Book Junkies

Mrs. Young reads an excerpt from the horror/suspense novel White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson (includes some language).

Claudia's friend Monday goes missing and she is the only one who seems to care. Mrs. Young, Avon High School Librarian, reads the first part of Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany Jackson. 

Tells the story of the Mitchell sisters and their town that was poisoned by the Belsum Chemical Company.

Mrs. Young reads an excerpt of All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

Mrs. Young reads The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Mr. Goings reads from Dear Martin by Nic Stone.

We continue listening to different books that have been banned around the country. Mr. Goings, AHS Guidance Counselor, reads the first chapter of Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You by Ibram X Kendi and Jason Reynolds.

Mrs. Young introduces the American Library Association's celebration of Banned Books Week by reading part of the first chapter of Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson.

Jackie Mitchell was a baseball player who struck out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig when she was only 17 years old!

Tells the accomplishments of Ida B. Wells, who went from a former slave to a respected journalist who wrote about lynchings in the American South after the Civil War.

This chapter of A Dream of Freedom describes what happened in Selma, Alabama in 1966, including the events of Bloody Sunday.

When Rowan finds a skeleton on her family's property, investigating the brutal, century-old murder leads to painful discoveries about the past. Alternating chapters tell the story of William, another teen grappling with the racial firestorm leading up to the 1921 Tulsa race riot, providing some clues to the mystery.

Excerpt about the Little Rock Nine in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.

Told in alternating voices, two teenagers, one in Austin, Texas, and the other in Portland, Oregon, enter dangerous romantic relationships.

This book examines the rise of the Civil Rights movement in America, focusing specifically on Emmett Till.

The Nightwalkers are terrorizing Gotham City, and Bruce Wayne is next on their list. Bruce will walk the dark line between trust and betrayal as the Nightwalkers circle closer.

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood and she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.

Grace, Maya, and Joaquin are siblings who are unaware of one another's existence, until Grace gives up her own child for adoption and feels compelled to seek out her biological family.

A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.

Hanne and her siblings flee Norway after her "gift" causes her to commit murder, and on the American frontier Owen, a cowboy, leads them toward their uncle who may help them learn control.

Before he was assigned to the X-Files, before he was an FBI profiler, and before he studied psychology at Oxford--Fox Mulder was a high school senior dealing with the loss of his sister and a broken family. But when another little girl goes missing, he might be the only one who can save her.

Eighteen-year-old Eliza Mirk is the anonymous creator of Monstrous Sea, a wildly popular webcomic. When a new boy at school tempts her to live a life offline, everything she's worked for begins to crumble.

Surrounded by strangers all competing for one of the six slots to travel to Jupiter's moon, Europa, Naomi, an Iranian-American science genius, finds a friend in Leo, an Italian championship swimmer, as the training tests their limits.

First Chapter Friday reading of Internment, one of the Rosie books this year. The reading is done by Mrs. Robyn Young, Avon High School Librarian. 

Summary: A terrifying, futuristic United States where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence.