1. Ms. Fenton is reading:
Famous
by Todd Strasser
At 14, Jamie Gordon took some photos
of a famous model’s embarrassing
moment and sold them to a tabloid.
Now 16 and a professional paparazzo,
she’s in LA to document a week in the
life of starlet Willow Twine.
But then Jamie discovers six photos on
her camera that could ruin Willow’s
career. How did those photos get there?
And what should she do with them?

2. Ms. Morrow is reading:
Wish You Were Dead
by Todd Strasser
No one at Soundview High takes the
death wishes of an anonymous blogger
seriously.
. . . Until the students mentioned start
disappearing.

3. Mrs. Boyer is reading:
Boot Camp
by Todd Strasser
In the middle of the night Garrett is
taken from his home to Harmony Lake,
a boot camp for troubled teens.
Beaten, humiliated, and stripped of his
pride, Garrett’s spirit is slowly ebbing
away. Then he hears whispers of an
escape plot.

4. Ms. K-M and Ms. Munn
are reading:
The Wave
by Todd Stasser
The powerful forces of group pressure that
pervaded many historic movements such as
Nazism are recreated in the classroom when
history teacher Burt Ross introduces a “new”
system to his students. And before long “The
Wave,” with its rules of “strength through
discipline, community, and action, ” sweeps
from the classroom through the entire
school.

5. Ms. Giuliano is reading:
If I Grow Up
by Todd Strasser
For DeShawn, joining a gang seems like
a terrible decision — why would he want
to work for a pittance running drugs
when the inevitable consequences are
jail or an early death?
but with a pregnant girlfriend and
growing family DeShawn sees no hope
without the fast money life as a Disciple
can provide.

6. Mrs. Medic is reading:
Blood On My Hands
by Todd Stasser
Callie picks up what she’s certain is a fake
knife she finds on the ground next to an
unconscious girl.
But the knife is real … and bloody. And
then Callie hears the click of one cell
phone, followed by another, and another.
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