Puppils and teachers make their suggestions for Books that they could read at the Book Club.
BE CAREFULL! Suggestions must be completed until MONDAY 19 OCTOBER 2015.
Please, for each proposal it must be :
- Title of the book:
- Image of the cover:
- Writer of the book:
- Short description:
- Link for more information:
- Link for download the book for free:
- Link for more information about the movie:
1st suggestion:
- Title of the book: The Book Thief
- Image of the cover: HERE
- Writer of the book: Markus Zusak
- Short description: The majority of the novel takes place in the fictional town of Molching, Germany, near Munich, between 1939 and 1943. Death narrates the story of Liesel Meminger, beginning when she is nine years old and suffering from the death of her brother and separation from her mother. Liesel goes to live with Hans and Rosa Hubermann at 33 Himmel Street in Molching. When Liesel arrives, she can't read and is made fun of in school. She realizes how powerless she is without words, and so Hans, a painter and accordion player, teaches her how to read during midnight lessons in the basement, reading from the book Liesel took from her brother's burial: The Grave Digger's Handbook. During Liesel's early days with the Hubermanns, she has nightmares and Hans sits with her through the night. With his gentle demeanor and his accordion playing, Hans gains Liesel's trust as she grows close to him and comes to associate his presence with safety. She becomes very good friends with Rudy Steiner, the Hubermanns' neighbor. Rudy is constantly trying to get Liesel to kiss him, but she always refuses.
- Link for more information: HERE
- Link for download the book for free: HERE
- Link for more information about the movie: HERE
2nd suggestion:
- Title of the book: The boy in the striped pyjamas
- Image of the cover: HERE
- Writer of the book: John Boyne
- Short description: Berlin 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance. But Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different to his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences.
- Link for more information: HERE
- Link for download the book for free: HERE
- Link for more information about the movie: HERE
3rd suggestion:
- Title of the book:The Monuments Men
- Image of the cover: HERE
- Writers of the book: Robert M. Edsel with Bret Witter
- Short description: At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the Western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised. In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Monuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture. Focusing on the 11-month period between D-Day and V-E Day, this fascinating account follows six Monuments Men and their impossible mission to save the world's great art from the Nazis.
- Link for more information: HERE
- Link for download the book for free: HERE
- Link for more information about the movie: HERE
4th suggestion:
- Title of the book: Sarah's Key
- Image of the cover: HERE
- Writer of the book:Tatiana de Rosnay
- Short description: Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel’ d’Hiv’s 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl's ordeal, from that terrible term in the Vel d'Hiv', to the camps, and beyond. As she probes into Sarah's past, she begins to question her own place in France, and to reevaluate her marriage and her life. Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode.
- Link for more information: HERE
- Link for download the book for free: HERE
- Link for more information about the movie: HERE and HERE (with greek subtitles for greek students)
5th suggestion:
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Title of the book: Alan Turing The Enigma
- Image of the cover: HERE
- Writer of the book: Andrew Hodges
- Short description: Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with a flair for engineering. In 1940 his machines were breaking the Enigma-enciphered messages of Nazi Germany's air force. He then headed the penetration of the super-secure U-boat communications. But his vision went far beyond this achievement. Before the war he had invented the concept of the universal machine, and in 1945 he turned this into the first design for a digital computer. Turing's far-sighted plans for the digital era forged ahead into a vision for Artificial Intelligence. However, in 1952 his homosexuality rendered him a criminal and he was subjected to humiliating treatment. In 1954, aged 41, Alan Turing took his own life.
- Link for more information: HERE
- Link for download the book for free: HERE
- Link for more information about the movie: HERE
6th suggestion:
- Title of the book: The fault in our stars
- Image of the cover: HERE
- Writer of the book: John Green
- Short description: Hazel Grace Lancaster (Shailene Woodley), a 16-year-old cancer patient, meets and falls in love with Gus Waters (Ansel Elgort), a similarly afflicted teen from her cancer support group. Hazel feels that Gus really understands her. They both share the same acerbic wit and a love of books, especially Grace's touchstone, "An Imperial Affliction" by Peter Van Houten. When Gus scores an invitation to meet the reclusive author, he and Hazel embark on the adventure of their brief lives.
- Link for more information: HERE
- Link for download the book for free: HERE
- Link for more information about the movie: HERE
7th suggestion:
- Title of the book: If I stay
- Image of the cover: HERE
- Writer of the book: Gayle Forman
- Short description: If I Stay is a young adult novel. The story follows 17-year-old Mia Hall as she deals with the aftermath of a catastrophic car accident involving her family. Mia is the only member of her family to survive, and she finds herself in a coma. Through this coma, however, Mia has an out-of-body experience. Through this, she is able to watch the actions around her, as friends and family gather at the hospital where she is being treated. We follow Mia's stories and the unfolding of her life through a series of flashbacks. Mia finds herself stuck between two worlds; the world of the living, and the world of those who have moved on. Mia realizes that she must use her past and her relationships to make a decision for her future. Her options are to stay with her grandparents and the love of her life, Adam, or to move on and avoid the pain of living without her mother, father, and little brother.
- Link for more information: HERE
- Link for download the book for free: HERE
- Link for more information about the movie: HERE
8th suggestion:
- Title of the book:The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Image of the cover: HERE
- Writer of the book:Chbosky Stephen
- Short description: Charlie is a freshman. And while he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. Shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his years yet socially awkward, he is a wallflower, caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it. Charlie is attempting to navigate his way through uncharted territory: the world of first dates and mix-tapes, family dramas and new friends; the world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite. But Charlie can't stay on the sideline forever. Standing on the fringes of life offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a deeply affecting coming-of-age story that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up.
- Link for more information: HERE
- Link for download the book for free: HERE
- Link for more information about the movie: HERE
9th suggestion: