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May I Have the Suggestions Please…

The library is all about collecting cool things to read, watch, or listen to, but there's so much it can be hard to find what you like. If we think you will like it or might need it we'll put it in one of the sections of the Teen Zone (whatever "it" is).

Here in Reading, Viewing, and Listening we start to break it down by type.

What to Read?

Books to fight boredom

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Eye Candy

Sights to stimulate your optic nerve

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Sound Suggestions

All things audio

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The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth

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Geek : fantasy novel

cover photo: Geek : fantasy novel by E. Archer

Ralph is asked to spend the summer with his strange British relatives at their old manor house in order to set up their Wi-Fi network. And thus begins his strange adventure.

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Little Brother

cover photo: Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus is released into what is now a police state, and decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.

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Homeland

cover photo: Homeland by Cory Doctorow

When Marcus, once called M1k3y, receives a thumbdrive containing evidence of corporate and governmental treachery, his job, fame, family, and well-being, as well as his reform-minded employer's election campaign, are all endangered.

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Ready Player One

cover photo: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

It's the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune--and remarkable power--to whoever can unlock them.

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The Other Normals

cover photo: The Other Normals by Ned Vizzini

Sent by his parents to summer camp in order to 'normalize' him from his RPG world, Perry instead finds the creators of his game, and will need all his skills (both gaming and social) in order to save the princess in this game.

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NextReads™ for Teens

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List of KCPL teen programs system-wide for the month.

All types of fiction for those who want to imagine different realities--and nonfiction for those who are trying to understand ours! For readers of high school age and up. Monthly.


Too young to drive, but too old for kid stuff? These books (mostly fiction, with some nonfiction) are just right for the middle school set. Monthly.


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