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Teen Book Boxes resume in February!
Registration closes January 14 or when all spaces are filled,
ACCL Baxter Street Register Here!
Spring Book Box subscriptions will run from February to April, with registration currently open. Subscribers will receive a box with 1-2 library books personally selected for them, plus snacks, toys, crafts, and other items! In the middle of every month, we'll give you the chance to review the books we sent and let us know if you want anything new or different in your box.
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Curl up with a good book this winter! Winter has arrived, and now is the time to settle in, get cozy, and start reading! Not sure where to start? Try our brand-new Young Adult Reader's Advisory Form! Use this online form to pick the brains of our Teen Librarians - we'll provide a list of book suggestions for you, or even pick some off the shelves and hold them for you! Give it a try today: Hope to see you in the library soon! |
Neat Science! - new for younger teens & tweens! Tuesday, January 25th, 5:30-6:30pm Athens-Clarke County Library Open to ages 9-12 You know what's neat? Making a volcano out of a lemon! Join us for an afternoon filled with "neat" science experiments that all involve not-TOO-messy fun! You'll learn about chemical reactions, how density affects liquids, and more exciting stuff!
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Let's Talk About That: Philosophy for Teens Every Wednesday beginning January 12th, 4:00-5:00pm Athens-Clarke County Library Open to teens in grades 6-12 Join us for high quality, engaging discussions hosted by Michael Aaron Lindquist, a UGA Philosophy Instructor. This weekly program offers young people with inquisitive minds the chance to develop critical thinking skills with questions like: What is time? Is it OK to eat meat? Do numbers exist? The topic can vary depending on interest, but we'll have interesting and fun debates ready! Snacks provided. Open to grades 6-12. Registration will enroll you in the weekly program, and you can attend as your schedule allows.
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Teen Anime & Manga Club Wednesday, January 12th, 6:00pm-8:00pm Athens-Clarke County Library Open to teens grades 6-12 Tonight, we're celebrating all things anime! Join us for fun snacks, games, crafts, and other activities all related to our love of anime! Registration is encouraged, but not required, so feel free to just show up!
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Game Day Tuesdays Every Tuesday from 4:00-5:00pm Athens-Clarke County Library Open to teens in grades 6-12 We're playing games after school every Tuesday starting in January! Every week we'll have different board games, cards, video games, and even running games! Swing by the library with friends or stop by on your own and make some new ones.
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Thursday Crafternoons Every Thursday from 4:00-5:00pm Athens-Clarke County Library Open to teens in grades 6-12 Join us every Thursday after school for various arts and craft projects. This is a drop-in program, so you can arrive at any point during the program window and spend as much (or little) time on your project as you want!
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Prism @ACCL Wednesday, January 19th at 6pm Athens-Clarke County Library Open to teens in grades 6-12 A positive safe space without judgement for teens who share a common vision of equality to gather and build community. Come hang out with us in the library as we talk about the issues facing diverse communities, our favorite LGBTQIA TV shows and movies, and work on fun crafts. No registration required - just stop by to participate!
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Teen Dungeons & Dragons Thursday, January 20th, 5:30pm-7:30pm Athens-Clarke County Library Join us for D&D, where we'll tell an amazing story and guide our characters through perilous journeys, epic battles, and heroic quests. This group will meet the third Thursday of each month. Beginners and veteran players in grades 6-12 are all welcome. Bring character at level 5, or use one of the pre-made options we'll have available for each session. Registration preferred, but not required. Masks are required. Feel free to drop in as long as the program remains in-person, but make sure to arrive on time!
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Open Chess Play Every Monday, 3:00-5:00pm Athens-Clarke County Library Want to pick up a new hobby? Stop by every Monday after school for open chess play from 3-5 pm! Learn the game or sharpen your skills while connecting with other community members! Open to all skill levels, ages 7 & up. Run by our partners at Chess & Community.
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Tutor.comFor homework help or a difficult math problem, look no further than the library's Tutor.com! Seven days a week, between 2-9pm, you can log onto Tutor.com with your library card and be connected with a tutor who specializes in your subject matter. After 9pm? Find an answer in their Resource Library, full of worksheets, lessons, and helpful videos. Provided free of charge from the Athens Regional Library System. Get to it anytime from our main website - just click on the Tutor.com logo in the upper right hand corner!
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Teen Volunteer Association First Monday of every month at 5:00pm! (January meeting will be on 1/10) Athens-Clarke County Library The Teen Volunteer Association (TVA) meets on the first Monday of every month for a community outreach or volunteer project, plus optional sign-up slots available each week to shelve books, organize and prepare supplies, and even help with library programs! If you're interested in helping out at the library, giving back to your community, and joining a fun club - this could be the place for you! To join, sign up at the link above or just come to a meeting!
