HS Classic Summer Reading 2007

Call #	Title	Author	Notes
F ADA	The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy	Adams, Douglas	Arthur Dent and his Betelgeusian friend Fort Prefect begin their intergalactic journey by stowing away on a Vogon spaceship just as the earth is destroyed.
F ADI	Purple hibiscus	Adichie, Chimamanda	A teenaged Nigerian girl and her older brother struggle to cope with life in their tense, stifling household--caused by their father's demands for perfection--after getting a taste of freedom during a visit to their aunt's home.
F ALB	The five people you meet in heaven	Albom, Mitch	A bitter eighty-three-year-old war veteran who believes his life is meaningless dies while trying to save a little girl's life and finds himself in heaven, where five people from his past--some loved ones, some strangers--explain what his years on Earth really meant, and whether or not he succeeded in saving the child.
F ALI	Brick lane	Monica, Ali	Nanzeen, married off to an older man, moves from her Bangladeshi village to live with him in London in the 1980s and 1990s, where she raises a family, learns to love her husband, and comes to a realization that she has a voice in her own life.
F ALM	Kit's wilderness - An ALA Best Book	Almond, David	Thirteen-year-old Kit goes to live with his grandfather in the decaying coal mining town of Stoneygate, England, and finds both the old man and the town haunted by ghosts of the past.
F ATW	Alias Grace	Atwood Margaret	Fact-based story of Grace Marks, a sixteen-year-old girl who received a life sentence in 1843 for allegedly taking part in the murder of her employer and his lover. Her case continued to stir debate throughout her prison stay, resulting in her release in 1872.
F ATW	Oryx and crake	Atwood, Margaret	Jimmy, perhaps the last living human unaltered by science, struggles for survival in a post-apocalyptic world as he tries to make sense of how everything went wrong, mourns the loss of his beloved Oryx, a girl who had once been abused and sold into prostitution, and considers the role of his genius friend Crake who had been working on a formula for immortality at the RejoovenEsenseCompound.
F ATW	The handmaid's tale	Atwood, Margaret	A look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction.
F AUS	Emma	Austen, Jane	First published 1816. A novel of Regency England that centers upon a self-assured young lady who is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy. The basis for the movie Clueless.
F AUS	Pride and prejudice	Austen, Jane	In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters
F AYE	Daughter's keeper	Waldman, Ayelet	When Olivia makes a terrible mistake, she is forced to turn to the mother who has never come through for Olivia before, but without her mother's help, Olivia's future hangs in the balance.
F BEL	A matter of profit	Bell, Hilari.	Sick of the horrors of conquering beings on other planets, Ahvrem will end his service as a soldier and save his sister from an unhappy marriage if he can discover who is behind a rumored plot to assassinate the Emperor.
F BEN	Blue Star rapture	Bennett, James W.	While attending a high-profile basketball camp, T.J. begins to re-think both his motivations and his actions in guiding his learning-disabled but athletically-gifted friend through the college recruitment process.
F BOY	Great pint-pulling olympiad (The): a mostly Irish farce	Boylan, Roger	When Mick finds himself in a bind after a car accident under less than socially acceptable circumstances, he enlists the aid of a lawyer whose interests lie more in selling missiles to the IRA that in defense lawyering.
F BRA	The second summer of the sisterhood	Brashares, Ann	A sequel to "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" in which the four girls, now sixteen, embark on another summer of travels and life lessons charmed by a shared pair of seemingly magical thrift-store jeans.
F BRA	The sisterhood of the traveling pants	Brashares, Ann	Carmen decides to discard an old pair of jeans, but Tibby, Lena, and Bridget think they are great and decide that whoever the pants fit best will get them. When the jeans fit everyone perfectly, a sisterhood and a memorable summer begin.
F BRO	Being with Henry	Brooks, Martha	Forced out of his home by a disagreeable and bullying stepfather, sixteen-year-old Laker moves to another town and strikes up an unexpected friendship with a frail but determined old man.
F BRO	Jane Eyre	Bronte, Charlotte	When a penniless governess falls in love with the brooding master of Thornfield, she is unaware of the tragic events that will follow.
F BRO	Angels & demons	Brown, Dan	World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol seared into the chest of a murder victim, where he discovers evidence of the resurgence of an ancient brotherhood with a vendetta against the Catholic Church.
F BRO	Deception point	Brown, Dan	White House intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton is thrust into a life-or-death situation when she travels to the Arctic to investigate the discovery of a rare meteorite that might prove the existence of extraterrestrial life, and finds instead evidence of scientific trickery.
F BRO	The Da Vinci code	Brown, Dan	Investigating the murder of a Louvre curator, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu find clues painted into a Da Vinci work, inadvertently uncovering a plot involving the Holy Grail and the secret society known as the Priory of Sion.
F CAB	Princess in the spotlight	Cabot, Meg	Mia, the fourteen-year-old New York City-raised heir to the throne of the tiny European country of Genovia, manages to alienate her best friend, her family, and her soon-to-be-subjects in the space of one national primetime interview.
F CAL	The rule of four	Caldwell, Ian	Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris are determined to unlock the centuries old mystery behind an ancient Renaissance text before their graduation from Princeton, but just as they are about to discover its secrets, the campus is rocked with a series of suspicious deaths.
F CAR	Jack Maggs	Carey, Peter	Jack Maggs, a boy who was deported to Australia for thieving, returns to London in 1837 as a grown man and inveigles his way into a wealthy household where he becomes acquainted with an author who is fascinated by mesmerism and the criminal mind.
F CAR	Oscar and Lucinda	Carey, Peter	A nervous Anglican minister, and a teenage heiress, both infected with a gambling bug, embark on an unlikely quest to transport a glass church across the Outback.
F CAR	Ender's game	Orson Scott Card	An expert at simulated war games, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin believes that he is engaged in one more computer war game when, in truth, he is commanding the last Earth fleet against an alien race seeking Earth's complete destruction.
F CAR	Shadow of the Hegemon	Orson Scott Card	A sequel to "Ender's Shadow," in which the child-warriors, heroes of the Formic War, have returned to their families on Earth only to become the pawns of nations who want to use them as weapons in their quest for sovereignty.
