Book review by Abby Chambless, Dunwoody High School Book Club
For the month of January, the Dunwoody High Book Club decided to read Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. Andrew Wiggin, aka Ender, is a young boy who was sent to a training academy in space to learn how to battle an alien race known as “Buggers”.… Read More »
by Macon Chiles DHS Junior
The Impossible Knife of Memory Review
The last time I was in the bookstore, I happened across The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson. Upon seeing that name most people would have thought, ‘Oh, that’s the woman who wrote that phenomenal trauma novel Speak, about overcoming the trauma of sexual assault!’… Read More »
Kingsley Elementary School (2051 Brendan Drive) is selling great books at great prices! Soft cover books are only $1. Hard cover books are $2 and baby board books are $.50. Books for children and adults of all ages are available. Open to the community from 7am-3pm on Tuesday February 9th – Thursday February 11th.… Read More »
BOOK OF THE WEEK: What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
I told y’all about this book a few month’s ago before I finished it. This was the first audible book I’ve listened to in a while so I was having trouble getting used to finding time to listen. However, I became so enthralled with the story that I was riding around in my car running errands just to have an excuse to listen! … Read More »
Remember Jane
Remember Jane
by Mark D. Paul
Paperback
Our Price: $12.99
Buy NowNote from Audra…I’m planning to read this soon! I already have it on my Kindle. The author is the Youth Director at Dunwoody Baptist Church and the kids and parents at DBC LOVE him. Mark is giving away copies of Remember Jane to two lucky Aha!… Read More »
Following is a NEW Review by DHS Book Club Co-President, Christy Holloway
After hearing all the buzz about The Martian coming out as a movie, the Dunwoody Book club decided to read the book before seeing the movie.… Read More »
Books of the Week American Literature Courses for DHS (updated)
In December I wrote about the American Literature courses at DHS. My source was a high school junior that had taken the course first semester of this school year. If you’ll remember, I wasn’t very high on the choices and only found one that got me excited enough to read it. … Read More »
Let me start by telling you that I predict this book (which is Kibler’s first novel) could possibly become as successful as The Help. A major motion picture is already “in development”. … Read More »
Books of the Week American Literature Requirements for DHS Students
Burger Boy is taking American Literature at Dunwoody High next semester. This is the required English course for all DHS Juniors. His book worm Mama is so excited that he will be forced to read novels that I couldn’t wait to find out what he’s going to be reading so we can discuss together!… Read More »
Book of the Week Confess
Confess: A Novel
by Colleen Hoover
Kindle Edition ~ Release Date: 2015-03-10
Buy Now
My friend Debbie texted me recently wanting to know if I wanted to read Confess “a quick young adult love story that won 2015 Best Romance Good Reads” before she returned it to the library. I promptly remembered that the paperback was in my summer book stack. … Read More »
Book of the Week Sarah’s Key
Book Review by Dunwoody High School Junior, Abby Chambless
Note from Audra: I read this in 2010 and gave it 4 Stars on Goodreads. It is an excellent book! Peggy also read it and loved it too!
Sarah’s Key
by Tatiana de Rosnay
Paperback ~ Release Date: 2008-09-30
Book of the Week The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
by Marie Kondo
Kindle Edition ~ Release Date: 2014-10-14
My neighbor, Liz, chose this book for our December Meadowlake Book Club. I read the title, balked and decided not to read it. However, soon after giving up on the title, I sat next to my friend Mary at the Young Life Banquet and she mentioned to me that her husband recently read the book on a long flight. … Read More »
Book of the Week The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
The 5th Wave: The First Book of the 5th Wave Series
by Rick Yancey by Speak
Paperback ~ Release Date: 2015-02-10
Book Review by Macon Chiles, Dunwoody High School Junior
I usually pride myself in being able to, for the most part, outsmart the books I read.… Read More »
Book of the Week Anna Dressed in Blood
Note from Audra: Christy Holloway is the third of my trio of Dunwoody High School Juniors to provide us with a Junior Book Review. Christy along with Abby Chambless started the ‘DHS Bookclub’ this year. When Christy told me about it I immediately asked her if she and Abby would be willing to write about some of their fave choices from their book club reading this year. … Read More »
