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Eight book covers for K-Pop Demon Hunters fandom

K-Pop Demon Hunters Read-Alikes for the Devoted Fan

If you’re stuck singing “Golden” and “Soda Pop” on an endless rotation and wishing the just-announced sequel had already arrived, check out this list of (mostly) YA fiction.

New Teen Advisory Board News - Join us in September!

High school students, are you looking for leadership opportunities, ways to get involved in the local community, or a place to bring all of your awesome ideas to life?

Volunteers Inspire Library Joy

As reading ambassadors, our 46 teen volunteers staffed our Youth Services Summer Reading Club booth, checking in children and tweens throughout the summer, celebrating their accomplishments, and helping them get their prize books.

Sunny's Summer Book Recommendations

Feeling bored this summer? New Trier High School student Sunny Y. has some books that you won't be able to put down. Bring them with you while you're tanning on the beach or even to your front porch.

Teen Book Covers for Disability Pride Month

Four YA Books for Disability Pride Month

Here are four excellent titles from the last few years that show a range of experiences and disabilities in realistic fiction.

Level Up Pride Month for Teens

June is the start of our Summer Reading Club, Level Up!, and it’s Pride Month!

5 Reasons to Volunteer at the library this Summer

Visiting Wilmette Public Library's summer reading booth is a time honored tradition that goes back decades.

Favorite Teen Romance Novels for Valentine's Day

It may be freezing outside, but curling up with one of these teen romance novels will keep you cozy. Here are our top ten favorite tropes found in love stories.

Wilmette Reads banner showing two books: Entangled Life and Ghost Music

Unusual YA Books for Wilmette Reads

For this year's Wilmette Reads, we chose to spotlight two titles, a fiction and a nonfiction book: Entangled Life and Ghost Music.

Letters About Literature Contest

If you're looking for a great way to share your love for your favorite book with others while getting some recognition for your awesome writing skills, check out the Letters About Literature con

Book cover for House of Ash and Bone with graphic of teen reading

Teen Reader Recommends: House of Ash and Bone

A 17 year old girl with powers she doesn’t fully understand and her family moves into a mysterious house in the middle of the woods. Its’ inhabitant? A ghost with a taste for mortal flesh and dreams of immortality. As Josephine unearths the secrets of her new home, she must also figure out her unwanted roomate’s malicious plans before time runs out for her and her family.

Teen Reader Recommends: The Gilded Wolves

A mathematician who can bend metals to her will. A historian with an affinity for colonial independence. A dancer who can read the memories of objects. A boy who can coax the unlikeliest of plants into bloom. All gathered by a hotelier with a goal of reparation for what he’s lost. Set in 1889 Paris, a city on the cusp of the Exposition Universelle and brimming with magic, Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chakshi is a masterpiece of historical fantasy.

Book cover for This Is How You Lose the Time War

Teen Reader Recommends: This Is How You Lose the Time War

From the minds of Amal El-Moher and Max Gladstone comes a truly revolutionary science fiction epic. For being a novella, this book manages to pack a lot into 147 pages. In dual point of views, two sworn enemies on opposite sides of a war through time leave each other letters that start out taunting and end with devotion.

Book cover for Piranesi with image of girl reading alongside

Teen Reader Recommends: Piranesi

There are two alive people in the House. There are 13 skeletons, and thousands upon thousands of statues. All who exist in a parallel universe made up of an infinite labyrinth of halls and vestibules that seems to steal the memories and identities of its inhabitants. Told through the research notes of a man named Piranesi, both him and the reader try to solve the mystery of who he is and how he got to this place.

Book cover of The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo with an image of a woman reading

Teen Reader Recommends

The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo: A young scullion who can perform miracles. A couple desperate for status. A man who might be a monster and his master. All of them plunged into a world where the lines between magic, science, holiness and fraud are often uncertain. Set in Spain during the Inquisition, the stakes (and the danger) heighten every chapter.

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