F CAT	My Antonia	Cather, Willa	A New York lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with a simple Bohemian girl.
F CHA	The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay : a novel	Chabon, Michael	It is 1939 and Joe Kavalier, a young artist from New York, has managed to escape from Nazi-occupied Prague, and now he must use his all his cunning and wits to rescue his family from Hitler's the Nazis. This is a funny, idiosyncratic and wrenching story written on a large canvas.
F CHA	Postcards from no man's land	Chambers, Aidan	Alternates between a contemporary story about 17-year-old Jacob who visits Amsterdam at the request of his grandmother, and a historic tale about 19-year-old Geertrui who relates her experience of the British attempts to liberate Holland from German occupation.
F CHE	Falling angels	Chevalier, Tracy	The changing social climate in England, spurred by the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, is reflected in the lives of Maude Coleman and Lavinia Waterhouse, two young girls of different classes who meet and become fast friends while their families are visiting adjoining funeral plots.
F CHE	The lady and the unicorn	Chevalier, Tracy	Nicolas des Innocents has been commissioned by the Parisian nobleman Jean Le Viste to design a series of large tapestries for his great hall. While Nicolas is measuring the walls, he meets a beautiful girl who turns out to be Jean Le Viste's daughter. Their passion is impossible for their world--so forbidden, given their class differences, that its only avenue of expression turns out to be those magnificent tapestries.
F CHE	Chevalier, Tracy	Girl with a pearl earring An ALA Best Book for 2001	The life of sixteen-year-old Griet is transformed forever when she goes to work as a maid in the home of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, and catches the eye of the famous artist.
F CHR	Death on the Nile	Christie, Agatha	A murder on a cruise ship on the Nile baffles everyone except ace detective Hercule Poirot.
F CHR	Soccer duel	Christopher, Matt	Team rivalry threatens to spoil a budding friendship between a showy soccer player, Bryce, and soft-spoken but talented Renny.
F CLA	Net Force	Clancy, Tom	In the future when computers run most functions of the world a need arises for a group of computer-savvy American teenagers who fight crime on-line. This group is called the Net Force.
F COC	Roughnecks	Cochran, Thomas	Travis Cody prepares for the final game of his high school football career, a rematch with his school's chief rival.
F COE	Dusklands	Coetzee, Michael	A specialist in pyschological warfare is driven to breakdown and madness by the stresses of a project of macabre ingenuity to win the war in Vietnam. A meglomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengence on a Hottentot tribe for undermining the 'natural' order of his universe with their anarchic rival order,mocking him and subjecting him to the humiliations of his own all too palpable flesh.
F COH	Cohn, Rachel	Gingerbread An ALA Best Book for 2003	After being expelled from a fancy boarding school, Cyd Charisse's problems with her mother escalate after Cyd falls in love with a sensitive surfer and is subsequently sent from San Francisco to New York City to spend time with her biological father.
F COR	Cormier, Robert	Rag and bone shop : a novel An ALA Best Book for 2002	Trent, an ace interrogator from Vermont, works to procure a confession from an introverted twelve-year-old accused of murdering his seven-year-old friend in Monument, Massachusetts.
F COU	The power of one	Courtenay, Bryce	Story of Peekay, an English boy, living in South Africa during World War II whose dream is to become a winner
F CRE	Angel's gate	Crew, Gary	Kimmy encounters two wild children who have grown up in the hills of Australia and tries to protect them from the unknown person who murdered their father.
F CRE	The blue feather	Crew, Gary	Set in the Cape Le Grand region in WA. The search for a giant bird - is it a myth or reality?
F CRI	Eaters of the dead : the manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, relating his experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922	Crichton, Michael	After being warned by a fortune-teller that their fight against legendary creatures is doomed to failure unless they have a 13th warrior, a travelling ambassador (Banderas) is given no choice but to join a group of fierce fighters.
F CRI	Prey : a novel	Crichton, Michael	A cloud of nanoparticles programmed as a predator and capable of self-reproduction escapes from a Nevada laboratory and makes the human population its target.
F CRI	Timeline	Crichton, Michael	When a group of scientists learns how to travel through time, they enter life in fourteenth-century feudal France and threaten the history of the world.
F CRU	Whale talk	Crutcher, Chris	Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students.
F CUN	The hours	Cunningham, Michael	A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, based on the life of Virginia Woolf, that tells the story of a group of contemporary characters who are struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair.
F CUS	The midwife's apprentice	Cushman, Karen	In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.
F DAI	Balzac and the little Chinese seamtress	Dai, Sije	Two boys, moved to the country for "re-education" as part of Mao's Cultural Revolution, find little to amuse them. Things change, however, when they discover a stash of Western classics in Chinese translation and use the stories of Balzac to capture the attention of the beautiful daughter of the local tailor.
F DAN	The Watch : being the unauthorized sequel to Peter A. Kropotkin's Memoirs of a revolutionist--as imparted to / Dennis Danvers ; by Anchee Mahur, traveler from a distant future, or a science fiction novel	Danvers, Dennis	In 1921 Russia, a mysterious visitor from the far future arrives at Peter Alexeivich Kropotkin's deathbed and offers him the chance to lead a new life in the future, but after Peter is reborn, he learns that his new beginning comes with substantial risk.
F DAV	Chopping spree	Davidson, Diane Mott	Colorado caterer Goldy Schulz, hired by old college friend Barry Dean to cater a cocktail party for the Westside Mall's Elite Shoppers Club, finds herself mired in a murder investigation when Barry is found stabbed to death with one of her new kitchen knives.
F DEB	Corelli's mandolin : a novel	De Bernières, Louis	Life changes on a Greek island when the Germans, later, the Communists arrive.
F DIA	Red tent	Diamant, Anita	The story of Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, is told from her point of view, beginning with the story of her mothers, Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah. These wives of Jacob give her the fits that are to sustain her through a damaged youth, a calling to midwifery, and a new home in a foreign land.
F DIC	David Copperfield	Dickens, Charles	Charles Dickens's classic story of orphan David Copperfield growing up in nineteenth-century England.
F DIS	The divine wind : a love story	Disher, Garry	On the eve of World War II, Hart, an Australian boy and Mitsy, a Japanese-Australian girl, fall in love but are driven apart.
