Penguin Loves YA Book Club discussion

Hello book lovers! October is here, and so it's time for our next Penguin Loves YA Book Club pick! This month, we're reading the mysterious and fascinating CONVERSION by Katherine Howe, and we can't wait to try to figure out the mystery alongside you all.

You can purchase a copy of CONVERSION here.

More about CONVERSION:

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane comes a chilling mystery—Prep meets The Crucible.

It’s senior year at St. Joan’s Academy, and school is a pressure cooker. College applications, the battle for valedictorian, deciphering boys’ texts: Through it all, Colleen Rowley and her friends are expected to keep it together. Until they can’t.

First it’s the school’s queen bee, Clara Rutherford, who suddenly falls into uncontrollable tics in the middle of class. Her mystery illness quickly spreads to her closest clique of friends, then more students and symptoms follow: seizures, hair loss, violent coughing fits. St. Joan’s buzzes with rumor; rumor blossoms into full-blown panic.

Soon the media descends on Danvers, Massachusetts, as everyone scrambles to find something, or someone, to blame. Pollution? Stress? Or are the girls faking? Only Colleen—who’s been reading The Crucible for extra credit—comes to realize what nobody else has: Danvers was once Salem Village, where another group of girls suffered from a similarly bizarre epidemic three centuries ago . . .

Inspired by true events—from seventeenth-century colonial life to the halls of a modern-day high school—Conversion casts a spell. With her signature wit and passion, New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe delivers an exciting and suspenseful novel, a chilling mystery that raises the question, what’s really happening to the girls at St. Joan’s?

Our CONVERSION discussion begins Wednesday, October 8th! Schedule:

10/8-10/12: Pages 1-64 (Part 1)
10/13-10/18: Pages 67-157 (Part 2)
10/19-10/25: Pages 159-268 (Part 3)
10/26-10/31: Pages 271- End (Part 4 & Epilogue)

As always, there will be a spoiler thread for those of you who can't wait to talk about the books as a whole while the book club discussion is moving along. Read on!

can't wait to read.