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=Previous Books:=


 * January 2012:**


 * Late January Book**
 * [[image:Ship-Breaker-Lo-Rez.jpg width="154" height="233"]] || //Ship Breaker// by Paolo Bacigalupi

Plot Summary from //School Library Journal//:

In a future America, teenage Nailer works light crew with other teens, scavenging the parts of rusted-out, abandoned ships that only those small and thin enough can get into. If Nailer is lucky, he will bulk up enough to qualify for the heavy crews that strip the ships. If he is really lucky, he will discover a “lucky strike” that will let him buy his way out of the endless cycle of poverty, work, and brutality that is life on the Gulf Coast.

A hurricane hits and Nailer gets lucky. A luxury clipper ship wrecked. Scavenging this would bring him riches, if he can keep it secret long enough. Only problem is, there is a survivor, a teenage girl, a rich, spoiled “swank.” Rescuing her could mean losing his “lucky strike” — or could be an even luckier strike, if the reward for finding her and keeping her safe is high enough. To “keep her safe” he’ll have to out smart or out fight the desperate people who want to loot the ship, all of them bigger, stronger, and better armed than him. He’ll have to go against the blood oaths he swore with his light crew friends. And scariest of all, he’ll have to confront his father, Richard Lopez, a man whose days are passed in drug-fueled highs and violent fights to the death. (schoollibraryjournal.com, 8/20/2010) ||


 * Early January Book**
 * [[image:brotherknows.jpg width="133" height="202"]] || //The Things a Brother Knows// by Dana Reinhardt

Plot Summary from //School Library Journal//:

Three years ago, Levi Katznelson’s older brother Boaz surprised his family and friends by announcing that rather than going to college, he was joining the Marines. Boaz has returned from his tour of duty, back from the fighting, back from the war. But is he really back? Boaz spends all his time in his room, communicating more with people online than he does with his family or friends. Levi, seventeen, doesn’t know what to think or do especially because no one wants to say it out loud: that the Boaz who came back is not the same person who left. When Boaz announces his intention to go on a lengthy hiking trip, Levi, concerned about what Boaz isn’t saying, forces himself along on a trip that becomes one of discovery for both brothers. (schoollibraryjournal.com, 2/8/2011) ||


 * December 2011:**


 * [[image:between+shades+of+gray.jpg width="99" height="149"]] || //Between Shades of Gray// by Ruta Sepetys

This book was good, but sad. Our group liked it, overall. If you haven't read it, you should.

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 * November 2011:**

//Jellicoe Road// by Melina Marchetta = =