Look at the books nominated for the 2022 Illinois Teen Choice Award
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds was #2 on the American Library Association's tracking of books challenged or censored in libraries in 2020
- Summary: A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today, adapted from National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning
- Genre: non-fiction
What we've been reading
- Maddie "read a ton of books over Spring Break," and her new favorite is:
- Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
- Summary: What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong? Frances has always been a study machine with one goal, elite university. Nothing will stand in her way; not friends, not a guilty secret -- not even the person she is on the inside. But when Frances meets Aled, the shy genius behind her favourite podcast, she discovers a new freedom. He unlocks the door to Real Frances and for the first time she experiences true friendship, unafraid to be herself. Then the podcast goes viral and the fragile trust between them is broken. Caught between who she was and who she longs to be, Frances' dreams come crashing down. Suffocating with guilt, she knows that she has to confront her past... She has to confess why Carys disappeared... Meanwhile at uni, Aled is alone, fighting even darker secrets. It's only by facing up to your fears that you can overcome them. And it's only by being your true self that you can find happiness. Frances is going to need every bit of courage she has.
- Genre: realistic
- Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
- Hunter is now ready to admit that Coriolanus Snow is a bad guy:
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
- Summary: Revisit the world of Panem sixty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games. Prequel follows the character of Coriolanus Snow.
- Genre:
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
- We, the Wildflowers by L. B. Simmons
- Summary: Four unruly teens living together in a home for troubled youth find connection and strength, like that of wildflowers, as they face their harrowing pasts and new tragedies.
- Genre: realistic
- Lifestyles of Gods and Monsters by Emily Roberson
- Summary: In a reality TV retelling of the myth of the Minotaur, seventeen-year-old Ariadne fights to save her brother, Asterion, and make her own destiny in a world of celebrity, surveillance, and feigned authenticity.
- Genre: realistic
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- Summary: An adolescent boy, knowing he is about to be dropped by his school, spends three days and nights in New York City.
- Genre: classic
- Ms. Tolva shared this article with modern alternatives to Holden
- Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh
- Summary: A mixed-heritage dancer's coming of age within the African diaspora is shaped by abuse at the hands of a cousin, her mother's descent into addiction, and her father's efforts to create a Nigerian-inspired home in America.
- Genre: realistic
- And every body learned what a sucker Ms. Tolva is for a book that has won awards!
- Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
- Summary: As World War II draws to a close, refugees try to escape the war's final dangers, only to find themselves aboard a ship with a target on its hull.
- Genre: historical
- Book Club has "assigned" Hunter to read this book. Yes, we have.
- And we blew Maddie's mind by telling her Carry On and Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell continue Simon Snow's story as first introduced in Fangirl. Boom!