Books to Pass the Time

For most people, during the day, there is some time where there is nothing to do but stare at the ceiling. If that doesn’t sound too interesting, here are some books to read as a way to pass the time.

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  • Squashed by Joan Bauer
    • A16-year-old girl makes two goals: to grow the biggest pumpkin in Iowa and to lose 20 pounds. In the process of, she meets a boy with the same interests, and strengthens her and her father’s relationship.  
  • 24 Girls in 7 Days by Alex Bradley
    • Jack Grammar, the average American teenager, doesn’t have a date to his prom. His two friends try to help by putting an ad up on the school website. In 7 days Jack has to choose 24 of the girls out of the 150 who responded. He may not be good with girls, but he has the looks and the brains. Who will he choose?
  • Truth or Diary by Catherine Clark
    • Courtney Von Dragen Smith, a 17-year-old high school student, is comforted after finding a diary after her college boyfriend dumped her in the beginning of her senior year.
  • Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn
    • Nick O’Leary, a high school student in a rock band, meets Norah Silverberg, who is college-bound, or so she thinks. Their stories and lies get intertwined, and they spend an eventful night trying to figure out their feelings, what’s going on and more.
  • What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones
    • In a series of verses and poems, Sophie, a high school student, explains he relationships and love life while trying to find her Mr. Right, but he is not who she expected him to be.
  • I’d Tell You That I Love But Then I’d Have to Kill You by Ally Carter
    • The prestigious private school, Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women is a school in which everyone in the nearby town thinks of it as a place for rich, spoiled girls, but little do they know that it is a secret school for female spies. Cammie, the head master’s daughter, finds a risky love interest while on a mission; this could jeopardize her life and her school’s secret.

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