F DUM	Rebecca	DuMaurier, Daphne	For months after her death, the memory of Rebecca de Winter continues to dominate everyone at her former home, Manderley, one of the most famous English country houses.
F DUM	DuMaurier, Daphne	Rebecca	For months after her death, the memory of Rebecca de Winter continues to dominate everyone at her former home, Manderley, one of the most famous English country houses.
F ELI	The mill on the Floss	Eliot, George	Young Maggie Tulliver's loyalty to her beloved older brother, Tom, and to the rest of her family, is tragically tested when she falls in love with the son of her father's bitterest enemy.
F ENG	Peace like a river	Enger, Leif	In the 1960s, a spiritual man named Jeremiah Land sets out from his Minnesota home with his young son and daughter to find his elder son, Davy, after he escapes jail on the morning of his sentencing for murder. A beautiful and magical story
F ESQ	Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments with recipes, romances and home remedies	Esquivel, Laura	Translation of: Como agua para chocolate. A romantic and poignant tale of love and family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico. Includes recipes for dishes prepared in the novel, such as quail in rose petal sauce and chiles in walnut sauce.
F EUG	Middlesex	Eugenides, Jeffrey	Three generations of a Greek American family find themselves plagued by a mutant gene which causes bizarre side effects in the family's teenage girls.
F EUG	The virgin suicides	Eugenides, Jeffrey	The narrator and his friends try to piece together facts and gossip about a tragic suicide that happened twenty years earlier.
F EVA	One for the money	Evanovich, Janet	Novice bounty hunter Stephanie Plum goes after Joe Morelli, who is an ex-boyfriend and a former vice cop, now on the run from a charge of murder.
F EVA	Three to get deadly	Evanovich, Janet	Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is saddled with the unpopular task of tracking down beloved candy store owner Uncle Mo after he skips bond on a minor charge, and to make matters worse, she has acquired an unwanted sidekick in former hooker Lula and is once again enchanted by undercover cop and sometimes boyfriend Joe Morelli.
F EVA	Two for the dough : a Stephanie Plum novel	Evanovich, Janet	New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum stirs up a very nasty enemy, and attracts the attention of vice cop Joe Morelli when she sets out to find Kenny Mancuso, a boy from Trenton who has just shot his best friend.
F FAR	Farmer, Nancy	The house of the scorpion	In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
F FAU	Birdsong	Faulks, Sebastian	Rootless and heartbroken, Stephen Wraysford joins the army at the outbreak of World War I. He and his men are given the assignment to tunnel under the German lines and set off bombs. The comaraderie, love, and loyalty of the soldiers contrasts with the horrors of the underground, air, and trench warfare.
F FER	Ferris, Jean	Of sound mind	Tired of interpreting for his deaf family and resentful of their reliance on him, high school senior Theo finds support and understanding from Ivy, a new student who also has a deaf parent.
F FIE	Bridget Jones : the edge of reason	Fielding, Helen	Bridget Jones, having decided to give Mark Darcy a chance, finds herself wrestling with the realities of sharing bed and board with a man. Things become complicated even further with the arrival of the beautiful, man-hunting Rebecca.
F FIT	The great Gatsby	Fitzgerald, F. Scott	Set in the 1920s - the age of jazz - this is the tragic story of the wealthy Jay Gatsby and his attempt to win back the love of Daisy Buchanan.
F FLA	Welcome to the world, baby girl!	Flagg, Fannie	A sentimental look at small-town life featuring Dena Nordstrom, a New York TV show hostess. Sent by her doctor home to Missouri to nurse her ulcer, she hopes to learn why her mother abandoned her when she was 15 years old.
F FLA	Flanagan, Richard	Gould's book of fish : a novel in twelve fish	A fact-based novel in which William Buelow Gould, a talented art forger and thief, attempts to improve his station in a nineteenth-century Tasmanian prison colony by painting fish for the prison doctor Lempriere who dreams of creating an illustrated taxonomy of Australia's exotic sea creatures.
F FLE	Fleischman, Paul.	Seek	Rob becomes obsessed with searching the airwaves for his long-gone father, a radio announcer.
F FRE	True meaning of cleavage	Fredericks, Mariah	When Jess and Sari, best friends since seventh grade, begin their freshman year of high school and Sari becomes obsessed with a senior boy, Jess wonders if their friendship will survive.
F GAA	Sophie's world : a novel about the history of philosophy	Gaarder, Jostein	One day Sophie comes home from school to find two questions in her mailbox: Who are you? and Where does the world come from? Before she knows it, she is enrolled in a correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre and beyond, with a mysterious philosopher.
F GAR	Love in the time of cholera / Gabriel García Márquez ;	García Márquez, Gabriel	Florentino Ariza engages in hundreds of liasons over the course of fifty-three years, seven months, and eleven days, while waiting to finally possess Fermina Daza, a woman who once promised Florentino her love, but then jilted him in favor of another.
F GAR	Tartabull's throw	Garfield, Henry	In 1967, an encounter with a mysterious young woman from Maine involves a nineteen-year-old baseball player in an investigation of a vicious, murderous werewolf.
F GER	Geras, Adele	Troy	The last weeks of the Trojan War find the women sick of tending the wounded, men tired of fighting, and bored gods and goddesses trying to find ways to stir things up.
F GOL	Gold, Glen David,	Carter beats the devil	Carter the Great, a 1920's illusionist, has worked hard to build his reputation, but his latest trick, which involves President Warren G. Harding, may destroy his hard-ea
F GOR	The grim pig	Gordon, Charles	The workings of the newroom are presented in a humorous light. (ASIJ Author)
F GRA	"M" is for malice	Grafton, Sue	Private investigator Kinsey Millhone is hired to track down Guy Malek, a man who walked away from his family eighteen years earlier and now stands to inherit part of his deceased father's forty-million dollar estate, but unfortunately, not everyone is eager to welcome home the prodigal son.
F GRE	Travels with my aunt	Greene, Graham	A staid middle-aged banker is whisked off to South America by his eccentric aunt Augusta, a woman with a very colorful past.
F GRE	The confessions of Max Tivoli	Greer, Andrew Sean	Max, born with the body of a very old man, finds his physical body growing younger as his mind grows older, giving him multiple chances to win the heart of Alice, the neighbor girl he fell in love with as a child, and who fails to recognize him as they meet again and again throughout their lives.
