YA: Your Alcove
Welcome to Your Alcove, the Summertime Public Library's Teen page!
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Try It!
Could you tell aboout your life in only six words? The real teens in I Can't Keep My Own Secrets did just that. Here are some examples:
"They screamed "nobody". I believed them."--Andrew C.
"He proposed. I'm fourteen. He's seventeen."--Briana R.
"Gave up one addiction for another."--Marrisa L.
"Finally learned "weird" is compliment."--Teagan E.
Want to give it a shot? Click on Teen Talk, find the entry for six word memiors, and submit yours.
"They screamed "nobody". I believed them."--Andrew C.
"He proposed. I'm fourteen. He's seventeen."--Briana R.
"Gave up one addiction for another."--Marrisa L.
"Finally learned "weird" is compliment."--Teagan E.
Want to give it a shot? Click on Teen Talk, find the entry for six word memiors, and submit yours.
Book of the Moment
Breathless by Jessica Warman
Katie Kitrell feels that the only thing that she is truly good at is swimming. Her talent even helps her make friends at her new boarding school. But none of her new friends really know her and they don’t know about the secret that she’s keeping—or the lie that she’s told them. They don’t know about her family…about her brother. She told them a lie--an awful, terrible lie to explain why she had suddenly got sent away to boarding school. She couldn’t imagine what they would think if they knew the truth. She soon becomes part of the elite crowd, but that makes it even harder to keep her secret especially when her brother does something she had never thought him capable of…
This semi-autobiographical novel was first written right after the author graduated from high school when she was 18.
This semi-autobiographical novel was first written right after the author graduated from high school when she was 18.
Just In
Do you want to...
Have a laugh? The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz Be horrified? What Happened to Cass McBride by Gail Giles Embark on an adventure? Foundling by D. M. Cornish Find out what your history teacher never told you? America's Hidden History by Kenneth Davis |
Find out how dangerous a book can be?
Mr. Pip by James Lloyd Find out how everything is connected? Me, the Missing, and the Dead by Jenny Valentine Uncover the truth? Madapple by Christina Meldrum Travel to a new world? Chronicles of Pern by Anne McCaffrey Find out why? 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher |
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