Tentative Schedule of FCHS Library Book Talks
All book talks are scheduled to be after school on every other Tuesday from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m.
*The books listed below are the books Mrs. Sloas has read and chosen to talk about, they are all KBA nominees. (www.kba.nku.edu)
August 20th- Meet & Greet: Get to know Mrs. Sloas & the Library
What is a Book Talk?
Introduction to the (20) Kentucky Bluegrass Award Nominated Books
What did you read this summer? (Bring the book with you, if you can)
September 3rd
Shelter / Harlan Coben. 530L
After Mickey witnesses his father's death and his mother's admission into rehab, he is sent to live with his estranged uncle and change high schools, but when Mickey's new girlfriend, Ashley, suddenly disappears Mickey refuses to let another person walk out of his life and follows clues that reveal truths about both Ashley and Mickey's father.
One for the Murphys / Lynda Mullaly Hunt. 520L
A moving debut novel about a foster child learning to open her heart to a family's love. Carley uses humor and street smarts to keep her emotional walls high and thick. But the day she becomes a foster child, and moves in with the Murphys, she's blindsided. This loving, bustling family shows Carley the stable family life she never thought existed, and she feels like an alien in their cookie-cutter-perfect household.
September 17th
The Lions of Little Rock / Kristine Levine. 630L
Twelve-year-old Marlee develops a strong friendship with Liz, the new girl in school, but when Liz suddenly stops attending school and Marlee hears a rumor that her friend is actually an African American girl passing herself off as white, the two young girls must decide whether their friendship is worth taking on integration and the dangers it could bring to their families.
Every Day /David Levithan. HL-650L
Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached,
until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.
October 1st
The Ghost of Graylock/ Dan Poblocki. 690L
Staying with their aunts over the summer, Neil Cady, his sister Bree, and their new friends Wesley and Eric set out to explore Graylock Hall, an abandoned psychiatric hospital which is supposed to be haunted by the ghost of Nurse Janet.
The False Prince/ Jennifer A. Nielsen. 710L
In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's
long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.
October 15th
Diviners/Libba Bray. HL-730L
Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.
I Hunt Killers / Barry Lyga. HL-750L
Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious "Dear Old Dad." Believing he can fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, Jazz helps the police catch the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist," but, in doing so, he discovers he may have more in common with his father than he thought.
October 29th
Ghost Stories/Halloween Special
November 12th
Beneath a Meth Moon/ Jacqueline Woodson. HL-730L
Laurel Daneau, having lost her mother, grandmother, and home in Hurricane Katrina, thinks things are going well with her new life as a cheerleader and the girlfriend of basketball start T-Boom, but after T-Boom introduces her to meth and she finds the drug helps her deal with her past, she must rely on the help of an artist named Moses and her friend Kaylee to overcome the addiction.
Unstoppable / Tim Green. 730L
Foster child Harrison, who dreams of playing in the NFL, is happy when he is put into a home with loving parents and a foster father who is a football coach, but, after becoming the star running back and suffering an injury, a cancer diagnosis threatens to ruin his future.
December 3rd
Final Four / Paul Volponi. 870L
Four players at the Final Four of the NCAA basketball tournament struggle with the pressures of tournament play and the expectations of society at large.
Just One Day / Gayle Forman. HL-750L
Sparks fly when American good girl Allyson encounters laid-back Dutch actor Willem, so she follows him on a whirlwind trip to Paris, upending her life in just one day and prompting a year of self-discovery and the search for true love.
December 17th
Chomp / Carl Hiaasen 800L
The difficult star of the reality television show, "Expedition Survival," disappears on location in the Florida Everglades, where they were filming animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, and Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him, but they must avoid Tuna's gun-happy father.
Cinder / Marissa Meyer. 790L
Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing, but when Cinder's life gets intertwined with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle.
January 7th
Pregnancy Project / Gaby Rodriguez. 970L
Gaby Rodriguez, whose mother and older sister both became pregnant as teenagers, explains what she learned from faking a pregnancy as a high school senior in order to find out how people would treat her.
Pushing the Limits / Katie McGarry.
Rendered a subject of gossip after a traumatic night that left her with terrible scars on her arms, Echo is dumped by her boyfriend and bonds with bad-boy Noah, whose tough attitude hides an understanding nature and difficult secrets.
January 21st
October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard / Leslea Newman.
Relates, from various points of view, events from the night of October 6, 1998, when twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was lured out of a Wyoming bar, savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die.
Guitar Notes /Mary Amato.
A heartwarming story about an unlikely friendship forged between a straight-A, classical musician and a bad-boy guitar player told through notes, lyrics, texts, and narration.
February 4th
Lincoln's Last Days/ Bill O'Reilly. 1020L
Provides an account of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, discussing how actor John Wilkes Booth and his fellow Confederate sympathizers hatched their murderous plot, and following the ensuing manhunt, trials, and executions of the conspirators.
Code Name Verity/ Elizabeth Wein. 1020L
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
February 18th
Review of ALL KBA Nominated Books 13-14
March 4th
KBA Voting Begins
March 18th
Voting Continues
April 8th
KBA Winner Announced – Celebration Party with winning book theme
April 22nd
Introduction to new KBA 14-15 Nominated Books
May 6th
Create Summer Reading Bucket List
*The books listed below are the books Mrs. Sloas has read and chosen to talk about, they are all KBA nominees. (www.kba.nku.edu)
August 20th- Meet & Greet: Get to know Mrs. Sloas & the Library
What is a Book Talk?
