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Scheduled Meeting - Activity Period -
Thursday 4/16 2:40pm
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:
2008/2009:
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Title |
Summary |
Meeting Dates |
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Operation Iraqi Freedom, that's the code name. But the young men and women
in the military's Civil Affairs Battalion have a simpler name for it: WAR.
In this new novel, Walter Dean Myers looks at a contemporary war with the
same power and searing insight he brought to the Vietnam war of his classic,
FALLEN ANGELS. He creates memorable characters like the book's narrator,
Birdy, a young recruit from Harlem who's questioning why he even enlisted;
Marla, a blond, tough-talking, wisecracking gunner; Jonesy, a guitar-playing
bluesman who just wants to make it back to Georgia and open a club; and a
whole unit of other young men and women and drops them incountry in Iraq,
where they are supposed to help secure and stabilize Iraq and successfully
interact with the Iraqi people. The young civil affairs soldiers soon find
their definition of "winning" ever more elusive and their good intentions
being replaced by terms like "survival" and "despair."
Caught in the crossfire, Myers' richly rendered characters are just
beginning to understand the meaning of war in this powerful, realistic novel
of our times. |
Activity Period 10/22/08 |
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Ellen Wittlinger's challenging new novel,Hard Love,
introduces us to a lonely teenager. He hides behind his wit. He wears his
emotional scars like an invisible Mohawk or tattoo — with style, with the
oblivious purposefulness for which teens are famous. You know John. You know
that beneath that edge a smoldering heart lurks, ready to be found. Yet
Wittlinger doesn't make it easy for anyone — including her readers — to find
this wounded heart. She has bigger, more important plans for this
complicated character. Her patience and honesty as a writer are gifts to
teens everywhere. |
Activity Period 12/11/08 |
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Fifteen-year-old Ruby "Roo" Oliver is having a
tough year at Tate Prep. Through a series of social debacles, she loses her
best friends, her boyfriend, her dignity, and the respect of her fellow
Taters in less than two weeks' time. Following nearly half a dozen panic
attacks, Roo starts to spend some quality time on Doctor Z.'s couch, where
she makes (at her shrink's urging) a list of boyfriends past and present,
official and unofficial, and starts on a journey of self-discovery. Along
the way, Ruby begins to think about patterns in her life and ways that she
might be more like her mother than she'd care to admit. Fortunately, Ruby
survives her traumatic exile and lives to tell the tale. |
Activity Period 3/9/09 |
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Anderson illuminates a dark but utterly
realistic world...this is necessary reading. --Booklist, starred
review
As difficult as reading this novel can be, it is more difficult to put down.
--Publishers Weekly
Due to the author's and the subject's popularity, this should be a
much-discussed book, which rises far above the standard problem novel. --Kirkus
Reviews, starred review
Readers will be absorbed by this gripping tale... ---BCCB, starred
review |
Activity Period 4/16/09 |
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Activity Period 5/8/09 |
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following web site for titles that other book clubs are reading:
Penguin Group (USA) | Reading Group Guides
What To
Read Next
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ideas on what to read
Teenreads.com
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