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Teen Zine July 15th, 2019
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Challenge 1: Reading Challenge 1 ends August 16th! Each hour you read and log at teensummerlibraryexperience.ca will earn you 5 points. The more you read, the more points you get! Challenge 3: Guess that Book Challenge 3 is open till Friday, July 19th! There are 15 quotes that you can guess from. For each correct book title you guess, you will receive 5 points! Go to teensummerlibraryexperience.ca to submit your guesses. Challenge 4: Short Story Challenge 4 begins July 22nd and ends August 2nd. Write a short story about an adventure you have had or that you would like to have. The short story is limited to one per person for 50 points and the stories can be maximum of 10 pages long. A winner will be chosen to receive a book-themed tote bag or reading gloves of their choice and extra points!
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How it Feels to Float by Helena FoxA deeply hopeful novel about love, loss and living with intergenerational mental illness follows the experiences of a teen who manages to just get by while hiding her father's deteriorating condition and exploring first romantic encounters, before an unavoidable event threatens to unravel her world.
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Lovely Warby Julie BerryMeeting in a World War II-era Manhattan hotel for a forbidden tryst, immortals Ares and Aphrodite are caught by the latter's jealous husband before she defends her actions by imparting the tale of four young humans who became connected during World War I.
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Our Castle by the Sea by Lucy StrangeThis follow-up to The Secret of Nightingale Wood finds an 11-year-old girl growing up in a lighthouse that becomes a vantage point in a devastating war, forcing her to uncover family secrets and discover her connection to an ancient legend.
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The Downstairs Girlby Stacey Lee1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kwan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for the genteel Southern lady.
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The Bridge Home by Padma VenkatramanFacing daunting prospects on the streets of Chennai, two runaway sisters find shelter and friendship on an abandoned bridge with two homeless boys before an illness forces them to choose between survival and freedom.
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Let's Go Swimming on Doomsdayby Natalie C. AndersonForced to become a child soldier, sixteen-year-old Somali refugee Abdi must confront his painful past.
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Bridge of Clay by Markus ZusakA youth from a family of five brothers who love, fight and reckon with adults in order to survive discovers the poignant secret about their father's disappearance before seeking redemption by building an extraordinary bridge.
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Captain Rosalieby Timothée de FombelleThis book depicts a hopeful little girl who navigates her difficult separation from her soldier father by listening as her mother reads his letters to her and pretending she is on a secret undercover mission, before a tragedy ends the letters and brings sad changes.
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One Speck of Truth by Caela CarterAfter Alma's mother moves them both to Lisbon, where her father grew up, Alma hopes to learn the truth about her father's death.
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Cordelia and her friends discover that their own connection to a dark legacy has gifted them with incredible powers as they face the true cruel price of being a hero.
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Why When Koko Dodo's secret chocolate sauce is stolen just before an important cooking contest, Didi, a dodo bird, devises a daring plan to help, whether Koko wants her to or not.
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Why Sixteen-year-old Rhen Tellur wants nothing more than to become a scientist. As the poor of her seaside town fall prey to a deadly disease, she and her father work desperately to find a cure. But when her mum succumbs to it as well? Rhen decides to take the future into her own hands through the annual all-male scholarship competition.
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Why Despite the loving intentions of her mother and boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Astrid wants to make the decisions about her life and death when her cancer returns, including exploring the possibility of cryopreservation.
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Why Extinction was just the beginning... Clover Martinez has always been a survivor, which is the reason she isn't among the dead when aliens invade and destroy Earth as she knows it.
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Min, a thirteen-year-old girl with fox-magic, stows away on a battle cruiser and impersonates a cadet in order to solve the mystery of what happened to her older brother in the Thousand World Space Force.
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Blackhearts by Nicole CastromanA reimagining of the Blackbeard story follows the experiences of a wealthy merchant's son whose longing for a life at sea is complicated by a forbidden love affair with an impoverished orphan girl who dreams of sailing to Curaçao.
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Pax by Sara PennypackerWhen he's forced to give up his pet fox Pax, Peter decides to leave home and find his friend.
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Three Dark Crowns by Kendare BlakeThe latest generation of triplets born to wield the coveted magic that will cost two of them their lives hide a secret that two of them have reached the age of 16 without manifesting any abilities in spite of guardian armies that are preparing to defend their champions.
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The Wild Robot by Peter BrownRoz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.
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