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Books and Bites @ Naperville North November 2018 Pizza and Books is a club where teens talk about the books they are reading now, have recently read, or old-time favorites. This month, we had a special lunch hour meeting at Naperville North High School. The next regularly scheduled meeting of the club is Monday, November 26 at 6pm at the Nichols Library in the lower level Community Room. Here's what we talked about over lunch at Naperville North!
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Caraval
by Stephanie Garber
Believing that she will never be allowed to participate in the annual Caraval performance when her ruthless father arranges her marriage, Scarlett receives the invitation she has always dreamed of before her sister, Tella, is kidnapped by the show's mastermind organizer.
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Scythe
by Neal Shusterman
Forced to become trained killers in a disease-free world where people can only die if eliminated by professional assassins, teens Citra and Rowan reluctantly train under a master reaper who informs them that the one who successfully kills the other will become his apprentice. By the best-selling author of the Unwind dystology.
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Mirage
by Somaiya Daud
An epic fantasy inspired by the author's Moroccan heritage depicts an 18-year-old dreamer who is forced to work as a body double to protect a princess who is so hated that she is being targeted by death threats.
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The language of thorns : midnight tales and dangerous magic
by Leigh Bardugo
A collection of folklore-inspired stories set in the world of her best-selling Grishaverse novels includes three new tales of dark bargains, talking beasts and lovelorn quests, in a volume complemented by spot art and six richly detailed, full-spread illustrations.
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An ember in the ashes : a novel
by Sabaa Tahir
"Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution"
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Ashes
by Ilsa J. Bick
Seventeen-year-old Alex joins up with a young soldier named Tom and an angry eight-year-old named Ellie in an attempt to survive after an electromagnetic pulse wipes out billions of people and profoundly changes many of those that remain.
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Dry
by Neal Shusterman
A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.
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Skyward
by Brandon Sanderson
When a long-term attack against her world by the alien Krell escalates, Spensa's dream of becoming a pilot may come true, despite her deceased father being labeled a deserter.
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Nyxia
by Scott Reintgen
Emmett accepts an interstellar space contract but learns en route that to win the promised fortune he and nine other recruits face a brutal competition, putting their very humanity at risk.
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We regret to inform you
by A. E. Kaplan
Rejected by every Ivy League and safety college she applies to, a top-scoring high achiever worries that her hard work and her mother's sacrifices have been for nothing and grapples with an increasingly uncertain future while struggling to understand what went wrong.
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The star-touched queen
by Roshani Chokshi
Sixteen-year-old Maya's arranged marriage turns out much better than she expected, but her husband's magic--and her curiosity--may threaten more than her life.
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Laughing at my nightmare
by Shane Burcaw
A twenty-one-year-old with spinal muscular atrophy describes the challenges he faces in completing everyday tasks and shares stories about growing up and living with this rare neuromuscular disease.
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Legend
by Marie Lu
Raised in an elite military family in a war-torn nation that was once the Western United States, 15-year-old June embarks on a revelatory cat-and-mouse manhunt for criminal youth Day, who is declared a prime suspect in the murder of June's brother.
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Red queen
by Victoria Aveyard
When her latent supernatural powers manifest in front of a noble court, Mare, a thief in a world divided between commoners and superhumans, is forced to assume the role of lost princess before risking everything to help a growing rebellion.
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The apothecary
by Maile Meloy
Meeting fearless Benjamin Burrows when she moves to London in 1952, 14-year-old Janie Scott helps Benjamin on a quest to rescue his kidnapped father while protecting a sacred apothecary tome from dangerous Russian spies.
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