Here is the poll for March!

Looking for Alaska by John Green
Miles "Pudge" Halter is abandoning his safe-okay, boring -life. Fascinated by the last words of famous people, Pudge leaves for boarding school to seek what a dying Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." Pudge becomes encircled by friends whose lives are everything but safe and boring. Their nucleus is razor-sharp, sexy, and self-destructive Alaska, who has perfected the arts of pranking and evading school rules. Pudge falls impossibly in love. When tragedy strikes the close-knit group, it is only in coming face-to-face with death that Pudge discovers the value of living and loving unconditionally. John Green's stunning debut marks the arrival of a stand-out new voice in young adult fiction.

Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
"Don't worry, Anna. I'll tell her, okay? Just let me think about the best way to do it."
"Okay."
"Promise me? Promise you won't say anything?"
"Don't worry." I laughed. "It's our secret, right?"

According to her best friend Frankie, twenty days in ZanzibarBay is the perfect opportunity to have a summer fling, and if they meet one boy ever day, there's a pretty good chance Anna will find her first summer romance. Anna lightheartedly agrees to the game, but there's something she hasn't told Frankie---she's already had that kind of romance, and it was with Frankie's older brother, Matt, just before his tragic death one year ago.

Beautifully written and emotionally honest, this is a debut novel that explores what it truly means to love someone and what it means to grieve, and ultimately, how to make the most of every single moment this world has to offer.

Feed by M.T. Anderson
"We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck."

So states Titus, whose ability to read, write, and even think for himself has been completely obliterated by his "feed, " a transmitter implanted directly into his brain. Feeds are a crucial part of life for Titus and his friends. After all, how else would they know where to party on the moon, how to get bargains at Weatherbee & Crotch, or how to accessorize the mysterious lesions everyone's been getting? But then Titus meets Violet, a girl who cares about what's happening in the world and challenges everything Titus and his friends hold dear. A girl who decides to fight the feed.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school...again. And that's the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.


Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to find and return Zeus's stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.

Ballads of Suburbia by Stephanie Kuehnert
Kara hasn't been back to Oak Park since the end of junior year, when a heroin overdose nearly killed her and sirens heralded her exit. Four years later, she returns to face the music. Her life changed forever back in high school: her family disintegrated, she ran around with a whole new crowd of friends, she partied a little too hard, and she fell in love with gorgeous bad-boy Adrian, who left her to die that day in Scoville Park....

Amid the music, the booze, the drugs, and the drama, her friends filled a notebook with heartbreakingly honest confessions of the moments that defined and shattered their young lives. Now, finally, Kara is ready to write her own.

Blue Bloods (Blue Bloods 1) by Melissa De La Cruz
De la Cruz combines American history, vampires and a crew of rich New York City kids, delivering a page-turning debut to her new series, sure to appeal to fans of her Au Pairs titles. When 15-year-olds Schuyler and Bliss find out that they are vampires, as are many of the city's elite, they learn what's behind some of their weird symptoms (such as Schuyler's blue veins, which form "an intricate pattern, visible under the skin's surface," or Bliss's cravings for raw meat), and that "nothing could kill vampires." But something is hunting them, even killing some, and Schuyler grows more determined to stop it, even as the Conclave, the vampire leaders, attempts to cover it up. Readers will recognize the character types here: Schuyler the outcast, Bliss the pretty new girl and Mimi the popular queen bee (who nurses a somewhat incestuous relationship with her equally gorgeous brother). Not many question are answered along the way, even for the start of a series. Still, it's hard to resist a book that combines expensive clothes, modeling jobs, blood-sucking and even diary entries from a Mayflower vampire. De la Cruz plants enough seeds (e.g., What does it mean that Schuyler's father is human? Will her mother come out of her coma? Who are the Silver Bloods, and is one of them hiding amongst the vampires?) to give readers a stake in what happens next.

