These are a few of Mrs. Mulch’s favorite books in our library. . .

everything from sports to romance to a great biography!

 

 

Chinese Handcuffs                           Crutcher, Chris                      F CRU Sports

 

            Dillon has lots happening in his life—a brother who committed suicide in front of him, the pregnant

girlfriend of his brother, and a girlfriend who shies away from any physical contact with him.  He’s an

athlete who doesn’t go out for school sports—except to be the manager on the girls’ basketball team—

and he only does that to be near his girl Jennifer and to make the coaches mad.  Great book, excellent

characters. . .

 

 

A Bend in the Road                          Sparks, Nicholas                    F SPA Romance

 

            Deputy sheriff Miles Ryan’s wife was killed by a hit and run driver while out on her evening jog,

leaving him to raise their son Jonah on his own.   Sparks fly when he meets Sarah Andrews, Jonah’s

teacher. . . but an unknown voice threads through the book—Missy Ryan’s killer.  Easy reading, a light

romance, a little mystery…

 

 

4,000 Days                              Fellows, Warren                     B FEL

 

            This biography is the most checked out book in the GBHS Library.  It tells the story of a drug courier

who’s caught in a Thailand airport smuggling drugs and the 4,000 days he spent in a hellish prison. 

Don’t read this if you have a weak stomach. . . it’s graphic, horrifying, amazing.  It’ll keep you riveted finding out what nightmare he will encounter next.

 

 

If You Come Softly                          Woodson, Jacqueline                       F WOO

 

            When Ellie and Miah walk together in the park, people stare because she’s white and he’s black.  He’s

from a rich, famous family, and she’s dealing with a mother who walked out on her family.  From the

time they meet at a Manhattan prep school, they know they fit together. . .  but everyone else can’t seem

to see beyond the colors of their skins.  It’s a great book, but have some tissues ready for the ending. . . 

 

 

Ironman                                  Crutcher, Chris                      F CRU Sports

 

            Bo Brewster has been at war with his father for as long as he can remember, and he loses control when

his football coach, a man awfully like his dad, pushes him a little too far in practice.  Because of Bo’s

track record with school suspensions, he’s now relegated to Mr. Nak's before-school Anger Management

group (which he initially believes to be populated with future serial killers and freeway snipers).  There

Bo meets a pack of survivors that he finds out aren’t so different from him.  It is here he finds and falls

in love with Shelly, a future American Gladiator, whose passion for physical challenge more than

matches his.

 

 

 

 

Hanging on to Max                 Bechard, Margaret                F BEC

Sam Pettigrew never imagined he’d spend his senior year changing diapers and giving midnight feedings.  But when his girlfriend decides she can’t handle motherhood, Sam finds himself a single parent.  Max wasn't part of the plan. He wasn't even part of the backup plan. But he's here now, and Sam is attending an alternative high school with other teen parents like himself. Talk about a wake-up call. But Sam is determined to make it work, to show everyone -- his dad, his new girlfriend, himself -- that he has what it takes to be a good dad.   After disaster strikes, Sam questions whether or not he should give up. . . but would that mean giving up on Max?

 

Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas          Patterson, James          F PAT Romance

Katie Wilkinson's boyfriend Matt dumps her and leaves behind a diary.  As Katie begins to read, she slowly comes to realize that the diary belongs to Matt’s first wife, Suzanne, and she had written it for their baby, Nicholas.  As Katie struggles through the diary, her heart fills with fear and hope, and she wonders what happened and whether the love she and Matt have can survive.

 

Dreamland                                                    Dessen, Sarah                       F DES

 

When Caitlin first meets strange, sleepy Rogerson, with his long brown dreads and brilliant green eyes, he seems to be everything she wants him to be. He's handsome, sensitive, rich, wild, and more than a bit mysterious, and before long, Rogerson has cast a spell over Caitlin—a spell that keeps her in a dreamland from which she can't seem to break free—aeven when the dreams turn into nightmares.  Her beautiful, smart, everything older sister Cass runs away from home, and Caitlin’s world starts to crumble around her, and she can’t find anyone to tell about what happens when she’s alone with Rogerson.

 

Roughnecks                                     Cochran, Thomas                   F COC Sports

"You want to be a Roughneck, Cody?"

Coach Crews must have asked me that a thousand times during those twenty practices, and I always gave him the same answer.

"Yessir."  I said it even when I wasn't sure I believed it.

Senior Travis Cody, raised in a Louisiana town so obsessed with the sport that every boy gets a toy football at birth, looks with mixed feelings at what will most likely be his final game.  Rising before dawn on the day of the state championship, Travis mulls over the personalities and personal influences of nearly everyone he knows, recapping the history of his dying oil town, college plans, football's pleasures, pains, and character-building aspects, and anything else that comes to mind.  This book is not to be missed.