Hillsborough Library Teens

Today is the first day that you can sign up for our Teen Summer Reading Club!  The Club is open to those entering Grades 6-12.

The basic idea is that you:
     Register.  Read.  Record.  Win Prizes.

It’s super easy!

1.  Register.
     Visit the Children’s Desk of the Hillsborough Library to sign up for the club.  You’ll get your 1st raffle ticket JUST for signing up!

2.  Read.
     You can read ANYTHING you want.  There are no limitations and we don’t tell you what to read.  You can read fiction, non-fiction, comics, manga, audio, e-books, magazines and more.  You can even read your suggested or required school books.
     Keep track of the # of hours you read each day.  Write it on your take home reading log (we’ll give it to you at sign-up.)

3.  Record.
     Whenever you come back to the library, bring your take home reading log and tell us how many hours you’ve read so far.  The more you read, the more prizes you can earn.

4.  Win Prizes.
     You earn a raffle ticket for every 3 hours that you read.  Every raffle ticket is an entry toward our gift card prizes.  Some of our gift cards this year are for GameStop, Barnes & Noble, Forever21 and more…
     At certain hour milestones you can also earn prizes or DOUBLE raffle tickets.  Some of our prizes include books, jewelry, tech decks, lip gloss, key chains, fake mustaches and more…

     A Samsung Galaxy Tablet 2
     7” full color display, Wi-Fi, 8 GB internal memory
     Watch movies, play games, download apps, read books, take pics

     When you sign up for the club, there is no obligation to read certain books or a certain number of hours.  There is so much flexibility!  The summer reading club is designed to reward you just for reading.

The summer reading club is from June 17 - Sept. 4.

You can sign up at any time.  For example:
- If you don’t have a chance to register until July or August, you can still get credit for the hours you’ve read since June 17th.
- Let’s say you go away on vacation for months and you think you can’t participate.  Chances are - you still can!  Just keep track of how many hours you read over the summer.  Even if you can’t make it to the library until Sept. 3, just stop by the Children’s Desk, sign up for the club, and mark the total number of hours you’ve read all summer.

You can still earn your raffle tickets and prizes!  If you’ve read, then you’ve earned them!

So sign up for the Teen Summer Reading Club!  
What are you waiting for?!

Here’s some of our newest YA books!  Click the title to view the book in our catalog, to read reviews, or to place the book on hold.

     Rosie’s always been impulsive.  She didn’t intend to set her cheating ex-boyfriend’s car on fire.  And she never thought her attempts to make amends could be considered stalking.  So when she’s served with a temporary restraining order on the first day of summer vacation, she’s heartbroken - and furious.  To put distance between Rosie and her ex, Rosie’s parents send her on a cross-country road trip with responsible, reliable neighbor Matty and his two friends.  (Romance, Road Trips)

     There are some things that Olive Bell can never forget, like falling in love with her first boyfriend, Derek.  There are other things that Olive can’t remember, like the name of the mysterious melody that haunts her every waking moment.  After a near-fatal car accident, Olive meets with the Near Death Society, a support group where she meets the enigmatic Nick.  He’s dark, handsome, mysterious… and Olive is drawn to him in a way she can’t explain.  Is there such a thing as fate?  (Dating, Relationships, Tear Jerker)

     For Cricket Thompson, a summer like this one will change everything.  A summer spent on Nantucket with her best friend, Jules Clayton, and the indomitable Clayton family.  A summer when she’ll make the almost unattainable Jay Logan hers.  A summer to surpass all dreams.  Some of this turns out to be true.  Some of it doesn’t.  When Jules and her family suffer a devastating tragedy that forces the girls apart, Jules becomes a stranger whom Cricket wonders whether she ever really knew.  (Beach Read with Intense Themes)

     Kimberlee Schaffer may be drop-dead gorgeous… but she also dropped dead last year.  Now she needs Jeff’s help with her unfinished business, and she’s not taking no for an answer.  When she was alive, Kimberlee wasn’t just a mean girl; she was also a complete kleptomaniac.  So if Jeff wants to avoid being haunted until graduation, he’ll have to help her return everything she stole.  (Humorous Ghost Story)

     More than anything, Joel wants to be a Rithmatist.  Rithmatists have the power to infuse life into two-dimensional figures known as Chalklings.  Rithmatists are humanity’s only defense against the Wild Chalklings.  Having nearly overrun the territory of Nebrask, the Wild Chalklings now threaten all of the American Isles.  As the son of a lowly chalkmaker at Armedius Academy, Joel can only watch as Rithmatist students learn the magical art that he would do anything to practice.  Then students start disappearing - kidnapped from their rooms at night, leaving trails of blood.  Assigned to help the professor who is investigating the crimes, Joel and his friend Melody find themselves on the trail of an unexpected discovery - one that will change Rithmatics - and their world - forever.  (Fantasy, Adventure)

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Here’s a look at our newest YA books.  Click the title to view the book in our catalog, read reviews, and place the book on hold!

