Most Circulated Titles

The catcher in the rye

Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010.


Wilson's Senior High School, October 2007. Wilson's Fiction, October 2010. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.). Booklist, August 1997. An adolescent boy, knowing he is about to be dropped by his school, spends three days and nights in New York City.
Date Published:1945

1984 : a novel /

Orwell, George, 1903-1950.


Booklist, August 1997. Winston Smith, a worker at the Ministry of Truth in the future political entity of Oceania, puts his life on the line when he joins a covert brotherhood in rebelling against the Party that controls all human thought and action.
Date Published:1977

The great Gatsby

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.


Booklist, August 1997. Tells the tragic love story of Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, a dashing, enigmatic millionaire obsessed with an elusive, spoiled young woman.
Date Published:1925

Pet sematary

King, Stephen, 1947-


"Newly introduced by the author"--Cover. A horror story of a children's pet cemetery and another graveyard behind it from which the dead return.
Date Published:1983

The things they carried : a work of fiction /

O'Brien, Tim, 1946-


"Mariner Books." Wilson's Senior High School, October 2011. School Library Journal. Library Journal. Books for the Teen Age (NYPL), January 1998. Publisher's Weekly. Booklist. New York Times. Related stories, linked by recurring characters and an interwoven plot, recreate an American foot soldier's experience in the Vietnam War.
Date Published:1990

Animal farm : a fairy story /

Orwell, George, 1903-1950.


Wilson's Senior High School, November 1997. Wilson's Junior High School, September 1995. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.). Booklist, August 1997. A political satire in which animals take over running a farm but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.
Date Published:1996

Brave new world

Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963.


Wilson's Senior High School, October 2011. Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. Wilson's Public Library. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.). New York Times. A satirical novel about the utopia of the future, a world in which babies are decanted from bottles and the great Ford is worshipped.
Date Published:1932

The road

McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-


Wilson's Senior High School, October 2007. Wilson's Fiction, October 2010. Pulitzer Prize, January 2007. Library Journal Starred, September 2006. Booklist starred, August 2006. Pub Weekly, July 2006. Kirkus Starred, July 2006. New York Times, October 2006. Kliatt Starred, July 2007. A nameless man and his young son wander through a decimated landscape, searching for means of survival and a reason for hope as barbaric hordes of people roam the streets and ash falls from the sky.
Date Published:2006

Wilson's Senior High School, October 2007. Wilson's Fiction, October 2010. Pulitzer Prize, January 2007. Library Journal Starred, September 2006. Booklist starred, August 2006. Pub Weekly, July 2006. Kirkus Starred, July 2006. New York Times, October 2006. Kliatt Starred, July 2007. A nameless man and his young son wander through a decimated landscape, searching for means of survival and a reason for hope as barbaric hordes of people roam the streets and ash falls from the sky.

Date Published:2006

Good girl, bad blood

Jackson, Holly, 1992-,


"The sequel to 'A good girl's guide to murder.'" "Originally published in hardcover by Egmont UK Ltd, London, in 2020." Junior Library Guild. "Pip is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her. But she will have to break that promise when someone she knows goes missing. Jamie Reynolds has disappeared, on the very same night the town hosted a memorial for the sixth-year anniversary of the deaths of Andie Bell and Sal Singh. The police won't do anything about it. And if they won't look for Jamie then Pip will, uncovering more of her town's dark secrets along the way... and this time everyone is listening. But will she find him before it's too late?"--Provided by the publisher.
Date Published:2021

"The sequel to 'A good girl's guide to murder.'" "Originally published in hardcover by Egmont UK Ltd, London, in 2020." Junior Library Guild. "Pip is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her. But she will have to break that promise when someone she knows goes missing. Jamie Reynolds has disappeared, on the very same night the town hosted a memorial for the sixth-year anniversary of the deaths of Andie Bell and Sal Singh. The police won't do anything about it. And if they won't look for Jamie then Pip will, uncovering more of her town's dark secrets along the way... and this time everyone is listening. But will she find him before it's too late?"--Provided by the publisher.

Date Published:2021

Fullmetal alchemist.

Arakawa, Hiromu, 1973-


Translated from the Japanese. First published in Japan in 2002 by Square Enix Co., Ltd."--P. facing t.p. "This book reads from right to left"--Cover p. [4]. Library Journal, January 2006. Publisher's Weekly, May 2005. Edward and Alphonse Elric, physically altered by their dabblings in alchemy, become agents of the government whose demands put them in touch with a world of evil alchemists, all in search of the Philosopher's Stone.
Date Published:2005

Translated from the Japanese. First published in Japan in 2002 by Square Enix Co., Ltd."--P. facing t.p. "This book reads from right to left"--Cover p. [4]. Library Journal, January 2006. Publisher's Weekly, May 2005. Edward and Alphonse Elric, physically altered by their dabblings in alchemy, become agents of the government whose demands put them in touch with a world of evil alchemists, all in search of the Philosopher's Stone.