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Love in Englishby Maria E. Andreu Sixteen-year-old Ana is a poet and a lover of language. Except that since she moved to New Jersey from Argentina, she can barely find the words to express how she feels. At first Ana just wants to return home. Then she meets Harrison, the very cute, very American boy in her math class, and discovers the universal language of racing hearts. But when she begins spending time with Neo, the Greek Cypriot boy from ESL, Ana wonders how figuring out what her heart wants can be even more confusing than the grammar they’re both trying to master. After all, the rules of English may be confounding, but there are no rules when it comes to love.
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Happily ever afters
by Elise Bryant
Sixteen-year-old Tessa Johnson has never felt like the protagonist in her own life. She's rarely seen herself reflected in the pages of the romance novels she loves. The only place she's a true leading lady is in her own writing--in the swoony love stories she shares only with Caroline, her best friend and #1 devoted reader. When Tessa is accepted into the creative writing program of a prestigious art school, she's excited to finally let her stories shine. But when she goes to her first workshop, the words are just...gone. Fortunately, Caroline has a solution: Tessa just needs to find some inspiration in a real-life love story of her own. And she's ready with a list of romance novel-inspired steps to a happily ever after. Nico, the brooding artist who looks like he walked out of one of Tessa's stories, is cast as the perfect Prince Charming. But as Tessa checks each item off Caroline's list, she gets further and further away from herself. She risks losing everything she cares about--including the surprising bond she develops with sweet Sam, who lives across the street. She's well on her way to having her own real-life love story, but is it the one she wants, after all?
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The betrayedby Kiera Cass After fleeing Coroa and leaving the memory of her beloved Silas behind, Hollis is unsteadily adjusting to life in Isolte. The Eastoffe family’s affection is a balm on her weary spirit, though Etan, a surly cousin with a deep distaste for Coroans, threatens to upset the uneasy peace she’s found. While tensions at home ratchet up, disquiet in the kingdom of Isolte is reaching a fever pitch. The Eastoffes may have the power to unseat a tyrannical king—but only with Hollis’s help. Can a girl who’s lost it all put the fate of her adopted homeland over the secret longings of her heart?
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I wish you all the best by Mason DeaverWhen Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their therapist and try to keep a low profile in a new school.
But Ben's attempts to survive the last half of senior year unnoticed are thwarted when Nathan Allan, a funny and charismatic student, decides to take Ben under his wing. As Ben and Nathan's friendship grows, their feelings for each other begin to change, and what started as a disastrous turn of events looks like it might just be a chance to start a happier new life.
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The rules for disappearingby Ashley ElstonShe’s been six different people in six different places: Madeline in Ohio, Isabelle in Missouri, Olivia in Kentucky . . . But now that she’s been transplanted to rural Louisiana, she has decided that this fake identity will be her last.
Witness Protection has taken nearly everything from her. But for now, they’ve given her a new name, Megan Rose Jones, and a horrible hair color. For the past eight months, Meg has begged her father to answer one question: What on earth did he do – or see – that landed them in this god-awful mess? Meg has just about had it with all the Suits’ rules — and her dad’s silence. If he won’t help, it’s time she got some answers for herself.
But Meg isn’t counting on Ethan Landry, an adorable Louisiana farm boy who’s too smart for his own good. He knows Meg is hiding something big. And it just might get both of them killed. As they embark on a perilous journey to free her family once and for all, Meg discovers that there’s only one rule that really matters — survival.
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Every day by David LevithanEvery day a different body. Every day a different life. There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. "A" has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere.
It’s all fine until the morning that A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon. From that moment, the rules by which A has been living no longer apply. Because finally A has found someone A wants to be with—day in, day out, day after day.
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A Cuban girl's guide to tea and tomorrowby Laura Taylor NameyFor Lila Reyes, a summer in England was never part of the plan. The plan was 1) take over her abuela’s role as head baker at their panadería, 2) move in with her best friend after graduation, and 3) live happily ever after with her boyfriend. But then the Trifecta happened, and everything—including Lila herself—fell apart.
Worried about Lila’s mental health, her parents make a new plan for her: Spend three months with family friends in Winchester, England, to relax and reset. But with the lack of sun, a grumpy inn cook, and a small town lacking Miami flavor (both in food and otherwise), what would be a dream trip for some feels more like a nightmare to Lila…until she meets Orion Maxwell.
