Book Club

Students who enjoy reading are encouraged to participate in West's Book Club.

 We read and discuss approximately five books during the school year. Members get to keep many of the books we read! 

Please contact Miss Pritzl if you are interested in participating.

Books we read in the past:

2020-21

• When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

• The Library of Lost Things by Laura Taylor Namey

• She is Not Invisible by Marcus Sedgwick

• Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork

2019-20

• The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

• The Summer of Letting Go by Gae Polisner  -- we Skyped with the author for our discussion in December

• This is Our Story by Ashley Elston  -- we will Skype with the author on Feb. 11th

• A Very Large Expanse of the Sea by Tahereh Mafi

• Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee

2018-19

• We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

• Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski

• The Lost Causes by Jessica Etting

• The Boy at the Top of the Mountain by John Boyne

• Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley

2017-18

• Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson

• Every Last Word by Tamara Stone

• Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

• I Am Malala:  The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

• Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys   ---  We listened to the author speak at the Fox Cities Book Festival

• Don't Look Back by Jennifer L. Armentrout

2016-17

• All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven  --- We Skyped with the author

• The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett

• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks by E. Lockhart

• Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

 2015-16

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

• Prisoner of Night and Fog by Anne Blankman  --- We Skyped with the author

• The Body in the Woods by April Henry  --- We Skyped with the author

• Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

• Popular: A Memoir by Maya Van Wagenen  --- We Skyped with the author