Teen Book Club 2023-2024

Are you a teen in high school who loves reading? Join Teen Book Club. On the 2nd Wednesday of each month, we'll meet discuss books, have a snack, and do related activities. Try to read the book before each meeting so we can talk about it.

Free book at registration while supplies last. Sponsored by Friends of the Sherwood Public Library.

Books read in Teen Book Club may contain mature content.

Use the registration link here, email us at askusSPL@sherwoodoregon.gov or call 503-625-6688 to register and get your book to read before the club meeting.

Time: 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Dates: Sept 2023-May 2024, 
2nd Wednesday of each month

• Sept 13th, 2023
• Oct 11th, 2023
• Nov 8th, 2023
• Dec 13th, 2023
• Jan 10th, 2024
• POSTPONED to Feb 21st, 2024 (originally Feb 14th, 2024)
• Mar 13th, 2024
• Apr 10th, 2024
• May 8th, 2024

Place: Sherwood Public Library Community Room, First Floor Lobby

Book List:

Sept 13th, 2023: Scythe, by Neal Shusterman

""In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't"

Oct 11th, 2023: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

"Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship — the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves and the kind of people they want to be."

Nov 8th, 2023: Ship Breaker, by Paolo Bacigalupi
"In America's Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts, Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota--and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life. . . .In this powerful novel, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a thrilling, fast-paced adventure set in a vivid and raw, uncertain future." 

Dec 13th, 2023: The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green

"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."
 

Jan 10th, 2024: The Compound, by S. A. Bodeen

"After his parents, two sisters, and he have spent six years in a vast underground compound built by his wealthy father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin brother and grandmother were left behind, discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all."
 

POSTPONED to Feb 21st, 2024 (originally Feb 14th, 2024):
Inheritance Games, by Jennifer Barnes

"When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance."

Mar 13th, 2024: Vespertine, by Margaret Rogerson

"When her convent is attacked by possessed soldiers, Artemisia defends the Gray Sisters by awakening the revenant bound to a saint's relic, even though she runs the risk of being possessed permanently by the powerful ancient spirit." -- from the publisher

Apr 10th, 2024: Bone Gap, by Laura Ruby

"Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying."

May 8th, 2024: One for All, by Lillie Lainoff 

"In 1655 sixteen-year-old Tania is the daughter of a retired musketeer, but she is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls; when her father is murdered she finds that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de Treville's newly formed Académie des Mariées in Paris, which, it turns out, is less a school for would-be wives, than a fencing academy for girls--and so Tania begins her training to be a new kind of musketeer, and to get revenge for her father."