Before you check out for the summer, don’t forget
to check out a great books!
The library staff invites you to check out some books over the summer. We have been building our fiction collection and we hate to see these great books sit on the shelves collecting dust. The summer gives us all a great opportunity to read for pleasure. Consider taking us up on our offer. As an added incentive, we have some chocolate treats for the first 20 of you who find a couple of good books in our collection and tell us that you want to check them out through the summer. We will be sure to change the due date and make those books due on September 1st.
Not sure what to read? Check out the books on display. If you enjoy science fiction, checkout the display on Orson Scott Card and the Nebula and Hugo Award winning books. With the 100th Anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, maybe you want to read about the Titanic or stories about ships, ship exploration, or shipwrecks. Want to read what other teens are reading, take a look at our displays on the top teen reads (look for the palm tree) or the books recommended by the book club.
Some of our Favorites
Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima
Relates the intertwining fates of former street gang leader Han Alister and headstrong Princess Raisa, as Han takes possession of an amulet that once belonged to an evil wizard and Raisa uncovers a conspiracy in the Grey Wolf Court.
Eight by Katherine Neville
Follows the attempts of an eighteenth-century nun and her twentieth-century counterpart, Cat Velis, as they try to track down the invaluable pieces of a chess service once owned by Charlemagne, which is rumored to give great power to the owner of the service--but only if it is complete.
Feed by M. T. Anderson
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
Incareron by Catherine Fisher
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.
Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco Stork
Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.
Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.
Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Kvothe, a legendary hero and villain whom is presumed dead, recounts the story of his life and shares the dark secrets that have shaped his life and forced him to take up a lonely existence in a land of strangers.
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
In this futuristic story, parents have the right to "unwind" their children between the ages of 13 and 18, harvesting their organs for transplant into different donors. After discovering that they are bound to be unwound, Connor, Risa, and Lev band together in a harrowing cross-country journey, knowing their lives hang in the balance. If they can survive until their eighteenth birthday, they can't be harmed -- but when every piece of them, from their hands to their hearts, are wanted by a world gone mad, eighteen seems far, far away.