July DPLS Teen/YA Happenings 😁

JULY 2023

The Summer Reading Challenge:

Imagine Your Story

(June 1 - July 31)

Win prizes just for reading during Defiance Public Library System’s “Imagine Your Story: Summer Reading Challenge” for teens and adults.

Register at defiancelibrary.beanstack.org, and for every 60 minutes you read, you’ll be entered into a weekly prize drawing for a $5 gift card to a local coffee or ice cream shop.

Log at least 480 minutes (8 hours) of reading & you’ll be entered to win the grand prize: a $40 gift card to Meijer and two $5 gift cards to a coffee and ice cream shop of your choice!

Weekly prize winners will be chosen at random and announced each Monday during the challenge. Grand prize winner will be chosen at random and announced August 1.

TO REGISTER

WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING?

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LITKIT (A BOOK SUBSCRIPTION BOX)

To participate in this subscription service, you must be between the ages of 13-25 and have a DPLS library card. There will be library books in the box that will need to be checked out to your library card.

Only 10 boxes will be available. You will be placed on a waiting list if registration is full.

The box will be ready for pick up by the first of the month. You will receive an email notifying you that the box is ready for pick up.

If the box is not claimed by the seventh of the month, it will go to the next person on the waiting list.

Most everything in this box is yours to keep, we just ask that you return the two library books and box by the 25th of the month to any DPLS location.

This is a three month subscription. After the subscription period is over, you will need to sign up again to receive more boxes.

Any questions, contact Pam at prellstab@defiancelibrary.org.

STAYED TUNED: REGISTRATION TO OPEN IN SEPTEMBER

READ SOMETHING NEW

Manslaughter Park by Tirzah Price

Plus One by Kelsey Rodkey

Starlings by Amanda Linsmeier

A Crooked Mark by Linda Kao

The Wicked Unseen by Gigi Griffis

The Ephemeral Scenes of Setsuna's Journey by Rokusyou

Wolfpack by Amelia Brunskill

Secret of the Moon Conch by David Bowles

At the Speed of Lies by Cindy L. Otis

Ava's Demon by Michelle Fus

Honey Lemon Soda v2 by Mayu Murata

Those We Drown by Amy Goldsmith

SEARCH THE CATALOG

BOOK OF THE MONTH

Anything can happen at a masquerade...

To coincide with the upcoming event, Death at the Masquerade, we have selected Laini Taylor's book Daughter of Smoke & Bone.

Karou, a seventeen-year-old art student from Prague, fills her sketchbook with demons that her peers do not understand. She knows little of herself, except that she has naturally blue hair, she glides between the human and the mythological world, the chimaerae form her only family, and she is now caught up in the war between angels and demons.

Let's hope this book does not disappoint.

If you like this book, continue the series with Days of Blood & Starlight and Dreams of Gods & Monsters.

Post your thoughts and opinions on our Padlet page called Dear YA Readers.

JOIN THE DISCUSSION

#BOOKSTAGRAM

Want something new to read? 🤓

Try one of these fantasy reads found on the new ya shelf. 📖

Silver in the Bone by Alexandra Bracken

Nightbirds by Kate J Armstrong

A Door in the Dark by Scott Reintgen

In Nightfall by Suzanne Young

Starlings by Amanda Linsmeier

Seven Faceless Saints by M K Lobb

The Library of Broken Worlds by Alaya Dawn Johnson

A Crooked Mark by Linda Kao

Threads that Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou

Flowerheart by Catherine Bakewell

DEAR YA READERS

We created a Padlet called Dear YA Readers for those who love to read and discuss YA books!

Some topics of discussion include:

new YA books
TBR lists
currently reading

Join in the discussion with fellow YA aficionados.

DEAR YA READERS

SQUEEZY McSQUEEZY

Hello there my dearest lemony friends,

The first month of the Summer Reading Challenge: Imagine Your Story! has come to an end. The time has flown by and before you know it, school will be back in session.

During this past month we have read, watched movies, painted dragon eyes, drowned ourselves in chocolate, and made unicorn pillows.

You still have one more month to participate in the challenge and attend the events. You can step back in time and join us for a 90's party, tie-dye a t-shirt, or get caught up in a murder. The sky is the limit.

To register and track your reading click on the link - - - > https://defiancelibrary.beanstack.com/reader365

To check out the rest of the events click on the link - - - >

https://www.defiancelibrary.org/summer/#1619720394079-9d6b18d3-d9fd

Enjoy the pictures. =]

Love,

Squeezy

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