Get Away @ the Library

This week is Teen Read Week -- a time to celebrate reading for fun and pleasure.  This year's theme is Get Away @ Your Library which highlights how reading a book can take you anywhere you would like to go.  So here are some great teen books that will transport you to new lands, worlds, and adventures . . .

Amy & Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson
After the death of her father, Amy, a high school student and Roger, a college freshman, set out on a carefully planned road trip from California to Connecticut, but wind up taking many detours, forcing Amy to face her worst fears and come to terms with her grief and guilt.

Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
A young woman who has endured unspeakable cruelties is magically granted a safe haven apart from the real world and allowed to raise her two daughters in this alternate reality, until the barrier between her world and the real one begins to break down.

Nil by Lynne Matson
Transported through a "gate" to the mysterious island of Nil, seventeen-year-old Charley has 365 days to escape--or she will die.

Gateway by Sharon Shinn
While passing through the Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, a Chinese American teenager is transported to a parallel world where she is given a dangerous assignment.

Trash by Andy Mulligan
Fourteen-year-olds Raphael and Gardo team up with a younger boy, Rat, to figure out the mysteries surrounding a bag Raphael finds during their daily life of sorting through trash in a third-world country's dump.


More Books --
The Faerie Path by Frewin Jones
Game Changer by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Lawson
The Jumbee by Pamela Keyes
Love by the Morning Star by Laura L. Sullivan
The Marbury Lens by Andrew Smith
A Meeting of Minds by Carol Matas
More Than This by Patrick Ness
Now That You're Here by Amy Nichols
Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis
A School for Unusual Girls by Kathleen Baldwin
Stolen Away by Alyxandra Harvey
The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim by E.K. Johnston
Stravaganza: City of Stars by Mary Hoffman
Summerland by Michael Chabon


Check out these books on display at the Arnold Branch through November 13, 2015.

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble: Tales of Witches

The image of the witch standing over a cauldron and stirring a disgusting potion is an image that we are all familiar with.  Here are some stories that feature witches -- both good and evil.

Stolen by Vivian Vande Velde
A girl finds herself running through the forest at the edge of a village with no memory of anything, even her own name, and later learns that she might be twelve-year-old Isabelle, believed to be stolen by a witch six years before.

The Changeover by Margaret Mahy
When her baby brother seems to become possessed by an evil spirit, fourteen-year-old Laura seeks the help of the strangely compelling older boy at school who she is convinced has supernatural powers.

The Magic Circle by Donna Jo Napoli
After learning sorcery to become a healer, a good-hearted woman is turned into a witch by evil spirits and she fights their power until her encounter with Hansel and Gretel years later.

Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
A young woman who has endured unspeakable cruelties is magically granted a safe haven apart from the real world and allowed to raise her two daughters in this alternate reality, until the barrier between her world and the real one begins to break down.