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Summer Reading: The Hidden Staircase and City of Bones
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase, by Carolyn Keene
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Summer Reading: All of Us Villains and Romanov
All of Us Villains, by Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman
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Summer Reading: Warcross and Rebel
Warcross, by Marie Lu
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Teen Books for Disability Pride Month
Celebrate Disability Pride Month, which celebrates the passing of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act in July 1990, with some of these fiction and nonfiction choices for teen readers.
Fiction
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Summer Reading: The Stranger and Count Me In
The Stranger, by Albert Camus
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Summer Reading: Chirp and We Are Family
Chirp, by Kate Messner
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Summer Reading: Two Teen Book Reviews
These Violent Delights, by Chloe Gong
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Summer Reading: Three Teen Book Reviews
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
I loved The Hunger Games. It was pretty gory, even for a book though. It was definitely a page-turner. I couldn’t put it down!
--submitted by Harriet O.
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Meet Comics Artists Hannah Templer and The Kao!
Do you like to draw and write your own stories? Do you love comics and graphic novels? Do you read webcomics as well as print?
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Find Your Origin: Spoken Word Workshop
April is National Poetry Month, a time to celebrate the important role poetry plays in our culture, not only as a beautiful literary art, but as tools for self-expression, activism, and social commentary.
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Teen Winter Reading Club Book List
The Teen Winter Reading Club has ended, and the reviews have all been published. Here's the final list of what the teens in Wilmette read this winter!
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Teen Book Review: How To
One book I read this winter was How To by Randall Munroe, author of What If and Thing Explainer. How To is a book that takes a mundane thing, solves it in an absurd way, and then uses science to figure out how that would work.
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Teen Book Review: Ready Player Two
I read Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline. I like this book because it has lots of unexpected twists like having an AI attack and break the main character’s worst enemy out of prison, breaking up with the new girlfriend, or the newest tech turning out to be bad.
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Teen Book Review: Housekeeping
I read the book Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson. The book contained a central metaphor around the relation of water and consciousness, and it was very interesting to track this theme throughout the story.
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Teen Book Review: Bad Blood
I read Bad Blood by John Carreyrou. This was a very interesting book about the rise and fall/scandal of Theranos, the blood testing startup from Silicon Valley. It was one of my favorite nonfiction books as it read like a fiction.