Young Adult Newsletter June 2025
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All County buildings, including the Library, will be closed on Thursday, June 19, in honor of Juneteenth. |
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Color Our World!
Summer is here, and that means the start of the summer reading program! What better way to spend your vacation than reading books, making art, going to crafting and gaming events with your friends, and earning sweet prizes?
Read on to find out more! |
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Let's Chat in Spanish!
| Tuesday, June 3, 10, 17, 24 | 1:00pm-2:00pm Hotpick Meeting Room
Join us for a weekly program designed to bring together speakers of all levels to practice conversational Spanish in a relaxed, friendly environment.
Learn more. |
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Teen Game Night
| Wednesday, June 4 | 4:30pm-6:30pm Library Lab
Whether you prefer to play online or IRL, gamers of all skill levels are invited to join us for snacks, board & video games, and good company! We'll have a wide array of board games and Nintendo Switch titles available to choose from.
Learn more. |
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Summer Reading Kickoff Party |
Friday, June 6 | 3:00pm-5:00pm Galena Plaza
Sign up for our summer reading program, play games, eat snacks, and visit booths from our community partners!
Learn more.
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Crafting at the Library: Fabric Bookmarks
| Saturday, June 7 | 3:00pm-5:00pm Library Lab
Join us for a rotating monthly craft program on the first Saturday of the month. In June, we'll be creating bookmarks with felt and basic embroidery stitches.
Learn more. |
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Book Thieves Book Club
| Wednesday, June 11 | 4:30pm-5:30pm Hotpick Meeting Room
The Book Thieves are a group of enthusiastic readers who meet monthly to discuss exciting young adult literature. This month's book is Alone Out Here by Riley Redgate.
Learn more. |
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Gaming at the Library: Video Games
| Saturday, June 14 | 3:00pm-5:00pm Dunaway Community Room
Join us for an afternoon of fun, competition, and community at our video gaming event! Whether you're a casual player or a seasoned gamer, we’ve got something for everyone.
Learn more. |
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Book to Film
| Wednesday, June 18 | 4:30pm-6:30pm Teen Area
Watch words come to life on the screen as we watch a movie based on a book and snack on popcorn. This month's showing is Blue Beetle, based on the DC comics series.
Learn more. |
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Teen Craft Night: Paper Crafts
| Wednesday, June 25 | 4:30pm-6:30pm Library Lab
Teen Craft Night is a relaxed, welcoming, self-directed studio night where you can come in and enjoy making something with your hands without pressure or expectation.
For this session, we'll provide supplies to collage, make a zine, and practice origami.
Learn more. |
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Gaming at the Library: Escape Room
| Saturday, June 28 | 3:00pm-5:00pm Dunaway Community Room
Gather your friends, family, or a group of fellow gamers to work together and solve puzzles, crack codes, and unravel mysteries.
Learn more. |
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Young Adult Recommended Reads
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Every month, we highlight stories with a different genre or theme in the Teen Area. Discover that there's more to graphic novels than superheroes in June!
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The Mystery of Penquan Island |
Kiku Hughes |
When a strange missing persons case falls into his lap, Mako is forced to choose between his job and doing what he feels is right! An upturned room and an unhelpful witness aren’t promising starts to the investigation, but when his brother Bolin comes across a surprising clue that ties their own mother to the case, the pair embark on a journey to the small, rustic island of Penquan. The island’s inhabitants seem to have things to hide, and the brothers are determined to get to the bottom of it—even if it means uncovering uncomfortable parts of their family’s past.
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Visitations |
Corey Egbert |
Corey’s mom has always made him feel safe. Especially after his parents’ divorce, and the dreaded visitations with his dad begin. But as Corey grows older, he can’t ignore his mother’s increasingly wild accusations. Her insistence that God has appointed Corey as his sister’s protector. Her declaration that Corey’s father is the devil.
Soon, she whisks Corey and his sister away from their home and into the boiling Nevada desert. There, they struggle to survive with little food and the police on the trail. Meanwhile, under the night sky, Corey is visited by a flickering ghost, a girl who urges him to fight for a different world―one outside of his mother’s spoon-fed tales, one Corey must find before it’s too late.
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Strange Bedfellows |
Ariel Slamet Ries |
In the not-too-distant future, most of humanity resides on its last-ditch effort at utopia: Meridian, a remote alien planet where you’re more likely to be born superhuman than left-handed.
None of that is important to Oberon Afolayan. Since his mildly public breakdown, his whole life seems to be spiraling out of control—from dropping out of university to breaking up with his boyfriend, it seems like only a karmic inevitability when he wakes up one day with the ability to conjure his dreams in the real world.
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Slam! Complete Collection |
Pamela Ribon |
From Fresh Meat Orientation to becoming leaders on-and-off the track, follow Jennifer “Knockout” Chu and Maisie “Can-Can” Huff on their journey to roller derby domination! Messy lives, complicated friendships, and new romance blossom as they learn to take their hits, get back up, break some bones, take on adult responsibilities, and jam on their competing teams in the Eastside Roller Girls league! |
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Shadows on the Ice: The 1972 Andes Disaster |
Frédéric Bertocchini |
On a fateful Friday the 13th in October 1972, a plane traveling from Uruguay to Chile, carrying a young rugby team, crashed in an inaccessible area in the heart of the Andes Mountains. For many weeks, the survivors had to endure intense cold, biting hunger, thirst, and the despair of being completely abandoned. To survive, they eventually resorted to eating the flesh from the frozen bodies of the deceased. In this harrowing and almost inhuman ordeal, they were spared nothing. |
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Jonesy Complete Collection |
Sam Humphries |
Jonesy will make you fall in love! Seriously, it’s her special secret power—she can make you fall in love with anyone or thing else… except herself! But Jonesy knows what’s cool… and her power definitely is! A laugh-out-loud high school comedy with sick zines, cute ferrets, and donuts to die for! Follow Jonesy through the life of a disaffected teenager in bummer high school and all the trouble that comes with being a human cupid’s arrow! |
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Have questions?
| Call 970-429-1900 |
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