The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.  c2011
Subjects:
Fantasy Fiction.
Racing. -- Fiction.
Orphans -- Fiction.
Horses -- Fiction.
Love -- Fiction.

Virals by Kathy Reichs.

Reichs makes a solid YA debut with this spinoff of her Bones series. -Publishers Weekly
 
The niece of famed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, fourteen-year-old Tory and her three friends are exposed to a rare strain of canine parvovirus that gives them special powers which they use to try to solve a murder. c2011

Subjects: Supernatural -- Fiction.

Wolfdogs -- Fiction.

Virus diseases. -- Fiction.

Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.

Single-parent families -- Fiction.

Islands -- Fiction.
Science fiction.
Morris Island (S.C.) -- Fiction.

The Rule of Won by Stefan Petrucha

Caleb Dunne, the quintessential slacker, is pressured by his girlfriend to join a high school club based on The Rule of Won, which promises to fulfill members' every "crave," but when nonbelievers start being ostracized and even hurt, Caleb must act. c2008
Subjects:
Success. -- Fiction.
Supernatural -- Fiction.
Clubs -- Fiction.
Social groups. -- Fiction.
High school -- Fiction.
Books and reading -- Fiction.

I AM NUMBER FOUR by Pittacus Lore

In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien. 2011 Subjects:

Extraterrestrial beings -- Fiction.
High schools -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Love -- Fiction.
Moving, Household -- Fiction. Ohio -- Fiction.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Check out the movie trailer 2011.
Follows nine-year-old Oskar Schell as he encounters a number of interesting characters in his search for information about his father who died in the World Trade Tower and tries to find the lock that fits the mysterious key his father had. Copyright 2005.
Subjects:
Fathers -- Death -- Fiction.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.

Flight of Shadows by Sigmund Brouwer

I enjoyed this series with a strong female protaganist.  Mr. Brouwer was almost a guest speaker at Metro Tech in December of 2010 but poor weather trapped him in Montana and he never made it to Phoenix.  We look forward to his visit sometime in the future.
In a future world where the fundamentalist government distorts true Christianity, a winged girl named Caitlyn escapes to the Outside, but she soon finds herself on the run from an organizationseeking her body's genetic information.  Copyright 2010.
Sequel to: Broken angel.
Subjects:
Christian life -- Fiction.
Genetic engineering -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.
Science-Fiction.
Christian fiction.

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia

Don't be fooled by the pretty cover- this is a book for guys!! 
Living in a small South Carolina town, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.  Copyright 2009.

Subject:
Supernatural -- Fiction.
Psychic ability -- Fiction.
Love -- Fiction.
High schools -- Fiction.
Dreams -- Fiction.
Recluses -- Fiction.
Psychics -- Fiction.
Love -- Fiction.
High schools -- Fiction.
Dreams -- Fiction.
Hermits -- Fiction.
South Carolina -- Fiction.
South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.

DIVERGENT by Veronica Roth 2011

In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.

Subject:
Identity -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Courage -- Fiction.
Social classes -- Fiction.
Science fiction.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Knight Readers is reading in February and planning to see the movie as a group when it opens March 5th, 2010!! We have will have discussion questions at the meeting following Spring Break.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

This was my favorite read of summer 2009! I love strong female protagonists especially in suspenseful political plots that require physical and intellectual strength to survive. Katniss, the main character, and her story, The Hunger Games, meets all these requirements and has a science fiction bonus- a futuristic setting with a barbaric government-sponsored reality TV show starring teens from different districts. It’s a gladiator-type competition with teenagers fighting each other and battling man-made weather conditions to stay alive because the last one alive wins! It’s a just-right combination for an action-packed survival story with just enough romance that I think all guys and girls will love it as much as I did. It meets all the criteria for a great YA-Young Adult novel and makes for great discussions and book talks. An average Lexile level, I recommend to any and all who love survival, suspense, and sci-fi.
Knight Readers- do you want to read it this year????

Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

This book about the afterlife is really about a whole lot more. The author addresses other very deep, heavy topics besides what happens to us after we die like: love, drugs, mental illness, animal rights, friendship, marriage, right and wrong, and good and evil. But, she does it in a light-hearted and meaningful way with beauty and humor. The main character, Liz, is easy to relate to and pretty much has issues like your average teenage girl. Here’s a quote from my favorite part of the book- it’s spoken by a woman explaining “Elsewhere” to Liz who just arrived by boat after getting hit by a taxicab on her bicycle. She is watching her family on earth from an “observation deck.”

“How can these binoculars see all the way back to earth?”
“Maybe that’s the thing. Maybe Earth’s not so far at all. I think of it like a tree, because every tree is really two trees. There’s the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there’s the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing up to the sky, and Elsewhere is the roots, growing down in opposing and perfect symmetry. The branches don’t think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don’t think much about the branches, but all the time, they’re connected by the trunk...”

This book will definitely give you a lot to talk about.

Revelations by Melissa De La Cruz

Yadira recommends Revelations:
It is the third book in the Blue Blood series. The time has come when Lucifer has finally revealed himself again. Mistrust runs through the vampires trying to discover who is Lucifer's pawn.

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn

This post is by Shannon of the Knight Readers Book Club:
An amazingly funny twist of two teenagers who love music and seem to make you love them too.

Prom Dates from Hell by Rosemary Clement Moore

Gaby from Book Club had this to say:
Maggie Quinn is like the next Nancy Drew, only there is one small difference. She, unlike Nancy, has the Sight. Maggie is at first very skeptical about her sixth sense, but eventually must face her doubts head-on when mysterious occurrences begin around school. There have been near-fatal accidents that seem to bend the laws of nature and completely ignore the laws of logic. In order to find out what's going on and how to fix it, Maggie must accept and work with her extra abilities to solve all of the supernatural obstacles laid out before it's too late. The sarcastic humor in this book is refreshing to people like me who enjoy the darker side of all things funny. Prom Dates from Hell will keep you guessing to the very last page.

Vampire Kisses by Ellen Schreiber

Gaby from the Knight Readers Book Club wrote this book review:
There is a mysterious new family that moved into a supposedly haunted mansion on top of Benson Hill. To make matters even more scandalous in the small town that Raven (the local outcast Goth-girl) dubbed Dullsville, the family is rumored to be vampires! Now there's nothing that could have caught this outcast's attention more than that. And, as always, if that sixteen year old is ever curious about anything, she will take matters into her own hands. This vampire romance novel is refreshing with its humorous twists and turns as Raven tries to uncover the truth about Alexander and his family. If you want a romantic comedy with a bite, Vampire Kisses, is definitely the way to go.