Date Published:2005

Man vs. wild : extreme collection volume.


Alaskan mountain range-- Desert island.
Date Published:2007

Coraline

Gaiman, Neil.


Wilson's Children, October 2010. Wilson's Junior High School, September 2003. School Library Journal starred, August 2002. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2003. Library Media Connection starred, February 2003. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, November 2002. Pub Weekly, June 2002. Booklist, August 2002. Kirkus Starred, June 2002. Horn Book, November 2002. Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
Date Published:2002

Wilson's Children, October 2010. Wilson's Junior High School, September 2003. School Library Journal starred, August 2002. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2003. Library Media Connection starred, February 2003. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, November 2002. Pub Weekly, June 2002. Booklist, August 2002. Kirkus Starred, June 2002. Horn Book, November 2002. Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.

Date Published:2002

The lightning thief

Riordan, Rick.


Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. School Library Journal starred, August 2005. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2006. School Library Journal, June 2009. Book Links (A.L.A.), July 2008. Booklist starred, May 2009. Horn Book Starred, April 2006. Publishers Weekly, May 2009. Kirkus Starred, June 2005. Booklist, September 2005. Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.
Date Published:2005

Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. School Library Journal starred, August 2005. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2006. School Library Journal, June 2009. Book Links (A.L.A.), July 2008. Booklist starred, May 2009. Horn Book Starred, April 2006. Publishers Weekly, May 2009. Kirkus Starred, June 2005. Booklist, September 2005. Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.

Date Published:2005

The color purple

Walker, Alice, 1944-


Originally published: 1970. Wilson's Senior High School, October 2011. Wilson's Fiction, October 2010. Tells the story of two African-American sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the south, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God."
Date Published:2003

The Hobbit, or, There and back again

Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973.


Wilson's Senior High School, November 1997. The adventure of Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit, in a land inhabited by dwarfs, elves, goblins, dragons, and humans. He sets off to recover a stolen treasure from a dragon hidden in the Lonely Mountain.
Date Published:1996

The plague

Camus, Albert, 1913-1960.


This translation first published: Knopf, 1948. Translation of: La peste. Wilson's Senior High School, October 2011. Wilson's Fiction, October 2010. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.). Booklist, August 1997. A coastal city in Algeria is struck by bubonic plague and is shut off from the world for months.
Date Published:1975

The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001.


Wilson's Senior High School, November 1995. Wilson's Junior High School, November 2005. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.). Library Journal. Booklist starred, September 2001. Booklist, August 1997. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.). Seconds before Earth is demolished to make room for a galactic freeway, an earthman is saved by his friend. Together they journey through the galaxy.
Date Published:1980

Heart of darkness

Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.


First published in 1902. Booklist, August 1997. Presents the classic novel by nineteenth-century British author Joseph Conrad about Marlow, an adventurer and seaman and his physical and psychological journey into Africa where he witnesses the brutality of the natives by white traders.
Date Published:1999

The maze runner

Dashner, James, 1972-


Wilson's Senior High School, February 2011. Wilson's Junior High School, October 2010. School Library Journal, October 2009. Publisher's Weekly, September 2009. Booklist, September 2009. Horn Book, April 2010. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), November 2009. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2009. Kirkus Review, September 2009. Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
Date Published:2009

Wilson's Senior High School, February 2011. Wilson's Junior High School, October 2010. School Library Journal, October 2009. Publisher's Weekly, September 2009. Booklist, September 2009. Horn Book, April 2010. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), November 2009. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2009. Kirkus Review, September 2009. Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.

Date Published:2009

Troy

Geras, Adèle.


"First published in the UK by Scholastic Ltd, 2000"--T.p. verso. Wilson's Senior High School, October 2011. Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2002. School Library Journal, July 2001. Horn Book Starred, July 2001. Books for the Teen Age (NYPL), May 2002. Pub Weekly, May 2001. New York Times, July 2001. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), June 2001. Kliatt Starred, January 2003. The last weeks of the Trojan War find the women sick of tending the wounded, men tired of fighting, and bored gods and goddesses trying to find ways to stir things up.
Date Published:2002

"First published in the UK by Scholastic Ltd, 2000"--T.p. verso. Wilson's Senior High School, October 2011. Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2002. School Library Journal, July 2001. Horn Book Starred, July 2001. Books for the Teen Age (NYPL), May 2002. Pub Weekly, May 2001. New York Times, July 2001. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), June 2001. Kliatt Starred, January 2003. The last weeks of the Trojan War find the women sick of tending the wounded, men tired of fighting, and bored gods and goddesses trying to find ways to stir things up.

Date Published:2002