Featured+Books

This page features books we have available in the RMS media center. See something you like? Come in and check it out. Student who wish to make their own book trailers/book talks should see Ms. Quilici. We look forward to seeing you soon!

= Book Trailers =

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= Most Popular Books of 2011-2012 at RMS =




 * = **Most Requested Books** ||= **Most Frequently Checked Out Books** ||
 * = //Matched// by Ally Condie ||= //Guinness Book of World Records 2011// by Guinness ||
 * = //The Forest of Hands and Teet//h by Carrie Ryan ||= //Guinness Book of World Records 2009// by Guinness ||
 * = //All the Lovely Bad Ones// by Mary Downing Hahn ||= //The Test// (Bluford High) by Peggy Kern ||
 * = //Shiver// by Maggie Stiefvater ||= //Among the Betrayed// by Margaret Peterson Haddix ||
 * = //Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days// by Jeff Kinney ||= //Stranger with my Face// by Lois Duncan ||
 * = //Found// by Margaret Peterson Haddix ||= //Guinness Book of World Records 2010// by Guinness ||
 * = //Night// by Elie Wiesel ||= //Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw// by Jeff Kinney ||
 * = //The Maze Runner// by James Dashner ||= //I'm Not Who You Think I Am// by Peg Kehret ||
 * = //Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth// by Jeff Kinney ||= //Shattered// (Bluford High) by Paul Langan ||
 * = //The Red Pyramid// by Rick Riordan ||= //Blood is Thicker// (Bluford High) by Paul Langan ||
 * = //Diary of a Wimpy Kid// by Jeff Kinney ||= //School's Out--Forever// (Maximum Ride) by James Patterson ||

= = = Past Featured Books =

= 2011-2012 Top Picks =

//Tunnels// by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams (2008)
When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers" like Will and his father. **Text Source**: Library of Congress Catalog. **Video Source**: You Tube

//Super Human// by Michael Carroll (2010)
A ragtag group of young superheroes takes on a powerful warrior who is transported from 4,000 years in the past to enslave the modern world. **Text Source**: Library of Congress Catalog. **Video Source**: You Tube

//The Ascension// by Michael Carroll (2011)
Teenagers with superpowers must try to stop a villain who has travelled from the past in order to irreversibly alter reality. **Text Source**: Library of Congress Catalog. **Video Source**: You Tube

//Dark Life// by Kat Falls (2010)
When fifteen-year-old Ty, who has always lived on the ocean floor, joins Topside girl Gemma in the frontier's underworld to seek and stop outlaws who threaten his home, they learn that the government may pose an even greater threat. **Text Source**: Library of Congress Catalog. **Video Source**: You Tube

//Brainjack// by Brian Falkner (2009)
In a near-future New York City, fourteen-year-old computer genius Sam Wilson manages to hack into the AT&T network and sets off a chain of events that have a profound effect on human activity throughout the world. **Text Source**: Library of Congress Catalog. **Video Source**: You Tube

//The Maze Runner// by James Dashner (2009)
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape. **Text Source**: Library of Congress Catalog. **Video Source**: You Tube

//Leviathan// by Scott Westerfeld (2009)
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts. **Text Source**: Library of Congress Catalog. **Video Source**: You Tube

//Crossed// by Ally Condie (2011)
Seventeen-year-old Cassia sacrifices everything and heads to the Outer Provinces in search of Ky, where she is confronted with shocking revelations about Society and the promise of rebellion. Sequel to //Matched//. **Text Source**: [|Library of Congress Catalog]. **Video Source**: [|You Tube]

//Uglies// by Scott Westerfield (2005)
Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all. **Text Source**: [|Library of Congress Catalog]. **Video Source**: [|You Tube]

//Divergent// by Veronica Roth (2011)
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all. **Text Source**: [|Library of Congress Catalog]. **Video Source**: [|You Tube]

//Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark// by Alvin Schwartz (1981)
Welcome to the macabre world of Scary Stories. Inside, you'll find alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and the supernatural, with spine-tingling illustrations by renowned artist Brett Helquist. Stories of ghosts and witches, "jump" stories, scary songs, and modern-day scary stories. **Text Source**: [|Barnes & Noble]. **Video Source**: [|You Tube]

//More Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark// by Alvin Schwartz (1984)
Welcome to the frightening world of Scary Stories, a collection of folklorist Alvin Schwartz's most alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and supernatural events of all time, with spine-tingling illustrations by renowned artist Brett Helquist. This book features more traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, "jump" stories, and scary songs. **Text Source**: [|Barnes & Noble]. **Video Source**: [|You Tube]

//Among the Hidden// by Margaret Peterson Haddix (1998)
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong. **Text Source**: [|Library of Congress Catalog]. **Video Source**: [|You Tube]

//Forever// by Maggie Stiefvater (2011)
A human girl and her werewolf boyfriend must fight for their love as death comes closing in. But who's more human and who's more wolf? **Text Source**: [|Library of Congress Catalog]. **Video Source**: [|You Tube]

//Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever// by Jeff Kinney (2011)
"Greg struggles to stay on Santa's 'nice' list while snowed in with the rest of the Heffley family in the days leading up to Christmas"-- Provided by publisher. **Text Source**: [|Library of Congress Catalog]. **Video Source**: [|You Tube]

=//The Forest of Hands and Teeth// by Carrie Ryan (2009)= Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the Unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead.
 * Text Source**: [|Library of Congress Catalog]. **Video Source**: [|You Tube]

//Savvy //by Ingrid Law (2008)
This story recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident. **Text Source**: [|Library of Congress Catalog] **Video Source**: [|Penguin Group]

//Blood is Thicker //(Bluford High Series) by Paul Langan, D. M. Blackwell (2004)
Hakeem Randall can't take it anymore. First he learns that his father is sick and that his parents can no longer afford their home. Then he finds out he has to leave his friends at Bluford High and move in with his uncle in faraway Detroit--where he has to share a bedroom with his moody, secretive cousin Savon. Once childhood friends, he and Savon have since grown apart--and they're headed for a confrontation that promises to change their lives forever. **Text Source**: [|B&N.com (Barnes & Noble)] **Video Source**: [|Scholastic Video]

//Septimus Heap //Series by Angie Sage
There are currently six books in the //Septimus Heap// series by Angie Sage. Click [|here] for a summary of each book. The first four books are featured in the trailer. **BOOK 1:** //Magyk, //**BOOK 2:** //Flyte, //**BOOK 3:** //Physik,// **BOOK 4:** //Queste,// **BOOK 5:** //Syren,// **BOOK 6:** //Darke,// **BOOK 7:** //Coming Soon!// **Text Source:** [|Manuscriptorium] **Video Source**: [|YouTube]

//Artemis Foul //Series by Eoin Colfer
There are currently seven books in the //Artemis Fowl// series by Eoin Colfer. Click <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|here] for a summary of each book. **BOOK 1:** //Artemis Fowl,// <span class="wiki_link_ext">**BOOK 2:** //Artemis Fowl// //: <span class="wiki_link_ext">The Arctic Incident, //<span class="wiki_link_ext">**BOOK 3:** //Artemis Fowl// //: <span class="wiki_link_ext">The Eternity Code, //<span class="wiki_link_ext">**BOOK 4:** //Artemis Fowl// //: <span class="wiki_link_ext">The Opal Deception, //<span class="wiki_link_ext">**BOOK 5:** //Artemis Fowl// //: <span class="wiki_link_ext">The Lost Colony, //**BOOK 6:** //<span class="wiki_link_ext">Artemis Fowl : <span class="wiki_link_ext">The Time Paradox, //**BOOK 7:** //<span class="wiki_link_ext">Artemis Fowl : <span class="wiki_link_ext">The Atlantis Complex. //**Text Source**: <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|Artemis Fowl] **Video Source**: <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|YouTube]

