BOOK CLUB PANIC

[penmage]

I'm suddenly having a panic attack. My teen book club is meeting this weekend, and I haven't picked the next book for us to read, and suddenly I'm riddled with panic. I haven't read enough books. I don't own enough books! What do I pick?

You know and I know I've read a billion books, but suddenly I can't think of anything and everything I think about seems wrong. Getting a second opinion would help, I think.

Here's my criterion: the age group is 11-14, girls. They're all really strong readers. The book we pick should be high level, but free of any content parents might find objectionable, what with me being married to the rabbi and all that. No sex, no major profanity.

Our previous reads have been The Shadow Thieves by Anne Ursu and Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson.

I'd like to read with them something that they probably haven't already read, so I'd prefer a newer title--also because it will be easier for them to find copies of a book that's newer on the market.

PLEASE TO GIVE ME SUGGESTIONS.

Comments

[tabbyclaw.livejournal.com]

My inner fangirl definitely calls that one a 'fortunately.'

I don't have much in the way of YA recommendations, because I get most of mine from you already. :P

[theoneschampion.livejournal.com]

Ha. I would call that fortunately then. It's seriously a fantastic series.

Oh! How about this? I can't believe I forgot it, but, The Hounds of the Morrigan by I forgot who. It deals with Irish myth mostly, but there's nothing too heavy, and it's told from a child's perspective.

[tabbyclaw.livejournal.com]

Pat O'Shea! That's another one of my favorites, but even at a whopping 674 pages it strikes me as a little young for that group.