The Ides of March is approaching… Find out what hysterical, tragic, romantic, and devious twists await Shakespeare’s characters. Stop by the Main Library and check out the Young Adult Room Display highlighting some of the Bard’s famous works. Happy Reading!
Teen Reads
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Valentine’s Day is around the corner… This February treat yourself to something unexpected! Take a chance, and check out a book from the Main Library’s Teen Room “Blind Date with a Book” display. Happy reading everyone!
This week’s staff pick is Under the Bridge by Michael B. Harmon. Wearing a police wire, a skateboarding street boy confronts the drug dealer who threatens to kill his brother. A fast-paced and highly charged novel capturing the enduring bond between brothers and their struggle for survival.
This weeks staff pick is Across the Universe by Beth Revis. It’s a cryogenic nightmare. Amy decided to leave everything behind her and join her parents as a member of Project Ark Ship. The plan was to travel on the spaceship Godspeed cryogenically frozen to a new planet. The journey […]
This week’s staff pick is Carnival of Souls by Melissa Marr. A centuries-long war between daimons and witches sets the stage for three teens caught up in a deadly struggle for power and autonomy. In a city of daimons, rigid class lines separate the powerful from the power-hungry. And at […]
This week’s staff pick is Shelter (Mickey Bolitar series, book I) by Harlan Coben. After tragic events tear Mickey Bolitar away from his parents and former life, he is forced to change schools and live with his estranged uncle Myron. As time goes on he meets a great girl named […]
This week’s staff pick is Divergent by Veronica Roth. In a future dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue. On an appointed day of the year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest […]
This week’s staff pick is Every Day by David Levithan. Can you truly love someone who is destined to change every day? There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. Every morning A wakes in a different person’s body, in a different person’s life. […]
This week’s staff pick is The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater. Some race to win. Others race to survive! Each October on the island of Thisby, the capaill uisce, or water horses, emerge from the sea. Predatory meat-eaters, they endanger the islanders—but they are also fast, far faster than land […]
This week’s staff pick is The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. This is a story about what it’s like to travel that strange course through the uncharted territory of high school. The world of first dates, family dramas, and new friends; of sex, drugs, and the rocky […]