Announcing the 18th Annual SCCLD Teen Poetry Contest! How does it work? One winner from each library will be chosen in the following categories: Middle School (grades 6–8) and High School (grades 9–12). Winners will receive a $50 gift card AND an exclusive winners' workshop with Santa Clara County Poet Laureate Yosimar Reyes on Saturday…
Be-You-Tiful 2024 Multimedia Contest Open!
The annual Be-You-Tiful Multimedia contest, proudly presented by the Eating Disorders Resource Center (EDRC), is now accepting submissions! To enter, you must be a student in the Santa Clara County area between the grades of 6 and 12. Your entry may be in the form of an essay, poem, video, or visual art. The deadline…
January Teen Book of the Month – Gwen & Art Are Not in Love
Our teen book of the month selection for January 2024.
September Teen Book of the Month – The Luis Ortega Survival Club
The Luis Ortega Survival Club Grades 9+ 320 pages Ariana Ruiz is under a curse: she can't talk. Well… she can talk, just not in public. Or around people she's not comfortable with. Which is everyone except her family, since not talking makes it a little tough to make friends. Being autistic and selectively mute…
January Teen Book of the Month – We Deserve Monuments
We Deserve Monuments Grades 9+ 375 pages Seventeen-year-old Avery had big plans in Washington, D.C. She had dreams. She was supposed to finish out her senior year with her best friends Hikari and Kelsi. She was supposed to head to Georgetown University with them to follow in her mother’s footsteps and study the stars. She…
November Teen Book of the Month – Rust in the Root
Rust in the Root Grades 9+ 439 Pages It’s not easy being a Black mage in the era of Prohibition against the traditional mystic arts. Especially not in the wake of the Great Rust, which swept through the nation in 1927 and wiped out all of the powerful technology fueled by Mechomancy—a newfangled blending of…
July Book of the Month – The Sweetness of Water
The Sweetness of Water The Civil War has just ended, and the South is now left to lick its smarting wounds. Amid the simmering tensions between the occupying Northerner soldiers, the embittered white Southerners, and the freed black populace of the South, near the small town of Old Ox, Georgia, brothers Prentiss and Landry have…
July Teen Book of the Month – The Summer of Bitter and Sweet
The Summer of Bitter and Sweet Grades 10+ 360 pages Before she can escape to the University of Alberta to play competitive water polo and chase her lifelong dream of studying paleontology, Lou faces one last summer in her small town amid the prairies of Canada. One last summer with her flighty best friend, Florence…
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