Tuesday, October 24, 2023

TeenTober Week 3

 


Week 3 of TeenTober is in the books! With over 45 teens registered, 170 program attendance, and 5 completed challenges! Teens enjoyed a showing of Ghost Busters, Glow Slime, Teen CafĂ©, Anime Club (Naruto), Black Light Bingo, and a viewing of Kiki's Delivery Service as well as many library shenanigans!  


Don't worry there is still time to register for our TeenTober event! You can register by downloading the Beanstack app or our Google Form

For more information contact YA Librarian Ryan Calhoun at rcalhoun@bremen.lib.in.us or by calling 574-546-2849. 


Note: You do NOT need to be registered for the TeenTober Reading Challenge to attend the programs. 



Visit our website to see what other programs BPL is offering for all ages!

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

TeenTober Week 2

 


Week 2 of TeenTober was a BLAST! With over 40 teens registered, 133 program attendance, and 2 completed challenges! Teens enjoyed a partnered program with Marshall County Recycle Depot Trash Sculptures, Anime Club (Naruto), a Teen Horror Movie (Spirit Halloween), and a visit from Nintendo Rep. Nate, as well as many library shenanigans!  


Don't worry there is still time to register for our TeenTober event! You can register by downloading the Beanstack app or our Google Form

For more information contact YA Librarian Ryan Calhoun at rcalhoun@bremen.lib.in.us or by calling 574-546-2849. 


Note: You do NOT need to be registered for the TeenTober Reading Challenge to attend the programs. 


Visit our webiste to see what other programs BPL is offering for all ages!

Monday, October 16, 2023

Killer Thrillers!

 




In Five Total Strangers, when Mira flies home to spend Christmas with her mother in Pittsburgh, a record-breaking blizzard results in a canceled layover. Desperate to get to her grief-ridden mother in the wake of a family death, Mira hitches a ride with Harper, Mira's glamorous seatmate from her initial flight.



Published in 2013, the novel involves a 16-year-old protagonist who wakes up in a cabin in the woods. She has no recollection of who she is or how she's ended up in the cabin. There are obvious signs that she's been tortured, and she overhears that she is going to be killed.



Holly Jackson's Five Survive follows six friends on a road trip from Philadelphia to Gulf Shores, Alabama. Their RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere, leaving them with no cell service. Initially, the group assumes this to be an accident, until they are stranded with the tires shot out by a sniper in the dark.



Seventeen-year-old Hunter Gifford has no memories of the car accident he was in the night of the homecoming dance with Chloe Summers, his now-missing girlfriend. In the small southern Kentucky city of Bentley, comments on social media condemn Hunter as responsible for Chloe's disappearance.



One of Us Is Lying meets Gossip Girl in The Headmaster's List, an edge-of-your-seat YA thriller about a fatal car crash and the dangerous lengths one teen will go to uncover the truth about what really happened.



Six social media influencers are invited to Jagged Island, an amusement park for the rich and famous. Trouble abounds and murders arise as they start getting bumped off one by one.



The Lake House is Sarah Beth Durst's YA thriller that does overtime as a survival horror. It follows three teen girls who arrive at the Maine-based Lake House camp expecting a sun-soaked summer of adventures and fun on the island but instead find themselves trapped in a terrifying nightmare.



An unexpected partnership forms as the two remake Lydia's town history podcast to investigate the Long Stretch of Bad Days—a week when Henley was hit by a tornado, a flash flood, as well as its first, only, and unsolved murder. As their investigation unearths buried secrets, some don't want them to see the light.



Paige Miller is determined to take her basketball team to the state championship, maybe even beyond. But as March Madness heats up, Paige falls deathly ill. Days later, she wakes up attached to an IV and learns that the whole world has perished. Everyone she loves, and all of her dreams for the future—they're gone.



I'm the Girl is about a 16-year-old girl who dreams of escaping poverty and sees her beauty as a way out. When she discovers the body of a 13-year-old girl, she is lured into a world filled with wealth, privilege, and power, at the risk of losing herself.



