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December Teen Advisory Board Meeting
Tuesday, December 10, 5:30 pm
Cynthia B. Fox Community Room, Sharon Public Library
Earn community service hours, discuss more volunteer opportunities, and brainstorm for future teen programs! Also: pizza & chill time with fellow teens.
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Studio Ghibli Saturdays (December 14 & 28, January 11 & 25)
Saturday, December 14, 2:30 pm
Cynthia B. Fox Community Room, Sharon Public Library
Enjoy a Studio Ghibli film on the big screen, munch popcorn, and create a themed button based on the movie!
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Blood Heir
by Amélie Wen Zhao
Spending her life within the palace walls to hide her forbidden blood Affinity, crown princess Ana flees for her life when she is accused of her emperor father’s murder and forges a tentative alliance with a cunning crime lord to outmaneuver a powerful conspiracy. A first novel.
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Our Wayward Fate
by Gloria Chao
Forging a bond with the only other Taiwanese kid in her school, 17-year-old Oli Chu finds a sense of belonging and the courage to push back against discrimination before her mother’s disapproval of the relationship reveals astonishing family secrets.
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Eight Will Fall
by Sarah Harian
Sent on a mission to rid their kingdom of monsters, a girl from a world where magic is illegal leads a band of magical outlaws into an underground world of unspeakable horrors before discovering that their team was never meant to survive. Simultaneous eBook.
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All-American Muslim girl
by Nadine Jolie Courtney
A nonpracticing Muslim-American teen, the daughter of a famous conservative shock jock, witnesses acts of Islamophobia in her small town that prompts her courageous study and embrace of her faith. By the author of Romancing the Throne.
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Light it up
by Kekla Magoon
A follow-up to the award-winning How It Went Down finds the community of Underhill thrown into upheaval by the police shooting of an unarmed 13-year-old girl, a mistake that triggers clashes between justice-seeking protestors and white-supremacist demonstrators.
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The beckoning shadow
by Katharyn Blair
A teen with dangerous and addictive special powers seeks redemption by competing in a high-risk tournament that guarantees the winner a chance to undo the past. A first novel.
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Picture Us in the Light
by Kelly Loy Gilbert
Starring: high school senior and second-generation immigrant Danny Cheng, whose excitement about his art-school scholarship dims as his parents begin acting strangely and his tight-knit friend group implodes.
Why you might like it: If you enjoy character-driven reads, you'll be drawn to snarky, sympathetic Danny and his attempts to deal with grief, guilt, identity, family secrets, and love (romantic and otherwise).
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Shadow state
by Elyse Brayden
A depressed science student begins experiencing flashbacks of being abducted and brainwashed, an event tied to a weaponized new drug that is being used by terrorists to control people's memories.
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| The Light Between Worlds by Laura E. WeymouthStarring: siblings Evelyn, Philippa, and Jamie, who are transported from World War II London to the magical Woodlands, where they have years of adventures before they’re returned to London as if they’d never been gone.
What happens: Philippa and Jamie move on, but heartbroken Evelyn won’t stop searching for a way back to the Woodlands.
Try this next: If you’re fascinated by the poignant aftermath of travel between worlds, you might also want to try Seanan McGuire’s Every Heart a Doorway. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 14 and up!
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