Nov
01

 

Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.

 

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Sep
01
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 Join us at Book Club in the library!

We are reading Hate List by Jennifer Brown, here is a sneak peek:

Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.

 

 

Feb
24
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Choose one of the books below and post your thoughts on the book.  If you want to choose a book besides the novels below, I will make a post available for you to post your comments.  I have chosen a book that I have wanted to read for years, For One More Day by Mitch Album.  See me in the library regarding any questions and to check out books.

catching fireBy winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.

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Jan
25

lingerGrace and Sam struggle to keep their relationship together, while Grace lies to her parents and keeps a secret from them and Sam copes with his werewolf past.

 

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Jan
25
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wintergirlsEighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend’s death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.

 

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Jan
25
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if i stayWhile in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weights whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.

 

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Jan
25
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blackboxWhen her sixteen-year-old sister is hospitalized for depression and her parents want to keep it a secret, fourteen-year-old Elena tries to cope with her own anxiety and feelings of guilt that she is determined to conceal from outsiders.

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Jan
25
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impossibleWhen seventeen-year-old Lucy discovers her family is under an ancient curse by an evil Elfin Knight, she realizes that she must perform three impossible tasks before her daughter is born to break the curse and to save them both.

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Jan
25
Filed Under (Book Club) by on 25-01-2011

skin deepHigh school student Andrea Anderson has always been content watching life from the sidelines, but when she begins a new job helping her reclusive neighbor, Andrea is forced to rethink everything she believes in and take a more active role in the world around her.

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