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All ages are invited to join us for the annual Summer Learning Program from June 1 - August 15! Track your reading and activities online with Beanstack starting June 1 to keep learning and earning prizes. You can also download and use the Beanstack Tracker mobile app to log your reading and activities. Take a look at this year's booklet for reading logs and special programs and events! |
We are so excited to bring you Get Outdoors (GO) Cumberland!, an exciting program of activities that encourages children and their families to get outdoors and get moving this summer. You'll search for fifteen "markers" - wooden posts, each with an etching plate - that are hidden in local and state parks around Cumberland County. This year, you can GO and Color Our World! as you follow clues to find markers featuring different colors, places to see color, and things that use color! |
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AUGUST PROGRAMS FOR TEENS |
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Dungeons & Dragons Join us for epic adventures and one-shot campaigns. Friday, August 8 from 6:00-8:00. Friday, August 22 from 6:00-8:00. This program is for students in grades 6-12. Registration is not required! |
Third Thursday August 21 at 6:00 On the Third Thursday of every month, teens are invited to try a new art project! This month we'll paint and sip! While the program is scheduled until 7:00 pm, teens are free to leave when they've finished their project. |
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100 BOOKS BEFORE GRADUATION |
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Students in grades 6-12 are able to sign up for our ongoing program, 100 Books Before Graduation! Your goal is to read 100 books before your high school graduation. You can register for this program on Beanstack or by visiting the circulation desk on the upper level of the library. You can track your reading on your Beanstack account or by using the Beanstack Tracker app. You will receive a prize after every 25 books and a grand prize after finishing the program! Questions? Contact at 717-766-0171 ext. 226 or by emailing dswartley@cumberlandcountylibraries.org |
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A spell to wake the dead by Nicole LesperanceTwo teen girls must uncover the dark, occult secrets lurking in their Cape Cod town to solve a series of murders-and save themselves from the same fate
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Yuli / : Yuli
by S. Jae-Jones
Yuli faces growing political chaos following her grandfather's death and must compete in a deadly competition with her former best friend Kho to determine who will rule the empire, all while uncovering the mystery behind the Waking Dreamer sickness and its potential connection to the dangerous Moth Demon threatening the realm
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Legendary Frybread Drive-In : Intertribal Stories by Cynthia Leitich Smith
The road to Sandy June's Legendary Frybread Drive-In slips through every rez and alongside every urban Native hangout. The menu offers a rotating feast, including traditional eats and tasty snacks. But Sandy June's serves up more than food: it hosts live music, movie nights, unexpected family reunions, love long lost, and love found again. That big green-and-gold neon sign beckons to teens of every tribal Nation, often when they need it most
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Mistress of bones : a novel
by Maria Z. Medina
Nineteen-year-old Azul, a necromancer seeking to resurrect her sister, becomes entangled in a world-ending plot involving gods, a deadly emissary, and a web of secrets that could reshape the world
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My Perfect Family by Khadijah Vanbrakle“Lonely Leena” is close with her young single mother. Still, she’s always secretly dreamed of more (and, when she was a kid, asked Santa for it). A huge family to cheer her on at graduation. A gaggle of smiling faces at the holidays. But one call from the hospital, and her mother’s hidden past comes to light: Her grandfather is in the ER, and her aunt is with him in recovery. Sorry—her WHO?
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Tall Water
by S. J. Sindu
Ever since she turned sixteen, Nimmi has wanted to see her mother. Though she has a loving but overprotective father and a budding relationship, she yearns to travel to Sri Lanka to confront the mother who refused to leave the island during a war, not even for Nimmi’s sake. Her father is going back for the first time as a reporter on assignment, but he refuses to take her, deeming Sri Lanka too dangerous.
But then Nimmi's mother appears to her in a dream, asking her to come find her, and Nimmi knows she must go. Her father is livid when he sees her at baggage claim, but by then it’s too late, and he reluctantly agrees to help Nimmi make contact with her mother. In Sri Lanka, Nimmi tags along with her father and his guide, past checkpoints and armed soldiers and increasing hints of the war that rages there. However, the day after Christmas, disaster strikes and a tsunami ravages the island. Stranded amid the devastation and destruction, can Nimmi reunite with her mother? Through her journey, Nimmi might just learn that the person she most needed to find was herself.
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The executioners three
by Susan Dennard
A group of small-town teens try to solve a supernatural murder mystery involving an old forgotten poem, legends from the past, and a blood curse
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The good vampire's guide to blood & boyfriends
by J. L. D'Amato
Nineteen-year-old Brennan, a college freshman who becomes a vampire after a suicide attempt, navigates his new life in an underground vampire society, keeps his secret from Cole, the cute campus librarian, and deals with rising dangers while balancing his humanity and growing feelings for Cole
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The L.O.V.E. Club
by Lio Min
Three estranged high schoolers are pulled into a video game to pursue the disappearance of their friend
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This Place Kills Me
by Mariko Tamaki
At Wilberton Academy, few students are more revered than the members of the elite Wilberton Theatrical Society—a.k.a. the WTS—and no one represents that exclusive club better than Elizabeth Woodward. Breathtakingly beautiful, beloved by all, and a talented thespian, it’s no surprise she’s starring as Juliet in the WTS’s performance of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy. But when she’s found dead the morning after opening night, the whole school is thrown into chaos.
Transfer student Abby Kita was one of the last people to see Elizabeth alive, and when local authorities deem the it-girl’s death a suicide, Abby’s not convinced. She’s sure there’s more to Wilburton and the WTS than meets the eye. As she gets tangled in prep school intrigues, Abby quickly realizes that Elizabeth was keeping secrets. Was one of those secrets worth killing for?
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Tripping over You 1
by Suzana Harcum
The infamous theater kid Milo and wallflower Liam are unlikely friends connected by a mutual feeling of being misfits in their boarding school. As their friendship and bond develops, unspoken romantic feelings start to bubble up and complicate everything—misunderstandings and bruised eyes aplenty. But with their graduation soon approaching, Milo gathers the strength to finally confess. They begin dating in secret (for fear of Liam’s strict father finding out), but their relationship becomes more difficult to hide over time and they must decide if they are ready for what the future has in store for them.
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Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire
by Don Martin
Verity Vox is a witch-in-training who has never met a problem her spells can’t solve. But when a cryptic plea for help sends her to the forgotten coal mining town of Foxfire, she soon learns even magic has its limits.
Verity discovers a curse was laid years ago by a traveling magician who vanished into the ancient Appalachian hills to seek greater power. Crops won’t grow. Bellies go hungry. Even treasured possessions fall apart. What’s worse, people have gone missing amidst rumors that they’ve sought out the magician who is lying in wait for those foolish or desperate enough to strike a deal with him.
The witch must break the curse, find a missing girl, and solve the mystery of what’s really under the mountain before the town falls forever into the clutches of the monster lurking in the hills.
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Wish you were her
by Elle McNicoll
Seeking a normal summer away from fame, autistic teen actress Allegra Brooks escapes to a small-town book festival, where she clashes with grumpy bookseller Jonah Thorne, unaware that he may be the anonymous correspondent she has been falling for
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Woven from clay : a novel
by Jenny Birch
High school senior Terra Slater, a golem crafted from magic, must master the power that binds her while forming an unexpected alliance with Thorne, a magical bounty hunter, to save herself, her fellow golems, and the warlock who created them
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Looking for more information? Visit our website. |
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Joseph T. Simpson Public Library
16 N Walnut St., Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 17055
(717) 766-0171
https://www.cumberlandcountylibraries.org/SIM
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