Club news:
- Welcome Jenna!
- Overheard at our welcoming a new member: "Anyone who knows what TBR is should come to Book Club!"
- Fri Apr 29 - meet in LMC classroom
- Fri May 6 - meet in Room 1204
- Fri May 13 - meet in Room 2402
- Fri May 20 - meet in LMC classroom for last meeting of the year!
- Club member who has attended/signed in most Book Club meetings will win a book-related prize!
- We celebrate you all!
- LMC will be closed May 3- 13 for AP testing, so stock up with a few books before your acecss is limited. The LMC will probably not be open before or after school either.
- If you have no overdue or lost books, you can check out up to 10 books over summer break.
- English classes summer reading "assignments" will be to read what you like!
What we've been reading:
- We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
- Genre: mystery
- Summary: Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.
- Winner of 20XX Illinois Teen Choice Award
- The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
- Book 1 of the Heroes of Olympus series
- Genre: fantasy
- Summary: JASON HAS A PROBLEM. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper, and his best friend is a guy named Leo. They’re all students at the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids," as Leo puts it. What did Jason do to end up here? And where is here, exactly? Jason doesn't know anything—except that everything seems very wrong. PIPER HAS A SECRET. Her father has been missing for three days, ever since she had that terrifying nightmare about his being in trouble. Piper doesn’t understand her dream, or why her boyfriend suddenly doesn’t recognize her. When a freak storm hits during the school trip, unleashing strange creatures and whisking her, Jason, and Leo away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood, she has a feeling she’s going to find out, whether she wants to or not. LEO HAS A WAY WITH TOOLS. When he sees his cabin at Camp Half-Blood, filled with power tools and machine parts, he feels right at home. But there’s weird stuff, too—like the curse everyone keeps talking about, and some camper who's gone missing. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist that each of them—including Leo—is related to a god. Does this have anything to do with Jason's amnesia, or the fact that Leo keeps seeing ghosts?
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Genre: mystery
- Summary: Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Summoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ‘80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn’s story near its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways.
- Read-alike: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
- Read-alike: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
- The Lost Girls by Jessica Chiarella
- Author is 2005 VHHS grad
- Genre: mystery
- Summary: When her true-crime podcast becomes an overnight sensation, a young woman is pulled into the web of a case that may offer a surprising connection to her own sister's disappearance years earlier. It's been more than twenty years since Marti Reese's sister, Maggie, disappeared. Only eight-years-old at the time, Marti can't remember what happened, just that Maggie got into a car and never returned. After years of grief and countless false leads, Marti is coping as best she can: abandoning her marriage, drinking to forget, and documenting her never-ending search via a true-crime podcast. But when the podcast becomes an unexpected hit and Marti thinks she's finally ready to put it all behind her, a mysterious woman calls with new information that could lead her down a dangerous path. For years, Ava Vreeland has been fighting to overturn her brother's murder conviction. After finding strange similarities between the two cases, Ava is certain there's a connection between the murder and Maggie's disappearance, one that could prove her brother's innocence. Together, Marti and Ava embark on a quest for the truth, but the more Marti digs, the more she's shaken by the answers she might find, and what it is she's even searching for.
- The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
- Genre: mystery
- Summary: When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.
- Winner of the 2022 Illinois Teen Choice Award
- Disney's Twisted Tales series
- Many by author Liz Braswell
- Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
- Genre: supernatural
- Summary: When Agnes Nutter predicts that the end of the world is days away, the demon Crowley and his angel friend, Aziraphale, team up to save humankind.
- plus show
- The Eye of Minds by James Dashner
- Genre: sci-fi
- Summary: Michael is a skilled internet gamer in a world of advanced technology. When a cyber-terrorist begins to threaten players, Michael is called upon to seek him and his secrets out.
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- Genre: mystery
- Summary: Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning ... past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them ... Their life-as she sees it-is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?
- "All of the characters are crazy!" says Jenna