Book Talk Selections

Sarah
     A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
     American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
Laura P.
     Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
     Cleo: The Cat who Mended a Family by Helen Brown
Rachel
     The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
     Sold by Patricia McCormick
Kristi
     A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
     The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Alyson
     Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
     Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
Alex
     Cinder by Melissa Meyer
     Into the Forest by Jean Hegland
Andrew
     Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
     World War Z by Max Brooks
Macie
     I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
     Me Before You by Jojo Moyer
Amber
     Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
     The Rhyming Season by Edward Averett
Gressa
     If I Stay by Gayle Forman
     The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Ashley
     Uglies by Scott Westerfield
     Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Janise
     Ready Player One by Earnest Cline
     The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Katelyn
     The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
     The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare 
Norma
     Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
     Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes 
Joel
     Hero on a Bicycle by Shirley Hughes
     The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Dezarae
     The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
     Anthem by Ayn Rand
Laura H.
     Small Steps by Peg Kehret
     The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Austin
     A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
     The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Hannah L.
     Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley by Ann Pancake
     Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Angela
     The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
     Blessing the Boats by Lucille Clifton
Justin
     Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
     The Killers by George Lippard
Harlin
     Empathy by Kevin Killian
     Convicted by Andrew Collins, Jameel McGee, and Mark Tabb
Cody
     The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey 
     Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Lainey
     The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
     Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Hannah M.
    Cardboard Piano by Hanson Jung 
    Scythe by Neal Shusterman

     


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