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Teen Scene April 2019 “I want to inform them that I am not silentbecause I have nothing to say.I am silentbecause nobody is listening.” ― Kelsey Sutton, The Lonely Ones
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True believer
by Virginia Euwer Wolff
Fiction. Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn learns from friends and inspiring mentors that life is what you make it.
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The lonely ones
by Kelsey Sutton
Fiction. Left alone by her busy parents, disinterested siblings and bullying peers, young Fain escapes into fantastical writing adventures that take her away from disappointing potential friendships, in a tale told through intricate and visual verses.
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This impossible light : a novel
by Lily Myers
Fiction. The YouTube slam poetry star of Shrinking Women presents a novel in verse centering around the challenges of body image, tracing the experiences of a teen who develops bulimia in her effort to find purpose, control and confidence in response to her family's dysfunction and a best friend's estrangement.
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To be perfectly honest : a novel based on an untrue story
by Sonya Sones
Fiction. Fifteen-year-old Colette is a compulsive liar spending a miserable summer in San Luis Obispo, California, babysitting her 7-year-old brother while her famous mother shoots a movie, but things look up when a sexy biker named Connor enters the scene.
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Skyscraping
by Cordelia Jensen
Fiction. After discovering that her father is gay, Mira's illusions about her family are shattered, causing her to distance herself from her friends and forcing her to endure greater challenges when she learns that her father is also HIV-positive.
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Which is better: Book or Movie?
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The 5th wave
by Richard Yancey
Science Fiction. Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.
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The 5th wave (Dvd) Starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Alex Roe and Nick Robinson. Rated PG-13.
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Beastly
by Alex Flinn
Fantasy. Having been the most popular guy at school with the meanest and most egotistical attitude, Kyle Kingsbury is punished by a witch and turned into a beast who now must find his true love and make her accept him as he is in order to break the curse and return him to being the man he once was.
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Beastly (Dvd) Starring Vanessa Hudgens and Alex Pettyfer. Rated PG-13.
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The mortal instruments: City of Bones
by Cassandra Clare
Fantasy. When Clary Fray can suddenly see demons and the Shadowhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, she is drawn into the war between them and discovers some truths about her family.
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The mortal instruments: city of bones (Dvd) Starring Jamie Campbell Bower and Lily Collins. Rated PG-13.
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Stormbreaker
by Anthony Horowitz
Fiction. After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
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Alex Rider :Operation Stormbreaker (Dvd) Starring Alex Pettyfer. Rated PG.
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Vampire Academy
by Richelle Mead
Fantasy. Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots.
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Vampire Academy (Dvd) Starring Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry and Danila Kozlovsky. Rated PG-13.
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Teen Craft: Spring Break Tissue Paper Flowers April 18 @ 2:30-3:30 p.m. Reservations begin April 1
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House with a clock in its walls
After losing his parents, Lewis Barnavelt goes to live with his uncle Jonathan and discovers that not only is his uncle a warlock, but they must find a clock hidden in the house by an evil wizard that is counting down to the end of the world. (Rated PG
Saturday, April 6 @ 12:30-2:15 p.m. in the Teen Center
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Goosebumps
New in town, Zach Cooper meets the beautiful girl next door and discovers that her father is R.L. Stine, who exhibits bizarre behavior because the monsters he writes about are real and he protects his readers by keeping them locked up in their books. (Rated PG)
Saturday, April 27 @ 12:30-2:15 p.m. in the Teen Center
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