shorlibteens

[shorlibteens]

Dark Academia

& other Halloween reads

Halloween is just around the corner! Celebrate with one of these spine-tingling YA books, with topics ranging from murder and mayhem to magic and mystery!

[shorlibteens]

It's Banned Books Week!

Last year, hundreds of book challenges were issued to classrooms and libraries across WI. Most of the challenges came from just a small handful of people, but they had far-ranging effects on kids and teens all across the state.

As librarians, our job is to make as many books available as we can, so that you can make your own choices about what to read.

Why don’t you check out one of these commonly-challenged titles, and decide for yourself what you think?

Join together with us to resist censorship! The future lies in your hands.

[shorlibteens]

Retelling the Classics

Updated takes on classic tales! Check out these retellings of classic literature at your local library:

The Great Gatsby -> Self-Made Boys by Anna Marie McLemore

Emma -> Emmett by L. C. Rosen

The Scarlet Letter -> Red by Annie Cardi

Pride and Prejudice -> Pride by Ibi Aanu Zoboi, Most Ardently by Novoa Gabe Cole

Wuthering Heights -> What Souls Are Made of by Tasha Suri, Catherine by April Lindner

Arthurian Mythos -> Legendborn by Tracy Deonn, Gwen and Art Are Not In Love by Lex Croucher

Jane Eyre -> Escaping Mr. Rochester by L. L. McKinney, The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Twelfth Night -> Twelfth Grade Night by Molly Booth, The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake

Romeo and Juliet -> These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong, A Pho Love Story by Loan Le

[shorlibteens]

Teen Summer Take-and-Makes

It's time for a take-and-make summer craft! This week, we're making macramé hemp bracelets.

Swing by the Teen Space at the Shorewood Public Library and pick up everything you need to make your own, today!

[shorlibteens]

The month of July is a great time to celebrate the disabled community and to reflect on how to make our communities more accessible. Check out one of these disability-themed reads this month and help us celebrate disability pride!

Fiction

Give Me A Sign / Anna Sortino

The Fall of Whit Rivera / Crystal Maldonado

Tilly in Technicolor / Mazey Eddings

I Am Not Alone / Francisco X. Stork

Breathe and Count Backwards from Ten / Natalia Sylvester

Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses / Kristen O'Neal

Comic & Graphic Novel

Hawkeye, Vol. 1 / Matt Fraction, David Aja, Javier Pulido

Brooms / Jasmine Walls

Last Pick, Vol. 1 / Jason Walz

The Oracle Code / Marieke Nijkamp and Manuel Preitano

Archival Quality / Ivy Noelle Weir

Nonfiction & Short Stories

Disability Visibility: 17 First-Person Stories For Today / edited by Alice Wong

The Beasts in Your Brain: Understanding and Living with Anxiety and Depression / Katherine Speller

Unbroken: 13 stories starring disabled teens / edited by Marieke Nijkamp

(Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 voices start the conversation about mental health / edited by Kelly Jensen

Just Peachy / Holly Chisholm

Check them out today at your local library!

[shorlibteens]

Teen Summer Take-and-Makes

If you missed it yesterday, there is still time to stop by the Shorewood Public Library and pick up a kit to make origami butterfly bookmarks! All materials and instructions included!

[shorlibteens]

Tuesday Teen Summer Take-and-Makes

Stop by the Shorewood Public Library every other Tuesday for a fun take-and-make summer craft!

This week, you can pick up a kit in our Teen Space and create your own bead lizard key chain! All materials included.

🦎🦎🦎

[shorlibteens]

It's Pride Month!

Check out these LGBTQ+ themed reads at your local library:

GAY & LESBIAN

Last Night at the Telegraph Club / Malinda Lo

Gwen & Art Are Not In Love / Lex Croucher

Pritty / Keith F. Miller, Jr.

The Black Flamingo / Dean Atta

We Deserve Monuments / Jas Hammonds

The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School / Sonora Reyes

BI & PAN

Imogen, Obviously / Becky Albertalli

The Luis Ortega Survival Club / Sonora Reyes

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue / Mackenzi Lee

I Wish You All the Best / Mason Deaver

Ander & Santi Were Here / Jonny Garza Villa

Forever Is Now / Mariama J. Lockington

TRANS & NONBINARY

Pet / Awaeke Emezi

Man o' War / Cory McCarthy

Self-Made Boys / Anna-Marie McLemore

The Honeys / Ryan La Sala

The Sunbearer Trials / Aiden Thomas

Dreadnought / April Daniels

AROMANTIC & ASEXUAL

Wren Martin Ruins It All / Amanda Dewitt

Loveless / Alice Oseman

Planning Perfect / Haley Neil

All Out / edited by Saundra Mitchell

Being Ace / edited by Madeline Dyer

Gender Queer: A Memoir / Maia Kobabe

QUEER & INTERSEX

None of the Above / I. W. Gregorio

Hell Followed With Us / Andrew Joseph White

Just Ash / Sol Santana

Lark & Kasim Start a Revolution / Kacen Callender

Pantomime / Laura Lam

The Heart-Break Bakery / A. R. Capetta

[shorlibteens]

Check out these mermaid-themed reads from your local library, today!

