{"id":158334,"date":"2023-06-30T18:04:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T18:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.springvilleutah.gov\/library\/?page_id=158334"},"modified":"2026-01-22T12:55:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:55:39","slug":"teen-book-club-sets","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.springvilleutah.gov\/library\/book-lists\/book-club-sets\/teen-book-club-sets\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Springville<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Library<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Book Lists<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Book Club Sets<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Teen<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Teen Book Club Sets<\/h1>\n

    Beneath the Wide Silk Sky
    \nBy: Emily Inouye Huey
    \nGenre: Fiction Historical – Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    Sam Sakamoto doesn’t have space in her life for dreams. With the recent death of her mother, Sam’s focus is the farm, which her family will lose if they can’t make one last payment. There’s no time for her secret and unrealistic hope of becoming a photographer, no matter how skilled she’s become. But Sam doesn’t know that an even bigger threat looms on the horizon.<\/p>\n

    On December 7, 1941, Japanese airplanes attack the US naval base at Pearl Harbor. Fury towards Japanese Americans ignites across the country. In Sam’s community in Washington State, the attack gives those who already harbor prejudice an excuse to hate.<\/p>\n

    As Sam’s family wrestles with intensifying discrimination and even violence, Sam forges a new and unexpected friendship with her neighbor Hiro Tanaka. When he offers Sam a way to resume her photography, she realizes she can document the bigotry around her — if she’s willing to take the risk. When the United States announces that those of Japanese descent will be forced into “relocation camps,” Sam knows she must act or lose her voice forever. She engages in one last battle to leave with her identity — and her family — intact.<\/p>\n

    Emily Inouye Huey movingly draws inspiration from her own family history to paint an intimate portrait of the lead-up to Japanese incarceration, racism on the World War II homefront, and the relationship between patriotism and protest in this stunningly lyrical debut.<\/p>\n

    Place a hold<\/a><\/p>\n

    Cinder
    \nBy: Marissa Meyer
    \nGenre: Fiction\/Teen
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth\u2019s fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She\u2019s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past and reviled by her stepmother. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai\u2019s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world\u2019s future. Book one of the Lunar Chronicles introduces readers to an unforgettable heroine and a masterfully crafted, enthralling new world.<\/p>\n

    Place a hold<\/a><\/p>\n

    The City of Ember
    \nBy: Jeanne Duprau
    \nGenre: Fiction\/Teen
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    It is always night in the city of Ember. But there is no moon, no stars. The only light during the regular twelve hours of \u201cday\u201d comes from floodlamps that cast a yellowish glow over the streets of the city. Beyond are the pitch-black Unknown Regions, which no one has ever explored because an understanding of fire and electricity has been lost, and with it the idea of a Moveable Light. \u201cBesides,\u201d they tell each other, \u201cthere is nowhere but here\u201d Among the many other things the people of Ember have forgotten is their past and a direction for their future. For 250 years they have lived pleasantly, because there has been plenty of everything in the vast storerooms. But now there are more and more empty shelves\u2013and more and more times when the lights flicker and go out, leaving them in terrifying blackness for long minutes. What will happen when the generator finally fails?<\/p>\n

    Twelve-year-old Doon Harrow and Lina Mayfleet seem to be the only people who are worried. They have just been assigned their life jobs\u2013Lina as a messenger, which leads her to knowledge of some unsettling secrets, and Doon as a Pipeworker, repairing the plumbing in the tunnels under the city where a river roars through the darkness. But when Lina finds a very old paper with enigmatic \u201cInstructions for Egress,\u201d they use the advantages of their jobs to begin to puzzle out the frightening and dangerous way to the city of light of which Lina has dreamed.<\/p>\n

    Place a hold<\/a><\/p>\n

    Ella Enchanted
    \nBy: Gail Carson Levine
    \nGenre: Teen
    \nBooks in Set:9<\/h3>\n

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    How can a fairy\u2019s blessing be such a curse?<\/p>\n

    At her birth, Ella of Frell was given a foolish fairy\u2019s gift\u2014the \u201cgift\u201d of obedience. Ella must obey any order given to her, whether it\u2019s hopping on one foot for a day or chopping off her own head!<\/p>\n

    But strong-willed Ella does not tamely accept her fate. She goes on a quest, encountering ogres, giants, wicked stepsisters, fairy godmothers, and handsome princes, determined to break the curse\u2014and live happily ever after.<\/p>\n

    Place a hold<\/a><\/p>\n

    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer\u2019s Stone
    \nBy: J. K. Rowling
    \nGenre: Fiction\/Teen
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    Harry Potter\u2019s life is miserable. His parents are dead and he\u2019s stuck with his heartless relatives, who force him to live in a tiny closet under the stairs. But his fortune changes when he receives a letter that tells him the truth about himself: he\u2019s a wizard. A mysterious visitor rescues him from his relatives and takes him to his new home, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.<\/p>\n

    Place a hold<\/a><\/p>\n

    Holes
    \nBy: Louis Sachar
    \nGenre: Fiction\/Teen
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    A darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment<\/p>\n

