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Explode Your Holds List with More Speculative Fiction!

We have some more new speculative fiction for you to enjoy this summer: Places No One Knows by Brenna YovanoffWaverly Camdenmar, an overachiever in every way, seems perfect, yet perfection is exhausting. She has not slept in days and then one night she falls asleep and walks into someone else’s life. She dream visits a boy she could never be with […]

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Wild About Reading: Coloring Pages

Check out some of the awesome fan art and coloring pages that have been submitted by your fellow teens this summer! Want to add some art of your own? Submit a picture of your fan art or coloring sheet. (Coloring sheets can be found at the Adult Services Desk or in the Young Adult section at the Harnish Main Library and […]

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SYNC Audiobooks: Week 9

This summer, SYNC will be providing two free teen audiobooks each week from May 5th to August 11th. Each week will focus on a specific theme, pairing a classic YA title with a more modern YA title. This week starts Thursday, June 30th with The Omnivore’s Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat, Young Readers Edition by Michael Pollan and Grasshopper Jungle by […]

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Review: The Help

The Help by Kathryn Stockett takes place in Jackson, Mississippi in 1692. The main focus of the book is to expose the injustice and discrimination that maids, or “the help,” have to deal with every day when they work for white women. The story is told from three different points of view. The first point of view comes from Skeeter, […]

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Explode Your Holds List with More Realistic Fiction!

We have even more new realistic fiction for you to read this summer: A Hundred Hours of Night by Anna WoltzNew York steals Emilia’s heart at first sight — even though absolutely nothing goes to plan. She didn’t plan to end up homeless on a stranger’s doorstep. She didn’t plan to make friends with Seth, Abby, and Jim. And she could […]

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Review: Thirteen Reasons Why

The entire book of Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher takes place throughout the course of one day. The main character, Clay, receives a package with thirteen cassette tapes inside. The tapes are from Hannah, a girl that committed suicide at Clay’s school. Each tape explains a reason why she decided to end her life, and there is a list of people […]

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SYNC Audiobooks: Week 8

This summer, SYNC will be providing two free teen audiobooks each week from May 5th to August 11th. Each week will focus on a specific theme, pairing a classic YA title with a more modern YA title. This week starts Thursday, June 23rd with Donny’s Brain by by Rona Munro and Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan. These two titles […]

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Review: A Game of Thrones

A Game of Thrones is a book that has a lot of different things going on at once. It takes place in a time where the warm years of summer are ending and a harsh, cold winter is coming. There are unknown creatures causing destruction outside the northern walls of the kingdom, and no one knows how to stop them. […]

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Explode Your Holds List with New Summer Romance!

Looking for some stories about love, heartbreak, and romance this summer? We have some great new books for you: Love, Lies and Spies by Cindy AnsteyIn the early 1800s, when her father sends her to London for a season, eighteen-year-old Juliana Telford, who prefers researching ladybugs to marriage, meets handsome Spencer Northam, a spy posing as a young gentleman of leisure.

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SYNC Audiobooks: Week 7

This summer, SYNC will be providing two free teen audiobooks each week from May 5th to August 11th. Each week will focus on a specific theme, pairing a classic YA title with a more modern YA title. This week starts Thursday, June 16th with How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon and The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James […]