Book Talks
Short teasers for all new releases that kids won't be able to resist, prepared by library professionals.
Featured Book Talks:
The Prince Who Fell from the Sky
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In this post-apocalyptic version of our world, only the animals are left to tell the stories of their lives--including Casseomae, the bear. Her life is full of fear. The wolves rule...
Precious Bones
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Bones is a 10-year-old living in a strange world: the Florida swamps. Her everyday life is full of alligators, black bears, and bobcats. During the summer, Bones and her best friend,...
Jersey Angel
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Angel Cassonetti is beautiful, seventeen, and confident. Joey, her boyfriend, longs for a more serious relationship, but Angel seems content with just casual sex. Sexual banter...
Rush for the Gold: Mystery at the Olympics
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Teen reporter, Susan Carol, finds herself thrust into the limelight as the hottest swimming sensation leading up to the Olympics. Stevie Thomas, her boyfriend and fellow reporter, struggles...
Dragon Keepers #5: The Dragon in the Sea
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Dragon Keepers Jesse and Daisy have the underwater adventure of their lives when they find a Thunder Egg only to have it stolen from them by an evil mer-mage and a sea kelpie. Jesse and...
Crush
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Kevin is at it again; always trying to figure out how to get what he wants in the easiest way possible. What he wants now is Tina--the most beautiful girl he’s ever seen with a laugh...
Happy Families
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Two smart kids. Twins – a boy and a girl even. Home in the suburbs. Good schools and jobs. The Nicholas family was living the American Dream. At least that’s what sophomore twins...
The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls
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Chic Lit: A genre of literature that appeals mainly to teen girls, focusing on high school problems including, but not limited to, boys and families.
Alternative Narrative:...
The Enchantress
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Josh and Sophie, traveling through a powerful leygate 10,000 years into the past with the immortals John Dee and Virginia Dare, are immediately faced with the startling revelation...
