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Second Saturdays Teen Event
Saturday, June 10, 6:00 pm
Bedford Public Library
Ahoy, maties! Join us for a Pirate Treasure Hunt: Follow the clues & ye just might be rewarded with a treasure o' gold! Snacks & drinks will be provided. Ages 12-18. Pirate costumes are highly encouraged!
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| Flame in the Mist by Renée AhdiehHistorical Adventure. Samurai's daughter Hattori Mariko is smart and accomplished, but has no future outside of a politically savvy marriage. While traveling to meet her intended husband, she's attacked by the Black Clan, an infamous gang of thieves who leave her nearly dead…but with a new opportunity. Disguising herself as a boy, Mariko infiltrates the Black Clan to discover who they are and why they marked her for death. Set in a fantasy-tinged feudal Japan, this 1st book in a duology has all the sumptuous world-building and smoldering romance that you'd expect from the popular author of The Wrath & the Dawn. |
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| The Names They Gave Us by Emery LordFiction. Calm, responsible Lucy Hansson is mad. Her summer plans have been destroyed by an avalanche of bad news: her boyfriend wants to "pause" their relationship, she's got to work at the weird camp for troubled kids instead of at her family's familiar Bible camp, and her mom's long-dormant cancer has returned. Angry and questioning her faith, Lucy tries to adjust, but even as her new camp helps her to redefine acceptance, she uncovers secrets about her family that challenge her understanding. If you love the heartfelt and realistically messy drama of books by Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han, you won't want to miss The Names They Gave Us.
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| Windfall by Jennifer E. SmithFiction. The lottery ticket is meant as a joke birthday gift from Alice to her best friend (and secret crush) Teddy. They've both been through some tough times -- Alice was orphaned at age nine and now lives with her aunt and uncle, while Teddy's gambling father bankrupted his family before abandoning them -- so it feels almost impossibly lucky when Teddy wins $140 million. At first, it seems like their troubles might be over, but soon Teddy starts changing in unexpected ways. Good fortune is a lot more complicated than it looks in this thoughtful, romantic coming-of-age story. |
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You Don't Know My Name
by Kristen Orlando
Raised to be an elite spy, 17-year-old Reagan must choose whether she will honor her family's legacy by using her incredible talents to lead a dangerous life, or throw it all away to pursue a normal relationship with the boy she loves. A first novel and chosen to be the first Swoon Reads hardcover. Simultaneous eBook.
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Freeks
by Amanda Hocking
Relegated to cage-cleaning duty while her friends perform supernatural feats every night with their struggling traveling carnival, Mara anticipates a much-desired normal life when the show is offered a permanent home before performers begin disappearing. By the best-selling author of the Trylle trilogy. Simultaneous eBook.
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Fat boy vs the cheerleaders
by Geoff Herbach
A follow-up to Stupid Fast finds plus-sized outcast Gabe confronting the high school cheerleading team when they take control of the school's soda machine funds that were previously collected by the pep band.
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Divided we fall
by Trent Reedy
Fulfilling a dream of serving his country by enrolling in the National Guard, Danny Wright misfires during a crowd-control mission in Boise, triggering a maelstrom that slowly escalates toward a second American civil war
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Uncaged
by John Sandford
Searching for her reckless hacker brother in Hollywood despite scant resources, 16-year-old Shay receives a frantic call from him only to learn that they are both being targeted by a ruthless research company that is conducting unspeakable experiments. Simultaneous eBook.
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The doubt factory
by Paolo Bacigalupi
When a radical band of teen activists claim that Alix's powerful father covers up corporate wrongdoing that knowingly allows innocent victims to die in order to make enormous profits from unsafe products, she must decide if she will blow the whistle on his misdeeds. Simultaneous eBook. 50,000 first printing.
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The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
Fiction. Sixteen-year-old Starr walks an uneasy line, with one foot in her poor, mostly-black neighborhood and the other in her rich, mostly-white school. After Starr sees her friend Khalil gunned down by a white cop, however, that line is obliterated. Amid the uproar, Starr knows she should speak out, but the pressure she's under from all sides makes it difficult -- and dangerous -- to raise her voice. With a movie already in the works, this "powerful, in-your-face novel" (Horn Book Magazine) is one of the year's most talked-about books. For further fiction about the personal cost of racial injustice, try All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Bedford Public Library
2424 Forest Ridge Dr.
Bedford, Texas 76021
817-952-2350
www.bedfordlibrary.org
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