Would you like to help knit for area charitable organizations? Or would you just like to learn how to knit? Come join other teens in grades 7-12 as they make items to donate to hospitals, shelters, and animal organizations. No registration.
Beginner demonstration and questions will be taken from 6-6:45.
Novice and up questions will be taken from 6:46-7:30.

Halo Novels

Halo: Fall of Reach by Eric Nylund
Before the Human-Covenant War engulfed Halo, the planet-colony Reach came under attack by the Covenant, and Earth’s specially trained and augmented warriors, code-named SPARTANs, stood alone to fight for humanity’s survival.

Halo: The Flood by William C. Dietz
The Human-Covenant War, a desperate struggle for humankind’s very survival, has reached its boiling point on the mysterious, ring world called Halo. But the fierce Covenant warriors, the mightiest alien military force known, are not the only peril lying in wait.

Halo: First Strike by Eric Nylund
With the destruction of Halo, the human-Covenant war rages on as the SPARTAN super soldier Master Chief, aided by the artificial intelligence Cortana, race against time to rescue survivors of the disaster and evade Covenant warships that still patrol much of space.

Halo: Ghosts of Onyx by Eric Nylund
While soldiers fend off thousands of Covenant attacks, Section Three devises a plan using planet Onyx as a base, but when Halo is destroyed and Ancient Forerunner technology stirs, the Covenant race to claim it to change the course of the Human-Covenant War.

Halo: Contact Harvest by Joseph Saten
On the distant colony world of Harvest, humankind experiences its first contact with the Covenant, forcing a desperate struggle for the very survival of all humankind, in a novel based on the video game series.

Halo: The Cole Protocol by Tobias Buckell
Navy Lieutenant Jacob Keyes travels to a distant corner of the universe to investigate a colony of human rebels that has made an alliance with members of the Covenant, as the Spartan Gray Team and an Elite converge on the area.

Halo: Evolutions by multiple Science Fiction authors
A volume of short works inspired by the universe depicted in the popular video game expands the stories of its characters while offering new insights into a variety of storyline elements and races.

Halo: Cryptum by Greg Bear
When Bornstellar becomes obsessed with the past, his father sends him to live among the Miners, where his destiny and the fate of the entire galaxy changes after crossing paths with two humans.

Halo: Primordium by Greg Bear
Continues the story of the ancient Forerunners engineering race, who are worshipped as gods by the Covenant while their mysterious connection to humanity slowly unfolds.

Halo: Glasslands by Karen Traviss
After the defeat of the Covenant and the death of billions of people, Dr. Rachel Halsey, thought to be dead, discovers a technology that can save mankind, as the Kilo-Five hunts for her and the Venezia colony makes plans to attack a weakened Earth.

Graphic Novels

Halo: Uprising by Brian Michael Bendis
Two Clevelanders battle against a horde of alien invaders called the Covenant, who seek the legendary Key of Osanalan rumored to be in the city.

Halo: Helljumper by Peter David
When the colony planet Ariel sends out a mysterious distress signal, it is up to the Helljumpers of the 105th Marines to check it out, but soon Helljumpers Dutch and Romeo find their friendship and their lives on the line.

Halo: Blood Line by Peter David
Blood Line is the top-secret unconventional warfare unit of the United Nations Space Command’s Office of Naval Intelligence, engaging in sabotage and assassination missions deep inside Covenant space. But when this quartet of super-soldiers is shot down over a desolate moon along with a Covenant crusier, humans and aliens will have to forge an uneasy alliance against a common foe before an eons-old threat destroys them both! Collects Halo: Blood Line #1-5.

Halo, Fall of Reach: Boot Camp by Brian Reed
Six-year-old John is taken away from his family and sent, along with seventy-four other children, to the planet Reach, where they are trained in the SPARTAN-II program to be supersoldiers loyal to the United Nations Space Command.

Halo, Fall of Reach: Covenant by Brian Reed
Dr. Catherine Halsey creates the Spartans, an armored force, to hold off the Covenant, aliens threatening the human race, until the Covenant make an final effort to take the city of Cote D’Azur, trying to find the one artifact that can protect humanity.