Introduction to the (20) Kentucky Bluegrass Award Nominated Books
What did you read this summer? (Bring the book with you, if you can)
September 3rd
Shelter / Harlan Coben. 530L
After Mickey witnesses his father's death and his mother's admission into rehab, he is sent to live with his estranged uncle and change high schools, but when Mickey's new girlfriend, Ashley, suddenly disappears Mickey refuses to let another person walk out of his life and follows clues that reveal truths about both Ashley and Mickey's father.
One for the Murphys / Lynda Mullaly Hunt. 520L
A moving debut novel about a foster child learning to open her heart to a family's love. Carley uses humor and street smarts to keep her emotional walls high and thick. But the day she becomes a foster child, and moves in with the Murphys, she's blindsided. This loving, bustling family shows Carley the stable family life she never thought existed, and she feels like an alien in their cookie-cutter-perfect household.
September 17th
The Lions of Little Rock / Kristine Levine. 630L
Twelve-year-old Marlee develops a strong friendship with Liz, the new girl in school, but when Liz suddenly stops attending school and Marlee hears a rumor that her friend is actually an African American girl passing herself off as white, the two young girls must decide whether their friendship is worth taking on integration and the dangers it could bring to their families.
Every Day /David Levithan. HL-650L
Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached,
until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.
October 1st
The Ghost of Graylock/ Dan Poblocki. 690L
Staying with their aunts over the summer, Neil Cady, his sister Bree, and their new friends Wesley and Eric set out to explore Graylock Hall, an abandoned psychiatric hospital which is supposed to be haunted by the ghost of Nurse Janet.
The False Prince/ Jennifer A. Nielsen. 710L
In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's
long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.
October 15th
Diviners/Libba Bray. HL-730L
Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.
I Hunt Killers / Barry Lyga. HL-750L
Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious "Dear Old Dad." Believing he can fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, Jazz helps the police catch the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist," but, in doing so, he discovers he may have more in common with his father than he thought.
October 29th
Ghost Stories/Halloween Special
November 12th
Beneath a Meth Moon/ Jacqueline Woodson. HL-730L
Laurel Daneau, having lost her mother, grandmother, and home in Hurricane Katrina, thinks things are going well with her new life as a cheerleader and the girlfriend of basketball start T-Boom, but after T-Boom introduces her to meth and she finds the drug helps her deal with her past, she must rely on the help of an artist named Moses and her friend Kaylee to overcome the addiction.
Unstoppable / Tim Green. 730L
Foster child Harrison, who dreams of playing in the NFL, is happy when he is put into a home with loving parents and a foster father who is a football coach, but, after becoming the star running back and suffering an injury, a cancer diagnosis threatens to ruin his future.
December 3rd
Final Four / Paul Volponi. 870L
Four players at the Final Four of the NCAA basketball tournament struggle with the pressures of tournament play and the expectations of society at large.
Just One Day / Gayle Forman. HL-750L
Sparks fly when American good girl Allyson encounters laid-back Dutch actor Willem, so she follows him on a whirlwind trip to Paris, upending her life in just one day and prompting a year of self-discovery and the search for true love.
December 17th
Chomp / Carl Hiaasen 800L
The difficult star of the reality television show, "Expedition Survival," disappears on location in the Florida Everglades, where they were filming animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, and Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him, but they must avoid Tuna's gun-happy father.
Cinder / Marissa Meyer. 790L
Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing, but when Cinder's life gets intertwined with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle.
January 7th
Pregnancy Project / Gaby Rodriguez. 970L
Gaby Rodriguez, whose mother and older sister both became pregnant as teenagers, explains what she learned from faking a pregnancy as a high school senior in order to find out how people would treat her.
Pushing the Limits / Katie McGarry.
Rendered a subject of gossip after a traumatic night that left her with terrible scars on her arms, Echo is dumped by her boyfriend and bonds with bad-boy Noah, whose tough attitude hides an understanding nature and difficult secrets.
January 21st
October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard / Leslea Newman.
Relates, from various points of view, events from the night of October 6, 1998, when twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was lured out of a Wyoming bar, savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die.
Guitar Notes /Mary Amato.
A heartwarming story about an unlikely friendship forged between a straight-A, classical musician and a bad-boy guitar player told through notes, lyrics, texts, and narration.
February 4th
Lincoln's Last Days/ Bill O'Reilly. 1020L
Provides an account of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, discussing how actor John Wilkes Booth and his fellow Confederate sympathizers hatched their murderous plot, and following the ensuing manhunt, trials, and executions of the conspirators.
Code Name Verity/ Elizabeth Wein. 1020L
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
February 18th
Review of ALL KBA Nominated Books 13-14
March 4th
KBA Voting Begins
March 18th
Voting Continues
April 8th
KBA Winner Announced – Celebration Party with winning book theme
April 22nd
Introduction to new KBA 14-15 Nominated Books
May 6th
Create Summer Reading Bucket List