Teen Book Group, (4th Sunday, 3:30 p.m.)

This Dark Endeavor

Join the Teen Book Group!

The Teen Book Group, for 7-9 graders, meets on the 4th Sunday of each month at 3:30 p.m. Book group members participate in two activities. They read and review books that haven’t yet been published (Advance Reader’s Copies); and they choose, read, and discuss books as a group. Some of the reviews written by teens are passed along to the Children & Teen buyers at P&P, as well as to the publishers. There are approximately 15 members.

Next meeting: Sunday, October 23, 3:30pm

We'll be reading This Dark Endeavor, in which Kenneth Oppel imagines the events that drove young Victor Frankenstein to become Dr. Frankenstein, a madman obsessed with bringing humans back from dead. You can read an excerpt of the book on our book page, here.

Interested in joining? Email Dana at dchidiac@politics-prose.com

 

$17.99
ISBN-13: 9781442403154
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, 8/2011

Past Teen Book Group Selections:

January 2009 — The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
February — The Other Side of the Island, by Allegra Goodman
March — Leo & The Lesser Lion, by Sara Forrester (due out Aug. 2009)
April — The Night Tourist, by Katherine Marsh (author joined us for discussion)
May —  The Big Game of Everything, by Chris Lynch
*May, special meeting* — The Maze Runner, by James Dashner (author joined us for discussion)
June — The Wednesday Wars, by Gary Schmidt
July — The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
August — London Eye Mystery, Siobhan Dowd
September — First Light, Rebecca Stead
October — Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
November
Life As We Knew It, by Sarah Beth Pfeffer

January 2010
Eli the Good, by Silas House (author joined us for discussion)
February
Going Bovine, by Libba Bray March - Gifts by Ursula K. Le Guin
April Zen and the Art of Faking it by Jordan Sonnenblick
June King of the Screwups by K.L. Going
August Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
September Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have by Allen Zadoff
October The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
November/December Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd

January 2011 Trash by Andy Mulligan
February Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
March The Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt
May Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones
September Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt