Teen Read Week is only two weeks away! In honor of this year's theme, Books with Beat, we're featuring a book with a definate beat as our Online Book Club pick!
Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway (in about 100 words):
What if your boyfriend wrote a song about you? Wouldn’t that be cool? Well, what if he wrote it about when you broke up with him and your name was a major part of the chorus? What if that song went on to be part of a best selling album? And you were still in high school? And people you’ve never even talked to before are yelling your name in the halls? Oh, and did I mention the paparazzi trying to follow you and your best friend, your new boyfriend, or even your mom around, when all you want to do is be the same you you’ve always been? All of that and more happens to Audrey in Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway!
Now, go read it if you haven't already and come back and answer some questions! Oh, hey, remember to come to Teen Central tomorrow at 4 PM to meet the author of last month's Online Book Club pick!
Question #1:
Have you ever been the subject of unwanted attention like Audrey? What happened? What was that like?
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04 October 2010
02 September 2010
Online Book Club #4 - Island Sting
Island Sting by Bonnie Doerr (in about 100 words)
Kenzie is a city girl in a whole new world when her mom moves her to a nature preserve in the Florida Keys and she immediately gets into trouble by falling into a canal to save what she thinks is a dog. She quickly realizes it's a tiny deer instead and then she meets a boy who helps her (and the deer) out of the canal. Soon, Kenzie learns that there is a poacher killing key deer even though they’re an endangered species. What is she going to do and that’s just in the first two chapters of this action packed mystery novel for middle schoolers.
Go read it and then answer our weekly questions! Don’t forget the author of this book will be visiting Teen Central on October 5th at 4 pm. We hope to see everyone there!
Question 1:
Both Kenzie and Angelo kept their hunt for the poacher a secret from their family. Do you agree with that decision? Would you have done the same? Why or why not?
Question 2:
Throughout the book, Kenzie does not have a cell phone. Why doesn’t she? If you had to go without a cell phone, how would your days change?
Question 3:
Kenzie and Angelo work to decrease litter pollution on their island. Why is decreasing litter important? What could you do to decrease litter?
Kenzie is a city girl in a whole new world when her mom moves her to a nature preserve in the Florida Keys and she immediately gets into trouble by falling into a canal to save what she thinks is a dog. She quickly realizes it's a tiny deer instead and then she meets a boy who helps her (and the deer) out of the canal. Soon, Kenzie learns that there is a poacher killing key deer even though they’re an endangered species. What is she going to do and that’s just in the first two chapters of this action packed mystery novel for middle schoolers.
Go read it and then answer our weekly questions! Don’t forget the author of this book will be visiting Teen Central on October 5th at 4 pm. We hope to see everyone there!
Question 1:
Both Kenzie and Angelo kept their hunt for the poacher a secret from their family. Do you agree with that decision? Would you have done the same? Why or why not?
Question 2:
Throughout the book, Kenzie does not have a cell phone. Why doesn’t she? If you had to go without a cell phone, how would your days change?
Question 3:
Kenzie and Angelo work to decrease litter pollution on their island. Why is decreasing litter important? What could you do to decrease litter?
09 August 2010
Next Month's Online Book Club Selection...
Next month we're featuring a book by a local author in our Online Book Club. We'll be reading Bonnie Doerr's Island Sting. It's an environmental mystery set in the Florida Keys. If you liked Carl Hiassan's Hoot or Flush, you should definately pick this one up! To make this even cooler, Bonnie Doerr will be coming to Teen Central as part of our On the Same Page programming to discuss her book and writing in general once we're done talking about it on here on October 5th at 4 pm. Start reading!
02 August 2010
Online Book Club #3
I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President by Josh Lieb (in about 100 words)
From the outside Oliver Watson seems to be a (below) average 8th grader from Omaha, Nebraska. In reality, he is an evil supergenius whose aspirations include taking over the world. However, for now, he’s going to settle for being 8th grade class president just to make his father feel utterly stupid. You wouldn’t think that becoming class president would be all that difficult for the fourth richest person in the world, but you might just be wrong. Even with a legion of henchman, near uncountable amounts of wealth, and more intelligence that a NASA physicist class presidency might still be out of Oliver’s reach.
