Double Helix (Book Club Choice)

Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.

October 16

1- Several people in this book go to a great deal of effort to keep secrets from each other. Discuss how lives would have been changed had some of those secrets not been kept.

2- Genetic manipulation can take place in many ways, for many reasons. Discuss your own opinion about what is ethical and not ethical about this process, whether it is done with animals or humans.

What is "transgenic" research? Does this kind of research change your opinion on genetic manipulation?

Chapter 7 helps you to really start thinking about what might be happening and maybe help you to start forming your own opinion.

Welcome Back to School!

Football and harvest time have arrived once more. That means back to school and a continuation of our book club.

Our summer book club was a great success. We will be starting our next book about mid-October. We will be reading "Double Helix" by Nancy Werlin.

Keep watching and we will start posting by the end of October.

Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams Chima

After learning about his magical ancestry and his own warrior powers, sixtten-year-old Jack embarks on a training program to fight enemy wizards.

Finish the trilogy by also reading "Wizard Heir" & Dragon Heir".

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.

Watch for book #2 "Catching Fire" to be released on September 1, 2009.