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Bibliographic Information:   Title: Pumpkin Heads  Author: Rainbow Rowell   Publisher: First Second   Copyright Date: 2019  Genre: Teen, Graphic Novel, Adventure   Awards or Honors: None  Reading Level: Young Teen   Plot Summary: The story follows two teens who work at a pumpkin farm, Deja and Josiah. It’s their last night working together before they go to college. They decide to make their last night theContinue reading “Pumpkin Heads”

Bibliographic Information:   Title: The Complete Persepolis  Author: Marjane Satrapi   Publisher: Pantheon Books     Copyright Date: 2003  Genre: Teen, Graphic Novel, Historical, Biographical   Awards or Honors: None  Reading Level: Older teenager and adults   Plot Summary: The book is a memoir of the author, Marjane, as she describes her experiences growing up as a 10-year-old girl in Iran during the 1979 revolution and war. She was aContinue reading “The Complete Persepolis”

Bibliographic Information:   Title: The Trials of Apollo  Author: Rick Riordan  Publisher: Disney Books    Copyright Date: 2016   Genre: Teenager, Fantasy    Awards or Honors: None   Reading Level: Young teenager  Plot Summary: The book follows the Greek god Apollo after he is punished by Zeus. He is thrown to Earth in Manhattan, New York as a teenage boy named Lester. While being beaten up in an alley,Continue reading “The Trials of Apollo”

Bibliographic Information:   Title: Paper Girls Volume 1  Author: Brian Vaughan   Publisher: Image Comics, Inc.     Copyright Date: 2016   Genre: Graphic Novel, Teen  Awards or Honors: None   Reading Level: Young teenagers   Plot Summary: Paper Girls follow four young teenagers who deliver papers in Stoney Stream, Ohio. They meet when a group of older teenagers harass Erin. The other girls help stop the boys. The girls are Mac,Continue reading “Paper Girls Volume 1”

Speak: The Graphic Novel Bibliographic Information:   Title: Speak: The Graphic Novel Author: Laurie Halse Anderson   Publisher:  Farrar Straus Giroux   Copyright Date: 2018   Genre: Graphic Novel, Teen  Awards or Honors: A School Library Journal Best Book of 2018  Reading Level: Teenager   Plot Summary: Melinda is a freshman student at Merryweather High School who is an outcast trying to make friends andContinue reading “Speak: The Graphic Novel”

Bibliographic Information:  Title: Spider-Man: Far From Home   Director: Jon Watts   Film Studio: Columbia Pictures   Copyright Date: 2019   Genre: Teen, Superhero, Fantasy, Adventure  Awards or Honors: Won Summer Movie Teen Choice Awards. Tom Holland and Zendaya won actor awards   Watch Level: PG 13   Plot Summary: In the Sequel to Spider Man: Homecoming, Peter Parker is getting back to life at high school afterContinue reading “Spider-Man: Far From Home”

Bibliographic Information:   Title: Derry Girls  Director: Lisa McGee  Publisher: Netflix    Copyright Date: 2018   Genre: Teen, Family, Comedy   Awards or Honors:   Watch Level: TV: MA   Plot Summary: Derry Girls follows the complicated life of Erin Quinn, a 16-year-old girl, and her friends and family living in Derry, Northern Ireland, in the 1990s. Erin deals with crushes on boys, living with an argumentativeContinue reading “Derry Girls”

Bibliographic Information:   Title: All American   Creator: Nkechi Okoro Carroll  Publisher: The CW    Copyright Date: 2018   Genre: Teen, drama, sports   Awards or Honors: None  Watch Level: TV: 14  Plot Summary: Spencer James is a football star and a good student going to South Crenshaw High. When Beverly Hills football coach Billy Baker, a former NFL football player from Crenshaw, comes to visit, he offersContinue reading “All American”

Bibliographic Information:   Title: Never Have I Ever   Creator: Mindy Kaling   Company Publisher: Netflix    Copyright Date: 2020  Genre: Teen, comedy, drama   Awards or Honors: None  Watch Level: TV-14   Plot Summary: The pilot episode starts with Devi, a 15-year-old girl from Sherman Oaks, asking Hindu Gods for help on her first day of sophomore year. She wants to be popular, be invited to parties,Continue reading “Never Have I Ever”

Bibliographic Information:   Title: Outer Banks   Director:  Josh and Jonah Pate Publisher: Netflix   Copyright Date: 2020  Genre: Teen, romance, drama adventure   Awards or Honors: It has been nominated for several People’s Choice Awards.   Watching Level: TV MA  Plot Summary: The show follows John B and his friends who live in a small town in the Outer Banks, a popular beach town in NorthContinue reading “Outer Banks”