Young Adult Newsletter October 2025

All County buildings, including the Library,

will be closed on Monday, October 6, in honor of
Frances Xavier Cabrini Day.

Upcoming Events

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Girls Who Code: Grades 6-12

Thursday, October 2, 16, 30 | 4:00pm-6:00pm
Library Lab


Come engage with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in an environment that fosters problem solving, teamwork, and personal skill development. No coding experience necessary!


Learn more.

Crafting at the Library: Twine Pumpkins

Saturday, October 4 | 3:00pm-5:00pm
Library Lab


Join us for a rotating monthly craft program on the first Saturday of the month. In October, we will be creating pumpkins out of twine!


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Teen Advisory Board (T.A.B.)

Tuesday, October 7 | 4:30pm-5:30pm

Hotpick Meeting Room


Teen Advisory Board (TAB) is your chance to be heard! Learn more about the Library, make suggestions for materials and programs, connect with peers, earn volunteer hours, and have fun.


TAB is open to young adults in grades 7-12.


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Homework Hangout

Thursday, October 9, 23 | 4:00pm-6:00pm
Hotpick Meeting Room


Join us every other Thursday for some after school homework support and focus sessions. Peer lead homework help is encouraged, though there are quiet spaces and solo options available. Snacks will be provided!


Learn more.

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Dungeons & Dragons

Saturday, October 11, 25 | 3:30pm-5:30pm
Library Lab


Become the hero of your own adventure! Join us on a magical journey where we'll rely on our wits, imagination, and teamwork to play Dungeons & Dragons. No experience necessary!


Recommended for players ages 12+.


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Bookbinding: Painted Edges

Saturday, October 18 | 3:00pm-5:00pm
Library Lab


Learn beginner bookbinding skills. No prior experience is necessary. 


For the month of October, we will paint edges using materials provided by the Library on a first come, first served basis.


Learn more.

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Book Thieves Book Club

Tuesday, October 21 | 4:30pm-5:30pm
Hotpick Meeting Room


Join the Book Thieves, a group of enthusiastic readers who meet monthly to discuss exciting young adult literature.


October's book is Very Dangerous Things by Lauren Muñoz.


Learn more.

Costume Contest

Saturday, October 25 | 11:00am-12:00pm
Dunaway Community Room


Join us for our fourth annual costume contest! Win prizes, get candy, and show off your costume before Halloween night!


There will be first, second, and third place medals as well as a medal for best homemade costume.


Learn more.

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Day of the Dead Arts & Crafts with the Anderson Ranch Arts Center

Saturday, November 1 | 11:00am-1:00pm 
Dunaway Community Room


Celebrate the Day of the Dead with hands-on arts and crafts. Participants of all ages are invited to create traditional altars and decorative skulls while learning about this special holiday’s cultural significance and customs.


Learn more.

Young Adult Recommended Reads

Every month, we highlight stories with a different genre or theme in the

Teen Area. Prepare for the spookiest of seasons with these creature features and scary tales.

When Devils Sing

Xan Kaur

When Dawson Sumter goes missing, all he leaves behind is a smattering of blood in room 4 of the debt-ridden motel owned by Neera Singh's family. Disappearances like this aren't uncommon in the rural Georgia town of Carrion, especially every thirteen years when a periodical cicada brood returns from underground, shrieking their deafening screams.

For Neera, Dawson is another reminder that in this corner of the South, the rich only get richer, and the poor—well, nothing good comes their way.

Neera sets out to investigate Dawson’s whereabouts—if he even still lives—along with three other teens: Isaiah, son of a prominent judge and clandestine true crime podcaster; Reid, son of the wealthiest man in the region; and Sam, estranged daughter of the local hitman. As they find themselves entangled in a messy web of secrets and lies, they discover the riches of the adjacent Lake Clearwater community may have a terrifying source of power dating back to the town’s founding and an ancient urban legend about three devils, each more sinister than the next. How deep does the rot go, and can they find a way to escape its reach?

