5 Reasons to Volunteer at the library this Summer
Visiting Wilmette Public Library's summer reading booth is a time honored tradition that goes back decades.
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Favorite Teen Romance Novels for Valentine's Day
It may be freezing outside, but curling up with one of these teen romance novels will keep you cozy. Here are our top ten favorite tropes found in love stories.
Unusual YA Books for Wilmette Reads
For this year's Wilmette Reads, we chose to spotlight two titles, a fiction and a nonfiction book: Entangled Life and Ghost Music.
Letters About Literature Contest
If you're looking for a great way to share your love for your favorite book with others while getting some recognition for your awesome writing skills, check out the Letters About Literature con
Teen Reader Recommends: House of Ash and Bone
A 17 year old girl with powers she doesn’t fully understand and her family moves into a mysterious house in the middle of the woods. Its’ inhabitant? A ghost with a taste for mortal flesh and dreams of immortality. As Josephine unearths the secrets of her new home, she must also figure out her unwanted roomate’s malicious plans before time runs out for her and her family.
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Teen Reader Recommends: The Gilded Wolves
A mathematician who can bend metals to her will. A historian with an affinity for colonial independence. A dancer who can read the memories of objects. A boy who can coax the unlikeliest of plants into bloom. All gathered by a hotelier with a goal of reparation for what he’s lost. Set in 1889 Paris, a city on the cusp of the Exposition Universelle and brimming with magic, Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chakshi is a masterpiece of historical fantasy.
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Teen Reader Recommends: This Is How You Lose the Time War
From the minds of Amal El-Moher and Max Gladstone comes a truly revolutionary science fiction epic. For being a novella, this book manages to pack a lot into 147 pages. In dual point of views, two sworn enemies on opposite sides of a war through time leave each other letters that start out taunting and end with devotion.
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Teen Reader Recommends: Piranesi
There are two alive people in the House. There are 13 skeletons, and thousands upon thousands of statues. All who exist in a parallel universe made up of an infinite labyrinth of halls and vestibules that seems to steal the memories and identities of its inhabitants. Told through the research notes of a man named Piranesi, both him and the reader try to solve the mystery of who he is and how he got to this place.
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Teen Reader Recommends
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo: A young scullion who can perform miracles. A couple desperate for status. A man who might be a monster and his master. All of them plunged into a world where the lines between magic, science, holiness and fraud are often uncertain. Set in Spain during the Inquisition, the stakes (and the danger) heighten every chapter.
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ACT, SAT, AP Practice Tests and Study Skills
When you're looking for help studying for your upcoming ACT, SAT, and AP exams, you might not think to look at the library's free databases, but we have some comprehensive resources you can use online from home with nothing but your library card.
Four YA Books to Read for Trans Day of Visibility
Celebrate magical, joyful, and romantic stories of trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming people this March 31, on International Transgender Day of Visibility.
Wilmette Reads for Teens
Join us this winter with our all new reading series for adults and teens, called Wilmette Reads.
High School Finals are Nigh!
We know you're looking for a place to study in the coming weeks, so we've reserved the Auditorium and the Small Meeting Room on the Lower Level and the Youth Program Room on the Second Floor for students during peak times, starting Saturday, December 16 through Wednesday, December 20.
Five Reasons to Attend Our Heartstopper Book Release Party!
Are you eagerly awaiting the new volume of graphic novel series Heartstopper by Alice Oseman? Volume 5 comes out on December 19, and we have an exciting release party planned for Wednesday, December 13 at 4:30pm. Here's why we think you should sign up now:
Find Your Voice: Anaya recommends Crying in H Mart
We asked our Summer Reading Club Volunteers to share their recommended reads.
Anaya recommends Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner. Here’s the review (heads-up for spoilers!):