Maggie Knapp
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The Secrets of Lily Graves
Gr 9 Up—Lily Graves is aptly named, living as she does in her mother's funeral parlor and working with her Aunt Boo to prepare bodies for burial...
Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement
Gr 9 Up—The tone is set from the opening sequence, as a woman in a wheelchair in scuba diving gear navigates gently through an underwater reef, her hair and the air bubbles trailing hypnotically upward...
Living for 32
Gr 9 Up—The "32" referenced in the title are those who were killed by a gunman at Virginia Tech in 2007, and the documentary focuses on Colin Goddard, a sincere and well-spoken young man who was shot there four times...
Bat City USA
Gr 7 Up—When millions of Mexican free-tail bats colonized the underside of a bridge in Austin, Texas, in the early 1980s, the initial reaction from residents was to evict the "invaders" by using everything from loud noise to cyanide gas...
Sea Hearts
Gr 9 Up—From her first crawling moments, Misskaella Prout is drawn to the seals that lurch ashore on the wave-dashed coast of Rollrock Island...
The Glass Casket
Gr 8 Up—Rowan and Tom are best friends, having grown up together in the village of Nag's End...
Erased
Gr 9 Up—After the shootout at the end of Altered (Little Brown, 2013) and an emotional visit to her parents' gravesite, Anna and "the boys" are keeping a low profile...
Hot Coffee: Is Justice Being Served?
Gr 9 Up—The case of the lady burned by McDonald's coffee is often held up as a textbook example of a frivolous lawsuit...
Allegiant
Gr 9 Up—Tris and Tobias and their friends and enemies continue their Chicago-area adventures, 200 years in the future, in Roth's trilogy closer (HarperCollins, 2013)...
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