How to Survive a Slasher

Justine Pucella Winans

There’s a reason CJ Smith’s hometown of Satterville is known as Slasherville: it was the site of not one, but two Friday the 13th-style massacres. CJ’s dad survived the first attack; only CJ survived the second. And thanks to the mysterious writer Moon Satter’s bestselling novels based on the events, the town—and CJ—will always be defined by this horrific past.

Then a new, unpublished Moon Satter manuscript shows up addressed to CJ. But unlike the others, this story isn’t about the past. Instead, it predicts new murders. On the day the book says the first murder will occur, CJ sets out to stop it. But in saving one classmate, the final girl ends up dead. CJ and their friends have suddenly gone from extras to leads—and they’ll have to use everything they know about the rules of horror to make it out alive.

American Spirits: The Famous Fox Sisters and the Mysterious Fad that Haunted a Nation

Barb Rosenstock

Rap. Rap. Rap. The eerie sound was first heard in March of 1848 at the home of the Fox family in Hydesville, New York. The family’s two daughters, Kate and Maggie, soon discovered that they could communicate with the spirit that was making these uncanny noises; he told them he had been a traveling peddler who had been murdered. This strange incident, and the ones that followed, generated a media frenzy beyond anything the Fox sisters could have imagined. Kate and Maggie, managed (or perhaps manipulated) by their elder sister Leah, became famous spirit mediums, giving public exhibitions, and advising other celebrities of their day.

But were the Fox sisters legitimate? In the years that followed their rise, the Civil War killed roughly 1 in 4 soldiers, increasing the demand for contacting the dead. However, media campaigns against the sisters gathered steam as well...

The Corruption of Hollis Brown

K. Ancrum

Hollis Brown is stuck. Born to a Blue-Collar American Dream, Hollis lives in a rotting small town where no one can afford to leave. Hollis's only bright spots are his two best friends, cool girls Annie and Yulia, and the thrill of fighting his classmates.

As if his circumstances couldn’t get worse, a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger named Walt results in a frightening trap. After unknowingly making a deal at the crossroads, Hollis finds himself losing control of his body and mind, falling victim to possession. Walt, the ghost making a home inside him, has a deep and violent history rooted in the town Hollis grew up in and he has unfinished business to take care of.

As Walt and Hollis begin working together to put Walt’s spirit to rest, an unspeakable bond forms between them, and the boys begin falling for one another in unexpected ways. But, it’s only a matter of time before Hollis’s best friends begin to notice that something about Hollis isn’t quite…right.

With the threat of a long overdue exorcism looming before them, will Walt and Hollis be able to protect their love and undo the curse that turned their town from a garden of possibility into a place where dreams go to die?

You've Awoken Her

Ann Dávila Cardinal

All Gabi wants is to spend the summer in his room, surrounded by his Funkos and books, but with his mom traveling, his bags are packed for the last place he wants to visit—the Hamptons. Staying with his best friend should have him willing to peek out of his cave, but ever since Ruth’s nouveau riche family moved, their friendship has been off.

Surrounded by mansions, country clubs, and Ruth’s new boyfriend, Frost Thurston—the axis that Hampton society orbits around—it doesn’t take long for Gabi to feel completely out of place. But when he witnesses a woman being pulled under the ocean water, and no one—not the police or anyone else in the Hamptons—seems to care, Gabi starts to wonder if maybe the beachside town’s bad vibes are more real than he thought.

As the “accidental” deaths and drownings begin to climb, Gabi knows he’ll need proof to convince Ruth they’re all in danger. And while the Thurston family name keeps rising to the top, along with every fresh body, what’s worst is that all the signs point to something lurking beneath the water—something with tentacles and a thirst for blood. Can Gabi figure out how the two are intertwined and put an end to the string of deaths…before becoming the water’s next victim? 

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