Sadie is a young adult mystery novel published in 2018 by the Canadian author Courtney Summers. The book chronicles teenager Sadie Hunter's quest to find the man who killed her sister. In alternating chapters, Sadie's subsequent disappearance becomes the topic of West McCray's podcast The Girls.



High school student Emma Baines is missing and presumed dead, and police have their eyes on three of her classmates: Claude, the smart-mouthed rebel; Avery, the preppy cheerleader; and Gwen, the academic rival. But secrets run deep in this Colorado mountain town, and appearances are deceiving.



When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition, her dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until Enchanted wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed Korey Fields? Before there was a dead body, Enchanted's dreams had turned into a nightmare.



Sixteen-year-old Sayers Wayte has everything—until he's kidnapped by a man who tells him the privileged life he's been living is based on a lie. Trapped in a windowless room, without knowing why he's been taken or how long the man plans to keep him shut away, Sayers faces a terrifying new reality.

Monday, October 9, 2023

TeenTober 2023 Week 1

 

TeenTober 2023 (Glow Crazy at Your Library) has officially begun! With over 30 teens registered, 40 program attendance, and 2 completed challenges! Teens enjoyed an Alien Doll Craft, Glow in the Dark Dodgeball, National Taco Day (with FREE walking tacos), Anime Club (Naruto), Paint Your Heart Out, and Poke Mon Club! 

Don't worry there is still time to regster for our TeenTober event! You can register by downloading the Beanstack app or our Google Form

For more information contact YA Librarian Ryan Calhoun at rcalhoun@bremen.lib.in.us or by calling 574-546-2849. 


Note: You do NOT need to be registered for the TeenTober Reading Challenge to attend the programs. 


Visit our webiste to see what other programs BPL is offering for all ages!



Friday, October 6, 2023

Meet TAB Member... Sarah!


For more information about TAB please click the image below, or email YA Librarian (Ryan Calhoun) at rcalhoun@bremen.lib.in.us

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Thursday, October 5, 2023

NEW YA Books September 2023

 


Checkout all the new YA Books in our Young Adult (YA) Room! If you have any special requests feel free to ask a librarian! 




This Winter is a Solitaire/Heartstopper universe novella that focuses on the Spring siblings, Tori, Charlie, and Oliver, during one Christmas. This particular winter has been difficult for the Spring family, and Christmas doesn't make all worries disappear. So, when family start arriving, how will the day go?



Tradition meets People Like Us in this timely and haunting YA contemporary standalone that tackles the contagious nature of toxic masculinity at an elite New England boarding school clinging to its past, and the sexual assault that changes everything.



Desperate to restore diplomacy, Yangchen attempts to de-escalate hostilities between heads of state. But in the wake of a brutal assassination and the freeing of Unanimity, Yangchen is forced to bring Kavik—the trusted former companion whose betrayal crushed her—back into her fold.



After being jilted by her ex-boyfriend and best friend, Jade couldn't be more ready to embark on the adventure of a lifetime—11 countries in 4 months, all from the luxurious Campus on Board ship—and to wedge an entire globe between her and the people who broke her heart.



After saving the world multiple times, Percy Jackson is hoping to have a normal senior year. Unfortunately, the gods aren't quite done with him. Percy will have to fulfill a new quest in order to get the necessary letter of recommendation from Mount Olympus for college.



After Eliza's home in Houston is destroyed by Hurricane Harvey, she is forced to transfer to Southwest High School. Traumatized by the floods and anxious in her new surroundings, Eliza throws herself into environmental activism, even if it's against the wishes of her Big Oil dad.



Princess Imogen of Goslind has lived a sheltered life for three years at the boarded-up castle—she and the rest of its inhabitants safe from the bloody mori roja plague that's ravaged the kingdom. But Princess Imogen has a secret, and as King Stuart descends further into madness, it's at great risk of being revealed.



Everyone at the Bexley School believes that Sage Morgan and Charlie Carmichael are meant to be. Even though Charlie seems to have a new girlfriend every month, and Sage has never had a real relationship, their friends and family all know it's just a matter of time until they realize that they are actually in love.



