Have you ever been reading a book (for example: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), and you get really into the topic and want to learn more about it? Well, look no further than our Teen book display in the lobby full of teen fiction and nonfiction books paired together just for you!
Here are a few you’ll see on the display, but make sure to come check it out for more!
Hello out there! We hope that you’re healthy and safe hunkering down at home! And we know that you’re probably looking for something to read! Since searching through all of the ebooks out there can be a little overwhelming, I thought I’d send some recommendations your way. Here are a few of my favorite teen books available through Overdrive!
Fantasy – Magic School
Historical – World War II
In the Hall with the Knife by Diana Peterfreund
Mystery – Thriller
Mirror, Mirror by Jen Calonita
Fairytale Retelling – Disney
Science Fiction – Space
Down and Across by Arvin Ahmadi
Contemporary – Diverse
The Silence Between Us by Alison Gervais
Romance – #OwnVoices
Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson
Graphic Novel – Superheroes
There’s Something About Sweetie
by Sandhya Menon
4 stars
A delightful companion to Sandhya Menon’s When Dimple Met Rishi, her latest follows Rishi’s brother, n’er-do-well Ashish, and Sweetie Nair. Sweetie is, well, sweet, loyal, funny, athletic, beautiful, and fat…which her mother claims makes her not quite good enough for the hunky and rich Ashish. Ashish and Sweetie go behind her back in this cute, heartfelt yet hilarious teen romance.
Menon delivers a realistic take on Sweetie’s body image struggles or, more accurately, the struggles those around her have while she accepts herself just as she is. An empowering read!
Read-alikes
Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy
From Twinkle, with Love by Sandhya Menon
Size 12 Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot
Under the Never Sky
by Veronica Rossi
4 stars
It’s the year of catching up! My reading goal for this year is to read books that I’ve intended to read or series that I’ve intended to finish, and so far I’m enjoying it! One of those reads was a New York Times bestseller back in 2012, the dystopian trilogy Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi.
The trilogy tells the story of life after Earth has been ravaged by Aether storms. Aria, a Dweller, has group up in a pod, where she has been sheltered from the world outside and lives a primarily virtual life (think virtual reality built into your eye). When she tries to reach her scientist mother who may be missing, a tragic event occurs and Aria is banished from her home into the terrifying outside world. There she meets Perry, a harsh, savage Outsider (and your next fictional boyfriend) who is trying to save his nephew from Dweller kidnappers. They agree to help each other find their loved ones and together trek across the wilderness.
Check out this oldie-but-goodie for a little scifi, romance, adventure, and a little everything in between. You’ll fall in love with the characters (Roar is my favorite) and definitely have a “book hangover” when you finish reading!
Read-alikes
Matched by Ally Condie
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Partials by Dan Wells
Here at 7 teen books that will be adapted to movies in 2019!
Between Shades of Gray (Ashes in the Snow) by Ruta Sepetys
Release Date: January 11th
Retitled and released first in Lithuania, this World War II story tells of a 16 year-old aspiring artist and her family who are deported to Siberia amidst Stalin’s brutal dismantling of the Baltic region.
Starring: Bel Powley, Peter Franzen, Jonah Hauer-King
The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking) by Patrick Ness
Release Date: March 1st
Todd Hewitt, a boy who grows up in a town of only men, discovers that despite everyone’s shared ability to read minds, his peers keep him from a terrible secret.
Starring: Tom Holland, Nick Jonas, Cynthia Erivo
Five Feet Apart by Rachel Lippincott
Release Date: March 22nd
Two teens with cystic fibrosis meet in the hospital and fall in love even though they can’t be within five feet each other.
Starring: Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
Release Date: May 17th
The son of Korean shopkeepers and a daughter from a family of illegal Jamaican immigrants meet and fall in love one fateful day in New York City.
Starring: Charles Melton and Yara Shahidi
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Release Date: August 9th
Artemis, a teenage criminal genius, kidnaps the fairy LEPrecon officer Holly Short for ransom to fund the search for his missing father and restore the family fortune.
Starring: Hong Chau, Josh Gad, and Judi Dench
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Release Date: December 25th
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England.
Starring: Emma Watson, Saoirse Ronan, and Meryl Streep