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Teen SceneApril 2015 “Solitary muttering allows you to say all those things you don't have the courage to say to all those people who are driving you nuts.” ― Suzanne Selfors, Saving Juliet |
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New and Recently Released!
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Shutter
by Courtney Alameda
Horror. Seventeen-year-old Micheline Helsing is a tetrachromat, able to see ghosts in color and capture them on film, but when a routine hunt goes awry, Micheline is infected with a curse known as a soulchain and if she is unable to exorcise the entity in seven days, she will be destroyed, body and soul.
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Winterkill
by Kate A. Boorman
Fantasy. Living in an isolated winter settlement where an enemy prevents people from leaving, Emmeline considers a marriage proposal that could restore her family's honor only to discover a dangerous secret.
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Dove arising
by Karen Bao
Science Fiction. Preferring a life of obscurity on a lunar colony in the years after her father's fatal accident, greenhouse cultivator Phaet Theta is forced to join the Militia in order to protect her younger siblings and befriends fellow outsider Wes before her plans are thwarted by dangerous adversaries.
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The last time we say goodbye
by Cynthia Hand
Forced to confront locked-away feelings about her brother's suicide after estranging herself from her friends and family, Lex faces unexpected challenges in her efforts to heal and move on. By the best-selling author of the Unearthly trilogy.
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There will be lies
by Nick Lake
Stolen by her mother from an Arizona hospital after a car accident and taken on a winding road trip toward the Grand Canyon without explanation, Shelby is forced to confront unknown dangers from her past. By the award-winning author of In Darkness.
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English playwright William Shakespeare was born April 1564 and died in April 1616. Since many of Shakespeare's plays were based on earlier stories from history and legend, it's only fitting to celebrate the Bard with a list of books inspired by his own life and work.
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Prince of Shadows : a novel of Romeo and Juliet
by Rachel Caine
Historical Fitction. A dramatic retelling of the Shakespearean love story by the best-selling author of the Morganville Vampires series is written from the viewpoint of Romeo's cousin, Benvolio, who hides a secret identity as a master thief and unleashes a terrible curse after encountering a convent-bound Rosaline.
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The chosen prince
by Diane Stanley
Fantasy. The author of The Silver Bowl presents a tale inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest that follows the experiences of two princes, a mysterious girl and a goddess who has chosen them to save a kingdom.
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Lady Macbeth's daughter
by Lisa M. Klein
Ambitious Lady Macbeth tries to win the throne of Scotland for her husband while her banished daughter Albia, who was raised by three weird sisters, falls in love, learns of her parentage, and seeks to free Scotland from tyranny
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Saving Juliet
by Suzanne Selfors
Fiction. When Mimi Wallingford, the great-granddaughter of a legendary stage actress, is transported into Shakepeare's Verona, she experiences the feud between the Capulets and Montagues firsthand and is determined to give this famous tragedy a happily-ever-after ending.
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Showing in the Teen Center During Spring Break
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier
As Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world, he battles a new adversary, the Soviet agent known as the Winter Soldier.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
12:30-2:45 pm
Rated PG-13
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Divergent
In a society that has organized itself into five factions, a teenage girl learns that she is a Divergent, and when she chooses to join a warring faction she discovers that her personality type is seen as a danger to other factions.
Thursday, April 9, 2015
12:30-2:45 pm
Rated PG-13
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Saturday Matinées in the Teen Center
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Maleficent
When the fairy Maleficent is stripped of her wings by a man who becomes king, Maleficent curses his infant princess daughter Aurora, only to realize that Aurora may be the one person to reunite the human and fairy worlds.
Saturday, April 11, 2015
12:30-2:00 pm
Rated PG
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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