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May 2025 | TEEN LIBRARY NEWS |
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Cancelled in May We will not be having a Teen Advisory Group meeting in May, as the Teen Services Librarian Emily will be out of town! Join us for the next session of TAG on June 6th! |
Tuesday May 13, 2025 | 4:00-5:00 PM Calling all teen artists! If you like to draw, paint, doodle, or collage, bring your favorite pencil and your creativity to Sketch Club! We will meet the second Tuesday of each month for an hour of studio time filled with new art challenges, contests, learning and practicing new techniques, and lots of fun. |
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Tuesday May 20, 2025 | 11:20-11:50 AM & ----------------------------------12:15-12:45 PM Open to all students at Linus Pauling Middle School. Welcome to Book Club at Lunch! We meet in the Linus Pauling Middle School library during both lunch periods, one Tuesday per month. Pick up a copy of the current book from the school library, and come discuss it during your lunch on May 20th! For the May meeting we'll read and discuss the novel: Mooncakes, by Susanne Walker. |
Thursday May 22, 2025 | 4:00-5:30 PM ------------------------------- Teens will design "Adopt Me" pet-sized bandanas to donate to a local animal shelter! Wearing a colorful bandana is a wonderful way for shelter animals to get noticed by potential adopters, so let's help our local cats and dogs find their forever homes. For grades 6-12. All supplies provided by the library. |
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Friday May 23, 2025 | 3:30-5:00 PM Whether you read manga or watch anime-only, join us in Corvallis for all things anime! We'll discuss our favorite characters, learn about the culture and history of anime, practice the art style, meet other fans in the community, and watch episodes together. Snacks are provided! For teens in Middle and High School (grades 6-12). Episodes shown may be rated from PG to TV-14. |
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Thursday May 8, 2025 | 3:30-5:00 PM Whether you read manga or watch anime-only, join us in Philomath for all things anime! We'll discuss our favorite characters, learn about the culture and history of anime, practice the art style, meet other fans in the community, and watch episodes together. Snacks are provided! For teens in Middle and High School (grades 6-12). Episodes shown may be rated from PG to TV-14. This Event is at the Philomath Community Library-- a branch of the Corvallis Benton-County Public Libraries |
She Waits for You Beyond the Dark
by Kristen Simmons
Owen, Maddy and Emerson are reeling from the trials of the hellish game of Meido and now they must play a new deadly game that requires them to find three sacred objects hidden across Hell, Heaven and Earth in order to free their friend Ian.
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Crudrat
by Gail Carriger
Maura is doomed to starve. Her space station has no further use for her. New York Times bestselling author and ALA Alex Award winner Gail Carriger brings you a fast-paced young adult scifi adventure featuring a capable heroine, her adorable pet, and the alien they accidentally rescue. Abandoned Outcast Crudrat With only her crud-eating murmel and a fuzzy alien stranger to help, Maura must find a way to survive, before they catch her and blow what's left of her life into space. In the far future, on a space-port the size of a city, crudrats scrape out a meager living cleaning the great machines that generate usable power. Only children can safely traverse the cramped tunnels and the massive blades that harvest crud. But one misstep and a crudrat gets caught on a blade edge and killed.
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Run away with me
by Brian Selznick
Daniel is spending his sixteenth summer in Rome and encounters a shadow, who becomes a voice who becomes a boy his age, Angelo, and soon they have an affection and a closeness and fear of what happens next.
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A bird in the air means we can still breathe
by Mahogany L. Browne
In this poignant mixed voice, mixed form collection of interconnected prose, poems and stories, teen characters, their families, and their communities grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Divining the leaves
by Shveta Thakrar
Ridhi Kapadia is a believer of magic who yearns to belong, and Nilesh Batra is a skeptic looking for an escape, and together they become embroiled in a world of court intrigue when they venture into a forest ruled by spirits.
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They bloom at night
by Trang Thanh Tran
When a red algae bloom takes over Mercy, Louisiana, after a devastating hurricane, mutated wildlife lurks in the water, and when Mercy's predatory leader demands Noon and her mom catch a creature that has been drowning residents, Noon must confront the past.
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New Suicide & Crisis Lifeline Number! Call or text 988 to get help for anyone feeling suicidal
or dealing with a mental health crisis. |
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