Reading Challenges for 2015 + MRL YA Book Club!!

I'm sure you guys know about monthly challenges. They're personal goals you set for yourself. Really the challenge checklists are just suggestions. You can also get a little creative and use them to fit your schedule. Of course, we're obsessed with monthly/yearly book challenges. You can search for one online, or check out these cool ones (click to enlarge):

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You could also join our online YA Book Club!!! Once a month, we'll post a review of a book. Check it out and enjoy! And don't forget--you can always submit your own book review and/or suggestion for the Book Club.


January's Book Club Read:

Title: Monument 14

Author: Emmy Laybourne

Copyright: 2012

Call Number: YA Fiction LAYBO

Dean is riding the bus to school one morning when his world changes. His bus and the one in front of him, holding his younger brother Alex, start dodging beach ball-sized chunks of hail. Cars are swerving, people are screaming, and his classmates are freaking out. Alex's bus driver crashes into the front of a Greenway (think: Wal-Mart). Dean's bus is heading for the school bus-shaped hole in the building when their driver is hit by hail. The bus flips to its side, seats are flying off, and thick, black smoke is filling the air and Dean's lungs.

Want to know what happens next? Read the page-turner Monument 14 series by Emmy Laybourne. Monument 14 is the first book in the series, and documents how Dean and his classmates try to survive living on their own. Everything in their world has changed. The Network (Internet/phone service) is down, and the air turns black when a nearby weapons facility releases toxins that affect people different based on their blood type. They are separated from their parents, but they still encounter frightening adult strangers from the outside world.

Even though they are facing life-threatening new elements, they're still kids--six high school students and some younger children. The older guys have problems with group leadership and desperate love triangles, and the younger kids are scared out of their minds. How will they manage to stay alive when it seems like everything (the toxins in the air, manic outsiders, and their own disruptive hormones) is out to get them?




Also on Goodreads:

Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

First posted on the MRL Youth Blog as the YA Book Club's January Read.

Dean is riding the bus to school one morning when his world changes. His bus and the one in front of him, holding his younger brother Alex, start dodging beach ball-sized chunks of hail. Cars are swerving, people are screaming, and his classmates are freaking out. Alex's bus driver crashes into the front of a Greenway (think: Wal-Mart). Dean's bus is heading for the school bus-shaped hole in the building when their driver is hit by hail. The bus flips to its side, seats are flying off, and thick, black smoke is filling the air and Dean's lungs.

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