Monthly Teen Book Club
Join us for a unique teen book club! Read one of the selected books for the month and submit your review online during that month. Reviews earn volunteer hours! Fall 2024 book club selections are listed below.
September 1 – 30
Book options: The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas or Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, both books are by two Latinx authors, with stories that center a Latinx experience. The Sunbearer Trials is a fantasy perfect for fans of Percy Jackson and The Hunger Games, where Thomas takes you on a journey through Mexican mythology, filled with gods, their children, and a deadly trial. On the contemporary side, Furia follows a rising soccer star who must risk everything to follow her dreams, where Mendez creates obstacles through parents, past love, and secrets.
October 1 – 31
Book options: The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson or The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones
It’s scary month, and we’ve brought you two horror books—just on different levels. Jackson’s The Weight of Blood is for the true horror lovers as a fresh and new Carrie retelling, filled with psychological twists and turns and spine-tingling creepiness; whereas Lloyd-Jones has created an adventurously atmospheric tale with The Bone Houses—a light zombie story with slight gore, a romance, and a pet goat.
November 1 – 30
Book options: Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer or Running by Natalia Sylvester
With November comes elections, and this month we’re bringing you books with political plots. Sylvester has crafted a read that follows a teen who’s father is running for president–and the cost of that limelight in Running. Taking a more fantastical turn if you’re not interested in modern-day American politics, Kemmerer’s Defy the Night is a political fantasy with a deadly plague and rebellion, young royals thrust into power, and a kingdom on the brink of collapse.