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How Do I Help the PHS Library Get More Quality Books?     In Recognition of Your Donation     Books The Library Would Love To Have On It's Shelves
How Do I Help the PHS Library Get More Quality Books?
What is more important than our community's youth and education?  And what is it that you can do to support this education?  The answer is easier than you would think: BUY THEM A BOOK!

The PHS library is in dire need of updating and we need our community's help!

How to help?  Choose from the following options...

    1)(MY PREFERENCE!) Pick out a specific book from the following list and send cash or check to cover its cost.  The library will then order that exact book for its collection!

Please make checks payable to: PHS Library
Send to: PHS Librarian, 5911 Maxwell Dr., Paradise, CA  95969
Note: don't forget to state the specific title you are donating dollars for!


OR

    2) Make a monetary donation in any amount you choose that will go directly to adding quality and current titles to the library's collection.

NOTE: Book donations must be from the approved list below; if you have a title you would like to donate that is not on the list, please contact the librarian, Ms. Safarik, first.
In Recognition of Your Donation
We believe that it is truly important that the students see the interest the community takes in their education, and so it would be our honor to place a bookplate in the front of the book that you donate, stating your name (or your student's name).
Books The Library Would Love To Have On It's Shelves

Fiction
  Non-Fiction
Demon chick
By Kaye, Marilyn.  Dewey: -Fic-
Sixteen-year-old Jessica discovers that her mother, a charismatic presidential candidate, sold Jessica's soul to the devil in exchange for political power.
____#08883DX  2009  IL:YA  $15.29 

Devoured
By Marrone, Amanda.  Dewey: -Fic-
Rising high school senior Megan has been haunted by her twin for ten years, but now Remy is trying to warn her about terrible danger surrounding Megan's summer job at an amusement park called the Land of Enchantment.
____#03793R2  2009  IL:YA  $13.66

DupliKate : a novel
By Cheva, Cherry.  Dewey: -Fic-
When she wakes up one morning to find her double in her room, seventeen-year-old Kate, already overburdened with college applications, finals, and extracurricular activities, decides to put her to work.
____#00673Z6  2009  IL:YA  $14.44

Fade to Blue : a novel
By Beaudoin, Sean.  Dewey: -Fic-
Eighteen-year-old Goth Sophie Blue, sensing that something is awry in her small town, begins to piece together the connections between her missing father, a scientific researcher at a local laboratory, and her high school's football star, Kenny.
____#01577Z4  2009  IL:YA  $14.44

Give up the ghost
By Crewe, Megan.  Dewey: -Fic-
Sixteen-year-old Cass's only friends are her dead sister and the school ghosts who feed her gossip that she uses to make students face up to their bad behavior, but when a popular boy asks for her help, she begins to reach out to the living again.
____#08859D4  2009  IL:YA  $15.29

Hate list
By Brown, Jennifer, 1972-  Dewey: -Fic-
Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.
____#00477WX  2009  IL:YA  $14.44

How to say goodbye in Robot
By Standiford, Natalie.  Dewey: -Fic-
After moving to Baltimore and enrolling in a private school, high school senior Beatrice befriends a quiet loner with a troubled family history.
____#00887T3  2009  IL:YA  $15.29

Last night I sang to the monster : a novel
By Saenz, Benjamin Alire.  Dewey: -Fic-
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.
____#02425Y9  2009  IL:YA  $14.40

Liar
By Larbalestier, Justine.  Dewey: -Fic-
Compulsive liar Micah promises to tell the truth after revealing that her boyfriend has been murdered.
____#03652ZX  2009  IL:YA  $16.99

Once a witch
By MacCullough, Carolyn.  Dewey: -Fic-
Born into a family of witches, seventeen-year-old Tamsin is raised believing that she alone lacks a magical "Talent," but when her beautiful and powerful sister is taken by an age-old rival of the family in an attempt to change the balance of power, Tamsin discovers her true destiny.
____#00767Z4  2009  IL:YA  $13.60

Pretty dead
By Block, Francesca Lia.  Dewey: -Fic-
Beautiful vampire Charlotte finds herself slowly changing back into a human after the mysterious death of her best friend.
____#00656Z5  2009  IL:YA  $14.44

Purple Heart
By McCormick, Patricia.  Dewey: -Fic-
While recuperating in a Baghdad hospital from a traumatic brain injury sustained during the Iraq War, eighteen-year-old soldier Matt Duffy struggles to recall what happened to him and how it relates to his ten-year-old friend, Ali.
____#03806S0  2009  IL:YA  $14.44

Resurrection
By Holder, Nancy.  Dewey: -Fic-
A threat more powerful and frightening than anything they have faced before looms over the Cahors witches as both the Devereux and Cahors family lines face extinction, and Cahors family secrets are revealed.
____#01081R4  2009  IL:YA  $13.66

Shiver
By Stiefvater, Maggie, 1981-  Dewey: -Fic-
In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.
____#00889T8  2009  IL:YA  $15.29

Solace of the road
By Dowd, Siobhan.  Dewey: -Fic-
While running away from a London foster home just before her fifteenth birthday, Holly has ample time to consider her years of residential care and her early life with her Irish mother, whom she is now trying to reach.
____#04665VX  2009  IL:YA  $22.66

Tricks
By Hopkins, Ellen.  Dewey: -Fic-
Collects five stories about three girls and two boys who question how they feel about themselves while learning about love and sexuality.
____#01326S7  2009  IL:YA  $16.14

Wish you were dead
By Strasser, Todd.  Dewey: -Fic-
Madison, a senior at a suburban New York high school, tries to uncover who is responsible for the disappearance of her friends, popular students mentioned in the posts of an anonymous blogger, while she, herself, is being stalked online and in-person.
____#00072V3  2009  IL:YA  $14.44

Z. Rex
By Cole, Stephen, 1971-  Dewey: -Fic-
From Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Edinburgh, Scotland, thirteen-year-old Adam Adlar must elude police while being hunted by a dinosaur come-to-life from a virtual reality game invented by his father, who has gone missing.
____#00934Y6  2009  IL:5-8  RL:5.7  $14.44
   Gender danger : survivors of rape, human trafficking, and honor killings
By Simons, Rae, 1957-  Dewey: 362.88
Details real-life survival stories from individuals who have survived gender crimes, which includes rape, domestic violence, human trafficking, honor killings, and more; and also discusses the struggles of transgender people.
____#27908Y5  2009  IL:YA  $24.95

My name is Jason, mine too --our story, our way
By Reynolds, Jason.  Dewey: 811
Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin, a collaborative team of artist and poet, chronicle their experiences upon moving to New York to pursue their art.
____#21890B3  2009  IL:YA  $17.26

A teen's guide to creating web pages and blogs
By Selfridge, Benjamin.  Dewey: 006.7
Step-by-step instructions help teens create personal web pages and blogs, with tips on how to design and update a unique, creative web site while protecting themselves and their identities from online hackers and predators.
____#24763Y2  2009  IL:YA  $16.96

Than Shwe's Burma
By Zahler, Diane.  Dewey: 959.1
Profiles the history of Burma under the leadership of dictator Than Shwe, and describes his military career, rise to power, and political policies; as well as the human rights abuses suffered by the Burmese people, and other related topics.
____#03914U4  2010  IL:YA  $28.95

We shall all be free : survivors of racism
By Sanna, Ellyn, 1957-  Dewey: 305.8
Explores how racism impacts people of all races, discussing why and how racism exists in the modern world, common assumptions people make about other's based on race or ethnicity, and the ways people have overcome racism throughout history.
____#23405Y8  2009  IL:YA  $24.95
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