The Night My Sister Went Missing by Carol Plum-Ucci- A tiny pistol, passed from friend to friend at a party on an abandoned pier, suddenly fires, and Casey Carmody falls into the water below. Kurt, Casey's older brother, endures a seemingly endless night at the police station while the coast guard searches for his sister and his friends are questioned, one by one.    Who was foolish enough to pull the trigger? Was the gunfire accidental or deliberate? Or was the whole drama one of Casey's practical jokes? And where is Casey--or her body--now? Dark secrets are revealed and petty jealousies rear their ugly heads as each eyewitness comes to the questioning room with his or her own version of "the truth."

        The Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer. The Lost Colony follows Artemis Fowl, The Arctic Incident, The Eternity Code, and The Opal Deception, as the fifth in this brilliant series about (in Eoin Colfer's own words) fairies, fiends and flatulence. Now at age fourteen, Artemis has kidnapped a fairy, rescued his dad from the Russian Mafiya, and helped put down a goblin revolution - quite a track record even for a criminal mastermind. Along the way, he's also germinated the seeds of a conscience.

          Operation Typhoon Shore by Joshua Mowll.  Celebes Sea, May 1920: Battered by a typhoon, the Expedient is shipwrecked on a volcanic island. No radio, no rescue, no escape. Doug and Becca MacKenzie's search for their missing parents must wait; but what part did the mysterious Guild play in their disappearance? And what is their uncle, Captain MacKenzie, really searching for? Will the strange riddle Doug and Becca unearth be the key to the dark secrets of the Guild and a means to escaping the island?

         Diva: a novel by Alex Flinn. Despite her mother’s objections, sixteen-year-old Caitlin determines to pursue her dream of becoming an opera singer by attending a performing arts school in Miami.

  Fame, Glory and Other Things on My To Do List by Janeete Rallison.  Sixteen year-old Jessica dreams of Hollywood fame, and when Jordan moves into her small town, she dreams of him too. He is a movie star's son, and hey, he is gorgeous to boot. Jordan has always wanted to get out from the shadow cast by his superstar father, but now that he and his mother have moved so far away from LA, how can he get his divorced parents back together? Jessica convinces Jordan the way to get his father to come for a long visit is to be a part of the school play. And if she is discovered in ow even more disastrous when the principal tries to change West Side Story into a gang-free, violence-free, politically correct production.

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter.  Cammie Morgan, who attends the spy school The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, can speak fourteen different languages, hack CIA computer codes, and kill a man seven different ways, but she is ill-prepared when she falls in love with an ordinary boy who thinks she`s an ordinary girl.

Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs.  When falling crop prices threaten his family with starvation, fifteen-year-old Victor Flores heads north in an attempt to "cross the wire" from Mexico into the United States so he can find work and send money home. But with no coyote money to pay the smugglers who sneak illegal workers across the border, Victor must struggle to survive as he jumps trains, stows away on trucks, and hikes grueling miles through the Arizona desert.

"The end was coming, but I didn't see it coming."

Victor's journey is fraught with danger, freezing cold, scorching heat, hunger, and dead ends. It's a gauntlet run by millions attempting to cross the border. Through Victor's often desperate struggle, Will Hobbs brings to life one of the great human dramas of our time.

      Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock. This wryly written story features the unforgettable D. J. Schwenk, a football-loving 15-year-old who takes over the chores on her family's small Wisconsin dairy farm when her dad is sidelined by an injury. Like the rest of the tongue-tied Schwenks, D.J. is not much of a talker. Then she meets Brian, a snooty quarterback assigned to her for football training, and she finally learns to speak her mind. Murdock gives D.J. a pitch-perfect teenage voice: self-effacing and endearingly confused. The book has an unusual setting and a story line both hilarious and touching.

      Firestorm by David Klass.  Jack's life comes crashing down after he wins his high school football game and is featured on the local news. Suddenly he is being hunted by strange creatures, who kill his parents just after he finds out they aren't really his parents, for reasons he doesn't understand. After nearly being killed again in New York, he takes up with a large, telepathic dog and flees down the Eastern Seaboard, pursued all the way and never knowing whom to trust.

