Tell Us Your BTS Preferences, We’ll Give You a Book to Add to Your TBR By Emilie Polster </p> <section> <h2> <h2><strong>Tell us your BTS preferences, we’ll give you a book to add to your TBR</strong></h2> </h2> <p> </p> <p>With the release of BE, and its lead single <em>Life Goes On,</em> it is time to talk about BTS—my favorite thing is being able to gush about my love for BTS. And boy do I love them a lot. This year has been hard for a lot of reasons and one of my saving graces has been music, BTS in particular. Getting new music from them gives me something to smile about. It’s not just one song—o.m.g.—we get an album, a video, PERFORMANCES!!!!!!!!!!! (even if they’re virtual!) New looks. Give me black-haired Suga or give me death! [I am screaming so high only dogs can hear.] I’m so excited, no one talk to me for the next year.</p> <p>Since I love BTS and I love books I’m bringing my two favorite things together: I mean really, it’s the perfect combo. Whether you’re an ARMY already or a newbie (we’ll help you!) answer these BTS questions and we’ll give you a book rec.</p> </section> <section> <h2> <h2></h2> <h2><em><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/warandspeech">War and Speech</a></em> by Don Zolidis<o:p></o:p></h2> </h2> <p> </p> <p>Not everyone can be a winner…</p> <p>Sydney Williams knows this better than anyone. After her white-collar- criminal dad is sent to prison, Sydney fails almost all of her classes and moves into a dingy apartment with her mom, who can barely support them with her minimum-wage job at the mall.</p> <p>A new school promises a fresh start. Except Eaganville isn’t exactly like other high schools. It’s ruled with an iron fist by a speech team that embodies the most extreme winner-takes-all philosophy.</p> <p>Sydney is befriended by a group of fellow misfits, each of whom has been personally victimized by the speech team. It turns out Sydney is the perfect plant to take down the speech team from within.</p> <p>With the help of her co-conspirators, Sydney throws herself into making Nationals in speech, where she will be poised to topple the corrupt regime. But what happens when Sydney realizes she actually has a shot at . . . winning? Sydney lost everything because of her dad’s obsession with being on top. Winning at speech might just be her ticket out of a life of loserdom. Can she really walk away from that?</p> </section> <section> <h3> <h2>How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black</h2> </h3> <p> </p> <p><em>Once upon a time, there was a boy with a wicked tongue.</em></p> <p>Before he was a cruel prince or a wicked king, he was a faerie child with a heart of stone. #1 <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author, Holly Black reveals a deeper look into the dramatic life of Elfhame’s enigmatic high king, Cardan. This tale includes delicious details of life before <em>The Cruel Prince, </em>an adventure beyond <em>The Queen of Nothing,</em> and familiar moments from The Folk of the Air trilogy, told wholly from Cardan’s perspective.</p> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><em><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/theenigmagame">The Enigma Games </a></em>by Elizabeth Wein</h2> </h3> <p> </p> <p><em>1940</em>. Facing a seemingly endless war, fifteen-year-old Louisa Adair wants to fight back, make a difference, <em>do something</em>-anything to escape the Blitz and the ghosts of her parents, who were killed by enemy action. But when she accepts a position caring for an elderly German woman in the small village of Windyedge, Scotland, it hardly seems like a meaningful contribution. Still, the war feels closer than ever in Windyedge, where Ellen McEwen, a volunteer driver with the Royal Air Force, and Jamie Beaufort-Stuart, a flight leader for the 648 Squadron, are facing a barrage of unbreakable code and enemy attacks they can’t anticipate.</p> <p>Their paths converge when a German pilot lands in Windyedge under mysterious circumstances and plants a key that leads Louisa to an unparalleled discovery: an Enigma machine that translates German code. Louisa, Ellen, and Jamie must work together to unravel a puzzle that could turn the tide of the war–but doing so will put them directly in the cross-hairs of the enemy.</p> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><em><a href="https://www.lbyr.com/titles/brent-crawford/carter-finally-gets-it/9781423140894/">Carter Finally Gets It</a></em> by Brent Crawford</h2> </h3> <p> </p> <p>Meet Will Carter, but feel free to call him Carter. (Yes, he knows it’s a lazy nickname, but he didn’t have much say in the matter.)</p> <p>Here are five things you should know about him:</p> <p>1. He has a stuttering problem, particularly around boobs and belly buttons. 