Paper Covers Rock by Jenny Hubbard

Available from the Wonewoc Public Library.

There's been an accident.
A fatal one.
And for a group of boys at a tight-knit boarding school, that accident is about to shape their school year -- one vicious secret at a time. Protagonist Alex thinks he knows what happened, but remains afraid of the truth. His friend Glenn definitely knows what went down at the river, and is intent on his secret never getting out. And Miss Dovecott? She's in a perilous position. Can the only female at this old boys? institution manage to expose the truth, and keep her job? This tightly-woven mystery will keep you turning the pages until you find out the truth for yourself.


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Purple Heart by Patricia McCormick

Available from the Wonewoc Public Library.

When Private Matt Duffy wakes up in an army hospital in Iraq, he's honored with a Purple Heart. But he doesn't feel like a hero. There's a memory that haunts him: an image of a young Iraqi boy as a bullet hits his chest. Matt can't shake the feeling that he was somehow involved in his death. But because of a head injury he sustained just moments after the boy was shot, Matt can't quite put all the pieces together. Eventually Matt is sent back into combat with his squad—Justin, Wolf, and Charlene—the soldiers who have become his family during his time in Iraq. He just wants to go back to being the soldier he once was. But he sees potential threats everywhere and lives in fear of not being able to pull the trigger when the time comes. In combat there is no black-and-white, and Matt soon discovers that the notion of who is guilty is very complicated indeed.
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What inspired the author to write Purple Heart.
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Forgotten by Cat Patrick

Available from the Wonewoc Public Library

Every night, while 16 year old London Lane is asleep, her memory of that day is erased. In the morning, all she can "remember" are events from her future. London is used to relying on reminder notes and a trusted friend to get through the day, but things get complicated when a new boy at school enters the picture. Luke Henry is not someone you'd easily forget, yet try as she might, London can't find him in her memory of things to come.


When London starts experiencing disturbing flashbacks or flash-forwards she realizes it's time to learn about the past she keeps forgetting- before it destroys her future.


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Beautiful Malice by Rebecca James

Available from the Wonewoc Public Library.

Who is Katherine Patterson? It is a question she hopes no one can answer. To erase her past Katherine has moved to a new city, enrolled in a new school and even changed her name. Now, wary and alone, she seeks nothing more than anonymity. What she finds instead is the last thing she expected: a friend.

Even more unlikely, Katherine's new friend is the most popular and magnetic girl in school. Extroverted, gorgeous, flirtatious and unpredictable, she is everything that Katherine is not and doesn't want to be: the center of attention.

But Alice has secrets, too- darker than anyone can begin to imagine...


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An excerpt read by author Rebecca James

I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be your Class President by Josh Lieb

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Author talking about his book

"If War and Peace had a baby with The Breakfast Club and then left the baby to be raised by wolves, this book would be the result. I loved it." - Jon Stewart

Oliver Watson is basically your average twelve-year-old kid. He lives in Omaha, Nebraska. His favorite after-school snack is a grilled cheese sandwich. His best friend is his pit bull mix, Lollipop. And...oh yeah. He's an evil genius on his way to total world domination.

Nobody can stop Oliver from getting what he wants. Not Jordie Moscowitz, the seventh grade bully. Not his moronic English teacher, Mr. Moorhead. Not even his father and arch nemesis, "Daddy." (He hates being called that.)

Until now. Because Oliver Watson is running for class president. And it turns out that overthrowing cranky foreign dictators is actually a lot easier than getting the other kids to vote for you.

Even for a genius of unspeakable evil.

Desert Angel by Charilie Price

Fourteen-year-old Angel wakes up one morning at her desert trailer home to discover her mother has been murdered by a lowlife named Scotty, who has vanished. Angel has no water, no weapon, but she knows that Scotty, an expert tracker and hunter, will surface soon in order to eliminate her as a witness. She has to run, to disappear, if she is to survive and tell the world what happened. Her flight takes her through a harsh landscape to places she never expected to be, forcing her to trust others for the first time and strengthening her in ways she doesn’t even anticipate . . . until it’s time to take a stand.

10 Things To Do Before I Die by Daniel Ehrenhaft




 If you knew you were going to die within 24 hours, what would you do?Well this is what



 

Ted and his friends came up with:



1) Lose my virginity

2) Apologize to Rachel

3) Get back at Biff

4) Jam and party with Shakes the Clown

5) Laugh in death’s face

6) Go to Africa

7) Rob a bank

8) Tell Mark to screw himself

9) Find out why Grandpa and Dad don't talk 

10) Tell the truth

Let the fun begin.