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Young Adult Newsletter February 2026 |
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All County buildings, including the Library, will be closed on Monday, February 16, in observance of Presidents' Day. |
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Teen Advisory Board (TAB) | Tuesday, February 3 | 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.
Learn more. |
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Crafting at the Library: Paper Flowers | Saturday, February 7 | 3:00pm-5:00pm Library Lab
Join us for a rotating monthly craft program on the first Saturday of the month. In January, we will be making paper flowers.
Learn more. |
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Dungeons & Dragons |
Saturday, February 14, 28 | 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+.
Learn more. |
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Book Thieves Book Club | Tuesday, February 17 | 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.
February's book is Lady's Knight by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner.
Learn more. |
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Bookish Crafts: Book Bedazzling |
Saturday, February 21 | 3:00pm-5:00pm Library Lab
Join us on the third Saturday of the month for a rotating lineup of literary-inspired projects. In February, we'll be decorating book covers with rhinestones!
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. Warm your heart in the cold winter months with a romance! |
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A Time Traveler's History of Tomorrow | Kendall Kulper | Genevieve Newhouse and Ash Hargreaves weren’t supposed to meet like this. Unless it was always meant to be...
Gen is a fastidious science prodigy with a chip on her shoulder, and she can turn herself invisible.
Happy-go-lucky Ash has just escaped a sheltered (read: cultish) childhood, and he can manipulate time.
The gifted eighteen-year-olds cross paths at the 1934 Chicago World’s Fair, where Genevieve’s experimental physics project causes an apocalyptic explosion. Ash tries to avert catastrophe by gallantly rewinding time a few minutes, but instead, he transports them back to 1893. The duo finds themselves trapped in an unfamiliar, unwelcoming era, with no idea how to return to their own time—or if their own time even exists. Their cataclysmic leap across decades might have destroyed the world as they know it...
Fate and free will intertwine in this page turning historical romance that sets two irresistible strangers down a chaotic, potentially apocalyptic path. “Will they or won’t they” takes on a whole new meaning as Gen and Ash fight for survival while falling in love.
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Heart Check: A Varsity Novel | Emily Charlotte |
Luke Dawson and Harper Braedon could have been friends. They trade shifts at the same diner, share classes at school, and are driven by their greatest passions: hockey for Dawson and jewelry-making for Harper. But some things aren't meant to be. Dawson thinks Harper is stuck-up, too good for anything resembling school spirit. Harper thinks Dawson is a self-centered jock, a perfect fit for a hockey team that seems to absorb all the budget away from the arts departments.
When his beloved hockey coach gets fired for misallocation of funds, Dawson is terrified that all his plans for impressing scouts are vanishing before his eyes. A rumor goes around that Harper was the one who got him fired, and suddenly she’s public enemy number one.
But even with their mutual dislike at an all-time high, Harper and Dawson can’t escape splitting shifts forever. Can forced proximity help them find some common ground, or will long-held grudges finally succeed in bringing them both down? |
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Worst-Case Scenario | Ray Stoeve | Sidney has one goal for their junior year. Well . . . two, if they’re being honest. Number one: become president of their school’s Queer Alliance club. And number two: keep their self-diagnosed anxiety in check so their grades don’t tank like they did last year.
But when the election results in a tie with none other than Sidney’s arch nemesis, the class clown Forrest, the two are forced to share the presidency until a revote at the end of term. Sidney expects Forrest to be insufferable, but it turns out that working together is . . . kind of nice?
As surprising feelings for Forrest emerge, Sidney’s techniques for managing their anxiety stop working. With the reelection approaching and assignments starting to pile up, will all this pressure be too much for Sidney to handle on their own? |
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I'll Find You Where the Timeline Ends | Kylie Lee Baker |
Descended from a Japanese dragon god, Yang Mina was born with the power to travel through time, and has spent her life training to take her place in the Descendants, a secret organization whose purpose is to protect the timeline. Then Mina’s world is uprooted when she moves to Seoul and finds a note from her sister–a sister who no one remembers, as if she had been erased. The only people who could have made her sister vanish so completely are part of the very agency that she’s been working so hard to join. So now Mina has a new mission, infiltrate the agency as quickly as possible to find her lost sister.
And, as if things weren’t complicated enough, a strikingly handsome rogue agent has determined that Mina is the only person who can help him put an end to the Descendants' corruption. Placed in an impossible situation, Mina must decide how much she’s willing to risk to find the truth. |
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There's Always Next Year | Leah Johnson and George M. Johnson |
Andy was supposed to shed her too-serious student journalist persona and reinvent herself on New Year's Eve. Instead, she puked on her crush, dropped her phone in a fish tank, and managed to get her car stolen. Now, she only has the first day of the year to stop the gentrification that’s threatening her family’s business right her wrongs from the night before, and figure out why she feels so drawn to the electric new-girl-next-door. How can Andy find her voice when everything’s being turned upside down?
Dominique is an influencer on the verge of securing a major brand deal that will ensure his future and family legacy. But when he runs into his former best friend, unresolved feelings emerge -- and in a small town, there's nowhere to hide. Not from his cousin, Andy, who has always seen him for his true self, not from his busybody manager, Kim, whose favorite color is money green, and certainly not from himself. When all the world’s a stage, can Dominique rise to superstardom without leaving the ones he loves behind?
There’s Always Next Year is a dual POV, double love story about what it means to nearly blow your life up, and race to put it back together before your time runs out. And if they fail? Well, there’s always next year. |
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Have questions? |
Call 970-429-1900 | |
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