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Pizza and Books: Teen Book Club December 2019 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, January 27 at 6pm at the Nichols Library in the Community Room. Here's what we talked about this month!
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The stars beneath our feet
by David Barclay Moore
Unable to celebrate the holidays in the wake of his older brother's death in a gang-related shooting, Lolly Rachpaul struggles to avoid being forced into a gang himself while constructing a fantastically creative LEGO city at the Harlem community center.
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The war of the worlds
by H. G. Wells
"The War of the Worlds (1898) conjures a terrifying, tentacled race of Martians who devastate the Earth and feed on their human victims while their voracious vegetation, the red weed, spreads over the ruined planet. The novel's hero is trapped in what isleft of London, despairing at the destruction of human civilization, when he discovers that life on Earth is more resilient than he had imagined. Adapted by Orson Welles for his notorious 1938 radio drama and subsequently by many filmmakers, H. G. Wells's timeless story shows no sign of losing its grip on readers' imaginations."
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The eye of minds
by James Dashner
A debut installment in a series set in a world of hyper-advanced technology, cyberterrorism and extreme gaming finds talented young hacker Michael enlisted by the government to stop a violent fellow hacker who is trapping hostages in nightmarish, brain-damaging virtual reality environments. By the best-selling author of the Maze Runner series.
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Dear reader
by Mary O'Connell
When her English teacher goes missing, high school senior Flannery follows her trail to New York City where she falls for British gap year student Heath, who seems to have stepped from the pages of Emily Bront's "Wuthering Heights."
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The diviners
by Libba Bray
The award-winning author of Beauty Queens presents an evocative mystery in New York City of the Roaring 20s, where Evie O'Neill immerses herself in the world of glamorous Ziegfield girls and speakeasies before helping her uncle, a folklore museum curator, solve a rash of occult-based murders.
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Tiger's curse
by Colleen Houck
Seventeen-year-old Oregon teenager Kelsey forms a bond with a circus tiger who is actually one of two brothers, Indian princes Ren and Kishan, who were cursed to live as tigers for eternity, and she travels with him to India where the tiger's curse may be broken once and for all.
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Demons of the ocean
by Justin Somper
Shipwrecked and separated after their father's death, siblings Connor and Grace must use the skills their father taught them and their own wits to battle their way out of their dangerous situations and reunite once more before more harm befalls them.
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Bridge to Terabithia
by Katherine Paterson
The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.
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Life as we knew it
by Susan Beth Pfeffer
When a meteor pushes the moon closer to the earth, setting into motion a series of destructive weather events that wipe out coasts, rock the continents, and block out the sun, Miranda and her family must find a way to survive in a desperate and unfamiliar world.
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The City of Ember
by Jeanne Duprau
In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina finds part of an ancient message that she is sure holds a secret to save her underground city from ruin, but Lina and her friend Doon must decipher the message before the lights go out on Ember forever.
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A Christmas carol
by Charles Dickens
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
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Little women
by Louisa May Alcott
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England
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Ziggy, Stardust and me
by James Brandon
The co-founder of the I AM Love Campaign and star of Corpus Christi follows the wrenching experiences of two teen boys who fall in love against a backdrop of 1970s discrimination.
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Wings of fire : the dragonet prophecy
by Barry Deutsch
A first graphic-novel adaptation in the best-selling series follows the selection of Clay as one of a team of dragonets destined to fulfill a mysterious prophecy and end the war among the dragon tribes of Pyrrhia.
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