Make YOUR Voice Heard!

To help serve you better, CADL wants to know what Teen Programming you’d like to see at your local library! Maybe you’d like a club to talk about music … or a place to share original writing, art or poetry. Maybe you want a book group devoted to your favorite genre – like Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Adventure or Mystery. Maybe you even have a great idea for a one-time special event you’d like to see happen at the library.

Whatever your hopes, suggestions or great ideas, we hope you’ll share them here by posting below. And if you want to chime in with support for someone else’s idea, that’s great, too! Just remember: along with your post, it would be helpful to include your grade and home library branch.

Exciting Spring Reads!

It’s a great Spring for teen readers! First up is a brand new book by Stephenie Meyer, author of the blockbuster Twilight Saga. An original novel not involving vampires, The Host is a futuristic tale of alien invasion, mind possession, and a uniquely bizarre love triangle. It’s not out until May 6, but you can place a hold today! It should help hold fans until the final Twilight novel, Breaking Dawn, is released on August 2.

Also coming soon to CADL is Cassandra Clare’s City of Ashes, the second book in the Mortal Instruments Trilogy and highly-anticipated sequel to City of Bone. In this volume, new Shadowhunter Clary Fray must venture into New York City’s demon-haunted Downworld to track down the rogue Shadowhunter Valentine, who is probably insane, certainly evil — and also her father. Place your hold here.

Available now, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie tells the story of a Native American teen who transfers from a reservation school to a rich, white school. His story of self-discovery is alternately quirky, funny and tragic. New in nonfiction is Tweak: Growing up on Methamphetamines, the sobering, autobiographical account of a youth who struggles with the torment of meth and alcohol addiction. A companion volume, Beautiful Boy tells the story from his father’s perspective. These unflinching, cautionary memoirs are certain to leave a lasting impression.

Don’t forget, there are many more new books waiting on the shelf at your local CADL branch. If you’ve made a new discovery, let us know below!