In May of 1890, Enola Holmes is finally fully on her own and, no longer hiding from her older brothers Sherlock and Mycroft, attending classes and occasionally pursuing her chosen profession as a scientific perditorian, a finder of lost things and people.




With recurring appearances on the Food Network and millions of followers of his cooking Tik Tok channel under the belt, culinary prodigy Matthew Merril knows a thing or two about baking; accordingly, young bakers looking to learn indispensable skills in the kitchen will be wowed by what Teen Baking Bootcamp has to offer. Featuring tempting recipe after tempting recipe, this book has everything to help precocious readers grasp the fundamentals of baking, while churning out all the donuts, cakes, cookies and more they've always wanted to master. Highlighted by Matthew's clear explanations and fun anecdotes and featuring tons of decorating and presentation tips, these 60 recipes are easy to follow, and will have readers grasping how ingredients interact together, which common mistakes all beginners should avoid--and more importantly, how to improvise in the kitchen and have a blast! What's more, each chapter will be a deep dive into a different type of dessert, with the recipes getting increasingly challenging so that by the end, readers will have totally mastered it. Teens can impress their families with options like Baked Alaska and Classic Banana Bread, and gift their friends with sugary goodness like Skillet Chocolate Chip Soft Cookies, Pumpkin Churros and 3-Ingredient Oreo Fudge. Readers will also be able to try out some of Matthew's signature recipes featured on television shows, like S'mores French Macarons. Whether they have professional ambitions or are simply wanting to satisfy a persistent sweet tooth, readers will be very excited about this accessible book that was made by a teen, for teens. This book contains 60 recipes and 60 photos




Welcome to Hogwarts Legacy, the exciting open-world action RPG set in the wizarding world. You play as a newly admitted fifth-year student at Hogwarts in the 1800s who holds the key to an ancient secret that threatens to tear the wizarding world apart.

In this official game companion, gamers will learn need-to-know information about how to play Hogwarts Legacy. Discover background information about brand-new characters and locations found in the game, plus reveal tips and suggestions for completing some of the game's biggest and most popular quests.

This book also includes lists of achievements, potions, spells, and creatures available in the game, character bios of the witches and wizards you'll meet along the way, and full-color artwork on every page!

This official game companion is a must-have for any gamer and Wizarding World fan




After barely surviving nearly two years in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, he knows he must escape. Even if death is more likely. Rudi has learned the terrible secret hidden behind the heavily guarded fences of concentration camps across Nazi-occupied Europe: the methodical mass killing of Jewish prisoners.



Encourage teens to learn about the water crisis and take action to protect and restore local waterways.

Whether it's in a drinking glass, flowing downstream, or miles underground, water is everywhere. And it's essential for life on Earth. But our water planet is in crisis. Going Blue educates teens about our water crisis and gives them tools and inspiration to transform their ideas into action.

With color photos and illustrations, along with practical suggestions and activities, readers follow stories of young people around the world addressing water concerns and learn about issues such as clean water access, coral reef damage, runoff pollution, trash islands, factory fishing, and bottled water.



When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to make his friends laugh, he thought of it as "edgy" humor. Over time, the edge got sharper. Then a few other kids found out about the account. Pretty soon, everyone knew.

Ultimately no one in the small town of Albany, California, was safe from the repercussions of the account's discovery. Not the girls targeted by the posts. Not the boy who created the account. Not the group of kids who followed it. Not the adults--educators and parents--whose attempts to fix things too often made them worse.

In the end, no one was laughing. And everyone was left asking: Where does accountability end for online speech that harms? And what does accountability even mean?






Just because you're cursed doesn't mean you're not special.

