Grade 9
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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 →
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 →
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 →
Camp So-and-So
Twenty-five campers. Five cabins. One very dangerous summer camp. The letters went out in mid-February. Each letter invited its recipient to spend a week at Camp So-and-So, a lakeside retreat Read More →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Career Quest — Library Bound Hardcover Set
From the Series Career Quest
From engineering to fashion, people have abundant options when choosing a career. But what education do they need to enter certain industries? What jobs are available? And will they be a good Read More →
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 →
Carol Gilligan and the Search for Voice
From the Series Extraordinary Women in Psychology
A biography of the life and work of groundbreaking developmental psychologist Carol Gilligan, intended for high school age readers, part of the APA's Extraordinary Women in Psychology series. Read More →
Carpenter
From the Series Practical Careers for Practical People
For every practical person, there is a perfect practical career, and that perfect job might be working as a carpenter. This book will help young people explore the many different jobs… Read More →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Certain Signals
From the Series The Gift
Rashawn is smart, owns his own car, and has some cred with the "it" crowd. But when it comes to girls, his moves and his pickup lines are a disaster. If only he knew how to read girls. When a Read More →
Change of Heart
From the Series Robyn Hunter Mysteries
Robyn's best friend Billy has been a mess ever since her other best friend Morgan dumped him. To make matters worse, Morgan started dating hockey star Sean Sloane right afterward. Billy is a… Read More →
Changing Moon: Book 1
From the Series Nola's Worlds
In Alta Donna, the weather is great, the sunsets are super, and the stars twinkle brightly. Perfect, right? No! It’s super boring. Nothing real ever happens. Everybody says I spend too much… Read More →
Charming
From the Series Lorimer Real Love
Seventeen-year-old Char loves music, but never considered a singing career until her singing went viral online. Now instead of participating in the Gay Lesbian Alliance, Char devotes herself… Read More →
Chart Topper
From the Series The Opportunity
Beth didn't think that the song she posted on YouTube would be noticed by more than a few classmates at Clinton High. She was wrong. Harmon Holt noticed, and now she's an intern at his… Read More →
Chasing the Storm: Tornadoes, Meteorology, and Weather Watching
Huge, towering clouds build up in the sky—it's a super cell. The Doppler radar indicates that the system is rotating. But is there a funnel? Is it touching the ground? Only a storm chaser can Read More →
Chef
From the Series Practical Careers for Practical People
For every practical person, there is a perfect practical career, and for many young people it could be becoming a chef. This book explores all the many different jobs available in the… Read More →
Che Guevara: You Win or You Die
October 9, 1967. World-renowned revolutionary Che Guevara is dead at the age of thirty-nine. The charismatic Argentinian revolutionary had been leading guerilla fighters in the jungles of… Read More →
Chelm for the Holidays
Celebrating Jewish holidays has never been sillier than in Chelm, the Village of Fools! While the Chelmites try to solve problems—like outsmarting bees to get Rosh Hashanah honey, and keeping Read More →
Chernobyl's Wild Kingdom: Life in the Dead Zone
After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear explosion in Ukraine, scientists believed radiation had created a vast and barren wasteland in which life could never resurface. But the Dead Zone, as the… Read More →