F GRI	Griffin, Adele	Amandine	Her first week at a new school, shy, plain Delia befriends Amandine, not anticipating the dangerous turns their friendship will take.
F GRI	The lieutenants	Griffin, W.E.B.	W.E.B. Griffin's "Brotherhood of War" is a series that focuses on the lives of two career Army officers, Felter and Lowell, from WWII to the Vietnam conflict. The Lieutenants shows them at the beginning of their careers during WWII.
F GUT	Snow falling on cedars	Guterson, David	On San Pedro, an island of rugged, spectacular beauty in Puget Sound, home to salmon fishermen and strawberry farmers, a Japanese American fisherman stands trial, charged with murder. The year is 1954, and the shadow of World War II, with its brutality abroad and the internment of Japanese Americans at home, hangs over the courtroom.
F HAD	The curious incident of the dog in the night-time	Haddon, Mark	Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
F HAM	Snow in August	Hamill, Pete	In Brooklyn in 1947, Michael Devlin, an 11-year-old Irish kid who spends his days reading Captain Marvel and anticipating the arrival of Jackie Robinson, makes the acquaintance of a recently emigrated Orthodox rabbi. In exchange for lessons in English and baseball, Rabbi Hirsch teaches him Yiddish and tells him of Jewish life in old Prague and of the mysteries of the Kabbalah.
F HAM	Going to bend	Hammond, Diane	Petie Coolbaugh and Rose Bundy, best friends since childhood, struggle to come to terms with their age and station in life, and to overcome the secrets from the past that threaten the future of their families.
F HAM	Hunger	Hamsun, Knut	A struggling writer wanders the streets barely eeking out a living by selling the occasional article and as the reader watches he gradually sinks in to despair and madness.
F HAR	Pompei: a novel	Harris, Robert	When the aqueduct that brings fresh water to thousands of people around the bay of Naples fails, Roman engineer Marius Primus heads to the slopes of Mount Vesuvius to investigate, only to come face to face with an impending catastrophe.
F HAR	The silence of the lambs	Harris, Thomas	A serial murderer known by a grotesquely apt nickname, Buffalo Bill, is stalking particular women. A young F.B.I. trainee is assigned to interview a mental patient, a brilliant psychiatrist and killer, for insights into the crime.
F HAR	Founding	Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia	In a quest for power Morland is the consumate politician. To achieve his ends he arranges a marriage of his ward to a simple sheep farmer. Although seemingly incompatible they grow to love each other and survive strife together.
F HAR	Gone tomorrow	Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia	Detective Inspector Bill Slider, investigating the murder of a man found stabbed to death in a London playground, comes to suspect that the killing, as well as others that have followed in its wake, are the work of a crime lord who will stop at nothing to keep his identity secret.
F HAZ	The great fire	Hazzard, Shirley	In 1947 Japan, a thirty-two-year-old British war veteran recording the effects of the Hiroshima bombing is touched by the inseparable son and daughter of an Australian medical administrator--the brother suffering from a rare degenerative disease and the teenaged sister devoted to him--and struggles with his attraction to the young girl.
F HEA	Hearn, Lian	Across the nightingale floor	The first in a proposed trilogy set in ancient Japan, telling the story of Takeo, a sixteen-year-old saved from a massacre by the mysterious Lord Otori, who struggles to reconcile his dual nature--the one given him by the Hidden, the pacifist people among whom he was born and raised, and the one inherited from his father, a celebrated assassin.
F HEL	Catch-22	Heller, Joseph	A bombardier, based in Italy during World War II, repeatedly tries to avoid flying bombing missions while his colonel tries to get him killed by demanding that he fly more and more missions.
F HEN	The grave	Heneghan, James	Thirteen-year-old Tom, an unhappy foster child in Liverpool, falls into a massive open grave and is transported to Ireland in 1847, where he finds himself in the midst of the deadly potato famine.
F HER	Dune	Herbert, Frank	Book one in the Dune chronicles. Forced by the Emperor of the known universe to live in exile on a barren planet, Duke Leto Atreides and his son lead the struggle against the Empire.
F HIA	Double whammy	Hiaasen, Carl	Private detective R. J. Decker has to prove that TV host Dickie Lockhart cheats to win fortunes in Florida bass-fishing tournaments putting Decker in danger of being killed like the other detectives before him.
F HIA	Tourist season	Hiaasen, Carl	Private detective Brian Keyes becomes mixed up in a morass of football players, politicians, police, fanatics, and one hungry crocodile when he sets out to discover who killed loyal Shriner Theodore Bellamy and Sparky Harper, president of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce.
F HOL	Bad heir day	Holden, Wendy	Anna, an aspiring novelist, is forced to seek employment as a nanny after her wealthy, drop-dead gorgeous boyfriend asks her to move out. Her situation goes from bad to worse when the child in her care turns out to be a little beast and she is soon hoping for rescue from the dashing heir to a Scottish castle.
F HOL	When the elephants dance	Holthe, Tess Uriza	Thirteen-year-old Alejandro Karangalan, his spirited older sister Isabelle, and Domingo, a guerilla commander, find their strength and friendship tested in the waning days of World War II as the Japanese and Americans engage in a fierce battle for possession of the Philippine Islands.
F HOS	The kite runner	Hosseini, Khaled	Amir, haunted by his betrayal of Hassan, the son of his father's servant and a childhood friend, returns to Kabul as an adult. He has learned that Hassan has been killed, and attempts to redeem himself by rescuing Hassan's son from a life of slavery to a Taliban official.
F HUT	Land girls	Huth, Angela	During World War II, young English women left the cozy world of traditional female jobs for exhausting agricultural labor so that male farm workers could take up arms. Agatha, Stella, and Prue are from distinctly different backgrounds and social classes, but genuine patriotism for their country binds them together.
F HUX	A brave new world	Huxley, Aldous	A satirical novel about the utopia of the future, a world in which babies are decanted from bottles and the great Ford is worshipped.
