{"id":140570,"date":"2017-10-11T18:38:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T22:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=140570"},"modified":"2017-10-11T18:38:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T22:38:26","slug":"its-teen-read-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=140570","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Teen Read Week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What better way to celebrate than with a new YA novel, but if you&#8217;re not sure which to pick up next, we have a few suggestions:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-140572\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/turtles-all-the-way-down-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/turtles-all-the-way-down-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/turtles-all-the-way-down.jpg 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Reserve John Green&#8217;s<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/danvers.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/4039145?locg=1\"><strong>Turtles All the Way Down<\/strong><\/a> <span style=\"color: #800000;\">and we&#8217;ll let you know when a copy is available for you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;It\u2019s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there\u2019s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett\u2019s son, Davis.<\/p>\n<p>Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within\u00a0the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-140571\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/all-crooked-saints-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/all-crooked-saints-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/all-crooked-saints.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Fans of Maggie Steifvater&#8217;s Raven Cycle may want to get their hands on her latest release:<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/danvers.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/4068392?locg=1\"><strong>All the Crooked Saints\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here is a thing everyone wants:\u00a0A miracle.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a thing everyone fears: What it takes to get one.<\/p>\n<p>Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado, is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full of watchful desert stars.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of this place you will find the Soria family, who all have the ability to perform unusual miracles. And at the heart of this family are three cousins longing to change its future: Beatriz, the girl without feelings, who wants only to be free to examine her thoughts; Daniel, the Saint of Bicho Raro, who performs miracles for everyone but himself; and Joaquin, who spends his nights running a renegade radio station under the name Diablo Diablo.\u00a0They are all looking for a miracle. But the miracles of Bicho Raro are never quite what you expect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-140573 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Language-of-Thorns-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Language-of-Thorns-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Language-of-Thorns.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Can&#8217;t get enough of Leigh Bardugo&#8217;s Grishaverse? She&#8217;s got a (gorgeously presented) short story collection for you:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/danvers.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/4052690?locg=1\"><strong>The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<i>Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Travel to a world of dark bargains struck by moonlight, of haunted towns and hungry woods, of talking beasts and gingerbread golems, where a young mermaid&#8217;s voice can summon deadly storms and where a river might do a lovestruck boy&#8217;s bidding but only for a terrible price.<\/p>\n<p>Perfect for new readers and dedicated fans, the tales in\u00a0<i>The Language of Thorns\u00a0<\/i>will transport you to lands both familiar and strange\u2015to a fully realized world of dangerous magic that millions have visited through the novels of the Grishaverse.<\/p>\n<p>This collection of six stories includes three brand-new tales, each of them lavishly illustrated and culminating in stunning full-spread illustrations as rich in detail as the stories themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">These next titles aren&#8217;t brand new but wonderful buzz is still going strong!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-140576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/When-Dimple-Met-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/When-Dimple-Met-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/When-Dimple-Met.jpg 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/danvers.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/4002214?locg=1\"><strong>When Dimple Met Rishi<\/strong> <\/a>&#8211;\u00a0Sandhya Menon<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dimple Shah has it all figured out. With graduation behind her, she\u2019s more than ready for a break from her family, from Mamma\u2019s inexplicable obsession with her finding the \u201cIdeal Indian Husband.\u201d Ugh. Dimple knows they must respect her principles on some level, though. If they truly believed she needed a husband\u00a0<i>right now<\/i>, they wouldn\u2019t have paid for her to attend a summer program for aspiring web developers\u2026right?<\/p>\n<p>Rishi Patel is a hopeless romantic. So when his parents tell him that his future wife will be attending the same summer program as him\u2014wherein he\u2019ll have to woo her\u2014he\u2019s totally on board. Because as silly as it sounds to most people in his life, Rishi\u00a0<i>wants\u00a0<\/i>to be arranged,\u00a0<i>believes\u00a0<\/i>in the power of tradition, stability, and being a part of something much bigger than himself.<\/p>\n<p>The Shahs and Patels didn\u2019t mean to start turning the wheels on this \u201csuggested arrangement\u201d so early in their children\u2019s lives, but when they noticed them both gravitate toward the same summer program, they figured,\u00a0<i>Why not?&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-140577\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Moxie-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Moxie-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Moxie.jpg 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/danvers.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/4043649?locg=1\"><strong>Moxie<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Jennifer Mathieu<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vivian Carter is fed up. Fed up with an administration at her high school that thinks the football team can do no wrong. Fed up with sexist dress codes, hallway harassment, and gross comments from guys during class. But most of all, Viv Carter is fed up with always following the rules.<\/p>\n<p>Viv&#8217;s mom was a tough-as-nails, punk rock Riot Grrrl in the &#8217;90s, and now Viv takes a page from her mother&#8217;s past and creates a feminist zine that she distributes anonymously to her classmates. She&#8217;s just blowing off steam, but other girls respond. As Viv forges friendships with other young women across the divides of cliques and popularity rankings, she realizes that what she has started is nothing short of a girl revolution.<\/p>\n<p><i>Moxie<\/i>\u00a0is a book about high school life that will make you wanna riot!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-140578\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gentlemans-Guide-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gentlemans-Guide-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Gentlemans-Guide.jpg 396w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/danvers.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/4002308?locg=1\"><strong>The Gentleman&#8217;s Guide to Vice and Virtue<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Mackenzi Lee<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Henry \u201cMonty\u201d Montague doesn\u2019t care that his roguish passions are far from suitable for the gentleman he was born to be. But as Monty embarks on his grand tour of Europe, his quests for pleasure and vice are in danger of coming to an end. Not only does his father expect him to take over the family\u2019s estate upon his return, but Monty is also nursing an impossible crush on his best friend and traveling companion, Percy.<\/p>\n<p>So Monty vows to make this yearlong escapade one last hedonistic hurrah and flirt with Percy from Paris to Rome. But when one of Monty\u2019s reckless decisions turns their trip abroad into a harrowing manhunt, it calls into question everything he knows, including his relationship with the boy he adores.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What better way to celebrate than with a new YA novel, but if you&#8217;re not sure which to pick up next, we have a few suggestions: Reserve John Green&#8217;s Turtles All the Way Down and we&#8217;ll let you know when a copy is available for you. &#8220;It\u2019s quite rare to find someone who sees the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":140571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,66,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reading-lists","category-ya","category-ya-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/all-crooked-saints.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-Azg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140579,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140570\/revisions\/140579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}