YA BOOK BUZZ BOOK CLUB

A Book Club for Adults Who Read Young Adult Books

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THIS BOOK CLUB IS CO-SPONSORED BY WESTCHESTER LIBRARY SYSTEM AND THE YOUTH SERVICES SECTION OF THE WESTCHESTER LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

Past Featured Books

March 2019: Black Enough edited by Ibi Zoboi
February 2019: 96 Words for Love by Rachel Roy and Ava Dash

December 2018: A Winter’s Promise (Book 1 of The Mirror Visitor Quartet) by Christelle Dabos

November 2018: Sadie by Courtney Summers & Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson

October 2018: Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough

September 2018: Picture Us In The Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert

August 2018: Life Inside My Mind: 31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles edited by Jessica Burkhart & SPEAK The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson, illustrated by Emily Carroll.

July 2018: The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchison AND Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

June 2018: Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Penelope Bagieu; AND The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang

April 2018: The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert; AND, People Like Us by Dana Mele

January 2018: The Librarian at Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe, translated by Lilit Thwaites

December 2017: Thornhill by Pam Smy & Spill Zone by Scott Westerfield, illustrated by Alex Puvilland

November 2017: They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera

October 2017: Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman

September 2017: The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

August 2017: Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley

July 2017: Saint Death by Marcus Sedgwick

June 2017: The Lines We Cross by Randa Abdel-Fattah

May 2017 Printz Award Winners and Honors: Winner – March by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell

Honors – Asking For It by Louise O’Neill

Honors – The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry

Honors – Scythe by Neal Shusterman

Honors – The Sun Is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon

April 2017: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

March 2017: Caraval by Stephanie Garber

February 2017: Paper Girls Volume 1 by Brian K Vaughn, illustrated by Cliff Chiang and Jared K. Fletcher

January 2017: Mock Awards Books Reading List

March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and illustrated by Nate Powell
We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry
Memory of Light by Francisco X. Stork
The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock

December 2016: The Sun Is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon

November 2016: How To Hang a Witch by Adriana Mather

October 2016: The Passion of Dolssa: A Novel by Julie Berry

September 2016: Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina

August 2016: Serpent King by Jeff Zentner

July 2016: Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories edited by Stephanie Perkins

June 2016: Bone Gap by Laura Ruby, Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez and The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick

May 2016: Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

April 2016: This is Where it Ends by Marieke Nijkamp

March 2016: Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx by Sonia Manzano

February 2016: “A Crossroads” by J. L. Powers from Things I’ll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves edited by Ann Angel

January 2016: Black Dove, White Raven by Elizabeth Wein
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
Either the Beginning or the End of the World by Terry Farish
The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
Symphony for the City of the Dead by M.T. Anderson
The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Sum

December 2015: How to be Brave by E. Katherine Kottaras

November 2015: 13 Days of Midnight by Leo Hunt

October 2015: Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

September 2015: Last Leaves Falling by Sarah Benwell

August 2015: Shine by Lauren Myracle with More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

July 2015: Playlist For The Dead by Michelle Falkoff with Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson

June 2015: 2015 Printz Award Winning Books (discussed at the Printz Pizza Party)

I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson; And We Stay by Jenny Hubbard; The Carnival At Bray by Jessie Ann Foley; Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith; and This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki

May 2015: Rebels By Accident by Patricia Dunn

April 2015: Diamond Boy by Michael Williams

March 2015: Laughing At My Nightmare by Shane Burcaw

February 2015: Evil Librarian by Michelle Knudsen

January 2015: My True Love Gave To Me: Twelve Holiday Stories edited by Stephanie Perkins

December 2014: Noggin by John Corey Whaley

November 2014: The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson

October 2014: The Paladin Prophecy by Mark Frost

September 2014: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

August 2014: The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen &

Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson

July 2014: My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick &