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Summer Reading - Summer Reading Magazine
- Teen Take and Make Kits
- Book BINGO booklists
- and more!
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Designed by teens, for teens HUGE shout out to the teen creators of the Summer Reading Magazine who put together art, playlists, prompts, interviews, and more! to pick up your copy and get started with Summer Reading today! |
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While you're here, pick up a Teen Take and Make Kit! Take and Make Kits will be released throughout the summer, while supplies last. Start with a Camp Crafts Kit And check back - we'll be providing new kits every couple weeks throughout the summer, so you'll always find something new. |
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Read to make a BINGO On the back of the Summer Reading Magazine, you'll find a BINGO board for all your summer books and reading. Try something new or revisit your favorites - it all counts! When you complete a BINGO, bring the board to your Pierce County Library to claim - a free book
- collect a button
Challenge yourself! Fill in every square for a BINGO blackout to earn an additional button, while supplies last. |
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Read a book that's gone under the radar |
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Himawari House
by Harmony Becker
When Nao returns to Tokyo to reconnect with her Japanese heritage, she books a yearlong stay at the Himawari sharehouse. There she meets Hyejung and Tina...The trio live together, share meals, and even attend the same Japanese-language school, which results in them becoming fast friends. But will they be able to hold one another up as life tests them with new loves, old heart breaks, and the everyday challenges of being fish out of water?
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The Good Luck Girls
by Charlotte Nicole Davis
Sold as children and branded with cursed markings, five girls trapped in a brutal existence risk a dangerous escape and a harrowing journey to find freedom, justice and revenge in a country of human and inhuman forces that would deny them basic freedoms.
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Black wings beating
by Alex London
Twins Kylee and Brysen must fight for survival in a remote valley called Six Villages as war approaches, she by rejecting her ancient gifts for falconry and Brysen by striving to find greatness.
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Radio Silence
by Alice Oseman
What it's about: While studying for college qualification exams, stressed-out British teens Frances and Aled bond over Aled's notoriously secretive podcast, forming an intense friendship that leads them to question both their shared past and the futures they're supposed to want.
You might also like: Natalie Standiford's How to Say Goodbye in Robot (for another thoughtful look at unconventional friendship) or Kathryn Ormsbee's Tash Hearts Tolstoy (for another take on internet fame featuring an asexual character). Check out the author's popular comic series Heartstopper.
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Seafire
by Natalie C. Parker
What it's about: After losing their families to the brutal warlord Aric Athair, Captain Caledonia Styx and her all-female crew sail the seas in search of vengeance. When her best friend is rescued by one of Athair's soldiers who claims to support their cause, Caledonia has to decide how much she's willing to risk to get her revenge.
Series alert: Filled with high-adrenaline action and a diverse cast of girls, this futuristic seafaring adventure is the 1st in a trilogy.
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Birthday
by Meredith Russo
Born in the same hospital on the same day, Morgan and Eric grow up to become best friends before they drift apart, reunite, fall in love and ultimately discover what fate has in store for them.
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Read something that opens you up to a new perspective
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Everything within and in between
by Nikki Barthelmess
Forbidden by her strict Mexican grandma to learn Spanish, Ri Fernǹdez decides to find her mother in an effort to understand her mixed heritage, but nothing goes as planned, forcing Ri to define who she really is.
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Deeplight
by Frances Hardinge
What it’s about: After scavenging the pulsing, disembodied heart of a monstrous god from the waters hear his home on Lady’s Crave island, storyteller Hark uses the grisly relic to revive his half-drowned friend, Jelt, kicking off a sinister transformation that challenges Hark’s understanding of faith, fear, and friendship.
Reviewers say: “Chilling and provocative, this dark fantasy will appeal to thrill seekers” (Booklist).
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Sawkill Girls
by Claire Legrand
The setting: Sawkill Rock, home to wealthy people, beautiful horses, and a legendary monster that preys on young women.
