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Pizza and Books: Teen Book Club January 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, February 27 at 6pm at the Nichols Library in the lower level Program Room. Here's what we talked about this month!
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The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
A young boy living in mid-nineteenth century Missouri relates the many adventures that he and his friend Jim, an escaped slave, experience as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.
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The fault in our stars
by John Green
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few more years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis, but when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at the Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. By the award-winning author of Looking for Alaska.
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This star won't go out : the life and words of Esther Grace Earl
by Esther Earl
A collection of the journals, fiction, letters and sketches of the late Esther Grace Earl, a young cancer patient who passed away in 2010 at the age of 16, includes photographs and essays by family and friends that help tell Esther's courageous story, along with an introduction by the award-winning author who dedicated his #1 best-selling novel, The Fault in Our Stars, to Esther.
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners, Guy Montag, suddenly realizes their merit.
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A clockwork orange
by Anthony Burgess
Presents Burgess' satire of the present inhumanity of man to man through a futuristic culture where teenagers rule with violence, and includes the final chapter deleted from the first American edition.
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The DUFF : designated ugly fat friend
by Kody Keplinger
When seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper starts sleeping with Wesley Rush, a notorious womanizer who disgusts her, in order to distract her from her personal problems, she is surprised to find that they have a lot in common.
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Not a drop to drink
by Mindy McGinnis
Struggling for survival in a drought-stricken world, teen Lynn fiercely protects her pond from strangers and finds her life endangered by mysterious adversaries who leave footprints nearby, send nighttime threats and fire warning gunshots in her direction.
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The Iliad
by Homer
An evocative new translation of Homer's epic poem features a personal introduction, a detailed synopsis of each book, a wide-ranging glossary and explanatory notes for less-understood sections.
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The thing about jellyfish
by Ali Benjamin
A teen determinedly investigates the drowning death of her best friend to prove that the tragedy occurred because of a rare jellyfish sting. A first solo novel by the co-author of The Keeper.
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The 5th Wave
by Richard Yancey
A first entry in a new series by the award-winning author of The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp follows the experiences of two survivors of apocalyptic disasters that have decimated life on Earth and transformed nearly everyone into crazed killers.
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Deception point
by Dan Brown
On the eve of a presidential race in which NASA's budget is a pivotal issue, the space agency announces the discovery of an ancient meteorite filled with fossils deep in the Arctic ice.
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Ripper
by Stefan Petrucha
Growing up in an orphanage where he reads crime novels and dreams of becoming a detective, Carver Young is adopted by a detective from a world-famous agency and considers searching for his biological father before becoming entangled in the case of a brutal serial killer who is terrorizing New York City.
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Invisible man
by Ralph Ellison
A Black man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility.
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This side of paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Follows the story of Amory Blaine from prep school to Princeton, in an autobiographical coming-of-age novel reflecting the rhythms of a generation and of America in the early twentieth century.
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My kind of crazy
by Robin Reul
When Hank's attempt to ask a girl to the prom backfires, he is forced into a strange relationship with another girl who witnessed his actions.
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Endgame : the calling
by James Frey
A tale that stands as a component in the interactive multimedia program features an interactive puzzle designed by professional cryptographers and follows the efforts of 12 Players who embark on a world-saving, international scavenger hunt.
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Out of my mind
by Sharon M. Draper
Possessing a photographic memory in spite of an inability to walk or speak, Melody is mistaken as mentally challenged by those who cannot see beyond her cerebral palsy, impelling her to discover a way to communicate. By the two-time Coretta Scott King-winning author of Copper Sun.
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
by J. K. Rowling
When the government of the magic world and authorities at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry refuse to believe in the growing threat of a freshly revived Lord Voldemort, fifteen-year-old Harry Potter finds support from his loyal friends in facingthe evil wizard and other new terrors.
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The unlikely hero of room 13B
by Teresa Toten
Struggling with his parents' divorce, his stepsibling and the challenges of OCD, teen Adam Spencer Ross despairs of ever falling in love before being unexpectedly drawn to a girl who makes him question his capacity for a normal relationship.
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