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TEENTOBER at Washoe County Library |
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EVENTS FOR TEENS ALL OCTOBER LONG |
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VIRTUAL EVENTS AND SERVICES |
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Online Events Browse our calendar of events to ses all the upcoming TeenTober events. |
100 Books Before Graduation This reading challenge encourages high school students to read for fun! |
Easy Teen Cuisine
Tips and tricks to help you feed yourself and others with ingredients you probably already have on hand. |
First Chapter Fridays
Get a taste of a new book or author as we read the first chapter to you. |
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Night Witches: A Novel of World War II
by Kathryn Lasky
Grounded by Hitler's German forces when Stalingrad is invaded, 15-year-old pilot Valya escapes to join her older sister's brigade of female pilots, the Night Witches, that launch a high-risk mission to cripple Nazi forces. By the Newbery Honor-winning author of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series.
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Flying Witch: 1
by Chihiro Ishizuka
Novice witch Makoto Kowata moves in with her cousins in rural Aomori to complete her training and become a full-fledged witch.
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The Lost Girl of Astor Street
by Stephanie Morrill
When her best friend Lydia disappears, Piper Sail goes searching for answers in the dark underbelly of 1924 Chicago, uncovering deep corruption that may lead back to her affluent neighborhood.
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No Good Deed
by Goldy Moldavsky
Gregor Maravilla wants to feed starving children, so going to a new summer camp, Camp Save the World, for teen activists sounds like a great idea; but the various causes the teens are representing are so varied and frankly, strange, (Boycott Camp, Eat Dirt are just two) that it is hard to get a handle on what is going on--and as the saying goes, no good deed goes unpunished.
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The Astonishing Color of After
by Emily X. R. Pan
After her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird.
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Spinning
by Tillie Walden
A graphic memoir recounts the years Walden spent competitively figure skating, before her developing love of art and first girlfriend causes her to question the insular world of figure skating.
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The Wendy Project
by Melissa Jane Osborne
Fifteen-year-old Wendy struggles to navigate fantasy and reality after a car crash that leaves her brother Michael missing.
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Out of Left Field
by Ellen Klages
In 1957, ten-year-old Katy Gordon fights to be allowed to play Little League baseball and uses what she learns about civil rights and the history of female baseball players to challenge the league ban on girls.
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The Parker Inheritance
by Varian Johnson
Spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, Candice discovers the letter that sent her grandmother on a treasure hunt, and with her new friend Brandon, sets off to expose the injustice once committed against a local African American family.
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The Trials of Morrigan Crow
by Jessica Townsend
A cursed child destined to die on her eleventh birthday is rescued and whisked away to a secret realm called Nevermoor and given the chance to compete for a place in a prestigious organization called the Wundrous Society.
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