F IGG	Emperor : the death of kings	Iggulden, Conn	Part 2: Julius Caesar distinguishes himself in combat and will surely return to Rome to reap the benefits, but before he can he and his soldiers are captured by pirates and will be sold as slaves, ruining his rise to power. However, he escapes and returns to find Rome riddled with corruption that will devastate the land and his family.
F IGG	Emperor : the gates	Iggulden, Conn	Part 1: Two boys grow into manhood as a new empire takes shape around the city of Rome, and as the pair are trained in the art of combat, they find themselves caught between two rival generals who are driving the empire to the brink of civil war.
F IHI	Whale rider	Ihimaera, Witi	As her beloved grandfather, chief of the Maori tribe of Whangara, New Zealand, struggles to lead in difficult times and find a male successor, young Kahu is developing a mysterious relationship with whales, particularly the ancient bull whale whose legendary rider was their ancestor.
F JAC	The haunting	Jackson, Shirley	Dr. Markway, a trained anthropologist with a special interest in psychic research, wants to try what he hopes will be a true exercise in terror. He's heard about the reputation of Hill House, which claimed the lives of several of its young inhabitants, and wishes to explore the horrors of the unseen and the unexplained.
F JAC	Redwall	Jacques, Brian.	When the peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes, Matthias, a young mouse, determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior which, he is convinced, will help Redwall's inhabitants destroy the enemy
F JAM	The murder room	James, P.D.	Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called upon to investigate when one of the trustees of a small, family-owned museum devoted to the interwar years in England, is found murdered shortly after expressing his intention to close the institution
F JEN	Damage	Jenkins, A.M.	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.
F JIN	Ha, Jin	Crazed	Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature at a provincial Chinese university, begins to accuse his family of heinous acts after he has a stroke, and the young woman caring for him, who is also engaged to his son, must decide if his ramblings are true or not.
F JOH	Safe at second	Johnson, Scott	Paulie Lockwood's best friend Todd Bannister is destined for the major leagues until a line drive to the head causes him to lose an eye and they both must find a new future for themselves.
F JOH	The first part last	Johnson, Angela	Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.
F JOH	Navigator of New York	Johnston, W.	Devlin Stead, an orphan in late-nineteenth-century Newfoundland, is being raised by his loving aunt and less than loving uncle, and his life is forever changed when he begins to receive letters from a prominent New York physician and explorer who wants Devlin to become his apprentice.
F JON	Rope eater : a novel	Jones, Ben	Bredan Kane defects from the Union army after he realizes he cannot handle the horrors of the Civil War and drifts north, where he joins a crew of the Pequod on an expedition to the heart of the Arctic.
F KAM	Not quite kosher	Kaminsky, Stuart	Chicago homicide detective Abe Lieberman hunts for a pair of thieves whose bungled robbery attempt has ended in murder, while also trying to juggle a host of personal problems, including his longtime partner Bill Hanrahan's decision to marry a woman who has caught the eye of a kingpin in the city's Asian crime syndicate.
F KAY	To dance with the white dog	Kay, Terry	A devoted old couple are separated when the wife dies. The husband struggles to cope with his loneliness and failing health, but his spirit is fading when a mysterious white dog appears and reawakens his joy of life.
F KAZ	Halide's gift : a novel	Kazan, Frances	As the Ottoman empire draws its last breaths, young Halide--who has been given a Western education and has also inherited her mother's ability to commune with the spirits of the dead--struggles with the choice between the traditional world of her mother and the intellectual one of her father. She soon finds herself in opposition to her sister when political differences escalate to violence.
F KID	Secret life of bees	Kidd, Sue Monk	Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared from Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.
F KIN	Black house	King, Stephen and Straub, Peter	Jack Sawyer, who traveled to a parallel universe to save his mother and is now a retired homicide detective, helps a Wisconsin policeman track down a serial killer, who abducts and murders children.
F KIN	From a Buick 8 : a novel	King, Stephen	Eighteen-year-old Ned, having taken to hanging out at the barracks of state police Troop D in rural Pennsylvania after the death of his father, Trooper Curtis Wilcox, becomes obsessed with learning the truth about a 1954 Buick Roadmaster--apparently a conduit to the underworld--the squad has had secreted in a locked shed since 1979 when its owner mysteriously disappeared.
F KIN	The green mile	King, Stephen	A story of prejudice that sends an innocent black man to death row where he touches the lives of all who know him.
F KIN	The shining	King, Stephen	A summer resort comes to life in the off-season when the Torrances arrive to take over as winter caretakers and five-year-old Danny begins having horrific visions.
F KUR	The grand complication	Kurzweil, Allen.	Alexander Short, a reference librarian with a rocky marriage to a French pop-up book author, is hired by bibliophile Henry James Jesson III to do after-hours research on the life of a mysterious eighteenth-century inventor who left a cabinet full of wonders that chronicle his life, with one maddeningly empty shelf.
F LEB	Song of names : a novel	Lebrecht, Norman	Two men who were children during WW II are reunited after 20 years of uncertainty caused by the disappearance of one of them on the eve of his musical debut.
F LEE	Country of origin	Lee, Don (ASIJ Author)	Lisa Countryman, a half-African-American, half-Asian Berkley graduate, travels to Japan to conduct research for her dissertation and seek out answers about her identity, but when she disappears into the shadow world of Tokyo's sex trade, it is up to Kenzo Ota, a police inspector with issues of his own, to learn her fate.
F LEG	A wizard of Earthsea	Le Guin, Ursula K.	A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.
F LEN	A wrinkle in time.	L'Engle, Madeleine	Meg Murry and her friends become involved with three extraterrestrial strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
F LEW	The chronicles of Narnia	Lewis, C.S.	A series of heroic, fantastical tales in which several young schoolchildren travel to the mystical land of Narnia and fight evil witches, help a kingly lion, try to save a lost prince, and battle for the triumph of good over evil.
F LIM	A bit of earth	Lim, Suchen C.	Three families all toil on the Malayan soil. One is of Chinese descent; one is Malay; one is a follower of the English way. At one point their destinies become intertwined and tragedy results.
F LOT	Jewel	Lott, Bret	In the backwoods of Mississippi, a mother's fifth child becomes both her burden and God's way of smiling on her.
F LOV	The floating book	Lovric, Michelle	A book that brings out the beauty of 15th century Venice even as it spins tales of a sensual nature.
