December’s Featured Titles
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North. It’s the first book in the series His Dark Materials.
Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school’s rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her. The story continues with The Off Season.
The Boy who Couldn’t Die by William Sleator
When his best friend dies in a plane crash, sixteen-year-old Ken has a ritual performed that will make him invulnerable, but soon learns that he had good reason to be suspicious of the woman he paid to lock his soul away.
Hush by Jacqueline Woodson
Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the witness protection program.
It Came from Outer Space by Marjolijn Bijlefeld and Robert Burke
Describes hundreds of everyday devices and products that were either invented or improved with technology first developed for the space program.
