Awesome Book Club

Tuesday 07th of September 2010

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Awesome Book Club (Teen)

Awesome Book Club

Like books? Like pizza?

The Awesome Book Club is the Library's club for teens, ages 12 and up. We meet one Friday a month at 3pm to talk about the current books, eat some pizza and just have fun! Each month there is a choice of two books. Read one or both. If you are interested, stop by the library to pick up copies of the next month's books.

The books for September 17 are Stargirl and Life as We Knew It.

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

When Stargirl enrolls at Mica High, all of the students are in awe, but she especially captures the attention of Leo Borlock, a junior at Mica. With her long flowing brown hair, plain face, and rather eccentric outfits, her classmates don't know whether to love her for having the guts to be different, or hate her for breaking the rules of high school. In fact they react by doing a little bit of both. First they embrace her uniqueness by imitating her, and then, just as quickly, they turn on her for being unusual. Despite her status as outcast, Leo and Stargirl become a couple, and he experiences what it's like to be shunned. In hopes of gaining acceptance Leo encourages her to become normal. Together both Leo and Stargirl learn a lesson about conforming to the will of the group versus being yourself.

Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Everyone is talking about the moon, and the meteor and May 18th. That’s when the meteor will hit the moon and everyone will be able to see it happen. There hasn’t been much talk though about what the consequences of this event will be and when it happens, it becomes very clear that the consequences are huge. The moon is knocked out of its orbit and the tides around the world are affected immediately. Tsunamis wipe out Rhode Island, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Long Island, and Manhattan. Communication satellites are down so there is no cell phone reception. As days turn to weeks, the devastation around the world escalates. Volcanoes begin to erupt, the atmosphere fills with ash and the climate changes from one extreme, hot, to the other, freezing cold. Miranda, her mother, and her two brothers survival is in question from the beginning and their chances grow slimmer as the weeks turn to months. Focused on what they know and staying together they make some very difficult choices. Miranda’s older brother spends the summer obsessed with cutting firewood, her mother with hoarding food and Miranda and her brother growing up a lot faster than they ever thought they would. Their world becomes so isolated that they have no idea who else is alive and whether life will be worth living if they do survive. Told in journal entries, this is the heart-pounding story of Miranda’s struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all—hope—in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world.

The books for the October 15 meeting are:

The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

This book details the voyage of thirteen year old Sophie and her three uncles and two cousins, Brian and Cody, as they sail from their home in the U.S., across the Atlantic Ocean to Ireland, and then to England to visit their grandfather, Bompie.

At first the voyage is idyllic, full of island adventures, and exciting marine life. However, the close quarters and long hours begin to wear on the family and they struggle to get along. The tensions of living in close quarters are confounded by the mystery of Sophie's past. She is adopted and yet, doesn't seem to remember that she ever had biological parents or how they died. She is torn between her love of the ocean and her recurring nightmares about it.

Halfway to the UK, a terrible storm engulfs the boat, and all of the travellers are forced to fight for their lives. Sophie's nightmares merge with real life when a gigantic wave rises up out of the ocean and over the boat.

Written in the first person journals that both Sophie and Cody keep during their journey, this ocean adventure is also a mystery novel and a coming-of-age study of family relationships and personal history.

Feed by M.T. Anderson

Titus is an average teenager in America's future: He spends his days e-chatting with friends, buying the coolest new clothes and catching the hottest parties, on or off-planet. And like everyone else he knows, Titus is forever hard-wired into the constant advertisement-information barrage known as The Feed.

During a Spring Break party on the Moon, Titus meets up with a girl named Violet. She seems a little out of sorts: She likes to actually speak with her mouth, rather than just e-chat through the feed, for starters, and she has serious reservations about the forced consumerism that has packaged every person into a neat demographic cube. When a hacker's attack temporarily disables the feeds hooked into Titus, his friends and Violet, Titus and Violet spend their recovery time together, and he starts to learn more about this strange girl and the odd past which sets her apart from the vast majority of society. But it soon becomes apparent that something is wrong with Violet's feed, and Titus must reconcile the only life he knows with Violet's terrible, eye-opening vision of the truth.