The Girl from the Sea / Molly Knox Ostertag

A Song Below Water / Bethany C. Morrow

Out of the Blue / Jason June

Skin of the Sea / Natasha Bowen

Breathe and Count Back from Ten / Natalia Sylvester

The Mermaid the Witch and the Sea / Maggie Tokuda-Hall

The Language of Thorns / Leigh Bardugo

[shorlibteens]

Thank you to everyone who participated in our April Poetry Month display, Magnet Poetry! It was great to see your creativity at work. Here are some of our favorites:

And the short but sweet:

[shorlibteens]

New Book Tuesday! Bringing you a fresh, hot-off-the-shelf YA book recommendation every week.

This week, we're highlighting Monster Crush by Erin Ellie Franey.

The perfect read for anyone who’s ever felt like an outsider. Ruby Reid has been having a tough time at Crestwood High. But everything changes the day Ella Mooney moves to town. Ella isn’t like most teens: she’s never been on a Ferris wheel, never had an ice cream cone, and sometimes she grows fangs and a tail! But it’s not just Ruby who takes an interest in the new girl...

Check it out at your local library!

[shorlibteens]

New Book Tuesday! Bringing you a fresh, hot-off-the-shelf YA book recommendation every week.

This week, we're highlighting How to Manage Your Eco-Anxiety by Anouchka Grose.

How does climate change make you feel? Sad? Afraid? Powerless? Guilty? Understand and face your eco-anxiety with ten accessible steps. A “tool kit” at the end of each step shows you ways to build on that knowledge and take action. You’ll finish this book feeling equipped with solutions and practical advice to help you be kinder to the planet . . . and yourself.

Check it out at your local library!

[shorlibteens]

April is National Poetry Month! Each week, we'll be sharing one great poem from a classic poet.

This week's poem is Invitation by Mary Oliver.

Invitation

Oh do you have time

to linger

for just a little while

out of your busy

and very important day

for the goldfinches

that have gathered

in a field of thistles

for a musical battle,

to see who can sing

the highest note,

or the lowest,

or the most expressive of mirth,

or the most tender?

Their strong, blunt beaks

drink the air

as they strive

melodiously

not for your sake

and not for mine

and not for the sake of winning

but for sheer delight and gratitude -

believe us, they say,

it is a serious thing

just to be alive

on this fresh morning

in this broken world.

I beg of you,

do not walk by

without pausing

to attend to this

rather ridiculous performance.

It could mean something.

It could mean everything.

It could be what Rilke meant, when he wrote:

You must change your life.

[shorlibteens]

New Book Tuesday! Bringing you a fresh, hot-off-the-shelf YA book recommendation every week.

This week, we’re highlighting Poemhood: Our Black Revival, edited by Amber McBride, Taylor Byas & Erica Martin

Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present,, this riveting anthology depicts the diversity of the Black experience by fostering a conversation about race, faith, heritage, and resilience between fresh poets and the literary ancestors that came before them. Come, claim your wings.

Check it out at your local library!

[shorlibteens]

April is National Poetry Month! Each week, we'll be sharing one great poem from a classic poet.

This week's poem is The Rum Tum Tugger by T. S. Eliot.

The Rum Tum Tugger

The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat-- And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

The Rum Tum Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about. He likes to lie in the bureau drawer, But he makes such a fuss if he can't get out.

Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat-- And there isn't any use for you to doubt it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious beast: His disobliging ways are a matter of habit. If you offer him fish then he always wants a feast; When there isn't any fish then he won't eat rabbit. If you offer him cream then he sniffs and sneers, For he only likes what he finds for himself;

So you'll catch him in it right up to the ears, If you put it away on the larder shelf. The Rum Tum Tugger is artful and knowing, The Rum Tum Tugger doesn't care for a cuddle; But he'll leap on your lap in the middle of your sewing, For there's nothing he enjoys like a horrible muddle. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat-- And there isn't any need for me to spout it: For he will do As he do do And theres no doing anything about it!

[shorlibteens]

New Book Tuesday! Bringing you a fresh, hot-off-the-shelf YA book recommendation every week.

This week, we’re highlighting How Do I Draw These Memories? by Jonell Joshua.

An illustrated memoir about nostalgia, faith, the preciousness of life, and unconditional love Jonell Joshua spent her childhood shuttling back and forth between Savannah and New Jersey – living in grandparents’ homes during the times her mother, struggling with mental illness, needed support to raise her and her brothers. Together the family found a way to keep going even in the darkest of times.

Swing by and pick it up at your local library!

[shorlibteens]

It's National Poetry Month! This April, we are highlighting books of poetry and novels in verse.

Poetry

Poemhood: Our Black Revival / edited by Amber McBride, Taylor Byas, and Erica Martin

Abuela don't forget me / Rex Ogle

Ink knows no borders: poems of the immigrant and refugee experience / edited by Patrice Vecchione and Alyssa Raymond

Novels in Verse

The Poet X / Elizabeth Acevedo

The Black Flamingo / Dean Atta

Spin / Rebecca Caprara

Dear Medusa / Olivia A. Cole

We Are All So Good At Smiling / Amber McBride

Miles Morales: Suspended / Jayson Reynolds

All the Fighting Parts / Hannah V. Sawyerr

An Impossible Thing To Say / Arya Shahi

Check them out from your local library!