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• Teens @ RPL October 2020 Newsletter •
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Be the Change: A Social Justice Book Club for Teens Tired of feeling like you have no control over what’s going on in your community? Wanting to make a difference in the world around you? Be the Change, our new social justice book club for teens, will give you the knowledge and the tools to do just that. Our book club will run in 6-week sessions the first one being Saturday, October 10th at 2pm. Our fall topic will be voter suppression. We’ll explore several books, talk to important members of the community, and come up with a club project to help get more voters to the polls this year. If you’re interested in joining, please contact Jennifer Deuell at jennifer.deuell@richmondgov.com or 646-4740.
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Gaming @ the Library Ready to get your game on with RPL? Every other month RPL will be hosting virtual gaming programs for Super Smash Brothers: Ultimate, Mario Kart 8 and Animal Crossing. Tournaments, races, scavenger hunts and fishing tourneys are only a few of the fun activities we'll be doing in these virtual worlds.
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Join us for a fun game of trivia for teens 12-18! Just grab a pen and paper, round up some teammates, or join by yourself and have fun. Participants will answer questions on a variety of topics from books, popular culture, music, general trivia, and more! Virtual Teen Trivia will take place on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 4:30pm. Register for the next event. Date: Tuesday, October 13th Time: 4:30pm - 5:30pm Location: Zoom
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Virtual Cat Cafe Hey, teens! Do you love introducing your furry friend to new people? Then attend our virtual cat cafe over Zoom! We'll take turns introducing our cats and showing off all the things we love about our fluffy companions. Get ready for an hour of laughs and cuteness! Oh, and don't forget to brew up some coffee for that authentic cafe experience! Register here. Date: Wednesday, October 14th Time: 4:30pm - 5:30pm Location: Zoom
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Teen Advisory Group (TAG) Current and prospective TAG members, join us for our monthly meeting held on the 3rd Thursday of the month. Our TAG has recently decided to launch a new program....a Teen Zine! You can play an integral role in getting this started. This is also a great way to earn VOLUNTEER HOURS! Register here. Date: Thursday, October 15th, 2020 Time: 5:00pm - 6:00pm Location: Zoom
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Whether you’re a fan of superheroes, manga or graphic novels, join us for a virtual club meeting where we talk about, share and create comics together! We’ll be meeting one Saturday a month at 10:30am. Register here. Date: Saturday, October 24th Time: 10:30am - 11:30am Location: Zoom
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Young Writers WorkshopDo you have a great idea for a story, but not sure what to do next? Do you think your favorite character got a raw deal, and you know exactly what should have happened instead? Have you ever stared at a blank page and an equally blank mind? We can help! Our Young Writer’s Workshop will take place September-January over our new Discord Server. We’ll release monthly video tutorials, weekly writing prompts, and have ongoing feedback on the server. This workshop is appropriate for tweens ages 10-14. For more information or to join, please contact Mr. Louis at Louis.Maranski@richmondgov.com
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K-pop Stans Unite Calling all teen K-pop stans; join us as we view this month’s new music video releases or live comeback stages, and talk about our favorite groups and biases. The viewing parties will be on held on our Teen Discord server. Make sure to register to receive and invite! Date: Friday, October 30th Time: 8:00pm - 9:00pm Location: Discord
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RVA Library now has a shiny new Discord server just for teens! This is a great way to keep up with RPL's virtual programming, new YA releases, movies, gaming, and more! Hang out, chat with other teen library users, attend an event, and share your favorite Discord reacts. This is a TEENS ONLY space so we are not advertising the link. If you'd like to join, email jennifer.deuell@richmondgov.com or hit us up on one of our social media accounts for an invite.
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New Books We're Excited About
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Never look back
by Lilliam Rivera
In an Own Voices retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, a girl moves to the Bronx after losing everything in Hurricane Katrina and bonds with a talented bachata singer before their relationship is tested by the demons of the past.
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Teen Titans : Beast boy
by Kami Garcia
Seventeen-year-old Garfield Logan finally impresses the social elite at his high school, but popularity comes at a price when he undergoes sudden physical changes as the dares from his new friends escalate.
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Cemetery boys
by Aiden Thomas
Determined to prove himself a real brujo to the traditional Latinx family that does not accept his true gender, a trans boy summons the ghost of the resident bad boy, who refuses to return quietly to death.
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Fable
by Adrienne Young
A first entry in a planned duology by the author of the Sky in the Deep series finds the teen daughter of a seaside village’s most powerful trader testing the limits of skills imparted by her late mother to reconnect with her father and establish her place among his crew.
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Legendborn
by Tracy Deonn
Wanting to escape her previous life after the accidental death of her mother, 16-year-old Bree enrolls in a program for high school students at the local university before her witness to a magical attack reveals her undiscovered powers as well as sinister truths about her mother’s death.
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Charming As a Verb
by Ben Philippe
Hiding less-than-honest business practices behind his charming smile and Ivy League ambition, a popular Haitian-American star debater is blackmailed by an intense classmate who wants to improve her image at school.
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The Scapegracers
by Hannah Abigail Clarke
Forging an unexpected coven with the three most popular girls in school, an outcast lesbian witch casts curses, searches for love and eludes fundamentalist witch hunters while privately struggling with the realities of human friendships and supernatural perils.
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