Lois Lowry

Tells the story of people whose lives were lost or forever altered by the twin tragedies of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. Based on the lives of soldiers at Pearl Harbor and civilians in Hiroshima, On the Horizon contemplates humanity and war through verse that sings with pain, truth, and the importance of bridging cultural divides. This masterful work emphasizes empathy and understanding in search of commonality and friendship, vital lessons for students...

"Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units: one male, one female, to each. Citizens are assigned their partners and their jobs. No one thinks to ask questions. Everyone obeys. The community is a precisely choreographed world without conflict, inequality, divorce, unemployment, injustice--or choice. Everyone is the same. Except Jonas. At the Ceremony...

Jonas' life assignment is as the Receiver of Memory, where he will apprentice the Giver and become a storehouse of all the things humanity left behind when it entered utopia: color, emotion, and even more complicated secrets.

Thirty years after their disappearance, the previously frozen Willoughbys have thawed out and returned from the Alps, to the consternation of their children and grandchildren.

A collection of DVDs featuring films based on young adult novels, all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night. Fault in our stars : Two teenage cancer patients fall in love and travel to Amsterdam to meet a reclusive author. Giver : In a seemingly perfect community without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is selected to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world. If...