Category Archives: Teens

Library Board & Town of Irondequoit Announce Plan For Central Library

This morning in the Broderick Room of the Irondequoit Town Hall, the Library Board of Trustees and the Irondequoit Town Board proposed a plan to build a new central library on the Town Hall campus. A bond referendum will be held in Spring 2013. In addition, a fundraising campaign will begin today to help cover […]

New Teen Books – Week of Nov 5th

Frost, Wendy Delsol (Sequel to Stork) After her boyfriend Jack conjures up a record-breaking snow storm, sixteen-year-old Kat LeBlanc finds herself facing an unusual rival in the form of an environmental researcher from Greenland who is drawn to their small town of Norse Falls, Minnesota, by the storm. The Hunt for Dark Infinity (The 13th […]

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New Teen Books – Week of Oct 22nd

, Matthew Quick Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school’s varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private […]

2012 Teens’ Top Ten Announced

Teens all over the country have voted and ! The top ten were selected from a list of 24 nominations. Here is the list of the Teens’ Top Ten books for 2012. Divergent, Veronica Roth – In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the […]

Lots of New Teen Books This Week!

Here’s a look at some of the newest teen books received this week: , Margo Lanagan On remote Rollrock Island, men go to sea to make their livings–and to catch their wives. The witch Misskaella knows the way of drawing a girl from the heart of a seal, of luring the beauty out of the […]

New Teen Books – Week of Sept 26th

Awaken, Katie Kacvinsky In the year 2060, when people hardly ever leave the security of their houses and instead do everything online, Madeline Freeman, the seventeen-year-old daughter of the man who created the national digital school attended by all citizens, is wooed by a group of radicals who are trying to get people to “unplug.” […]

Overdrive App Now Available for Nook

Barnes and Noble has added an to their Nook App Store. So if you’re a Nook user, you can now download ebooks and e-audiobooks directly to your Nook Tablet or Nook Color. Check out the library’s Overdrive Catalog today!

New Teen Books – Week of Aug 27th

, Angela Johnson After a terrible accident, Scotty feels responsible for the death of someone she hardly knew and struggles with her own reality while her friends and family deal with their own troubles, but the prospect of a boy and a dance add positive possibility back into Scotty’s life. The Dragons of Winter (The […]

New Teen Books- Week of August 20th

, Rebecca Rupp After the death of his older brother, Daniel Anderson became engrossed in recording details about dead people, how they died, and whether their deaths mattered but he is eventually drawn back into interaction with the living. Carter’s Unfocused, One-Track Mind, Brent Crawford Fifteen-year-old Will Carter’s sophomore year at Merrian High presents new […]