What's Happening for Teens and Young Adults at Crawfordsville District Public Library. Events, programs, book discussions, suggestions and new materials.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
New Young Adult Fiction!



Thursday, March 15, 2012
One Week To Hunger Games!
The Hunger Games comes out in 7 days!
Set in the future, North America is divided into districts, each of which must choose two teenage tributes to compete in the Hunger Games every year. Katniss Everdeen volunteers as tribute in place of her sister, and she is forced to make terrible choices in order to survive.If you haven't read The Hunger Games yet, you're definitely going to want to after seeing the movie. And you don't have to wait for the sequel to find out what happens next--Catching Fire and Mockingjay are available now!
Saturday, March 10, 2012
New Books Ready to Check Out!
Edgar, an eleven-year-old orphan, finds a book that reveals significant secrets about Atherton, the strictly divided world on which he lives, even as geological changes threaten to shift the power structure that allows an elite few to live off the labor of others.

Fifteen-year-old Mistletoe lives in the subcanopy zone amid poverty and outdated technology, but when she meets Ambrose Truax, the privileged sixteen-year-old heir to the Unison empire and they discover they share a sinister link, they begin a frightening journey into the uncharted territory of the Unison 3.0 upgrade.
Volume 4 of the highly acclaimed Olympians series!
Hades: Lord of the Dead tells the story of the great God of the Underworld and one of the most famous of all Greek myths: Hades’ abduction of Persephone and her mother’s revenge. Be prepared to see a new side of Persephone in this dynamic adaptation of the story of the creation of the seasons.
In Olympians, O’Connor draws from primary documents to reconstruct and retell classic Greek myths. But these stories aren’t sedate, scholarly works. They’re action-packed, fast-paced, high-drama adventures with monsters, romance, and not a few huge explosions. O’Connor’s vibrant, kinetic art brings ancient tales to undeniable life in a perfect fusion of super-hero aesthetics and ancient Greek mythology.
In the California desert, fourteen-year-old Angel is on the run from the man who abused her, killed her mother, and intends to kill her too.

On her way, reluctantly, to a boarding school in present-day England, Flora suddenly finds herself in 1935, the new girl at St. Winifred's, having been summoned via a magic spell by her new dormitory mates.

Having left Nazi-occupied Vienna a year ago, thirteen-year-old Jewish refugee Stephie Steiner adapts to life in the cultured Swedish city of Göteborg, where she attends school, falls in love, and worries about her parents who were not allowed to emigrate.
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