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THIS IS FOR REAL! – NON-FICTION
Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 (Mike Capuzzo) Details the first documented cases in American history of sharks attacking swimmers which occurred along the Atlantic coast of New Jersey in 1916.
Teen Ink: What Matters (Stephanie H. Meyer, ed.) A collection of stories and poems by teenage writers about what's really important to today's teens. In "Locked Up," a young man incarcerated for murder writes about turning his life around.
We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success (Sampson Davis; George Jenkins; Rameck Hunt) “What started out as three boys skipping class turned out to be the most significant experience of our lives,” says George Jenkins, who, together with Sampson Davis and Rameck Hunt, made a teenage pact to leave their impoverished New Jersey neighborhood, attend medical school, and become doctors.
The Everything College Survival Book: From Social Life To Study Skills - All You Need To Fit Right In (Michael S. Malone) What to bring with you, how to manage money, social life, classes, friends.
Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food (Eric Schlosser) From the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation, a more teen-friendly look at the fast food industry’s growth, practices and effect on public health. According to School Library Journal, the author lays out the gruesome details behind the tasty burgers and sandwiches.
10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War (Philip Caputo) A look at the Vietnam War by a prize-winning journalist. Photographs and personal anecdotes of soldiers and civilians bring to life what is perhaps the most unpopular war in American history to date. *** Also read other titles by this author.*****
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (Barbara Ehrenreich) Writer and cultural critic Ehrenreich hides her real identity and attempts to make a life on a salary of just over $300 per week after taxes. She is often forced to work at two jobs, leaving her time and energy for little else than sleeping and working.
Freedom Writers: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them (Freedom Writers/Erin Gruwell) This collective journal brings together the work of a group of students, the Freedom Writers, from an English class at an "at risk" public high school. Compare it to the movie!
Marley and Me: Life and Love With The World’s Worst Dog (John Grogan) The story of a family in the making and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. Is it possible for humans to discover the key to happiness through a bigger-than-life, bad-boy dog? Just ask the Grogans.
Hurricane Katrina: The Storm That Changed America (Time Magazine) An account of the devastation that was Hurricane Katrina, complete with dozens of amazing photographs.
Being Digital (Nicholas Negreponte) The founder of the media lab at MIT makes predictions about the technological future of the world. Wearable computers? The end of the nation state?
PLAY BALL! (AND OTHER SPORTS)
Rash (Pete Hautman) In a future society that has decided it would "rather be safe than free," 16-year-old Bo's anger management problems land him in a tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skills and an artificial intelligence program named Bork.
Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do? (Cynthia Voight) As new ninth-graders eager only to survive high school, Mikey and Margalo must deal creatively with stolen money and cheating on the tennis courts.
How I Fell In Love and Learned to Shoot Free Throws (Jon Ripslinger) Seventeen-year-old Danny Henderson, an indifferent basketball player, has his eye on Angel McPherson, star of the girls' team in their Iowa high school. But Angel is a loner and she’s hiding a secret about her unconventional family.
Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long Distance Swimmer (Lynne Cox) Distance swimmer Lynne Cox describes her emotional and spiritual need to swim and chronicles some of her more memorable swims.
Black and White (Paul Volponi) Two star high school basketball players, one black and one white, experience the justice system differently after committing a crime together and getting caught.
Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board (Bethany Hamilton) Bethany Hamilton shares the story of her lifelong love of surfing, and tells how she was able to recover and return to competition with the help of her family, friends, and faith, after losing her arm in a shark attack at the age of thirteen.
Crackback (John Coy) Miles barely recalls when football was fun after being sidelined by a new coach, constantly criticized by his father, and pressured by his best friend to take performance-enhancing drugs.
Baseball: The Perfect Game: An All-Star Anthology Celebrating The Game’s Greatest Players, Teams, and Moments (Josh Leventhal, ed.) Baseball is the ultimate American game. This anthology brings together the greatest writing and images chronicling the game’s heroes and heroics - from its earliest moments to present day.
Damage (A.M. Jenkins) Seventeen-year-old football hero Austin, trying to understand the inexplicable depression that has drained his interest in life, thinks that he has found relief in a girl who seems very special.
In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle (Madeline Blais) Chronicles one basketball season of a girls' high school team in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Wrestling Sturbridge (Rich Wallace) Stuck in a small town where no one ever leaves and relegated by his wrestling coach to sit on the bench while his best friend becomes state champion, Ben decides he can't let his last high school wrestling season slip by without challenging his friend and the future.
Offsides (Erik Esckilsen) Tom Gray, a Mohawk Indian and star soccer player, moves to a new high school and refuses to play for the Warriors with their insulting mascot.
Beckham: Both Feet on The Ground: An Autobiography (David Beckham) British soccer legend David Beckham on his life as an internationally famous soccer star. He talks candidly about the perils of life as a superstar and the difficulties juggling his family life and travel.
Roberto Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero (Jeff Manariss) A great sports biography about one of the most charitable figures in sports history.
Also try books by these authors: Chris Crutcher, Carl Deuker, Thomas Dygard, Robert Lipsyte, John Feinstein.
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