    Stanley Yelnat’s family has a history of bad luck, so he isn’t too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boys’ juvenile detention center, Camp Green Lake. There is no lake – it has been dry for over a hundred years – and it’s hardly a camp. As punishment, the boys must each dig a hole a day, five feet deep, five feet across, in the hard earth of the dried-up lake bed. The warden claims that this pointless labor builds character, but she is really using the boys to dig for loot buried by the Wild West outlaw Kissin’ Kate Barlow. The story of Kissin’ Kate, and of a curse put on Stanley’s great-great-grandfather by a one-legged gypsy, weaves a narrative puzzle that tangles and untangles, until it becomes clear that the hand of fate has been at work in the lives of the characters – and their forebears – for generations.<\/p>\n

    With this wonderfully inventive, compelling novel that is both serious and funny, Louis Sachar has written his best book to date.<\/p>\n

    Place a hold<\/a><\/p>\n

    The Lightning Thief
    \nBy: Rick Riordan
    \nGenre: Fiction\/Teen
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school again–he can’t seem to stay out of trouble. Is he supposed to stand by while a bully picks on his scrawny best friend? Or not defend himself when his teacher turns into a monster and tries to kill him?<\/p>\n

    Mythical creatures seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology textbook and into his life. What’s worse, he’s angered a few of them: Zeus’s master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.<\/p>\n

    Percy and his friends Grover the satyr, and Annabeth, the demigod daughter of Athena, must find and return Zeus’s stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. They travel cross country to the gates of the Underworld in Los Angeles, facing a host of enemies determined to stop them.<\/p>\n

    With millions of copies and over 10 years spent on the New York Times bestseller list, Percy has also become a movie, a Broadway musical, and now a Disney+ series. He continues to find fans in classrooms and libraries across the world.<\/p>\n

    Place a hold<\/a><\/p>\n

    Salt to the Sea
    \nBy: Ruta Sepetys
    \nGenre: Historical Fiction \u2013 Fiction\/Teen
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    In 1945, World War II is drawing to a close in East Prussia and thousands of refugees are on a desperate trek toward freedom, almost all of them with something to hide. Among them are Joana, Emilia, and Florian, whose paths converge en route to the ship that promises salvation, the Wilhelm Gustloff. Forced by circumstance to unite, the three find their strength, courage, and trust in each other tested with each step closer toward safety. Just when it seems freedom is within their grasp, tragedy strikes. Not country, nor culture, nor status matter as all ten thousand people aboard must fight for the same thing: survival.<\/p>\n

    Place a hold<\/a><\/p>\n

    To Kill a Mockingbird
    \nBy: Harper Lee
    \nGenre: Fiction\/Teen
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    Classic Pulitzer prize winner where eight-year-old \u201cScout\u201d Finch tells of life in a small Alabama town where her father is a lawyer.<\/p>\n

    Place a hold<\/a><\/p>\n

    Smile
    \nBy: Raina Telgemeier
    \nGenre: Teen Graphic Novel
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    Raina Telgemeier’s #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir based on her childhood! Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there’s still more to deal with: a major earthquake, boy confusion, and friends who turn out to be not so friendly.<\/p>\n

    Place a hold<\/a><\/p>\n

    Tokyo Ever After
    \nBy: Emiko Jean
    \nGenre: Fiction\/Teen
    \nBooks in Set:9<\/h3>\n

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    Izumi Tanaka has never really felt like she fit in–it isn’t easy being Japanese American in her small, mostly white, northern California town. Raised by a single mother, it’s always been Izumi–or Izzy, because “It’s easier this way”–and her mom against the world. But then Izumi discovers a clue to her previously unknown father’s identity…and he’s none other than the Crown Prince of Japan. Which means outspoken, irreverent Izzy is literally a princess.<\/p>\n

    In a whirlwind, Izumi travels to Japan to meet the father she never knew and discover the country she always dreamed of. But being a princess isn’t all ball gowns and tiaras. There are conniving cousins, a hungry press, a scowling but handsome bodyguard who just might be her soulmate, and thousands of years of tradition and customs to learn practically overnight.<\/p>\n

    Izumi soon finds herself caught between worlds, and between versions of herself–back home, she was never “American” enough, and in Japan, she must prove she’s “Japanese” enough. Will Izumi crumble under the weight of the crown, or will she live out her fairy tale, happily ever after?<\/p>\n

    Place a hold<\/a><\/p>\n

    Walk on Earth a Stranger
    \nBy: Rae Carson
    \nGenre: Teen Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    Lee Westfall has a strong, loving family. She has a home she loves and a loyal steed. She has a best friend\u2014who might want to be something more.<\/p>\n

    She also has a secret.<\/p>\n

    Lee can sense gold in the world around her. Veins deep in the earth. Small nuggets in a stream. Even gold dust caught underneath a fingernail. She has kept her family safe and able to buy provisions, even through the harshest winters. But what would someone do to control a girl with that kind of power? A person might murder for it.<\/p>\n

    When everything Lee holds dear is ripped away, she flees west to California\u2014where gold has just been discovered. Perhaps this will be the one place a magical girl can be herself. If she survives the journey.<\/p>\n

    Place a hold<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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