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Welcome to the Lobo Book Club! If you would like to participate in the Lobo Book Club, you will need to create a Moodle account. Everyone's Moodle user name is required to be their first name and the first two numbers of their student ID number (Steve16). You must also have a valid email address. To receive the online access code, you must first see Mrs. Fenner to complete the Lobo Book Club Online Discussion Agreement. To create a Moodle account, please visit http://moodle.k12hsn.org. Scroll down to Orange County and click on it. Click on Garden Grove and selected Lobo Book Club. Here are the books that we will be reading each month. To request an additional book, a minimum of three students must request the same book. Please see Mrs. Fenner to request titles to be placed on the book list. Lobo Book Club List November 2009 New Moon, Stephenie Meyer Star-crossed lovers Bella and Edward face new obstacles in this vampire love story--the second installment of Meyer's #1 "New York Times"-bestselling Twilight saga.
December 2009 Time of the Witches, Anna Myers An orphan named Drucilla has finally has a place to call home with the Putnam family in Salem. Although her adopted mother is strange—haunted by a troubled past—Dru feels drawn to her as the mother she never had. When a new reverend and his family move into town with their servant Tituba, life takes a strange turn as young girls begin to fall ill and accusations of witchcraft begin to swirl. Reluctant to turn her back on the Putnams or her peers and overwhelmed by the power of groupthink among the other girls in town, Dru becomes one of the accusers herself. But when her best friend Gabe is accused, she must find a way to end the hysteria, or risk losing him forever.
January 2010 Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?"
February 2010 Hold Still, Nina LaCour Devastating, hopeful, hopeless, playful . . . in words and illustrations, Ingrid left behind a painful farewell in her journal for Caitlin. Now Caitlin is left alone, by loss and by choice, struggling to find renewed hope in the wake of her best friend's suicide. With the help of family and newfound friends, Caitlin will encounter first love, broaden her horizons, and start to realize that true friendship didn't die with Ingrid. And the journal which once seemed only to chronicle Ingrid's descent into depression, becomes the tool by which Caitlin once again reaches out to all those who loved Ingrid—and Caitlin herself
March 2010 Change of Heart, Jodi Picoult One moment June Nealon was happily
looking forward to years full of laughter and adventure with her family, and the
next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life
is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. In
short, waiting for a miracle to happen.
April 2010 Last Song, Nicholas Sparks Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church.
May 2010 Red Glass, Laura Resau One night Sophie and her parents are called to a hospital where Pedro, a six-year-old Mexican boy, is recovering from dehydration. Crossing the border into Arizona with a group of Mexicans and a coyote, or guide, Pedro and his parents faced such harsh conditions that the boy is the only survivor. Pedro comes to live with Sophie, her parents, and Sophie's Aunt Dika, a refugee of the war in Bosnia. Sophie loves Pedro—her Principito, or Little Prince. But after a year, Pedro’s surviving family in Mexico makes contact, and Sophie, Dika, Dika’s new boyfriend, and his son must travel with Pedro to his hometown so that he can make a heart wrenching decision.
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