TEEN SUMMER READING PROGRAM

Coming Soon!!!

June 24th 2008

Check back on June 24th to sign up online or at your local library.
Fun, prizes and a special movie screening this summer. We’ll keep you posted :)

New Title!

Before I Die
by Jenny Downham

Tessa has just months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It's her To Do Before I Die list. Released from the constraints of 'normal' life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. Tessa's feelings, her relationships with her father and brother, her estranged mother, her best friend, and her new boyfriend, all are painfully crystallized in the precious weeks before Tessa's time finally runs out

New Title!

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

by Gabrielle Zevin

If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn’t have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn’t have hit her head on the steps. She wouldn’t have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia. She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might even have remembered why she fell in love with him in the first place. But Naomi picked heads

National Book Award Teen Winner Announced!

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

by Sherman Alexie

Based on the authors own experiences, this first young adult novel by bestselling author Alexie features poignant drawings by acclaimed artist Ellen Forney that reflect the characters art as it chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy attempting to break away from the life he was destined to live.

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Walk Two Moons
by Sharon Creech

***** (5 out of 5 stars)
This book is a really awesome because there's a girl searching to find her mom.

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Go Ask Alice

by Anonymous

***** (5 out of 5 stars)

So amazing. Sad though!

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Notes from a Liar and Her Dog

by Gennifer Choldenko

***** (5 out of 5 stars)

This book is better Al Capone Does My Shirts (same author)!

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Honey, Baby Sweetheart

by Deb Caletti

**** (4 out of 5 stars)

This book was good, but at the end it left me a little unsatisfied. She writes beautifully and I recommend all of her books.

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Operation: Survival

by Franklin W. Dixon

****(4 out of 5 stars)

Awesome!

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Warriors: Twilight

by Erin Hunter

***** (5 out of 5 stars). It's a page-turner! Peace :)

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This Lullaby

by Sarah Dessen

**** (4 out of 5 stars) Cute love story. You want to hate her but you want it to work out.

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7th Heaven: Mary's Story by Amanda Christie

YOU: On a Diet by Mehmet Oz & Michael F. Roizen

The book that i read was called YOU on a diet, the authors are Mehmet C. Oz and Michael F. Roizen. It was purchased at a bookstore. i give it a rate of 7. The other one i read was 7th heaven: Mary's story, the author is Amanda Christie...i give a rate of 8. That book was checked out at the library. So those are my reviews for my books. They were good!