NEW READS

Channel Kindness by Born This Way Foundation

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix

Return of the King by Megan Whalen Turner

World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke

Teens’ Top Ten Winners Announced

AND THE WINNERS ARE:

Wayward Son (Simon Snow, #2)* by Rainbow Rowell.
Pumpkinheads* by Rainbow Rowell.
With the Fire on High* by Elizabeth Acevedo
Aurora Rising* by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff.
Broken Throne: A Red Queen Collection* by Victoria Aveyard
#MurderFunding* (#MurderTrending #2) by Gretchen McNeil
We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya)* by Hafsah Faizal.
Lovely War* by Julie Berry.
Wilder Girls* by Rory Power.
The Memory Thief* by Lauren Mansy.

Learn more about the Teens’ Top Ten: www.ala.org/yalsa/teenstopten

The Teens’ Top Ten, hosted by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association, is a teen choice list, where teens ages 12 – 18 choose their three favorite books from the 2020 list and narrow the winners to ten titles.

Suggestion from Grace, junior at Mt. Ararat High School

This week’s review:

Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe follows the life of Okonkwo, a member of the Nigerian clan Umuofia, as his village is taken over by missionaries. One of Achebe’s goals in writing Things Fall Apart was to inform people about what really happens to the victims of imperialism, and he gives a refreshing perspective on the topic. The novel also focuses on the struggles specific to Okonkwo’s family and the difficulties they have to overcome. Overall, Things Fall Apart addresses multiple complex issues that you may not have really thought about before, which is what makes it a great book to read if you want to learn something new.