Tween & Teen Booktalk
March 2009
The Compound by S.A. Bodeen
Eli is the son of a millionaire technological geni us, who built an underground compound so that his family could survive the nuclear war raging outside. At fifteen, Eli has been shut inside for nearly seven years -- socked in by a haunting silver door, never quite letting go of the memories of his twin brother and his gram, the two family members who didn't reach the compound before that horrid silver door was closed. Food and supplies are running out, tensions are tight, and Eli is making discoveries that will alter the very world as he knows it, not to mention the people he thought he understood. Everything is masked behind secrets and sabotage, and who Eli chooses to trust could mean the difference between life and death!
Y Bod
What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever.
Y Blu
Persistence of Memory by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Diagnosed with schizophrenia as a child, sixteen-year-old Erin has spent half of her life in therapy and on drugs, but now must face the possibility of weird things in the real world, including shapeshifting friends and her "alter," a centuries-old vampire.
Y Atw
