Club news:
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THANK YOU and contraulations to our rockstar readers who starred in this video that will be watched at high schools all across the state to announce the winners of the 2024 Illinois Teen Choice Award (officially called the Lincoln Award)
- Anastasiia, Percy, Emma and Madelyn, along with guest star Ashley Rojas, voiced parts of the video
- Amelie and Grace were awesome book models
- Priya handed over the envelopes
- Thank you also to Ms. Landeche who filmed and produced such a pro video!
- Our LMC books want to have a fun Spring break, too, so remember to check out a small stack and make it last!
- We look a first look at the 20 books nominated for the 2025 Illinois Teen Choice Award:
- books are ready to be read right away!
Mrs. Caldicott and Amelie are book twins!
- Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
- Genre: supernatural
- Summary: Galaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she's thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world's most prestigious universities on a full ride. What's the catch, and why her? Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale's secret societies. Their eight windowless "tombs" are the well-known haunts of the rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street's biggest players. But their occult activities are more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. They tamper with forbidden magic. They raise the dead. And, sometimes, they prey on the living.
