Sarah Dessen came out with another book called Along for the Ride. Auden had to grow up fast after her parents got a divorce. Since they started fighting she wasn't able to sleep. She used to spend nights around town by herself while her mom had friends over. Until the summer before college. Things changed when her dad's new wife had their baby. She decided she wanted a carefree summer away from her mom. So, she went to help with her new half-sister. First night there, she slept with a guy whose ex-girlfriend happened to work at her step-mom's store. The guy she slept with had a brother who was like here. Together, Eli and Auden work on "task": for Auden to have a summer where she learns everything new and Eli to put a death behind him.

Sorry I couldn't pick out of these two...

Story of a Girl is written by Sara Zarr. This book is about a girl who at the age of 13 was caught having sex in her brother's best friend's car. Deanna didn't even like the guy, she just did it. Her father caught her. Even two years later, he can't look at her or talk to her. Deanna was made into the school slut thanks to Tommy. After a while, Deanna needs to find a way to escape the pain of dealing with a father who will not talk to her, a mother who does what dad wants, an older brother who lives in the house basement with his girlfriend and baby, and her best friends who started to date. To escape she goes and gets a job at a pizza place in town. Tommy happens to work there to. Will her family watch her even closer, wondering what will happen next? Can she put what happened two years ago behind her with Tommy so close?

This book is Dec. 2009 book club book. This book is recommended for both teens and adults who know what it is like to have struggle and who are stuggling.

Paper Towns is written by John Green and is also the November 2009 Teen Book Club book. Quentin and Margo were great friends when younger. After a while they faded. Margo made new friends and so did Q. Margo's past started to become shaky. Finally, one night before leaving high school, Margo spends a great night with Q. The next morning, she is missing. Q ends up using the three last weeks of his high school life looking for the girl that he loved.

Sorry that it goes fast...This was the best one that I could find.

Tricks by Ellen Hopkins is about five teens in five different parts of the US. They are all different. Some are poor while others are rich. Four are straight and one is gay. They all want one thing...which is love. Towards the end of the book they all start to meet each other and this causes their stories to connect.

They want to be needed and loved and for someone else to want them. But all this longing and wanting could be bad. While I was reading the book, I felt connected with the five teens in here. In a way, I think we all are connected. It might not be the same way as these five were, but we can understand how they feel.

Watch this book trailer and find out more by reading the book or checking out her website ellenhopkins.com

Lounder Than Words is three stories of different girls. Marni pulls her hair. Chelsey has dealt with alot in her life. Emily is always sick. This is a book trailer about it. I was able to read Marni's story. The book was good. I was just thinking it was going to be a little different then it was. It went back and talked about what in her life caused this problem.

Hi, I'm Judah. Welcome to the website. The book I'm reading is called The Andalite Chronicles by K. A. Applegate in a series called Animorphs. It's about an alien War-Prince named Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul who gave 5 young humans the ability to morph into any animal they touch. Here's part of the book:

"I was alone on an alien planet, scared sick at heart, and overwhelmed. I floated high above the scene, floating on my six pairs of wings. I was in morph."

To me, this book was awesome. Maybe it will be for you too.

Submitted by Judah, Age 10.

Click here for more information on The Andalite Chronicles.

If you'd like to submit a tween/teen book review, please contact me at (207) 764-2571.

To make participation in our Teen Book Club a little easier, we've created a Facebook book club.

1. Just install this Facebook application: http://apps.facebook.com/bookclubz/
2. Search "Presque Isle Library Teen Book Club" and join.
3. Online discussions will be ongoing, but we'll also hold in-person discussion here at the library on the last Tuesday of every month at 5:00 p.m.

It's still one book per month, but we may decide to hold more general discussions in the future. The online club will start with the November selection, 'Paper Towns' by John Green. In-person discussion will be on Tuesday November 24th at 5:00 p.m.

Also, 'Paper Towns' was voted as the #1 teen book of 2009 by over 11,000 teens in the American Library Association's Teens Top Ten Poll.

The full list:

1. Paper Towns by John Green (Penguin/Dutton)
2. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
3. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
4. City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare (Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry)
5. Identical by Ellen Hopkins (Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry)
6. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
7. Wake by Lisa McMann (Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse)
8. Untamed by P.C. and Kristin Cast (St. Martin's Griffin)
9. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (Disney-Hyperion)
10. Graceling by Kristin Cashore (Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)