Science Fiction Escape Room
Want to try something different. Put your knowledge of Star Trek, Star Wars & Science Fiction to use while trying to solve the puzzle and escape! Just follow the on screen directions and click on
Teens
Summer Reading Program for Children, Teens & Adults!
Join us this year for a virtual program ‘Imagine Your Story’. Our programs will be all virtual this year and they will be listed here and on our Facebook page.
All you need to do is read books, magazines and listen to audios, keep track on your reading log, return it to the library and get entered in drawings for prizes. We can pick up the registration and logs through our curbside service,or we can mail them to you, then you return them in the book drop. If you’d rather you can make an online account with Engaged Patrons to keep your logs, with the links below. Let’s make this year our biggest yet!
Children – Pre K-6th Grade Teen – 7th Grade-12 Grade Adult – 18 Years and Up
First Chapter Friday
Need something to read this Summer?!? Check out Ms. Kathy’s Facebook Post each Friday as she shares stories that are bound to get you hooked. Ages 9 through teens.
Teen Time Tuesday – Tuesday, July 14th at 2:00 pm on Facebook
Need a little new decor? Want to make someone a truly unique gift? Join us on Facebook as Ms. Kathy shows you how easy it is to make your own Yarn Monogram during this month’s edition of Teen Time Tuesday. Don’t have any yarn? This project can also be made using felt, fabric, string, ribbon, even small gauge wire (be careful with the edges!).Feel free to share your creation with us!
Enjoy These Online Programs!
While we are closed you can enjoy these online programs and help for all ages:
- Tech Help with devices or ebooks – email RJ at Raymond@lepperlibrary.org
- Saturday Storytime with Kathy on Lepper Library Facebook
- First Chapter Friday with Kathy on Lepper Library Facebook
- Join our Writer’s Group at NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), you need to make a free account and look for Lepper Public Library in groups.
- Our Virtual Book Club is at Goodreads, again you will have to make a free account to participate.
Free Lunch by Rex Ogle
Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle’s first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school’s free lunch program. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation of having to announce it every day in the school lunch line, Rex’s is a compelling story of a more profound hunger―that of a child for his parents’ love and care. Compulsively readable, beautifully crafted, and authentically told with the voice and point of view of a 6th-grade kid, Free Lunch is a remarkable debut by a gifted storyteller.
Yes No Maybe So by Becky Albertalli
YES
Jamie Goldberg is cool with volunteering for his local state senate candidate—as long as he’s behind the scenes. When it comes to speaking to strangers (or, let’s face it, speaking at all to almost anyone) Jamie’s a choke artist. There’s no way he’d ever knock on doors to ask people for their votes…until he meets Maya.
NO
Maya Rehman’s having the worst Ramadan ever. Her best friend is too busy to hang out, her summer trip is canceled, and now her parents are separating. Why her mother thinks the solution to her problems is political canvassing—with some awkward dude she hardly knows—is beyond her.
MAYBE SO
Going door to door isn’t exactly glamorous, but maybe it’s not the worst thing in the world. After all, the polls are getting closer—and so are Maya and Jamie. Mastering local activism is one thing. Navigating the cross-cultural crush of the century is another thing entirely.
Furious Thing by Jenny Downham
If only she could stop losing her temper and behave herself, her stepfather would accept her, her mom would love her like she used to, and her stepbrother would declare his crushing desire to spend the rest of his life with her. She wants these things so badly, she’s determined to swallow her anger and make her family proud.But pushing fury down doesn’t make it disappear. Instead, it simmers below the surface waiting to erupt . . . And there’ll be fireworks when it does.
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them are a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured veteran returning from Afghanistan, a business tycoon, and a free-spirited woman running away from her controlling husband. Halfway across the country, the plane crashes. Edward is the sole survivor.
Edward’s story captures the attention of the nation, but he struggles to find a place in a world without his family. He continues to feel that a part of himself has been left in the sky, forever tied to the plane and all of his fellow passengers. But then he makes an unexpected discovery—one that will lead him to the answers of some of life’s most profound questions: When you’ve lost everything, how do you find the strength to put one foot in front of the other? How do you learn to feel safe again? How do you find meaning in your life?
Dear Edward is at once a transcendent coming-of-age story, a multidimensional portrait of an unforgettable cast of characters, and a breathtaking illustration of all the ways a broken heart learns to love again.
The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe
Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezin ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes the librarian of Auschwitz. Out of one of the darkest chapters of human history comes this extraordinary story of courage and hope.