F LUD	The Tristan betrayal	Ludlum, Robert	On his own after his network is dismantled by the Nazis, American socialite spy Stephen Metcalfe sets out from Paris to Moscow to find a former lover, ballerina Svetlana Baranova, and must choose between potentially saving the free world and saving the woman he realizes he still loves.
F MAC	The earth, my butt, and other big round things.	Mackler, Carolyn	Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her.
F MAR	Looking for Alibrandi	Marchetta, Melina	During her senior year in a Catholic school in Sydney, Australia, seventeen-year-old Josie meets and must contend with the father she has never known.
F MAR	Tomorrow when the war began An Australian Award Winner!	Marsden, John	Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip in the bush to discover that their country has been invaded and they must hide to stay alive.
F MAR	Life of Pi : a novel	Martel, Yann	After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship in the Pacific, one solitary lifeboat remains, carrying a hyena, a zebra, a female orangutan, a Bengal tiger, and a 16-year-old Indian boy names Pi. His story is a dazzling work of imagination that will delight and astound listerners in equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will as one character puts it, make you believe in God.
F MAS	Samurai's daughter	Massey, Sujata	Antiques dealer Rei Shimura uncovers some startling and dangerous truths when her research into the history of Japanese decorate arts converges with her boyfriend, lawyer Hugh Glendinning's, class action suit on behalf of people forced into slave labor for Japanese companies during World War II.
F MAS	Loving daughters	Masters, Olga	Set in 1920's Australia just after WW I, this book tells the story of a family with two marriagable daughters who both have their eyes on the new minister.
F MAU	The moon and sixpence	Maugham, W. Somerset	Charles Strickland rebels against his life as a London stockbroker and decides to abandon civilization and his family to pursue a career as a painter in the South Pacific.
F MCC	Dragonflight - Vol 1 in the Dragons of Pern series	McCaffrey, Anne	Lessa gives up her birthright to the Hold of Ruatha to become rider and life companion to Ramoth the Golden, the senior Queen Dragon of Pern. Together, Lessa and her weyrmate F'lar, rider of bronze Mnementh, must revive long-forgotten traditions devised by their ancesters from Earth, to defeat an ancient menace.
F MCC	Dragonquest - Vol 2 in the Dragons of Pern series	McCaffrey, Anne	Another Turn, and the deadly silver Threads began falling again. So the bold dragonriders took to the air once more and their magnificent flying dragons swirled and swooped, belching flames that destroyed the shimmering strands before they reach the ground. But F'lar knew he had to find a better way to protect his beloved Pern.
F MCC	Dragonsong - Another story in the Dragons of Pern series	McCaffrey, Anne	Menolly loved music and wanted to be a Harper, though her father would not allow it. It was a disgrace for a woman even to think of such a thing. Menolly had no choice but to run away. On her journey she meets a group of fire lizards who bring new adventure, challenge and direction to her life.
F MCC	The no. 1 ladies' detective agency	McCall Smith, Alexander	Precious Ramotswe decides to go against tradition and open a private detective agency in contemporary Botswana, and soon has more business than she could have hoped for, including a disturbing case involving a missing child.
F MCC	The no. 1 ladies' detective agency	McCall Smith, Alexander,	Precious Ramotswe decides to go against tradition and open a private detective agency in contemporary Botswana, and soon has more business than she could have hoped for, including a disturbing case involving a missing child. Very funny!
F MCC	Cut	McCormick, Patricia	While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.
F MCD	Child of my heart	McDermott, Alice	Theresa recalls her fifteenth summer as the most sought-after babysitter in Long Island, and the challenges of caring for her fragile younger cousin while crossing over into the world of adulthood.
F MCD	Shades of Simon Gray	McDonald, Joyce	Seventeen-year-old Simon lies in a coma, finding his space and time overlapping with that of a man who was lynched over 200 years ago, while a member of the cheating ring he has been helping wonders if their actions have caused the plagues assaulting their New Jersey town.
F MCE	Atonement	McEwan, Ian	In this rich novel by the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel "Amsterdam, " a young girl unwittingly tells a tale that turns her family upside down.
F MCL	The nanny diaries : a novel	McLaughlin, Emma	In order to pay her way through NYU, Nanny takes a job caring for the only son of a wealthy family, where she soon realizes her real job responsibility is making sure the Park Avenue wife who doesn't work, cook, clean, or raise her own child has a smooth day.
F MIN	Empress Orchid	Min, Anchee	Tzu Hsi, known as Orchid, enters China's Forbidden City at the age of seventeen to serve as a concubine for the Emperor, and when she bears the monarch a son, she is elevated to the rank of Empress, where she struggles to maintain her position and the right to raise her own child.
F MIT	Gone with the Wind	Mitchell, Margaret	After the Civil War sweeps away the genteel life to which she has been accustomed, Scarlett O'Hara sets about to salvage her plantation home.
F MOL	Bridge to Wiseman's Cove	Moloney, James	A teenage seeks acceptance in a community that will give none, because of what happened at Wiseman's Cove.
F MOR	Feeling sorry for Celia	Moriarty, Jaclyn	An epistolary novel about a teenager named Elizabeth, made up of notes and letters from her best friend, a runaway named Celia; Christina, the new pen pal Elizabeth reluctantly takes on for a school assignment; her busy mother; and Elizabeth's own angst-ridden mind.
F MOS	Zazoo	Mosher, Richard	Amid old secrets revealed and rifts healed, a thirteen-year-old Vietnamese orphan raised in rural France by her aging "Grand-Pierre" learns about life, death, and love.
F MYE	Fallen angels	Myers, Walter Dean	Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.
F MYE	Monster	Myers, Walter Dean	While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
F NIC	The wind singer : an adventure	Nicholson, William	After Kestrel Hath rebels against the stifling rules of Amaranth society and is forced to flee, she, along with her twin brother and a tagalong classmate, follow an ancient map in quest of the legendary silver voice of the wind singer, in an attempt to heal Amaranth and its people.
F NIF	The time traveler's wife : a novel	Niffenegger, Audrey	Clare and Henry, deeply in love, try desperately to maintain normal lives even though he has been diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition in which his genetic clock periodically resets, pulling him through time to the past or future.
