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It's beginning to look a lot like zombies! : a book of zombie Christmas carols
Michael P. Spradlin ; illustrations by Jeff Weigel.
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xii, 81 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Fresh brains roasting on an open fire . . .Outside the temperature's dropping. The snow is falling, blanketing the world in white. Sleigh bells are jingling. Soon it will be that most wondrous time of the year!That time of flesh-devouring zombie horror!Yes, Christmas is on its way-and all the little boys and ghouls are dreaming of stockings filled with candied eyes and bleeding body parts. You'd better watch out! Santa Claws is coming to town-and he knows who's been naughty, who's been naughtier . . . and who'll taste best with a nice glass of Chianti!In celebration of this merry macabre season, we present a peerless compendium of more than two dozen of the most soul-stirring, brain-boiling carols composed specifically for the decomposing. Holiday favorites such as I Saw Mommy Chewing Santa Claus, Deck the Halls with Parts of Wally, and We Three Spleens are guaranteed to lift the spirits of the lumbering, shuffling undead and their temporarily still breathing meals-to-be. So put down your gore-splattered baseball bats and raise your voices in song! And sing loudly-to drown out all the screaming.
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Just another hero
Sharon M. Draper.
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280 p. ; 22 cm.
As Kofi, Arielle, Dana, November, and Jericho face personal challenges during their last year of high school, a misunderstood student brings a gun to class and demands to be taken seriously.
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Last night I sang to the monster : a novel
Benjamin Alire Saenz.
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239 p. ; 24 cm.
Eighteen-year-old Zach does not remember how he came to be in a treatment center for alcoholics, but through therapy and caring friends, his amnesia fades and he learns to face his past while working toward a better future.
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My name is Jason. Mine too : our story, our way
by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin.
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Two young men named Jason, one black and one white, use poetry and art to communicate their different perspectives.
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Night watch
adapted [for the stage] by Stephen Briggs.
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112 p. ; 20 cm.
A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novels Set in Ankh-Morpork one of the most thoroughly imagined cities in fantasy, Night Watch is the story of Sam Vimes, running hero of the Guards sequence, who finds himself cast back in time to the Ankh-Morpork of his youth. With a psychopath from his own time rising in the vile ranks of the Cable Street Unmentionables complicating things, Vimes has to ensure that history takes its course so that he will have the right future to go back to, and to keep his younger self alive."One of the funniest English authors alive" (Independent)
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Outlaw : the legend of Robin Hood : a graphic novel
written by Tony Lee ; illustrated by Sam Hart ; colored by Artur Fujita.
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
In the depths of the forest, Robin raises an army to challenge the evil Sheriff. Wearing a dark hood for disguise and with his unparalleled gift for the bow, Robin quickly becomes an outlaw, fighting the forces of evil for the good of the poor.
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Raven summer
David Almond.
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198 p. ; 22 cm.
Led to an abandoned baby by a raven, fourteen-year-old Liam seems fated to meet two foster children who have experienced the world's violence in very different ways as he struggles to understand war, family problems, and friends who grow apart.
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The rock and the river
Kekla Magoon.
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290 p. ; 22 cm.
In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.
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Rosie and Skate
Beth Ann Bauman.
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217 p. ; 22 cm.
New Jersey sisters Rosie, aged fifteen, and Skate, aged sixteen, cope differently with their father's alcoholism and incarceration, but manage to stay close to one another as they strive to lead normal lives and find hope for the future.
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Ruined : a novel
Paula Morris.
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309 p. ; 22 cm.
Rebecca Brown is staying with her aunt Claudia in nineteenth century New Orleans, a city of voodoo, ghosts, and hurricanes. While walking in Lafayette Cemetery she is befriended by Lisette, a ghost who helps Rebecca to uncover shocking truths about her life and influences her to right the wrongs of the past.
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The seventh gate : a Death Gate novel
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.
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356 p. ; 18 cm.
Mortally wounded, Haplo finds himself at the mercy of Lord Xar, facing a fate worse than death. Xar plans to resurrect Haplo - bringing him back to life as one of the tormented living dead.
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Signal
Cynthia DeFelice.
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151 p. ; 22 cm.
After moving with his emotionally distant father to the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, twelve-year-old Owen faces a lonely summer until he meets an abused girl who may be a space alien.
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