Where She Went & Slam

I just finished reading two great books. One was Where She Went by Gayle Forman. It is the sequel to If I Stay. While If I Stay was told by Mia, before, during, and after being involved in a devastating car accident, this one is told from her boyfriend Adam’s point of view several years [...]

Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

 When I became a school librarian in 1985 I read every young adult book in my school library. It was easy. They were The Homecoming series by Cynthia Voigt, S. E. Hinton’s books, and all Judy Blume’s books. Now when I search our catalog for books in the young adult category, 6,067 titles come [...]

New Non-Fiction Titles for Teens

There are so many great young adult fiction titles and you can find lists of them on our blog and on the web. We also get some non-fiction books that you would enjoy. One recent addition to our collection is The Inheritance Almanac which describes the people, places, and things in Christopher Paolini’s books, Eragon, [...]

Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen

  Just finished a great book, Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen. I read it because I saw an interview with Director Rob Reiner in the newspaper that said he is making a movie of the book because he read the book with his son and loved it so much. He was right. The story is [...]

Green Careers

If you are in high school, you are probably already thinking about earning money. You probably also know that many industries pollute the environment, add to the global warming problem, and are not places you’d particularly like to work. Check out several books in the Library which will explain how you can have a career [...]