GOLDEN SOWER 2007-08 

THE PERFECT SHOT by Elaine Marie Alphin –  Brian uses basketball to block out memories of his girlfriend and her family, who were gunned down a year ago, bur\t the upcoming murder trial and high school history assignment force him to face the past and decide how far he should go to see justice served.

CODE TALKER by Joseph Bruchac – After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become code talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native language.

FLUSH by Carl Hiaasen – With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters aground their Florida Keys home.

THE LIGHTNING THIEF by Rick Riordan – After learning that his is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.

CODE ORANGE by Caroline B. Cooney – While conducting research for a high school biology report, a teenage boy unwittingly puts himself and other in danger.

THE SCHWA WAS HERE by Neal Shusterman – A Brooklyn eight-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an “invisible-ish” boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone.

DRUMS, GIRLS, AND DANGEROUS PIE by Jordan Sonnenblick – When his younger brother is diagnosed with leukemia, thirteen-year-old Steven tries to deal with his complicated emotions, his school life, and his desire to support his family.

UGLIES by Scott Westerfeld – Tally is faced with a difficult choice when her new friend Shay decides to risk life on the outside rather than submit to the forced operation that turns sixteen-year-old girls into gorgeous beauties, and realizes that there is a whole new side to the pretty world that she doesn’t like.

BLACK STORM COMIN’ by Diane Lee Wilson – Colton, son of a black mother and a white father, takes a job with the Pony Express in 1860 after his father abandons the family on the California-bound wagon train, and risks his life to deliver an important letter that my affect the growing conflict between the North and South.

SURVIVING ANTARCTICA:  REALITY TV 2083 by Andrea White – In the year 2083, five fourteen-year-olds who were deprived by chance of the opportunity to continue their education reenact Scott’s 1910-1913 expedition to the South Pole as contestants on a reality television show, secretly aided by a Department of Entertainment employee.