Happy School Year!

Welcome Back!

Welcome to the BHS 2011-2012 school year! This year in the LMC, we have a lot of exciting things planned…fun displays, book discussions, trailers, reviews, and more. Check back here often for LMC announcements, updates, cool tools, and reading recommendations.

The Battle of the Books team will have an organizational meeting sometime within the next couple of weeks. Listen to the announcements for more information!

Looking to get back in the swing of things quickly? Check out these books about school, friends, hallway drama, and finding your way in it all:

Awkward freshman Will Carter endures many painful moments during his first year of high school before realizing that nothing good comes easily, focus is everything, and the payoff is usually incredible.

Describes the high school experiences of Rachel, Quinn, Puck, Kurt, Finn, and other characters from the television program "Glee" before Mr. Schuester created New Directions.

While navigating his first year of high school and awaiting the birth of his new baby brother, Scott loses old friends and gains some unlikely new ones as he hones his skills as a writer.

When wealthy, seemingly perfect Brittany and Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, develop a relationship after Alex discovers that Brittany is not exactly who she seems to be, they must face the disapproval of their schoolmates--and others.

When Alex, a junior at an elite preparatory school, realizes that she may have been the victim of date rape, she confides in her roommates and sister who convince her to seek help from a secret society, the Mockingbirds.

Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.

An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.

After going through traumatic times, a troubled, socially awkward teenager moves to a new school where he tries to reinvent himself.

Following her parents' bitter divorce as she and her father move from town to town, seventeen-year-old Mclean reinvents herself at each school she attends until she is no longer sure she knows who she is or where she belongs.

When three teenaged boys suspect that their English teacher is responsible for their friend's disappearance, they must navigate a maze of assorted clues, fraying friendships, violence, and Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" before learning the truth.

Student essays, scholarship committee members' notes, and other writings reveal interactions between a group of modern-day students at an exclusive New South Wales high school and their strange connection to a young Irishman transported to Australia in the early 1800s.