More Book Displays

I'm playing catch-up with my book display photos (which are, I realize, probably more for my own archival benefit than anyone else's). Here's the one I took down this week...

...with some historical fiction, some mysteries, and some historical mysteries. Today, I put up this Halloween horror display...

...as well as this mostly realistic fiction display.

I'm unable to escape the irony of creating a book display for junior high kids with the heading "just be yourself," considering that it's hard enough to know yourself, much less be yourself, at any age—especially when you're in junior high. But hey, it's something to aspire to.

The "just be yourself"/"stand up for what you believe" display is full of books about individuality as it relates to exploring one's own identity and/or standing up for social causes. It also serves as an opportunity to include a larger-than-usual number of books with GLBTQ characters in a nod to National Coming Out Day on October 11.

ETA, 10/7/08:
Upon request, here are the titles I originally pulled for the individuality display: Stand Tall (Bauer), Walking Naked (Brugman), Born Confused (Desai), Crossing Jordan (Fogelin), Leaving Fishers (Haddix), Totally Joe (Howe), The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place (Konigsburg), Absolutely, Positively Not (LaRochelle), Peace Is a Four-Letter Word (Nichols Lynch), Going Going (Nye), Define Normal (Peters), That Fernhill Summer (Rodowski), How to Get Suspended and Influence People (Selzer), Stargirl (Spinelli), The Gospel According to Larry (Tashjian), That Girl Lucy Moon (Timberlake), Missing Abby (Weatherly), Adam Canfield of the Slash (Winerip), Make Lemonade (Wolff), The House You Pass on the Way (Woodson), and Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence.