Teen Scene - Reading for Fun!

You might use:

• Book reviews in your favorite magazine
• Displays in a bookstore or library
• Books that got media attention
• Celebrity picks
• Booklists of great reading for teens made by librarians or teachers
• Personal recommendations
• "Must-reads" shared among your friends
• Following fads of what "everybody" is reading

(From the Young Adult Services Association, a division of the American Library Association.)

Stop in to see all the new titles available at the library! We have been busy purchasing lots of new hardbacks and paperbacks for you. Watch for lots of new manga and graphic novels we're adding to the collection too.

Here are a few titles to get you started...

• Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys by Kate Brian
  When sixteen-year-old Megan decides not to travel to Korea with her parents for their military tour, she moves in with the McGowans. She was not expecting to be the only girl among seven boys, a learning adventure in itself.
• Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
  After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.
• Crunch Time by Mariah Fredericks
  Four students who have formed a study group to prepare for the SAT exam sustain each other through the emotional highs abd lows of their junior year in high school.
• Secrets of my Hollywood Life by Jen Calonita.
  Kaitlin Burke, co-star of one of the hottest shows on TV, is ready to abandon the glitz and glamour of fame in favor of an ordinary life, so she decides to spend a few months undercover as a typical high school student.
• My Name is Chloe by Melody Carlson
  An intelligent but insecure fifteen-year-old aspiring musician, who sports off-beat clothes, spiked hair and multiple piercings, questions the existence of God until she meets Him head-on in a graveyard.