Deschutes Public Library

Nine classic fairy tales set in modern, magical landscapes and retold with a twist.  

Joe is an average teenager living in a comfortable London suburb. Then he meets Candy. Beautiful, damaged Candy. Brooks's plotting is masterful, and the action twists and builds to a frenzied and violent climax.

 

A diary of growing up on the streets of New York in the 60s.

 

Charlie is a freshman. And while's he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. He's a wallflower--shy and introspective, and intelligent beyond his years. Charlie writes letters to someone of undisclosed name, age, and gender.

 

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.

 

The author interprets the people, events, influences and art that made up the brief life of Sylvia Plath.

 

Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul - her life.  

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.  

Seven friends made a pact to write haikus every day for a year as a way to keep in touch with each other. The result is The Haiku Year. Michael Stipe’s entries recall his twilight-drenched lyrics for R.E.M. Douglas Martin’s spare, elegant prose illuminates the hidden corners of life while Grant Lee Phillips thoughtful storytelling is pared down to the simplest language.  

Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school.

 

The author details his immersion in a world of hardcore drugs, revealing the mental and physical depths of addiction, and the violent relapse one summer in California that forever changed his life, leading him down the road to recovery.