Almost Book Club

Book Club has picked the books for second semester, but what about all the other books on Book Club members' TBR (to be read) lists? Here are the books that almost made the cut, as seen in the December newsletter.

• A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (available on Project Gutenberg)
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (available in the UHS Library)
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
• Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant that Ever Lived by Ralph Helfer
• Legend of Zelda #1 by Akira Himekawa
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (available in the UHS Library)
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Advance Reader Copies Available!

A package of advance reader copies (ARCs) just arrived this morning! These are books that will be published by Candlewick Press this spring, so this is your chance to read and review a book before it's available anywhere.

If you're interested in any of these titles, stop by the library. For more on any of these books, click the covers below to get to Goodreads.

Book Club Recommends ...

Need something to read? Book Club recommended these books in the November 2014 UHSL Newsletter.

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Archon by Sabrina Benulis
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (available in the UHSL)
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (available in the UHSL)
• Sold by Patricia McCormick

Book Club Recommends ...

Need something to read? Book Club suggested these reads in the October 2014 UHS Library Newsletter.

• Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer 
• The Ranger’s Apprentice series by John Flanagan (available at the UHSL) 
• Tunnels by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams 
• Dark Inside by Jeyn Roberts 
• The Alchemyst by Michael Scott 
• Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (available at the UHSL)

Advance Reading Copies Available

We just received advance reading copies (ARCs) of 6 books that will be published by Candlewick Press this fall. If you'd like to read and review one of these books this summer, before they're published and widely available in bookstores, come down and check them out!

Book Club Recommends ...

From the June 2014 UHS Library Newsletter: 10 more great books recommended by members of the Book Club.

• *Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• *The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Caroline Mackler
• *Marked by P.C. Cast
• *City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
• *Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
• *Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
• *Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
• *The Angel Experiment by James Patterson
• *Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
• *Leviathan by Scott Westerfield

*copy available at the UHS Library

Book Club Recommends ...

From the May 2014 UHS Library newsletter: 10 great books recommended by members of the Book Club.

• *The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
• *Fallen by Lauren Kate
• *The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
• A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
• *Eragon by Christopher Paolini
• Sorta Like a Rock Star by Matthew Quick
• *Divergent by Veronica Roth
• *Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
• *20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

*copy available at the UHS Library

Skinny

Skinny by Donna Cooner

Amazing book.

- B, grade 11