Welcome Back!

Hard to believe we're back at school already!  Hope you got in a lot of reading this summer.

Here's the new book that I just started:

"Matt and Mike are best friends, just two working-class guys trying to earn some money in Montauk for the summer. When they meet Driana, JoJo, and Stef, three friends who live a much different life of privilege, Matt and Mike find themselves in a sticky situation where temptation rivals sensibility. Worlds collide when the group ventures out to sea aboard a small boat that Stef sneaks out from her dad's dock. As the waves rise and the fragile vessel weakens, things go horribly wrong. Adrift at sea for days, who will have what it takes to survive?"--

Book recommendations/summer reads from Mrs. Mendoza 

IHHS Library Media Specialist:

New York Times Bestsellers

Best Beach Reads

American Library Assoc. Best Fiction for Adults

Cincinnati Public Library-Hot Titles

American Library Assoc. Best of the Best for Teens

New Young Adult Romances  

Mrs. Mendoza’s GoodReads Shelf

The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin

Our Marketing teacher recommended this to me. We're thinking of having a faculty book club discussion on it in the fall.  Great way to recharge for the new school year... 

What if you could change your life without really changing your life? On the outside, Gretchen Rubin had it all -- a good marriage, healthy children and a successful career -- but she knew something was missing. Determined to end that nagging feeling, she set out on a year-long quest to learn how to better enjoy the life she already had.

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

Just finished listening to Forman's novel.  Engaging but a predictable ending.  I'd still recommend it though...

Summary:

Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel.

I open my eyes wide now.
I sit up as much as I can.
And I listen.

Stay, he says.

Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind?

Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, and in an instant, everything changes. Suddenly, all the choices are gone, except one. And it's the only one that matters.
If I Stay is a heartachingly beautiful book about the power of love, the true meaning of family, and the choices we all make. 

Book Spine Poetry Contest for IHHS Students!

Indian Hill Students-enter our Book Spine Poetry Contest and win prizes!

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Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

 

This book finally was returned! Have been looking forward to reading another novel from Rainbow Rowell, author of Eleanor and Park. I know it will be worth the wait.

Feeling cast off when her twin sister outgrows their shared love for a favorite fictional character, Cath, a dedicated fan-fiction writer, struggles to survive on her own in her first year of college while avoiding a surly roommate, bonding with a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words, and worrying about her fragile father.

Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck

 Just started this series on the recommendation from a couple of my students. Love the description Hindu gods in the lush Indian setting.

Passion. Fate. Loyalty.

Would you risk it all to change your destiny?

The last thing Kelsey Hayes thought she’d be doing this summer was trying to break a 300-year-old Indian curse. With a mysterious white tiger named Ren. Halfway around the world. But that’s exactly what happened. Face-to-face with dark forces, spellbinding magic, and mystical worlds where nothing is what it seems, Kelsey risks everything to piece together an ancient prophecy that could break the curse forever.

Tiger’s Curse is the exciting first volume in an epic fantasy-romance that will leave you breathless and yearning for more.