I'm planning a program at work with another librarian, and I'm asking for your help. It's going to be a teen book club. Each month we'll read the book and then when they get together, they will create a facebook news feed for the plot. This whole idea was brought about when Linette showed me this. Then I looked around for other books and found this one. As they come up with things, one of us will be typing them up and then we'll print them out so each participant can have a copy. I've got quite the collection of facebook icons (status update, groups, events, etc.) edited and stuck in a word doc. We're looking for books with a fair amount of characters. We'll be breaking the group up by character--depending on the size of the book club that month, either small groups of single people will be doing one character. The first month is going to be Twilight, in order to entice people into coming. And we can have status updates like:
- Edward is brooding.
- Bella fell down. Again.
- Bella hates this truck!
- Bella has decided that Edward is a vampire.
- Edward is going to show Bella what happens in the sunlight. [Of course, if I were doing this one, I would make it say "Edward sparkles!"]
- Fat Kid Rules the World
- Stoner and Spaz
- Speak
- Doing It--probably not
- Finding Lubchenko
- Rules of Survival


3 Comments:
Erika, this is an AWESOME idea. I cannot wait for "Bella has just given birth to a vampire baby" and "Jacob feels itchy in the pants about Renesmee"
I wish I read more YA books. When I was a YA person I was mostly just reading stuff for the AP test - Catcher in the Rye, Jane Eyre, Gatsby, etc
Jamie
I think I have recommended these before, but your peeps could have fun with High Fidelity by Nick Hornby and especially Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. Another good one would be The Electric Koolaid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe.
Obviously all of these would have to be read for content, as I don't know what level teens you are talking about.
Justin
Love the YA books! My some of my favorites are futuristic SciFi or fairy themes. A Great and Terrible Beauty series by Libba Bray. The Declaration and The Resistance by Gemma Malley. I also loved the Sally Lockhart series by Phillip Pullman(much better than the Golden Compass).Also, I've never read a Robert Cormier that I didn't like on some level.
As far as Bella goes....could the girl be any more cursed w/ bad luck?...I mean a paper cut at a birthday party w/ only vampires in attendance? By the end of Eclipse I just wanted to smack her and tell her to stop being so stupid.
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