Our teen book spotlight this week is all about Tales Into Movies!! We are taking a look at some books that were the inspiration for various movies and TV shows that have been made either recently or in the past and you may not have even known that they were from a book! There are some people who love to read the book first and then see the movie or vice versa so feel free to read these in any order you prefer and then compare the source material to the visual. We have an awesome selection of romantic, realistic, science fiction, humorous, and even a beauty pageant. These books and more can be found by searching the catalog using the search tag #youthbooktomovie as well as on Libby and Hoopla.
The 2021 Summer Reading Program takes place from June 5th-August 11th with a new theme and badge activities every week. Make sure to watch the Teen Book Spotlight book talk video for this week as it counts towards your badge activities for the week; if you read one of the titles featured or on the tagged list, that counts as another activity as well!!! Earn the weekly themed badges to get your virtual tickets which can be turned into opportunities to win prizes! For more information--such as to sign up or to sign in to your account in order to track your books and activities--visit our Summer Reading page and click “LOG IN NOW”.
Check back next week for a new teen book spotlight and if you have any book suggestions, please let us know!!
The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon--Natasha wakes up with one goal—to prevent the deportation of her family back to Jamaica. And she only has 12 hours to do it. Daniel is a poet, torn between the life he wants and the life his Korean family expects of him as he makes his way toward an interview that will secure his place in an Ivy League medical program. When the two meet on the busy streets of NYC, they are both surprised to fall quickly and deeply in love as fate seems to unexpectedly intertwine their lives.
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven--High school senior Theodore Finch thinks about death every day, dreaming up ways he could commit suicide—and each time some small good thing stops him. Senior Violet Markey does not want to kill herself, but after her sister is killed in a car accident, her grief makes her wonder what it would be like to jump off the school's bell tower—which is where Violet and Finch meet. Somehow they save each other from jumping, and Finch makes it his unstated goal to make Violet happy again. They pair up for a school project that takes them to important landmarks in Indiana, and the two slowly begin to fall in love—but not without cost.
Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy--Even though the mother of self-proclaimed “fat-girl” Will is a former Miss Teen Blue Bonnet winner and now runs the pageant, Will has always felt comfortable in her own skin. Despite this, when she falls for a boy she considers out of her league, she's shocked to find that he likes her back. Then Will and a group of other unlikely pageant girls enter the Miss Teen Blue Bonnet contest and shock the entire community and themselves as they set out to prove that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes.
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han--Getting over a crush isn't easy, but 16-year-old Lara Jean Covey has come up with a solution—she writes the objects of her affection love letters, which she stockpiles in a hatbox beneath her bed in order to move on with her life. Imagine Lara Jean's shock when she is approached by two of her former crushes who tell her they have received her letters! It turns out someone has mysteriously mailed these secret missives. Lara Jean has to get to the bottom of it while performing some major damage control—especially since one of the crushes is her older sister's recent ex-boyfriend.
Paper Towns by John Green--One month before graduating from his Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen's neighbor and classmate -- the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman -- takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears. Suicide comes to mind, but when he and his friends begin finding clues about Margo's whereabouts, his mission to find her reveals that perhaps he never really knew who Margo was after all.
The Giver by Lois Lowry--Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.