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Pizza and Books: Teen Book Club October 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, November 25 at 6pm at the Nichols Library in the Community Room. Here's what we talked about this month!
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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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The liar's daughter
by Megan Cooley Peterson
Desperate to escape deprogramming after being rescued from a cult, seventeen-year-old Piper wants to rejoin her family, but the truth about that family, her past, and herself cannot be denied.
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The Wicker King
by Kayla Ancrum
When his best friend Jack suffers from vivid hallucinations, August accepts the visions as real and follows Jack on a quest to fulfill a dark prophecy.
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The great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A young man newly rich tries to recapture the past and win back his former love, despite the fact that she has married.
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Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee
by Jeff Zentner
Co-hosting a campy weekly cable program during their high school years, two best friends face tough decisions about their futures as graduation approaches and one of them considers leaving the show. By the award-winning author of The Serpent King.
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Of mice and men
by John Steinbeck
The American novelist's classic work of two itinerant farmhands' perpetual search for a home.
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Symptoms of a heartbreak
by Sona Charaipotra
Fresh from medical school, teenage genius Saira takes a job treating childhood cancer, and must prove herself to skeptical adult coworkers while adjusting to real life-and-death stakes and falling for one of her patients.
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The giver
by Lois Lowry
Coming to movie theaters in the summer of 2014, this movie tie-in edition of the 1994 Newbery Medal-winning classic tells the story of 12-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal world and only begins to understand the dark secrets behind his fragile community after he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory. Features photographic artwork from the film on the cover.
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The weight of the stars
by Kayla Ancrum
After a horrific accident brings loners Ryann and Alexandria together, Ryann learns that Alexandria's mother is an astronaut who volunteered for a one-way trip to the edge of the solar system.
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Insignificant events in the life of a cactus
by Dusti Bowling
Thirteen-year-old Aven was born without arms and has trouble fitting in at her new school after her parents take a job at a dying western theme park, but she makes a new friend in a fellow disabled boy who helps her solve a mystery at the park.
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The adventures of Captain Underpants
by Dav Pilkey
When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen
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And then there were none
by Agatha Christie
A killer stalks ten strangers on an isolated island off the Devon coast, in a suspenseful story of murder and retribution set to a sinister nursery rhyme.
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Carrie
by Stephen King
An introverted girl with remarkable powers of telekinesis faces the horrors of teenage life and unleashes a few horrors of her own when she attends the high school prom.
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Four : a Divergent collection
by Veronica Roth
Told from Tobias's point of view, Four shares details of his transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his intiation, and claiming his place in the Dauntless hierarchy.
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My kind of crazy
by Robin Reul
Hank Kirby's life has been filled with disasters, but when Peyton Breedlove, a budding pyromaniac, witnesses Hank nearly burning a girl's house down, she blackmails Hank into an unusual friendship.
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The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe
by C. S. Lewis
Four English school children enter the magic land of Narnia through the back of a wardrobe and assist Aslan, the golden lion, in defeating the White Witch who has cursed the land with eternal winter
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Rump : the true story of Rumpelstiltskin
by Liesl Shurtliff
When his mother dies without revealing his full name, Rump endures teasing for his half-name until he discovers his ability to spin gold, a talent that entangles him in a dire curse and prompts a fantastical quest to discover his true identity.
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Ink and bone
by Rachel Caine
In a world where the Great Library of Alexandria governs the flow of information to the people, Jess discovers that those who control the Library believe that knowledge is more valuable than human life after his friend commits heresy.
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The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, A.C. Thomas’s searing debut about an ordinary girl in extraordinary circumstances addresses issues of racism and police violence with intelligence, heart, and unflinching honesty.
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