2. He battles Attention Deficit Disorder every minute of every day unless he gets distracted. 3. He’s a virgin, mostly because he’s no good at talking to girls (see number 1). 4. He’s about to start high school. 5. He’s totally not ready. Join Carter for his freshman year, where he’ll search for sex, love, and acceptance anywhere he can find it. In the process, he’ll almost kill a trombone player, face off with his greatest nemesis, suffer a lot of blood loss, narrowly escape death, run from the cops (not once, but twice), get caught up in a messy love triangle, meet his match in the form of a curvy drill teamer, and surprise the hell out of everyone, including himself.</p> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><em><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/walledcity">The Walled City</a></em> by Ryan Graudin</h2> </h3> <p> </p> <p><strong>730.</strong> That’s how many days I’ve been trapped.<o:p></o:p></p> <p><strong>18.</strong> That’s how many days I have left to find a way out.<o:p></o:p></p> <p><strong>DAI</strong>, trying to escape a haunting past, traffics drugs for the most ruthless kingpin in the Walled City. But in order to find the key to his freedom, he needs help from someone with the power to be invisible….<o:p></o:p></p> <p><strong>JIN</strong> hides under the radar, afraid the wild street gangs will discover her biggest secret: Jin passes as a boy to stay safe. Still, every chance she gets, she searches for her lost sister….<o:p></o:p></p> <p><strong>MEI YEE</strong> has been trapped in a brothel for the past two years, dreaming of getting out while watching the girls who try fail one by one. She’s about to give up, when one day she sees an unexpected face at her window…..<o:p></o:p></p> <p>In this innovative and adrenaline-fueled novel, they all come together in a desperate attempt to escape a lawless labyrinth before the clock runs out.<o:p></o:p></p> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><em><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/littledoweknow">Little Do We Know</a></em> by Tamara Ireland Stone</h2> </h3> <p> </p> <p>Lifelong best friends and next-door neighbors Hannah and Emory have never gone a single day without talking. But now its senior year and they haven’t spoken in three months. Not since the fight, where they each said things they couldn’t take back. They’re aching to break the silence, but those thirty-six steps between their bedroom windows feel more like thirty-six miles.</p> <p>Then one fateful night, Emory’s boyfriend, Luke, almost dies. And Hannah is the one who finds him and saves his life.</p> <p>As Luke tries to make sense of his near-death experience, he secretly turns to Hannah, who becomes his biggest confidante. In Luke, Hannah finds someone she can finally talk to about all the questions she’s grappling with. Emory just wants everything to go back to normal-the way it was before the accident. She has no idea why her relationship is spiraling out of control. But when the horrifying reason behind Hannah and Emory’s argument ultimately comes to light, all three of them will be forced work together to protect the person with the biggest secret of all.</p> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><a href="https://www.thenovl.com/wecontainmultitudes"><em>We Contain Multitudes </em></a>by Sarah Henstra</h2> </h3> <p> </p> <p>Jonathan Hopkirk, a Walt Whitman fan, and Adam “Kurl” Kurlansky, a football player, are partnered in English class, writing letters to one another in a weekly pen pal assignment.</p> <p>With each letter, the two begin to develop a friendship that eventually grows into love. But with homophobia, bullying, and familial strife, Jonathan and Kurl must struggle to hold onto their relationship—and each other.</p> <p>This rare and special novel celebrates love and life with engaging characters and stunning language, making it perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson, Nina LaCour, and David Levithan.<strong></strong></p> </section> <section> <h2> <h2></h2> <h2>Who is your bias*?</h2> <h3>*Your favorite. Who are your biased towards?</h3> </h2> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><strong>Pick a title track:</strong></h2> </h3> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><strong>Who is your bias wrecker*?</strong></h2> <h3>*Who might be able to drag you away from your bias?</h3> </h3> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><strong>Pick a B-side track:</strong></h2> </h3> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><strong>What is your favorite rap line track?</strong></h2> </h3> </section> <section> <h3> <h2>What is your favorite vocal line track?</h2> </h3> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><strong>Pick a solo track:</strong></h2> </h3> </section> <p> </p> <p>
