Mount Tabor High School

   MEDIA CENTER BOOKS WISH LIST (updated 12/13/21)

Many thanks to the parents and students who have donated wish list books to the media center! If you have a new or gently used copy of any of the following books, please consider dropping it off in the media center or the main office.  Please let us know when you do, so we can thank you properly. Top book-wishes are highlighted in bold. Hardcover or paperback-- your choice. Spartans love to read!

Battle of the Books 2021-2022-- Mount Tabor is competing for the first time! We need an extra copy of each of this year's BOB books, and especially need the first two books listed:

*These Violent Delights (Chloe Gong)** especially needed

*Raybearer (Jordan Ifueko)** especially needed

*Love from A to Z (S.K. Ali)

*The Inheritance Games (Jennifer Lynn Barnes)

*Hollow Kingdom (Kira Jane Buxton)

*The Marrow Thieves (Cherie Dimaline)

*The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh (Candace Fleming)

*Dancing at the Pity Party (Tyler Feder)

*Not So Pure and Simple (Lamar Giles)

*This is My America (Kim Johnson)

*You Should See Me in a Crown (Leah Johnson)

*Angel of Greenwood (Randi Pink)

*The Cat I Never Named (Amra Sabic-El-Rayess)

*Furia (Yamile Saied Mendez)

*Cemetery Boys (Aiden Thomas)

 Books in popular fiction series (paperback copies would be great):

*The Chosen by Karyn Langhorne Folan & Paul Langan (Book 22, Bluford series)

* Cruel Prince series by Holly Black: The Cruel Prince (Book 1); Wicked King (Book 2); Queen of Nothing  (Book 3)

*Curse Breaker series by Brigid Kemmerer: A Curse So Dark and Lonely (Book 1); A Heart So Fierce and Broken (Book 2); A Vow So Bold and Deadly (Book 3)

*The Forging of the Shadows (Book 1, Lightbringer trilogy by Oliver Johnson)

* Good Girl's Guide to Murder series by Holly Jackson:  Good Girl's Guide to Murder (Book 1); Good Girl, Bad Blood (Book 2); As Good as Dead (Book 3).

*The Hawthorne Legacy (Book 2, Inheritance Games series)

*Last Pick, Books 1 & 2 (of the graphic sci-fi series by Jason Walz)

*Narnia series by C.S. Lewis, books to complete our set: The Magician's Nephew; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; The Horse and His B

*The Unwind series by Neal Shusterman, Books 1 through 4: Unwind; Unwholly; Unsouled; Undivided.

*The Watcher (Book 1, The Watcher’s Quest series by Margaret Buffie)

*Wildcard (Marie Lu)

Other Fiction:

*13 Little Blue Envelopes (Maureen Johnson)

*An Emotion of Great Delight (Tahereh Mafi)

*Bad Call (Stephen Wallenfels)

*Before the Ever After (Jacqueline Woodson)

*Flygirl (Sherri L. Smith)

*Game Changer (Tom Greenwald)

*Girl in the Blue Coat (Monica Hesse)

*I Know What You Did Last Summer (Lois Duncan)

*I'm Not Dying with You Tonight (Kimberly Jones & Gilly Segal)

*Kindred (Octavia Butler)-- the novel, not the graphic adaptation

*A Lesson Before Dying (Ernest Gaines)

*Long Snapper's Blues (Mike Tanier)

*The Map from Here to There (Emery Lord)

*Mexican White Boy (Matt de la Pena)

*More Than We Can Tell (Brigid Kemmerer)

*Pop (Gordon Korman)

*They Both Die at the End (Adam Silvera)

*White Rose (Kip Wilson)

Non-fiction:

*I Want More Pizza:  Real World Money Skills for High School, College, and Beyond (Steve Burkholder)

*Strange Fruit, Volume 1 (Joel Christian Gill)

*Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom (Lynda Blackmon Lowery)

*When Plague Strikes (James Cross Gibilin)

Poetry

*Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance  by Nikki Grimes

Test Study Books (we need only the most recent editions-- from 2019 forward)

ACT:

*The Real ACT Prep Guide: The Only Official Prep Guide from the Makers of the ACT

*Math and Science Workout for the ACT (Melissa Hendrix)

*Cracking the ACT (Geoff Martz)

 ASVAB:

*ASVAB: The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery

SAT:

*Barron's SAT ((Sharon Green)

*Math Review for the SAT

*The Official SAT Study Guide