by Terri Leslie, Emmet O’Neal Library Has “back to school” got you down? Cafeteria food, too-small lockers, homework… the same old, same old. Take a break and hang out with green-haired, fedora-wearing Bret, who’d rather be on a stage than a football field. Or, take a trip with Grace, the star athlete who decides to retire from tennis during the middle of the U.S. Open and hide from the paparazzi in Alaska. Or learn the disgusting path fast food often takes before it ever gets to our mouth. Or….you get the picture. Beat the back to school blues with a walk on the wild side, courtesy of the titles below!
Dial A Story Need a quick, pick me up?  Check out the Dial-A-Story for a wonderful  new story each week.   Call (205) 226-3650	Nailed by Patrick Jones  Chew On This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson  Amazing Grace by Megan Shull   The Book Thief by Markus Zusak   5,000 Miles to Freedom: Ellen and William Craft’s Flight From Slavery by Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis Brindell Fradin  A Brief Chapter In My Impossible Life by Dana Reinhardt    Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper  Generation T: 108 Ways to Transform a T-Shirt by Megan Nicolay  Darkhenge by Catherine Fisher

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