Books & Reading
Destiny
Destiny is the main library catalog for the middle school and what most students are used to for looking up books, placing holds, etc.
Destiny Discover
Destiny Discover is an alternative interface for Destiny, optimized for mobile devices, and it includes an ebook reader and an audiobook player for our digital content. Read more about ebooks & audiobooks below.
Destiny Tips
Reading Lists & Suggestions
Diverse Books
Diverse Books is a list of award-winning fiction and non-fiction books we have in the Waunakee Middle School LMTC that reflect the experiences and concerns of young people of many backgrounds. This list is not exhaustive by any means, but may serve as a starting point for finding some of our diversity-related materials.
Book Displays
You'll find books on display all over the LMTC. Sometimes they are on top of bookshelves, or on special display racks. You are always welcome and encouraged to take any book you see on display. Nothing makes us happier than checking out a book we've spotlighted.
We create book displays around Library of Congress designated months, district Social/Emotional Learning themes, Read Across America monthly themes, district-recognized observances, curricular themes, fiction genres, and student interests.
Newbery Books
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Newbery Award Books
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Title |
Author |
Year |
Award |
| Eagle Drums | NasuÄĦraq Rainey Hopson | 2024 | Honor |
| Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir | Pedro Martín | 2024 | Honor |
| Simon Sort of Says | Erin Bow | 2024 | Honor |
| The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams | Daniel Nayeri | 2024 | Honor |
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Freewater |
Luqman-Dawson, Amina |
2023 |
Winner |
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Iveliz Explains It All |
Arango, Andrea Beatriz |
2023 |
Honor |
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The Last Mapmaker |
Soontornvat, Christina |
2023 |
Honor |
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Maizy Chen’s Last Chance |
Yee, Lisa |
2023 |
Honor |
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The Last Cuentista |
Higuera, Donna Barba |
2022 |
Winner |
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Red, White and Whole |
LaRocca, Rajani |
2022 |
Honor |
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Too Bright to See |
Lukoff, Kyle |
2022 |
Honor |
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We Dream of Space |
Kelly, Erin Entrada |
2021 |
Honor |
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All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team |
Christina Soontornvat |
2021 |
Honor |
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New Kid |
Craft, Jerry |
2020 |
Winner |
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The Undefeated |
Alexander, Kwame |
2020 |
Honor |
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Other Words for Home |
Warga, Jasmine |
2020 |
Honor |
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Genesis Begins Again |
Williams, Alicia D. |
2020 |
Honor |
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Scary Stories for Young Foxes |
Heidicker, Christian McKay |
2020 |
Honor |
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The Night Diary |
Hiranandani, Veera |
2019 |
Honor |
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Hello, Universe |
Kelly, Erin Enrtrada |
2018 |
Winner |
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Long Way Down |
Reynolds, Jason |
2018 |
Honor |
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Piecing Me Together |
Watson, Renee |
2018 |
Honor |
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon |
Barnhill, Kelly |
2017 |
Winner |
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Wolf Hollow |
Wolk, Lauren |
2017 |
Honor |
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The Inquisitor's Tale |
Gidwitz, Adam |
2017 |
Honor |
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The War That Saved My Life |
Bradley, Kimberly |
2016 |
Honor |
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Echo |
Ryan, Pam Munoz |
2016 |
Honor |
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Roller Girl |
Jamieson, Victoria |
2016 |
Honor |
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The Crossover |
Alexander, Kwame |
2015 |
Winner |
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Brown Girl Dreaming |
Woodson, Jacqueline |
2015 |
Honor |
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One Came Home |
Timberlake, Amy |
2014 |
Honor |
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Paperboy |
Vawter, Vince |
2014 |
Honor |
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Doll Bones |
Black, Holly |
2014 |
Honor |
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Splendors & Glooms |
Schlitz, Laura Amy |
2013 |
Honor |
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Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon |
Sheinkin, Steve |
2013 |
Honor |
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Three Times Lucky |
Turnage, Sheila |
2013 |
Honor |
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Dead End in Norvelt |
Gantos, Jack |
2012 |
Winner |
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Inside Out & Back Again |
Lai, Thanhha |
2012 |
Honor |
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Moon Over Manifest |
Vanderpool, Clare |
2011 |
Winner |
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Heart of a Samurai |
Preus, Margi |
2011 |
Honor |
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One Crazy Summer |
Williams-Garcia, Rita |
2011 |
Honor |
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When You Reach Me |
Stead, Rebecca |
2010 |
Winner |
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The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate |
Kelly, Jacqueline |
2010 |
Honor |
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The Graveyard Book |
Gaiman, Neil |
2009 |
Winner |
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After Tupac & D Foster |
Woodson, Jacqueline |
2009 |
Honor |
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Savvy |
Law, Ingrid |
2009 |
Honor |
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The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom |
Engle, Margarita |
2009 |
Honor |
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The Underneath |
Appelt, Kathi |
2009 |
Honor |
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Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices From a Medieval Village |
Schlitz, Laura Amy |
2008 |
Winner |
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Elijah of Buxton |
Curtis, Christopher Paul |
2008 |
Honor |
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Feathers |
Woodson, Jacqueline |
2008 |
Honor |
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The Wednesday Wars |
Schmidt, Gary D. |
2008 |
Honor |
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Penny From Heaven |
Holm, Jennifer L. |
2007 |
Honor |
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Hattie Big Sky |
Larson, Kirby |
2007 |
Honor |
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Rules |
Lord, Cynthia |
2007 |
Honor |
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Criss Cross |
Perkins, Lynne Rae |
2006 |
Winner |
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Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow |
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell |
2006 |
Honor |
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Princess Academy |
Hale, Shannon |
2006 |
Honor |
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Kira-Kira |
Kadohata, Cynthia |
2005 |
Winner |
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Al Capone Does My Shirts |
Choldenko,Gennifer |
2005 |
Honor |
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The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights |
Freedman, Russell |
2005 |
Honor |
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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy |
Schmidt, Gary D. |
2005 |
Honor |
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The tale of Despereaux |
DiCamillo, Kate |
2004 |
Winner |
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An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 |
Murphy, Jim |
2004 |
Honor |
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Olive's Ocean |
Henkes, Kevin |
2004 |
Honor |
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Crispin: The Cross of Lead |
Avi |
2003 |
Winner |
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The House of the Scorpion |
Farmer, Nancy |
2003 |
Honor |
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Pictures of Hollis Woods |
Giff, Patricia Reilly |
2003 |
Honor |
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Hoot |
Hiaasen, Carl |
2003 |
Honor |
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A Corner of the Universe |
Martin, Ann M. |
2003 |
Honor |
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Surviving the Applewhites |
Tolan, Stephanie S. |
2003 |
Honor |
Plus dozens of others back into the 1920s! Check Destiny or the LMTC website for the complete list!
