Club news:
- We made a list of possible club activities:
- Stay tuned for when we launch some of these ideas!
What we've been reading:
- Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson
- Genre; mystery
- Summary: Senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn't going well. With the cold case of the century solved, Stevie is adrift. There is nothing to distract her from the questions pinging around her brain—questions about college, love, and life in general. Relief comes when David invites Stevie and her friends to join him for study abroad, and his new friend Izzy introduces her to a double-murder cold case. In 1995, nine friends from Cambridge University went to a country house and played a drunken game of hide-and-seek. Two were found in the woodshed the next day, murdered with an ax. The case was assumed to be a burglary gone wrong, but one of the remaining seven saw something she can't explain. This was no break-in. Someone's lying about what happened in the woodshed. Seven suspects. Two murders. One killer still playing a deadly game.
- In the Truly Devious series
- Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
- Genre: mystery
- Summary: Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, two students at Niveus Private Academy, are selected to be part of the elite school's senior class prefects and struggle against an anonymous bully who reveals all of their secrets.
- Nominated for the 2023 Illinois Teen Choice Award
- Fatal Throne: The Wives of Henry VIII Tell All by M. T. Anderson and others
- Genre: historical
- Summary: Seven award-winning young adult authors illuminate the lives of Britain's King Henry VIII and his six wives from different viewpoints.
- The Haunted Bookstore: Gateway to a Parallel Universe by Shinobumaro
- Genre: fantasy, light novel
- Summary: Kaori lives in an otherworldly bookstore with her adoptive father. Together, they provide books to the strange denizens of the spirit realm. But Kaori's peaceful days come to an end when she rescues an injured boy from the streets--a human, like her, from the mortal realm. The boy's name is Suimei, and he's an exorcist, the natural enemy of all spirits. Can Kaori convince Suimei that the line between human and spirit is far hazier than he thinks? A touching supernatural tale where humanity and Japanese folklore intertwine!
- The Assignment by Liza M. Wiemer
- Genre: realistic
- Summary: SENIOR YEAR. When an assignment given by a favorite teacher instructs a group of students to argue for the Final Solution, a euphemism used to describe the Nazi plan for the genocide of the Jewish people, Logan March and Cade Crawford are horrified. Their teacher cannot seriously expect anyone to complete an assignment that fuels intolerance and discrimination. Logan and Cade decide they must take a stand. As the school administration addressed the teens' refusal to participate in the appalling debate, the student body, their parents, and the larger community are forced to face the issue as well. The situation explodes, and acrimony and anger result. What does it take for tolerance, justice, and love to prevail?
- Nominated for the 2024 Illinois Ten Choice Award
- The Lord of the Rings series by J. R. Tolkein
- Genre: fantasy in 3 parts
- Summary: Frodo the hobbit and a band of warriors from the different kingdoms set out to destroy the Ring of Power before the evil Sauron grasps control.
- Lora and Madeline are reading together
- When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
- Genre: relationships
- Summary: Dimple Shah has it all figured out. With graduation behind her, she’s more than ready for a break from her family—and from Mamma’s inexplicable obsession with her finding the “Ideal Indian Husband.” Ugh. Dimple knows they must respect her principles on some level, though. If they truly believed she needed a husband right now, they wouldn’t have paid for her to attend a summer program for aspiring web developers…right? Rishi Patel is a hopeless romantic. So when his parents tell him that his future wife will be attending the same summer program—wherein he’ll have to woo her—he’s totally on board. Because as silly as it sounds to most people in his life, Rishi wants to be arranged, believes in the power of tradition, stability, and being a part of something much bigger than himself. The Shahs and Patels didn’t mean to start turning the wheels on this “suggested arrangement” so early in their children’s lives, but when they noticed them both gravitating toward the same summer program, they figured, Why not? Dimple and Rishi may think they have each other figured out. But when opposites clash, love works hard to prove itself in the most unexpected ways.
- Betty says, "I'm so ashamed of myself" for not reading it faster!
- Genre: relationships
Overheard at Book Club:
- What books didn't you finish?
- Furyborn
- Harry Potter
- His Dark Materials
- "I will never get offended by anhone's book habits, but I can never not read the whole book or the whole series. You can not DNF it," proclaims Ryleigh