I am currently reading "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman - While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, considers whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
"My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult - Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Anna begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body. -Allison the Librarian
I am listening to "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins - In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. -Allison the Librarian
I am currently reading (and can't put it down!) "The Chosen One" by Carol Lynch Williams - In a polygamous cult in the desert, Kyra, not yet fourteen, sees being chosen to be the seventh wife of her uncle as just punishment for having read books and kissed a boy, in violation of Prophet Childs' teachings, and is torn between facing her fate and running away from all that she knows and loves. -Allison the Librarian
I am reading "Dork Diaries: Tales from a NOT-S0-Fabulous Life" by Rachel Renee Russell - Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes in her diary of her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, then of finding her place after she gives up on being part of the elite group. -Allison the Librarian
I am reading "Breathless" by Lurlene McDaniel - A high school diving champion develops bone cancer in this story told from the points of view of the diver, his best friend, his sister, and his girlfriend. -Allison the Librarian
I just listened to "The Compound" by S.A. Bodeen - After his parents, two sisters, and he have spent six years in a vast underground compound built by his wealthy father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin brother and grandmother were left behind, discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all. -Allison the Librarian
I am listening to "Dreamland" by Sarah Dessen - After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous. -Allison the Librarian
I just read "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson - Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder. -Allison the Librarian
I am reading "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix - When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time. -Allison the Librarian
I am reading "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko - A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister. -Allison the Librarian
I am currently reading "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman - While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, considers whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
ReplyDelete"My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult - Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Anna begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body. -Allison the Librarian
ReplyDeleteI am listening to "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins - In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. -Allison the Librarian
ReplyDeleteI am currently reading (and can't put it down!) "The Chosen One" by Carol Lynch Williams - In a polygamous cult in the desert, Kyra, not yet fourteen, sees being chosen to be the seventh wife of her uncle as just punishment for having read books and kissed a boy, in violation of Prophet Childs' teachings, and is torn between facing her fate and running away from all that she knows and loves. -Allison the Librarian
ReplyDeleteI am reading "Dork Diaries: Tales from a NOT-S0-Fabulous Life" by Rachel Renee Russell - Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes in her diary of her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, then of finding her place after she gives up on being part of the elite group. -Allison the Librarian
ReplyDeleteI am reading "Breathless" by Lurlene McDaniel - A high school diving champion develops bone cancer in this story told from the points of view of the diver, his best friend, his sister, and his girlfriend. -Allison the Librarian
ReplyDeleteI just listened to "The Compound" by S.A. Bodeen - After his parents, two sisters, and he have spent six years in a vast underground compound built by his wealthy father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin brother and grandmother were left behind, discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all.
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I am listening to "Dreamland" by Sarah Dessen - After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
ReplyDelete-Allison the Librarian
I just read "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson - Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder. -Allison the Librarian
ReplyDeleteI am reading "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix - When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time. -Allison the Librarian
ReplyDeleteI am reading "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko - A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister. -Allison the Librarian
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