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=Titles from Summer Reading Book Talks 2010=


 * [[image:crank.jpg width="111" height="152"]] || **//__Crank__//** by Ellen Hopkins

"Go Ask Alice" for the 21st century

Other titles include //Impulse, Burned and Identical// ||


 * //__Can't Get There From Here__//** by Todd Strasser

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 * //__Sold__//** by Patricia McCormick - thousands of girls, like Lakshmi in this story, are sold into prostitution each year. Part of McCormick's research for this novel involved interviewing women in Nepal and India, This fiction work is a compilation of those interviews done in their honor.

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 * [[image:so.jpg width="113" height="151"]] || **//__So Yesterday__//** by Scott Westerfeld -

Visit the So Yesterday website for a preview of this edgy read ||


 * [[image:feed.jpg width="100" height="174"]] || **//Fast forward to a time when trendsetters and innovators are implanted into your brain through a computer chip......//**...

Read **//__FEED__//** by M. T. Anderson. Titus is a teenager in a future world when almost everyone has an implanted computer chip, the feed of the title, which links their brains to the web, with its instant messaging, online ordering, entertainment programming, and a constant barrage of advertising tailored to their personal tastes, momentary desires, and current locations. It's a world where hot trends are measured in hours, reading and writing are virtually obsolete, and life is spent is pursuit of belongings, pleasures, and entertainments. This is a world complete with its own trendsetting language. Welcome to science fiction for the 21st century! ||


 * [[image:pene.jpg]] || __**//The Penelopiad//**__ by Margaret Atwood is the story behind the hero Odysseus - the story of the wife left behind to pick up the pieces – dubbed “half-Dorothy Parker” half- “Desperate Housewives” this is the clever tale that answers the questions: what DID Penelope do for 20 years? AND Why were those 12 maid servants hanged when their only crime was to protect Penelope….It is Penelope’s story from her “royal” childhood in which her father King Icarius of Sparta ordered her to be thrown into the sea because of an oracle - to her marriage to Odysseus, whose home was on a goat-strewn rock in the middle of nowhere - to her twenty long years of waiting for his return - to the dramatic, violent end of the tale.Margaret Atwood has examined and drawn on many other versions of this famous myth to create a witty, very contemporary retelling of this centuries-old tale. ||


 * [[image:big_mouth.jpg]] || Big Mouth & Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates

Read the review ||


 * //__Nineteen Minutes__//** by Jodi Picoult

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 * [[image:stuck.jpg width="157" height="201"]] || Titles by Terry Trueman:

Stuck in Neutral Cruise Control Inside Out No Right Turn

Check out Terry Truman's website for more info on these books and others ||


 * FORENSIC MYSTERIES by.... || Alane Ferguson || //visit her interactive website// ||
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 * If you like Sarah Dessen..... || Then, you'll LOVE || SONIA SONES ! ||  ||
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 * [[image:house.jpg]] || **__//How to Build a House//__** by Dana Reinhardt

Harper is spending HER summer building a house in a tornado-ravaged town in Tennessee...... What are YOU doing???????????? ||

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 * //__Sunrise Over Fallujah__//** by Walter Dean Myers