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Back to School - Resource Spotlight: Homework Help
- Program Spotlight: Teen Council
- Teen Spotlight: Back to School Advice
- Booklist: School Vibes
- Booklist: Summer Scares
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4:30 - 6PM Starting September 8th *Register for reminders |
3:30 - 4:30PM Starting October 3rd |
4 - 5:30PM Starting October 9th *Registration Required |
3:30 - 5:30PM Starting September 11th |
2 - 3PM Starting October 1st |
3 - 5PM Starting September 9th |
Every Wednesday 3:30 - 4:30PM Starting October 1st |
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Back to School Advice From Teens |
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Alexei says:
Bring more pencils than you think you need! |
Mara says:
Join a club or extracurricular, it'll help you find people you like and can help you want to go to school more. |
Become friends with your teachers... so you can get better grades. Gig Harbor Library Teen Volunteer |
Join a club/sport if you wanna make some friends; find others with similar interests! Parkland/Spanaway Library Teen Volunteer |
Try whatever you’d like! If it doesn’t work out, that’s okay. Parkland/Spanaway Library Teen Volunteer |
Get at least one notebook for each subject. Always look at the syllabus for each class to know what the curriculum is like. Try to make at least one new friend or at least talk to someone. Anonymous |
Invest in a good multi-folder to put all your papers and stay organized (cause there’s gonna be a LOT of papers.) Parkland/Spanaway Teen Volunteer League |
Get more sleep. Gig Harbor Library Teen Volunteer |
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All titles below are available to download or pick up at the library: - Back to school vibes
- Summer Scares: Ghoulish & Gothic
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Zodiac rising
by Katie Zhao
Magic meets dark academia at a New York boarding school that's hidden from mortal eyes when a student is killed over priceless treasure and the Descendants of the Zodiac assemble a crew to avenge their classmate's murder and heist back what's rightfully theirs.
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A darker mischief
by Derek Milman
At the elite Essex Academy Cal Ware, a poor, queer kid from Mississippi, is an outsider, but when he learns about a secret society on campus, he thinks that he may have found a way to reinvent himself--but as the initiation rituals grow riskier he must decide who to trust and how far he is willing to go to belong
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Royal heirs academy
by Lindsey Duga
King Leander Eldana has ruled Ashland for 50 years without naming an heir, requiring his four teenage grandchildren to compete at their glamorous boarding school for the inheritance of the European kingdom, in a novel with secret alliances, enemies-to-lovers romance and revenge.
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Kareem between
by Shifa Saltagi Safadi
With the school year getting off to a rough start, Syrian American seventh grader Kareem finds himself stuck between friends, between football, between parents and between right and wrong, and must find his voice amidst the chaos.
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Faker
by Gordon Korman
Trey knows the drill: His dad gets him into a school full of kids with rich parents. Trey makes friends, and his dad makes connections. Soon, there's the con, where Trey's dad suckers the other parents into investing in one of his schemes. Once the money's in the bank, Trey, his sister, and their dad are on the run... until they set up somewhere else and start again. Trey believes his father when he says no one's getting hurt. After all, these parents have money to spare. But Trey's starting to get tiredof running... and lying... and never having a friend for longer than a few months. But how do you get your family to stop lying when your lives depend on it?
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Summer Scares: Ghoulish & Gothic |
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She Is A Haunting
by Trang Thanh Tran
Meet: Jade Nguyen, who's in Vietnam helping her father restore a French colonial home in exchange for college tuition.
Her worst nightmares: Jade's unsettling experiences inspire her to fake a haunting with a local named Florence, hoping it'll scare off her family. But Florence and Jade's budding romance is real, and Jade's father might withhold his money if he finds out.
What sets it apart: This satisfying novel weaves true horrors from Vietnamese history into an eerie haunted house tale.
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The Dark We Know
by Wen-Yi Lee
Home for her abusive father’s funeral, art student Isadora Chang reunites with an estranged friend. Together they investigate their mutual friends' deaths. Is there a connection with the gruesome sketches Isadora doesn’t remember drawing? This enthralling Gothic novel spins horrors from childhood trauma and small-town secrets.
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Immortal dark
by Tigest Girma
Infiltrating the elite Uxlay University, where students study to ensure peaceful coexistence between humans and vampires, orphaned heiress Kidan Adane must live with the vampire she suspects killed her family and kidnapped her sister, risking her very soul and her heart to save her.
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The Night Gardener
by Jonathan Auxier
Irish orphans Molly, 14, and Kip, 10, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and the secrets of the cursed house. By the author of Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes.
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Sisters of the Lost Marsh
by Lucy Strange
Living in fear of their father, six cursed sisters sneak out to visit Full Moon Fayre, but when Grace, the oldest sister, goes missing, they must battle inner doubts and the legends that have haunted their family to save her.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for age 14 and up! |
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Pierce County Library System
3005 112th St. E, Tacoma, Washington 98446
253-548-3300mypcls.org |
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