Hunger

I was pleasantly surprised by this book!  It was much better than I anticipated.  I especially love the reference to Kurt Cobain...check it out!

HUNGER

REVIEWS

"'Thou art the Black Rider. Go thee out unto the world.'

Lisabeth Lewis has a black steed, a set of scales, and a new job: she’s been appointed Famine. How will an anorexic seventeen-year-old girl from the suburbs fare as one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?

Traveling the world on her steed gives Lisa freedom from her troubles at home: her constant battle with hunger, and her struggle to hide it from the people who care about her. But being Famine forces her to go places where hunger is a painful part of everyday life, and to face the horrifying effects of her phenomenal power. Can Lisa find a way to harness that power — and the courage to battle her own inner demons?" -goodreads.com

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

This book was hysterical and wonderful!  Check it out...Miss Texas is fabulous and the pirates are pure win!!!  This is all I need to say about this book...read it and find out all the wonderfulness for yourself!

BEAUTY QUEENS

REVIEWS
"The fifty contestants in the Miss Teen Dream pageant thought this was going to be a fun trip to the beach, where they could parade in their state-appropriate costumes and compete in front of the cameras. But sadly, their airplane had another idea crashing on a desert island and leaving the survivors stranded with little food, little water, and practically no eyeliner.


What's a beauty queen to do? Continue to practice for the talent portion of the program--or wrestle snakes to the ground? Get a perfect tan--or learn to run wild? And what should happen when the sexy pirates show up?

Welcome to the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Your tour guide? None other than Libba Bray, the hilarious, sensational, Printz Award-winning author of A Great and Terrible Beauty and Going Bovine. The result is a novel that will make you laugh, make you think, and make you never see beauty the same way again." -goodreads.com

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More Summer Reads and Teen Reviews!

Love to read reviews my people your own age and not those librarians and teachers that write reviews?  Here's your chance!  Check out the newest  TEEN REVIEWS from School Library Journal!  Remember, if any of these books strike your fancy, let me know so I can order them for the collection (That is if we don't already have them)!!!

Check out the books below on the Summer Road Trip Display in the Library!!!

And Now for a Road Trip!

Paper Towns

"Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life - dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows.


After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues - and they’re for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees of the girl he thought he knew.

Printz medalist John Green returns with the brilliant wit and searing emotional honesty that have inspired a new generation of listeners." -goodreads.com

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This Week in Africa

Chanda's Secret

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"A girl's struggle amid the African AIDS pandemic.


"As soon as I get back from the shabeen, I go next door to see Mrs. Tafa. I have to ask to use her phone to let our relatives know about Sara. I'm nervous. Mrs. Tafa would like to run the world. Since she can't run the world she's decided to run our neighborhood."

So speaks sixteen-year-old Chanda, an astonishingly perceptive girl living in the small city of Bonang, a fictional city in Southern Africa.

While Mrs. Tafa's hijinks are often amusing, the fact is that Chanda's world is profoundly difficult. When her youngest sister dies, the first hint of HIV/AIDS emerges.

In this sensitive, swiftly-paced story readers will find echoes of To Kill a Mockingbird as Chanda must confront undercurrents of shame and stigma. Not afraid to explore the horrific realities of AIDS, Chanda's Secrets also captures the enduring strength of loyalty, friendship and family ties. Above all, it is a story about the corrosive nature of secrets and the healing power of truth.

Through the artful style of acclaimed author Stratton, the determination and resilience Chanda embodies will live on in readers' minds." -goodreads

Happy Summer Reading!

Summer has officially begun here at the Richton Park Public Library!  The theme this year is One World, Many Stories with the Special Teen theme being, "You Are Here".  So because Summer is super busy with all the awesome teen programs Ms Laura puts on for the teens, I think I will be posting some of the wonderful books we have on display for the Summer! 

The theme for our Display is "Road Trip America, Read Across the World" and all the books are about road trips taken and teens in other countries...check some out!!!

Going Bovine

REVIEWS

"Can Cameron find what he’s looking for?


All 16-year-old Cameron wants is to get through high school—and life in general—with a minimum of effort. It’s not a lot to ask. But that’s before he’s given some bad news: he’s sick and he’s going to die. Which totally sucks. Hope arrives in the winged form of Dulcie, a loopy punk angel/possible hallucination with a bad sugar habit. She tells Cam there is a cure—if he’s willing to go in search of it. With the help of a death-obsessed, video-gaming dwarf and a yard gnome, Cam sets off on the mother of all road trips through a twisted America into the heart of what matters most."-goodreads