The Hunger

The HungerBy: Alma Katsu "Deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down, not recommended reading after dark." Stephen King A tense and gripping reimagining of one of America's most haunting human disasters: the Donner Party with a supernatural twist. Evil is invisible, and it is everywhere. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious

or if what they’re feeling is as ephemeral as marshmallows in a mug of hot cocoa

More than her school -- more than her friends -- and definitely more than her homework

“More than an elegy for a bar and a neighborhood—it’s also a vivid and loving portrait of the larger-than-life eccentric who gave the bar its name and its spirit

“A taut tightly compressed story of endurance and revelation…At once barbed and tender

as told by a former Somali refugee to the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl

By: Betsy Bird | Illustrator:  David Small   NAMED ONE OF THE BEST CHILDREN’S BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES

From London's slums to its bawdy playhouses

Shortlisted for the 1998 Giller Prize

and a devoted wife and mother

an all-around good kid

But no one sees them leave

By: Jim Starlin | Illustrator:  Rags Morales   Gene manipulation has always been solely for those who can afford the expensive prenatal treatments