Summary: Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.
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Mrs. Stevens posed a question: "If you wrote a book, what would it be about?"
Trey is writing a screenplay with a historical setting. He says screenplays are easier to write because you don't have to describe the characters but leave that up to the actors to portray. He says the main thing is use your imagination. Directors don't mind a messy script is the story is good.
Yona first is drawing the map to go along with the book she and her little sister are writing together, because "every good book needs a map!"
Maddie would write a mystery book.
Hunter would write a horror or mystery book.
Emily is writing a book with the tentative title Wolf Pack Rising, in which humans are chosen for the genes that make them compatible for a military project. Humans are crossed with wolves to serve in pack-like military units.
The Book Club Zoom chat was soom flooded with questions and suggestions for Emily's plot, storyline details, and character names.
Summary: In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
Roth was 20 years old when she wrote the first book in this science fiction series. She wrote it over winer break during her senior year at Northwestern University.
Summary: In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
Genre; fantasy
Paolini graduated from high school at age 15 and wrote the 4 books immediately after graduation.
Summary: Rose Elmsworth has a secret. For eighteen years, the world has been divided into the magically Gifted and the non-magical Ashkind, but Rose's identity is far more dangerous. At fifteen, she has earned herself a place alongside her father in the Department, a brutal law-enforcement organisation run by the Gifted to control the Ashkind. But now an old enemy is threatening to start a catastrophic war, and Rose faces a challenging test of her loyalties. How much does she really know about her father's past? How far is the Department willing to go to keep the peace? And, if the time comes, will Rose choose to protect her secret, or the people she loves?
Genre: fantasy
Coggan wote the first book in The War of Angels series when she was 13 years old.
Summary: Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution.
Summary: In Renaissance Venice, orphaned Cassandra Caravello is one of the elite but feels trapped in the city of water until she stumbles upon a murdered woman and is drawn into a dangerous world of courtesans, grave robbers, and secret societies, guided by Falco, a mysterious and alluring artist.
Summary: It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty's life out from under her. It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don't dare wander outside the school's fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything. But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that there's more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true.
