Empty by Suzanne Weyn

Imagine paying $80 for a gallon of gas. What would you do if the grocery stores had no food on the shelf because it was too expensive for the trucks to resupply the stores. What would you do if you could not cook any of your food because all your appliances use electricity and the power is off-- with no promise of when, or if, it will come back on.

Set 10 years in the future this is a story with a message- to think about energy sources and policies. The world's oil supply is almost depleted Life as Gwen, Tom and Nikki now it is literally over.

Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen

"I sat there and looked at my mother, at the ease in her face as she told me how I felt, what I thought, everything. Like I was a puzzke, one she'd created, and she knew the solution every time." (p. 170)

Best friends/First love/Mother daughter relationships/Life changing choices/Growing up

This book touches on so many issues in a well written great story. Halley is the quiet one who always turns to Scarlett, her best friend, for the answers. Suddenly the roles are reversed and Scarlett needs Halley after her boyfriend Michael is killed in a motorcycle accident. It is bad enough that Michael died but then Scarlett discovers that she is pregnant. What is she going to do now? As Halley helps Scarlett naviagte the twists and turns of being a pregnant teenager she is going through some major changes of her own. She starts to date Macon, a wild guy that her parents do not approve of. Read the book to find out what happens to Halley, Macon, Scarlett and her baby.

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Dirty Little Secrets by c.j. omololu

Can you imagine being afraid that someone might see your home? Lucy is. Her mother is an well admired oncology nurse by day but at home she is a totally different person governed by her stuff. Lucy's two older siblings have grown up and escaped the mess but she has two more years until she graduates from high school and gets away.

One day over Christmas break Lucy and her best friend meet up with two guys from school they really like. Josh asks Lucy to come to a party the next night and she agrees. Then she goes home and discovers something in the mess...

What will Lucy do? She needs help but if she asks everyone will know how she lives.


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