Teen Book Group

When: Every Third Thursday at 4:30 p.m.
Where: North-East Branch
Contact: Shirl Maldonado at 816.701.3485

Join a community of like-minded readers for engaging discussions of young adult fiction as part of the Teen Book Group. Reserve selected titles at the nearest library service desk or from a home computer. Discussions are free and open to the public.

2011 Schedule

August 18
Immortal Beloved by Cate Tiernan.

Nastasya is on the run after witnessing her best friend, a Dark Immortal called Incy, torture a human with magick. A spoiled party girl, Nastasya enters a home for wayword immortals and finally begins to deal with life, even as she learns that someone wants her dead. -- Synopsis adapted from NoveList.

September 15
Love, Inc. by Yvonne Collins and Sandy Rideout.

When three fifteen-year-old Austin, Texas, girls who met in group therapy discover that they are all dating the same boy, they first get revenge and then start a wildly successful relationship consulting business.

October 20
Red Moon Rising by Peter Moore.

In a world where vampires dominate and werewolves are despised, a teenaged half-vampire discovers his recessive werewolf genes are developing with the approaching full moon.

November 17
Matched by Ally Condie.

Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her, so when Xander appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal mate--until Ky Markham's face appears for an instant before the screen fades to black.

December 15
Drought by Pam Bachorz.

Ruby blood holds the secret to the Water that keeps her and her fellow Congregants alive and enriches Darwin West, who has enslaved them for two centuries, but when her romance with an Overseer, Ford, brings her freedom in the modern world, she faces a terrible choice.

For more information, contact Shirl Maldonado at 816.701.3485.

Previous Reads:
July 2011 Crusade by Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie.
June 2011 Choker by Elizabeth Woods.
May 2011 The Iron Witch by Karen Mahoney.
April 2011 Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler & Twelfth Grade Kills by Heather Brewer.
March 2011 Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials by Stephanie Hemphill & if i stay by Gayle Forman.
February 2011 Linger by Maggie Stiefvater & Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen.
January 2011 Just Listen by Sarah Dessen & Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater.