OPEN BOOK: AN EMAIL NEWSLETTER FOR TEENS
from the Weston Public Library
Open Book is an email newsletter of book recommendations for teens. It is sent twice a month and includes book excerpts in six teen fiction categories (realistic fiction, historical fiction, action/ adventure/fantasy/science fiction, romance, the buzz: middle school, and the buzz: high school). If you wish to subscribe to Open Book, please email smatathia@minlib.net or sign up in person at the Youth Services desk at the Library. Open Book email newsletters are also archived here on our blog.
Here are the picks for this week…
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Realistic Fiction
Girl’s Don’t Fly by Kristen Chandler
Myra, a high school senior, will do almost anything to win a contest and earn money for a study trip to the Galapagos Islands, which would mean getting away from her demanding family life in Utah and ex-boyfriend Erik, but Erik is set on winning the same contest.
See excerpt
Historical Fiction
I Pledge Allegiance by Chris Lynch
Four best friends serving in the Vietnam War make a pledge to one another that they will do all they can to return home safely together.
See excerpt
Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters–the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known.
See excerpt
Romance
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith
Hadley and Oliver fall in love on the flight from New York to London, but after a cinematic kiss they lose track of each other at the airport until fate brings them back together on a very momentous day.
See excerpt
Buzz: Middle School
The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, & Bravery by Steve Sheinkin
Provides a biography of America’s first traitor–Benedict Arnold–that reads like an adventure tale, full of heroism, treachery, battle scenes, and surprising twists.
See excerpt
Buzz: High School
When Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
Seventeen-year-old Cullen’s summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin’s death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother’s sudden disappearance.
See excerpt
