|
|
The monstrumologist
by Richard Yancey
In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a New Escientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi
|
|
Mockingjay
by Suzanne Collins
Katniss Everdeen's having survived the Hunter games twice makes her a target of the Capitol and President Snow, as well as a hero to the rebels who will succeed only if Katniss is willing to put aside her personal feelings and serve as their pawn
|
|
|
Teenie
by Christopher Grant
Desperately competing for a study abroad program away from her Brooklyn home, high school freshman Martine finds her strict attention to her studies wavering when the basketball captain she likes begins paying attention to her.
|
|
|
|
Blood red road
by Moira Young
In a distant future, Lugh is kidnapped, and while his twin sister Saba and nine-year-old Emmi are trailing him across bleak Sandsea they are captured, too, and taken to brutal Hopetown, where Saba is forced to be a cage fighter
|
|
|
Inside out & back again
by Thanhha Lai
Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama
|
|
Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents and his family that he has never asked before.
|
|
|
Code name Verity
by Elizabeth Wein
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage and great courage as she relates what she must do to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
|
|
|
|
March. Book one
by John Lewis
A first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement
|
|
|
Another little piece
by Kate Karyus Quinn
Having vanished from a party screaming and drenched in blood a year earlier, 17-year-old Annaliese Rose Gordon appears hundreds of miles from home with no memory of what happened to her and a haunting certainty that she is actually another girl trapped in Annaliese's body.
|
|
A time to dance
by Padma Venkatraman
Losing her leg after a devastating injury, talented Indian dancer Veda begins retraining on her prosthetic leg before falling in love with a young man who approaches dance from a spiritual perspective and who helps Veda to better understand herself and the world.
|
|
|
I'll give you the sun
by Jandy Nelson
A story of first love and family loss follows the estrangement between daredevil Jude and her loner twin brother, Noah, as a result of a mysterious event that is brought to light by a beautiful, broken boy and a new mentor.
|
|
|
|
Six of crows
by Leigh Bardugo
Offered a chance to participate in a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams, criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker recruits a team of talented associates to organize a plot that is threatened by their mutual enmity.
|
|
|
Vengeance road
by Erin Bowman
When her father is killed by the notorious Rose Riders for a mysterious journal containing the secret location of a gold mine, Kate disguises herself as a boy and pursues justice on the gritty plains of the Wild West.
|
|
The sun is also a star
by Nicola Yoon
Natasha, whose family is hours away from being deported, and Daniel, a first generation Korean American who strives to live up to his parents' expectations, fall in love and must determine which path they will choose in order to be together
|
|
|
|
Akata warrior
by Nnedi Okorafor
A sequel to Akata Witch finds a marginalized but increasingly powerful Sunny chosen to lead a dangerous mission to stop an apocalyptic plot by the terrifying masquerade, Ekwensu.
|
|
|
Strange the dreamer
by Laini Taylor
War orphan and junior librarian Lazlo Strange is obsessed with the lost city of Weep, and when a stunning opportunity is offered, Lazlo seizes his chance to learn the city's mysteries and enters a mythical world of monsters, treachery, and wonder.
|
|
|
The hate u give
by Angie Thomas
A collector's edition of the award-winning novel traces the story of a teen whose uneasy balance between her elite prep school and her disadvantaged home life is shattered when she witnesses the fatal shooting of her best friend by a police officer.
|
|
10) The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
The daughter of devout immigrants discovers the power of slam poetry and begins participating in a school club as part of her effort to understand her mother's strict religious beliefs and her own developing relationship to the world.
|
|
|
5) Children of Blood and Bone
by Tomi Adeyemi
Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
|
|
|
|
Let me hear a rhyme
by Tiffany D. Jackson
Three Brooklyn teens plot to turn their murdered friend into a major rap star by pretending he is still alive, in a vibrant standalone novel by the NAACP Image Award-nominated author of Monday's Not Coming.
|
|
|
Don't date Rosa Santos
by Nina Moreno
Growing up in a cross-cultural region of Florida under the shadow of a sea curse that scares away most sailors, a Cuban-American teen struggles with family dynamics and college dreams before falling for a mysterious tattooed boy from the local marina who compels her to pursue her freedom.
|
|
The Tuition Funding Sources (TFS) database is FREE with your Library Card! Tuition Funding Sources is a private website designed to help students find scholarships, college and career information. TFS offers students the largest scholarship database in the world with over $41 Billion in scholarship awards along with a career personality test and detailed college and career information. Get access here.
|
|
Virtual Reality Join us as we play with virtual reality using the Oculus Go. For ages 13 and up.
|
The Central Coast Film Society is providing a chance for budding filmmakers enter their short film in a competition for a $500 prize! Click for full details
|
Catan for Teens SLO MakerSpace will be teaching strategies and robust techniques for Catan. Bring a friend and have some fun. Grades 6-12.
|
Wire Wrapping Gemstones Workshop Millie Chalk will lead an exciting workshop on gemstone wire wrapping. All materials included. Registration is required, please call the Cayucos Libary 805-995-3312 Cayucos Library Tue, Jan 21, 11:00 am
|
Woodblock Printing Registration Required. Ages 14+ Woodblock printing on paper and fabric using old and modern hand-carved woodblocks from instructor's collection
|
Paper Flower Craft Create beautiful paper flowers to take home. Grades 6-12
|
|
|
|
|