A teashop clerk with troubles of his own, Orion is determined to help Lila out of her funk, and appoints himself as her personal tour guide. From Winchester’s drama-filled music scene to the sweeping English countryside, it isn’t long before Lila is not only charmed by Orion, but England itself. Soon a new future is beginning to form in Lila’s mind—one that would mean leaving everything she ever planned behind.
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The field guide to the North American teenager by Ben PhilippeNorris Kaplan is clever, cynical, and quite possibly too smart for his own good. A black French Canadian, he knows from watching American sitcoms that those three things don’t bode well when you are moving to Austin, Texas. Plunked into a new high school and sweating a ridiculous amount from the oppressive Texas heat, Norris finds himself cataloging everyone he meets: the Cheerleaders, the Jocks, the Loners, and even the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Making a ton of friends has never been a priority for him, and this way he can at least amuse himself until it’s time to go back to Canada, where he belongs.
Yet, against all odds, those labels soon become actual people to Norris. Be it loner Liam, who makes it his mission to befriend Norris, or Madison the beta cheerleader, who is so nice that it has to be a trap. Not to mention Aarti the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, who might, in fact, be a real love interest in the making. He even starts playing actual hockey with these Texans.
But the night of the prom, Norris screws everything up royally. As he tries to pick up the pieces, he realizes it might be time to stop hiding behind his snarky opinions and start living his life—along with the people who have found their way into his heart.
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Early Departuresby Justin A. ReynoldsJamal’s best friend, Q, doesn’t know he’s about to die . . . again. He also doesn’t know that Jamal tried to save his life, rescuing him from drowning only to watch Q die later in the hospital. Even more complicated, Jamal and Q haven’t been best friends in two years—not since Jamal’s parents died in a car accident, leaving him and his sister to carry on without them. Grief swallowed Jamal whole, and he blamed Q for causing the accident.
But what if Jamal could have a second chance? An impossible chance that would grant him the opportunity to say goodbye to his best friend? A new health-care technology allows Q to be reanimated—brought back to life like the old Q again. But there’s a catch: Q will only reanimate for a short time before he dies . . . forever.
Jamal is determined to make things right with Q, but grief is hard to shake. And he can’t tell Q why he’s suddenly trying to be friends with him again. Because Q has no idea that he died, and Q’s mom is not about to let anyone ruin the miracle by telling him. How can Jamal fix his friendship with Q if he can’t tell him the truth?
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Harley Quinn : breaking glass : a graphic novel by Mariko TamakiHarleen is a tough, outspoken, rebellious kid who lives in a ramshackle apartment above a karaoke cabaret owned by a drag queen named MAMA. Ever since Harleen's parents split, MAMA has been her only family. When the cabaret becomes the next victim in the wave of gentrification that's taking over the neighborhood, Harleen gets mad.
When Harleen decides to turn her anger into action, she is faced with two choices: join Ivy, who's campaigning to make the neighborhood a better place to live, or join The Joker, who plans to take down Gotham one corporation at a time.
Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass is at once a tale of the classic Harley readers know and love, and a heartfelt story about the choices teenagers make and how they can define—or destroy—their lives. This is the first title in DC's new line of original graphic novels for middle grade and young adult readers.
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Loveboat, Taipeiby Abigail Hing WenWhen eighteen-year-old Ever Wong’s parents send her from Ohio to Taiwan to study Mandarin for the summer, she finds herself thrust among the very over-achieving kids her parents have always wanted her to be, including Rick Woo, the Yale-bound prodigy profiled in the Chinese newspapers since they were nine—and her parents’ yardstick for her never-measuring-up life.
Unbeknownst to her parents, however, the program is actually an infamous teen meet-market nicknamed Loveboat, where the kids are more into clubbing than calligraphy and drinking snake-blood sake than touring sacred shrines.
Free for the first time, Ever sets out to break all her parents’ uber-strict rules—but how far can she go before she breaks her own heart?
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Everything, everything by Nicola YoonMy disease is as rare as it is famous. It’s a form of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, but basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in fifteen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla.
But then one day, a moving truck arrives. New next door neighbors. I look out the window, and I see him. He’s tall, lean and wearing all black—black t-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly. I want to learn everything about him, and I do. I learn that he is funny and fierce. I learn that his eyes are Atlantic Ocean-blue and that his vice is stealing silverware. I learn that when I talk to him, my whole world opens up, and I feel myself starting to change—starting to want things. To want out of my bubble. To want everything, everything the world has to offer.
Maybe we can’t predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster.
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Contact Us
Jen Schumann Teen Services Coordinator (706) 613-3650 x323 Elizabeth Hood ACCL Teen Services Lead (706) 613-3650 x363 Teen Services Desk (706) 613-3650 x329
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