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Teen FWIW Newsletter
Issue #80 Oct 2016
Teen Read Week — OCT. 9-15
Teen Read Week was created in 1998 by YALSA (Young Adult
Library Services Association) to encourage teens to become regular
readers and library users.
It is held annually in October the same week as Columbus Day. #TRW16
TEENS’ TOP TEN - Voting Ends Oct. 15!
FROM YALSA’s (Young Adult Library Services Association) website:
The Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the
previous year!
Vote online by Oct. 15 at http://bit.ly/1qaixDF
Winners announced the week of Oct. 17!
Alive by Chandler Baker
The Summer After You & Mee
by Jennifer Salvato Doktorski
The Ghosts of Heaven
by Marcus Sedgwick
The Darkest Part of the Forest
by Holly Black
Charlie, Presumed Dead by Anne Heltzel
The Glass Arrow by Kristen Simmons
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
The Witch Hunter by Virginia Boecker
When by Victoria Laurie
Black Widow Forever Red
by Margaret Stohl
The Game of Love and Death
by Martha Brockenbrough
The Novice: Summoner: Book One
by Taran Matharu
Every Last Word
by Tamara Ireland Stone
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Powerless by Tera Lynn Childs
& Tracy Deebs
Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell
You and Me and Him by Kris Dinnison
Mark of the Thief by Jennifer A. Neilson
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
I Am Princess X by Cherie Priest
Hold Me Like a Breath by Tiffany Schmidt
Con Academy by Joe Schreiber
Zeroes by Scott Westerfeld, Margo
Lanagan, & Deborah Biancotti
Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls
by Lynn Weingarten
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
Check out the Teens’ Top 10 for 2016 board on our Pinterest!
https://www.pinterest.com/slocolibrary/teens-top-ten-2016/
Ink to Image—DOUBLE FEATURE!
In Theaters: (09/30/2016)
Maximum Ride
Reserve a copy from another
Library… NO CHARGE!
In Theaters: (09/30/2016)
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Missed it in the movie theater? The Library has thousands of DVDs—animation, action, comedy, music,
and more—to check out for three weeks NO CHARGE!
Spine-tingling TALES for October
The Fall by Bethany Griffin
A retelling of Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' in which Madeline and her twin brother,
Roderick, suffer from the Usher family illness but she hears the House talking to her, filling her dreams,
controlling her actions, and ensuring she never leaves the property.
Asylum by Madeleine Roux
Three teens at a summer program for gifted students uncover shocking secets in the sanatoriumturned-dorm where they're staying--secrets that link them all to the asylum's dark past.
The Dark Between by Sonia Gensler
Three teenagers in Victorian era Cambridge spend the summer at a local college and soon discover
that their hosts, the Metaphysical Society, may be conducting sinister experiments in an attempt
to communicate with the dead.
The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who
hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by April Genevieve Tucholke
Violet is in love with River, a mysterious seventeen-year-old stranger renting the guest house behind
the rotting seaside mansion where Violet lives, but when eerie, grim events begin to happen, Violet
recalls her grandmother's frequent warnings about the devil and wonders if River is evil.
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts
and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.