     Stephen has been invisible for practically his whole life because of a curse his grandfather, a powerful cursecaster, bestowed on Stephen’s mother before Stephen was born.  So when Elizabeth moves to Stephen’s NYC apartment building from Minnesota, no one is more surprised than he is that she can see him.  A budding romance ensues, and when Stephen confides in Elizabeth about his predicament, the two of them decide to dive headfirst into the secret world of cursecasters and spellseekers to figure out a way to break the curse.  (Magic, Fantasy, Family Problems)

     Ben and Maggie have met, fallen in love, and died together countless times.  Over the course of two pivotal days - both the best and worst of their lives - they struggle again and again to resist the pull of fate and the force of time itself.  With each failure, they return to the beginning of their end, a wild road trip that brings them to the scene of their own murders and into the hands of the man who is destined to kill them.  (Science Fiction)

     The first book in a series about 17-year-old Bea Washington, an edgy, charismatic outsider and recovering addict, who discovers that with her newfound sobriety, she has a disturbing new skill: an ability to see, and draw, people’s thoughts.  Alarmingly, these visions are only getting stronger and increasing in frequency.  (Paranormal Mystery)

     When 18-year-old Becky Randle’s mother dies, she is whisked away from a trailer park to New York City, where fashion designer Tom Kelly offers to transform her into a glamorous Rebecca, a girl fit for a prince - but soon she begins to fear that she will lose touch with her real self.

     We were only three angry girls, to begin with.  Alix, the hot-tempered surfer chick; Stephanie, the tree-hugging activist; and me, Meg, the quiet foster kid, the one who never quite fit in.  We hardly knew each other, but each of us nurtured a burning anger: at the jerks in our class, at our disappointing parents, at the whole flawed, unjust world.  We were only three angry girls, simmering uselessly in our ocean-side California town, until one day a mysterious, beautiful classmate named Ambrosia taught us what else we could be: Powerful.  Deadly.  Furious.  (Mythology, Revenge)

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     Did you know that the Hillsborough Library is celebrating too?!  We are giving away FREE comics, manga and graphic novels!  We’ll also have a DIY Artist’s Station for you to work on your own comics. 

Stop by any time between 10 am - 4 pm.

Here’s a hint of some of our freebies:
Spider-man, Hulk, Alan Moore, Batman, Iron Man, Simpsons, Inubaka, Fruits Basket and MORE.

Program available will supplies last.  No registration required.
Open to Teens in Grades 6-12.  1 free comic per teen.

Celebrate World Book Night at the Hillsborough Library!

World Book Night is an annual celebration dedicated to spreading the love of reading, person to person.

http://www.us.worldbooknight.org/

Visit the library today to take home a FREE copy of
Looking for Alaska by John Green:

     First drink.  First prank.  First girl.  Last words.  Miles “Pudge” Halter is abandoning his safe, okay, boring life.  Fascinated by the last words of famous people, Pudge leaves for boarding school to seek what a dying Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.”  Pudge becomes encircled by friends whose lives are everything but safe and boring.  Their nucleus is razor-sharp, sexy, and self-destructive Alaska, who has perfected the arts of pranking and evading school rules.  Pudge falls impossibly in love.  When tragedy strikes the close-knit group, it is only in coming face-to-face with death that Pudge discovers the value of living and loving unconditionally.

Here’s some of our newest YA books.  Click the title to view the book in our catalog - read reviews, place the book on hold, or view similar titles.

     Seventeen-year-old “Hank,” who can’t remember his identity, finds himself in Penn Station with a copy of Thoreau’s Walden as his only possession and must figure out where he’s from and why he ran away.  (Mystery… kind of)

     An orphaned sixteen-year-old servant in Victorian England finds love while unraveling the secrets of a mysterious society of inventors and their most dangerous creation.  (Steampunk Mystery/Fantasy)

     Period 8 has always been a safe haven and high school senior Paulie “The Bomb” Baum a constant attendee, but as Paulie, Hannah, their friends, and a sympathetic teacher try to unravel the mystery of a missing classmate, the ultimate bully takes aim at the school.  (Mystery)

     As rehearsals begin for the ballet version of Peter Pan, the teenaged members of an Ohio dance troupe lose their focus when one of their own goes missing.  (Mystery)

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