F NOL	Born blue	Nolan, Han	Janie was four years old when she nearly drowned due to her mother's neglect. Through an unhappy foster home experience, and years of feeling that she is unwanted, she keeps alive her dream of someday being a famous singer.
F OAT	Oates, Joyce Carol	Big mouth & ugly girl	When sixteen-year-old Matt is falsely accused of threatening to blow up his high school and his friends turn against him, an unlikely classmate comes to his aid.
F OAT	Freaky green eyes	Oates, Joyce Carol	Fifteen-year-old Frankie relates the events of the year leading up to her mother's mysterious disappearance and her own struggle to discover and accept the truth about her parents' relationship.
F OBR	The poor mouth: a bad story of the hard life	O'Brien, Flann	A satire that brought the wrath of the Irish when first published in Gaelic about the abject poverty and circumstances of the Irish people in a fictitious village.
F OBR	July, July	O'Brien, Tim	Ten friends from Minnesota's Darton Hall College class of 1969 come together thirty years later to reminisce, nurse wounds, and look for hope, despite disillusion and regrets.
F OLT	The getaway special	Oltion, Jerry	Allen Meisner invents a hyperdrive engine capable of taking anyone to the stars for just a few dollars, but when a demonstration aboard his spaceship arises, Allen learns there is no such thing as a free ride.
F ORW	1984 : a novel	Orwell, George	Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.
F PAO	Eldest	Paolini, Christopher.	After successfully evading an Urgals ambush, Eragon is adopted into the Ingeitum clan and sent to finish his training so he can further help the Varden in their struggle against the Empire.
F PAO	Eragon	Paolini, Christopher.	In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters. Written by teen author, Christopher Paolini.
F PAT	The beach house : a novel	Patterson, James	Law student Jack Mullen puts his own life, and those of his friends on the line when he enlists their help in going up against the local East Hampton authorities in an effort to prove that his younger brother Peter, found dead at the Beach House of ultra-rich Barry Neubauer, was murdered.
F PEA	Dante Club : a novel	Pearl, Matthew	Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, one of an elite group of literary geniuses secretly working on America's first translation of "The Divine Comedy" in 1865, puts his career on the line when he teams up with outcast police officer Nicholas Rey in an attempt to find a killer who is patterning his crimes on descriptions of Hell's punishments from Dante's "Inferno."
F PED	Beginner's luck	Pedersen, Laura	Sixteen-year-old gambling whiz Hallie Palmer, kicked off the soccer team for ditching class, gets the education of her life when she quits school and takes up residence in an outbuilding on the grounds of the Stockton home where she works as a yard person for the very eccentric, very wealthy family.
F PEL	Pelecanos, George	Soul circus	Derek Strange becomes the investigator for the attorneys of a crime boss facing the death penalty for a murder he really may not have committed.
F PIC	My sister's keeper : a novel	Picoult, Jodi	Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control of her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate.
F PIE	Trickster's queen	Pierce, Tamora	Aly fails to foresee the dangers that await as she uses her magic to safeguard Dova and her younger siblings, despite knowing that her thirteen-year-old charge might be queen of the Copper Isles when the colonial rulers are defeated.
F POT	The chosen : a novel	Potok, Chaim	Recounts the story of Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders--one an orthodox Jew, the other the son of a Hasidic rabbi--and the course of their friendship as they grow up in Brooklyn.
F PRA	Amazing Maurice and his educated rodents	Pratchett, Terry	Tells the true story of Jesse and Eric, nineteen-year-old roommates in the small town of Caldwell, Idaho who changed their lives and built a new future for themselves with the power of the Internet.
F PRA	The truth : a novel of Discworld	Pratchett, Terry	An ethical journalist, de Worde has a proclivity for investigating stories - a nasty habit that soon creates powerful enemies eager to stop his presses. Takes place in a weird Renaissance-like world populated by dwarves, ogres, vampires and talking dogs.
F PUL	The golden compass	Pullman, Philip	Living among scholars in the hallowed halls of Jordan College, Lyra hears rumors of a magical dust that supposedly possesses powers that can unite whole universes, and begins a difficult and dangerous journey to find it.
F REA	Gossip from Thrush Green	Miss Read (Dora Saint)	The sleepy, pristine English village of Thrush Green harbors a flurry of activity over the course of one summer as Molly Curdle prepares for a new baby, Mr. Venables considers retirement, the village teacher weighs an important decision, and the vicar goes about his work unaware that disaster is about to strike.
F REN	Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging : confessions of Georgia Nicolson	Rennison, Louise	Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.
F RIC	Swedish tango	Richman, Alyson (ASIJ Author)	A young South American wife's tranquil life is turned upside down when her husband's politics gets her kidnapped and tortured. They eventually escape to Sweden where her therapist who is helping her deal with her schattered life begins to fall in love with her. Now he must also confront his own past and his troubled marriage.
F RIT	The boy who saved baseball	Ritter, John H.	The fate of a small California town rests on the outcome of one baseball game, and Tom Gallagher hopes to lead his team to victory with the secrets of the now disgraced player, Dante Del Gato.
F ROB	Witness in death	Robb, J.D. (Nora Roberts)	Lieutenant Eve Dallas must solve the clever murder of a despised, yet famous, actor.
F ROB	Playing with fire	Robinson, Peter	Arson in Yorkshire brings in the skills of detectives Alan Banks and Annie Cabbot to discover the reason for two fires that left two seemingly unrelated people dead.
F ROH	A fine balance : a novel	Mistry, Rohinton	In mid-1970s urban India - a chaos of wretchedness on the streets and slogans in the offices - a chain of circumstances tosses four varied individuals together, forced to share a cramped apartment and an uncertain future.
F ROT	The plot against America	Roth, Philip	A novel that imagines what might have happened in America, particularly to one Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, had Charles Lindbergh won the 1940 presidential election rather than Franklin Roosevelt and acted upon his anti-Semitic leanings.
F ROW	Harry Potter and the half blood prince	Rowling, J.K.	In Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Lord Voldemort becomes ever more powerful with his followers increasing day by day in this continuing battle between good and evil. Harry searches for the full and complex story of the boy who became Lord Voldemort, and thereby finds what may be his only vulnerability.
