Book Club News
Next Scheduled Meeting - First Activity Period - Thursday 9/13 10:30am
Meeting Place - IVHS Library
Requirements for Membership:
To maintain membership students must read and discuss during the scheduled meetings at least two of the books selected for the school year. You must attend all the meetings scheduled for the books you have chosen to participate with. The schedule is as follows:
2007/2008:
| Have Book Read by: | Title | Genre | Summary | Meeting Dates |
| October 19 |
Stargirl / Jerry Spinelli |
Realistic Fiction | "She
was homeschooling gone amok." "She was an alien." "Her parents were circus
acrobats." These are only a few of the theories concocted to explain
Stargirl Caraway, a new 10th grader at Arizona's Mica Area High School who
wears pioneer dresses and kimonos to school, strums a ukulele in the
cafeteria, laughs when there are no jokes, and dances when there is no
music. The whole school, not exactly a "hotbed of nonconformity," is stunned
by her, including our 16-year-old narrator Leo Borlock: "She was elusive.
She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus
flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl." -from Amazon.com |
Week of October 22nd |
| November 30 |
The Killer's Tears / Anne-Laure Bondoux |
Drama | A young boy, Paolo, and the man who murdered his parents, Angel, gradually become like father and son as they live and work together on the remote Chilean farm where Paolo was born. | Week of December 3rd |
| January 25 |
A Northern Light / Jennifer Donnelly |
Historical Fiction | In
1906, sixteen-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. |
Week of January 28th |
| February 29 |
Feed / M. T. Anderson
|
Science Fiction | In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble. | Week of March 3rd |
| April 4 |
The Burn Journals / Brent Runyon
|
Nonfiction/Biography | On the sixteenth page of this incisive memoir, eighth-grader Brent Runyon drenches his bathrobe with gasoline and ("Should I do it? Yes.") sets himself on fire. The burns cover 85 percent of his body and require six months of painful skin grafts and equally invasive mental-health rehabilitation. | Week of April 7th |
| May | TBA | TBA |
2006/2007:
America by E. R. Frank
Names Will Never Hurt Me by Jaime Adoff.
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