As their lives take them in different directions, Lena, Tibby, Carmen, and Bridget discover many more things about themselves and the importance of their relationship with each other.
Game Night! Don't forget!
Tuesday, January 30 - 5:30 until 7:00 PM @ the Library!
Bring a game or play one of ours! Bring a friend!
Check out the February programs, too!
Bring a game or play one of ours! Bring a friend!
Check out the February programs, too!
Book of the Day: Story of a Girl: a novel by Sara Zarr
In the three years since her father caught her in the back seat of a car with an older boy, sixteen-year-old Deanna's life at home and school has been a nightmare, but while dreaming of escaping with her brother and his family, she discovers the power of forgiveness.
Book of the Day: The Mislaid Magician or Ten Years After by Patricia C. Wrede
In 1828, English cousins Cecelia and Kate and their husbands search for a missing German railway engineer and with the help of their wizardry skills, uncover a plot that could endanger the unity of England.
Book of the Day: Trigger by Susan Vaught
Teenager Jersey Hatch must work through his extensive brain damage to figure out why he decided to shoot himself.
Book of the Day: The Twisted Window by Lois Duncan
Tracy, a high school junior, becomes embroiled in the problems of a strange boy, who asks her assistance in "snatching" his half-sister from her father who has allegedly kidnapped her. (BPHS AR BOOK)
Book of the Day: Touch the Moon by Marion Dane Bauer
When the china horse Jennifer receives for her birthday is magically transformed into a real horse, they share an evening of fantastic adventures. (BPHS AR BOOK)
Book of the Day: Night Hoops by Carl Deuker
While trying to prove that he is good enough to be on his high school's varsity basketball team, Nick must also deal with his parents' divorce and the erractic behavior of a troubled classmate who lives across the street. (BPHS AR BOOK)
Book of the Day: Better than Yesterday by Robyn Schneider
Three seniors from an exclusive Connecticut prep school go to New York City to find their runaway friend, and in the process discover themselves and the true value of their friendship.
Book of the Day: Rubber Houses by Ellen Yeomans
A novel in verse that relates seventeen-year-old Kit's experiences as her younger brother is diagnosed with and dies of cancer and as she withdraws into and gradually emerges from her grief.
Book of the Day: Shooter by Walter Dean Myers
Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal entries, the story of three troubled teenagers ends in a tragic school shooting. (BPHS AR BOOK)
Book of the Day: Stotan! by Chris Crutcher
A high school coach invites members of his swimming team to a memorable week of rigorous training that tests their moral fiber as well as their physical stamina. (BPHS AR BOOK)
Book of the Day: Don't Look Behind You by Lois Duncan
Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the pursuit of a hired killer. (BPHS AR BOOK)
Book of the Day: Night Train by Judith Clarke
His family, peers, and teachers despair of eighteen-year-old Luke, who seems to have turned himself into a loser, failing at school, paralyzed with fear and indecision, losing touch with reality.
Book of the Day: Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong. (BPHS AR BOOK)
Book of the Day: Three Days Off by Susi Hoch Morgenstern
During a three-day suspension for insulting a teacher, an apathetic French high school student meets diverse people who give him new insights into education and life.
Book of the Day: The Beast by Walter Dean Myers
A visit to his Harlem neighborhood and the discovery that the girl he loves is using drugs give sixteen-year-old Anthony Witherspoon a new perspective both on his home and on his life at a Connecticut prep school. (BPHS AR BOOK)
CSI!
Hey! Thanks so all of you who came out last night for CSI! A very lovely crowd of 32 of yinz! Next week is TEEN MOVIE NIGHT! Don't forget! 7:00 PM! Bring a blankey or pillows 'n 'at!
Book of the Day: Vanishing by Bruce Brooks
Eleven-year-old Alice is unwilling to return to live with her alcoholic mother and her stern stepfather, so she refuses to eat to the point of slowly starving herself, in order to remain in the hospital. (BPHS AR BOOK)
Book of the Day: Tall Cool One by Zoey Dean
When she joins her sister on the West Coast at their father's, Anna begins to understand that telling true love from true lust is far more easily said than done.
Book of the Day: Alt Ed by Catherine Atkins
Participating in a special after-school counseling class with other troubled students, including a sensitive gay classmate, helps Susan, an overweight tenth grader, develop a better sense of herself.
Book of the Day: Game Plan by Thomas J. Dygard
When the hospitalization of Barton High's head football coach forces skinny student manager Beano Hatton to step in, he must deal with a rebellious quarterback and his own lack of confidence. (BPHS AR BOOK)
Book of the Day: Nightmare by Joan Lowry Nixon
Emily is sent to a camp for underachievers where she discovers a murderer on the staff who might provide an explanation for her recurring nightmares. (BPHS AR BOOK)
Book of the Day: Toughing It by Nancy Springer
Sixteen-year-old Shawn must deal with his loss and anger after witnessing his older brother's murder. (BPHS AR BOOK)
Book of the Day: Demon in My View by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Seventeen-year-old Jessica Allodola discovers that the vampire world of her fiction is real when she develops relationships with an alluring vampire named Aubrey and the teenage witch who is trying to save Jessica from his clutches.
Book of the Day: Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: a memoir by Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson has delighted his readers for over a decade with his laugh-filled travel adventures. The book that quite literally set his feet on the bestseller trail was A WALK IN THE WOODS, his frolicsome and misguided adventures on the Adirondack Trail with his dysfunctional high school buddy, Stephen Katz.
Book of the Day: Briana's Gift by Lurlene McDaniel
When a pregnant seventeen-year-old girl is hospitalized and in a coma, her younger sister faces several difficult choices while dealing with loss, love, and life at Christmastime.
Book of the Day: Homefree by Nina Wright
Caught in an extremely difficult situation at home and in her new high school, sixteen-year-old Easter's life improves greatly when she is recruited by a mysterious school where teens--all outsiders like herself--develop their paranormal abilities.
Book of the Day: Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.
It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital.
Homeschooled?
Are you homeschooled? Did you know about the homeschooling programs at the Bethel Park Library? Check out our Homeschooling Website!
Book of the Day: Grand and Humble by Brent Hartinger
Alternating chapters follow the lives of two high school boys, whose recent nightmares and premonitions of disaster are linked to mysterious past events.
Book of the Day: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Happy New Year!
Hello! It is January 1st! A whole new year with great new programs! Don't forget to check them out =====>>>>>>!!!!