Include your first name (state), title of book, author, and four or five sentences that will make us want to read the book.
Roberta (no state) Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. This memoir would be suitable for older teens and anyone dealing with the conflicting pulls of being an immigrant. (Ali lived in four countries as a child, and at least two more as an adult.) The author is a tough and controversial politician and thinker, and I would recommend caution to librarians, but it contains powerful passages about the liberation that reading brought to her imprisoned girlhood. Books and ideas are her lifeblood, and she makes it clear that education (including self-education, mainly freely chosen reading) is vital to the growth of the mind and spirit. She escaped her background.
Taylor (Iowa) The Lost Boy by: David Pelzer
This book has great information on what people in foster care do, and how they live their lives. The details are so specific you almost feel like you're there. After you read this book, your views might change what you think about child abuse and foster families. I loved reading this book because it interested me from the very begining.
Dani (Iowa)--The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman and cast. This play brings light to a topic not so well known. I strongly recommend you read this! You will walk away with better knowledge of what really goes on in the gay community.
...I read The Laramie Project, too. What a great book about respecting human rights and dignity. (C.VH)
Katie (Iowa) She Said Yes by Misty Bernall. She Said Yes is about a 17 year old girl whose life was taken at Columbine High School. You would think that she was a Christian during her life, but she wasn't. Check out the book and find out what her life was like without Christ.
Katie (Iowa) Annie's Baby edited by Beatrice Sparks. Annie's Baby is the true life story about a 14 year old who became pregnant. She is one of the many teenage girls who thought it could never happen to her, until it did. Annie spilled out every single feeling and aspect of her life into her diary, from when she first saw Danny and thought she had fould true love to when she made the toughest decision she would ever have to make, which showed how much she really cared for and loved her baby girl. If you don't read this book, you are really missing out.
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