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Dec. 2nd: A book about girl power

12/2/2019

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These girls kick butt!!
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Not If I Save You First

8/20/2019

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Not If I Save You First is a fast-paced thriller.

Maddie and Logan were best friends. It's a natural occurrence when one dad (Logan's) is the president and the other is the head of his security detail (Maddie's). And at 10 years old, there's nothing that can destroy that friendship... except moving to Alaska, six years, and refusing to answer letters. Now, at 16, Logan is sent to Maddie and her dad's shack/cabin as a punishment. Turns out he's going to have to rough it a lot more than even his parents expected because Logan has been kidnapped by a Russian bad guy and Maddie, now, has to save him. If she doesn't kill him first for ghosting her all those years. 


Equal parts action, adventure, survival, Alaskan wilderness, and a bit of romance, is great for 7th-12th grade readers!
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Broken Things

8/5/2019

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At 13 years old, Summer was murdered, and her best friends Brynn and Mia were considered the murderers by their town. The truth, though, was much more complicated than that. The girls were mega fans of a book written decades earlier wherein the protagonist travels to a mystical place called Lovelorn where no one ages. They were obsessed with the book and Lovelorn, especially Summer, who led the way in them writing fanfiction to finish the story, which famously ends mid-sentence. But Summer wasn't the charming, flirtatious girl everyone thought her to be. She withheld her love and friendship from Brynn and Mia when they wouldn't do what she wanted. She toyed with Brynn's emotions as a lesbian, and more. Cut to five years later, and the case is cold and Brynn and Mia see each other for the first time since the fiasco. They set out to find the real murderer, someone they call the Shadow. Will they solve the mystery or will the Shadow get them, too?

Broken Things is very similar in tone to Stranger Things: you feel like someone/something is watching you and you get a tingle up your spine, but when you glance behind yourself, there's no one there. Creepy for sure!
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For the Supernatural Fans

4/9/2019

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For all you Supernatural fans who can't get enough of the flannel-wearing, trenchcoat-sporting, and rugged looks of the Winchester brothers and Cas, I present to you this list of read-alikes from Bustle:
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CW juggernaut Supernatural just aired its 300th episode during its 14th season on television. It goes without saying that this a huge milestone in the world of TV, where hitting syndication (typically 88 episodes, or about four seasons) is all that most programs can ask for. If you're not familiar with the premise, the show stars Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles as the Winchester brothers Sam and Dean — famed hunters of all things ghostly, demonic or otherwise evil — as they fight the bad guys, grapple with their pasts, and gift viewers with arguably one of the greatest family love stories to ever hit TV screens.

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This Cover Sucks

3/6/2019

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Y'all, I'm totally guilty of judging books by their covers. I know, I know, but I can't help it. A pretty cover is much more likely to catch my eye.

And This Story Is a Lie has a very sucky cover. It's awful. Is it supposed to be, like, a cheetah or some other spotted animal? Is it, like, an orange kiwi with little black seeds? Is it supposed to evoke, like, going into warp speed, but toward the sun? idk Looking closely at the actual cover, I guess they're supposed to be fingerprints, but, blech.

BUT IGNORE THE COVER ON THIS ONE, Y'ALL! Because it is so not a sucky story!

It's a thriller featuring a math prodigy who suffers terribly from anxiety. His mom is almost murdered in front of him and his twin sister disappears, and Pete has to get to the bottom of it all. But... the lies. Oh, god. So many lies. And his anxiety is triggering some ~fantastic~ fear responses. :/ But hopefully someone's telling a least a little bit of truth so that Pete can figure it all out? 

Prove the cover wrong and read this un-put-down-able not-sucky story!
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Welcome to Night Vale

1/12/2019

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Are you a fan of the long-running podcast Welcome to Night Vale?
If you like conspiracy theories, thinly veiled threats, and radio hosts that you're not sure whether or not you can trust, you should read Sabrina by Nick Drnaso. 

Have a description of it from Amazon:
Conspiracy theories, breakdown, murder: Everything’s gonna be all right―until it isn’t.
When Sabrina disappears, an airman in the U.S. Air Force is drawn into a web of suppositions, wild theories, and outright lies. He reports to work every night in a bare, sterile fortress that serves as no protection from a situation that threatens the sanity of Teddy, his childhood friend and the boyfriend of the missing woman. Sabrina’s grieving sister, Sandra, struggles to fill her days as she waits in purgatory. After a videotape surfaces, we see devastation through a cinematic lens, as true tragedy is distorted when fringe thinkers and conspiracy theorists begin to interpret events to fit their own narratives.
Sabrina depicts a modern world devoid of personal interaction and responsibility, where relationships are stripped of intimacy through glowing computer screens. Presenting an indictment of our modern state, Drnaso contemplates the dangers of a fake-news climate. Timely and articulate, Sabrina leaves you gutted, searching for meaning in the aftermath of disaster.

Find it in the Teen Room: YA GRN Sab
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Dec. 24th: An adventure story

12/24/2018

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With 2019 upon us, I leave you with an exciting adventure story, to take with you on your adventure into 2019. What was your favorite adventure-y read of 2019?
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There and back again: Adventure Tales

2/5/2018

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Aching for an adventure without the discomfort of ground sleeping, troublesome bandits, and tasteless hardtack? Try these adventure stories!
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Even the Darkest Stars by Heather Fawcett - YA F Faw
Kamzin grew up in a village on the edge of her kingdom's habitable land. Beyond are the witches' forest and Raksha, a mountain that is ridiculously tall and ridiculously dangerous to try to climb thanks to its frigid weather. But, Kamzin, an intrepid climber, joins River, the Royal Explorer, on his mission to climb Raksha, where the witches' lost city is rumored to have been. Will Kamzin and River and the rest of the time make it? Or will the biting winds and the biting monsters get them first?


Wild Bird by Wendelin Van Draanen - YA F Van
Wren is bitter. Wren is angry. Wren is pissed. How dare she be shipped off to the Utah wilderness to camp? How dare she be forced to cooperate with her camp-mates in order to survive? This must be child abuse. But, maybe, a tiny voice that sounds like reason whispers, Wren deserves it. I mean, she has been drinking, smoking pot, lying, and stealing. Maybe this is what Wren needs to help turn her life around. I mean, her parents thought it was worth a shot since they are the ones who kindapped her in the middle of the night to send her to wilderness therapy camp.

Merchant of Death by D.J. MacHale - YA F Mac
Bobby Pendragon is a normal 14 year-old boy until his Uncle Press whisks him away through time and space to a new world called Denduron. A new world that is in need of a savior, and, luckily for them, Bobby is to be that savior! Bobby will have to battle strange beings, defeat a magical tyrant, and end a dangerous revolution. Will he be up to the challenge?


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5-Star Reads of 2017

12/31/2017

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Seasons Readings 2017: December 13th

12/13/2017

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City of Saints and Thieves is available for check-out in the Teen Room: YA F And and as an ebook via the Libby app.

What book that you read this year rivals a Michael Bay movie in terms of action?

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