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|  | Ironman by Chris Crutcher, George Guidall, Paul Hecht
Bo Brewster is forced to join a before-school anger management program after having a screaming fight with his coach that resulted in his being thrown off the football team. The group sessions help Bo come to terms with his angry relationship with his father that is being mirrored in his relationship with the football coach. As another outlet for his emotions, Bo begins to train for an ironman tournament which he hopes to win despite the fact that his father is helping his main opponent. AUTHOR: Chris Crutcher, George Guidall, Paul Hecht
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | East, West by Salman Rushdie
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Satanic Verses comes nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between East and West. From Indians to Welshmen, rickshaw drivers to occultists, Christopher Columbus to Hamlet's court jester, the characters in East, West inhabit a world in which nationality, and even identity, shift unpredictably and deliriously. Daring, extravagant, comical, and humane, East, West renews Rushdie's stature as one of our most gifted--and genuinely prophetic--writers. AUTHOR: Salman Rushdie
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Platero & I by Antonio Frasconi, Eloise Roach, Joseph P. Dominguez, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Myra C. Livingston
Description not available.A donkey and his master observe the beauty and tragedy of life in a Spanish village AUTHOR: Antonio Frasconi, Eloise Roach, Joseph P. Dominguez, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Myra C. Livingston
PUBLISHER: University of Texas Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Miracle at St. Anna
Set during World War II, this novel is about four black American soldiers caught in local partisan politics behind enemy lines in Italy when they are forced to expose a traitor in the town. One of them, Private Sam Train, becomes the protector of a small orphan boy who is deeply involved in the events.
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Gardener to the King by Barbara Bray, Frederic Richaud
The hero of this historical tale, which has the atmosphere of a fable, is Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie, who takes care of Louis XIV's gardens at Versailles. As he gets to know the king, he begins to understand the extent of his employer's megalomania and frivolity, and he becomes convinced that he must take action. AUTHOR: Barbara Bray, Frederic Richaud
PUBLISHER: Arcade Publishing, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Crossing to Sunlight by Paul Zimmer
A rich and varied collection of more than one hundred poems, Crossing to Sunlight ranges across thirty-five years to offer both a retrospective and current look at the work of Paul Zimmer. AUTHOR: Paul Zimmer
PUBLISHER: University of Georgia Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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