Are your students wild readers? Get them involved with Books for the Beast.
Books for the Beast is a bi-annual reading conference, and a unique opportunity for adults and teens to discuss great young adult reads. This year’s conference is on Saturday, October 24 at 9:00 am at Roland Park Country School. Teen readers must register, but are welcome at no charge.
Can’t make it? Stop by Howard County Library to check out the books on the list!
Fantasy/Science Fiction
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
Eternal Smile: Three Stories by Gene Yang
Historical Fiction
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing (vol. 1: The Pox Party) by M.T. Anderson
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Hattie Big Sky by Larson Kirby
Thoreau at Walden by John Porcellino
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Samurai Shortstop by Alan Gratz
What They Found: Love on 145th Street by Walter Dean Myers
Romance
The Nature of Jade by Deb Caletti
The Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
Street Love by Walter Dean Myers
Manga Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet by Richard Appignanesi
Real Life
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
Suspense/Horror
Marked: A House of the Night Novel by P.C. Cast
The Restless Dead: Ten Original Stories of the Supernatural by Deborah Noyes (ed.)
Amy Stephens – Howard County Library Glenwood Branch