//Linger// by Maggie Stiefvater (2010)
As Grace hides the vast depth of her love for Sam from her parents and Sam struggles to release his werewolf past and claim a human future, a new wolf named Cole wins Isabel's heart but his own past threatens to destroy the whole pack. **Text Source**: [|Library of Congress Catalog] **Video Source**: [|YouTube]

//<span class="wiki_link_ext">Maximum Ride //<span class="wiki_link_ext">Series by James Patterson
There are currently seven books in the //Maximum Ride// series by James Patterson. Click [|here] for a summary of each book. <span class="wiki_link_ext">**BOOK 1:** //The Angel Experiment,// **BOOK 2:** //School's Out-Forever,// **BOOK 3:** //Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports,// **BOOK 4:** //The Final Warning,// **BOOK 5:** //Max,// **BOOK 6:** //Fang,// **BOOK 7:** //Angel.// **T****ext Source:** [|James Patterson website]**Video Source**: <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|YouTube]

//<span class="wiki_link_ext">Found // by Margaret Peterson Haddix (2008)
When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time. **Text Source**: [|Library of Congress Catalog] **Video Source**: [|www.bookscreening.com]

//<span class="wiki_link_ext">When You Reach Me // by Rebecca Stead (2009)
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1970s 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. **Text Source**: [|Library of Congress Catalog] **Video Source**: Zana Moore, Media Specialist, [|Cascade Ridge Elementary Library]

//<span class="wiki_link_ext">Percy Jackson and the Olympians // by Rick Riordan (Book Series Trailer)
A preview of all five books in the //Percy Jackson// series rolled into one book trailer. Features //The Lightning Thief,// Sea of Monsters, //Titan's Curse,// //Battle of the Labyrinth//, and //The Last Olympian//. **Source**: [|Vodpod]

**//<span class="wiki_link_ext">The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg //** by Rodman Philbrick (2009)
Twelve-year-old Homer, a poor but clever orphan, has extraordinary adventures after running away from his evil uncle to rescue his brother, who has been sold into military service in the Civil War. **Text Source**: [|Library of Congress Catalog] **Video Source**: [|Scholastic Teachers Video Booktalks]

**//<span class="wiki_link_ext">Millicent Min, Girl Genius //** by Lisa Yee (2003)
In a series of journal entries, eleven-year-old child prodigy, Millicent Min, records her struggles to learn to play volleyball, tutor her enemy, deal with her grandmother's departure, and make friends over the course of a tumultuous summer. **Text Source**: [|Library of Congress Catalog] **Video Source**: [|Scholastic Teachers Video Booktalks]

//All the Lovely Bad Ones// by Mary Downing Hahn (2008)
While spending the summer at their grandmother’s Vermont inn, two prankster siblings awaken young ghosts from the inn’s distant past who refuse to "rest in peace." **Text Source**: [|Library of Congress Catalog] **Video Source:** [|Teacher Tube]

//Matched// by Ally Condie (2010)
All her life, Cassia has never had a choice. The Society dictates everything: when and how to play, where to work, where to live, what to eat and wear, when to die, and most importantly to Cassia as she turns 17, whom to marry. When she is Matched with her best friend Xander, things couldn’t be more perfect. But why did her neighbor Ky’s face show up on her match disk as well?
 * Text Source**: [|Library of Congress Catalog] **Video Source:** [|Teacher Tube]

//Shiver// by Maggie Stiefvater (2009)
In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity. **Text Source**: [|Library of Congress Catalog] **Video Source:** [|School Tube]

Maggie Stiefvater also made her own stop-motion book trailer for //Shiver//, the book she wrote about a girl who loves a boy who must become a wolf each winter. The trailer was created with hundreds of paper cut-outs and multiple photographic frames shot per second. Music composed & performed by Maggie Stiefvater and Kate Hummel**.** Check it out!
 * Video Source:** [|YouTube]

//The Red Pyramid// by Rick Riordan (2010)
Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey, bringing them closer to the truth about their family and its links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharoahs.
 * Text Source**: [|Library of Congress Catalog] **Video Source:** [|YouTube]

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