The Deathday Letter by Shaun David Hutchinson

Ollie is just a guy in high school until one day he gets his Deathday Letter and learns he's going to die in 24 hours. After a tear-filled breakfast with his family, Ollie goes to school because he doesn't know what else to do. Luckily he tells his best friend about the letter, and Shane decides they can skip school- they have things to do. They have bridges to jump from, tattoos to get, girls to ravage...
but there are also some really important things to do too.
Go along with Ollie as he really learns to live before he dies.

check out the book site http://www.deathdayletter.com/ or the author's website http://www.shaundavidhutchinson.com/


Available at the Wonewoc Public Library or through inter-library loan.

Going Bovine by Libba Bray

This book is hard to describe and it was hard to put down... I wanted to know if it was really happening or if it was all make-pretend.

Poor Cameron is just an ordinary kid who has some weird symptoms and is finally taken to the doctor. There he discovers that he is going to die of mad-cow disease. The rest of the book is not doom and gloom, but an amazing adventure as Cameron tries to learn the meaning of life and is willing to do whatever it takes to survive.

check out these video book trailers:
http://youtu.be/segA4JzQnKs
http://youtu.be/82WSyxLK_-o

Libba Bray's new book: Beauty Queens
The fifty contestants in the Miss Teen Dream Pageant thought this was going to be a fun trip to the beach, where they could parade in their state-appropriate costumes and compete in front of cameras. But sadly, their airplane had another ideas, crashing on a desert island and leaving the survivors stranded with little food, little water, and practically no eye liner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwpJ7M1AcZM

Shattering Glass by Gail Giles

"Simon Glass was easy to hate. I never knew exactly why; there was too much to pick from. I guess, really, we each hated him for a different reason, but we didn't realize it until the day we killed him."

This novel will pull you in as you learn about how the guys decide to turn, Simon Glass, the classic geek into a popular kid. It gives you a real-life glimpse into high school life and just how strong the pressure to belong is. It is scary what kids will do to stay in the good graces of the leader or the "It" kid.

Quotes from teachers, parents, kids and cops gives you different points of view of the events as they lead up to the murder.