Book Selections and Summaries Especially For YOU!

Hey Everyone,

Here are some books that we thought you would be interested in. Both books will give you a thrill and are the first books in their series.

Enjoy and let us know what you think!

Selection 1: 

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

 

  

Todd Hewitt is turning thirteen in a month, the age when a boy becomes a man. He’s the last boy in Prentisstown. Shortly after he was born, there was a war with Spackle, and at the end of the war, they released a virus that killed all the women. The virus is also responsible for the Noise: every one of the men in Prentisstown can hear everyone else’s thoughts. There is no silence. There are no secrets. 

One day, Todd and his dog are at the swamp just outside town when they come across a girl. Shouldn’t the virus have killed all the girls?

What else are adults lying about?

Patrick Ness follows Todd through three books: The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer and Monsters of Men.

Selection 2:

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

 

  

Twenty-four are forced to enter. Only one survives.

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Each year, the districts are forced by the Capitol to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the Hunger Games, a brutal and terrifying fight to the death - televised for all of Panem to see. 

Survival is second nature for sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who struggles to feed her mother and younger sister by secretly hunting and gathering beyond the fences of District 12. When Katniss steps in to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, she knows it may be her death sentence. If she is to survive, she must weigh survival against humanity and life against love.

If you like The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins was kind enough to write two more: Catching Fire and Mockingjay.