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Pizza and Books: Teen Book Club January 2020 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, February 24 at 6pm at the Nichols Library in the Community Room. Here's what we talked about this month!
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The blackthorn key
by Kevin Sands
In 1665 London, fourteen-year-old Christopher Rowe, apprentice to an apothecary, and his best friend, Tom, try to uncover the truth behind a mysterious cult, following a trail of puzzles, codes, pranks, and danger toward an unearthly secret with the power to tear the world apart.
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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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Wardens of eternity
by Courtney Allison Moulton
Follows the experiences of an abandoned teen in New York City who discovers powers she can barely control before supernatural compatriots help her battle otherworldly monsters that are changing the course of World War II. By the author of Angelfire.
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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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Frankly in love
by David Yoon
Torn between his love for his white girlfriend and his sense of duty to the matchmaking parents who made hard sacrifices to move to the United States, a Korean American teen looks for solutions along with a friend who has a similar problem. A first novel.
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Maus : a survivor's tale
by Art Spiegelman
The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel.
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The truth as told by Mason Buttle
by Leslie Connor
.As he grieves his best friend Benny's death, Mason and his friend Calvin, who are targeted by the neighborhood bullies, create an underground haven for themselves, but when Calvin goes missing Mason finds himself in trouble
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The last unicorn
by Peter B Gillis
Believing she is the last of her kind, a unicorn leaves the enchanted woods to search for other unicorns.
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I am number four : the lost files : the legacies
by Pittacus Lore
After fleeing their planet during a Mogodorian invasion, members of the Lorien Garde share their experiences as they wait for their legacies to develop, hide from the enemy, and train to take back their planet and save Earth.
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Unearthed
by Amie Kaufman
Scholar Jules Addison and scavenger Amelia Radcliffe join forces to unravel secrets of a long-extinct civilization, only to discover something that could spell the end of the human race.
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They both die at the end
by Adam Silvera
In a near-future New York City where a service alerts people on the day they will die, teenagers Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio meet using the Last Friend app and are faced with the challenge of living a lifetime on their End Day.
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