Best Teen Books discussion
What's your favorite book read in the last month?


I think my favorite from the past month would have to be Born to Rock by Gordon Korman. How could it not be; it centers around a young Republican on a punk rock festival. So funny!

Courtney is good, haven't kept up with it since I first started reading it a year or two ago however.




Another outstanding book I just read was "Breathing Underwater" by Alex Flynn. This is my favorite book that I've read this year; I love the way the author lets the story unfold. It starts out in a court room as our main character, Nick, is getting a restraining order put against him by his girlfriend. Nick is ordered to attend anger management classes and to keep a journal. It is through the journal that we learn what really happened. Again, I loved this book and would recommend it to all students, especially the males.

I am also on a big "Coraline" kick. This is one of the scariest books I've ever read, and there's no gore in it at all. The image of the Other Mother is seared into my brain! Everyone I know who has read this just loves it.

His first Fighting Ruben Wolf
and the next Getting the Girl and
the final one I am the Messenger
You will not be disappointed - he is my newest, best YA author!








My most recent favorite is Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood by Benjamin Alire Saenz. Excellent book!




BJ







Twilight was so erotic, scary, romantic and about vampires (which I am not interested in at all)and hooked me from the lst page. Stephenie Meyer has that unique ability to grip you with her descriptions of the tortuously beautiful Edward Cullen and his clutzy, human love Bella! I can't wait to go out and buy the sequel!
BJ
My favorite has been "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak.

The Battle of Jericho by Sharon Draper is so awesome, about a group of high school boys and one girl who pledge an exclusive club only to find it is run by sicko seniors who have escalated the initiation process to include hazing, lying and stealing, many things Jericho is against but feels he must do to join the Warriors of Distinction. A page turner!
BJ



The 2nd book, I loved and finished was "March" by Geraldine Brooks. If you haven't yet read her other book, Year of Wonders, pick it up immediately. But March is the story told by the father of the girls in the "Little Women" book, Mr March who is an ardent abolitionist and preacher in the Revolutionary War. The war from March's point of view changes as he spends more time in battle and sees the atrocities of slavery, the North and South wreak havoc on each other and his letters home are moving. A really great historical fiction novel from an awesome, awesome writer.
BJ

i felt SOO bad for him.
i was like WAT THE???
i would HATE to be in tht situation.
[in response to the book twisted:]

BJ
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Mine is Surrender, by Sonya Hartnett.
Jan