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Books Discussed at Teen Book Club 2010
August 24, 2010
- Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (on order)
- Octopussy: The Last Great Adventures of 007 by Ian Fleming (not owned by CHPL)
- Lucky You by Carl Hiaasen
- The Kings of Clonmel by John Flanagan
- Eon – Dragoneye Reborn by Alison Goodman
- Graceling by Kristin Cashore
- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J,K. Rowling
- Lewis Carroll in Numberland by Robin Wilson (not owned by CHPL)
- And Another Thing (Hitchhiker’s Guide) by Eoin Colfer (not owned by CHPL)
August 10, 2010
- Blitzcat by Robert Westall
- You Wish by Mandy Hubbard (not owned by CHPL)
- Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
- Runner by Carl Deuker
- My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
- The Spire by Richard North Patterson
- Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy by William Irwin and Richard Brian Davis (not owned by CHPL)
- Martyn Pig by Kevin Brooks
- Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
- God is in the Pancakes by Robin Epstein (on order)
July 27, 2010
- Every Crooked Pot by Renee Rosen
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
- Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
- A Moment on the Edge edited by Elizabeth George
- Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard
- The Heart is not a Size by Beth Kephart
- Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
- The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex
- Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
- Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
July 13, 2010
- Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
- The Kings of Clonmel by John Flanagan
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- A Moment on the Edge edited by Elizabeth George
June 22, 2010
Teens wanted to bring a picture book to share in addition to their regular books.
Picture books:
- Tuesday by David Wiesner
- Stephanie’s Ponytail and The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch
- Bamboozled by David Legge (not owned by CHPL)
- Dinorella by Pamela Duncan Edwards
- Monkey Business by by J. Otto Seibold and Vivian Walsh (not owned by CHPL)
- If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
- Curious George by H.A. Rey
- The Yellow Submarine by The Beatles
- The Berenstain Bears by Stan & Jan Berenstain
- Skippyjon Jones by Judy Schachner
Regular books:
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- A Moment on the Edge edited by Elizabeth George
- House Rules by Jodi Picault
- Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Going Bovine by Libba Bray
- Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
- The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke
- Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
June 8, 2010
- The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
- Sorcery and Cecelia by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
- The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
- Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
- The Dead Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan
- Voices by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk
- The Safe-Keeper’s Secret by Sharon Shinn
- Ranger’s Apprentice #1 by John Flanagan
- Trickster’s Choice by Tamora Pierce
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
- A History of Pi by Petr Beckmann (not owned by CHPL)
- The Other Side of Dark by Joan Lowry Nixon
May 25, 2010
- Flatland by Edwin Abbot (not owned by CHPL)
- A Moment on the Edge edited by Elizabeth George
- A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
- Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson
- That Was Then, This is Now by S.E. Hinton
- The Glass Maker’s Daughter by V. Briceland
- Maximum Ride by James Patterson
- Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
- Red Scarf Girl by Ji Li Jiang
- Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
- Light Blue Reign by Art Chansky
May 11, 2010
- Ultimate Power by Michael Cart (not owned by CHPL)
- Token of Darkness by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
- A Moment on the Edge edited by Elizabeth George
- Play with Fire by Dana Stabenow
- Stalin – A Biography by Robert Service
- The Iliad by Homer
- Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
- Maximum Ride series by James Patterson
- Wicked by Gregory Maguire
- Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
- An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
- Princess in Pink by Meg Cabot
- Drama High – Hustlin by L. Divine
- When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park
April 27, 2010
- Daughter of Destiny series by Jenna Solitaire
- Fire by Kristin Cashore
- After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick
- The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
- A Coming Evil by Vivian Vande Velde
- Elly – My True Story of the Holocaust by Elly Gross (not owned by CHPL)
- The Greatest Treasures by ? (not owned by CHPL)
- Sphinx’s Princess by Esther Friesner
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Jimmy Coates series by Joe Craig
- Taken by Norah McClintock
- Monster by Walter Dean Myers
April 13, 2010
- Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
- Wicked by Gregory Maguire
- The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet by Erin Dionne
- Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse
- Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
- A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin
- Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr
- Spellwright by Blake Charlton
- Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
- The Miner’s Daughter by Gretchen Moran Laskas
- Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Mah
- Savvy by Ingrid Law
- The Giant-Slayer by Ian Lawrence
March 23, 2010
- Fablehaven #5 – Keys to the Demon Prison by Brandon Mull
- rest of Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull
- Mental Floss History of the World by Eric Sass (not owned by CHPL)
- Out of Thin Air by Peter Ward (not owned by CHPL)
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
- Academy 7 by Anne Osterlund
- Frog Princess series by E.D. Baker
- The Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway (not owned by CHPL)
- Back Home by Julia Keller
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult
March 9, 2010
- Romiette & Julio by Sharon Draper
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
- Vinyl Princess by Yvonne Prinz
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Stuffed by Eric Walters
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
- Freaks – Alive on the Inside by Annette Curtis Klause
- Love is the Higher Law by David Levithan
- Perfect Girl by Mary Hogan
- The Power of Babel by John H. McWhorter
- The House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
February 23, 2010
- Stoneheart by Charlie Fletcher
- Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce
- 2010 : Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke
- The Exchange Student by Kate Gilmore
- The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzimiya by Nagaru Tanigawa (not available at CHPL)
- Under the Blood Red Sun by Graham Salisbury
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- Generation Dead by Daniel Waters
- The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
- The Naming by Alison Croggon
- Weasel by Cynthia DeFelice
- The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Kaiulani : The People’s Princess by Ellen Emerson White
- Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
- Warriors series by Erin Hunter
- The Girl Who Owned a City by O.T. Nelson (not available at CHPL)
February 9, 2010
- The Sacred Quest by Chris Heimerdinger (not available at CHPL)
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Beyond Faith by William Penick (not available at CHPL)
- Or Not by Brian Mandabach
- Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry
- Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
- I Am A Cat by Soseki Natsume (not available at CHPL)
- Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Each Little Bird that Sings by Deborah Wiles
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson
- The Girl with No Shadow by Joanne Harris
- Romiette and Julio by Sharon Draper
January 26, 2010
- As You Do by Richard Hammond (not available at CHPL)
- An American Life by Ronald Reagan (not available at CHPL)
- The Roar by Emma Clayton
- Fire by Kristin Cashore
- Exit Here by Jason Myers (not available at CHPL)
- Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
- Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
- City at World’s End by Edmond Hamilton (available online/external link)
- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Holes by Louis Sachar
- Messenger by Lois Lowry
January 12, 2010
- The Comet’s Curse by Dom Testa
- Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Roar by Emma Clayton
- Hunted Past Reason by Richard Matheson
- Mortal Engines by Philip Reeves
- Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
- North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley
- Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
- Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
- Chocolat by Joanne Harris
- Guinness Book of Records 2010
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- The Cay by Theodore Taylor
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Books discussed 2009
Books discussed June-December 2008
Books discussed January-May 2008
Books discussed June-December 2007
Last updated: 24 August 2010