With the end of the school year in sight, it’s time to hit the books for teens! Exams are right around the corner. Grab your study partners and join us at the Albion Bolton, Southfields Village & Caledon East Branches for our Exam Cram event, taking place from Saturday, June 10th to Friday, June 23rd! With plenty of quiet space to study, you’ll be sure to get your work done! Drinks and snacks will be provided.
For those studying at the Bolton branch, they can drop in for a Paws Study Break as we welcome some four-legged friends (of the kitten variety) from the Caledon Animal Shelter. (Exact days and times are tentative due to the nature of this partnership.)
For those looking to take a break from studying, and wish to enjoy a nice distraction – check out these funny reads. You’ll be LOLing in no time!
Crying Laughing by Lance Rubin
Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: she’s hilarious. It might be a long wait, though. After bombing a stand-up set at her own bat mitzvah, Winnie has kept her jokes to herself. Well, to herself and her dad, a former comedian and her inspiration. Then, on the second day of tenth grade, the funniest guy in school actually laughs at a comment she makes in the lunch line and asks her to join the improv troupe. Maybe he’s even . . . flirting? Caught up in a spiral of epically bad dates, bad news, and bad performances, Winnie’s struggling to see the humor in it all. But finding a way to laugh is exactly what will see her through.
Assassination Classroom, Vol 1 by Yusei Matsui
The students in Class 3-E of Kunugigaoka Junior High have a new teacher: an alien octopus with bizarre powers and unlimited strength, who’s just destroyed the moon and is threatening to destroy the earth – unless they can kill him first!
Meet the would-be assassins of class 3-E: Sugino, who let his grades slip and got kicked off the baseball team. Karma, who’s doing well in his classes but keeps getting suspended for fighting. And Okuda, who lacks both academic and social skills, yet excels at one subject: chemistry. Who has the best chance of winning that reward? Will the deed be accomplished through pity, brute force or poison…? And what chance does their teacher have of repairing his students’ tattered self-esteem?
Almost American Girl by Robin Ha
A teen graphic novel memoir about a Korean-born, non-English-speaking girl who is abruptly transplanted from Seoul to Huntsville, Alabama, and struggles with extreme culture shock and isolation, until she discovers her passion for comic arts.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
Greg Gaines is the last master of high school espionage, able to disappear at will into any social environment. He has only one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time making movies, their own incomprehensible versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics. Until Greg’s mother forces him to rekindle his childhood friendship with Rachel.
Rachel has been diagnosed with leukemia—cue extreme adolescent awkwardness—but a parental mandate has been issued and must be obeyed. When Rachel stops treatment, Greg and Earl decide the thing to do is to make a film for her, which turns into the Worst Film Ever Made and becomes a turning point in each of their lives.
The post Caledon Public Library – Laugh Out Loud Teen Reads appeared first on Just Sayin’ Caledon.