Our teen book spotlight this week is all about Tales of Summer Adventures!!! The titles for this week are to help you get ready to kick off your summer adventures as well as to jump start our Summer Reading Program! All of these stories take place during the summer months but each are unique in their adventures. Some of our characters are away at various camps having traditional summer adventures while others are trying to figure out who they are and what they want out of life or reminiscing on how their past summer has just changed them forever. We have mysteries, thrillers, realistic, romantic, historical and more so there is something for everyone to kick off their summer adventures and reading. These books and more can be found by searching the catalog using the search tag #yasummervacay 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!!
When the Stars Lead To You by Ronni Davis--After Ashton broke Devon's heart, she focused on preparing for her future as an astrophysicist but Ashton's appearance on the first day of her senior year forces her to revisit their magical summer together.
Love, Life, and the List by Kasie West--When Abby is told that her painting has "no heart," she makes a list of things she's never done before to enhance her creativity. She's also hoping that her best friend Cooper will realize that he feels the same way about her as she does about him.
Camp So and So by Mary McCoy--When 25 girls arrive at Camp So-And-So, they expect a week of crafts, hiking, and games. Instead, the girls become trapped in the wilderness, with no responsible adults to help them, and with a psychotic killer on the loose. With twists and turns galore, readers will find themselves on the edge of their seats with each turn of the page.
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart--Cadence Sinclaire Eastman, along with her cousins Mirren and Johnny, and her aunt's longtime boyfriend's nephew Gat Patil, are the Liars. They are the third generation growing up in the privileged family of Harris Sinclaire, the grandfather from whom all the wealth comes, including Beechwood island off the coast of Cape Cod. It is Cadence's 17th summer on the isle, and she has just returned after two years of recovering from an accident which left her with chronic migraines and memory loss. Which is just as well, because her family refuses to talk about her accident, and the secret that Cadence slowly remembers throughout the course of “summer 17” on Beechwood is horrific.
The Big Game of Everything by Chris Lynch--While Jock and his family spend the summer working at his grandfather's golf complex, they all learn the true nature of family and what it means to love your family even when you think you don't.
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon--When Dimple Shah and Rishi Patel meet at a Stanford University summer program, Dimple is avoiding her parents' obsession with "marriage prospects" but Rishi hopes to woo her into accepting arranged marriage with him.