Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
by John Elder Robison

Look Me in the Eye is the moving, darkly funny story of growing up with Aspergers at a time when the diagnosis simply didn't exist. A born storyteller, Robison takes readers inside the head of a boy who teachers and other adults regarded as defective. Its a strange, sly, indelible account; sometimes alien yet always deeply human. Read More... | Request a copy »

Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds
by Olivia Gentile

A frustrated housewife sets out to see more bird species than anyone in history--and ends up risking her life in the wildest places on earth--in this powerful portrait of Phoebe Snetsinger, who found refuge from society's expectations in a dangerous and soul-stirring obsession. Read More... | Request a copy »

Life as We Knew It
by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Susan Beth Pfeffer opens this gripping novel with a teenager's everyday concerns: homework, tests and who's going out with whom, and darn if a lunar disaster doesn't ruin everything. Life gets gray and dingy, and even the snow isn't quite white. As time goes on, families must decide which family member must eat more and stay strong so someone will be able take care of the others as they weaken. Read More... | Request a copy »

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
by Phillip M. Hoose

In March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks triggered the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., by refusing to surrender her seat to a white passenger, a 15-year-old Montgomery girl, Claudette Colvin, let herself be arrested and dragged off the bus for the same reason. Read More... | Request a copy »

Howards End
by E. M. Forster

The disregard of a dying woman's bequest, a girl's attempt to help an impoverished clerk, and the marriage of an idealist and a materialist -- all intersect at an estate called Howards End. The fate of this country home symbolizes the future of England in an exploration of social, economic, and philosophical trends during the post-Victorian era. Read More... | Request a copy »

Zeitoun
by Dave Eggers

When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four, chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. In the days after the storm, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. Read More... | Request a copy »

Locked in Time
by Lois Duncan

It doesn't occur to Nore to take the dream-warning seriously. Her new stepmother and stepbrother seem nice. But why does Nore feel so uneasy around them? Read More... | Request a copy »

The Teahouse Fire
by Ellis Avery

The story of two women whose lives intersect in late 19th-century Japan, The Teahouse Fire is also a portrait of one of the most fascinating places and times in all of history--Japan as it opens its doors to the West. Read More... | Request a copy »