April 25

Book Talks

This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel

2012 Lone Star Nominee

Book talked to sixth, seventh and eighth grade…

Click this link to view the author’s book trailer – Book Trailer

Victor and Konrad Frankenstein are inseparable twin brothers who stumble upon The Dark Library, where secret books of alchemy and ancient remedies are housed, but after their father forbids them to ever return to the library Konrad falls gravely ill and Victor seeks out a cure for his brother beyond traditional medicine.

©2002-2011 Follett Software Company

The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen

2012 Lone Star Nominee

Book talked to sixth, seventh and eighth grade…

When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again.

©2002-2011 Follett Software Company

Click this link to see more about this book from the author – Author Book Talk

 

 

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

2012 Lone Star Nominee

Book talked to sixth, seventh and eighth grade…

Click this link to view the book trailer – Book Trailer

Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill–an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.                  ©2002-2011 Follett Software Co.

Blood Red Road by Moira Young

2012 Lone Star Nominee

Book talked to seventh and eighth grade…

In a distant future, eighteen-year-old Lugh is kidnapped, and while his twin sister Saba and nine-year-old Emmi are trailing him across bleak Sandsea they are captured, too, and taken to brutal Hopetown, where Saba is forced to be a cage fighter until new friends help plan an escape.

©2002-2011 Follett Software Company

Click this link to view the book trailer – Book Trailer

 

 

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

2012 Lone Star Nominee

Book talked to seventh and eighth grade…

Click this link to hear more about this book from the author – Author Book Trailer

In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil.

©2002-2011 Follett Software Company

Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier

2012 Lone Star Nominee

Book talked to sixth, seventh and eighth grade…

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Sixteen-year-old Gwyneth Shepherd unexpectedly travels through time to the eighteenth century, and she must find out why her mother lied about her date of birth to hide her ability, research her history, and work with Gideon, another time traveler.

©2002-2011 Follett Software Company

 Bewitching by Alex Flinn

2013 Lone Star Nominee

Book talked to eighth grade…

Tells the story of Kendra, a witch, and the first three-hundred years of her life, including takes on a classic fairy  tale, the 1666 plague in Britain, the “Titanic” disaster, and the story of a modern-day, plain stepsister.

Click this link to view the author’s book trailer — Book Trailer

©2002-2011 Follett Software Company

 

 

 Curveball:  The Year I Lost my Grip by Jordan Sonnenblick.

2013 Lone Star Nominee

Book talked to seventh and eighth grades…

Click here to hear more about this book from the author — Book Trailer

After an injury ends former star pitcher Peter Friedman’s athletic dreams, he concentrates on photography  which leads him to a girlfriend, new fame as a high school sports photographer, and a deeper relationship with the beloved grandfather who, when he realizes he is becoming senile, gives Pete all of his professional camera gear.

©2002-2011 Follett Software Company

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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