Gift Book Titles for the Terman Library

 

Fiction

The Castle Corona by Sharon Creech

The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan

Edgar Allan Poe: Stories for Young People

Fire from the Rock by Sharon M. Draper

Football Genius by Tim Green

The Hound of Rowan by Henry H. Neff

Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Meanest Doll in the World by Ann M. Martin

Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf: A Year Told Through Stuff by Jennifer L. Holm

Nightsong: The Legend of Orpheus and Eurydice by Michael Cadnum

Red Glass by Laura  Resau

SchoolÕs Out - Forever by James Patterson

The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer

Shark Girl by Kelly Bingham

Summer Ball by Mike Lupica

The Three Musketeers by Jacques Le Clercq

William ShakespeareÕs The WinterÕs Tale retold by Bruce Coville

Non-Fiction:

AinÕt Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry by Scott Reynolds Nelson

The Arrival by Shaun Tan

The Barefoot Book of Classic Poems compiled and illustrated by Jackie Morris

Beowolf: A HeroÕs Tale Retold by James Rumford

The BrothersÕ War: Civil War Voices in Verse by J. Patrick Lewis

California Wildlife: A Practical Guide by Tom Stienstra

Davy Crockett: The Legend of the Wild Frontier by Richard Bruce Winders

EarthÕs Water Crisis by Rob Bowden

Flappers and the New American Woman: Perceptions of Women from 1918 through the 1920Õs by Catherine Gourley

Frida ÁViva la Vida! Long Live Life! by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand

Genies, Meanies, and Magic Rings: Three Tales from the Arabian Nights retold by Stephen Mitchell

Gibson Girls and Suffragists: Perceptions of Women from 1900 to 1918 by Catherine Gourley

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz

The Kingfisher Atlas of the Medieval World by Simon Adams

Little People and a Lost World: An Anthropological Mystery by Linda Goldenberg Atkinson

Love Songs and Sonnets selected and edited by Peter Washington

The Many Rides of Paul Revere by James Giblin

Maya Angelou: Poetry for Young People by Maya Angelou

Oil by John Farndon

Physical Disabilities: The Ultimate Teen Guide by Denise Thornton

Pocket Babies and Other Amazing Marsupials by Sneed B. Collard III

Presidential Races: The Battle for Power in the United States by Arlene Morris-Lipsman

Rain Forest Destruction by Ewan McLeish

The Real Benedict Arnold by Jim Murphy

Robert F. Kennedy: A Twentieth-Century Life by Marc Aronson

Rosie and Mrs. America: Perceptions of Women in the 1930s and 1940s by Catherine Gourley

Steamboats: The Story of Lakers, Ferries, and Majestic Paddle-Wheelers by Karl Zimmermann

This Is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness by Joyce Sidman

We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin by Larry Dane Brimner

We Are The Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson

Who Was First? Discovering the Americas by Russell Freedman

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Beatles, Beatlemania, and the Music that Changed the World by Bob Spitz