| | A book club designed especially for teens!
 Teen Book Club
Who? 7th-12th graders
When? The first week of every month (during the school year)
Where? Online at Goodreads.com
Informal book forum for teens in the Woodland area. We’ll read and discuss a book about once a month. The moderator will post a comment or question, and you post back. It's easy, and you can do it on your own time! Just remember, you have to be added to the group, so let Cara know (661-5980; cara.baker@cityofwoodland.org) if you're interested in joining, and she'll send you an invitation.
January - June 2012
The golden compass. Philip Pullman. Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North. Fantasy.
I am number four. Pittacus Lore. In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a 15-year-old who has hidden on Earth for 10 years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien. Science Fiction.
The Alchemyst: the secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flamel. Michael Scott. While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, 15-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life. Fantasy.
Acceleration. Graham McNamee. Stuck working in the Lost and Found of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, 17-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him. Mystery.
Uglies. Scott Westerfeld. Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn 16, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your 16th birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there. Science Fiction.
A northern light. Jennifer Donnelly. In 1906, 16-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story. Historical Fiction.
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