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Spontaneous by Aaron Starmer

3/20/2017

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  • Mara Carlyle's senior year is blowing up -- literally.  All around Mara her classmates begin to spontaneously combust, leaving their classmates covered in blood and worrying if they could be the next one to explode.
  • This is probably not the best time to start a relationship (knowing that either one of them could pop at any time), but that doesn't stop Mara and her new boyfriend Dylan from taking advantage of the time they have together.
  • As more and more of her classmates explode and the FBI and military get involved, Mara wonders if she and any of her classmates will make it to graduation.
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It's a little gory, but if you can get past the exploding people, this darkly humorous and satirical book will not only make you laugh, but it will also make you think about how our society and media respond to disasters. The main character, Mara, is a snarky and sometimes annoying girl who makes a lot of bad decisions including some inappropriate coping strategies, but she describes the end of the world as she knows it in hilarious detail.
Grades 9-12
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Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

11/7/2016

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  • Seventeen-year-old Greg Gaines likes making movies with his sort-of-friend Earl and tries to get through high school by having  access to all the social groups but by not belonging to any one clique, which in his own words means he keeps "an insanely low profile."
  • Keeping a low profile becomes tricky when Greg's mom asks him to befriend a girl, Rachel, who he has some embarrassing history with and who now has cancer.
  • What ensues is Greg (and sometimes Earl) doing their best to cheer up Rachel without punching themselves in the face too many times.
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Imagine The Fault in Our Stars with a lot less romance and way more boy humor, movie-making, and inter-racial friendship. The narrator, Greg, says this book "contains precisely zero Important Life Lessons, or Little-Known Facts About Love, or sappy tear-jerking Moments When We Knew We Had Left Our Childhood Behind for Good, or whatever," but it will make you laugh a lot more than it will make you cry (and I do mean a lot).
Grades 9-12
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