Gwendolyn, the youngest of the King's three daughters, is living proof that princesses don't always have it all. She isn't like a typical fairy-tale princess, or other princesses in the Pastel Kingdom. Gwendolyn, with her big heart and love of baking, isn't particularly attractive. Unlike her sisters who have woodland creatures do their hair and makeup, or have flowers blossom wherever they sleep, Gwendolyn is a bit...different. So when her father proposes marriage for her and her sisters to make an alliance with the Plaid Kingdom, it breaks Gwendolyn's heart to hear that Prince Fredrick thinks she's "really ugly." Overwhelmed and ashamed, she runs away into the forest and encounters the twisted world of the Cursed Princess Club, where her life will never be the same.

The Cursed Princess Club are a ragtag band of outcasts, misfits and cursed princesses who have created an incredible friendship circle. It is among these friends where Gwendolyn learns to embrace her uniqueness and find her people.



Peek through the leaves, beyond the clouded mountains, and you will find a garden with a strange attendant and an even stranger purpose. A young mage, asleep in a meadow, wakes to delights and fanciful spells that open a door to unknown wonder. Then, they eagerly step through to find only horror and death. There is no swashbuckling adventure in store; this world means them cold and deadly harm, and they'll need all their resilience, wit, and magic to push it back.

Gaze through fascinating silent windows into a terrifying dimension and follow the wordless Mage and their companions as they travel a shadowy fantastical land of monsters. Will they survive this endlessly curious mystery, or will the unforgiving darkness swallow them whole?

Monday, October 2, 2023

#SLAY

 


Checkout out these vampire inspired stories this Halloween season! 



For fans of VAMPIRE DIARIES and dark academia, two queer teen bloodsuckers at an elite vampire-only boarding school must go up against all of Vampirdom when they uncover a frightening conspiracy on campus. Kat Finn and her mother can barely make ends meet living among humans.



It follows the story of seventeen-year-old Rosemarie “Rose” Hathaway, a half-vampire dhampir and her Moroi (undead) best friend, Vasilisa “Lissa” Dragomir, as they are brought back to their school St. Vladimir's Academy after being on the run for unknown reasons for two years.



The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black follows a girl named Tana whose world is surrounded by quarantine zones called Coldtowns. In this world, the infected turn into vampires and either go willingly or are sent to live at the start of an undisclosed outbreak.



Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare is a 2000 dark fantasy novel by Darren ShanIt follows protagonist Darren Shan, a lover of spiders who attends an outlawed freak show with his friend Steve Leonard and encounters a vampire who controls his pet spider with his mind.



This book revisits everything in 2005’s Twilight, showing us the same events from vampire heartthrob Edward Cullen’s perspective, including Edward and Bella’s slowly building relationship, their attempts to keep intensely passionate feelings in check and the deadly threat from another vampire that shows up at the end of the book.



In Every Generation follows Willow's daughter, Frankie, who is a Sophomore at New Sunnydale High School. Willow has been slowly introducing Frankie to magic, as long as Frankie promises always to use it for good. Frankie, it seems, is all for that, being quite ecologically-minded.



The Beautiful follows Celine as she flees her life in Paris and goes to New Orleans. Staying in the convent, Celine falls in love with the city she's taken refuge in. But when young girls start being found dead, Celine must delve into the dark underworld of the city to find the murderer.



Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, where the vampires who killed her mother rule and she and her crew of outcasts must hide from the monsters at night. All that drives Allie is her hatred of vampires, who keep humans as prey. Until the night Allie herself dies…a becomes one of the monsters.



Nina and her twin sister, Artemis, are far from normal. It's hard to be when you grow up at the Watcher's Academy, which is a bit different from your average boarding school. Here teens are trained as guides for Slayers—girls gifted with supernatural strength to fight the forces of darkness.



An ALA Morris Award Finalist​! In this “equal parts heartbreaking and joyful” (School Library Journal) debut YA novel that's The Coldest Girl in Coldtown meets They Both Die at the End, a teen girl takes a trip to New Orleans with her estranged best friend to find a vampire to save her dying father.



Crave is a YA paranormal romance book following Grace, a girl who has just lost both of her parents, and is forced to move to an elite boarding school in Alaska, where her uncle is headmaster. However, this school isn't what she expected, and no matter what she does, she doesn't seem to fit in.