The Book Club will be meeting this month on February 23rd at 2:45pm to discuss North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headly.
The March meeting of the Book Club will be on March 10th at 2:45pm. We will be reading Alis by Naomi Rich.
More About the Book:
This compelling debut novel is set in some other time, some other place, at the strictly religious Community of the Book. The Book, something akin to the Bible, has decreed, to her shock, that 14-year-old Alis is to marry one of the middle-aged Elders. So begins an engrossing saga that takes Alis away from the Community in a desperate effort to avoid the marriage. First, she leaves for a nearby Community to aid a friend, but the woman's fanatical husband becomes an enemy. With the help of a young man, Luke, she escapes to the city to find her brother; but she is not prepared for the squalid, dangerous environment, and it drives her back to the marriage she doesn't want. Eventually shes accused of murder when her husband dies. These are just some of the high points in a story so action-packed and filled with twists that readers wont anticipate the ending.--From Booklist
Copies of both books are available at the Teen Services Desk
