Saying Goodbye

This week, we see the end of the school year. This means saying goodbye to many things: our 7th grade teachers, our lockers, our classrooms, our routines and for some-our friends.

As we say goodbye to this school year and hello to our summer, remember that life is about change and growth. Nothing ever stays the same, things change and grow. Sometimes the change and growth is by choice and sometimes it just is.

Below are some books that might be interesting to read as you are changing and growing this summer:

* The Book Thief by Mark Zusak: It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.

* The Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah Maas: When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin--one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world.

* Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz :Survive. At any cost.10 concentration camps.10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face.

* The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary L. Pearson: Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn't remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really hers?