This week's book is Another Faust by Daniel and Dina Nayeri. On a single night, five children suddenly vanish from their homes in Paris, Glasgow, Rome, and London. Years later, five enigmatic teenagers make an impressive entrance at an exclusive New York holiday party with their strange but beautiful governess, Madam Vileroy. Rumor and intrigue follow the Faust children to the elite Manhattan Marlowe School, where their very presence brings unexplainable misfortune.
Last week's book was How to Steal a Car by Pete Hautman. Fifteen-year-old, suburban high school student Kelleigh, who has her learner's permit. recounts how she began stealing cars one summer, for reasons that seem unclear even to her.
Books read during the 2009-2010 school year:
Candor/Bachorz
This World We Live In/Pfeffer
The Secret Year/Hubbard
Witch & Wizard/Patterson
Playing with Matches/Katcher
Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side/Fantaskey
Faith, Hope, and Ivy June/Naylor
All the Broken Pieces/Burg
Ways to Live Forever/Nicholls
Some Girls are/Summers
Stealing Heaven/Scott
How to Build a House/Reinhardt
Word Nerd/Nielsen
Artichoke's Heart/Supplee
If I stay/Forman
Wings/Pike
SLOB/Potter
The compound/Bodeen
Every soul a star/Mass
The Market/Steele
The Rule of won/Petrucha
Dull boy/Cross
Caught between the pages/Carvell
The Midnight Twins/Mitchard
When You Reach Me/Stead
T4/LeZotte
Access denied: (and other eighth grade error messages/Vega
Love, Aubrey/LaFleur
Catching fire/Collins
Mudville/Scaletta
Wake/McMann
Ringside 1925: Views form the Scopes trial/Bryant
Are u for real?/Kadefors
North of beautiful/Headley
Kisses and lies/Henderson
Kaleidoscope eyes/Bryant
Along for the ride/Dessen
Wintergirls/Anderson
The Amaranth enchantment/Berry
Scat/Hiaasen