Book Talk Selections

Anna
  • The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brian
  • The City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Kayla
  • Sweep: Book of Shadows by Cate Tiernan
  • The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
Neil
  • Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
  • The Once and Future King by TH White
Carolina
  • The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas 
  • The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Bailey
  • It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
  • The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Heather
  • Caraval by Stephanie Garber 
  • Have No Shame by Melissa Foster
Sunny
  • Looking for Alaska by John Green
Sam
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
  • A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Haley
  • Sold by Patricia McCormick
  • Are you there God? It's me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Candice
  • Flawed by Cecelia Ahern
  • A Taste for Monsters by Matthew Kirby
  • Dead Beautiful by Yvonne Woon
Anthony
  • High Heat
  • Slam
Austin
  • Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card and 
  • Romeo and Juliet (Manga Classics) by Crystal S. Chan
Alexis
  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 
  • Legend by Mary Lu
Stephanie
  • Hatchet by Gary Paulsen 
  • Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchinson



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