Now it's your turn to read and respond.
Week #1 Question
1. If you had Oliver's resources, what would you do first?
2. Do you think Oliver is really evil?
3. Did you want him to win in the end? Yes or no. Why?
4. Speaking of endings, what did you think about the change in the author's tone at the end of the book? Did you think he was staying true to his character or was he just trying to get a message across?
From the outside Oliver Watson seems to be a (below) average 8th grader from Omaha, Nebraska. In reality, he is an evil supergenius whose aspirations include taking over the world. However, for now, he’s going to settle for being 8th grade class president just to make his father feel utterly stupid. You wouldn’t think that becoming class president would be all that difficult for the fourth richest person in the world, but you might just be wrong. Even with a legion of henchman, near uncountable amounts of wealth, and more intelligence that a NASA physicist class presidency might still be out of Oliver’s reach.
Now it's your turn to read and respond.
Week #1 Question
1. If you had Oliver's resources, what would you do first?
2. Do you think Oliver is really evil?
3. Did you want him to win in the end? Yes or no. Why?
4. Speaking of endings, what did you think about the change in the author's tone at the end of the book? Did you think he was staying true to his character or was he just trying to get a message across?
08 July 2010
Next Month's Book Club Title!
If you want to get a jump start on reading next month's Online Book Club post, we're going to be reading I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President by Josh Lieb. It's hilarious. I promise.
01 July 2010
Online Book Club #2
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (in about a hundred words):
Katniss’ life has never been easy, but when her little sister’s name is drawn as a contestant for the Hunger Games it gets a lot harder when she volunteers to go in Prim’s place. The Hunger Games is an annual event in the country of Panem which pits 24 teenagers against each other in a match to the death that is filled with all sorts of nasty surprises invented by the gamemakers. Katniss is whisked away from her life in poverty striken District 12 and given a few weeks to train before she’s tossed in to the Hunger Games arena. What happens next? You’ll have to read and find out.
Now, go and read it if you haven’t already. If you have read it or are reading it, join in the discussion below. Remember to check back each week for a fresh question.
Week 1 Question:
Which contestants do you think were worse off? The children from the richer districts where they were raised to kill or be killed? Or the poorer districts where they had to scrounge and scavenge to survive?
Week 2 Question:
Do you think Peeta really meant it when he said he was in love with Katniss or was it all part of the scheme he and Haymitch dreamed up. What about Katniss? Do you think she falls in love with Peeta by the end of the book? What about her feelings for Gale? Do you think anything will come of that?
Week 3 Question:
What do you think the cruelest part of the hunger games was?
Week 4 Question:
What would your strategy be if you were in the hunger games arena?
Katniss’ life has never been easy, but when her little sister’s name is drawn as a contestant for the Hunger Games it gets a lot harder when she volunteers to go in Prim’s place. The Hunger Games is an annual event in the country of Panem which pits 24 teenagers against each other in a match to the death that is filled with all sorts of nasty surprises invented by the gamemakers. Katniss is whisked away from her life in poverty striken District 12 and given a few weeks to train before she’s tossed in to the Hunger Games arena. What happens next? You’ll have to read and find out.
Now, go and read it if you haven’t already. If you have read it or are reading it, join in the discussion below. Remember to check back each week for a fresh question.
Week 1 Question:
Which contestants do you think were worse off? The children from the richer districts where they were raised to kill or be killed? Or the poorer districts where they had to scrounge and scavenge to survive?
Week 2 Question:
Do you think Peeta really meant it when he said he was in love with Katniss or was it all part of the scheme he and Haymitch dreamed up. What about Katniss? Do you think she falls in love with Peeta by the end of the book? What about her feelings for Gale? Do you think anything will come of that?
Week 3 Question:
What do you think the cruelest part of the hunger games was?
