Teen Times @ HPL
August 2019
Cosmic Bath Bombs
Eggstronaut Drop
Hidden Figures
Teen Advisory Group
August Happenings
Thursday, August 1st: No Teen Program
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Teens: Thursday, August 8th at 5:30pm in the Teen Room. Teens kickoff the 2019-2020 year with a Disney theme fun night.
Design Your Theme Park: Thursday, August 15th at 5:30pm in the Teen Room. Teens will partner together to develop a theme park of their very own.
Theme Parks Come Alive: Thursday, August 22nd at 5:30pm in the Teen Room. Come join the teens as they take posters and markers and make their theme parks come alive.
Character Self Posters: Thursday, August 29th at 5:30pm in the Teen Room. Teens will each choose a Disney character they most relate to and create a self poster to hang in the Teen Room.
New Books on the Shelf
The Silence Between Us by Alison Gervais is a book where teens will relate to the issues of parental influence, peer pressures, and first loves. It also reveals a deeper understanding of what it means to be different in a world where sameness is the standard. Moving halfway across the country to Colorado right before senior year isn’t Maya’s idea of a good time. Leaving behind Pratt School for the Deaf where she’s been a student for years only to attend a hearing school is even worse. Maya has dreams of breaking into the medical field and is determined to get the grades and a college degree to match, and she’s never considered being deaf a disability. Her teachers and classmates at Engelmann High don’t seem to share her optimism. Then there’s Beau Watson, Engelmann’s student body president and overachiever. Maya suspects Beau’s got a hidden agenda when he starts learning ASL to converse with her, but she also can’t deny it’s nice to sign with someone amongst all the lip reading she has to do with her hearing teachers and classmates. Maya has always been told that deaf/hearing relationships never work, and yet she can’t help but be drawn to Beau as they spend more and more time together. As much as Maya and Beau genuinely start to feel for one another, there are unmistakable differences in their worlds. Maya has to figure out whether bridging that gap between the deaf and hearing worlds will be worth it, or if staying true to herself matters more. This book will be shelved in Teen General.
The Downstairs Girl is written by Stacey Lee. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta in the year 1890. By night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for the genteel Southern lady, "Dear Miss Sweetie." When her column becomes wildly popular, she uses the power of the pen to address some of society's ills, but she's not prepared for the backlash that follows when her column challenges fixed ideas about race and gender. While her opponents clamor to uncover the secret identity of Miss Sweetie, a mysterious letter sets Jo off on a search for her own past and the parents who abandoned her as a baby. When her efforts put her in the cross hairs of Atlanta's most notorious criminal, Jo must decide whether she, a girl used to living in the shadows, is ready to step into the light. You will find this book shelved in Teen Historical.
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