Teen Read Week

October 18-24, 2009 is Teen Read Week, Beyond Reality! Check out what Teens are doing at the library during Teen Read Week. Can't go to the Library? Check out how you can participate on-line: On GCPL Teen Talk you can help "Build a Story and participate in "What IF". On the Website you can vote for your Favorite Book. http://www.gwinnettpl.org/Teens/index.html

What if?

If you could bring one character from a book into our world, who would it be? and what would they think? (Think of the movie InkHeart.)

New Teen Titles Released in September!

Invisible I by Stella Lennon (Amanda Project, #1)

Teen Mystery
Release date: 9/22/2009

"Pretty Little Liars" meets "The 39 Clues" meets "Cathy's Book" in this exciting new series that's a collaborative, interactive adventure for girls that begins in the books and continues online.

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Riot by Walter Dean Myers

Teen Historical Fiction
Release date: 9/22/2009

From a "New York Times"-bestselling author comes an innovative novel about the Civil War draft riots in New York City. Tackling hotbed issues of war, race, justice, and equality, Myers chronicles this forgotten moment in history in the same groundbreaking style of his "Monster."

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Bystander by James Prellar

Teen Fiction
Release date: 9/29/2009

A 7th grade boy must choose between being a witness to bullying, or possibly becoming a victim.

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Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Teen Science Fiction
Release date: 9/1/2009

Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with Peeta Mellark. But it had been a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion.

2nd title in the Hunger Games trilogy

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Devil’s Kiss by Sarwat Chadda

Teen Horror
Release Date: 9/1/2009

Bilquis San Greal grows up knowing she will have to make sacrifices to be in the Knights Templar. Her childhood friend Kay uses King Solomon's cursed mirror, drawing the attention of one of the most dangerous of the Templars' enemies. Now Billi will have to make sacrifices greater than she'd ever imagined.

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Secret to Teen Power by Paul Harrington

Teen Nonfiction
Release Date: 9/15/2009

Based on the international bestseller "The Secret, The Secret to Teen Power" explains the laws of attraction in relation to teen issues, and tells how teens can transform their own lives and live their dreams by understanding and using the power they have in their hands.

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Jasper Dash and the Flame Pits of Delaware by M.T Anderson

Teen Humor
Release Date: 9/15/2009

Plucky and intrepid heroes Jasper Dash, Lily Gefelty, and Katie Mulligan must journey to the unknown lands of Delaware to unravel an awful mystery, in this third installment of M.T. Anderson's Thrilling Tales.

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Rapture of the Deep by Louis A. Meyer

Being an account of the further adventures of Jacky Faber, Soldier, Sailor, Mermaid, Spy

Teen Adventure
Release Date: 9/28/2009

On the very day that Jacky Faber is to wed her true love, she is kidnapped by British Naval Intelligence and forced to embark on yet another daring mission--this time to search for sunken Spanish gold. But when Jacky is involved, things don't always go as planned.

From the Bloody Jack Adventures series

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