Sarah Burningham

Thursday, May 22 @ 4PM
Tompkins Square Branch Library

Meet Sarah Burningham, author of How To Raise Your Parents: A Teen Girls's Survival Guide. Sarah was inspired to write this book when she was 16. After coming in late for her curfew (again) and fighting with her parents about various forms of punishment, she realized they were as clueless as she was. Sarah now works in publishing. She lives on the Upper West Side with her husband and super-cool candy apple red Vespa. For ages 12-18.

RASH

by Pete Hautman
In the last years of the twenty-first century, 16-year old Bo is sentenced to a prison factory in the Arctic to make fast-food pizzas. His one hope of leaving the assembly line is to make the illegal prison football team.

Fly On The Wall

by E. Lockhart
Gretchen wishes that she was a fly on the wall in the boy’s locker room and her wish is granted.

Copper Sun

by Sharon Draper
Fifteen-year old girls Amari, and Polly; one a slave, the other an indentured servant, escape their Carolina Plantation to try to reach the safety of Fort Mose a sanctuary for slaves.

Do you ever feel like you are the only one? The only one who feels like you do, who wants what you want, who thinks about what you think about. That is just how the teens in these books feel: Just Visiting This Planet . Maybe you can relate.

Avi
Joan Bauer
New!Tonya Bolden
Judy Blume
Meg Cabot
Andrew Clements
Sharon Creech
Chris Crutcher
Christopher Paul Curtis
Kate DiCamillo
Sharon Draper
New! Dan Ehrenhaft: Listen to our Teen Advisory Group interview(Program 7)
Sharon G. Flake
Jean Craighead George
Ann M. Martin
Walter Dean Myers
Gary Paulsen
Gary Soto
Jacqueline Woodson