew Perris Genre: Dogs:) Location  NF 636.7 MEN This book is a stunner, and it has made many people in this library laugh- a lot. It looks at 40 breeds of dogs and gives a precise on each one. This includes the temperament of each breed of  pooch. What made us laugh- matching the doggie with the student or teacher. Shih Tzu is a happy friendly dog that is extrovert and loves life and is equally at home tramping across the countryside as it is cuddling up as a lapdog- just like Chloe! Pomeranian - small in size, big in personality with endearing looks and a docile temperament- just like Megan! Kings Charles Spaniel - friendly, happy, intelligent, trainable and affectionate and does well in obedience classes- hmm  Gabby! Foxhound - escape artists who hate training-  pack hounds- to all the waggers in the library- this is you! Chihuahua- self-important guardians which uses its tiny but surprisingly accurate sharp teeth- th...

By: Megan Shepherd Location: FIC SHE Genre: Sci Fi Contemporary , D ystopia , D ystoromance , F antasy , Multiple  POV- is this enough genres for you! Cool Cover!!! The Maze Runner  meets Scott Westerfeld in this gripping new series about teens held captive in a human zoo by an otherworldly race. What would you do if you woke up as an exhibit in a zoo? Well that's pretty much what happens to Cora Mason and 4 other teenagers that inhabit  The Cage . Cora Mason wakes up in a desert not knowing how she got there. She quickly discovers she is not alone. With her are four other teenagers: Lucky, Rolf, Nok and Leon. Together they try to piece together the mystery of what happened to them. To their surprise an alien, called the Caretaker (aka Cassian), appears and explains they have been “rescued” from Earth and placed in an artificial habitat for their safety. They are given 3 rules they must follow in order to survive. The habitat is really a cage and as days go...

By; Brian Katcher Location: FIC KAT Genre: Contemporary YA- Romance   SciFi Geek meets  School Goody Over Achiever, he likes her, she doesn't like him until ......... The Improbable Theory of Ana and Zak  is one of those laugh out loud, quirky contemporaries with fantastic underlying messages that every contemporary junkie needs to read!  I t’s a romantic comedy that is told in dual POV by two seemingly totally different people over the course of one day, set at a sci-fi themed convention (think Armageddon  or any other geeky festivals) When Zak is caught cheating on a paper he is roped into attending quiz bowl semi-finals headed by the perfectionist Ana Watson. By attending quiz bowl he is missing comic-con, something he has been invested in since he was ten. Zak can stop talking about comic-con and it drives Clayton, Ana's little brother, to sneak out of the hotel and catch a cab. Ana, with her strict parents, needs to find him be...

By: The Blogger Location: Library office Genre: Be the change you want to see I just got back from India, disappointed that the books recently published were pretty up to date with what we have here now. I wonder why  John Green is so published over there? I mean what has Paper Towns, or Finding Alaska got to do with a teenager from Dehradun whose life is scripted for him or her. Yet there they are- perhaps as an ultimate form of escapism or the hope of a dream never to be realised. It was awesome being able to take 9 Kiwi teachers to help and support education in India and a real buzz listening to kids read books we took from New Zealand in English- these kids now do have a hope and a future and perhaps even dreams that may be possible because they are educated in schools that believe in them and dream for them. I got the flu so I did not visit the bookshop of insanity- but my daughter did and here is the evidence. So now I am back at work but I will not forget th...

By: Jenifer Richard Jacobson Location: FIC JAC Genre: Homelessness - tough stuff to deal with in life! First there was Paper Towns , then there was Paper Planes and now there is Paper Things !! When forced to choose between staying with her guardian and being with her big brother, Ari chose her big brother. There’s just one problem—Gage doesn’t actually have a place to live. "Twenty-six cents won't get you much, but a library card will. A library card can let you borrow books, an MP3 player, and movies, or download materials on a computer but you need to have an address to get a library card, and homeless people don't have addresses." I have seen homelessness- it is heart breaking. Walking past men, woman and children who have hopes and dreams just like I do- but they sleep on a cold pavement sheltered by the rain by a meagre overhang, while I sleep in my soft memory foam bed heated by an electric blanket. Homelessness = disempowerment. Homelessness = a d...