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Pizza and Books: Teen Book Club May 2017 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 26 at 6pm at the Nichols Library in the lower level Community Room. Here's what we talked about this month!
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The things they carried : a work of fiction
by Tim O'Brien
An anniversary edition of a collection of interconnected fictional stories follows the members of an American platoon fighting in the Vietnam War, in a book that mirrors the author's own wartime experiences.
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The only thing worse than me is you
by Lily Anderson
A first novel inspired by Much Ado About Nothing finds pop culture fangirl Trixie aspiring to defeat Ben, her rival at school, who she is forced to spend time with when their best friends start dating.
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The running dream
by Wendelin Van Draanen
Losing her leg in a car accident and fitted with a prosthetic that challenges her athletic ambitions, Jessica finds herself alienated from former friends and is tutored by a misfit girl she previously avoided.
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The F-it list
by Julie Halpern
When the emotional strain of her father's accidental death is exacerbated by her boyfriend's infidelity, Alex refocuses on her family life only to learn that her best friend, Becca, is dying of cancer, a situation that compels Alex to help Becca complete a bucket list. By the author of Don't Stop Now.
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Anya's ghost
by Vera Brosgol
Anya, embarrassed by her Russian immigrant family and self-conscious about her body, has given up on fitting in at school, but when she falls down a well and makes friends with the ghost there, she thinks she's found just what she needs--or has she?
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The time machine : an invention
by H. G. Wells
When a turn-of-the-century scientist builds a time machine, his perilous journey into the far distant future leads to the discovery of a strange and terrifying new world
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No one else can have you
by Kathleen Hale
When the homecoming queen of a quiet and peaceful Midwest community is found murdered, the victim's best friend, Kippy, equips herself with her friend's secret diary and rallies her own tenacious spirit to track down the killer.
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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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The end of our story
by Meg Haston
Falling in love after years of friendship, teens Bridge and Wil are separated by a devastating betrayal before a family tragedy compels them to reconcile a year later, a situation that puts both of them in danger.
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The 100
by Kass Morgan
When 100 juvenile delinquents are sent on a mission to recolonize Earth, they get a second chance at freedom, friendship, and love, as they fight to survive in a dangerous new world.
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If I did it : confessions of the killer
by O. J. Simpson
In 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, California. O.J. Simpson was tried for the crime in a case that captured the attention of the American people, but was ultimately found not guilty of criminal charges. The victims' families brought civil cases against Simpson, and he was found liable for willfully and wrongfully causing the deaths of Ron and Nicole by committing battery with malice and oppression. In 2006, HarperCollins announced the publication of a book in which O.J. Simpson told how he hypothetically would have committed the murders. In response to public outrage that Simpson stood to profit from these crimes, HarperCollins canceled the book. A Florida bankruptcy court awarded the rights tothe Goldmans in August 2007 to partially satisfy the unpaid civil judgment, which has risen, with interest, to over $38 million. The Goldman family views this book as his confession, and has worked hard to ensure that the public will read this book and learn the truth.
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