The Halo Graphic Novel by Lee Hammock
In the 26th century, Earth’s United Nations Space Command and the Covenant, a coalition of aliens, are engaged in a war within the Halo universe for ultimate control, in a collection of four stories depicting various conflicts during the struggle.

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Teen Books

Teen Graphic Novels

Temporary Teen Area & Teen Magazines

Register for May 14th

Jr. High: 1st Darcy B. Fireflies
2nd Rachel Z.
3rd Varsha K.

High School: 1st Monica A. Just Listen
2nd Susmitha C.
3rd Mary P.

Just Listen

When young,
We often choose not to listen.
When old,
We often lose the choice to listen.

So we tell stories,
The ones not written down.
So others may hear the tales,
But only if they desire.

The elders tell their tales,
As living history books.
Their words musty and yellow,
As the pages are.

But somehow
Oh somehow
Our elders do more than speak of the past,
They can send you back in time.

Young ones tend to daydream,
As the history books share their secrets.
The young have already read their books in class,
Or so they may think.

But somehow
Oh somehow
the elders choose to go on,
Telling of the triumphs and downfalls of long ago.

When young,
We often choose not to listen.
When old,
We often lose the choice to listen.

Now I ask you,
Who will write down their words?

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Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson
Three teenaged girls from very different backgrounds, thrown together to pick peaches in a Georgia orchard, spend a summer in pursuit of the right boy, the truest of friends, and the perfect peach.

Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson
Eighteen-year-old Kate, who sometimes chafes at being a preacher’s daughter, finds herself losing control in her senior year as she faces difficult neighbors, the possibility that she may not be accepted by the college of her choice, and an unexpected death.

Secrets of my Hollywood life by Jen Calonita
Longing to experience the life of a “normal” teenager, sixteen-year-old actress Kaitlin Burke assumes a false identity to attend a local high school.

L.A. Candy by Lauren Conrad
Now a reality show celebrity, nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts learns that not all of her new friends are trustworthy.

Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life.

Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
When wealthy, seemingly perfect Brittany and Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, develop a relationship after Alex discovers that Brittany is not exactly who she seems to be, they must face the disapproval of their schoolmates–and others.

Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Kristina Snow is the perfect daughter, but she meets a boy who introduces her to drugs and becomes a very different person, struggling to control her life and her mind.

13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.

Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman
Seventeen-year-old Vince’s life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent.

Sold by Patricia McCormick
When she is tricked by her stepfather and sold into prostitution, thirteen-year-old Lakshmi becomes submerged in a nightmare where her only comfort is the friendship she forms with the other girls, which helps her survive and eventually escape.

TTYL by Lauren Myracle
Chronicles, in “instant message” format, the day-to-day experiences, feelings, and plans of three friends, Zoe, Maddie, and Angela, as they begin tenth grade.

Begging for Change by Sharon Flake
Teenaged Raspberry Hill tries to sort out her confused feelings of disgust, shame, and love for her homeless, drug addicted father and worries that she may have inherited his lying and stealing ways.

If I Stay by Gayle Forman
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weights whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her.

A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass
Afraid that she is crazy, thirteen-year-old Mia, who sees a special color with every letter, number, and sound, keeps this a secret until she becomes overwhelmed by school, changing relationships, and the loss of something important to her.

After the Wreck, I Picked myself Up, Spread My Wings and Flew Away by Joyce Carol Oates
Blaming herself for the car accident on the Tappan Zee Bridge that killed her mother, fifteen-year-old Jenna undergoes a difficult physical and emotional recovery.

Under the Wolf, Under the Dog by Adam Rapp
Sixteen-year-old Steve struggles to make sense of his mother’s terminal breast cancer and his brother’s suicide.

Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard
When one of their tightly-knit group mysteriously disappears, four high school girls find their friendship difficult to maintain when they begin receiving taunting messages from someone who seems to know everything about their past and present secrets.

Gossip Girl by , Cecily Von Ziegesar
When the beautiful Serena van der Woodsen returns to Spenford after mysteriously getting kicked out of boarding school, the gossip flies among the privileged students at the Upper East Side private high school.

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