WHAT WE'RE READING
The Glass Maker’s Daughter. By B. Briceland. “Risa has led the sheltered life of a nobleman’s daughter, but soon she plans to leave home to study the family craft – creating enchanted glass objects.”
Life as We Knew It. By Susan Beth Pfeffer. “When Miranda first hears the warnings that a meteor is headed on a collision path with the moon, they just sound like an excuse for extra homework assignments. But her disbelief turns to fear in a split second as the entire world witnesses a lunar impact that knocks the moon closer in orbit, catastrophically altering the earth’s orbit.
Thirteen Reasons Why. By Jay Asher. High school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing seven cassette tapes recorded by his crush, Hannah Baker, who committed suicide, and spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. By Ransom Riggs. “I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.”
Jasper Jones. By Craig Silvey. In small-town Australia, teens Jasper and Charlie form an unlikely friendship when one asks the other to help him cover up a murder until they can prove who is responsible.
The Fault in Our Stars. By John Green. Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few 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 Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.
The Hero Project: 2 Teens. 1 Notebok. 13 Extrodinary Interviews. By Robert Hatch and William Hatch. “It made me, and my friends, wonder if it was even possible to be a hero today, or if our world has become so complicated and selfish that noble behavior isn’t possible or can never meet with success.” Yes, there still are heroes.
I Beat the Odds: from homelessness to The Blind Side and beyond. By Michael Oher. Oher, subject of the movie The Blind Side, recounts how he defied the odds, escaped from the inner-city Memphis ghetto, found a family to take him in, and used his football skills to build a better life for himself.
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: five sisters, one remarkable family, and the woman who risked everything to keep them safe. By Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. Recounts the true story of Kamila Sidiqi, a woman who was forced to support herself and her five siblings after the Taliban seized control of the city of Kabul and her father and brothers fled the country.
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