Titles+Recommended+by+Book+Club+Members

= Titles Recommended by Book Club Members﻿ =


 * The [[image:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DF6ZR8G7L._SL500_AA300_.jpg width="121" height="127" align="left" link="@http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0590353403/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books"]]Harry Potter Series** by J.K. Rowling

These books are instant classics. It's about a boy and his journeys, and all the events he encounters throughout his years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Just ask anyone who has read the series - it's the best around! It is definitely a must-read, and you won't regret it. (Ally Kutz)

It's really hard to describe, but it's FANTASTIC! It's intriguing and really easy to get into. (Emma Brooker) One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
 * //Paper Towns//** by John Green

//**The Hunger Games**// by Suzanne Collins

Where North America used to be, there is only the country of Panem. There is the Capitol, and 13 districts, which were completely under the control of the Capitol. When District 13 rebelled, it was destroyed, and every year after the Capitol hosts the Hunger Games. One teenage boy and one teenage girl are chosen from each district, and are taken to the Arena. In the Arena, there are only two rules: Do not step off your circle before the games begin, and do not eat your competitors. The last person alive wins. 74 years later, the games are still going. When Katniss’s little sister, Primrose, gets chosen, Katniss volunteers to take her place, even though it means certain death. (Catherine McAdoo) This is the first book of a trilogy.


 * //Looking for Alaska//** by John Green

Miles goes to a boarding school in Alabama and meets an intriguing and msysterious girl named Alaska. It's really easy to get into and it's hilarious.

//**Evermore**// by Alyson Noel

Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who is hiding even more mysteries. The immortals ; bk. 1 //**A Clockwork Orange**// by Anthony Burgess

A teenage sadistic delinquent is captured and experimented on. Amazing book and an instant classic. There's also a really good movie based on the book.

//**The Sea of Trolls**// by Nancy Farmer

After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls.

//**Angela's Ashes**// by Frank McCourt

This is the true story of a boy's tragic and hilarious life in 1930's Ireland. Filled with exorbitant Irish humor, it is a deep and meaningful book about the horrors and triumphs of existence. You will laugh hysterically, cry, and in the end you will not think the same.

//**Ender's Game**// by Scott Orson Card

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer-simulated war games at the Battle School; in fact, he is engaged in something far more desperate. Ender is the result of decades of genetic experimentation, Earth's attempt to make the military genius that the planet needs in its all-out war with an alien enemy. Ender Wiggin is six years old when his training begins. He will grow up fast. Ender's two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world-if the world survives.

//**Into Thin Air**// by Jon Krakauer



This journalist’s real life journey up Mt. Everest during the deadly 1996 Everest season is filled with intriguing adventure. The true story is a very exciting and detailed account. 

//**The Door to December**// by Dean Koontz



The police try to discover just what evil is involved after nine-year-old Melanie is found wandering the streets of L.A. after being missing for almost six years, and her father and his research partner have been brutally murdered.

//**The Glass Castle**// by Jeannette Walls



﻿The Glass Caste in an intriguing story that is a memoir, but reads like a fiction book.

Jeannette writes about her unique childhood, sharing her fond memories of her father and mother. She tells how they refused to conform to society's ideas of responsibility, leaving their children to fend for themselves for even the most basic of needs, such as food and shelter.   <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; overflow: hidden;">

//**Alanna: The First Adventure**// by Tamora Pierce

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; overflow: hidden;">**The Bartimaeus Trilogy** by Jonathan Stoud

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">In the first book, //Amulet of Samarkand//, Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice,summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace.

//**Wake Trilogy**// by Lisa McMann <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Ever since she was eight years old, high school student Janie Hannagan has been uncontrollably drawn into other people's dreams, but it is not until she befriends an elderly nursing home patient and becomes involved with an enigmatic fellow-student that she discovers her true power.