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Pizza and Books: Teen Book Club August 2020 Pizza and Books is a club where teens talk about the books they are reading now, have recently read, or old-time favorites. This time the club met virtually to discuss books. Here's what we talked about!
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The bean trees : a novel
by Barbara Kingsolver
Taylor Greer leaves her poverty-stricken life in Kentucky and heads west, picking up an abandoned Native American baby girl whom she names Turtle and finds a home in Tucson with Mattie, a woman who takes in refugees
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Allegiant
by Veronica Roth
The conclusion to the trilogy reveals the secrets of the dystopian world and the consequences of a fateful decision
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
by Suzanne Collins
A prequel set in the world of Panem 64 years before the events of The Hunger Games begins on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games.
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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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One of us is lying
by Karen M. McManus
When one of five students in detention is found dead, his high-profile classmates—including a brainy intellectual, a popular beauty, a drug dealer on probation and an all-star athlete—are investigated and revealed to be the subjects of the victim's latest gossip postings.
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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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Thunderhead
by Neal Shusterman
A follow-up to Scythe finds Rowan pursuing a vigilante life a year after going off the grid, while Citra, as Scythe Anastasia, openly challenges the ideals of the "new order" in ways that cause her life to be threatened. By the award-winning author of the Unwind Dystology. By the National Book Award-winning author of Challenger Deep.
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The toll
by Neal Shusterman
"Citra and Rowan have disappeared. Endura is gone. It seems like nothing stands between Scythe Goddard and absolute dominion over the world scythedom. With the silence of the Thunderhead and the reverberations of the Great Resonance still shaking the earth to its core, the question remains: Is there anyone left who can stop him? The answer lies in the Tone, the Toll, and the Thunder"
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We set the dark on fire
by Tehlor Kay Mejia
A society wife-in-training has an uncomfortable awakening about her strictly polarized society after being recruited into a band of rebel spies and falling for her biggest rival. A first novel. 40,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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The giver
by Lois Lowry
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
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The giver : The Giver
by P. Craig Russell
Presents a graphic novelization of Lois Lowry's novel in which Jonas, a boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is receives special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain of life
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The Great Gatsby : The Graphic Novel
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The creator of the graphic-novel edition of To Kill a Mockingbird presents an evocative interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s haunting portrait of the 1930s Deep South, in an adaptation that includes an introduction by Fitzgerald’s great-granddaughter. 10,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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Amulet
by Kazu Kibuishi
Book Annotation
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Absolutely almost
by Lisa Graff
Ten-year-old Albie has never been the smartest, tallest, most athletic, greatest artist, or most musical in his class, as his parents keep reminding him, but new nanny Calista helps him uncover his strengths and take pride in himself.
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Moonwalking with Einstein : the art and science of remembering everything
by Joshua Foer
Citing costly memory-related inconveniences suffered by average individuals, a science journalist chronicles his own struggles with chronic forgetfulness and his life-changing year in memory training, in a guide that shares historical lore and ancient memory techniques. Reprint. 250,000 first printing.
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