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Program Line-Up WEEK ONE: April 5 - 10th - Dyeing with Botanicals
- Teen Author Conversation with Maya Sharma and Isabella Souza
- Original Character Design, parts 1 and 2
- Blackout Poetry with Kaitlyn and Tamara
- Fun and Games with the Parkland Teen Council
- Tea Blends with SandraRosa
- Trivia! with the Summit Teen Council
WEEK TWO: April 12 - 16th - Movie Viewing Party: Teenagers from Outer Space
- Craft Hour with Katie
- Improv Games with the UP Teen Council
- WANDERSTAR: a Space Western Murder Mystery Game
- Discord Art Jam with Kit
- Poetry Reading with Kelsey
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April News - Help Needed: Name the New Teen Zine
- Program Update: Discord
- Service Update: Tech Services
- Featured Resource: Sync free audiobooks
- Booklists
- Reminder: Spring Into Reading
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Discord Continues!
The Our Own Expressions Discord server is now an all-the-time server! We share events, opportunities, and resources. Share your art and writing and love for all things fandom! Join a teen art community online. Ask for help with school and homework and life. Join a Teen Council to plan events, share your ideas and opinions, and earn community service hours. Library staff are logged on and active. Ask us anything! If you haven't already, join the server at Introduce yourself and be added to all channels. And check out our Spring Break pop-up events. When you're online and we're online, we'll hang out, play games, make art. See you there! |
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SYNC RETURNS
Sync returns April 29th for two free audiobook downloads a week through August 4! For alerts about title releases: Text syncya to 866-984-0598 |
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Find booklists by grade level on our website Check out these booklists below, available to download - Recent Releases
- For Fans of Leigh Bardugo
Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Voices in YA Poetry and Novels in Verse
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| The Electric Kingdom by David ArnoldWelcome to: the near-future United States, where the deadly Fly Flu has wiped out most of the population.
What happens: 18-year-old Nico and 12-year-old Kit are forced together as they search for a better life.
Why you might like it: While it has strong world-building as dystopian fiction fans might hope, The Electric Kingdom is also complex and slow-burning with well-developed characters. |
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| Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline BoulleyStarring: Daunis Fontaine, an 18-year-old girl who has roots in the local Ojibwe reservation and in a long line of French fur traders. Daunis is brave, imperfect, and curious as she digs for information about the mysterious person selling meth to members of her community.
Why you should read it: Without shying away from complex topics like grief, citizenship, drugs, and identity, author Angeline Boulley creates a thoughtful and layered thriller. |
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| Can't Stop Won't Stop: A Hip-Hop History by Jeff Chang and Dave "Davey D" CookWhat it is: a history of hip-hop -- and so much more. This book is an updated and retooled version of a 2005 book by the same name.
Why it matters: Hip-hop has been a defining cultural movement for more than 50 years, up to and including its role in the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests. This engaging book traces that movement and illustrates the social and political influence of hip-hop through the ages. |
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| Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal MaldonadoWhat it's about: Classic rom-com tropes get an update in this story about a young woman trying to balance many identities, friendship, her mother’s body-shaming, and first love.
Why you might like it: Anyone who’s ever struggled with feeling different will relate to Charlie Vega’s life as a fat brown girl in a white Connecticut town.
Who it's for: Author Crystal Maldonado says this book is “for all who are still learning to be kind to themselves, for those who dream.” |
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| Like Home by Louisa OnoméStarring: 16-year-old Chinelo “Nelo” Agu and Kate Tran, two best friends on a mission to save their neighborhood from gentrification and find their places in the world.
For fans of: If you like books by Angie Thomas and Elizabeth Acevedo, you’ll enjoy this inclusive coming-of-age story centered on friendship, community, and what it means to call a place “home.” |
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| The Silvered Serpents by Roshani ChokshiWhat it’s about: Secrets. Murder. Romance. An ancient artifact and a crew of criminals with dark and twisty links to one another.
Why you might like it: Though this sequel to The Gilded Wolves focuses primarily on one protagonist, he is surrounded by a diverse cast of characters that each bring something unique to the table. |
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| A Shadow Bright and Burning by Jessica CluessWhat it's about: Henrietta Howel is invited to train as a sorcerer in a magical, monster-ridden, alternative version of Victorian London -- with all the glamor and secrets that entails.
Reviewers say: This fantastical novel “is a marvelous mash-up of Dickens, the students-with-magical-powers genre, and alt-history” (Booklist).
Series alert: Don't miss the sequel, A Poison Dark and Drowning. |
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| Courting Darkness by Robin LaFeversWhat it is: the 2nd in a new series set in the same 15th-century universe as His Fair Assassin. This time, the perspective alternates between that of Sybella and Genevieve, two trained assassins working from within the French court.
Why you might like it: Both Sybella and Genevieve are icons of strength who struggle to make choices, and to ultimately understand themselves. |
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| The Crown's Game by Evelyn SkyeIntroducing: Vika Andreyeva and Nikolai Karimov, two sorcerers dueling to win the coveted role of Imperial Enchanter in their native Russia.
The twist: Whoever wins the duel becomes Imperial Enchanter. Whoever loses is sentenced to death.
Read it for: action-packed, operatic fiction, a shocking climax, and maybe a little romance. |
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| Strange the Dreamer by Laini TaylorWelcome to: a world where cities lose their names, where a quiet librarian can become a hero, and where the aftermath of war masks devastating secrets.
What's inside: Laini Taylor’s lush writing, intricate plots, carefully crafted characters, and penchant for star-crossed romance show up in full color in this 1st volume of two, followed by Muse of Nightmares. |
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Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Voices in YA
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The tiger at midnight
by Swati Teerdhala
A first entry in a planned trilogy inspired by South Indian culture follows the efforts of a legendary girl rebel to assassinate a ruthless general in the face of her growing love for her target's loyal but freedom-seeking nephew.
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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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A Thousand Beginnings and Endings
by Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman, editors
What it is: a collection of reimagined myths from diverse Asian cultures.
Featuring: Roshani Chokshi's tale of a lovelorn Filipino mountain spirit; Lori M. Lee's android version of a Hmong folktale; Alyssa Wong's bittersweet take on the Chinese Hungry Ghost Festival; plus stories by Renée Ahdieh, Melissa de la Cruz, Julie Kagawa, and many more.
Who it's for: anyone looking for an authentic, inventive, "own voices" take on Asian mythologies.
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Want
by Cindy Pon
A tale set in a heavily polluted Taipei of the near future follows the efforts of a group of teens to save their city in the face of social divisions that enable the wealthy to secure long, protected lives while the poor suffer illness and early death.
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American Panda
by Gloria Chao
Starring: 17-year-old MIT freshman Mei, whose future has been planned by her traditional Taiwanese parents: medical school, marriage to a Taiwanese guy, babies. With such heavy expectations, how can Mei tell her parents that she hates germs, loves dancing, and might be falling for her Japanese-American classmate?
Why you might like it: It's a funny, even-handed look at a teen girl's struggle to define herself without losing her family.
Read this next: Erika L. Sanchez's I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter or Samira Ahmed's Love, Hate, & Other Filters.
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Poetry and Novels in Verse
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For every one
by Jason Reynolds
An inspirational poem written to the dreamers of the world, which was originally performed at the Kennedy Center for the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, and later as a tribute to Walter Dean Myers.
Watch the video performance here: https://youtu.be/vOHxiN9wsfY
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Punching the air
by Ibi Aanu Zoboi
The award-winning author of American Street and the prison reform activist of the Exonerated Five trace the story of a young artist and poet whose prospects at a diverse art school are threatened by a racially biased system and a tragic altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood.
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Light filters in : poems
by Caroline Kaufman
A collection of poems from the Instagram sensation explores what it means to be human.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 14 and up!
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