The PLHS Book Club is a student-led group. This year our founding members served as the leaders of the group — facilitating mature discussion around books that the selected especially for the group. The club meets monthly and utilizes the public library system’s considerable resources to ensure that members can get books without purchasing.

Tuesday, January 12
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Science Fiction Dystopian)
In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. No one lives without OASIS, the virtual utopia, including teenager Wade Watts. When the creator of the OASIS dies he leaves behind a quest for his fortune hidden throughout the virtual reality. The race is on and Wade wants to win…and survive.

Tuesday, February 9
Every Day by David Levithan (Contemporary Romance)
This contemporary novel revolves around the life of ‘A’, who lives every day as a different person. Since birth A has changed appearances, never the same person twice. Life is lonely when you can’t define who you are. Then one day, A meets Rhiannon, and life is irrevocably changed.

Tuesday, March 8
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart (Suspenseful Mystery)
A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth.

Tuesday, April 19
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton (Magical Realism)
This multi-generational saga stars Ava Lavender — an ordinary sixteen year old girl who desires to fit in. She also comes from a family with a legacy of foolish love, and as if life wasn’t hard enough she has wings.

Tuesday, May 10 (tentative)
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson (Contemporary Romance)
As twins, Jude and Noah grew up close, but soon drifted apart. Now they barely talk. Told at age thirteen from Noah’s perspective and at age sixteen from Jude’s, these twins only know half of their stories of tragedy and love. They will have to find their way back to each other to complete it.

Tuesday, June 14 — Group’s Choice