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Book Buffet Picks: October 2017

Every month teens share their latest favorite reads at Book Buffet. If you’re looking for a great recommendation from other teen readers, try one of these!


    • Product Details
      FICTION PAPERBACK S
      Shaara, Michael
      The Killer Angels
      July 1863. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia is invading the North. General Robert E. Lee has made this daring and massive move with seventy thousand men in a determined effort to draw out the Union Army of the Potomac and mortally wound it. His right hand is General James Longstreet, a brooding man who is loyal to Lee but stubbornly argues against his plan. Opposing them is an unknown factor: General George Meade, who has taken command of the Army only two days before what will be perhaps the crucial battle of the Civil War. In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation’s history, two armies fight for two conflicting dreams. One dreams of freedom, the other of a way of life. More than rifles and bullets are carried into battle. The soldiers carry memories. Promises. Love. And more than men fall on those Pennsylvania fields. Bright futures, untested innocence, and pristine beauty are also the casualties of war. The Killer Angels is a unique, sweeping, unforgettable  dramatic re-creation of the battleground for America’s destiny.

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      SCIENCE FICTION ADA
      Adams, Douglas
      Life, the Universe, and Everything
      In this second of the galactic adventures of Arthur Dent, he is transported from a prehistoric Earth to a cricket match at Lords’ Cricket Ground, two days before the Earth is to be demolished by the Vogens.

    • TEEN FICTION BAR
      Bardugo, Leigh
      Wonder Woman : Warbringer
      Diana, Princess of the Amazons, journeys to the World of Man in this coming-of-age young adult story.

    • TEEN PAPERBACK G
      Green, John
      The Fault in Our Stars
      Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life. Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.

    • TEEN FICTION MEY
      Meyer, Marissa.
      Cinder
      As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.

    • TEEN FICTION MEY
      Meyer, Marissa
      Winter
      Princess Winter, admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, teams up with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, to defeat Queen Levana and find their happily ever afters.

    • TEEN FICTION REY
      Reynolds, Jason
      Miles Morales : Spider Man
      Brooklyn Visions Academy student Miles Morales may not always want to be a super hero, but he must come to terms with his identity–and deal with a villainous teacher–as the new Spider Man.

    • TEEN FICTION ROW
      Rowell, Rainbow
      Fangirl
      Feeling cast off when her best friend outgrows their shared love for a favorite celebrity, Cath, a dedicated fan-fiction writer, struggles to survive on her own in her first year of college while avoiding a surly roommate, bonding with a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words and worrying about her fragile father.

    • TEEN FICTION SUL
      Sullivan, Tara
      The Bitter Side of Sweet
      Kept as forced labor on a chocolate plantation in the Ivory Coast, Amadou and his younger brother Seydou had given up hope, until a young girl arrives at the camp who rekindles the urge to escape.

    • TEEN FICTION WOL
      Wolk, Lauren
      Beyond the Bright Sea
      Twelve-year-old Crow has lived her entire life on a tiny, isolated piece of the starkly beautiful Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts. Abandoned and set adrift in a small boat when she was just hours old, Crow’s only companions are Osh, the man who rescued and raised her, and Miss Maggie, their fierce and affectionate neighbor across the sandbar. Crow has always been curious about the world around her, but it isn’t until the night a mysterious fire appears across the water that the unspoken question of her own history forms in her heart. Soon, an unstoppable chain of events is triggered, leading Crow down a path of discovery and danger.
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