By Emily X. R Pan
With Meghan Fangmann, Librarian, Pam Strudler, Librarian
Tuesday, August 6, 2019. 7:30 PM.
A teen grieving the loss of her mother travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time and search for her mother's spirit while uncovering tragic family secrets and struggling to reconcile the truth about how her mother's life really ended.
By Meg Medina
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian
With Meghan Fangmann, Librarian, Pam Strudler, Librarian
Tuesday, August 7, 2018. 7:30 PM
Enduring the infamous New York summer of 1977 in the wake of arson fires, a massive blackout and the Son of Sam serial killings, 17-year-old Nora Lopez navigates the additional stresses of her family's limited finances, her father's absence and her brother's growing violence.
By Elizabeth Wein
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director
With Pam Strudler, Librarian, Sharon Long, Teen Librarian
Tuesday, July 22, 2014. 1:30 PM.
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage and great courage as she relates what she must do to survive.
By Meg Wolitzer
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian
With Pam Strudler, Librarian, Lisa Hollander, Readers' Services Librarian
Tuesday, March 26th 2019
A college student finds her perspectives transformed by a mentor activist at the center of the women's movement who challenges her to discover herself in ways that take her far from the traditional life she envisioned.
By John Green
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian
With Sharon Long, Teen Librarian, Pam Strudler, Librarian
Tuesday, August 4, 2015. 7:30 PM.
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.
By Jennifer Donnelly
With Sharon Long, Teen Librarian, Pam Strudler, Librarian
Tuesday, July 23, 2013. 1:30 PM.
An angry, grieving seventeen–year–old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy––Louis Charles, the lost king of France.
By E. Lockhart
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services
With Sharon Long, Teen Librarian, Pam Strudler, Librarian
Tuesday, August 9, 2016. 7:30 PM.
Crossover book discussion of the Young Adult Novel.
Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.