Week 4 Question:
What would your strategy be if you were in the hunger games arena?
24 June 2010
Fun for Hunger Games Fans...
With next month's Online Book Club (Note to self: We must find a better name for that.) pick being The Hunger Games and the third book in the series coming out in August, I was excited to see this "Find Your Hunger Games Name" post on another blog I read and I thought I would share it with all of you.
07 June 2010
Next month's Online Book Club selection...
Our July book club selection is going to be The Hunger Games. So, if you haven't read it already, start reading now and join the discussion on July 1st!
01 June 2010
Online Book Club #1
Uglies in (about) 100 words:
What would you give up to be pretty? Your friends? Your family? Yourself? Tally is born into a world where everyone gets an operation to become perfectly pretty on their sixteenth birthday. It seems like that’s all she’s ever wanted. But after her friend Shay runs off to join a rebel group, all of that might be endangered unless Tally becomes a government spy and goes after her. This book has tons of action, danger, and suspense. Westerfeld’s writing sucks you into Tally’s tricky, high tech world from the first page. The final cliffhanger ending will have you running back to the library to get Pretties, the second book in the series.
Now, go and read it if you haven’t already. If you have read it or are reading it, join in the discussion below. Remember to check back each week for a fresh question.
Book Club Question of the week (courtesy of Scott Westerfeld's website: www.scottwesterfeld.com):
At first, did you hope Tally would get the operation? When did you change your mind? (Or did you?)
Book Club Question of the week (#2):
Would you give up your ability to think independently in exchange for being happy, beautiful, perpetually healthy, and rich?
Book Club Question of the week (#3):
To what extent did Tally decide her own fate, and how much did other people decide it for her?
Book Club Question of the Week (#4):
The Rusty civilization collapsed because of its dependence on oil. In what ways is your lifestyle dependent on oil and gasoline? How easily would you survive if it all disappeared one day?
What would you give up to be pretty? Your friends? Your family? Yourself? Tally is born into a world where everyone gets an operation to become perfectly pretty on their sixteenth birthday. It seems like that’s all she’s ever wanted. But after her friend Shay runs off to join a rebel group, all of that might be endangered unless Tally becomes a government spy and goes after her. This book has tons of action, danger, and suspense. Westerfeld’s writing sucks you into Tally’s tricky, high tech world from the first page. The final cliffhanger ending will have you running back to the library to get Pretties, the second book in the series.
Now, go and read it if you haven’t already. If you have read it or are reading it, join in the discussion below. Remember to check back each week for a fresh question.
Book Club Question of the week (courtesy of Scott Westerfeld's website: www.scottwesterfeld.com):
At first, did you hope Tally would get the operation? When did you change your mind? (Or did you?)
Book Club Question of the week (#2):
Would you give up your ability to think independently in exchange for being happy, beautiful, perpetually healthy, and rich?
Book Club Question of the week (#3):
To what extent did Tally decide her own fate, and how much did other people decide it for her?
Book Club Question of the Week (#4):
The Rusty civilization collapsed because of its dependence on oil. In what ways is your lifestyle dependent on oil and gasoline? How easily would you survive if it all disappeared one day?
27 May 2010
How Online Book Club is going to work
On the 1st, we're going to start FCPL's first online book club. I'll post a review of the title and a question to start discussion. Then everyone who has an answer to the question will post in the comments and we'll all talk back and forth on that question (or any others that come up in the line of discussion) for a week. Each following week for one month I'll post another question about the book for us to discuss. On the seventh or eighth of each month, I'll announce the next month's title. New discussions will start on the first or second of each month. I realize it's way past the seventh this month, but I'm going to pick a title that's a few years old in hopes that lots of folks have already read it.
Without further ado: Next month's book title is Scott Westerfeld's Uglies.
P.S. I think we should come up with a cooler title than "Online Book Club". Any suggestions?
Without further ado: Next month's book title is Scott Westerfeld's Uglies.
P.S. I think we should come up with a cooler title than "Online Book Club". Any suggestions?
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