Our Young Adult shelves are bursting with titles!   Always know that we are open to your suggestions as well!  You know best what you like to read!  WE even have Wii games for check out! 

"Strap on your belt, kid!  We're going in!"  Mario, Super Mario Bros. Movie

Teens who participated in our summer reading club, Make Waves @ PCL, wrote reviews and created Water Haiku: 

Flowing by Nonie Tompkins

Flowing clear and cold,

Lapping up on sandy shores,

The life of water.

Water by Alycia Gerber

Water dews on plants,

Goes splish splash in the bathtub

And falls from the sky.

Rain by Lara Shurly

Drip dripping softly,

Where is it going to end up?

Falls as rain again.

H2O by Alise Shurly

Cool simple water,

It goes through life unnoticed,

Water is everything.

Books recommended by PCL teens:

Alycia Gerber, who is a fan of mythology, liked The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh.

Once Was Lost by Sara Zarr was a favorite of Nonie Tompkins.  She says the book is cool because it tells the story of a teen's journey in faith as her world changes drastically, first for the worse and then for the better.

Lara Shurly has been really impressed by author Tana French.  French's second book, The Likeness, really intrigued Lara, who loves mysteries and anything set in Ireland.   French's first book, In the Woods, won an Edgar Award.  Lara warns readers that while both novels have dark plots, you will quickly get lost in them.

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater is highly recommended by Alise Shurly.  It is a story of first love told in an almost lyrical way about a girl and a boy who changes into a wolf with the winter cold and is told from alternating pint of view.  Alise is also a BIG fan of the Suzanne Collins trilogy, The Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay.  Alise and her downstate cousin Paige had their own ongoing book discussions via text messaging while they were reading.

YouTube clip on the book, Shiver: