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• BOOK CLUB KIT : All Boys Aren't Blue : a Memoir-manifesto

  Johnson, George M. (George Matthew), 1985-

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  In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Book of Lost Things

  Connolly, John, 1968-

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  High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness. Angry and alone, he takes refuge in his imagination and soon…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Book Thief

  Zusak, Markus

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  Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

• BOOK CLUB KIT : City of Ember

  DuPrau, Jeanne

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  In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions. The city of Ember was built as a last refuge for the human race.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Crossing the Line

  Belford, Bibi

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  Billy’s family has fallen on hard times, what with his dad hospitalized after the war and his ma barely scraping by. When he transfers to a Chicago public school, he finds out that kids aren’t all Irish—in fact, they aren’t even all white. It isn’t…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Graveyard Book

  Gaiman, Neil

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  Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : The Hate U Give

  Thomas, Angie

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  Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor black neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Hunger Games

  Collins, Suzanne

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  The nation of Panem, formed from a post-apocalyptic North America, is a country that consists of a wealthy Capitol region surrounded by 12 poorer districts. Early in its history, a rebellion led by a 13th district against the Capitol resulted in its…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

  Mass, Wendy, 1967-

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  Just before his thirteenth birthday, Jeremy Fink receives a keyless locked box--set aside by his father before his death five years earlier--that purportedly contains the meaning of life.

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Magician's Elephant

  DiCamillo, Kate

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  When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Wonder

  Palacio, R. J.

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  Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear…Read moreRead more of this annotation