The Classics
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Classics of Literature
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| Alcott, Louisa May | Little Women |
| Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma |
| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 |
| Bronte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre |
| Bronte, Emily | Wuthering Heights |
| Bunyan, John | The Pilgrim's Progress |
| Burnett, Frances Hodgson | The Secret Garden, A Little Princess |
| Carroll, Lewis | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass |
| Cervantes, Miguel | Adventures of Don Quixote |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey | The Canterbury Tales (821 CHA) |
| Collier, James Lincoln | My Brother Sam is Dead |
| Collins, Wilkie | The Moonstone |
| Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness, The Secret Sharer (823 CON) |
| Cooper, James Fenimore | The Deerslayer, Last of the Mohicans |
| Crane, Stephen | Red Badge of Courage |
| Dante | The Inferno (851.1 DAN) |
| Defoe, Daniel | Robinson Crusoe |
| Dickens, Charles | Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, The Old Curiosity Shop |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan | Hounds of the Baskervilles, A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes); The Lost World |
| Dumas, Alexander | Count of Monte Cristo, Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Great Gatsby |
| Golding, William | Lord of the Flies |
| Green, Roger Lancelyn | King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table; Tales of the Greek Heroes; The Adventures of Robin Hood |
| Hardy, Thomas | Jude the Obscure |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Scarlet Letter |
| Hemmingway, Ernest | Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises |
| Homer | The Odyssey, The Iliad (292.1 COL, and several at 883) |
| Hugo, Victor | The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables |
| Hunt, Irene | Across Five Aprils, Lottery Rose |
| Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World |
| Irving, Washington | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
| Kipling, Rudyard | The Jungle Book |
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Leopold, Aldo | Sand County Almanac (508.73 LEO) |
| London, Jack | Call of the Wild, White Fang, Sea Wolf |
| Melville, Herman | Moby Dick |
| Mitchell, Margaret | Gone with the Wind |
| Orczy, Emmuska | The Scarlet Pimpernel |
| Orwell, George | 1984, Animal Farm |
| Plath, Sylvia | The Bell Jar |
| Pyle, Howard | The Story of King Arthur and his Knights; Men of Iron; The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood |
| Remarque, Erich | All Quiet on the Western Front |
| Rostand, Edmond | Cyrano de Bergerac (842.8 ROS) |
| Sewell, Anna | Black Beauty |
| Shakespeare, William | Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest (822.3 SHA) |
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein |
| Steinbeck, John | Of Mice and Men, The Red Pony, Tortilla Flat, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, The Grapes of Wrath |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped |
| Stoker, Bram | Dracula |
| Swift, Jonathan | Gulliver's Travels |
| Thoreau, Henry David | Walden (818 THO) |
| Tolstoy, Leo | War and Peace, Anna Karenina |
| Twain, Mark | Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| Verne, Jules | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Mysterious Island |
| Wells, H.G. | Invisible Man, War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau |
| Wharton, Edith | The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome |
| White, T. H. | The Once and Future King; The Sword in the Stone; The Book of Merlyn |
| Wyss, Johann | Swiss Family Robinson |
| (Anonymous) | Beowulf (829) |
Ebooks
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The WMS LMTC has an electronic book (ebook) collection. If you are looking for electronic books, consider these options:
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Audiobooks
Streaming Follett Audiobooks: We have a large selection of streaming audiobooks. Visit Destiny Discover and log in with your Destiny username (student ID number) & computer password to listen online through your web browser.
Playaway Audiobooks: The Middle School LMTC has over 80 audiobooks students can check out and take home. These audiobooks are called Playaways, and instead of coming on a CD or cassette, they come on their own self-contained digital audio player. Playaways look and act a little bit like an iPod or other music player, but their contents cannot be changed – each only plays the audiobook loaded onto it.
Each Playaway comes with a plastic case, a lanyard, and a spare battery. We ask that students use their own headphones or earbuds; students not owning headphones will be given a set of earbuds to keep. They circulate for three weeks, just like a regular library book, and we only allow students to check out one Playaway at a time. We remind students that, just as with any other items in their possession, they are not to use the Playaways to disrupt learning activities.
You can view a list of the Playaways available on Destiny, our library catalog. Click the Catalog tab. From there, a keyword search on the word Playaway will bring up the list, or go to the Visual Search page to find the list. We also have a print version of each of our Playaway titles for students who would like to listen and read at the same time.