Book and Breakfast Club

Book & Breakfast Club @ CRCP LIBRARY 2008-2009 Selections 7:30-8:10 a.m.

September 26 The Dear One by Jacqueline Woodson

Feni has had her mother to herself for a long time. So when her mother takes in Rebecca, the pregnant fifteen-year-old daughter of an old friend, Feni is furious. Rebecca's just as unhappy; she feels like a charity case. But as much as they resist it, Feni and Rebecca might just become friends. After all, Rebecca needs someone to confide in, and Feni might discover she has room in her life for one more person-or even two. This is a touching story about families of all sorts, even the unrelated kinds, and the love that holds them together.

October 17 Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (a TRW Book with Bite) About three things I was absolutely positive:
First, Edward was a vampire.
Second, there was a part of him–and I didn’t know how dominant that part might be–that thirsted for my blood.
And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

December 5 Bang! by Sharon Flake In a contemporary, hard-hitting survival tale set in a neighborhood where people get shot "for no real reason," Flake (The Skin I'm In) follows an African-American boy's harrowing initiation into manhood. Two years after Mann's seven-year-old brother is killed in a drive-by shooting, the boys' father decides to teach 13-year-old Mann, who narrates, the same lesson received by boys in African tribes. He drives Mann and his best friend, Kee-lee, into the woods and leaves them there to fend for themselves. Wild animals prove to be less of a threat than the people the boys encounter, and once they do return to the city, Mann's father turns them out again to find out what direction they want to take in life.

January 30 Stormbreaker (Alex Rider 1) by Anthony Horowitz They told him his uncle died in a car accident. Fourteen-year-old Alex knows that's a lie, and the bullet holes in his uncle's windshield confirm his suspicions. But nothing prepares him for the news that the uncle he always thought he knew was really a spy for MI6—Britain's top secret intelligence agency. Recruited to find his uncle's killers and complete his final mission, Alex suddenly finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse.

February 27 If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin Baldwin's 1974 novel depicts the troubled romance between young lovers Tish and Fonny, who become engaged and plan to marry. When Fonny is arrested and imprisoned, their families endeavor to clear his name and win his release.

March 27 Night by Elie Wiesel

An autobiographical narrative in which the author describes his experiences in Nazi concentration camps, watching family and friends die, and how they led him to believe that God is dead.

May 1 Maximum Ride #2: School’s Out Forever by James Patterson

"Adventure, fighting, backstabbing and love abound" (VOYA) in this action-packed follow-up to Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment. The heart-stopping quest of six winged kids--led by fourteen-year-old Max--to find their parents and investigate the mind-blowing mystery of their ultimate destiny continues when they're taken under the wing of an FBI agent and attempt, for the first time, to live "normal" lives. But going to school and making friends doesn't stop them from being relentlessly hunted by sinister spies, who lead Max to face her most frightening match yet: a new and better version of herself.