Book Club Meetings

ForeverYA Bookclub: The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

Location: Eleanor E. Murphy Branch Library
Date: Saturday, September 14, 2013 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm

After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.

ForeverYA Bookclub: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

Location: Eleanor E. Murphy Branch Library
Date: Saturday, August 10, 2013 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm

“Eleanor & Park reminded me not just what it’s like to be young and in love with a girl, but also what it’s like to be young and in love with a book.”—John Green, The New York Times Book Review

ForeverYA Bookclub: Divergent by Veronica Roth

Location: Eleanor E. Murphy Branch Library
Date: Saturday, July 13, 2013 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm

In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can’t have both.

YABC: Divergent

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all. 

YABC: The Book Thief

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

YABC: Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Perry's parents insist that he take Gobi, their quiet, Lithuanian exchange student, to senior prom but after an incident at the dance he learns that Gobi is actually a trained assassin who needs him as a henchman, behind the wheel of his father's precious Jaguar, on a mission in Manhattan.

YABC: Bailey Cove Teens Favorite Book

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

All summer long Bailey Cove teens will be voting for their favorite YA book.  The winner will be read by YABC in September!

YABC: City of Bones

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.

Literature Out Loud!: Murder on the Orient Express

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Monday, August 5, 2013 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Join us for a slide show of artworks created in 1934, a cup of tea or two, and a lively discussion of Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express".

Knitting Between the Lines: The Light Between Oceans

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Thursday, July 11, 2013 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm

A novel set on a remote Australian island, where a childless couple live quietly running a lighthouse, until a boat carrying a baby washes ashore.

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