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Winter is still here... - Program Spotlight: Teen Council
- Teen Spotlight: Snow Day Advice
- Booklists: Read Your Way, Black Stories & Voices, Romances, Middle Grade Mysteries
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Join anytime! Want to share your ideas, meet new people, and make a difference in your community? Teen Councils run during the school year and are a flexible opportunity for teens who want to have fun while shaping what the library offers for youth. You’ll work on service projects, help plan programs, and share your opinions, all while spending time with other teens and earning volunteer hours. |
For teens who are...- Ages 13–19
- Interested in flexible volunteering
- Excited to share ideas and give feedback on library programs and services
- Looking to connect with other teens, make friends, and have fun
- Wanting to earn volunteer hours
- Want to build leadership and job skills
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Find a Teen Council near you |
Email us with any questions at teenvolunteers@piercecountylibrary.org |
If you were stuck inside during a snow day, how would you spend it? |
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Find booklists by grade level on our website Check out the booklists below. All titles are available to download or pick up at the library: - Read Your Way: Stories without borders
- Black Stories and Voices
- Sports Romances
- Romantasy
- Middle Grade Mysteries
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Read Your Way: Stories Without Borders
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Mexikid : a graphic memoir
by Pedro Martin
Pedro Martin's grown up in the U.S. hearing stories about his legendary abuelito, but during a family road trip to Mexico, he connects with his grandfather and learns more about his own Mexican identity in this moving and hilarious graphic memoir.
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Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American
by Laura Gao
After spending her early years in Wuhan, China, riding water buffalos and devouring stinky tofu, Laura immigrates to Texas, where her hometown is as foreign as Marsat least until 2020, when COVID-19 makes Wuhan a household name. In Messy Roots, Laura illustrates her coming-of-age as the girl who simply wants to make the basketball team, escape Chinese school, and figure out why girls make her heart flutter.
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Himawari House
by Harmony Becker
When Nao returns to Tokyo to reconnect with her Japanese heritage, she books a yearlong stay at the Himawari sharehouse. There she meets Hyejung and Tina...The trio live together, share meals, and even attend the same Japanese-language school, which results in them becoming fast friends. But will they be able to hold one another up as life tests them with new loves, old heart breaks, and the everyday challenges of being fish out of water?
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I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir
by Malaka Gharib
I Was Their American Dream is at once a coming-of-age story and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for themselves and their children. The daughter of parents with unfulfilled dreams themselves, Malaka navigated her childhood chasing her parents' ideals, learning to code-switch between her family's Filipino and Egyptian customs, adapting to white culture to fit in, crushing on skater boys, and trying to understand the tension between holding onto cultural values and trying to be an all-American kid.--
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Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America
by Margarita Longoria, editor
What it is: a wide-ranging anthology by and about Mexican Americans, showcasing the diverse talents and experiences of 20 different creators.
Featuring: short stories, poems, comics, and nonfiction by authors such as Guadalupe García McCall, Anna Meriano, David Bowles, and Francisco X. Stork.
Don't miss: bittersweet emotions in "La Princesa Mileidy Dominguez"; historical exploration in “Filiberto’s Final Visit”; contemporary LGBTQIA connection in "CoCo Chamoy y Chango"; and bicultural longing in "I Want to Go Home."
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Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam
by Thien Pham
Meet: Pham, who fled Vietnam at age five. As a refugee, can he find his place in America without losing his connection to Vietnam?
How it’s told: Each chapter details a food central to Pham’s memories, like the rice ball he ate after pirates attacked the ship his family took leaving Vietnam.
Try these next: For more moving graphic memoirs from Asian American authors, check out Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do or Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese.
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The Leaving Room
by Amber McBride
**NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST!** Intimate and astonishing.--Jason Reynolds. For fans of You've Reached Sam and If I Stay, a hauntingly beautiful young adult novel-in-verse about a girl in between life and death, by National Book Award Finalist Amber McBride.
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The Scammer
by Tiffany D. Jackson
Jordyn’s fresh start at Frazier University was going great until her roommate’s brother moved in. Fresh from prison, Devonte wields conspiracy theories and charisma to develop a cultlike campus following that Jordyn isn’t falling for. Fans of author Tiffany D. Jackson’s brand of thought-provoking thrillers will enjoy this propulsive tale.
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Candace, the Universe, and Everything
by Sherri L. Smith
Thirteen-year-old Candace discovers a portal in her locker that connects her across time and space with two other women who also had the same locker as girls, and the three go on to investigate the origins of the portal--
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Split the Sky
by Marie Arnold
In a racially tense Texas town, 15-year-old Lala Russell -- gifted with visions of the future -- must decide whether to change a fate that could save one boy’s life or let tragedy spark a movement, in a powerful story of legacy, justice and the cost of doing what’s right.