Startled By His Fury Shorts by Louise Rennison.  Georgia is in quite a predicament. Dave the Laugh has declared his love for her (at least she thinks he was talking about her), leaving her in a state of confusiosity. And then when she finally decides to give Masimo an ultimatum -- to be her one and only -- he tells her he needs to think about it.  To distract herself from her romantic woes, Georgia throws herself into Mac-Useless play rehearsals and planning a Viking wedding, and tries to avoid all thoughts of boy decoys, Italian-American dreamboats . . . and let’s not forget guitar-plucking Sex Gods!

 If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince? by Melissa Kantor.  When sixteen-year-old Lucy Norton and her newly-remarried father relocate from San Francisco to a posh suburb of Long Island to live with the new stepfamily, Lucy's life is turned upside down. She is friendless, virtually homeless (her new "room" consists of an air-mattress on the floor in an unfurnished basement), and is faced with the difficult challenge of getting along with her two spoiled, teeny-bopper younger stepsisters and her impossibly shallow, constantly redecorating stepmother. On top of that, her once attentive father has no time for her between his weekly trip back to the West Coast for work and his newly acquired "perfect" family. The more time she spends in her new environment, the more Lucy begins to feel like poor, pathetic Cinderella --- overworked, under-appreciated, and hopelessly alone.

    Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt. Martine Leavitt offers a spellbinding story, interweaving elements of classic fantasy and high romance. Keturah follows a legendary hart into the king's forest, where she becomes hopelessly lost. Her strength diminishes until, finally, she realizes that death is near. Little does she know that he is a young, handsome lord, melancholy and stern. Renowned for her storytelling, Keturah is able to charm Lord Death with a story and thereby gain a reprieve -- but only for twenty-four hours. She must find her one true love within that time, or all is lost. Keturah searches desperately while the village prepares for an unexpected visit from the king, and Keturah is thrust into a prominent role as mysterious happenings alarm her friends and neighbors. Lord Death's presence hovers over all until Keturah confronts him one last time in the harrowing climax.

Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson.  "Hope is the thing with feathers" starts the poem Frannie is reading in school. Frannie hasn't thought much about hope. There are so many other things to think about. Each day, her friend Samantha seems a bit more "holy." There is a new boy in class everyone is calling the Jesus Boy. And although the new boy looks like a white kid, he says he's not white. Who is he?  During a winter full of surprises, good and bad, Frannie starts seeing a lot of things in a new light â€â€� her brother Sean's deafness, her mother's fear, the class bully's anger, her best friend's faith, and her own desire for "the thing with feathers."

"Hope is the thing with feathers"

Jacqueline Woodson once again takes readers on a journey into a young girl's heart and reveals the pain and the joy of learning to look beneath the surface.

Extreme Careers - 10 Volumes

• Working in a War Zone
• U. S. Air Marshals
• Volcanologists: Life Exploring Volcanoes
• War Correspondents                                                 
• Fighter Pilots: Life at Mach Speed
• First Responders
• Disaster Relief Workers
• Frontline Marines: Fighting in the Marine Combat Arms Units
• Homeland Security Officers
• Hostage Rescuers

In The News - 4 Volumes

• Suicide Bombers
• Pandemics: Epidemics in a Shrinking World
• Tsunamis
• Domestic Spying and Wiretapping

Nascar Racing - 16 Titles

* At the Races  *Behind the Wheel  *The Brickyard 400  * Bristol Motor Speedway  * Dale Earnhardt  *The Daytona 500  * The History of Nascar  *  Jeff Gordon  * NASCAR's Greatest Moments  *  NASCAR's Wildest Wrecks  * Racing with the Pit Crew  * Richard Petty  * Talladega Superspeedway  * Tony Steward  * Under the Hood

At Issue - Greenhaven Press

This series includes a wide range of opinion on a single controversial topic. Each volume includes both primary and secondary sources from a variety of sources and perspectives — eyewitnesses, scientific journals, government officials among others. Extensive bibliographies and annotated lists of relevant organizations to contact offer a gateway to further research.  The above are only a few examples of these books that are available at Sublette High School.

 "Practice Random Acts of Reading!"