Merideth’s

Favorite Books(or, at least some of them!)

“And if my choice is

to sit graciously in

my best robes and

accept the

inevitable or to bail

a sea with a

bucket, give me the

bucket.”

Chalice by

Robin McKinley

https://www.youtube.co

m/watch?v=sjqA9TYtIQE

“It's like being in

love, discovering

your best friend.”

Code Name Verity

by Elizabeth Wein

Book Trailer

"I'm in love with you, and I'm

not in the business of

denying myself the simple

pleasure of saying true

things. I'm in love with you,

and I know that love is just a

shout into the void, and

that oblivion is inevitable,

and that we're all doomed

and that there will come a

day when all our labor has

been returned to dust, and

I know the sun will swallow

the only earth we'll ever

have, and I am in love with

you.”

The Fault in Our Stars

by John Green

“Some people had

too much power and

too much cruelty to

live. Some people

were too horrible, no

matter if you loved

them; no matter that

you had to make

yourself terrible too, in

order to stop them.

Some things just had

to be done.”

Fire by Kristin Cashore

“I know what you're

thinking - that

anybody with proper

sensitive feelings

would rather scrub

floors for a living. But I

should scrub floors very

badly, and I write

detective stories rather

well. I don't see why

proper feelings should

prevent me from

doing my proper job.”

Gaudy Night by

Dorothy L. Sayers

“Grown-ups don't look

like grown-ups on the

inside either. Outside,

they're big and

thoughtless and they

always know what

they're doing. Inside,

they look just like they

always have. Like they did when they were your

age. Truth is, there aren't

any grown-ups. Not one,

in the whole wide world.”

The Ocean at the

End of the Lane by

Neil Gaiman

“She wasn't

interested in telling

other people's

futures. She was

interested in going

out and finding her

own.”

The Raven Boys by

Maggie Stiefvater.

Book Trailer

“The Lower City is MINE,

its people are MINE.

If I find them that's

doing all this

kidnapping

and murdering, they'd

best pray for mercy,

because once I get my

teeth in 'em

I will NEVER let them

go.”

Terrier by Tamora

Pierce

Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia by Greg

Rucka and J.G. Jones

mjenson-benjamin@glendaleaz.com

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Merideth has been working in

libraries since 1990, most of

them as a Teen Librarian. She

is the author of Library

Collections for Teens: Graphic

Novels and Manga from VOYA

Press. She is currently the

administrative librarian for

public service at the Main

Library in Glendale, Arizona.

When not trapped in meetings

or buried in schedules, she

enjoys crocheting, comics,

embarrassing her teen

daughter, skinny British actors

and YA fiction.

Merideth Jenson-Benjamin