Below is a list of new and current books in the Cyber Center, in categories such as fiction and IT. There are more books in the Cyber Center in addition to the books on this list. Come and have a look for yourself.
Find it in Fiction
- Amandine - Griffin, Adele. 2001
- Her first week at a new school, shy, plain Delia befriends Amandine, not anticipating the dangerous turns their friendship would take.
- Better Than Running at Night - Frank, Hillary. 2002
- Ellie, having endured a lonely high school existence, tries to make a place for herself as a freshmen art student at the New England College of Art & Design.
- Big Mouth & Ugly Girl - Oates, Joyce Carol. 2002
- When 16 year-old Matt is falsely accused of threatening to blow up his high school and his friends turn against him, an unlikely classmate comes to his aid.
- Born Confused - Desai Hidier, Tanuja. 2002
- As Dimple Lala turns seventeen, she realizes that life is about to become more complex as her best friend starts pulling away and her parents try to find a suitable boyfriend for Dimple, despite the fact that she is not interested.
- A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor - Mazer, Harry. 2001
- While fishing with his friends off Honolulu on December 7, 1941, teenaged Adam is cought in the midst of the Japanese attack and through the chaos of the subsequent days tries to find his father, a naval officer who was serving on the U.S.S. Arizona when the bombs fell.
- Breaking Through - Jimenez, Francisco. 2001
- Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education.
- Cat in Glass, and Other Tales of the Unnatural. 2002
- Contains eight stories of the supernatural for young adult readers, including the title work about a woman who is driven to madness by an evil glass sculpture of a cat.
- Coraline - Gaiman, Neil. 2002
- Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
- Dead Man's Gold and Other Stories - Yee, Paul. 2002
- A collection of ten short stories by Paul Yee about Chinese immigrants struggling to make new lives for themselves in North America.
- Doomed Queen Anne - Meyer, Carolyn. 2002
- In 1520, thirteen-year-old Anne Boleyn, jealous of her older sister's beauty and position at court, declares that she will one day be the queen of England, and that her sister will kneel at her feet.
- Dr. Franklin's Island - Halam, Ann. 2002
- When their plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean, three science students are left stranded on a tropical island and then imprisoned by a doctor who is performing horrifying experiments on humans involving the transfer of animal genes.
- Fair Weather: a Novel - Peck, Richard. 2001
- In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe and attend the World's Columbian Exposition which, along with an encounter with Buffalo Bill and Lillian Russell, turns out to be a life-changing experience for everyone.
- Gingerbread - Cohn, Rachel. 2002
- After being expelled from a fancy boarding school, Cyd Charisse's problems with her mother escalate after Cyd falls in love with a sensitive surfer and is subsequently sent from San Fransisco to New York City to spend time with her biological father.
- Goddess of Yesterday - Cooney, Caroline B. 2002
- Anaxandra, daughter of the king of a small Greek island, becomes caught up in the events of the siege of Troy when, after spending most of her life as a hostage, she is taken into the palace of King Menalaus and ends up traveling to Troy as protector of Helen's infant son.
- Hang a Thousand Trees With Ribbons: the Story of Phillis Wheatley - Rinaldi, Ann. 1996
- A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important African-American poet.
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Rowling, J. K. 2003
- Fifteen-year-old wizard Harry Potter struggles with a threatening teacher, problematic house elf, the dread of upcoming final exams, and haunting dreams that hint toward his mysterious past.
- Hoot - Hiaasen, Carl. 2002
- Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
- Island Boyz: Short Stories - Salisbury, Graham. 2002
- Presents ten short stories by award-winning Hawaiian-born young adult author Graham Salisbury.
- Jackie's Wild Seattle - Hobbs, Will. 2003
- Fourteen-year-old Shannon and her little brother, Cody, spend the summer with their uncle, helping at a wildlife rescue center named Jackie's Wild Seattle.
- Letters From a Slave Girl: the Story of Harriet Jacobs - Lyons, Mary E. 1992
- A fictionalized verson the the life of Harriet Jacobs, told in the form of letters that she might have written during her slavery in North Carolina and as she prepared for escape to the North in 1842.
- A Northern Light - Donnelly, Jennifer. 2003
- Sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and boyfriend, takes a job at a hotel in 1906 where the death of a guest renews her determination to live her own life.
- On the Fringe. 2001
- A collection of eleven stories by various authors that explore the experiences of social outsiders in high school.
- Pool Boy - Simmons, Michael. 2003
- When his father is arrested for insider trading and his family loses all thier money, Brett Gerson takes a job as an assistant to a 70-something pool cleaner in his former wealthy California neighborhood and learns some valuable life lessons.
- The Princess Diaries - Cabot, Meg. 2000
- Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.
- Remembrance - Breslin, Theresa. 2002
- The destinies of thow Scottish families, on of shopkeepers and one of wealth and power, become entwined through their involvement in World War I, social causes, and love.
- Shattered: Stories of Children and War. 2002
- Presents twelve short stories about the experiences of young children and teenagers in war, showing a variety of perspectives, and provides factual notes on each conflict dramatized.
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - Brashares, Ann. 2001
- Carmen decides to discard an old pair of jeans, but Tibby, Lena, and Bridget think they are great and decide that whoever the pants fit best will get them. When the jeans fit everyone perfectly, a sisterhood and a memorable summer begin.
- Song of Sampo Lake - Durbin, William. 2002
- In 1990, as a family of Finnish immigrants begins farming on the edge of a Minnesota lake, Matti works as a store clerk, teaches English, and works on the homestead, striving to get out of his older brother's shadow and earn their father's respect.
- Soul Searching: Thirteen Stories About Faith and Belief - 2002
- Thirteen authors present short stories in which adolescent protagonists are forced to examine their faiths. Covers Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and other religions.
- Spellbound - McDonald, Janet. 2001
- Raven, a teenage mother and high school dropout living in a housing project, decides, with the help and sometime interference of her best friend Aisha, to study for a spelling bee which could lead the a college preparatory program and four-year scholarship.
- Surviving the Applewhites - Tolan, Stephanie S. 2002
- Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had.
- Three Clams and An Oyster - Powell, Randy. 2002
- During their humorous search to find a fourth player for their flag football team, three high school juniors are forced to examine their long friendship, their individual flaws, and their inability to try new experiences.
- When My Name Was Keoko - Park, Linda Sue. 2002
- With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely.
- Wild Man Island - Hobbs, Will. 2002
- After fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking group to visit the wilderness site of his archaeologist father's dath, a storm strands him on Admirality Island, Alaska, where he manages to survive, encounters unexpected animal and human inhabitants, and looks for traces of the earliest prehistoric immigrants to America.
- The Year of the Hangman - Blackwood, Gary L. 2002
- In 1777, having been kidnapped and taken forcibly from England to the American colonies, fifteen-year-old Creighton becomes part of developments in the political unrest there that may spell defeat for the patriots and change the course of history.
Compute This...
- Access 2002
- Adobe Photodeluxe 4 for Dummies
- Adobe Photoshop for Dummies
- Beginning Programming for Dummies
- Cisco Networking for Dummies
- Complete Idiot's Guide to Adobe Photoshop 6
- DOS for Dummies
- Dreamweaver: An Introduction
- Dreamweaver 4 and Fireworks 4
- Dynamic HTML
- Easy Adobe Photoshop 6
- Excel for Dummies
- Flash: An Introduction
- HTML for Dummies
- HTML for the World Wide Web
- HTML: the Complete Reference
- Internet: Javascript: An Introduction
- Java 2: the Complete Reference
- Learning Web Design
- Linux: An Introduction
- Managing Web Projects
- MP3 for Dummies
- Network + Certifcation for Dummies
- Network and System Integration for Dummies
- Networking Complete
- Networking with Windows XP
- Office XP for Dummies
- PC's for Dummies
- Powerpoint 2002 for Dummies
- Visual Basic.Net: a Beginner's Guide
- Visual Basic.Net for Dummies
- Windows XP for Dummies
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