F SAL	The lord of the deep	Salisbury, Graham	Working for his stepfather on a charter fishing boat in Hawaii teaches thirteen-year-old Mikey about fishing, and about taking risks, making sacrifices, and facing some of life's difficult choices.
F SAN	"---and ladies of the club"	Santmyer, Helen Hooven	Follows two young women in a small Ohio town from high school graduation just after the Civil War to old age during the New Deal of the 1930s. The two, Anne and Sally, are charter members of the Waynesboro literary society, which becomes central to their lives and the lives of others in their town.
F SEB	The lovely bones	Sebold, Alice	Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon, the victim of a sexual assault and murder, looks on from the afterlife as her family deals with their grief, and waits for her killer to be brought to some type of justice.
F SEE	Dragon bones	See, Lisa	When the body of an American archaeologist is found in the Yangzi River, Ministry of Public Security agent Liu Hulan and her husband are sent to investigate, and they soon begin to suspect the death was not accidental.
F SEV	Braving the fire	Severance, John B.	Rec by Renee Lancet Jem joins the Union Army but is not sure of his motives or what he hopes to accomplish, particularly since the Civil War has divided his family and caused much violence and confusion in his life.
F SHI	Summers at Castle Auburn	Shinn, Sharon	Corie, the illegitimate daughter of a royal lord, looks forward to her summers at Castle Auburn, her father's family estate, but as she gets older, she realizes she is being groomed for a political marriage, and becomes aware of the injustice of the enslavement of the magical Aliora people, and decides to risk all to follow her heart.
F SHR	Eden Close	Shreve, Anita	Twenty years ago a violent act shattered Eden Close's world. Now a former neighbor, Andrew, returns for his mother's funeral and to find out what really happened to Eden.
F SHR	Strange fits of passion	Shreve, Anita	While in prison, a former journalist tells the story of her past to an investigative reporter.
F SMI	Joy in the morning	Smith, Betty	The story of a young couple from Brooklyn who marry young, have little money, and face bitter parental opposition, but are determined to make something of their life together.
F SON	What my mother doesn't know	Sones, Sonya	Sophie describes her relationships with a series of boys as she searches for Mr. Right.
F STA	Shiva's fire	Fisher-Staples, Susan	In India, a talented dancer sacrifices friends and family for her art.
F STE	The shadow king	Stevenson, Jane	Balthasar Stuart struggles to come to terms with his rich, complex heritage as the sone of Elizabeth of Bohemia and her clandestine lover, an African prince and former slave.
F STE	Winter queen	Stevenson, Jane	In seventeenth-century Holland, Elizabeth of Bohemia and her clandestine lover, an African prince, find themselves involved in a love affair that threatens to ruin both their lives and their countries.
F STR	Leslie's journal : a novel An ALA Best Book for 2002	Stratton, Allan	Leslie's life seems to settle from chaos to wonderful when Jason, the new guy in school, asks her out. Things quickly change, however, and spin out of control as she finds out that Jason is not as nice as she thought and she must find a way to break out of the relationship.
F STR	My name, a living memory	Van Straten, Giorgio	The author dramatizes his family's history from 1811 to 1948, from his Dutch Jewish great-great-great-grandfather's choice of a last name, coerced by Napoleonic edict, to his aunts' and uncles' fates in the concentration camps and after World War II.
F TAS	The gospel according to Larry An ALA Best Book for 2001	Tashjian, Janet	Seventeen-year-old Josh, a loner-philosopher who wants to make a difference in the world, tries to maintain his secret identity as the author of a web site that is receiving national attention.
F TIN	The edge on the sword	Tingle, Rebecca	In ninth-century Britain, fifteen-year-old Aethelflaed, daughter of King Alfred of West Saxony, finds she must assume new responsibilities much sooner than expected when she is betrothed to Ethelred of Mercia in order to strengthen a strategic alliance against the Danes.
F TOL	The fellowship of the ring : being the first part of The lord of the rings	J.R.R. Tolkien	A Hobbit, Frodo Baggins, bearer of the Ring of Power that would enable the evil Sauron to destroy all that is good in Middle-earth, takes on the task of carrying the Ring to Mount Doom to oversee its destruction. He is accompanied on his quest by three Hobbits, a wizard, and four warriors representing the races of Men, Dwarves and Elves.
F TOL	Final witness	Tolkien, Simon	Thomas, the son of Sir Peter Robinson, the British minister of defense, drives a deeper wedge between himself and his distant father when he insists his stepmother, formerly Sir Peter's assistant, had something to do with the murder of his mother, Lady Anne Robinson. The author is the grandson of J. R. R. Tolkien.
F TRI	Lucia, Lucia: a novel	Trigiani, Adriana	Aspiring playwright Kit Zanetti lucks into the story of a lifetime when she accepts an invitation to tea from her elderly upstairs neighbor Aunt Lu and is treated to the tale of Lu's life in Greenwich Village in the 1950s as a beautiful, independent apprentice to an up-and-coming designer at a chic Fifth Avenue department store.
F TRU	Book of salt	Truong, Monique	A Vietnamese man working as Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas's cook in 1934 Paris looks back on his early life in his native country while deciding whether or not to accompany the couple to America.
F VON	Breakfast of champions	Vonnegut, Kurt	Dwayne Hoover, a successful automobile dealer in Midland City, suddenly decides that he is a machine and begins to act accordingly.
F WEA	Hard ball : a Billy Baggs novel	Weaver, Will	A fourteen-year-old Minnesota farm boy has to figure out how to get along with the arch-rival in his love life and on the baseball diamond, and both boys must learn how to deal with the unfair expectations of their fathers.
F WER	Black mirror : a novel	Werlin, Nancy	Convinced her brother's death was murder rather than suicide, sixteen-year-old Frances begins her own investigation into suspicious student activities at her boarding school.
F WEY	My heartbeat	Weyr, Garret.	As she tries to understand the closeness between her older brother and his best friend, fourteen-year-old Ellen finds her relationship with each of them changing.
F WHI	The once and future king	White, T. H.	The sword in the stone -- The Queen of air and darkness -- The ill-made knight -- The candle in the wind. Tells the story of the youth and reign of King Arthur, the establishment of the Round Table, and the search for the Holy Grail.
F WIN	Cloudstreet