Grade 9

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Fall 2023

Breakthrough: Katalin Karikó and the mRNA Vaccine

An thorough and accessible biography of Dr. Katalin Karikó, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, whose hard work pioneering mRNA research led to the COVID-19 vaccines.… Read More →

  • Dewey: 572.092 [B]
  • Copyright: 2024

Bridge

From the Series The Alternative

José can't keep up. As the only English speaker in a family of undocumented immigrants, he handles everything from taking family members to the doctor to bargaining with the landlord. Plus he Read More →

  • Lexile: 800
  • ATOS: 5.1
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2014

Brontë

Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë—faced with an ailing father and an alcoholic brother—pursue independence through art in this graphic vision of the lives of three legendary writers. Despite Read More →

  • Lexile: 220
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2021

Brooklyn, Burning

When you're sixteen and no one understands who you are, sometimes the only choice left is to run. If you're lucky, you find a place that accepts you, no questions asked. And if you're really… Read More →

  • Lexile: 760
  • ATOS: 4.8
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2011

Buckskin Dresses and Pumpkin Breeches: Colonial Fashions from the 1580s to the 1760s

From the Series Dressing a Nation: The History of U.S. Fashion

What would you have worn if you lived during the Colonial era? It depends on who you were! For example, many Native American women made skirts or dresses out of deerskin, and they completed… Read More →

  • Dewey: 391.00973
  • Copyright: 2012

Budgeting Smarts: How to Set Goals, Save Money, Spend Wisely, and More

From the Series USA TODAY Teen Wise Guides: Time, Money, and Relationships

Budgeting. That sounds like a lot of work! But actually, budgeting is easy. You just need to make sure the money you have coming in is equal to or greater than the money you have going out.… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1040
  • Dewey: 332.024
  • Copyright: 2012

Buildings That Breathe: Greening the World's Cities

Imagine looking out from your 18th floor apartment in the middle of the city and seeing trees right in front of you. In an effort to stem climate change, reduce pollution, combat heat, and… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1090
  • Dewey: 628
  • Copyright: 2023

Bullying: Deal with it before push comes to shove (2nd edition)

From the Series Lorimer Deal With It

Kids deal with bullying in its many forms on a daily basis. This newly revised and reissued edition of Bullying: Deal With It is a popular and proven resource in Lorimer's Deal With It… Read More →

  • Dewey: 300
  • Copyright: 2014

BZRK

From the Series BZRK

Love The Hunger Games? Action-adventure thrillers with a dystopian twist? BZRK (Berserk) by Michael Grant, New York Times best-selling author of the GONE series, ramps up the action and… Read More →

  • Lexile: 740
  • ATOS: 5.1
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2012

BZRK Apocalypse

From the Series BZRK

The Matrix meets Inner Space in this third book in the BZRK trilogy from New York Times best-selling author Michael Grant. The members of BZRK are preparing for their final stand. Noah and… Read More →

  • Lexile: 740
  • ATOS: 5.3
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2014

BZRK Origins

From the Series BZRK

Grey McLure, having turned to science after his wife was diagnosed with lung cancer, realizes it is too late to save her life and the nanotechnology he has created has given birth to a war on Read More →

  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2013

BZRK Reloaded

From the Series BZRK

From best-selling author Michael Grant comes the highly anticipated, terrifying, and mind-bending second book in the BZRK trilogy. The entire BZRK cell—including Noah and Sadie—has been left… Read More →

  • Lexile: 720
  • ATOS: 5.0
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2013

Calico Dresses and Buffalo Robes: American West Fashions from the 1840s to the 1890s

From the Series Dressing a Nation: The History of U.S. Fashion

What would you have worn if you lived in the Old West? It depends on who you were! For example, Native Americans made clothing from rabbit fur, deerskins, buffalo hides, and plant fibers.… Read More →

  • Dewey: 391.00978
  • Copyright: 2012

Calling the Shots

From the Series The Gift

Cherry has everything figured out: she'll live peacefully with her grandma, hang out with her BFF Tanaya, and go to cosmetology school after she graduates. If only Tanaya and her grandma… Read More →

  • Lexile: 580
  • ATOS: 4.0
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2014

Cal Ripken Jr., 2nd Edition

From the Series Sports Heroes and Legends

Cal Ripken Jr. spent much of his childhood surrounded by baseball - his father was a minor league player and coach. By the time Cal was in high school, his skills had attracted the attention… Read More →

  • ATOS: 6.4
  • Dewey: 796.357092
  • Copyright: 2009

Camp So-and-So

The letters went out in mid-February. Each letter invited its recipient to spend a week at Camp So-and-So, a lakeside retreat for girls nestled high in the Starveling Mountains. Each letter Read More →

  • Lexile: 960
  • ATOS: 6.8
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2017

Candide

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

Though he's the illegitimate nephew of a German baron, Candide grows up in a castle under the tutelage of the scholar Pangloss. Pangloss is so enraptured by the Enlightenment—an era of… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1010
  • ATOS: 7.3
  • Dewey: 800
  • Copyright: 2015

Candor

In the model community of Candor, Florida, every teen wants to be like Oscar Banks. The son of the town's founder, Oscar earns straight As and is student-body president. But Oscar has a… Read More →

  • Lexile: 350
  • ATOS: 2.9
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2009

Caravaggio: Painter on the Run

Caravaggio was on a defiant mission to change the art world. Before him, there were pastel-colored idealized visions, polite paintings for a polite society. After him, there were slews of… Read More →

  • Lexile: 780
  • ATOS: 5.4
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2016

Carey Price: How a First Nations Kid Became a Superstar Goaltender

From the Series Lorimer Recordbooks

Twenty years ago, Carey Price was flying hundreds of miles across the country so he could play on the nearest organized hockey team. Today, he is the highest-paid goalie in the NHL. But he's… Read More →

  • Lexile: 890
  • Dewey: 920
  • Copyright: 2019

Castle of Lies

Thelia isn't in line to inherit the crown, but she's been raised to take power however she can. She's been friends with Princess Corene her whole life, and she's scheming to marry Bayled, the Read More →

  • Lexile: 660
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2019

Catch & Release

I should have died quick. But I didn't. I'm a miracle of modern medicine, only the medicine doesn't get much credit, I notice. People say I'm lucky, or I'm blessed, and then they turn away. Read More →

  • Lexile: 690
  • ATOS: 4.4
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2012

Ceiling Stars

From the Series Lorimer SideStreets

Christine and Danelle have been best friends forever, a relationship as seemingly infinite as the glow-in-the-dark stars they have affixed to their bedroom ceilings. Lately, though, the girls Read More →

  • Lexile: 690
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2004

Cell Biology, 2nd Edition

From the Series Great Ideas of Science

What are cells made of? Biologists have been studying cells since the mid-1600s, when Robert Hooke viewed a slice of cork through a microscope and coined the word "cell" to describe the… Read More →

  • Dewey: 571.6
  • Copyright: 2008