Girl in the Arena by Lise Haines
Lyn is a neo-gladiator’s daughter, through and through. Her mother has made a career out of marrying into the high-profile world of televised blood sport, and the rules of the Gladiator Sports Association are second nature to their family. Always lend ineffable confidence to the gladiator. Remind him constantly of his victories. And most importantly: Never leave the stadium when your father is dying. The rules help the family survive, but rules—and the GSA—can also turn against you. When a gifted young fighter kills Lyn’s seventh father, he also captures Lyn’s dowry bracelet, which means she must marry him... For fans of The Hunger Games and Fight Club, Lise Haines’ debut novel is a mesmerizing look at a world addicted to violence—a modern world that’s disturbingly easy to imagine.

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain wants to become a writer. Trouble is, she's the daughter of a once-famous author with a severe case of writer's block. Her family--beautiful sister Rose, brooding father James, ethereal stepmother Topaz--is barely scraping by in a crumbling English castle they leased when times were good. Now there's very little furniture, hardly any food, and just a few pages of notebook paper left to write on. Bravely making the best of things, Cassandra gets hold of a journal and begins her literary apprenticeship by refusing to face the facts. She writes, "I have just remarked to Rose that our situation is really rather romantic, two girls in this strange and lonely house. She replied that she saw nothing romantic about being shut up in a crumbling ruin surrounded by a sea of mud."
Rose longs for suitors and new tea dresses while Cassandra scorns romance: "I know all about the facts of life. And I don't think much of them." But romantic isolation comes to an end both for the family and for Cassandra's heart when the wealthy, adventurous Cotton family takes over the nearby estate. Cassandra is a witty, pensive, observant heroine, just the right voice for chronicling the perilous cusp of adulthood.

Goddess of The Night (Daughters of the Moon Book 1) by Lynne Ewing
Vanessa, who has always had the special power to become invisible, discovers that she and her best friend Catty, a time-traveler, are goddesses of the moon who must fight together to overcome the evil Atrox.

im super torn on this one... i went with alaska cuz its great... but percy jackson is good too!

My vote went for Looking for Alaska because I just bought it recently.

I don't know what to vote for... I'm a bit torn. There are a lot of good choices up!

Looking For Alaska, I've been dying to read it.

this is sooo hard!
I voted for Twenty Boy Summer because Ive wanted to read it for a while now but all options sound great!

I voted Twenty Boy Summer. I've been wanting to read this one for a while. So many good choices though to choose from!

ah... so hard!!

I've gone with Girl in the Arena!

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blue bloods people
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I loved Twenty Boy Summer. It's a good book.

^ I loved it too. I would be happy with that or Looking For Alaska. (:

I've never read Looking for Alaska before.. It does sound interesting...

Though, I want to read Percy Jackson, since the movie is coming out.

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Originally posted by HelloItsAnne Percy Jackson, only because I'm a little ehh about seeing the movie,I wanted to read this before watching the movie, and this way if I read it while everyone is, I can discuss it with you guys. Maybe the book will convince me to see the movie.

I want to read it but Im not sure about bookclub...
but its your choice guys

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Feybie - 12-2-2010 at 12:50 PM

Actually Niza, it's your choice. Just cuz we run the ship doesn't mean we're going to over rule the majority decision!

lol

If you guys want Percy Jackson, you'll get your Percy Jackson.

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Nichole0390 - 12-2-2010 at 12:52 PM

one day I'm going to have to pair up with mark and go for girl in the arena.

I don't think it's gonna make it this time

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Feybie - 12-2-2010 at 12:55 PM

There is still time Nichole. In fact, I might post something tomorrow about it on the front page to encourage people to vote.

I should probably do that every month.

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Nichole0390 - 12-2-2010 at 12:56 PM

thanx twin!
who will win? this month votes are really close!

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KatieQ - 12-2-2010 at 05:15 PM

So so close. Two tied, one one vote behind, and two others only two votes behind...

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Feybie - 12-2-2010 at 05:32 PM

I've scheduled a post to appear on the main page for tomorrow. That might help.

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KatieQ - 12-2-2010 at 05:38 PM

Awesome. It will be good to get more people to participate.

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jennibear8504 - 12-2-2010 at 06:10 PM

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Originally posted by nissie Quote: Originally posted by jennibear8504 oh, twin if you need a copy of looking for alaska i can send you one... thanx twin! who will win? this month votes are really close!

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Originally posted by strigoi *sigh* WHYY?