2011 Cavalcade Books
Read for Life!
Get lost in the pages of these books! Presenting the 2011 book selection for A Cavalcade of Authors.
Where ever you see this icon, click to watch a photostory synopsis of the book created by our students and Cavalcade Founder & Organizer, Michelle Lane.
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Teenager Ronnie's life is transformed by the murder of a ten-year-old neighbor for whom she babysat, and who helped Ronnie adjust to living at a country inn on the banks of the Santiam River in Hoodoo, Oregon.
Growing up in Renaissance Italy, Flora sees her family's fortunes ebb. Encounters with the artist Botticelli and the guidance of her nurse teach her to look past the material world to the beauty already in her life. Inspired by actual events, Primavera is a dazzling coming of age story set during a time of beauty wealth, ambition, rivalry and brutality. Historical art references to Botticelli and his famous painting, La Primavera, give this book an appeal similar to Girl with a Pearl Earring. |
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Terra, a sensitive, artistic high school senior born with a facial port-wine stain, struggles with issues of inner and outer beauty. With the help of her goth classmate Jacob she sees her real beauty. Girl Overboard by Justina Chen After a snowboarding accident, Syrah Cheng, a billionaire's daughter, must rehabilitate both her knee and her self-esteem while forging relationships with those who accept her for who she is. Nothing But the Truth (and a Few White
Lies) by Justina Chen Half Asian and half white, Patty Ho has never felt completely home in her own skin. When a Chinese fortuneteller foresees a white guy on Patty's horizon, things go from bad to worse in this debut novel. |
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High school junior Violet uses her uncanny ability to sense murderers and their victims to try to stop a serial killer who is terrorizing her town. Although her best friend and would-be boyfriend Jay promises to keep her safe, she becomes a target. |
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On the payroll as an assistant to her coroner father, 17-year-old Cameryn Mahoney uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to catch the killer of a friend while putting herself in terrible danger. Wolf Stalker by Alane Ferguson Twelve-year-old Jack, his younger sister, and the family's teenage foster child Troy go to Yellowstone National Park, where Jack's mother, a wildlife veterinarian, is investigating the report that wolves reintroduced to the park have killed a dog there. Co-authored with Gloria Skurzynki. |
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In 2097, men are a small and controlled minority in a utopian world ruled by women. Fourteen-year-old Kellen must fight to save his father from an outbreak of the virus that killed 97 percent of the male population thirty years earlier.
When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Joe Hamada and his family face growing prejudice. Eventually they are torn away from their home and sent to a relocation camp in California, even as his older brother joins the United States Army to fight in the war.
When his baby sister disappears from the river near their summer home, eighth grader Chris fights the assumption that her sister has drowned. Soon, he uncovers evidence that something entirely different has happened to her. |
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As alien spacecraft fill the sky and zap up any human being who dares to go outside, fifteen-year-old Josh and 12-year-old Megs, living in different cities, describe what could be their last days on Earth. |
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In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship
with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters,
as they dis-cover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.
Through a series of dangerous and violent misadventures, teenage loser Alfred Kropp rescues King Arthur's legendary sword Excalibur from the forces of evil. |
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Schuyler Van Alen, a loner at a prestigious New York City private school, sets out to learn the secrets of the Blue Bloods, an ancient group of vampires. Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys:
True Tales of Love by Melissa De La Cruz This collection of original essays goes beyond the banter to get to the essence of an intimate relationship like no other. In addition to stories of gays and gals bonding over brunch, these essays chronicle love and lust, infatuation and heartbreak, growing up and coming out, and family and children. With genuine warmth, this definitive anthol-ogy proves that more durable than diamonds, straight women and gay men are each other's true best friends. The Au Pairs (series) by Melissa
De La Cruz Three teenage girls from different backgrounds work for a summer in the Hamptons as au pairs for a wealthy family. In spite of many ups and downs, all three end up changing for the better. The Ashleys: There's a New Name in
School by Melissa De La Cruz Lauren Page, having changed her style from discount bargain clothes to couture fashions, decides to infiltrate the most popular group of girls at Miss Gamble's Preparatory School for Girls. The fun begins when Lauren decides to get revenge for how she was treated. |
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In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a 17-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence. The Miles Between by Mary E.
Pearson Seventeen-year-old Destiny keeps a painful childhood
secret to herself until she and three classmates from her exclusive
boarding school take off on an unauthorized road trip in search of
The Room on Lorelei Street by
Mary E. Pearson To escape a miserable existence taking care of her alcoholic mother, 17-year-old Zoe rents a room from an eccentric woman, but her earn-ings as a waitress after school are minimal and she must go to extremes to cover expenses. Scribbler of Dreams by Mary
E. Pearson Despite her family's long feud with the Crutchfields, 17-year-old Kaitlin falls in love with Bram Crutchfield and weaves a tangled web of deception to conceal her identity from him. |
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Chasing Brooklyn by Lisa Schroeder As teenagers Brooklyn and Nico work to help each other recover from the deaths of Brooklyn's boyfriend--Nico's brother Lucca--and their friend Gabe, the two begin to rediscover their passion for life, and a newly blossoming passion for one another.
A verse novel in which 15-year-old Ava, feeling guilty
over the role she believes she played in her boyfriend Jackson's death,
experiences a whole new range of emotions when she realizes he is
back from the dead. Far From You by Lisa Schroeder A novel-in-verse about 16-year-old Ali's reluctant road
trip with her stepmother and new baby sister, and the terror that
ensues after they end up lost in the snow-covered woods. It's Raining Cupcakes by Lisa
Schroeder Twelve-year-old Isabel dreams of seeing the world but has never left Oregon. When her best friend, Sophie, tells her of a baking contest whose winners travel to New York City, she eagerly enters despite concerns about her mother, who is opening a cupcake bakery. Includes recipes. |
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7 Days at the Hot Corner by
Terry Trueman Varsity baseball player Scott Latimer struggles with
his own prejudices and those of others when his best friend reveals
that he is gay. Inside Out by Terry Trueman A sixteen-year-old with schizophrenia is caught up in
the events surrounding an attempted robbery by two other teens who
eventually hold him hostage. Hurricane: A Novel by Terry
Trueman A fictional account of one of the worst storms to hit
the Caribbean--Hurricane Mitch in 1998--told from the perspec-tive
of a thirteen-year-old boy living in a small village in Honduras.
Previously published in the UK under the title Swallowing the sun
... story and characters have been completely revised and rewritten
for this U.S. edition.
Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he believes his father is planning to kill him. |
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