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This Could Be Forever
by Ebony Ladelle
Told in alternating voices, this novel follows African American Deja and Nepali American Raja, who fall in love the summer before Deja starts college and diverge from their parents' expectations for their futures.
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The Corruption of Hollis Brown
by K. Ancrum
Hollis Brown believes he’s destined for a grim small-town life, until he meets Walt, a mysterious boy promising him a better future. Then Walt possesses Hollis, and even more unexpectedly, they start falling for each other. Read-alikes: Jimmy Cajoleas’ The Good Demon; Ryan Douglass’ The Taking of Jake Livingston.
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It's a Love/Skate Relationship
by Carli J. Corson
In this queer romance, a hockey player must trade her hockey stick for figure skates-and just might fall for her ice princess skating partner.--
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Check please! : #Hockey Book 1, #Hockey
by Ngozi Ukazu
Hockey player and amateur vlogger Eric Bittle chronicles his freshman and sophomore year at Samwell University, where he joins the school hockey team and falls for its very attractive but moody captain, Jack Zimmerman.
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May the Best Man Win
by Z. R. Ellor
A debut YA novel about a throw-down battle for Homecoming King between a transgender teen and the boy he dumped last summer.
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The House Saphir
by Marissa Meyer
The Queen of Fairytale Retellings is back! #1 New York Times bestselling author Marissa Meyer weaves the tale of Bluebeard as it's never been told before. This is a thrilling romantasy and murder mystery, perfect for fans Meyer's Cinder and Heartless.
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The Swan's Daughter by Roshani ChokshiAlthough Demelza was born without wings, she is part veritas swan and thus can discern people’s true intentions. Using her gift to help the cursed prince who needs to find true love could mean sacrificing her power forever. Read-alikes: Jessica Khoury’s The Forbidden Wish; Elizabeth Lim’s A Forgery of Fate. |
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Never Ever After
by Sue Lynn Tan
Not all fairy tales end happily ever after in this dark and fierce reimagining of Cinderella.
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Once Upon a Broken Heart
by Stephanie Garber
Once Upon a Broken Heart marks the launch of a new series from Stephanie Garber about love, curses, and the lengths that people will go to for happily ever after. For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in true love and happy endings . . . until she learns that the love of her life will marry another. Desperate to stop the wedding and to heal her wounded heart, Evangeline strikes a deal with the charismatic, but wicked, Prince of Hearts. In exchange for his help, he asks for three kisses, to be given at the time and place of his choosing. But after Evangeline's first promised kiss, she learns that bargaining with an immortal is a dangerous game.
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A Forgery of Fate
by Elizabeth Lim
After Truyan’s father disappears, she supports her family by forging artwork. If marrying cursed half-dragon, half-human Elang might help her to locate her father, she’ll take that risk, too. This adventurous fantasy with a slow burn romance infuses a traditional "Beauty and the Beast" tale with Chinese mythology.
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Blood in the Water
by Tiffany D. Jackson
Brooklyn girl Kaylani McKinnon is thrust into an intricate web of lies when a shocking murder on Martha's Vineyard threatens to expose dangerous secrets--
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Olivetti by Allie Millington a heartfelt middle-grade novel that follows 12-year-old Ernest Brindle and a sentient vintage typewriter named Olivetti as they set out to unravel the mystery of Ernest’s missing mother, Beatrice. As Ernest and Olivetti journey through San Francisco, their unlikely partnership reveals forgotten family memories and helps them confront the pain and healing the Brindle family has long been avoiding. Full of charm, wit, and emotional depth, the story celebrates the power of words, love, and the bonds that tie families together.
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Snoop
by Gordon Korman
If Carter hadn't been checking his phone, he might have seen his brother coming down the ski slopes in his direction. And if Carter had seen his brother in time and avoided the crash, he might not have two broken legs right now. Oops. Now Carter is stuck at home for weeks, with both his legs in casts. Bored, he starts checking out the live feeds from police cams around his town. Before he knows it, he's obsessed-- watching his classmates when they don't know he's looking, and discovering some other very strange things going on that no one else is noticing. But what happens when Carter is found out--and the people he's watching know where he lives?--
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The Bletchley Riddle
by Ruta Sepetys
In the summer of 1940, siblings Jakob and Lizzie Novis find themselves at Bletchley Park, where Jakob works to crack Nazi codes while Lizzie investigates the mysterious disappearance of their mother--only to discover that the two mysteries are intertwined.
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The Last Resort
by Erin Entrada Kelly
With the help of her skeptical brother, Caleb, and their new ghost-obsessed neighbor, Teddy, Lila -- the girl who's vowed to be less dramatic -- must uncover her grandfather's killer AND stop the evil spirits desperate to make their way back into the human world.--Provided by publisher.
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3005 112th St. E, Tacoma, Washington 98446
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