Teen/YA Books: These are books centered around adolescents and young adults, between the ages of 13 to 18.
Included in this category are fiction/non-fiction books and audiobooks. We offer these in traditional and electronic formats.
“KINDNESS IS THE LANGUAGE WHICH THE DEAF CAN HEAR AND THE BLIND CAN SEE” —Mark Twain My BFF and I went shopping. It was the middle of summer, and we decided to break at a popular shaved ice stand. It was blazing hot, and the line was a million people long. The thought of our…
I’d give you a cookie, but I ate it. -Cookie MOnster February is a time of LOVE! There is no better thing to love than COOKIES! Did you know that the word “cookie” comes from the Dutch “koekje,” meaning little cake. British people call them biscuits. One type of “cookie” originated in Persia in 7th…
“Racism separates, but it never liberates. Hatred generates fear, and fear once given a foothold; binds, consumes and imprisons. Nothing is gained from prejudice. No one benefits from racism.” ― Thurgood Marshall Books About Social Justice Just mercy : adapted for young people : a true story of the fight for justice Bryan Stevenson The young…
“We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.” – Maya Angelou Writers are those who commits his or her thoughts, ideas, and feelings to paper. They…
Programs of Interest During the shortest month of the year, we are hosting a short poetry contest. Teen Haiku Contest Saturday, February 1-Saturday, February 29, 2020 A haiku is a short Japanese poem consisting of three lines and a total of 17 syllables. The first and last lines of a haiku have five syllables and…
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. Carter G. Woodson Facts @ Black History Month The celebration of Black History Month began as “Negro History Week,” which was created by Carter G. Woodson and other prominent African Americans. Carter…
