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Pizza and Books: Teen Book Club April 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, May 15 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 rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
by Jeanne Theoharis
This definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement. "In the first sweeping history of Parks's life, Theoharis shows us that Parks not only sat down on the bus, but stood on the right side of justice for her entire life.” —Julian Bond, chairman emeritus, NAACP.
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Maniac Magee : a novel
by Jerry Spinelli
After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
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Pawn
by Aimée Carter
Desperate to escape a life of marginalization and misery, Kitty Doe joins the most powerful family in the country, a choice that requires her to assume the identity of the Prime Minister's niece and stop a rebellion that ended her predecessor's life.
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When
by Victoria Laurie
Sixteen-year-old Maddie Flynn cannot help but see the death date of everyone she meets or sees in a photograph or on-screen, and her alcoholic mother exploits this by having her do readings for money, but when Maddie predicts the death of a young boy, she becomes the center of an FBI investigation.
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The miseducation of Cameron Post
by Emily M. Danforth
Placed in the custody of a conservative aunt in Montana after losing her parents in a car crash, teen Cameron secretly falls in love with her cowgirl best friend and is cruelly dispatched to a religious conversion camp when the truth about her sexual orientation is discovered.
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The gospel of the flying spaghetti monster
by Bobby Henderson
An introduction to the religious beliefs of Pastafarianism argues that the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) is the real creator of the universe, in a hilarious compilation of FSM scripture, rits, observances, and answers to the Big Questions of life.
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The morgue and me
by John C. Ford
After getting a job in the local morgue after his senior year, Christopher's life is forever changed when he discovers a murder cover-up, gets involved in a dangerous investigation, and becomes partners with an attractive newspaper reporter whose ambitious nature puts them both in great danger.
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Perfect
by Ellen Hopkins
Struggling to measure up to the impossible standards of their respective pursuits, four high school seniors strive to achieve happiness through love, physical beauty, athletic competition and detachment from their families.
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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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Saving Hamlet
by Molly Booth
Excitedly embarking on her sophomore year and her assistant stage manager duties for the drama club's production of Hamlet, Emma endures social drama before being transported back to the year 1601, where she is mistaken for a boy and put to work by the bard himself.
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The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
by William Shakespeare
A newly edited text of Shakespeare's tragedy offers explanatory notes on pages facing the text of the play, as well as an introduction to Shakespeare's language, life, and theater
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My heart and other black holes
by Jasmine Warga
Overwhelmed by her father's violent crime and the rejection of her mother and peers, 16-year-old physics student Aysel forges a suicide pact with an equally haunted Roman, with whom she falls unexpectedly in love.
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Underwater
by Marisa Reichardt
Ever since the mass shooting at her California high school, junior Morgan Grant has become increasingly agoraphobic until even the idea of stepping outside her door can bring on a panic attack, a situation not made any easier by the fact that her parents are divorced—but when Evan moves in next door she finds herself attracted to him and begins to find herself longing for the life she has been missing.
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