https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1 Made with whimsy en-us 2019-01-14 16:19:56 UTC 2025-11-09 23:49:53 UTC hello@padlet.com jayrod16 https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320375550 Jeff Garvin
Riley Cavanaugh is many things: Punk rock. Snarky. Rebellious. And gender fluid. Some days Riley identifies as a boy, and others as a girl. The thing is…Riley isn’t exactly out yet.
2016
335 pages
A book about real, difficult topics in the 21st century.]]> 2019-01-14 16:25:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320375550 jayrod16 https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320493839 F. Scott Fitzgerald
The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his new love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.
1925
180 pages
is this even a question?]]> 2019-01-14 19:32:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320493839 jayrod16 https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320493977 Ray Bradbury
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.
1953
194 pages
It's a classic!]]> 2019-01-14 19:32:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320493977 jayrod16 https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320494157 Christina Dalcher
On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed to speak more than 100 words daily, Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial—this can't happen here. Not in America. Not to her.
2018
336 pages
Dystopian societies fascinated me.]]> 2019-01-14 19:33:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320494157 jayrod16 https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320494819 Jenny Han
The story of Lara Jean, who has never openly admitted her crushes, but instead wrote each boy a letter about how she felt, sealed it, and hid it in a box under her bed. But one day Lara Jean discovers that somehow her secret box of letters has been mailed, causing all her crushes from her past to confront her about the letters.
2014
355 pages
The story is based on a Junior girl struggling with romance. What more could you ask for]]> 2019-01-14 19:33:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320494819 jayrod16 https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320495688 R.J. Palacio
August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid.
2012
315 pages
Always wanted to read this. It interests me to see how a child can overcome such difficulties. ]]> 2019-01-14 19:35:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320495688 jayrod16 https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320862886 C.S. Lewis 
During the World War II bombings of London, four English siblings are sent to a country house where they will be safe. One day Lucy finds a wardrobe that transports her to a magical world called Narnia. 
1950
206 pages
I belong in Narnia.]]> 2019-01-15 16:49:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320862886 jayrod16 https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320868947 Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist follows the journey of an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago. Believing a recurring dream to be prophetic, he asks a Romani fortune teller in a nearby town about its meaning. The woman interprets the dream as a prophecy telling the boy that he will discover a treasure at the Egyptian pyramids.
1988
197 pages
It sounds cool!]]> 2019-01-15 16:58:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320868947 jayrod16 https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320872480 Gary R. Renard
What would you do if you were sitting quietly in your living room when a mysterious couple appeared from out of nowhere--and then told you they were "ascended masters" who had come to reveal some shocking secrets of existence and teach you the miraculous powers of advanced forgiveness?
2002
448 pages
I honestly dont know.]]> 2019-01-15 17:04:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320872480 jayrod16 https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320874486 Gary R. Renard
This book explores six of the lifetimes in which the incarnations of Jesus and Buddha lived together, beginning in 700 B.C. when they were known as Saka and Hiroji. Arten and Pursah, through the spiritual lessons that Jesus and Buddha learn on their path, clarify the difference between duality and non-duality. When you are able to internalize these lessons, you will be saved countless years in your spiritual development.
2017
248 pages
As someone who grew up Christian and then converted to Buddhism, I would like to see how this book intertwines the two.]]> 2019-01-15 17:07:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320874486 jayrod16 https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320877914 Arthur Golden
Enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion.
1997
503 Pages
Sex Trafficking is still a huge problem today. It's different everywhere, it seems that Japan has made it a normality. I would like to learn more. ]]> 2019-01-15 17:13:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320877914 jayrod16 https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320880303 Alice Walker
The tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children taken away from her, is separated from her beloved sister Nettie and is trapped into an ugly marriage. But then she meets the glamorous Shug Avery, singer and magic-maker - a woman who has taken charge of her own destiny. Gradually, Celie discovers the power and joy of her own spirit, freeing her from her past and reuniting her with those she loves.
1982
295 pages
This excites me! Women taking charge! Creating your own destiny!]]> 2019-01-15 17:17:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320880303 jayrod16 https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320881995 Yann Martel
Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, a Tamil boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
2001
460 pages
I would like to see into the thoughts and inner battles of Pi more than I could in the movie.]]> 2019-01-15 17:20:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320881995 jayrod16 https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320978713 Nicholas Sparks
Noah is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer they spent together, Noah is content to live with only memories...until she unexpectedly returns to his town to see him once again.
1996
227 pages
This book made my mom cry. It has to be good.]]> 2019-01-15 20:04:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/320978713 jayrod16 https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/321297494 Vladimir Nabokov 
Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. 
1955
417 pages
It seems like a freaking weird book.]]> 2019-01-16 16:07:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jayrod16/yc9o41m0ube1/wish/321297494