Teen Read Week 2015

Teen Read Week is coming soon! Stop by the Library during the week of October 18th through October 24th to enter our prize drawing for a gift certificate to the Book Barn. Entrants must be in middle or high school. Good luck!


Teen Read Week™ is a national adolescent literacy initiative created by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). Teen Read Week began in 1998 and it is held annually during the third week of October. The purpose of the program is to encourage teens to be regular readers and library users.

The Shadow Hero

Are you a fan of graphic novels and comics? Good news! We have many new arrivals in our Young Adult Collection.

Yang, Gene L, Sonny Liew, and Janice Chiang. The Shadow Hero. New York: First Second , 2014. Print.

The Shadow Hero by Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew is an especially interesting addition to the collection. It is a new twist on the classic Chinese-American comic, The Green Turtle.


This exciting new series by the author of the New York Times Bestseller, American Born Chinese is receiving rave reviews:
 
"A golden-age comic superhero returns with a brand-new Asian-American origin story . . . An entertaining and intelligent response to classic superhero stories."  --Kirkus
 
"The book may not tell Asian-Americans anything they don’t know, but it’s the familiarity and specificity of this story in my hands, in print, in the English ­language that excite me. Since our ancestors immigrated to this country, these narratives have usually been left to oral history or crudely caricatured in movies like “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” --Eddie Huang, The New York Times

As you may know, the theme of this year's summer reading program is "Every Hero Has a Story." In a recent npr interview, author Gene Luen Yang explains the importance of reading about superheroes: 

"Every superhero has this superhero identity and a civilian identity . A lot of their lives are about code switching. It's about switching from one mode of expectations to another mode of expectations. And I really think that mirrors something in the immigrant's kid's life."

Of course, the summer reading theme goes beyond comic book superheroes; we are celebrating the power of reading and the importance of friendship. Everyone can be a hero, and every hero has a story. What's your story?

Every Hero Has a Story

Young Adults

High School students are invited to participate in the East Lyme Public Library's book and film discussion series.

The book discussion group meets the second Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. in the East Lyme Room. Copies of the current month's book selection are available at the East Lyme Public Library. No registration required.

Hawkins, Paula. The Girl on the Train. New York: Penguin , 2015. Print.

Here is the spring/summer book discussion schedule:

Tuesday, May 12: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Eric Larson
Tuesday, June 9: The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Tuesday, July 14: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Tuesday, August 11: Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee  

The film discussions take place in the East Lyme Room. The film is shown at 5:50 p.m. and is followed by a discussion. 

Jolie, Angelina, Jack O'Connell, Takamasa Ishihara, and Domhnall Gleeson. Unbroken. United States: Universal, 2015.

Here is the spring/summer film discussion schedule:
Wednesday, May 20: Boyhood
Wednesday, June 17: The Theory of Everything
Wednesday, July 15: Unbroken