Featuring: outsider Zoey, who refuses to give up on her missing best friend; newcomer Marion, whose sister just disappeared; and privileged Val, who might be trapped by her family's dark legacy.
Read it for: atmospheric, magic-tinged horror starring diverse teen girls who band together to battle evil.
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Elatsoe
by Darcie Little Badger; illustrated by Rovina Cai
What it's about: In a modern-day U.S. infused with magic, aspiring paranormal investigator Ellie looks into her cousin's murder. Using both her know-how and her ability to wake the ghosts of animals (a power inherited from her Lipan Apache ancestors), Ellie uncovers something truly sinister.
Art alert: Intricate illustrations by Rovina Cai heighten the atmosphere of this suspenseful read.
You might also like: Akwaeke Emezi's Pet, another own voices fantasy that's absolutely outside the box.
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The Girl from the Sea
by Molly Knox Ostertag
On dry land: Morgan Kwon is drowning. She’s closeted and desperate to escape her tiny island and tense home life.
Underwater: Morgan nearly drowns after slipping off a cliff, but Keltie, a shape-shifting selkie, rescues her. Morgan’s kiss bestows Keltie with her human form. With their fates suddenly changed, Morgan and Keltie navigate a relationship buoyed by hope and laden with secrets.
For fans of: Neji’s Beauty and the Beast Girl, Suzanne Walker’s Mooncakes, and other sweet sapphic graphic fantasies.
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Patron Saints of Nothing
by Randy Ribay
What it’s about: Filipino American Jay is shocked and grief-stricken by the murder of his Filipino cousin, Jun -- how could someone like Jun get mixed up in the vigilante violence of President Duterte’s war on drugs? Fed up with his secretive family, Jay travels from the U.S. to the Philippines in search of answers.
Who it’s for: readers in search of gripping family drama and unflinching, own voices insights into Filipino politics and growing up bicultural.
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Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American
by Laura Gao
Meet Yuyang: the carefree 3-year-old living in Wuhan, China, who listens to folktales told by her grandmother and plays outside with her cousins.
Meet Laura: That's Yuyang's new name, given by her mother upon arrival in small-town Texas. Her journey to adulthood blends learning to embrace her roots with discovering her queer identity.
Is it for you? This moving graphic memoir paints a nuanced, emotional portrait of one Asian American experience, including facing racism fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The lost Dreamer
by Lizz Huerta
In an ancient Mesoamerican world, Indir, a Dreamer able to see beyond reality, must carefully guard her secrets from the new king, who plans to see the Dreamers destroyed, while Saya, a seer, risks everything to find the truth about her gifts.
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A magic steeped in poison
by Judy I. Lin
To save her sisters life, Ning, a young tea-maker, enters a competition to win a favor from the princess, but soon finds herself the one in danger when she is faced with backstabbing competitors, bloody court politics and a mysterious boy with a shocking secret.
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Cold the night, fast the wolves : a novel
by Meg Long
Meg Long's Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves is a captivating debut about survival, found family, and the bond between a girl and a wolf that delivers a fresh twist on classic survival stories and frontier myths. On a frozen wasteland of a planet, a girl is on the run with a wolf who is born to be a killer but bound to be her guide. As they fight to escape ice goblins, giant bears, and a ruthless leader intent on trapping them both, one question drives them relentlessly forward: where do you turn when there is nowhere to hide?
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Hotel Magnifique
by Emily J. Taylor
While working at the legendary Hotel Magnifique, sisters Jani and Zosa discover a darkness under its glittering facade as they fall victim to the cruelty of the ruthless maitre d'hotel and must unravel the mystery of the hotels magic to survive.
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Burn down, rise up
by Vincent Tirado
When an urban legend rumored to trap people inside subway tunnels seems to be behind mysterious disappearances in the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Raquel and her friends team up to save their city--and confront a dark episode in its history in the process
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Contact your librarian for more great books for age 14 and up!
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