Teen Times @ HPL
April 2020
Happy Spring
The monthly newsletter looks a bit different. Even though the library is currently closed, I just wanted to update you and send some recent program pictures. Since I cannot predict when the library will reopen, I did not list the normal program activities.
I hope each of you are staying in and staying well!
Teen Dance Decor
Teen Dance Moves
Dancin' Through the Decades
New Book Suggestions
They Went Left is Monica Hesse's well-researched historical fiction focusing on what happened to survivors after the Holocaust ended. Germany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over, but nothing feels over to eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman. Her body has barely begun to heal, her mind feels broken, and her life is completely shattered. Three years before, she and her younger brother, Abek, were the only members of their family to be sent to the right, away from the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Everyone else, her parents, her grandmother, radiant Aunt Maja, were all sent left. Zofia's last words to her brother were a promise, "Abek to Zofia, A to Z. When I find you again, we will fill our alphabet." Now her journey to fulfill that vow takes her through Poland and Germany, and into a displaced persons camp where everyone she meets is trying to piece together a future from a painful past. Miriam is desperately searching for the twin she was separated from after they survived medical experimentation. Breine, a former heiress, longs only for a simple wedding with her new fiancé. Josef, who guards his past behind a wall of secrets, is beautiful and strange and magnetic all at once. The deeper Zofia digs, the more impossible her search seems. How can she find one boy in a sea of the missing? This book will be shelved in Teen Historical.
Golden Arm, written by top-flight sports writer Carl Deuker, is a riveting story about baseball and brotherhood. As Lazarus "Laz" Weathers enters his senior year, his life already seems to be heading toward a dead end. Laz stutters, his struggles in school mean college isn't an option, the trailer park where he lives is about to be shut down, and his beloved brother has started hanging out with the local drug dealer. The only bright spot on Laz's horizon is baseball. Laz is a gifted pitcher, but his hopes of getting recruited for the minor leagues are dashed when his high school team forfeits at the beginning of their season. Fortunately, a last-minute chance to pitch for a wealthy school across town gives him one final chance to escape the trailer park and make a life for himself. This book will be shelved in Teen General.
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