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Pizza and Books: Teen Book Club May 2018 Pizza and Books is a club where teens talk about the books they are reading now, have recently read, or old-time favorites. The next meeting is Monday, June 25 at 6pm at the Nichols Library in the Community Room. Here's what we talked about this month!
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Ender's shadow
by Orson Scott Card
Follows the life of Ender Wiggin's comrade Bean, from his escape from the mean streets of Rotterdam, to his student days at the Battle School, and to his role as Ender's right hand ally, strategist, and friend in the epic struggle to save Earth from alien invaders.
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The death cure
by James Dashner
As the third Trial draws to a close, Thomas and some of his cohorts manage to escape from WICKED, their memories having been restored, only to face new dangers as WICKED claims to be trying to protect the human race from the deadly FLARE virus.
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The boy who dared
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Raised during the rise of the Nazi party, Helmuth believed all that he was taught and so joined the Nazi party with all the pride in the world, yet as the country he once knew began to fall apart and he witnessed so many horrific events unfold, Helmuth found it increasingly difficult to remain both loyal and silent.
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I will plant you a lilac tree : a memoir of a Schindler's list survivor
by Laura Hillman
Provides the true story of a young girl who volunteered to go to the Polish ghetto to be with the remaining members of her family, was sent to a series of concentration camps, met and fell in love with a young man in a camp, survived all the horrors of war after being placed on Schindler’s List, and ended up reunited and married to the young man she had met.
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Night
by Elie Wiesel
The narrative of a boy who lived through Auschwitz and Buchenwald provides a short and terrible indictment of modern humanity.
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Our revolution : a future to believe in
by Bernard Sanders
The break-out Democratic candidate for president offers an inside account of his extraordinary campaign and a blueprint for future political action
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The taming of the shrew
by William Shakespeare
A comedy of Petruchio's determination to subdue the irascible Katherine and to make her his wife.
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Illuminae
by Amie Kaufman
Caught in the crossfire of a megacorporation rivalry in 2575, Kady and Ezra, who have just broken up, flee their home planet on an evacuation ship that is quickly overwhelmed by a fast-spreading plague.
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The summoning
by Kelley Armstrong
When Chloe begins seeing ghosts everywhere, she ends up in a group home for troubled teens called Lyle House where she, while being plunged into a paranormal world, soon discovers that she has a lot in common with the other kids.
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Ready player one
by Ernest Cline
Immersing himself in a mid-21st-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's super-wealthy creator, who has promised that the winner will be his heir.
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